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Montmorillonite from
Greenlaw Quarry, East Mount Apatite Mining District, Auburn, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Montmorillonite
Formula:(Na,Ca)0.33(Al,Mg)2(Si4O10)(OH)2 · nH2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Montmorillonite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Greenlaw Quarry, East Mount Apatite Mining District, Auburn, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:33231
Long-form Identifier:1:3:33231:6
GUID (UUID V4):5c4b7ad0-5adf-498e-98b2-ae692f336807
Nearest other occurrences of Montmorillonite
0.2km (0.1 miles) Maine Feldspar Quarry, East Mount Apatite Mining District, Auburn, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
0.9km (0.6 miles) Keith Quarry (Towne 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
1.2km (0.7 miles) Groves Quarry (Hole in the Ground Quarry), West Mount Apatite Mining District, Auburn, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
2.0km (1.3 miles) Berry-Havey Quarry (Havey Quarry; Berry Quarry), Poland, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
18.2km (11.3 miles) Mount Marie Quarries, Paris, Oxford County, Maine, USA
24.8km (15.4 miles) Mount Mica Quarry, Paris, Oxford County, Maine, USA
25.2km (15.6 miles) Bennett Quarry, Buckfield, Oxford County, Maine, USA
27.0km (16.8 miles) Ryerson Hill Quarries, Paris, Oxford County, Maine, USA
33.4km (20.7 miles) B.B. No. 7 Quarry, Norway, Oxford County, Maine, USA
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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...mm;Jrom the Bennett Quarry, Buckfield, Maine. Mined in 1996 by Holden !Jrothers Mining and currently in
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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)
0 n101ercai o of Maine j f·~ ....__ :,,. . - .._"' ..;. .. ~ L-- -~ \. • .J_..::.; I Volume...Volume 2: Mining History, Gems, and Geology edited by Vandall T. King Maine Geological Survey DEPARTMENT...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
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OXFORD COUNTY, MAINE: THE PLACE TO GO By F R A N K W A R D 2 Mildred A v e n u e , Rye, N . Y . 1 0 5...to light numerous specimens labeled Oxford County, Maine. M y own collection boasts quite a few that...from the numerous mines and quarries of Oxford County over the past five summers. A scattering of articles...come to Oxford County. T h e pegmatites that comprise the min­ eralized zone of Oxford County are in many...however, some minerals that are unique to O x f o r d County alone and these aren't as rare as the collector
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Extracts from the logs of mineral col leering in Maine and New Hampshire. (Several trips are omitted for...mica mine where we found several aquamarines on the east €nd as well as a gemmy beryl crystal in the center...black flies and midges. Ernie went south and I went east where I located an old opening. Could not relocate...tremolite crystals. May 23-24 Went to Augusta (Maine) to prepare tiie family lots for Memorial Day. I...Dillingham Sunday morning. We went to the Tamrninen Quarry where we met Nestor 4 Tamminen. Later, Charlie
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R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur... 353 by P. Orlandi and P. B. Scortecci M aine Maine tourmaline........................................Elbaite from Newry, Maine (by P. J. Dunn) [1975, vol. 6, no. 1, p. 22-25.] Newry, Maine, a pegmatite phosphate...] 328 Famous mineral localities: the Pulsifer quarry (by W. E. Wilson) [1977, vol. 8, no. 2, p. 72-77...localities: the Himalaya dike system, Mesa Grande district, California (by E. E. Foord) [1977, vol. 8, no
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and Mineral• Aaaociation "\YHOLE No. R2 MOUNT APATITE, MAINE eA Famous cA1.inerat Locality By LLOYD...hut few articles hnYe dealt directh· with llount Apatite. In this paper the salient features of articles...both authors a rl-' f<('t forth . Loeation Mount Apatite, a low bill of about -180 feet ele,·ation, is...Portland. An excellent h~bway leads westward fro1n Auburn to l\le<.·hanie Falls. Abont three miles ,Yest...pits on lionnt Apatite. Physiography The area is located within the limits of the Maine section of the
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fabulous tourmalines and kunzites of California and Maine, the sparkling sapphires of Montana, and the...Furcron, Chief Geologist of the Department of Mines, Mining and Geology; on the State of Michigan by Robert...Kobuk jade locality. Descriptions of San Diego County, California, gemstones and the mines in which they...the generous assistance of many residents of that county. My special thanks are extended to Elbert H. McMacken...Axinite, Microlite, Stibiotantalite, Beryllonite, Apatite, Amblygonite, Brazilianite, Lazulite, Cassiterite
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England & other minerals such as margarite, montmorillonite, xls of gahnite, magnetite, tremolite, datolite...specimens. Want xls or cutting material. Robert W. Greenlaw, Jr., 82 Indian Rd., Riverside, R.I. 02915. Historic...crystal specimens of like quality. J.' Metro, 3.3 East 36th St., BayN.J. 07002. Swap prehnite with apophyllite
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Akita Univ. Mining Colt Jour. Akita, Japan. Alabama Acad. Sci. Jour. Ala. Journal of the Mining College...University. Journal of the Alabama Academy of Science. Auburn, Alabama Geol. Survey Bull.- Geological Survey...Canada. Canadian lost. Mining and Metallurgy Spec. Vol. - Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy Special... Ontario, Canada. Canadian Mining and Metall. Bull.- The Canadian Mining and Metallurgical Bulletin....Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Canadian Mining Jour. - Canadian Mining Journal
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Lithogeochemistry in the Highland Valley Copper District: Implications for Porphyry Copper Footprints Kevin...the mineralization in the Highland Valley Copper district (~60 km2). Calcite in the footprint is interpreted...halos, particularly at the district scale (e.g., Urqueta et al., 2009; Greenlaw, 2014; Ahmed et al., 2019);...There is a paucity of studies that assess the district-scale spatial variation of the volatile components...Cu-(Mo) deposits occur in the Highland Valley Copper district in British Columbia and constitute Canada’s largest
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501. During fiscal 1963, numerous Federal, State, County, or Municipal agencies listed on page A247 have..._. Federal agencies.___________________ State, county, and municipal agencies. 247 247 247 U.S. Geological...into (a) district and regional studies and (b) commodity and topical studies. The district and regional...of silver in the early history of many western mining districts. All the major silver districts were...find that magnetic anomalies in the Marquette district are related to four groups of rocks: (1) prominent
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soils contain vermiculite (FISKELL, 1959), and montmorillonite is exposed in Tertiary formations along some...silica and kaolinite, or the alteration of montmorillonite and vermiculite to kaolinite produces abundant...reaction. The common replacement of Tertiary montmorillonite by kaolinite in the nearsurface portions of...atmosphere. Bull. Geol. See. Amer. ‘?i& 795-840. GREENLAW D. J. (1971) Interaction between humic and fulvic
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Fatrvtew Valley, and Fourmtle Flat, Churchtll County, Nevada US Atomtc Energy Comm Rept VUF-1001, p...Jr., Szabo, M W Mmeral resources map of Barbour County, Alabama Alabama Geol Survey Map 32, scale about...Stewart, John H Preltmtnary geologic map of Esmeralda County Nevada US Geol Survey Mtneral lnv Fteld Studtes...Jr Geology of the Sterra Blanca area, Hudspeth County, Texas US Geol Survey Prof Paper 479, 131 p, tllus...trask1te, verplanck1te and mulflte from Fresno County, California Am Mmeralogist, v 50, no 9, p 1500-1503
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sectwn of Paleozotc rocks from Butler County to Stafford County, Kansas Kansas Geol Survey Otl and Gas...wells on a cross section from Barber County, Kansas, to Caddo County, Oklahoma Oklahoma Geol Survey Gutdebook...Atokan and Desmomestan rocks m the Arkoma Bas10 of east-central Oklahoma· Jour Sed Petrology, v 33, no 2...Geology and ore deposits of East Shasta copper-z10c dtstnct, Shasta County, Cahforma U S Geol Survey Prof...4297 Anders, R B Ground-water geology of Karnes County, Texas US Geol Survey Water-Supply Paper 1539-G
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Tertiary Vlll 343 344 344 345 347 34 7 North-east Scotland and the North Sea Lower Jurassic Middle...Universities to start the invaluable age-dating unit at East Kilbride, from which most of the radiometric dates...Glasgow Geological Society of London Institution of Mining and Metallurgy Institute of Geological Sciences...Reidel Publishing Co, Holland Royal Geological Mining Soc Netherlands Royal Society of Edinburgh Royal... TRIAS 35°N 200 '::•.:·.,, ••.'. ·::,::,,:,: East Dumfr ies 250 N '.'.:{((.-..,. Thornhi 11; Loclvnaben;
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of this report can be purchased from: Colorado District Chief U.S. Geological Survey, MS 415 Box 25046...Geophysical logs from three test sites in Weld County, Colorado Index map of the Denver basin study...west by the southern Rocky Mountains and on the east by the High Plains. Along the northern, eastern... The geology of the Jarre Canyon area, Douglas County, Colorado: Golden, Colorado School of Mines, Department...the alluvial aquifer in the north Kiowa-Bijou District, Colorado: Fort Collins, Colorado State University
 
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