 | | 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) | | 2017 Topaz W in New Hampshire’s 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) | | 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 Hampshire’s premier mineral localities...topaz, smoky quartz, and feldspar specimens began to appear at mineral shows in northern New England. The...them was Government Pit, with the town noted as Conway, North Conway, Bartlett, or Albany, New Hampshire |  | | 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 re 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, ranging...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) | | 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 7.5–8 and |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Bastnasite-(Ce), New Hampshire, 161 Van Pelt 0 photo. March/April: Progression of L$e, painting Bavenite, New Hampshire...Hampshire, 161 Bazzite, New Hampshire, 161 by Stephen Greb. May/June: Bournonite, Yaogangxian Bearss, G..., Miarolitic Cavitx Minerals of the Government Pit, Albany, New Mountain, South Hunan Province, PeoHampshire... Mollie Gibson mine, Bertrandite, New Hampshire, 161 Pitkin County, Colorado; specimen Beryl, South Dakota...district, Socorro County, New Mexico; Ron Gibbs specimen and Biotite: New Hampshire, 162; South Dakota |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | TOPAZ IN NEW HAMPSHIRE’S WHITE MOUNTAINS DONALD A. DALLAIRE§ 829 Candia Road, Chester, New Hampshire 03036...03036, USA JAMES W. NIZAMOFF* 64 Mineral Drive, Hebron, Maine 04238, USA Keywords: topaz, Conway granites...Igneous Province, South Baldface Mountain, Government Pit. INTRODUCTION Topaz occurs in many worldwide...their way into the worldwide mineral market. New Hampshire is rarely mentioned even though specimen (and...1800s and continues to the present day. In New Hampshire topaz is found in miarolitic cavities within |  | | 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 What’s new in minerals? by W. E. W ils o n ................ |  | | 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 |  | 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 (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 |  | | 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 (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...pockets lined with crystals of microcline, smoky quartz, albite, and a variety of rarer minerals. He was...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) | | 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 num ber of key mineral localities...whitmoreite, and geodkenite 438 Ruggles Mine in Grafton, New Hamp shire is a very popular area for collectors...feldspar. Some very fine pieces of smoky and rose quartz that can be cut into cabs or faceted can also be |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Members "The Ryans" placed a mineral display in the New London Public Li brary. The Stamford Mineralogical...encourage mem 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 patch es. The Southeastern New Hamp shire Mineral Club, Rochester, began the fall...the Goff Jr. High School. Theme: Education Opens New Horizons (Written in September for October issue |  | | 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 impuri...question was also considered by the Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names of the Inter national...were submitted for approval to the Commission on New Minerals and Miner al Names there was some disagreement...100 articles and has published accounts of five new minerals. Professor Mitchell was recently named A |  | | 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 pub | | | Book (volume) | | Green fluorite (121.39 et), Westmoreland, New Hampshire; blue fluorite (132.12 et), Illinois; sqmu·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) | | and old & new world explorations. Email, or call us if you wish to be notified when new catalogs are...com PO Box 455 • Poncha Springs, Colorado 8I242 USA Phone: 7I9-539-4IIJ • 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 |  | | 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 (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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | pièces pour 2200,- bf r • Uytenbogaardit (Nevada/USA) MM 110,- bf r Mathias D . Rheinlcinde r • Paragonit-3T...01 02 02 02 02 02 02 02 02 02 NL D D D F F F D A USA D F B 20 02 A 21 02 B 27-28 02 D 11-14...old labels ; localit y notations ; Smokey Bear quartz ) MINERALOGICAL ABSTRACTS 43(2) . 06 .92 MINERAUX...Miarolitic cavity minerals of the Government Pit . Albany . New Hampshire . USA 176-178 Tetrahedrite crystals.... Lawrence County . New York, USA 179-186 Cancite from Thomasville . Pennsyl vania . USA morphology and |  | | Journal (issue) | | the world’s molybdenum comes from this Colorado pit. The 12,250-ft. elevation doesn’t make the going...approximately 25,000 tons of waste per day from a pit in Nevada's Ingersoll Canyon. tapping the veins...to uselessness or for increasing productivity of new parts. 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Government pit, Albany, Carroll County, New Hampshire, USA