 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Massachusetts 02138 MAINE Minerals of the Topsham, Maine, Pegmatite District Topsham • Topsham, Maine's underappreciated...the Andros coggin River from Brunswick in Sagadahoc County. A mile-wide belt of granitic pegmatites runs...Androscoggin River, north-northeast through the town of Topsham. The belt extends southward into Brunswick and...but only the pegmatites actually in the town of Topsham are covered in this review. There are thirty or...named quarries and numerous unnamed prospects in Topsham. The quarries, all inactive, are usually named |  | | 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 |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | lithia reaction, and may not be of this species." Mallet (1857) analyzed the Goshenmica and confirmed its...examination. Bolton, Massachusetls.'The Bolton marble quarry, famous for lilac scapolite, has been described...pegmatite bouldersin the immediate neighborhood of the quarry but the rock could not be discovered in place ...contains zoned mica crystals, quartz, albite, and microcline together with green and red tourmaline, green...Auburn, Maine, which could not be verified by the writers. Lord. Hitt' pegmatite,Rumlord, Maine: According |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | .................................. 480 Roanoke County, V irginia........................................................................ 481 Am herst County, V irginia........................................................................... 481 Llano County, T exas............................................................................ 487 Roanoke County..................................................................................... 490 Nelson County............................................... |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Alabama P.O. Box 0 Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35486 85° • County Seat ALABAMA'S MINERAL INDUSTRY began in 1818...iron furnace was built near Russellville, Franklin County, utilizing local brown iron-ore (goethite) deposits...Tennessee River Valley area near Huntsville, Madison County, the first such mineralogical description in the...1831 along tributaries of the Coosa River (Chilton County). Utilization of mineral resources in Alabama has...iron ore, clay, marble, bauxite, and Figure 1. County map of Alabama. Courtesy U.S. Geological Survey |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | same county. I t also has been observed i n pegmatites i n Powhatan County, Spotsylvania County, and...the world have specimens of allanite from Amherst County, Virginia. The mineral is usually black and is...The mineral was reported in Amherst County as early as 1874. Mallet ( 1 8 7 7 ) first described the classic...Specimens from the Rutherford pegmatites, in Amelia County, are famous for the per fection of their thin...also occur near Lynchburg Reservoir in Amherst County. Mitchell ( 1 9 6 6 ) summarized the localities |  | | Journal (issue) | | mined out as far as the outcrops. Today only the quarry open in this level remains. About 10 tons of heterosite...the access track. At the north corner of the same quarry floor are 1 or 2 tons of triphylite stock containing...transform the schist into tourmalinite (south of the quarry entry). The unsystematic workings, made by quarrying...part of the peg matite. The floor of the present quarry is at an elevation of about 300 m. We will roughly...minerals follows in the next sec tion. Near the quarry entry, light apple-green elbaite crystals (diameter |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | epidote, hornblende, diopsite, 427 Cheesewring quarry, Linkinhorne, danburite, 171; durangite, I72 Chycornish...Crowns Rock, St. Just, Land's End, garnet, 427 Dean quarry, The Lizard, djurle'ite, I72; analcime, adularia...penwithite (= neotocite), 279 and M26 Devon Meldon quarry, Okehampton, greenovite, 172; priceite, 175 Ramsley...Cannington Park quarry, djurlei'te, I72 Combe Farm quarry, Henbury, wulfenite, 298 Merehead quarry, Shepton...Shepton Mallet, ardennite, I7o; djurlei'te, I72 Kent Copt Point and Abbots Cliff, Folkestone; Dover; Sandling; |  | | Catalog/List | | Fairfield County, Branchville White xlline with cymatolite, good study ... New Mexico Taos County, near Dixon...cerium aluminum silicate California Los Angeles County, Pacoima Canyon Large black tabular crystals in...iron silicate ACTINOLITE California San Bernardino County, Wrightwood Green prismatic crystalline mass ....CROSSITE Sodium iron silicate California San Benito County, Gem mine Compact blue-gray mass with natrolite...sodium potassium alumino-silicate Arizona Final County, Christmas Dark green cleavages in andesite .. |  | | Report (issue) | | map of the Ridgeway area, Ilenry County, Virginia, and Rockingham County, North Carolina ,-.--..------In...Patterson mine, 2 miles northeast of Amelia, Amelia County; B, Inclusion of wall rock (biotite gneiss) in...Rutherford mines, lfu miles north oI Amelia, Amelia County A, Micrographic texture in the Leatherwood granite...Rutherford mines, lr/a miles north of Amelia, Amelia County; B, Piotomicrograph of pegmatite showing sillimanite...Goochland County 8. A,' Photornicrograph of {eldspar showing orthoclase reverting to microcline; from the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | August 2017 By RUTH H. WENTWORTH 135 Maine Avenue, Portland, Maine Have you ever wished that you might...hollow sounds (echoes) when tapped with a wooden mallet. There was a 20-foot tunnel about 3 feet high which...pressure. Granite schist, biotite schist, limonite, microcline feldspar with crusts of calcite, tiny veins of |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | TOUR:KALINE(Fig. 6) . . APATITE(F~g. 7) . Page MICROCLINE. ALBITE (~"~ff. 8) BERYL (Fig. 9) QUARTZ COOKEITE...about eighty mineral specimens from a newly opened quarry at Haddam Neck in Connecticut, which were kindly...series are green and pink tourmaline, albite, microcline, green and pink apatite, brown fluor, beryl,...are found associated with smoky quartz, albite, microcline, cookeite, and sometimes tourmaline. They have...may then be taken as : - Goshen. II. Rbg. III. Mallet. I. Haddam Neck. 47.02 46.28 36.88 Al=08 86.86 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | about the rocks of the area. Medlicott (1) and Mallet (2) made reference to the granite-gneiss (" Dome-gneiss...than and intrusive into the mica-schists, whereas Mallet thought it belonged to the " Metamorphic Series...felspar—sillimanite-microcline-gneisses, sillimanite-plagioclasegneisses. The biotite of the microcline-bearing ...crystallized. In the microcline-bearing gneisses, the bigger plates of microcline sometimes contain innumerable...innumerable inclusions of quartz grains. Microcline shows only incipient twinning and perthitic stringers |  | | Book (volume) | | IN E R A LOGY (MAINLY NON-ECONOMIC). BY F. R. MALLET, SUPERINTENDENT, GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA. -...Products, Vol. I, p. 14). * See “Gold,” p. 2. * F. R. Mallet: Records, G. S.I., Vol. XV,p. 55. * Turner's Embassy...imperfect. * System of Mineralogy, p. 11. * F. R. Mallet: Records, G. S. I., Vol. XV, p. 53. 4 P. 2. *..., Bengal, Vol. XII, pp. 333, 904, 914. * F. R. Mallet: Records, G. S. I., Wol. XI, p. 222. * Records...group have as yet been found in India. * F. R. Mallet: Memoirs, G. S. I., Vol. XXI, pp. 268, 270,278 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Ethiopia and Italy, 63; and see adularia, albite, microcline, orthoclase, valencianite Alkaline-earths and...geochemistry of loveringite, 187 Cannington Park quarry, Somerset, djurleite, 172; durangite, 172; milarite... see EGGLETON (R. A.), 361 and M37 Cheesewring quarry, Linkinhorne, Cornwall, danburite, I7I Chernovite...iron-bearing melts, Pt-Fe alloys for, 271 Coombe Farm quarry, Henbury, Somerset, wulfenite, 298 Coon Creek,...GUPTA (D. R.), the Dhajala meteorite, 493 Dean quarry, The Lizard, Cornwall, djurlei'te, 172; analcime |  | | Book | | GOULDING-KEENE QUARRY 2 1 EGAN CHUTE 2 1 YORK RIVER SKARN ZONE2 MORRISON QUARRY 2 2 3 DAVIS QUARRY 2 3...calcite, feldspar, magnetite, sodalite 19 DAVIS QUARRY Dungannon sodalite, hackmanite, zircon, cancrinite...molybdenite, pyrite, 4 3 uraninite GOULDING-KEENE QUARRY Dungannon nepheline, biotite, apatite, calcite...smoky), graphic granite, allanite, zircon MORRISON QUARRY Dungannon sodalite, hackmanite, cancrinite, calcite...(Davis Hill, Davis Quarry, Desmont Mine, Egan Chute, Goulding-Keene Quarry, Morrison Quarry, Silver Crater |  | | Book (volume) | | fabulous tourmalines and kunzites of California and Maine, the sparkling sapphires of Montana, and the...Kobuk jade locality. Descriptions of San Diego County, California, gemstones and the mines in which they...the generous assistance of many residents of that county. My special thanks are extended to Elbert H. McMacken...Mt. Mica Largest crystal from Mt. Mica Eh Towne Quarry 180 Tourmaline Queen Mountain IgI Tourmaline crystal...Stibiotantalite crystal Apatite crystal . Greenlaw Quarry 272 279 281 282 289 296 297 298 299 300 301 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | schorl-biotite Phlogopite is fine- and medium-flaky, and microcline-plagioclase pegmatite. It lies both roughly oriented...composition is: plagioclase contacts. (An20-22) ( 50%), microcline ( 20), quartz T h i r d s e c t o r . This consists...from the vein into the forsteritites, quartz and microcline disappear, sublatitudinally f o r 140 m. Its...mineral ~ complexes ( quartz-plagioclase and quartz-microcline) , which clearly intergrow with one another (...crystals of white microcline, which are often corroded by plagioclase. The microcline crystals measure |  | | Book | | ” the gem considered October, Carolina, and Maine, In summary, beryl family, passage of was even...and weighs 235.5 carats, morganite rough Diego County, California, weigh Lea Collection), and from...green than blue” gem There carats. blue gem from Maine of 66.3 carats (Isaac pale are a 1,000 style...History contains the largest aquaa 137-carat it Maine; said to square brilliant of is sketched in...Properties be the largest a was story Angeles County and photographs prepared from a 6,021- International |  | | Journal (issue) | | Speer Minerals from the Old Sulphur Mine, Louisa County, Virginia Richard S. Mitchell and Arthur S. Katz...CRYSTALLIZED TURQUOISE from near Lynch Station, Campbell County, is Virginia's unique contribution to the mineral...Specimens from the Rutherford pegmatites, in Amelia County, are famous for the per fection of their thin...the same county. It also has been observed in pegmatites in Powhatan County, Spotsylvania County, and elsewhere...the world have specimens of allanite from Amherst County, Virginia. The mineral is usually black and is |  | | Catalog/List | | radial groups on limonile ........... Utah Toelle County, Gold Hill, Gold Hill mine ~ransparent micro crystals...lapis AJOITE Copper aluminum silicate Arizona Pima County, Ajo, New Cornelia mine Sky blue micro xls and...cerium aluminum silicate California Los Angeles County, Pacoirna Canyon Large black tabular crystals in...basic sulfate of aluminum and potassium Utah .Piute County, Tushar Mountains, Marysvale ----i'>ink crystalline...crystal vugs ALTAITE Lead telluride Colorado Saguache County, Klondike mine Cleavage plates in quartz with pyrite |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Bath District . Midford /Doulting Mendips \Shepton Mallet Bruton . Pauncefoot Cadbury District . /Compton... sillimanite. staurolite. ? topaz. kyanite. microcline. oligoclase. Other Minerals. chalcedony and...Cretaceous and Triassic sediments of the former county. Kyanite is abundant in the samples from the southern...quartz, the grains being of about the same size. Microcline is frequently observed, but so far as " light...referable to oligoclase, is less often seen than microcline. Practically all the felspar grains are clouded |  | | Report (issue) | | ............................................... USA .......................................................................... Other localities in the USA ...................................................ASTM Aus $ BSS E GSWA IS0 MC M ML P PCE PP PA SEM t USA XRD TAPPI American Society for Testing and Materials...Carboniferous coal measures in Britain and the eastern USA. Kaolinite in fireclays is typically poorly ordered...I001 Bandy Bluck S. Schmidt (Gerinnny) Spiriks (USA) 86 77 36 60 56 3.0 12.1 51 1.8 12.3 53 31 1.4 0 |
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