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Graftonite from
Ruggles Mine, Grafton, Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Graftonite
Formula:Fe2+Fe22+(PO4)2
Confirmation
Validity:Unconfirmed/Questioned
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Graftonite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Ruggles Mine, Grafton, Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:29556
Long-form Identifier:1:3:29556:5
GUID (UUID V4):539e0174-3c49-41f7-bc09-fe1c45bee266
Nearest other occurrences of Graftonite
12.0km (7.4 miles) Keyes Mica Quarries, Orange, Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA
12.0km (7.4 miles) No. 1 pit, Keyes Mica Quarries, Orange, Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA
12.7km (7.9 miles) E.E. Smith Mine, Alexandria, Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA
18.8km (11.7 miles) Rice Quarry, Groton, Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA
19.6km (12.2 miles) Palermo No. 2 Mine, Groton, Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA
19.6km (12.2 miles) Palermo No. 1 Mine, Groton, Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA
22.9km (14.2 miles) Fletcher Mine, Groton, Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA
30.2km (18.8 miles) Eight-Ball Mica prospect, Rumney, Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA
33.4km (20.8 miles) Chandlers Mill Quarry, Newport, Sullivan County, New Hampshire, USA
36.3km (22.6 miles) Sargent Mine, Claremont, Sullivan County, New Hampshire, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
New Hampshire Mineral Locality Index Downloaded by [University of Newcastle, Australia] at 15:01 05...entrance and arch of the Palermo mine, North Groton, Grafton County. Rob Lawrence photo, courtesy Bob...Bob Whitmore. 242 ROCKS & MINERALS lthough New Hampshire, the Granite State, is one of our smaller states...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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
North Groton, New Hampshire and to an inch in diameter at the Smith Mine, Newport, New Hampshire. It also...the same state. Scorzalite occurs at the Victory mine near Custer, South Dakota with quartz, albite, muscovite...dickinsonite occurs sparingly at Branchville, Fairfield county, Connecticut. FAIRFIELDITE, a hydrous phosphate...noted as a rare mineral at Branchville, Fairfield county, Connecticut from which it was named; and also...Buckfield, Maine; and from Center Strafford, New Hampshire. REDDINGITE, a hydrous manganese phosphate occurred
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
T H E RUGGLES FELDSPAR - M I C A MINE, — G R A F T O N , N E W HAMPSHIRE By G A R D I N E R E. GREGORY...commercial production of mica in New Hampshire started at the Ruggles Mine in 1803. In recent years it has...of minerals have been removed from the mine. In 1962 the mine was opened for pub­ lic inspection. Each...Each year thousands of people visit the mine to view the scenery from the top of Isinglass Mountain and...and to explore the giant tunnels of the mine. Very few of the visitors are bonaficd mineral collectors
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
SOCIETY'S 4-DAY COLLECTING TRIP TO VERMONT AND NEW HAMPSHIRE By W . Downloaded by [University of Calgary]...correspondent that a Society trip be made to northern New England, it was received with enthusiasm by all concerned...collection and exchanging numerous New Jersey specimens for the local northern New England species. Our collecting...on July 31st., when we were led to the Ruggles mine at Grafton Center, N . H. Permission had been granted...granted, as is necessary at this mine, by the Superintendent, Mr. Alexander, for our collecting in the extensive
Book
THE PEGMATITE MINES KNOWN AS NORTH GROTON, NEW HAMPSHIRE eral I ederi Acknowledi:ments Dedicated...experience. As a kid growing up in Manchester, New Hampshire, I was always fascinated by minerals and tried...premier sandbox, but I could also make sure the mine would remain open to mineral enthusiasts for years...maintained the notoriety acquired by the Palermo No. I mine. Its impact on the nation, and in some respects...different species - several of them unique to the mine - Palermo has earned a reputation that makes it
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
page 568, Nov.-Dec, 1962) There is an old mica mine on Blue- powder. If a specimen shows nothing but...Strafford, New Hamp- alteration species ferri-sicklerite or if you shire. It is known as the Buzzo's Mine, are...we were in the vicinity. My second visit to the mine was both had a small vug in which was a botryoiunusual...been up near the southern end of Lake accicular new mineral. When I broke this Winnipesaukee for a week...1938 and a found more and larger crystals of this new persistent drizzle made the snow too species which
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mines & Minerals of North Groton, New Hampshire The historical background of the famous North Groton...Candia Road Chester, New Hampshire 03036 R O B E R T W. WHITMORE Weare, New Hampshire 03281 N O R T H G... a large percentage of the popula­ tion of New Hampshire would not recognize the name, let alone be able...Groton, New Hampshire. WENTWORTH X McGinnis Mine X Wheat Mine X Belden Mine Atwood Mine, F. Davis...XMine DORCHESTER X RUMNEY (118 Penna Coal x Mine Diamond Minex V U n i Holden x Mini] o n M
Report (issue)
Pegmatite Investigations 1942-45 New England By EUGENE N. CAMERON and OTHERS GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL..._______ _ Geology of the pegmatite districts of New Hampshire_ Rock units ________________________________...pegmatites ___________________ _ Pegmatites of the Grafton and Keene districts __ _ Sources of pegmatites...quality __ AnalyHis of the wartime mica industry of New England ________________________________________...Androscoggin County ______________________ _ Berry feldspar quarry __________________ _ Cumberland County ___
Field Trip Notes
//' . GUIDEBOOK FOR FIELD IN ''fy,.'t:J TRIPS NEW ENGLAND NOVEMBER 10-12, 1952 Organized by the...Before visiting any of the sites described in the New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference guidebooks...Highlands of East-Central New York, Southern Vermont, and Southern New Hampshire Field Trip No. 2, Outstanding...Outstanding pegmatites of Maine and New Hampshire 73 Geology of the "Chelmsford Granite" 103 Field Trip...OF EAST-CENTRAL NEW YORK, SOUTHER Leaders: VERJ-IONT, AND SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE Marland P, Billings
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
33556 Treasurer—Cor/ Krofki, 170 West End A v e . , New York, N. Y . 10023 Assistant Treasurer—Jack Burrus...Culp Zeitner and Mrs. K a y Jensen unveiled the new manual of the A F M S for bulletin editors. Hopefully...Acord, editor, Stone Age, published bv the Lincoln County Gem and Mineral Society. Class V . Original articles...Lapidary and Mineral Society of Prince Georges County, and author of Tumble Polishing of Gem Stones....done! ( v . w . ) NEW YORK Welcome to the Wayne County Gem and Mineral Club, Marion, a new C l u b and member
Journal (issue)
you wish to receive a copy. Please request our new arrivals list Dealers in: • rare minerals • fine... Paul Brian Moore Wyllieite, Na2Fe2AI(P04)3, A New Species........ Paul B. Moore Jun Ito Richard V...Scarsdale, New York, measures 8-1/2 by 10 inches. Photograph by HenriJansen, Ardsley,New York. Editorial...appointment Tourmaline Tourmaline Queen Mine Pala, California NEW ACQUISITIONS: RUTILE from Graves M tn...TOURMALINE from Pala, California We w ill offer fine new material from Europe and A frica fo llo w in g our
Book (volume)
Where & How to Djg, Pan and Mine Your Own Gen1s & Minerals Where & I-low to 1-Iunt for Treasure From...vacation stops at a roadside "dig your own" gem mine. Junior finds a sapphire the size of a p ach and...) Many an unsuspecting tourist has stopped at a mine to try his or her luck and become a rockhound for...Arizona California Colorado Hawaii Kansas Nevada New Mexico Oklahoma Texas Utah Alaska Idaho Iowa Minnesota...Indiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan New Hampshire New Jersey Nev,, York Ohio Pennsylvania Rhode
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of the country have come to New Hampshire to collect at the Palermo Mine —• noted for it's phosphates...into this mine few have climbed the old road just to the left inside the old gate to the Rice Mine. This...This mine was worked during the summer of ' 7 2 by a fine young mineral collector and dealer of it's min­...pleasant talk with Peter Samuelson who has worked the mine this past year for min­ eral specimens and a study...have already taken advantage of a visit to this mine. Peter's work will end in December when unfortunately
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineral collecting localities in New Hampshire is the famous Palermo Mine at North Groton, N . H. I have...crandallite, diadochite, eosphorite, goyazite, graftonite, herterosite, hureaulite, laueite, messelite...specimens named in my list of Palermo as well as of Ruggles. W e have also had a fine exchange of specimens...like to trade N . H . minerals being a recently new collector. His address is: Mr. Raymond Wilson, RFD
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Minerals of New Hampshire A Checklist JANET W. C A R E S 18 S i n g l e t a r y L a n e Sudbury. Massachusetts...ities. As other articles in this issue will attest, New Hamp­ shire has rightfully earned its nickname, the...Janules, 1990), and the fumed "gummite" of the Ruggles mine accounts foi the many alteration products of...lead-bearing minerals are found at the Madison lead mine, and barite occurs in the well-known fluorite mines... while copper minerals—which are scarce in New Hampshire—are found mainly in a few small depos­ its.
Journal (issue)
favorably received by our readers as a number of new subscriptions - from unexpected quarters - have been...interest to avoid the danger of being replaced by new members from the waiting list. Exhibition at the...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...tourmaline crystal 3x3x8 feet in the Luella Mine near Avon, Latah County, Idaho ; and etc. Origin The crystals
Book
recent findings. For the new minerals described since 1973, I have used the New Minerals section of the...the American Mineralogist, Lists of New Mineral Names of Mineralogical Magazine and the recent compilation...deposits in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah were opened centuries ago by the...the mines in the Cerrilos Hills, near Santa Fe, New Mexico (Encyclopedia Britannica 968, p 415). Turquois...historical pattern in the subsequent introduction of new phosphate minerals (still valid) into the scientific
Journal (issue)
same for distribution; to encoura1e the search for new minerals that have not yet been discovered; and to...Association by nominating them for membership? Each new member helps to extend the 0 Association's activities--helps.......... NEW ENGLA.ND NOTES. Conducted by Rt1dolf C. B. Bartsch ...... 244 247 248 250 NEW EDUCATIONAL... . . . . . . . 255 1 CLUB AND SOCIETY NOTES: NEW YORK MINERALOGICAL CLUB . . . . . . . . . . . . ...some nice specimens which ha been put aside at a mine. The superintendent had saved these for a friend
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(Schultze) 311 [Book review]. Austinite.. . 71 Autunite, new locality for. (Smith, Maslowski).. .... 1184 Axial...52 Balinkin, I. A.. 220 Bandy, M. C. Lopezite,a new mineral. . 929 207 Bannister, F. A. and IIey, M....139 206 342 215 - ard Gonyer, F. A. Roweite, a new mineral from Fraaklin, 301 N. J.... Beryl and albite...r-raydata. inclusions of magnetite in Errur", ft. H. New microchemical 104 muscovite"" l t 2 8 ' . . . ' testforselenium...testforselenium..... Fahey, J. J. with Glass, J. J. Graftonite from Greeniood, Maine. " " " tOaS zIt Fairbairn
Book (edition)
Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
l2l Actinolite. 371 Actinolitic amphibole from New Zealand.(Hutton).... .. 539 AdelieLand rocks.(Stewart)...Zg4 Anterlite. 7l3 Antofagastite and bandylite, new copper minerals from Chile. (Palache, I'oshag). 85...clino-ungenachite, new minerals from Chile... 314 Bandylite. 704 Bandylite and a:rtofagastite, new copper minerals...Stoiber, R. E. Fluorite deposits in Westmoreland,New Hamp... 166 Bannister,F. A... .721,356,539 Barnes...Palache, C. Yeatmanite and sarkinite from Franklin, New ....176,527 Jersey. 907 908 INDEX and Parrish
Book (volume)
chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...townagate, chalcedony, jasper, petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville...chalcedony, jasper, fossils. CHERRY COUNTY VALENTINE, in the Sandhills county along the Niobrara R. and Minnechaduza...gem qualityagatized and opalized wood. DAWES COUNTY CHADRON, in N part of Co. and as far W as Crawford...woods, etc. DAWSON COUNTY GOTHENBURG, in sand pitspetrified palm wood. DEUEL COUNTY CHAPPELL, all regional
Journal (issue)
................. A Mineralogical T rip Through New England. By Wilbur J. Elwell ......................naica Plain Houston, Texas Colorado Minerals New Price List Gold and Sih·er ~linerals also other...A• •, ,l. 1 • >EMIPRECIOU> \ •• ',TONE', New _,14< !IClbb\' for pleo,u,o ond An aducot,ono1 pHtimt...life, making up the balance. Yalue figures for our mine ra l production, s izable though they a re. ns us...ther a n1ineral raw material ,i::ets fron1 t he mine, "· betber in cleg1·ee of fab rication or ph~·sical
Book (volume)
600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods...gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason Cr.⎯fossils;
Book (volume)
600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods...gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason Cr.⎯fossils;
 
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