 | | 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) | | Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 MAINE Minerals of the Topsham, Maine, Pegmatite District Topsham • ...the Andros coggin River from Brunswick in Sagadahoc County. A mile-wide belt of granitic pegmatites runs...synonomy has arisen due to changes of leasee or owner. Quarry locations are described and plotted on top ographic...Mineral Resources Index No. I (Rand, 1957) and Maine Mines and Minerals, a field guide by Phillip Morrill...(1958). Mining History Feldspar mining began in Maine at Topsham in the mid dle of the nineteenth century |  | | 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 |  | | Report (volume) | | GEOLOGY OF THE PEGMATITES AND ASSOCIATED ROCKS OF MAINE INCLUDING FELDSPAR, QUARTZ, MICA, AND GEM DEPOSITS................................... Origin of the Maine pegmatites........................................Larsen............................. Application to Maine pegmatites............................... Eutectics.............................. 1.... Androscoggin County.................................................................................... Maine Feldspar Company quarry and mill................... Turner feldspar |  | | 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) | | 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 |  | | 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...specimens of a series of rare-earth species found as small crystals in drusy dolomite-lined cavities. The extremely...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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...George Godas, collected a series of pockets from a small breccia zone that has yielded distinctive specimens...Union mine lies in northwestern Arizona in Mohave County about 10 miles north of Kingman and 95 miles southeast...Locality map. Figure 2. View o f the portal and small dump. 168 The Mineralogical Record, volume 28...the 1860’s through the 1880’s, even serving as county seat from 1871 to 1873. However, by the early 1900’s |  | | Journal (issue) | | Fluocerite-(Ce) and other minerals from the Little Patsey quarry ........... 429 by M . I. Jacobson & M . W. Smith...cm tall, and came from the Eureka mine, Tuolumne County, California. The specimen, now in the Smithsonian...PUBLISHING P.O. Box 37072, Tucson, Arizona 85740 USA Richard A. Bideaux, General Partner (602) 297-4862...broken by beautiful, barren “ sugar loafs,” with small patches of forest in the gulches. Extensive cattle...1989) was driven, along which irregular stopes and small pits have been developed. The pegmatite body strikes |  | | Journal (issue) | | Fluocerite-(Ce) and other minerals from the Little Patsey quarry ........... 429 by M . I. Jacobson & M . W. Smith...cm tall, and came from the Eureka mine, Tuolumne County, California. The specimen, now in the Smithsonian...PUBLISHING P.O. Box 37072, Tucson, Arizona 85740 USA Richard A. Bideaux, General Partner (602) 297-4862...broken by beautiful, barren “ sugar loafs,” with small patches of forest in the gulches. Extensive cattle...1989) was driven, along which irregular stopes and small pits have been developed. The pegmatite body strikes |  | | Journal (issue) | | Se10n College," Unpublished manuscript, Westchester County Historical Socie1y, 1988. Hagedorn, p. 164. Scant... Eliz abeth G. Fuller, Librarian, Wes1chester County Historical Society, Valhalla, New York for information...Robert Thomas Curran, Jr. Newlin Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, near Unionville, is famous (at le...ogists in this country and in Europe. ln D elaware county fine crystals of this mineral have been found on...Black Horse hotel. It is asso ciated in Delaware county chieny with feldspar (probably albite) and sometimes |  | | Book (edition) | | for them grows, gemstone prices will rise to a point where very fine stones are out of reach of all...scien- build detection equipment. Inevitably, a small percentage of laboratories. artificial gemstones...disrupted as long as this percentage remains small. Also, the physical proper- ties of most synthetic...emerald and gems. That origin of a is, corundum small, hard-to-see inclusions allow the gemstone to...of the twentieth century, is at a major turning point in its growth. Worldwide affluence has created an |  | | Journal (issue) | | Ferroaxinite from New Melones Lake, Calaveras County, California, a remarkable new locality...........department of Correze, immediately southeast of the small town of Ussel, France. It is about 100 kilometers...substantially north-south, embedded along with other small veins similarly oriented within a granitic mass...granite mass is bounded on the northwest by the small socalled Meymac granite, which belongs to the granite...Stephanian epoch as traps for coal deposits, such as the small Lapleau basin southeast of Meymac. The only later |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | unstable and the difference between the structures is small, so that the alteration always occurs when the conditions...both progress simultaneously. unless it contains small amounts of Fe (Pósfai and 10 MINERAL up, Volume...combination of individual reactions produce extremely small crystals, between 0.5 and 2 microns the transformation...would 1986 in Altavista, correspond to a Campbell County, diamond octahedron Virginia, where of up to 8...pyroxenites with garnet also found in the Merehead quarry in England, and in are found in which pseudomorphs |  | | Report (volume) | | to fart of are Gan oral CuUn'e ISmeatoao. The point had bata Work* Department iaeearoUag for Callea'a...arc lower Vindhyan. Them are numerous collateral point# in kupport of such a doeskin, but they cannot bo...hare nltaterer nominal doubt remained u|w>n a small point of geographical Certain geographer* have instwtad...(Sirtnur) age, The vwihntka of this su ggestion * a point of great i nterest in the disimusicm of Himalayan...congress, an being the main diftouify from the Iodise point of view. The congress did net, how, ever, get within |  | | Book | | The author of this treatise published in 1838 a small work on Gems, which was well received by the scientific...world. The marble from California, that from' the quarry lately discovered in Pennsylvania; the Leocadia...the crystal. The portion of the axes between this point and the centre are named parame ters, and the position...order of their influence on the combination, with a point between. An angle or edge is said to be replaced...the middle of the lateral edges, or in another point of these edges, the latter being hemihedral forms |  | | Book (edition) | | have been made (and they have been by no means small,) to improve the Report, will meet the approbation...Resolved, That with the advice of the Council, point some suitable person, to 5lli of his Excellency...of Soils, Alluvium considered in an agricultural point of view, - - Diluvium, do Tertiary Formations...diluvium, Peculiarities in the Diluvium of Berkshire County, Second Proof (diluvial grooves,) of a southerly...that work can be completed, I have constructed a small map from such materials as already exist, and delineated |  | | Journal (volume) | | Bridges 6-12 Unusual fluorite from Old Towns Quarry, Newton Aycliffe, Co. Durham Trevor F. Bridges...including the sinking of a shaft to gain access to a small lead deposit (Tickow Lane Mine), and extensive investigations... His article on “The Boltsburn mine, Weardale, County Durham, England” won the award for “best article...massive cuprite at the type locality, New Cliffe Hill Quarry, Stanton-under-Bardon, Leicestershire, first described...Cu2+5Cl2(OH)8(H2O)2, a new mineral from New Cliffe Hill Quarry, Stantonunder-Bardon, Leicestershire, UK. Mineralogical |  | | Journal (issue) | | stone or light source is moved) intersect at one small point, forming six triangular ruby sectors. In many...sectors zoning from centre to rim not observable in small concentrations due to an overlap of VKa with TiK~...without distinct, continuous bowldaries to the host, small red core Trapezoidal ruby sectors B.1ack core YeUowish-white...star with sharp yellOW arms intersecting at one small point B u Six-rayed star with zoned, sharp yellowishwhlte...sharp yellowish-white arms intersecting at one small point Mg + + + + + + + + Ti z + +++ +++ • • |  | | Book (edition) | | the numerous errors everywhere pervading this small volume for these I urge For myself, it is sufiicient...magnesia, &c. In anatomy, the absorbents are 2. small pellucid tubes, which have been discovered in most...phuncle central; summit pierced si- by eight small tuberculated aper- certain fishes. ABSO'BBENT... and Gmelin 82 species. Most of these are very small and almost microscopical. Some are parasitical,...is enclosed rounding the core in a congeries of small calculous bodies towards the base of the fruit. |  | | Report (volume) | | namely, that of the origin of the Kumann lakes. The point has been exclusively argued as between glaciers...mode of formation might not apply to some of the small lakes that do occur in that region of the mountains...plains to Kulu. They lie in a detached range of small elevation, entirely formed of tertiary sandstones...glacier hed ever existed. I did not examine the point critically whenon the ground, and I bave not had...that elevated region. Our best authority on this point hitherto, General Strachey, has always asserted |  | | Book | | Treatise, the author has followed the plan [of a small work, published in 1832, by Dr. Blum, in Germany...first comprise such minerals as combine, within a small space, either vivid or soft and agreeable colours...conchoidal excavations ; 4th. Splintery, showing small splintery parts on the broken surface which yet...fine or strong hollows ; 3d. Drusy, presenting small prominent crystals, nearly equal to each other ;...Apatite, and Fluor spar : or we may use the file, or point of a steel, which is the mode practised by jewellers |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | different defects; F-types occur on point defects, S-types on overlying point defects, P-, H-, and Ctypes on...Si value slightly above 6.0. Most samples show a small deficit of Si, which we have assumed is made up by...ideal trend can be explained as a combination of small amounts of undetermined alkalies K and Li, and minor...observed, which are not related to the growth spirals; small ones appear circular and more like P-type, large...curved. This was observed on all samples. Rarely, small C-type etch pits with their long axes perpendicular |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | It has been stated to you that there has been a small excess of expenditure over income, but this has...contributed by her talents and untiring researches in no small degree to our knowledge of the great Enalio-saurians...Mary Anuing made her many friends ; she received a small sum of money for her services, at the intercession...may be exposed. We have elsewhere endeavoured to point out the modifications observable in the lower part...nucleus, sometimes even appearing to surround a small crystal of carbonate of lime ; but others, though |
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