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Almandine from
Edgecomb Quarry, Edgecomb, Lincoln County, Maine, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Almandine
Formula:Fe32+Al2(SiO4)3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Almandine data
Locality Data:Click here to view Edgecomb Quarry, Edgecomb, Lincoln County, Maine, USA
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Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:31452
Long-form Identifier:1:3:31452:3
GUID (UUID V4):7ac9a7ce-3d93-4392-86e6-23cfd3ede19c
Nearest other occurrences of Almandine
0.3km (0.2 miles) Williams Quarry, Edgecomb, Lincoln County, Maine, USA
1.0km (0.6 miles) Poole Quarry, Edgecomb, Lincoln County, Maine, USA
22.6km (14.0 miles) McKay Farm prospect, Phippsburg, Sagadahoc County, Maine, USA
24.4km (15.2 miles) Consolidated Feldspar Quarries, Georgetown, Sagadahoc County, Maine, USA
24.5km (15.2 miles) Fuller Mountain Quarry, Phippsburg, Sagadahoc County, Maine, USA
25.8km (16.0 miles) Wallace Trufant Prospect, Bowdoinham, Sagadahoc County, Maine, USA
25.8km (16.0 miles) Given #2 Quarry, Topsham, Sagadahoc County, Maine, USA
26.1km (16.2 miles) Havey #1 & #2 Quarries, Topsham, Sagadahoc County, Maine, USA
26.5km (16.5 miles) Trenton Quarry, Topsham, Sagadahoc County, Maine, USA
26.6km (16.5 miles) Square Pit (Consolidated #4 Quarry), Topsham, Sagadahoc County, Maine, USA
References
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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)
PEGMATITES OF THE BRUNSWICK AND OXFORD FIELDS, MAINE: DIFFERENTIAL TRENDS IN F-POOR AND F-RICH ENVIRONMENTS...field and the Central Maine Synclinorium of the Oxford pegmatite field, in Maine, are intruded by numerous...(Nb,Ta)-bearing phases. Generally, the CGM from Maine are hosted by pegmatites characterized by a LCT...trends, fluorine, Brunswick field, Orford field, Maine. Introduction As the primary carriers of Nb and...extensive, ongoing investigation of the genesis of Maine pegmatites (e.g., Wise & Francis 1992, Wise 1995
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
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Miss Katharine M. Gohn E. W. M. Johnson of Lincoln, of Mesa, Ariz., Frank Bogart Bean of Madison...from Oregon to the Mexican border and eastward to Maine and Florida. What you cannot collect in person...beryl, topaz and spodumene. crystals, Areas in Maine, Connecticut and California, and Madagascar, are...between The mountain regions in the east from Maine down through Georgia and westward to Tennessee...summer; neither is it wise to prospect in Montana or Maine in the as the winter. An scope, and automobile
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
areoverprinted by stageII assemblages ofchlorite, almandine, andbiotite.StageIII alteration, consisting of... goldskarndeposits; for example,the garnetis almandine rather than andradite or grossular, andthe amphibole...i to 5 x 15 mm)arecommonly retrogressed is an almandine-spessartine whichprobably becamestable topinireandsericite...Cation total Pyrope 36.9 12.7 10.6 13.0 Almandine 55.5 84.9 87.2 84.5 Spessa•ine 0.4 0.0...ins, indicates thatstageII dralinclusions in almandine porphyroblasts. Representativerite rockswith
Report (volume)
Louisiana........Prof. Gilbert D. Harris, Baton Rouge. Maine............Mr. C. Vey Holman, Bangor. Maryland.....Prof. E. H. Barbour, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Nevada...........Dr. W. S. Tangier Smith, Berkeley...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;...following localities: Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20, Pv. 7 E.; Jefferson
Journal (issue)
Collins The Lake Clear-Kuehl Lake area, Renfrew County, Ontario.........................................descloizite from the Chalk Mountain mine, Churchill County, Nevada ......................................... Concession VI, North Burgess Township, Lanark County. Perthite was the name given by Thomas Thomson...is a pegmatite dike cropping out beside a paved county road about 6 miles (9.7 km) southwest of Perth...to 15 feet (4.6 m) in length are exposed on the quarry walls. Of special petrologic interest are large
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Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi...listed by county and community, range and distance. Whenever the collector crosses a county line, he will...of the county he is entering posted alongside the highway. By looking up the state and county, the user...guide can determine the collecting sites in that county by range and distance from the major cities and...information to reach a specific spot within a particular county. Many old localities listed here have, literally
 
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