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Hydroxylapatite from
Black Mountain Quarry, Rumford, Oxford County, Maine, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Hydroxylapatite
Formula:Ca5(PO4)3(OH)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Hydroxylapatite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Black Mountain Quarry, Rumford, Oxford County, Maine, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:28643
Long-form Identifier:1:3:28643:3
GUID (UUID V4):4438d19d-23fa-44ff-8f46-366b48fc3ed1
Nearest other occurrences of Hydroxylapatite
7.5km (4.6 miles) Bell pit, Newry, Oxford County, Maine, USA
7.6km (4.7 miles) Crooker Gem Pegmatite Quarries, Newry, Oxford County, Maine, USA
7.7km (4.8 miles) Dunton Gem Quarry, Newry, Oxford County, Maine, USA
7.9km (4.9 miles) Scotty Quarry, Newry, Oxford County, Maine, USA
28.2km (17.5 miles) Songo Pond Quarry (Kimball Ledge Quarry), Albany, Oxford County, Maine, USA
29.4km (18.3 miles) Emmons Quarry, Uncle Tom Mountain, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine, USA
32.2km (20.0 miles) Bumpus Quarry, Albany, Oxford County, Maine, USA
35.1km (21.8 miles) B.B. No. 7 Quarry, Norway, Oxford County, Maine, USA
35.2km (21.9 miles) Ryerson Hill Quarries, Paris, Oxford County, Maine, USA
36.9km (22.9 miles) Bennett Quarry, Buckfield, Oxford County, Maine, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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
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
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Phosphate-rich Pegmatite Formation in Maine The phosphate minerals of Maine are found principally within granitic...granitic pegmatites in Oxford, Androscoggin, and Sagadahoc counties located in the south central portion...Newry complex of pegmatites, the Black Mountain quarries in Rumford, and from miscellaneous occurrences...known primary source. The primary phosphates in Maine are few: fluorapatite, triphylite, lithiophilite...Monazite-(Ce) is also a primary pegmatitic phosphate in Maine, but unlike the others, it has not been altered
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Washington, Connecticut 06793. The area of Litchfield County immediately north of the Litchfield town center...length. At the dump of the most northerly quartz quarry, large ilmenite crystals over two inches in diameter...chalcopyrite in feldspar. A second large quartz quarry just to the north of the staurolite area proved...series. Hematite occurs as lenticular splendent black crystals up to 2 cm in diameter in cavities of granular...Campbell Road, 2.5 km N W of its intersection with County R t . 87, 4 km N N E of the village of Edwards
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 (article/letter/editorial)
position. Pure end-member chlorapatite (ClAp) and hydroxylapatite (HAp) are monoclinic (space group P21/c, first...these apatites. The stretching mode of OH in hydroxylapatite is found at 3575 cm–1 (Fowler 1974). This peak...pegmatites were the Bennett pegmatite mine, Oxford County, Maine (Wise et al. 1994; Wise and Rose 2000);...2000); the Harding pegmatite, Taos County, New Mexico (Chakoumakos and Lumpkin 1990); Strickland-Cramer pegmatite...1982); the Black Mountain pegmatite, Rumford, Maine (Brown and Wise 2001); and the Pulsifer quarry, Androscoggin
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
California; 550 ppm-Maple Lode mine, Aguanga Mountain, California; and 400 ppm-Satao (viseu), Portugal]...crystals but changes to translucent dark blue or black in less well-crystallized specimens. The second...GRAPHITE FROM CRESTMORE AND JENSEN QUARRIES, RIVERSIDE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA. J. A . Jmczak, 9 0 0 S. Cass Ave....at the Crestmore and Jensen quarries, Riverside County, California. While the typical tabular habit of...Pendleton County, West Virginia. The basalt exposure is located on the east limb of the Stone Mountain anticline
Journal (issue)
Rosemeyer Phosphate minerals from the Tip Top mine, Black Hills, South D a k o ta ..........................R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur...Carl A. Francis Harvard Mineralogical Museum 24 Oxford Street Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 be done...final tortuous assault on the mountains. Here the mountain sides are spotted with abandoned mines, the faded...red and yellow iron oxide paint the looming Red Mountain peaks. In the warm sun the acrid smell of disintegrating
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
http://dx.doi.org/10.2138/am-2017-6165 with hydroxylapatite (Heimann 2006b) and equipped with an alumina...implants by atmospheric plasma spraying (APS) of hydroxylapatite powder with particle diameters of tens to hundreds...thermal decomposition of incongruently melting hydroxylapatite in the extremely hot plasma jet, formation...one order of magnitude lower than that of hydroxylapatite and, in particular, tricalcium phosphate (Schneider...synthesis and coating deposition Plasma-sprayed hydroxylapatite is still considered the “gold standard” of
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...was found in albite; and the Pulsifer quarry, Androscoggin County, where royal purple apatite is found
Journal (issue)
R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur...mineral localities: the mineralogy of Graves Mountain, Lincoln County, G eorgia...............................Simmons & F. J. Wicks Calcioferrite from the Moculta quarry, near Angaston, South Australia ................. from the Sweetwater mine, Ellington, Reynolds County, Missouri. Collection of Maudine and Bob Sullivan;...still riding the fine line between red ink and black in the financial ledger. Just because we’re looking
Book
nests of the birds known as 'melanchoryphi' or 'black caps'." Historical 3 The accounts left by the...(1980) A manual of mineral names. University Press, Oxford Kunz GF (1971) The curious lore of precious stones...evaporitic rocks at the Incline, Mariposa County and Big Creek, Fresno County, California. The associated minerals...Color-Luster: Dull greenish black; dirty yellow, brownish yellow to brownish black. Subtranslucent to opaque...Custer-Pringle area, Custer County, and at the Etta mine, Pennington County, South Dakota. Also found in
Report (volume)
South Carolina John Rakovan & John M. Hughes Oxford, Ohio August 17, 2002 vi PHOSPHATES: Geochemical............................... 5 Monoclinic hydroxylapatite and chlorapatite ............................Rakovan Department of Geology Miami University Oxford, Ohio 45056 INTRODUCTION As illustrated by the...al., this volume). In the realm of biology, hydroxylapatite is the main mineral constituent of human bones...in the case of pure chlorapatite and pure hydroxylapatite, lack of chemical substitutions) on cation
Book
ADULARIA Adu Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...ALABAMA Iron phosphate mineral locality at Indian Mountain, Alabama (by H. Harwood) 5:241-244 Iron-manganese...Iron-manganese phosphates of the Williams pegmatites, Coosa County, Alabama (by P. B. Leavens & T. A. Simpson) 6:66-73...18:65-74 Phosphate microminerals of the Indian Mountain area [Georgia and Alabama] (by J.B. Gordon, Jr...ALICE GLORY HOLE The Alice glory hole, Clear Creek County, Colorado (by T. A. Hanson & W. B. Craft) 18:185187
Journal (issue)
R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Arthur Roe Tucson, AZ Abraham Rosenzweig University...It was dangerous work. I went up on top of the quarry and tried to get down on top of it. All I succeeded...crystals are twinned dolomites from the Lengenbach quarry, Binnatal, Switzerland. Such a twinned crystal...twinned crystal of dolomite from the Lengenbach quarry, Binnatal, Switzerland. Size of crystal, 2.0 mm...ab­ solutely transparent twin from Denny Mountain, King County, Washington, a locality mentioned in Cook’s
Journal (issue)
. Ley The Sm okey Bear quartz claim s, Lincoln County, N ew M exico ...................................be used to establish a precise location within a quarry or general field collecting area. The collector...the points chosen are too often ephemeral (the quarry wall which changes tomorrow or next week), or subject...The experience was never forgotten. I met a nice black bear that day, and learned how not to describe the...the county zoning offices. The accurate property boundaries provide good starting points. Quarry or property
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
major Broken Hill-type deposits (in addition to Black Mountain, Broken Hill and Big Syncline) that collectively...using a Cambridge Stereoscan 440, linked to an Oxford Link Isis energy dispersive system at the Council...normally present in the form of fluorapatite or hydroxylapatite. However, concentrations of P in these iron...graftonite precursor. The latter may have been hydroxylapatite that reacted with magnetite during prograde
Book (volume)
Verde Valley, Yavapai County, Arizona. In Nevada along the Virgin River in Clark County, and in distorted...distorted crystals from Humboldt County. From Borax Lake, San Bernardino County, California. In the Permian basin...Gurney, Electronic Processes in Ionic Crystals, Oxford (1940). 11. Cf. Buerger, Am. Min., 15, 180, 226...moistened with a drop of water swells up, turns black, and finally is entirely reduced to metallic silver...near Silver City, New Mexico; Tombstone, Cochise County, Arizona; in the Rand district and in the Calico
Book (edition)
photographs, mostly of large specimens, as well as 104 black-and-white photographs 45 new crystal drawings of...Lincoln. Encyclopedia of minerals Sagiiache County Pu blic Library Saguache , Colorado DEMCO For...Photo Editor: Wendell E. Wilson Library Saguache County Public Saguache, Colorado VAN NOSTRAND REINHOLD...Names, 1892-1978, by P. G. Embrey and J. P. Fuller (Oxford University Press, 1980). Acta Crystallographica...oil shale of the Green River Formation, Uintah County, Utah, associated with authigenic orthoclase, pyrite;
Journal (issue)
. . . . . . . . . . 8 North Carolina's Mason Mountain Rhodolite• by Paul L. Broughton . ...... 30 DEPARTMENTS...golden chatoyant tigereye and the chocolate brown or black hematite is really striking. Some pieces also have...nice lime green, but all of It contains white or black inclusions within. It cuts an interesting stone...only . . . $2.00 per lb. PEACOCK OBSIDIAN - This black material contains green or purple color when cut...rough material is priced at only . . . $.85 per lb. BLACK SPIDER MINE TURQUOISE - All ring size stones, mostly
Book (edition)
photographs, mostly of large specimens, as well as 104 black-and-white photographs • 45 new crystal drawings...Willard Lincoln. Encyclopedia of minerals ~~cbe County Public Library Saguache, Colorado OEMCO For Refere...nes, 1892-1978, by P. G. Embrey and J. P. Fuller (Oxford University P ress, 1980). Acta Crystallographica...sandstone at the Fuemrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely disseminated in uraniferous...in the Cave Hills and Slim Buttes areas, Harding County, South Dakota. SELECTED REFERENCES: Thompson, M
Book (edition)
Amsterdam – Boston – Heidelberg – London – New York – Oxford – Paris San Diego – San Francisco – Singapore –...Amsterdam, The Netherlands Linacre House, Jordan Hill, Oxford OX2 8DP, UK First edition 2008 Copyright © 2008...Elsevier’s Science & Technology Rights Department in Oxford, UK: phone (+44) (0) 1865 843830; fax (+44) (0)...is simply impossible to deduce colour tints from black and white micrographs or descriptions alone (not...copper (dark; scratches) next to domeykite (almost black) in jasper (red internal reflections); Çayeli, NE
Book (edition)
Mexico (#2, column 1) and TENNANTITE, Dresser quarry, Walton, Nova Scotia, Canada (13, column 2). ...sandstone at the Fuernrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely disseminated in uraniferous...in the Cave Hills and Slim Buttes areas, Harding County, South Dakota. BEST REF. IN ENGLISH: Thompson,...prismatic, up to 2.2 cm long. COLOR-LUSTER: Iron black. Opaque. Metallic , sometimes brilliant. MODE OF...Little Emma mine, Clear Creek County; at the Enterprise n1ine, Dolores County; and at the Double Header lode
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MineralogicalRecord.com I IIMORIITE-(Y) EUROPE FRANCE Trimouns quarry, Luzenac, Ariege. Operated for talc since the beginning...beginning of the 20th century, the Trimouns quarry became well known to collectors around 1990 for the...long (Marty, 2004 ). AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins...old dumps. In 1975-1976, Brunet collected sharp, black, flattened hexagonal ilmenite crystals to 7 .5 cm...region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites between the towns
 
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