 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Some Notable MAINE GEMSTONES J A N E C. P E R H A M Route 1, Box 1890 West Paris, Maine 04289 Mining...southwestern Maine. The pegmatite deposits in Oxford County and northern Androscoggin County have yielded...host of gem materi als, including tourmaline, aquamarine, rose quartz, ame thyst, and apatite. The most...Whispering-Pines in South Paris, the Slattery quarry in Paris, and the Hibbs quarry in Hebron. Fine tourmaline...from the Dunton quarry in Newry, the B . B . #7 quarry in North Norway, Mount Mica at Paris Hill, and Mount |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | small hand in forming a mineral club in Nassau County, New York now called the Nassau Mineralogists....very deformed quartz xls, from the wall of a small quarry above the main cut. I did not spend much time on...issue of 1956. While there we made three plaster of paris prints: a pair of small prints, another of the same...print. The rest of the day we spent at Gillette Quarry in Haddam Neck, Connecticut. Did not find anything...I returned to Gillette Quarry. I spent the morning looking through the quarry not finding anything. Then |  | | Book (volume) | | species occur in pegmatite exposures, such as Aquamarine, Beryl, some Ruby-red Corundum, Spodumene and...Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59...along adjoining Co. linerock crystal. BARROW COUNTY WINDER, along rd. to Jefferson and 1½ mi. inside...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States BARTOW COUNTY AREA, Saltpeter Cave, as floatjasper. CARTERSVILLE: |  | | Book (edition) | | describes sites under of the nearest town and county. and the many maps included book contain such...from Alaska to the Mexican border and eastward to Maine and Florida. Still others are to be found in Canada...misleading. A blue crystal may be dia- mond, aquamarine, topaz, tourmaline, cyanite, or apatite. Conversely...in cavities in the dike. Such pegmatite dikes in Maine, Connecticut, New Hampshire, North Carolina, South...affording a challenge to the collector, especially in Maine, New Hampshire, Connecticut, New Jersey, Virginia |  | | Book (volume) | | Mineralogy by Vandall T. King and Eugene E. Foord Maine Geological Survey DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION Walter...Resources Information, Maine Geological Survey Walter A. Anderson, State Geologist Maine Geological Survey...DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION 1994 Copyright ©1994 by the Maine Geological Survey, Department of Conservation. All...Cover photograph: Fluorapatite, Pulsifer quarry, Auburn, Maine (2.2 cm specimen), Harvard Mineralogical...Wendell E. Wilson, ©1985. The laws and policies of Maine and the United States prohibit discrimination in |  | | Book (volume) | | 600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason |  | | Book (volume) | | 600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason |  | | Book (edition) | | MARIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY 3 1111 00289 4184 \ I s Fifth Revised Edition A complete, state-by-state...on the gem resources of our land. "Do you, Mr. Maine," he continued, "know that some of the finest tourmalines...hundred yards from your doorstep in the vicinity of Paris? Have you heard, Mr. New Jersey, of your famous...from Alaska to the Mexican border and eastward to Maine and Florida. Still others are found in Canada and...strike gem tourmaline by the bushel basketful in Maine and California; emerald in North Carolina, a big |  | | Book (volume) | | 0 n101ercai o of Maine j f·~ ....__ :,,. . - .._"' ..;. .. ~ L-- -~ \. • .J_..::.; I Volume...History, Gems, and Geology edited by Vandall T. King Maine Geological Survey DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION Robert...Robert G. Marvinney, State Geologist of Maine Volume 2: Mining History, Gems, and Geology Edited by...Resources Information, Maine Geologi,cal Survey Robert G Marvinney, State Geologist Maine Geological Survey...DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION 2000 Copyright ©2000 by the Maine Geological Survey, Department of Conservation. All |  | | Journal (issue) | | By M. Vonsen. HUGE BE11YL C RYSTALS AT ALBANY, MAINE. By E. K Gedney and Harry Berman. CAVERNS dP PENNS............... 77 Huge Beryl Crystals at Albany, Maine. By E. K. Gedney and Harry Berman ...... 78 Caverns...which is devoted to quarry management, written by quarry managers, edited by a quarry manager, and controlled...everything directly and indirectly relating to quarry management, and its readers are consequently kept...why it has subscribers in every continent. The Quarry !tfanagers Journal comes out monthly and is published |  | | Book (edition) | | HANDBOOK for A WEEK WITH MAINE MINERALS by NEIL A. WINTRINGHAM 1_� Cv1,_1'--A� __, SECOND EDITION...a week collecting in the pegme.tite area ot Oxford county, !!Bine, Neil Wintr:lnghal'!l, a pa.st-president...field trial of the hambook during our ''Week with Maine Minerals" furnished additional information end resulted...characterized the evenings spent with members of the Oxford County Mineral & Gem Association. N. A. W. Mountainside...minerals. The geology of pegmatites, in general, and Maine pegmatites, in particular, is summarized briefly |  | | Book | | HfiRIN COUNTY FREE LIBRfiRY 311110G386652Q I V Russell P MacFal A COLOR TREASUF FOR COLLECTORS...are 100 maps geared to leading the "hunter to his quarry" and more than eighty photographs of minerals in...to Hunting Locations ? i 9 GIVEN TO THE MARIN COUNTY LIBRARY BY MARI N L MTNF.RAT. SOCTETY DAVID...knapsack you can use a mountaineering bag or a mili- quarry or mine where a permit tary bag; make it it...may be able to buy specimens. map of Keweenaw County. Mich- Part of the U.S. Geological Survey topographic | | | Book | | 100 maps geared to leading the " hunter to his quarry" and more than eighty photographs of minerals in...easier for you If you plan to vIsIt an operating quarry or mine where a permll Is required make the necessary...topographic map of the Delaware q uadrangle o f Keweenaw County, Michigan This ,s an example o f the more picturesque...be discovered by locating the porous layers In a quarry or other exposure and following them along the...been washed into the stream ,tselt. Southwestern Maine around the town of Pans. and the rugged area north |  | | Book | | Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi...Issachar). Fourth row: beryl (probably bluish aquamarine or pink morganite; assigned to Zebulon), onyx...listed by county and community, range and distance. Whenever the collector crosses a county line, he will...of the county he is entering posted alongside the highway. By looking up the state and county, the user...guide can determine the collecting sites in that county by range and distance from the major cities and |  | | Journal (issue) | | Verneuil will need microscope and spectroscope. An aquamarine will need the (Anderson-Payne) spinel refractometer...the viewport B of the phosphoroscope when an aquamarine cabochon, an oval mixed-cut synthetic ruby and...XVII, 4 FIG. 2 SWUV absorptance photographs of aquamarine, synthetic ruby and imitation alexandrite: 2a...2b a dark rim appears around the edge of the aquamarine cabochon. This dark rim is not due to the higher...higher absorption at the edge of the gem, since aquamarine is transparent to SWUV. Rather it is due to the |  | | Journal (issue) | | INVESTIGATION OF THE PRAIRIE CREEK DIAMOND AREA, PIKE COUNTY, ARK. by J. R. Thoenen, Robert S. Hill, E. G. Howe...the Gulf of Glacial Molding George H. Chadwick Maine Natural Limestone Walls of Okinawa— Delos E. Flint...Raton Mesa field in Colfax County. Some of the bituminous coal in Colfax County possesses coking properties...SCIENCE DIGEST classified according to coal field, county, and geological formation in which the coal occurs...Robert SCIENCE THE PIKE DIGEST 3 PRAIRIE COUNTY, S. Hill, E. G. Howe, and CREEK ARK.: S. M |  | | Field Trip Notes | | Hampshire Field Trip No. 2, Outstanding pegmatites of Maine and New Hampshire 73 Geology of the "Chelmsford...inplace theory for the southern part, as in Dutchess County, New York. Whether such a combination of theories...(1914) Geology of the North Creek quadrangle, Warren County, New York, New York State Mus., Bull. 170. (1919)...Geology of the Schroon Lake quadrangle, Warren County, New York, New York State Mus., Bull. 213-214....(1936) Structural and petrologic studies in Duchess County, N. Y., Part I. Geologic structure of sedimentary |  | | Journal (issue) | | Glasgow DrJ.EShigley Santa Monica Cambridge London Paris E. Stern Milan Tokyo Dr M. Superchi London Any...Korzhinsky, 1970. Theory of metasomatic zoning. Oxford University Press, London, pp. 1-159 Kuznetsov,...Abstract The quarries at Mont Saint-Hilaire, Rouville County, Quebec, have been visited by mineral collectors...Saint-Hilaire lies about 40 km east of Montreal in Rouville County; it is one of J. Gemm., 1996, 25,1 the ten Monteregian...(Figures 3 and 4). Access for collecting in the quarry is strictly controlled, with regularly scheduled |  | | Journal (issue) | | Derbyshire Cambridge Dr J.E. Shigley Santa Monica Paris E. Stern London Tokyo Dr M. Superchi Milan London...spectrophotometry, X-ray fluorescence in 1974 from Gerards, the Paris jewellers analysis and X-ray (personal communication)...Freshwater mussels Quantity Origin Pearls China Japan USA yes yes yes Anodonta plicata Hyriopsis schlegeli...Weiner, S., 1989. On biomineralization. Oxford University Press, Oxford Meyer, E., 1992. Atomic force microscopy...the XXIV International Gemmological Conference, Paris 2-15 October 1993 Barot, N.R., Harding, R.R., 1994 |  | | Book | | commercial ores and secondary minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification...cities, and many of today’s prosperous western county seats began as mining-boom camps. trating sand...Whether you such as those listed alphabetically by county, township, and range in Part II of this book. Where...granite which was pushed up from great depths. Maine), New California The gem Jersey, show pegmatites...will help you prospect and explore any state and county. etc., for mineral deposits in Finding Suitable |  | | Report (issue) | | 31 University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright © 2004 by University of Nevada Press Photographs... Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope district, Pershing County. N. Prenn collection. Photograph by J. Scovil....Goodsprings (Yellow Pine) Mining District, Clark County John C. Kepper 91 References 467 Contributors...Descloizite Cuprite on Copper Nevadaite, Gold Quarry Mine Vanadinite, Ruth Mine Epidote Opal after...Humboldt County and the crystalline quartz collecting area on Petersen Mountain in Washoe County, permission | | | Report (issue) | | 3i University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright© 2004 by Uni versity of Nevada Press Photographs... Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope district, Pershing County. N. Prenn coJlection. Photograph by J. Scovil....Goodsprings (Yellow Pine) Mining District, Clark County John C. Kepper MINERAL CATALOG 91 121 Gregory...Millerite Mi1netite Naumannite Ncvadaite, Gold Quarry Mine ()pal after wood Opal, faceted Orpin1ent,...Hurnbo ldt County and the crystalline quartz collecting area on Petersen Mounta in in Washoe County, permission |  | | Report (volume) | | are as follows: COLORADO. Mineralogy. Montrose County, uranium-vanadium deposits: Weeks, A. D., 13R....Iron, Cook County, titaniferous magnetite: Grout, F. F., 5. IRON. Minnesota, Cook County, titaniferous...Comptes rendus Academie des Sciences, Comptes rendus. Paris. Acad. Sci. St. Louis Trans. Academy of Science...Indus. Actualit£s Scientifiques et Industrielles. Paris. Adv. Sci. The Advancement of Science. London. Advances...Journal. Birmingham, Ala. Ala. Geol. Survey Bull.; County Rept.; Inf. Ser.; Map; Mus. Paper; Special Rept |  | | Journal (volume) | | Field District 8 Miner al Resources of San Diego County 56 GEOLOGIC BRANCH 56 Current Notes Geology...and Oil Possibilities of Southwestern San Diego County— 71) SPECIAL ARTICLES The Prospect for 'Minor...classes 1. Mines and mineral resources of a given county or area (describing kind, character, distribution...Mining Engineers MINERAL RESOURCES OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY By W. B. Tucker and Charles H. Reed* Foreword...sponsored by the board of supervisors of San Diego County. For twelve months during 1936 and 1937 they inspected |  | | Journal (volume) | | Co. By Will C. Higgins Somerset Manley Beaver County Flourishing The White Plague in Mines . Goldfield...Brown California Mining News. Oil Strike in Millard County New Capital for McCoy District Coal Notes and Personals...Research , U. of U. 45 47 47 48 49 By 51 Beaver County Production and Developments. By Aus tin K. Tiernan...in the west is found on Kramer Hill in Humboldt county, Nevada. Kramer Hill is located about two miles...ings in the San Juan section , three San Juan County, near the Arizona line . There are also possibilities |
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