 | | 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 |  | | 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...5 cm tall; gem weighs 2 carats. From the Havey Quarry, Poland, MaifJ. e. Photo copyright 1995 by Wendell...crystals, 24 x JO mm;Jrom the Bennett Quarry, Buckfield, Maine. Mined in 1996 by Holden !Jrothers Mining |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | PEGMATITE MINERALS OF MAINE By DAVID M. SEAMAN 36 Winter Street, Norway, Maine 04268 (continued from... is a rather rare mineral in the pegmatites of Maine. Always a secondary mineral, it has been noted as...as crystals on quartz crystals at the Bennett Quarry at Buckfield. Yellow, scalenohedral calcite crystals...pegma tite with the wall rock at the Tamminen Quarry in Greenwood. C A S S I T E R I T E , tin oxide...noted in small amounts in a number of pegmatites in Maine, chiefly in the lithium replacement zones. It is |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Maine Articles Published in Rocks and Minerals AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY DANIEL BEHNKE 2981 Landwehr...Gentleman of Oxford County. Rocks and Minerals 35:28-29. A tribute to "the dean of Maine minerals," Charles...of Buckfield, Maine. Bailey, E . M. 1929. A catalog of minerals found at Rumford, Maine. Rocks and Minerals...in the Rumford area. No descriptions are provided. Barker, D. S. 1955. The Union Limestone quarry, Union...Union, Maine. Rocks and Minerals 30:365-66. Short description of its geology and mineralogy. Sketch map |  | | 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 |  | | 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.................................................................................... Maine Feldspar Company quarry and mill................... Turner feldspar |  | | 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...] 328 Famous mineral localities: the Pulsifer quarry (by W. E. Wilson) [1977, vol. 8, no. 2, p. 72-77...vol. 8, no. 6, p. 475.]* The best of San Diego County (by W. Larson) [1977, vol. 8, no. 6, p. 507-515 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | OXFORD COUNTY, MAINE: THE PLACE TO GO By F R A N K W A R D 2 Mildred A v e n u e , Rye, N . Y . 1 0 5...bring to light numerous specimens labeled Oxford County, Maine. M y own collection boasts quite a few that...collected from the numerous mines and quarries of Oxford County over the past five summers. A scattering of...come to Oxford County. T h e pegmatites that comprise the min eralized zone of Oxford County are in many...however, some minerals that are unique to O x f o r d County alone and these aren't as rare as the collector |  | | Book (edition) | | HANDBOOK for A WEEK WITH MAINE MINERALS by NEIL A. WINTRINGHAM 1_� Cv1,_1'--A� __, SECOND EDITION...a week collecting in the pegme.tite area ot Oxford county, !!Bine, Neil Wintr:lnghal'!l, a pa.st-president...field trial of the hambook during our ''Week with Maine Minerals" furnished additional information end resulted...characterized the evenings spent with members of the Oxford County Mineral & Gem Association. N. A. W. Mountainside...minerals. The geology of pegmatites, in general, and Maine pegmatites, in particular, is summarized briefly |  | | Report (issue) | | translucent. Color: Pink to rose-red, commonly brown to black when oxidized. Streak: White. Luster: Vitreous to...928(1) β = 90.0◦ X-ray Powder Pattern: Newry, Maine, USA. (ICDD 17-131). 2.826 (100), 2.422 (60b), 5.23...15.74 Total 99.82 100.00 (1) Buckfield, Oxford Co., Maine, USA. (2) MnAl(PO4 )(OH)2 • H2 O. Polymorphism...Connecticut, USA); albite, cookeite, apatite, beryllonite, hydroxyl-herderite, tourmaline (Newry, Maine, USA)...USA). Distribution: In the USA, from Branchville, Fairfield Co., Connecticut; at a number of places around |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | July, 1965) THE MICA WORKINGS OF BLACK MOUNTAIN, RUMFORD, MAINE. One fine summer day in 1939 Mr. Bartsch...road which led straight up to the workings on Black Mountain. It was a continuous stretch of mud and only...sled hitched to the tractor. The Grand Old Man of Maine, Mr. Charlie Marble of Buckfield, told me long ago...Shavey. Noyes Mountain in Greenwood, Maine is named after him. The first impression of the quarry was tremendously...his neighbor Mr. Leggett had been up to the Black Mountain locality and had found some extraordinary specimens |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | SVNPJHSQUARRY, GARLAND COUNTY, ARKANSAS. S. L. Hanson1, A. U. Falster2...pale green to dark green sequence, although Dunton quarry green tourmaline generally fluoresces in contrast...most green tourmalines worldwide. At the Dunton quarry, green tourmaline without adjacent red zones fluoresces...treating rubellite increased the brightness of Dunton quarry tourmaline. Hawkins, Mackinnon, and Schneeberger...(1995) published a chemical analysis of Dunton quarry elbaite and revealed that there was an equal concentration |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | thrills! No list would be complete without the black of common schorl, brown of dravite, and the colorless... 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...large quantities of colored crystals, from Maine's Oxford and Androscoggin Counties, mostly on a NW strike...few spots outside this area, but the Newry and Black Mt. deposits are famous exceptions. As the decades |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the "Keystone Newsletter.") Do you know why many quarry owners will not grant permission to collectors...disastrous. 7. REMEMBER YOU ARE A GUEST WHILE IN A QUARRY. NEVER AT ANY TIME DISTURB TOOLS OR MACHINERY....dumped in quarries. Be a good guest and treat the quarry or mine site as your own place. 8. Watch out for...of M. S. P. enjoyed a perfect July day in Eureka Quarry. Bob Ennis, Wilkes Barre, was home on furlough...prize. While the rockhounds hunted and hammered the quarry workmen repaired their machinery to an audience |  | | Journal (issue) | | ............... 136 Diamond, 8.2 carats, from Black Sands Creek, Beechworth, Victoria. The stone was...P. 0. Box 39100 Lafayette, LA. 70593 California, USA This n otable Australian pegmatite locality has...hundred metres is sufficient distance to hide a large quarry. During the long summer (November to April), no...succession from the Coolgardie group (oldest) to the Black Flag Group (youngest), with hypabyssal rocks and...(1942), in his report on the Londonderry Feld spar quarry, observed a fine-grained p urple lepidolite outcrop |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | this type of pegmatite is the Buzzo or Parker Mountain mine in Center Strafford which produced spectacular...are the smoky quartz crystal cavities of Moat Mountain near Conway, and the lithium silicate-bearing...determining that no one had gone with the pump into the quarry. We then speculated that possibly a disgruntled...duck hunter, or per haps someone who had used the quarry as a swimming hole, may have kicked it in. By afternoon...overcame the pit pump and "drowned" a bulldozer in the quarry. The pumping in October, 1975, partially exposed |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | these apatites range from 0.05 wt% CO3 in the Black Mountain apatite to 0.34 wt% in the Wilberforce apatite...specimens came from the Harding pegmatite, Taos County, New Mexico, Harding 2 and Harding 23, both found...1990). Apatite from Maine pegmatites include the Black Mountain pegmatite, Oxford Co. (Brown and Wise...with albite and triphylite; the Bennett pegmatite, Oxford Co. (Wise et al. 1994; Wise and Rose 2000), where...Pulsifer quarry, Androscoggin County, where royal purple apatite is found in pockets with cookeite and tourmaline |  | | Journal (issue) | | .................184 by Paul Brian Moore Newry Maine - A Pegmatite Phosphate Locality... 189 by Vandall...motel rooms usually provide this. For example, the Maine elbaite tourmalines which were thor oughly discussed...for the crystal specimen quality of the San Diego County materials - both old and new. As usual, the exhibits...both the county (pro vince) and its capital; there are thirty-one separate mines in the county. The mines...another new borate mineral at Borax Lake, Lake County, California, and in 1939 was co-author with W. |  | | Journal (issue) | | e""t.,-u ;» I GIU40/U/, 1943 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY ........................................................ 3 NOTES ON GYPSUM CRYSTALS IN MORTON COUNTY, NORTH DAKOTA. By Robe,-, H. Mitchell and Wilson...SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LOCALITIES. 3. Rincon, Sao Diego County. By f ark Schwartz ............... ..............of phlogopite from Clark's H ill, St. Lawrence County, New York (page 633, figure 2) ; and a crystal...crystal of clinochlore from W est-town, Chester County, Pennsylvania (page 646). It is also interesting to note |  | | Show/Event (guide) | | during highway construction, Hull Township, Gatineau County, Quebec. P. M. Bellev, R. Rowe & M. Picard. 2:45...e " from the Harder Farm, Hammond, St. Lawrence County, NY. M. Lupulescu. 3:45 H i s t o r y of the Powers...Powers farm streamside veins, St. Lawrence County, New York. M. R. Walter & S. C. Chamberlain. 4:00 M...Louisa County, Virginia. L. E. Kearns & M. D. Dunn. 4:30 B l u e wavellite from the De Linde quarry, Garland...Garland, County, Arkansas. S. L. Hanson, A. U. Falster & Win. B. Simmons. 4:45 H a f n i a n zircon from |  | | Journal (issue) | | .......... 108 Agate Found in an Old Abandoned Quarry. By Louis Rea1ner.................................... 120 • A Catalog of Minerals F ound at Rumford, Maine. By E. M. Bailey ...................... l21.............................. 124 Chips From the Quarry..................................................Box :i92 Dal!as, Texas PEGMATITIC MINERALS FROM MAINE Alblte Amblygonlte Almandlte Beryl Blotite Cl ea...PURPLE APA TI TE ZONED MICA XLS MAINE MINERAL STORE WEST PARIS. MAINE STANLEY 1. P E RHAM OlCPORD CDUN"TY |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | J.D. Grice. 1994. Can. Min. 32, 843. Poudrette Quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada. Na26REE(S...34, 592. As black euhedral to subhedral crystals to 1 mm in a quartz vein from Ankang County, Shaanxi Province...pleochroism; reflectance data are given. Named for the County in which the type locality is situated. Antimonselite...Wang, 1993. Acta Min. Sinica, 13, 7. Occurs as black anhedral grains and as radiating acicular crystals...mine, found in human secretions. Graham County, Arizona, USA. PbA1F3(OH)2. Baumhauerite-2a. A. Pring |  | | Report (issue) | | _______________________ _ Geology of the pegmatite districts of Maine __ :. . _____ _ Metamorphic rocks _________________________...__________________ _ Maine ________________________________________ _ Androscoggin County ______________________...______________________ _ Berry feldspar quarry __________________ _ Cumberland County _______________________ _ LaChance...LaChance mines _______________________ _ Oxford County ____________________________ _ Barrett beryl prospect...feldspar quarry ________________ _ Black Mountain area ___________________ _ Black Mountain ___________________ |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | garnets in the stockdale Kirnberlite Intrusion, Riley County, Kansas Anandite ordering Ancyl ite crystal structure...in the Stockdale Kinbertite Intrusion, RileY 675 County, Kansas sehoite 48I Be-O force constants 481 infrared...Crystal _, structure of whitlockite frorn the Palerno quarry 120 CAMERON,KENNETHL. An experinental study of...breakdown reparameters 1047 actions,unitcell 175,1041 cookeite 175 corurdophilite 175 donbassite 924 kennererite...407 kaolinite 407 nacrite 840,1063 nontronite Cookeite forrnation conposition, crystal structure, ordering |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | crystals, Bachelor mine, Amethyst vein system, Mineral County, Colorado; Dave Bunk specimen, Jesse La Plante...Uvite with Overgrown Dravite, Bigelow, St. Lawrence County, New York, 250–59; Gemstone Deposits in Turkey...Geological Museum of China, 434–39 Chips from the Quarry, M. E. Huizing, 5–11, 101–3, 197–203, 293–97, 389–93...Voelter Minerals Alpine Mineral Company Green Mountain Minerals Gallery of Lapidary Artists The Sunnywood...Sunnywood Collection Fenn’s Gems and Minerals Adam’s Mountain Minerals Ariana Gems and Minerals Columbia Trading |
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