 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | B. COOK Department of Geology Auburn Universit Spodumene var. Kunzite Downloaded by [Selcuk Universitesi]...collectors, it is equally well known for its purple (kunzite) and green (hiddenite) varieties, both of which...quite restricted in occurrence. One of these, kunzite, is relatively plentiful in the collector’s marketplace...elongation (c-axis). This is particularly striking in kunzite, which can appear almost colorless until viewed...through the ends of the crystal. Some deeply colored kunzite is distinctly dichroic so that the rich purple |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | CooK Department of Geology and Geography Auburn University Auburn, Alabama 36849 cookrob@auburn.edu Beryl...Beryl, Variety Morganite San Diego County, California O ne of the most popular of all collectible minerals...so well known from the pegmatites of San Diego County, has been nominated for this issue’s Connoisseur’s...Department of Geology and Geography at Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama. He welcomes suggestions for...the White Queen mine, Pala district, San Diego County, California. The 11-cm specimen is in the Bob and |  | | Report (volume) | | cleavage, however, can be a handicap; topaz and kunzite, for example, are difficult to cut into faceted...tourmaline, beryl (emerald, aquamarine), spodumene (kunzite, hiddenite), zircon, and gem varieties of feldspar...Del Norte County; Trinity River, Trinity County; Spanish Creek and Gopher Hill, Plumas County; Placerville...Dorado County; Cherokee Flats, Yankee Hill,and Oroville, Butte County; French Corral, Nevada County; Indian...Indian Gulch and Volcano, Amador County; and Alpine Creek, Tulare County. Other western localities are: |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | found about 1925 at the Bennett quarry, Buckfield, Maine, together with others over three feet in length...found at a number of places: Paris and Rumford, Maine; Alstead, Gilsum, and Springfield, New Hampshire;...cleavelandite at Newry, Maine. Rose quartz crystals have also been found at Red Hill, Maine; North Groton, New...Hill, Maine; near Statesville, North Carolina; at Amelia, Virginia, near Clayton, Rabun county, Georgia;...at Shaw and Esray's quarry near Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania, and is now in the collection of |  | | Book (edition) | | from Oregon to the Mexican border and eastward to Maine and Florida. What you cannot collect in person...beryl, topaz and spodumene. crystals, Areas in Maine, Connecticut and California, and Madagascar, are...between The mountain regions in the east from Maine down through Georgia and westward to Tennessee...crystal and a cut specimen of kunzite. Found in California, kunzite lilac or Diamond in matrix. Rough...summer; neither is it wise to prospect in Montana or Maine in the as the winter. An scope, and automobile |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | yellow of Ceylonite, shadings Dunton Mine in Maine ROCKS AND MINERALS of bi-colors, red with green...Columbus, probably had some knowledge Newry Mountain, Maine Tourma/ine area. 155 of tourmaline in spite of...Mt. Mica (Paris, Me.) and the 1862 Mt. Apatite (Auburn, Me.) discoveries came the impetus to look elsewhere...of colored crystals, from Maine's Oxford and Androscoggin Counties, mostly on a NW strike from Lewiston...black. Most finds were mere traces compared with Maine, California, and Connecticut deposits, though Quebec |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | crystal was noted in the Luella mine near Avon, Latah county, Idaho, which measured 3x3x8 feet. Other large...Dakota. A black crystal from Micaville, Randolph county, Alabama, was 10 inches in diameter and from 3...Section pegmatite of Fremont county, Colorado. ROCKS AND MINERALS Maine, Connecticut, and California...most noted occurrences in Maine are Mt. Mica at Paris, Mt. Apatite at Auburn, also from Hebron, Poland...pink and green crystals at Ohio City, Gunnison county, Colorado; dark green, pink, and indicolite tourmalines |  | | Report (edition) | | BULLETIN 41 Third Edition A Collector's Guide to Maine Mineral Localities by Woodrow B. 7KaSVRQ Donald...Vandall T. King Robert G. Marvinney, State Geologist Maine Geological Survey Natural Resources Information...OF CONSERVATION 1998 Copyright © 1998 by the Maine Geological Survey, Department of Conservation. All...24 x JO mm;Jrom the Bennett Quarry, Buckfield, Maine. Mined in 1996 by Holden !Jrothers Mining and currently...Photo by John B. Poisson. The laws and policies of Maine and the United States prohibit discrimination in |  | | Report (volume) | | GEOLOGY OF THE PEGMATITES AND ASSOCIATED ROCKS OF MAINE INCLUDING FELDSPAR, QUARTZ, MICA, AND GEM DEPOSITS................................... Origin of the Maine pegmatites........................................Larsen............................. Application to Maine pegmatites............................... Eutectics........ 1.... Androscoggin County.................................................. Auburn................................ Auburn Falls............................................. Auburn reservoir........ |  | | 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 Peter Zodac...... .. 7 5 Autunite in Mitchell County, North Carolina. By Bradley Johnson .............Westthe deep l,lack Yariety of smoky quartz chester County, not far from the Conknown as morion. Small black...crystals collected at different places in Herkin1er County, New York, in 1930, and subsequently examined under...P. l\1. - 10 :26 P. 1\1. Kunzite, <:lea,·ahle, pinkish, l\lt. Apatite. Auburn, l1e., 8 :40 P. M. - 10...calcite fairly bright, wollA~tonite, very weak, kunzite just about: discernible. At 10 :14 P . 1\1., calcitP |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | of Natural History, 1957. PEGMATITE MINERALS OF MAINE phosphate, has been located as a rare, secondary...mineral at Topsham, but none has been found at Auburn, Buckfield, Poland, and Rum in recent years. ford...has been noted at the Dunton Gem Mine at Newry Maine. SCHEELITE, calcium tungstate, has together with...Norway. Maine 04268 366 ROCKS AND MINERALS occurred at a number of pegmatite local ities in Maine. It...quality at the Pulsifer Quarry on Mt. Apatite at Auburn. SPHALERITE, a polymorph of zinc sulfide, has been |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Executive Editors Robert B. Cook Auburn University, Al Carl A. Francis Maine Mineral & Gem Museum, ME John...I. Jacobson, Denver, CO Anthony R. Kampf, l.A. County Museum of Natural History, CA Virgil W. Lueth,...across a local area net\,vork. Subscription offices: USA/North America: Taylor & Francis Group, LLC, 530 Walnut...Copyright Clearance Center (www.copyright.com) in the USA or the Copyright Licensing Agency (www. cla.co.uk)...Southwood Melbourne, Australia Woodrow B. Thompson, Maine Geological Survey, Augusta, ME John S. White, Stewartstown |  | | Journal (issue) | | 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...Albany, Maine ; a black tourmaline crystal 3x3x8 feet in the Luella Mine near Avon, Latah County, Idaho...have been obtained at Black Mountain, Rumford, Maine. However the cassiterite found in the United States...Mountain, South Dakota, anq one mass at Newry, Maine, weighed nearly 500 pounds. The lepidolite present |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | and some crystals have clear areas of true gem kunzite within them. Some spodumene has been noted to have...Mountain, Rumford, Maine; in cleavelandite with watermelon colored tourmaline at Newry, Maine; and with deeply...Rumford, Maine where it occurs chiefly in association with very late cleavelandite. At Newry, Maine; and...replacement body at the Bennett Quarry, Buckfield, Maine in association with lepidolite and quartz. Lepidolite...within the replacement bodies at Mt. Apatite, Auburn, Maine; at the Brown Derby Mine at Ohio City, Colorado; |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | photo by Harold and Erica Van Pelt. March-April: Kunzite on quartz/cleavelfndite matrix, Nuristan, Lagham...November-December: Roebling Apatite, Pulsifer quarry, Auburn, Maine; photo by Victor E . Kranz. Aegirine-augite...114 Baumann, H . , 330 Bavenite, 189 Behnke, D., Maine Articles Published in Rocks and Minerals: An Annotated...Burbank, B . B . , Topaz and Herderite at Topsham, Maine, 434 Calaverite, 190 Calcite, 81, 112, 155, 190...Wollastonite and Titanite Near Natural Bridge, Lewis County, New York, 78; 13th Rochester Academy of Science |  | | Journal (issue) | | R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur... 353 by P. Orlandi and P. B. Scortecci M aine Maine tourmaline........................................Elbaite from Newry, Maine (by P. J. Dunn) [1975, vol. 6, no. 1, p. 22-25.] Newry, Maine, a pegmatite phosphate...vol. 8, no. 6, p. 475.]* The best of San Diego County (by W. Larson) [1977, vol. 8, no. 6, p. 507-515...no. 1, p. 19-28.] The Jensen quarry, Riverside County, California (by F. DeVito and A. Ordway) [1984 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Extracts from the logs of mineral col leering in Maine and New Hampshire. (Several trips are omitted for...tremolite crystals. May 23-24 Went to Augusta (Maine) to prepare tiie family lots for Memorial Day. I...drove to Frank Pitts' home in Mechanics Falls (Maine) to find out about contractors for blasting on Mt...picked up Charlie Marble and then to Hartford (Maine) and picked up Lionel Bartlet. We all went to Hedgehog...his micros which include gold crystals from many Maine brooks. We went over to Mt. Apatite and cleared |  | | Journal (issue) | | words: Near view of American Gems worked ledge. Kunzite and gem tourmaline American Gemstones – What They...Sapphires Benito County, California; the group of sapGems Found in the U.S. State of Maine phires is from...Daniel Bronfen, Brazil Evan Caplan, USA Rocco Gay, Italy Sushil Goyal, USA Shahina Hatta, Hong Kong Dwarka...Thailand Immediate Past President Benjamin Hackman, USA Chief Executive Officer Gary Roskin ICA General Manager...31 W. 47th Street, Suite 1103 New York, NY 10036 USA ica@gemstone.org T: 1.212.620.0900 F: 1.212.352.9054 |  | | Book | | · ge mass .of Cretaceous amber from Gloucester County, New Jersey�· �c---- Trans.N.Y.Acad.Sci., 2,...rom Stoneham, Oxford n 71 1 I /1lJsh� ,;__,: County, Naine. l : ! i_ '' ; . Heprint: Proceedin6s...the tounnaline and associated minerals of .Auburn, Maine; Andalusite from GorhQlll, MRi.ne; The white...(1884) . bl: , · 1g�1.f [heraerite, Stoneham, Maine]-. Trans. N.Y.Acad. Sci., 3, p.37. i\ru.z (G.>'...The meteorites from· Glorieta Mountain, Santa Fe County, New Mexico.-Ann ·als N.Y.Acad.Sci., ·v.3, no.11 |  | | Book | | Ed & Bert Sloan Maine Vermont New Hampshire Massachusetts Rhode Island PERHAM'S MAINE MINERAL S'toRE...S'toRE INC. JUNCTION RTE8. '1LJ &_ 219 WEST PARIS, MAINE 04289 Copyright 0 1976 by Edward Sloan. All rights...KEITH QUARRY Mt. Apatite, Auburn, Maine ·xxx - Mechanic Falls Rte. 11 Auburn � Circle-Tpke. (No Scale)...MANGANAPATITE TOURMALINE SWIFT RIVER GOLD LOCATION Byron, Maine (No Scale) You may park vehicles approximately...away. TAMMINEN MINE HARVARD MINE Greenwood, Maine XXX Tamminen Mine Rte. 11 8 + N. (No Scale) |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 27858, USA 2 Department of Mineral Sciences, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20013, USA incompatible...(colored Li-rich tourmaline), morganite (pink beryl), kunzite (lavender spodumene), and topaz, as well as other...Pala, in the Pala District, northwest San Diego County, and constitute mine operations (Fig. 1). The Pala...pegmatiteaplite dikes near Pala, San Diego Co., California, USA. Modified from Webber et al. (1997) London, personal...The general mineralogy and zonation of San Diego County granitic pegmatites were described in detail by |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Corporation and the Mt. Mica Land Corporation in Maine. The major tourmaline deposits here may be de veloped...Although Charles Key is now located in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, he has lived, and has had businesses in, New Jersey...Dunton Gem mine (Nevell mine), Newry Hill, Newry, Maine. 7 Figure 1: Frank C. Perham. 442 ROCKS A M )...Perham, geologist and pegmatite miner of West Paris, Maine, in honour of his dedicated labours in the recovery...was born March 5, 1934, in West Paris, Oxford County, Maine, to Stanley Irving and Gwendolen Louise (Wood) |  | | Report (volume) | | Louisiana........Prof. Gilbert D. Harris, Baton Rouge. Maine............Mr. C. Vey Holman, Bangor. Maryland....See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;...following localities: Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20, Pv. 7 E.; Jefferson...Jefferson County, at Elyton; Lee County, at Chewacla lime works; St. Clair County, at Gfeensport; Shelby |
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Maine Feldspar Quarry, East Mount Apatite Mining District, Auburn, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA