 | | 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 |  | | 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 |  | | 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) | | arch of the Palermo mine, North Groton, Grafton County. Rob Lawrence photo, courtesy Bob Whitmore. 242...at 15:01 05 January 2015 LOCATIONS BY COUNTY Belknap County Alton area: arsenopyrite, galena, quartz...occurrence is particularly noteworthy for Carroll County Albany, Blackberry Crossing (includes the Moose...tall, Government Gravel pit, North Conway, Carroll County. Jeff Scovil specimen and photo. Downloaded by...tall, Middle Moat Mountain, North Conway, Carroll County. Canadian Museum of Nature specimen, Jeff Scovil |  | | Book (volume) | | Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59...along adjoining Co. linerock crystal. BARROW COUNTY WINDER, along rd. to Jefferson and 1½ mi. inside...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States BARTOW COUNTY AREA, Saltpeter Cave, as floatjasper. CARTERSVILLE:...(banded, various colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY MACON: at Holton Quarry, 7½ mi. NWagate; N of Calloway |  | | Journal (issue) | | Alves Mineralogy of the Bennett pegmatite, Oxford County, Maine ........................................../# 6 C alifornia Issue B enitoite, G old, L .A . County M useum , H im alaya m ine $7 Circulation Manager...specimens were collected in the northern margin j f the quarry, inside the entrance to the main adit, on the left...Boyle $7 Jacupiranga m ine (B ra zil), Jensen quarry (CA), Cunha Baixa m ine, Paulkerrite $7 v ,1 5...ational Belle m ine (CO ), Tip Top m ine (SD ), Stoneham Barite (CO) $8 v. 1 7 /# 5 Black H ills type |  | | Book | | ADULARIA Adu Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...Iron-manganese phosphates of the Williams pegmatites, Coosa County, Alabama (by P. B. Leavens & T. A. Simpson) 6:66-73...ALICE GLORY HOLE The Alice glory hole, Clear Creek County, Colorado (by T. A. Hanson & W. B. Craft) 18:185187...--and W. Hunt: The Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County, Arizona 19:139-144 ALLGOOD, GENNE MYERS --and...Allgood, J. Pradenas: Gold occurrences in Tuolumne County, California 18:41-45, 18:62-64 --with W. H. Wilkinson |  | | Journal (issue) | | Largest Reddingite Crystals Found at Bennett Quarry, Buckfield, Maine Van King PO Box 90888, Rochester, NY 14609...(newryqs@rochester.rr.com) Jim Mann 57 Main Street, Bethel, Maine 04217 (m tm ann@megamlink.net) Reddingitc is a late-stage...locality for reddingite is the Abidja N. Fillow Quarry, Branchville village, Redding, Fairfield Co., Connecticut...then new secondary phosphates (dickinsonitc, eosphorite, fairfielditc, fillowitc, natrophilitc). Landes...reported the first rcddingite from the Bennett Quarry and provided a bulk, wet-chemical analysis: MnO |  | | 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...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason |  | | 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...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason |  | | Report (issue) | | CharlesLightfootprovidedhistoricalinformationon the Lake Boga quarry, as did Stephen Pritchardon the WycheproofQuarry...Oialcosiderite Crandallite Cyrilovite Diumarite Eosphorite Faustite Auellite Auorapatite Gainesite• Gordonite...Marysville r I km 100 ~;::i I ~ \ Q I \ Mt Cole I I I I You Yangs GRAMPIANS \~e 1/ 0 I l 1 Mt...general; less abundant'in I-type gramte· Monazite Mt Cole granite suite; Bonang; Harcourt; Dog Rocks; Wilsons...gainesite (Krich) wardite wycheproofi te kosnarite eosphorite cyrilovite rockbridgeife Jeucophosphite "kidwellite" |  | | Journal (issue) | | July 1943 PUBLISHED MONTH LY CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY .................................................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...Albany, Maine ; a black tourmaline crystal 3x3x8 feet in the Luella Mine near Avon, Latah County, Idaho...have been obtained at Black Mountain, Rumford, Maine. However the cassiterite found in the United States |  | | Journal (issue) | | Nuristan, Afghanistan; Neptunite from San Benito County, California; Spinel from Mogok, Burma; and Emerald...world. The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County was particularly interesting among the museums...minerals at the Tourmaline Queen mine in Sz Diego County, California. By 1978 he had accumulated a hu£ Tourmaline...Postage Stan Tourmaline) into a general San Diego County pegmatite collectic of nearly 200 superb specimens...” in the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Selling off the last of his minerals in 1981, |  | | Journal (issue) | | hiddenite specimens in his collection from Alexander County, North Carolina, and those superb quartz crystal...Directors of the Foundation of the Los Angeles County Natural History Museum. It was my pleasure, and...interpenetrating twin cubes of thorianite from Hud dersfield County, Quebec. Their addresses: Vickery — 4 Brendon Road...certain pegmatite regions. Several pegma tites in Maine were made famous in mineralogical litera ture for...Portland (Strickland quarry) in Connecticut; Buckfield, Poland and Newry in Maine; the Custer Mountain |  | | Journal (issue) | | ................. MISCELLANEOUS CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY .................................................OF CALIFORNIA—Tomasz J. Turley THERE’S GOLD IN MAINE—Mrs. Cecil J. Smith PROF. C. S. HURLBUT, JR. TO...7-3185) ROCKS AND MINERALS 641 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY A RUSH TRIP TO SOUTH CAROLINA On Tuesday, August...headed northward towards the gold mine in York County. It was a most enjoyable trip, the mine was reached...North, Minneapolis, Minn. Oct. 3-9, 1965—West Oxford Agricultural Society, Inc., 2nd Annual Lapidary |  | | Book (edition) | | Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County; ca1cioaravaipaite from the Grand Reef mine, Graham County; carmichaelite from...from Gamet Ridge, Apache County; shannonite from the Grand Reef mine, Graham County; wupatkiite from near...Mountain, Coconino County, and grandviewite from the Grandview mine, Coconino County. A few of the additional...uranium deposits on the Colorado Plateau. Coconino County: near Tuba City (Anthony et aI., 2000). ACANTHITE...sulfide found with other copper sulfides. Greenlee County: found in the supergene alteration zone at Morenci |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | are important sources of Li and Cs (Bessemer City, USA, Greenbushes, Australia, Bikita, Zimbabwe), which...Group’ Columbite Cryptomelane Earlshannonite Eosphorite Fairfieldite Ferrisicklerite Ferristrunzite Ferrostrunzite...childrenite-dominated members of the childrenite–eosphorite s.s.s., displaying the faces {110}, grow into...crystals of an Fe-enriched member of the childrenite–eosphorite s.s.s. inset shows crystal morphology. (b) Flattened...characterized by minerals of the childrenite–eosphorite series which resulted from phosphate-bearing |  | | Field Trip Notes | | Hampshire Field Trip No. 2, Outstanding pegmatites of Maine and New Hampshire 73 Geology of the "Chelmsford...inplace theory for the southern part, as in Dutchess County, New York. Whether such a combination of theories...(1914) Geology of the North Creek quadrangle, Warren County, New York, New York State Mus., Bull. 170. (1919)...Geology of the Schroon Lake quadrangle, Warren County, New York, New York State Mus., Bull. 213-214....(1936) Structural and petrologic studies in Duchess County, N. Y., Part I. Geologic structure of sedimentary |  | | Journal (issue) | | Bethesda, Maryland Joseph Urban Tucson, Arizona Ruth Cole Wertz Silver Spring, Maryland PHOTOGRAPHIC EDITOR...Foundation. ISSN 0035-7529 1978 by The Foote Quarry in Kings Mountain, by LAURA MARBLE 102 Dorset Way...Company spodumene mine at Kings Mountain , Cleveland County, North Carolina consisted of six small prospect...worthwhile . specimens. Milarite from the Foote quarry. Photo by Lewis Perloff l 58 ROCKS AND MINERALS... Thin beds of marble are found in parts of the quarry and another common wall rock is a mica schist with |  | | Book (edition) | | abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture), dept...always included in text, except in the cases of the USA, UK, and the provinces Ontario and Quebec in Canada...Uintah County. Utah. and m (2.B. acanthite group). Monoclinic, C2/m, a,b,c Rio Blanco County. Colorado...Menzenschwand Scbwarzwald Mts., in the Sailauf quarry, Spessart Mts., Bavaria. both Germany, and from...to Hot Springco., Arkansas, in the Point of Rock quarry, pearly. Clea,·age {001} perfect. {100} and {010} |  | | Book | | studied (Cole and Chakraborty, 2001) and comprises processes such as dissolutioneprecipitation (Cole, 2000)...2000) and grain boundary diffusion (Cole et al., 2004). In the experiments in this study, The Si-O(bridging)-Si...lithium pegmatites in the White Picacho district, AZ, USA, by London and Burt (1982). Fracture-controlled pseudomorphic...lithiophilite include hureaulite, triploidite, eosphorite, robertsite, fillowite, wyllieite, dickinsonite...Often, calcium-rich hureaulite is associated with eosphorite and fairfieldite. Fairfieldite also forms thin |  | | Journal (issue) | | termination found at the Bumpus mine in Albany, Maine by John Rogers. ----r JANUARY, 1966 n Whole Number......... 58 MISCELLANEOUS I i CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY .................................................7-3185) ROCKS AND MINERALS 1 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY MR. C. H. ROBINSON, SR., PASSES Mr. Chas. H. Robinson...annual affair will be staged again at the Pima County' Fairgrounds at 4700 South Sixth Ave., Feb. 18-19-20...termination found at the Bumpus mine in Albany, Maine by John Rogers. The smaller specimen is also a beryl |  | | Journal (issue) | | makes quarry managers nervous. Col lectors abuse privileges, insurance companies worry, quarry managers...frequent? How much longer before there are no more quarry doors to be closed? What can we do NOW to reverse...of the N a tio n a l C ap ital A rea c /o R u th Cole W ertz, 9707 Su th erlan d Rd., l S ilver Sp rin...in the geology of Massachusetts and west central Maine, where he has conducted courses in field geology...Mountain in Maine! His interpretations of the metamorphic geology of west central Maine have done much |  | | Journal (issue) | | Fluorapatite, 3.3-cm crystal, from the Pulsifer quarry, Maine. Collected by Terry Szenics; Jeff Scovil photo...rosette, with prehnite, 14 cm, from the Centreville quarry, Fairfax, Virginia. Smithsonian Institution collection...C6649; Lee Boltin photo. Fairfax Quarry, Virginia, 1967 The Fairfax quarry in Virginia is a classic locality...northeastern corner of the Fairfax quarry in Centreville, Virginia. I visited the quarry the next weekend. Nothing...15 feet to the left, parallel to the wall of the quarry. This tube varied from 6 inches to 2 feet wide |
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