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Schorl from
Kennedy Quarry, Auburn, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Schorl
Formula:NaFe32+Al6(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3(OH)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Schorl data
Locality Data:Click here to view Kennedy Quarry, Auburn, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:33173
Long-form Identifier:1:3:33173:3
GUID (UUID V4):f6ba909c-f83a-4e19-9725-53fb72362711
Nearest other occurrences of Schorl
0.6km (0.3 miles) Emery prospect, West Mount Apatite Mining District, Auburn, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
0.9km (0.5 miles) Wade Quarry (Androscoggin Tourmaline prospect), West Mount Apatite Mining District, Auburn, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
0.9km (0.5 miles) Groves Quarry (Hole in the Ground Quarry), West Mount Apatite Mining District, Auburn, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
1.0km (0.6 miles) Pulsifer Quarry & Dionne extension, West Mount Apatite Mining District, Auburn, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
1.0km (0.6 miles) Keith Quarry (Towne Quarry), West Mount Apatite Mining District, Auburn, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
1.6km (1.0 miles) Maine Feldspar Quarry, East Mount Apatite Mining District, Auburn, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
1.6km (1.0 miles) Greenlaw Quarry, East Mount Apatite Mining District, Auburn, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
1.6km (1.0 miles) Turner Quarries, East Mount Apatite Mining District, Auburn, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
1.7km (1.1 miles) Hatch Farm prospect, East Mount Apatite Mining District, Auburn, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
3.0km (1.8 miles) Berry-Havey Quarry (Havey Quarry; Berry Quarry), Poland, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
References
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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
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 (volume)
Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and  the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59...along adjoining Co. linerock 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 floatjasper. CARTERSVILLE:...(banded, various colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY MACON:  at Holton Quarry, 7½ mi. NWagate;  N of Calloway
Journal (issue)
Complex, Wausau Syenite Compley, Marathon County, Wisconsin, USA……………………………………………..21 DOLGOPOLOVA, A.,...the Emmons pegmatite, Greenwood, Oxford Co., Maine, USA: implication for the origin of this unusual ...evolution of the Emmons rare-element pegmatite (Maine, USA)…………………………………………37 GUASTONI, A., GENTILE, P...characterization of an unknown metamict phase from Tuften quarry, Larvik area, S Norway…………………………………………………………………………………………………………...evolution of the Berry-Havey rare-element pegmatite (Maine, USA): preliminary results……………………………………………………………
Journal (issue)
New York Famous Mineral Localities —The Pulsifer Quarry....................... 72 by Wende|| E Wi|son ...Creek Pegmatite: A Rare Earth Pegmatite in Burnet County, Texas...........................................by Anthony Robert Kampf The Harding Mine, Taos County, New Mexico......................... 115 by Richard...(actually fluorapatite), from the Pulsifer quarry near Auburn, Maine; H 3 x 3.8 x 4.3 cm, on display in the...newsletter, the Quarry. Some club newsletters are, frank­ ly, boring but the Quarry is alive and interesting
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
Journal (issue)
Mineralsfrom the MidstateQuarry Magnet Cove, Hot Spring County, Arkansas Art Smith 9118 Concho Houston, Texas...in the Midstate Quarry located just off the southeast flank of Magnet Cove. This quarry is in the altered...ankerite, aboufo:s mmlong, Midstate Quarry, Magnet Cove, Hot Spring County, Arkansas, photo by the author...1997. I left for Philadelphia, then to New York's Kennedy Airport, and on to Moscow. We arrived at the older...unknown white material, Midstate Quarry, Magnet Cove, Hot Spring County, Arkansas, photo by the author
Journal (issue)
Fluorapatite, 3.3-cm crystal, from the Pulsifer quarry, Maine. Collected by Terry Szenics; Jeff Scovil photo...Mark Ivan Jacobson Evan Jones David K. Joyce Rick Kennedy Mark Kielbaso Dan & Dianne Kile Steve Knox Pete...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
Journal (issue)
Gan+972-3-6132379 5252256By , Israel Candice Caplan, and Kennedy Ho www.emerald18.com Tel. +972-3-6132312 Fax. +972-3-6132379...Sapphires Benito County, California; the group of sapGems Found in the U.S. State of Maine phires is from...Daniel Bronfen, Brazil Evan Caplan, USA Rocco Gay, Italy Sushil Goyal, USA Shahina Hatta, Hong Kong Dwarka...Thailand Immediate Past President Benjamin Hackman, USA Chief Executive Officer Gary Roskin ICA General Manager...31 W. 47th Street, Suite 1103 New York, NY 10036 USA ica@gemstone.org T: 1.212.620.0900 F: 1.212.352.9054
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 (article/letter/editorial)
pseudomorphs, 29; New Brunswick, boracite, 29; Francon quarry, 29; Glencoe Island, Northwest Territories, spinel... 209 Chalcopyrite, Illinois, 69 Chips from the Quarry: 4, 48, 144, 240 Chlorophoenicite, New Jersey,...Denver Museum of Natural History, 58; Clear Creek County, 241 Coming Events: 38, 81, 177, 227, 273 Connecticut...Pegmatite in the Clear Creek District, Clear Creek County, Colorado, 241 Jamesonite, 258 Jameson, R., 258...258 Johnstone, A. Y . , book reviews: The Rock Quarry Book, 36; A Guide to Classifi­ cation in Geology
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pegmatite was mined at Barringer Hill in Llano County in the early 1900s but was flooded by Lake Buchanan...on "The Weeks Pegmatite Mine, Wakefield, Carroll County, New Hampshire" (March/April 1991). i i • I...66, May/June 1991 197 LOCALITIES BY COUNTY Bastrop County KEY mm T * ? — — — — best occurrence..."specimen quality" questionable occurrence Angelina County Lufkin, 1 mile N of Lufkin in railroad cuts, in...clay; gypsum* (crystals, plates, and clusters) (Kennedy, 1892). Zavala, 3 miles N E of Zavala, road outcrop
Book
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...region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites between the towns...Litchfield County. Ilmenite masses and crystals from somewhere near Washington, Litchfield County, were described
Journal (issue)
KRISTALLE Est.1971 Laguna Beach, California, USA • Tel: +1 949 494 5155 • Email: info@kristalle.com...only): $139/one year (Canada) $231/one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $325 for one year Subscription...Society, supported gem and mineral shows around the county as a museum exhibitor and speaker, and served on...near the Itamarandiba River. Nearby there is a quarry for experimental exploration of ornamental pegmatite...Gilda, near Cascalheira, not far from Capelinha, schorl crystals have been found exhibiting beautiful terminations
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
exposed in a small portion of the north face of the quarry. Miaroles up to several inches iicross abound in...KUNZITEBEARING PEGMATITE IN THE PALA DISTRICT, SAN DlEGO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA. J. Fisher, 380 Pennsylvania Ave.,...of coarse, pale green muscovite; and occasional schorl. The core zone is relatively simple toward the...Katerina mine, Hiriart Mountain, Pala, San Diego County, California. J. Fisher specimen and photo. Heavy-mineral...MINERALIZATION OF PEGMATITES IN THE WAUSAU COMPLEX, MARATHON COUNTY, WISCONSIN. S. L. Hanson', A. U. FalsterZ, W B
Journal (issue)
Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...(Department of Geology, 210 Petrie Hall, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama 36849: (334) 844-4282: e-mail:...Union mine lies in northwestern Arizona in Mohave County about 10 miles north of Kingman and 95 miles southeast...the 1860’s through the 1880’s, even serving as county seat from 1871 to 1873. However, by the early 1900’s...Wallapai mining district, Cerbat Moun­ tains, Mohave County, Arizona. U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 978-E
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
within the assemblage of gahnite spinel and primary schorl-type tourmaline. This strongly suggests Na-Li-B-F...tourmalines with divalent Y occupants, such as schorl/foitite/oxy-schorl and dravite/magnesio-foitite/oxy-dravite...pegmatitic system exposed in an amphibolite-migmatite quarry (50◦ 420 11.77” N, 16◦ 440 12.36” E) near Piława...southwest of Wrocław, SW Poland (Figures 1 and 2). The quarry is located in the Góry Sowie Block (GSB), a tectono-stratigraphic...Massif in the European Variscides. The Piława Górna quarry exploits the migmatite-amphibolite rock deposit
Journal (issue)
235 Iron-manganese mineralization at Merehead Quarry, eastern Mendips (Abstract). By C. Alabaster.....work on the major and trace element chemistry of schorl (and on elbaite from Meldon) is discussed. Tourmaline...or dravites, the iron tourmalines often known as schorl, and the alkali tourmalines or elbaites which are...continuous series between dravite and schorl and between schorl and elbaite, but there appears to be an...in ferric iron: Dravite NaMg3A16B3Si6O27(OH,F)4 Schorl NaFe32+Al6B3Sl6O27(OH,F)4 Elbaite Na(Li,Al)3Al6B3Si6O27(OH
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
margin of the Leinster Batholith (McArdle and Kennedy 1985; Chew and Stillman 2009). al The ECDZ, which...northwest or southeast mineral lineation (McArdle and Kennedy 1985). The ECDZ affects granitic and metamorphic...have been facilitated by the ECDZ (McArdle and Kennedy 1985; Tietzsch-Tyler and Sleeman 1994). The Tullow...lithiophilite, spessartine, colorless to light green beryl, schorl and pyrite. Ubiquitous fine- oo f grained albitite...12A). Its composition ranges between schorl and dravite to oxy-schorl, and enrichment in Fe is observed
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
tourmalines (98144: elbaite, 108796: dravite, 112566: schorl; Dyar et al. 1998, 2001). Analytical errors on...tourmaline (98114: elbaite, 108796: dravite, 112566: schorl; Leeman and Tonarini 2001). Long-term reproducibility...Results All investigated tourmalines belong to the schorl–dravite solid solution series with some Ca-rich...(Fig. 5 and Table 1). Most analyses of rims reveal schorl rather than dravite with XMg as low as *0.35. ...metamorphic rocks from the Catalina Schist, California (USA) and from Lago di Cignana, Western Alps (Italy).
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Vulcan Materials quarry in Racine (Scovil 1994), the pegmatites of Florence County (Koehier 1989) and...zircon), particularly in the Wausau area of Marathon County (Falster 1987). Middle Proterozoic quartzites (1...Wisconsin mineralogy. The index is arranged county by county (fig. 1). Where possible, township and range...for any I may have omitted. Adams County Hamilton Mound. A quarry is located in the NE 1/4 sec. 36 T*20N*R...potassium feldspar, quartz (massive and crystals), schorl (Greenberg et al. 1986). Figure I . Map of Wisconsin
Journal (issue)
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...32 6 41 99 1 100 Brannockite from the Foote quarry. Photo by Miles Hudson JULY/AUGUST 1978 159 COLLECTING
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Cambridge, MA 02139, USA z US Geological Survey, National Center, MS 954, Reston, VA 22092, USA Abstract. Boron...(Canada), Broken Hill (Australia), and Ducktown (USA). Overall, the tourmalines display a wide range in...NaR3A16B3Si6027(OH,F)4, where R is predominantly Fe 2+ in schorl, Mg in dravite, and (A1 + Li) in elbaite. Na may...massive-sulfide tourmalines fall mainly within the schorl-dravite solid solution series, with a tendency...typically have compositions intermediate between schorl and dravite (Ethier and Campbell 1977; Appel and
Report (issue)
qu·irernents. - Then, in May, ; , 194-0 4 p:a_mphlet -(Kennedy 1940) was _prepared, drawing, attentton to the...·Il'h·. Dinham, ' Dr. Simpson, }Kr. Knox, "D r� Kennedy 2 Dr. Anderson, Mr. Lawrie a.:nd Dr. Robertson...such as black mica, or of blacli to _ urmalirie ( schorl) , intimately associated w it':h. the f'eldsp....7. Locality. - ' Jehu and Craig 1927 . ,' Kennedy 1 9 40, S, E. slope of the peninsula of Chaipaval...muscovite ( ir.8luding a book 6 in. long) , biotite and schorl . At the end - of this straight portion of crop
 
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