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Hematite from
Hercules Mine, Castine, Blue Hill - Castine Mining District, Hancock County, Maine, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Hematite
Formula:Fe2O3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Hematite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Hercules Mine, Castine, Blue Hill - Castine Mining District, Hancock County, Maine, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1351485
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1351485:9
GUID (UUID V4):960c845e-8cf2-411e-9ce8-07202b346c8e
Nearest other occurrences of Hematite
6.8km (4.3 miles) Tapley Mine, Brooksville, Blue Hill - Castine Mining District, Hancock County, Maine, USA
10.0km (6.2 miles) Cape Rosier Mine (Callahan Mine; Rosier Consolidated Mine), Brooksville, Blue Hill - Castine Mining District, Hancock County, Maine, USA
10.2km (6.3 miles) Mammoth Mine, Blue Hill, Blue Hill - Castine Mining District, Hancock County, Maine, USA
50.3km (31.3 miles) Dragon Cement Quarry, Thomaston, Knox County, Maine, USA
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Report (volume)
DIRECTOR BULLETIN 432 SOME ORE DEPOSITS IN MAINE AND THE MILAN MINE, NEW HAMPSHIRE BY WILLIAM H. EMMONS.............................. ----------.- --- Mining development................................................................................... Castine formation...................................................................... 30 Mines of Hancock County.............................................. 30 Douglas mine..................................................... 31 Twin Lead mine.............
Book (volume)
Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and  the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59...along adjoining Co. linerock 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 floatjasper. CARTERSVILLE:...CARTERSVILLE:  area barite pitsBarite, Geodes, Goethite, Hematite, Limonite, Iron minerals;  area mines, as important
Book (volume)
Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift...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...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods
Book (volume)
Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift...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...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods
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...photograph: Fluorapatite, Pulsifer quarry, Auburn, Maine (2.2 cm specimen), Harvard Mineralogical Museum...Wendell E. Wilson, ©1985. The laws and policies of Maine and the United States prohibit discrimination in
Book (volume)
0 n101ercai o of Maine j f·~ ....__ :,,. . - .._"' ..;. .. ~ L-- -~ \. • .J_..::.; I Volume...Volume 2: Mining History, Gems, and Geology edited by Vandall T. King Maine Geological Survey DEPARTMENT...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
stumble over a valuable nugget and stake your own mining claim? Indeed it to is, and author book Jay...prospecting, he points out, is in abandoned mining districts, where valuable mineral ores are present...commercial ores and secondary minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification...RANSOM 1875-1948 An to the Eastern '‘Schoolmarm” Mining Camps of the Old West I I a s I \ h K... CONTENTS Preface ix PART I 1 Introduction to Mining and Mineralogy 2 Preparation for Mineral Collecting
Report (volume)
....................................... 102 District of Columbia .................................................................................. Maine...................................................to refer to Geological Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals that are widely...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products, but because they furnish
Journal (issue)
paragenesis of the Little Three mine pegmatites, Ramona district, San Diego County, California ...............Three pegmatites have yielded superb orange large blue topaz c r y s ta ls m , ulticolored elbaite and...plus an interesting range o f rare species. The mine, first opened in 1903, continues to produce fine...Three mine is one of several mines located on the Little Three property in the Ramona district, San Diego...Diego County, California. This mine, strictly speaking, is developed in the Little Three main dike, one
Report (volume)
it helpful to refer to Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant, it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals of wide distribution...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products but because they furnish...Louisiana........Prof. Gilbert D. Harris, Baton Rouge. Maine............Mr. C. Vey Holman, Bangor. Maryland....North Carolina.. .Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, Chapel Hill. North Dakota... .Dr. A. G. Leonard, Grand Forks
Report (issue)
Ore Deposits of the Coeur d'Alene District Shoshone County, Idaho GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER...445 Ore Deposits of the Coeur d'Alene District Shoshone County, Idaho By VERNE C. FRYKLUND, ]R. With...section on THE BLEACHED ROCK IN THE COEUR D'ALENE DISTRICT By PAUL L. WEIS GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL...a comprehensive study of the Coeur d'Alene mining district, Idaho UI\ITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING...Jamesonite ________________________________ _ Hematite __________________ __ _____________ _ Uraninite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Technological University] at 01:12 30 May 2016 Touissit Mine, Oujda, Morocco This unusual specimen consists...MINERALS was found in June 1988 at shaft 9, Touissit mine, Oujda, Morocco, and purchased there by Victor Yount...found at numerous localities, very few of today’s mining districts are consistent producers of fine anglesite...occurs in shades of yellow, green, and, rarely, blue. Its luster is adamantine, tending toward resinous...Foster iron mine, Putnam County, and at the old Rossie lead mines in St. Lawrence County, New York. In
Report (issue)
studies in 1811, during A.G. Werner's time at the Mining Academy in Freiberg, Saxony (Germany). From 1826...miners. He was also the gemstone inspector for the mining authority. Breithaupt's legacy is 500 publications...descriptions. T he above is a postcard of the School of Mining in Feiberg, Saxony printed for the 1991 Breithaupt...from the University of New Orleans in Louisiana (USA), with the lowdown on beryl mineralogy An ancient...Greek term "beryllos," which was used to refer to blue-green gems in general and was probably applied to
Report (volume)
RECONNAISSANCE OP THE ORE DEPOSITS IN NORTHERN YUMA COUNTY, ARIZONA ROWLAND BANCROFT WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT...........-.-.----.----..-.-.........-:...- 14 Mining and metallurgy ...................................................... Conditions and cost of mining......................................... 15 15 Methods...46 Planet copper mine................................................ 47 Mineral Hill deposits.................................. 55 Clara Consolidated Mining Company's properties................... 59 Deposits
Report (issue)
western Harquahala Mountains Calcite mine stop Lunch* at Calcite mine Northern Granite Wash Mountains stop...Mineral Hill and vicinity stop (western Buckskin Mountains) BCC mine stop Lunch* at BCC mine Clara Peak...C. Hamm 1 Anthony H. Hauck,III 1 174 Robert Hill 1 51 Penny Hobbie 1 198 Brenda Houser 1 ...and southeast directed. The structurally lowest Hercules thrust, which is exposed in the western Harquahala...along the Hercules thrust or related, subsidiary thrusts. Mineralization along the Hercules thrust zone
Report (issue)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chapter I. Mining Districts of Counties and the State of Utah. .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 County Listings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chapter II. Mining Districts of Utah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . 4 Mineral Localities Listed by County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Beaver County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Book (edition)
Chapters on the Coeur d'Alene Mining District, the Blackbird Mining District, and the Sawtooth Mountains...Chapters on the Coeur d'Alene Mining District and the Blackbird Mining District, and to Ben Sheppard for reviewing...reviewing the chapter on the Blackbird Mining District. Those who contributed photographs, or specimens...or a vein of massive pyrite and chalcopyrite in a mine, so references such as these were not included....for a particular mineral may be a certain mine, but that mine may now have a new name, or may now be a
Journal (issue)
calcite, 11/2 inches across, Knippa Quarry, Uvalde County, Texas, photo by the author. Tucson 1999 - mouthwash...vividly blue chalcanthitc, and that is natural chalcanthite, neither synthetic, nor post-mining. It came...localities Posey Mine (San Juan Co., Utah, USA) and Planet Mine (La Paz Co., Arizona, USA). That from Posey...Posey Mine is composed of 5-10 mm veins, composed of fibers perpendicular to the veins, in sandstone....genuinely natural material? A large lot of good blue azurite from Morenci in Arizona was also available
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
specimens, are either inaccessible or are in closed mining districts, or are closed for political reasons...City-D~Lamar Mining Dlstricts / J\. I,' -r-, - L..... ~ rl.. kl \ , 50 I 100 I Miles old mining and...scientific significance. In this index, the better known mining districts that have produced many high-quality...(left). Levyne, 6 mm across, on blue thomsonite. Lucky Peak Dam, Ada County; Lanny Ream specimen and photo...cut near Pinehurst, Adams County; Lanny Ream specimen and photo. Ada County Lucky Peak Dam, on east side
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MICROMINERALS FROM BLACK JACK CANYON, GREENLEE COUNTY, ARIZONA. E. Grundel, 2000 S. 2d St., No. 8, Arlington...mileposts 162 and 163 near Black Jack Canyon, Greenlee County, Arizona. The specimens are found in the vesicles...Graham Counties,Arizona. Arizona Bureau of Mines, county geology map series 3-4. A NEW OCCURRENCE OF CUBIC...Simmons 2000). The oxide minerals, predominantly hematite and magnetite, are associated with the tan, buff...gypsum and beautiful crystals of magnetite and/or hematite. Magnetite occurs as lustrous black euhedral crystals
Report (issue)
Australia, it is often necessary to christen a new mining field, and to assign names to its creeks, gullies...north-west of C.”; A, B, and C may all be in the same district, but it is sometimes difficult or impossible to...” “Leigh Creek,” “Avondale Mine”; all these are in the Leigh Creek District, and there may be but one...Zmc-lead Salphide Deposits of the Read-Rosebery District. Bull. Geol. Surv, Tas., 23, 1915. .Jensen (H...Mount Shamrock Mine. Ihid., No. 168, 1901. 34. On the Mount Biggenden Gold and Bismuth Mine and Paradise
Report (issue)
and mineral• bearing rocks and mines of Wonder district. From monument at top of Wonder MOuntain, 6200...20° w. 5 1629 Victor Range west of Wonder; Hercules Valley in foreground and part of Stillwater Range...60° w. 6 1630 Victor Range west of Wonder; Hercules Valley . in foreground; part of Stillwater Range...Peak in ext~eme right. Looking W. 80°W. 7 1631 Hercules Valley; Victor Range, including Porphyry Peak...rhyolitic lavas in northeastern part of Wonder district. Looking north-northeast. (Photo 17-1641.) j
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
comprehensive listing, including detailed spot locations on county road maps, refer to this publication, which can...The price is $5.00 plus 4% sales tax. Individual county road maps can be obtained from the North Carolina...Carolina 27611 B. J . M C K E N Z I E Alamance County Pyrophyllite, cacoxenite, diaspore, sericite, pyrite...ilmenite, topaz, and chert are found at the Snow Camp mine (Holman's Mill) located 2.7 miles southeast of the...imately 1.9 miles. The mine lies north of the road on the side of a wooded hill, 0.2 mile from the road
Report (issue)
Tombstone district, Cochise County; Gila County, at Lost Gulch Mine, near Globe; Mohave County, in Mineral...Pima County, in Mammouth Mine, Schulty; Yavapai County, in ores of Bradshaw Mountains; Yuma County, in...in Castle Dome district; common in silver veins. ANTIMONY ORES. See Jamesonite and Stibnite. ARGENTITE... Mohave County, in pre-Cambrian granite gneiss in Chloride, Mineral Park, and Stockton Hill districts;...districts; Pinal County, at Silver King; Santa Cruz County, at Montezuma and Empress of India mines, Tyndall
Report (issue)
California Issued California State by the Mining Bureau Francisco. Ferry Building, San Lewis ...transmit Bulletin honor to F. George Bureau: Mining Ornamental the Honorable and California, of...---------------- 104 COAL ---------------- 104 HEMATITE GOTHITE --------------- BROOKITE 105 --------------...CALIFORNIA APPENDIX—CALIFORNIA 121 ---------- STATE MINING BUREAU 159 ----- LIST No. Relief 1. of...Valley Hydraulic Mine,” in 41 County Amador at Volcano, Flat, Cherokee County 41 Butte 9. showing
 
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