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| New Hampshire Mineral Locality Index Downloaded by [University of Newcastle, Australia] at 15:01 05...entrance and arch of the Palermo mine, North Groton, Grafton County. Rob Lawrence photo, courtesy Bob...Bob Whitmore. 242 ROCKS & MINERALS lthough New Hampshire, the Granite State, is one of our smaller states...reading Jackson (1844) on the mineralogy of New Hampshire that even at this early date there was already...activity produced new localities, renewed some old localities, and resulted in new minerals being discovered |
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| Bulletin 931-P MICA-BEARING PEGMATITES OF NEW HAMPSHIRE A PRELIMINARY REPORT BY J. C. OLSON Strategic................................................ Grafton district.........................................Geologic map of the Alstead area, Keene district , New Hampshire........................ 62. Map showing locations...of mica and feldspar mines of the Grafton district, New Hampshire .....................................district, New Hampshire.. Figure 38. Index map of New Hampshire showing locations of the Grafton and Keene |
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| COMPOSITION FROM THE RUGGLES MINE, NEAR OF THE URANINITE GRAFTON CENTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE B. M. Snaun, Smith...1935 the Whitehalt Company of New York opened a new pit in the old Ruggles pegmatite, at the top of the...from Grafton Center (7 I"59'33.6" W. Long., 43"35'22.3" N. Lat., Cardigan quadrangle, New Hampshire). The...points where they 334 ARANINITE FROM GRAFTON CEN ,ER, NEW HAMPSEIRE JJJ were originally attached...albite into which the pert ite grades. The cleavelandite variety of albite is absent in the part of pegmatite |
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| an economic byproduct from a few pegma tites in New Mexico and Colorado; also from Brazil, Australia...and Cooper in Maine; and from the berylmolybdenite mine near Mr. Antero, Colo rado. It is an economic mineral...pegmatite at the Ben Nevis Mine on San Augustin Peak in the Organ Mountains, New Mexico. ARGENTITE, a silver...mines on San Augustin Peak in the Organ Mountains, New Mexico. CHALCOCITE, a copper sulfide, has been noted...MINERALS at the Deep Park No. 2 Mine near Penland, and also at the McKinney Mine near Little Switzerland, North |
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| DAVID M~ SEAMAN American Museum of Natural History, New York, N. Y. Photographs by Julius Weber, Mamaroneck...pegmatite is generally much less abundant than the cleavelandite and lepidolite save in the cores themselves...cyrtolite; fan-like, hemispherical growths of cleavelandite and lepidolite, probably of simultaneous deposition;...mineralization); then the deposition of much very late cleavelandite; a very minor phase of topaz mineralization;...surrounding euhedral uraninite crystals in cleavelandite, and also as beautifully crystallized crusts |
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| Pegmatite Investigations 1942-45 New England By EUGENE N. CAMERON and OTHERS GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL..._______ _ Geology of the pegmatite districts of New Hampshire_ Rock units ________________________________...pegmatites ___________________ _ Pegmatites of the Grafton and Keene districts __ _ Sources of pegmatites...quality __ AnalyHis of the wartime mica industry of New England ________________________________________...Androscoggin County ______________________ _ Berry feldspar quarry __________________ _ Cumberland County ___ |
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| Maine Topsham district, Maine Grafton district, New Hampshire Greenfield, New York Middletown district, Connecticut...mailed (Hauy, 1811; Seybert, 1824). Dr. Bruce, a New York City physician, should be remembered as an avid...both sides of the road (Schooner, 1961). New York Another New York collector, Dr. J . H. Steel, discovered...occurred almost a century ago. A new, one time only, find was made in a New York City excavation at 88th...chrysoberyl in quartz, Wisdom Ranch prospect, Larimer County, Colorado. Crystal is VA by VA by 1/8 inches. |
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| the past from a few pegmatites near Ticonderoga, New York in the United States, but not in recent times...in Queensland, and at Kingsgate in the New England Range in New South Wales. Gold In 1911, native gold...Union County, Georgia. It was also formerly mined from a pegmatite at Pinetuckey, Randolph County, Alabama;...in a weathered pegmatite on the dump of the King Mine in the Shelby-Hickory District of North Carolina...Fremont County, Colorado. Elsewhere native gold has been re ported from pegmatite at the Natas Mine in southwestern |
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| THE W E E K S PEGMATITE MINE faults Wakefield, Carroll County New Hampshire S o m e u n u s u a l a...minerals in a location not noted for specimens. New Hampshire has many pegmatites in districts in the northern...Moun- Figure 1: Excavations in the dump, Weeks mine, June 1980. tain pegmatite at Center Strafford...line in the town of Wakefield, Car roll County, New Hampshire. The property is named after the 1942 owner...MAINE NEW HAMPSHIRE not miles 1153 to Wakefield Figure 2: Location map for the Weeks mine, Wakefield |
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| Andros coggin River from Brunswick in Sagadahoc County. A mile-wide belt of granitic pegmatites runs from...a Mr. Carr of Grafton, West Virginia, and then sold to Golding Brothers of Trenton, New Jersey. How ...of Bath who was superintendent for the Trenton (New Jersey) Flint and Spar Company. In 1869 that firm...was described by Shainin (1948) as follows: The mine-run feldspar was first run through the jaw crusher...transferred to Bath by scow and then shipped to Trenton, New Jersey, potteries, but by the early 1880s shipment |
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| THE PEGMATITE MINES KNOWN AS NORTH GROTON, NEW HAMPSHIRE eral I ederi Acknowledi:ments Dedicated...experience. As a kid growing up in Manchester, New Hampshire, I was always fascinated by minerals and tried...premier sandbox, but I could also make sure the mine would remain open to mineral enthusiasts for years...maintained the notoriety acquired by the Palermo No. I mine. Its impact on the nation, and in some respects...different species - several of them unique to the mine - Palermo has earned a reputation that makes it |
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| l d News on Mineral Occurrences Please note the new address for WNMO. After graduation, 1 have found...Establishment 3000 E . Ridge Road, Box 1712 Rochester, New York 14603 and topaz have lower dispersion and so...Bergdirektion, Austria, published an account o f "Some New Occurrences of Gonnardite" in Mineralogical Magazine...specimen material was found in abundance at the County Gravel Pit at Mauldin Mountain. Mauldin Moun tain...flank. The wavellite is typical of other Montgomery County Locations which differs from the more common Dug |
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| micro mounts? T h e long winter nights w i l l find new pleasures for you i f you start look ing over all...important mines here in New Hampshire — the Ruggles Mine in Grafton. T h i s mine is world famous for it's...specimens. There were a great many masses of cleavelandite around. I was breaking these up and find ing...Have you ever been disappointed after visiting a mine or quarry which was listed in one of the many guides...purchase speci mens one can add untold numbers of new and interesting crystal specimens to your collection |
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| MINERALS WORLD NEWS ON MINERAL OCCURRENCES Items on new finds wanted. Please send them in. Abbreviations:...ARIZONA—Nice specimens of turquoise come from the Indian Mine, Chloride, Mohave Co., Ariz. ARKANSAS—In the last...specimens at the famous Magnet Cove, Hot Spring County, Arkansas. I have just received a report from the...variety of the feldspar mineral Albite called "cleavelandite," consisting of aggregates of platy crystals...crystals. So far as I can find this variety is new for the Cove, and also for the State. However, I do not have |
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| lllllllllllllllll Collecting in Maine and New Hampshire has been very productive this year with many...the collection. In Maine Black Mt. proved a gold mine on my last visit in the spring. Such things as Eosphorite...the common minerals from each locality? Harvard Mine at Greenwood produced several fine purple Apatite...Meta-Autunite plus Fluorapatite at Wardwell Mine. At this mine many excellent specimens of Beryl in matrix...My old stamping grounds, Palermo Mine and Ruggles Mine in New Hampshire, both produced some fine material |
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| Descriptive Mineralogy Vandall T. King Rochester, New York 14609 , Eugene E. Foord U S. Geological Survey...Philip Hauck Richard P. Hauck was born in Bloomfield, New Jersey on June 30, 1935. He has been actively involved...deep concern for the fate of the Sterling mine in Ogdensburg, New Jersey, and his intense interest in mining...mining history led him to purchase the mine in order to form a living museum so that it would remain accessible...mineralogical community. Through his efforts, the Sterling mine has been declared a national historic landmark. |
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| Where & How to Djg, Pan and Mine Your Own Gen1s & Minerals Where & I-low to 1-Iunt for Treasure From...vacation stops at a roadside "dig your own" gem mine. Junior finds a sapphire the size of a p ach and...) Many an unsuspecting tourist has stopped at a mine to try his or her luck and become a rockhound for...Arizona California Colorado Hawaii Kansas Nevada New Mexico Oklahoma Texas Utah Alaska Idaho Iowa Minnesota...Indiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan New Hampshire New Jersey Nev,, York Ohio Pennsylvania Rhode |
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| volcanic rocks, in Faul, Henry, ed., Nuclear geology: New York, John Wiley & Sons Inc., p. 89-98. On the basis...for the following observation. At the W. Wilson mine, "a few secondary minerals, mainly metatorbernite...radioactivity of four Paleozoic magma series in New Hampshire: Geol. Soc. America Bull., v. 57, p. 797-828...series are recognized in western and central New Hampshire. This paper describes the rocks of these series...increase in the amount of zircon. The rocks of the New Hampshire magma series of Late Devonian (?) age range |
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| favorably received by our readers as a number of new subscriptions - from unexpected quarters - have been...interest to avoid the danger of being replaced by new members from the waiting list. Exhibition at the...White Horse Ranch to the Blitzen Valley, (Harney County, Oregon} and on the way I picked up some pieces...looked like slag from a furnace. This was in Grant County, Oregon, about 5 miles from Seneca. I was on a...tourmaline crystal 3x3x8 feet in the Luella Mine near Avon, Latah County, Idaho ; and etc. Origin The crystals |
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| extraordinary specimens of eosphorite and roscherite in two new prospects just above the two old workings. One of...morning when we hiked up to the workings along a new road. Collecting was good but about two o'clock storm...the rest of the afternoon to dry out. Irvin was new to mineral collecting and had brought a shopping-bag...Black Mountain and concentrated our digging in the new material below the prospect where the eosphorite...rarer. Found here in xls up to one inch in cleavelandite associated with lepidolite and microlite xls |
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| 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...gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason Cr.⎯fossils; |
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| 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...gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason Cr.⎯fossils; |
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| you wish to receive a copy. Please request our new arrivals list Dealers in: • rare minerals • fine... Paul Brian Moore Wyllieite, Na2Fe2AI(P04)3, A New Species........ Paul B. Moore Jun Ito Richard V...Scarsdale, New York, measures 8-1/2 by 10 inches. Photograph by HenriJansen, Ardsley,New York. Editorial...appointment Tourmaline Tourmaline Queen Mine Pala, California NEW ACQUISITIONS: RUTILE from Graves M tn...TOURMALINE from Pala, California We w ill offer fine new material from Europe and A frica fo llo w in g our |
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| will yield much fine material if masses of cleavelandite, aibite, mica and quartz are watched for in...micro crystals in the altered triphylite. At Ruggles Mine in N. H. I have col lected many fine micros...been completely de stroyed due to the building of new high ways or other construction. Scout around among...widen your collection and become familiar with many new and interesting minerals. The last and perhaps the |
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| with lenticular lamellae of albite); albite, cleavelandite (platy variety of albite) ; quartz, (asterated...orthoclase.) REFERENCES 1. Melhase, John (1936): "A New Occurrence of Rare-Earth Minerals in California,"...together with diagrams of Tilly Foster, Bumpus and Ruggles (purely historical interest, I realize) and on...Morganton, N. C. Melvin E. Wagner, E. Main St., New Freedom, Pa. Ronald N. Cibik, 427—3rd St., Leechburg |
