 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 2017 Topaz W in New Hampshireās DONALD DALLAIRE 829 Candia Road Chester, New Hampshire 03036 dadallaire@hotmail...Chandler cemetery on Route 113 in Chatham, New Hampshire. Don Dallaire photo. 64 Mineral Drive Hebron...several other localities throughout the world. New Hampshire, however, has produced topaz crystals for more...Figure 2. Topaz, 2.8 cm tall, on kaolinite, Government pit. The topaz is embedded in kaolinite and would...1983 on the final day of gravel operations when the pit was reclaimed. Carlton Holt specimen, Kevin Downey |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | of the Conway and Mount Osceola Granites of New Hampshire Some of the best collecting in the Granite State...State has been in central and northcentral New Hampshire in the Conway and Osceola granites. P E T E...the central and north-central reĀ gions of New Hampshire, are part of the Mesozoic White Mountain plutonic-volcanic...pink or tan and made up of 65% feldspar, 30% smoky quartz, and 5% biotite. It occurs in several phases...a fine-grained phase in which the feldspar and quartz are 0.2-1 mm in diameter, to a porphyrinic phase |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Miarolitic Cavity Minerals of the GOVERNMENT PIT, ALBANY New Hampshire Downloaded by [University of Oklahoma...Merrimack, New Hampshire 03054 Figure 1 (top): View of exposed ledges in a part of Government Pit of interest...ledges are now buried under fill, Government Pit is regarded as one of New Hampshireās premier mineral localities...topaz, smoky quartz, and feldspar specimens began to appear at mineral shows in northern New England...them was Government Pit, with the town noted as Conway, North Conway, Bartlett, or Albany, New Hampshire |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | New Hampshire Mineral Locality Index Downloaded by [University of Newcastle, Australia] at 15:01 05...Grafton County. Rob Lawrence photo, courtesy Bob Whitmore. 242 ROCKS & MINERALS lthough New Hampshire...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...2015 LOCATIONS BY COUNTY Belknap County Alton area: arsenopyrite, galena, quartz (crystals), sillimanite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | at 04:13 19 December 2014 Mount Antero, Chaffee County, Colorado A s virtually every collector knows...are found in certain pegmatites, granite bodies, quartz veins, and metal deposits. The pockets of pegmatites...and some districts, such as those in San Diego County, California, and many of those in Minas Gerais...premier aquamarine localities, Mount Antero, Chaffee County, Colorado, was highlighted by Jacobson and Lees...localities, and, when colorless, phenakite can resemble quartz. Phenakite exhibits a Mohs hardness of 7.5ā8 and |  | | Journal (issue) | | Braithwaite Graphite from the Lead Hill mine, Ticonderoga, New Y o r k ........................................................33 by B. L. Sage Lotharmeyerite, a new mineral from Mapimi, Durango, M e x ic o ..........uncommon lithium-mica from Coyote Peak, Humboldt County, California .....................................Czamanske and C. E. Meyer Ferroaxinite from Bridgeville, New Jersey.............................................enderson................................... 47 Whatās new in minerals? by W. E. W ils o n ................ |  | Thompson, Woodrow B., Bearss, Gene T., Falster, Alexander U., Simmons, William B., Nizamoff, Jams W. (2000) The Estes Quarry, Cumberland County, Maine: A New Pegmatite Mineral Locality. Rocks & Minerals, 75 (6) 408-418 doi:10.1080/00357520009605667 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 19:41 16 August 2013 Cumberland Countv. Mahe A New Pegmatite M ineral Locality T he Estes quarry in...highly mineralized pegmatites in Maine and New Hampshire. The quarry has yielded fine specimens of eosphorite...located on Route 5 in West Baldwin, Cumberland County, Maine (fig. 1). It is on the western flank of...Prior to the opening of the Estes quarry, a gravel pit was being worked at the base of the hill. In 1995...Smith College led a group of geologists to this pit during a Friends of the Pleistocene field conference |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | who hunt the old dump areas as well as the open pit. There are some 50 different micro xl possibilities...WILL FIT WITHIN A ONE INCH CUBE COLLECTING IN NEW HAMPSHIRE As we are nearing the period of fall and the...the northeast, many like to plan a trip to New Hampshire. There are a numĀ ber of key mineral localities...whitmoreite, and geodkenite 438 Ruggles Mine in Grafton, New HampĀ shire is a very popular area for collectors...the feldspar. Some very fine pieces of smoky and rose quartz that can be cut into cabs or faceted can |  | | Book (volume) | | Green fluorite (121.39 ct), Westmoreland, New Hampshire; blue fluorite (132.12 ct), Illinois; square...Colorado; colorless scheelite (19.66 ct), Kern County, California; octagonal step cut violetish pink...Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from San Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...established by Dr. George F. Kunz, of Tiffany & Company, New York City, whose famous Gems and Precious Stones...taking place in older deposits and the discovery of new deposits in various places, especially in regard |  | | Journal (issue) | | to all these questions and more. There were also new T-rex discoveries, including the interesting Horner........................................... 7 New Hampshire and Maine, 2005 .......................................................................... 23 New Member Letter .....................................you ask. Well, you see knowledge is power. At government auctions, it is literally a gold mine giveaway...7 THE BACKBENDER'S GAZETTE SEPTEMBER 2005 government has fork lifts to load your purchase for you |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | worked for Sylvania Electric Products in the Buffalo, New York, area until 1967 when he relocated to Sudbury...collecting site was Government pit at the foot of Moat Mountain just west of Conway, New Hampshire. There the...into pockets lined with crystals of microcline, smoky quartz, albite, and a variety of rarer minerals. He...perimeter was a large and diverse representation from New England, much of it self-collected. There were suites...and Southern Illinois districts, the Conway suite, New York minerals, southwestern and Mexican minerals |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Members "The Ryans" placed a mineral display in the New London Public LiĀ brary. The Stamford Mineralogical...encourage memĀ bers to follow rules of safety. NEW HAMPSHIRE There is no resume of the National Show as...went to the Government Pit, North Conway, and to Sugarloaf, Zeeland Park area for smoky quartz. (W.M.N.F...specially designed arm patchĀ es. The Southeastern New HampĀ shire Mineral Club, Rochester, began the fall...the Goff Jr. High School. Theme: Education Opens New Horizons (Written in September for October issue |  | | Book | | AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins in a variety of metamorphic...Litchfield, where a mass of white quartz on a ridge had once been mined for quartz, and large ilmenite masses...ilmenite crystals to 7 .5 cm in matrix of massive quartz from these dumps-adding that, in his judgment,...exist in the region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites between...Litchfield County. Ilmenite masses and crystals from somewhere near Washington, Litchfield County, were described |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | hydrocerussite; brown glaze on crust, hydrocerussite and quartz. C. White crust, mixture of cerussite and hydrocerussite...mineral (Fig. I B , I D ) . The glazes also contain quartz as well as adhering clays and other foreign impuriĀ...question was also considered by the Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names of the InterĀ national...were submitted for approval to the Commission on New Minerals and MinerĀ al Names there was some disagreement...100 articles and has published accounts of five new minerals. Professor Mitchell was recently named A |  | | Journal (issue) | | and old & new world explorations. Email, or call us if you wish to be notified when new catalogs are...com PO Box 455 ā¢ Poncha Springs, Colorado 8I242 USA Phone: 7I9-539-4IIJ ā¢ Fax 7I9-539-4542 SPRING...Mineral and Mining History of the Torrington Region of New South Wales. Australia by Eric L. Stevens 3 HISTORIC...Moat Mountain: The Oliver Diggings, Conway. New Hampshire by Robert Whitmore 34 DEDICATION OF MATRIX...there." Walt Whitman Beginning the publication of a new volume of MATRIX is organization's annual conference |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | they are formed in nature. 2. Fleischer, Michael "New mineral names." ,4m. Mineral, 57 (1972): 15551556...Frondel, C. and Gettens, R. J . "Chalconatronite, a new mineral from Egypt." Science, 122 (1955): no. 3158...Mandarino, J . A. "Romarchite and hydroromarchite, two new stannous minerals." Canad. Mineral, 10(1971): 916...The System of Mineralogy of. . . Dana (7th ed.), New York: Wiley, 1944. pp. 206, 271. The closing of...The case of the Wise Mine in Westmoreland, New Hampshire, closed in 1975, has been one of the most pubĀ |  | | Book | | decade, however, the need has been growing for a new, comprehensive index. Because the 14-year index suffered... Consequently, it was our decision to prepare a new index which is cumulative back to volume 1, fully...the 14-year index, and which is organized on a new plan. Nevertheless, all readers and users of the...the last ten years, and which has inspired this new effort. The current 25-year index is divided into...appears n Brief descriptive note, as in "What's New in Minerals?" p Photograph or other illustration | | | Book (volume) | | Green fluorite (121.39 et), Westmoreland, New Hampshire; blue fluorite (132.12 et), Illinois; sqmuĀ·e...Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from Sai, Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...established by Dr. George F. Kunz, of Tiffany & Cornpany, New York City, whose farnous Gems and Precious Stones...taking place in older deposits and the discovery of new deposits in various places, especially in regard...Mountains of Utah are to be mined by conventional open-pit methods and the enclosing rock crushed and treated |  | | Journal (issue) | | ................... 508 By W. E. Wilson Whatās New in Minerals Rochester Mineralogical Symposium 2019...$324/three years, (Canada) $186/one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $265 for one year Subscription...Mardani Fine Minerals, our retail galleries located in New York City and Vail, Colorado. www.MardaniFineMinerals...Wulfenite | ErupciĆ³n Mine, Mexico 11 x 10.5 x 5.2cm Quartz var. japan law twin, Ganesh Himal, Nepal, 10 cm...reference for mica produced in Minas Gerais. A rich, new pegmatite deposit in the Brazilian Golconda area |  | | Journal (issue) | | Vochten & G. Brizzi The Alice Glory Hole, Clear Creek County, Colorado ................................185 by...M. Kohler & L. Minnaar Garnet Hill, White Pine County, Nevada .........................................Carolina by J. S. White & J. E. Nelen 203 An unusual quartz crystal from Zaire .................................................. 178 by W. E. Wilson What's new in minerals?.......................................information on this recent discovery see What's New in Minerab? in this issue. Collection of R. W. Graeme |  | | Book (edition) | | The current progress in mineralog), with countless new data in books and scientific as well as amateur journals...submitted to, and accepted by, the Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names (CNMMN) of the International...pure freibergite is very rare. The decision that a new mineral species is established when one of the cations...eudialyte, and several other groups: The number of new mineral species may grow as an avalanche, flooding...very old origin, often without lrnown source. e.g. quartz or cinnabar. Current practice most often names |  | Gaines, Richard V., Skinner, H. Catherine W., Foord, Eugene E., Mason, Brian, Rosenzweig, Abraham, King, Vandall T. (1997) Dana's New Mineralogy (8th ed.) Wiley-Interscience. p.1872 | Book (edition) | | Danaās New| Mineralogy | Eighth Edition Richard V. Gaines H. Catherine W. Skinner Eugene E. Foord Brian...Mason Abraham Rosenzweig i DANAāS NEW MINERALOGY DANAāS NEW MINERALOGY The System of Mineralogy...ROCHESTER, NEW YORK And with Illustrations by ERIC DOWTY SHAPE SOFTWARE JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC. NEW YORK...Department, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 605 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10158-0012. This publication is designed...ation Data Dana, James Dwight, 1813-1895 Danaās new mineralogy: the System of mineralogy of James Dwight |
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Government pit, Albany, Carroll County, New Hampshire, USA