 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | MAINE1 EDSON S. BASTIN I. PROWERSOSE FROM KNOX COUNTY This unusual rock was collected by the writerin...1905 near Burkettville post-office in Knox County, Maine. It outcrops over a nearly circular area about...Washington,and north into the town of Liberty (Waldo County). It intrudes pelite schists and gneisses, and...of orthoclase FIG. I.-Prowersose from Knox County, Maine. Natural size. and albite, in grainsaveragingabout1/10...arrangedend to end; these SOME UNUSUAL ROCKS FROM MAINE 175 becomemore and more elongate until we have |  | | 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...24 x JO mm;Jrom the Bennett Quarry, Buckfield, Maine. Mined in 1996 by Holden !Jrothers Mining and currently...Photo by John B. Poisson. The laws and policies of Maine and the United States prohibit discrimination in |  | | 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...photograph: Fluorapatite, Pulsifer quarry, Auburn, Maine (2.2 cm specimen), Harvard Mineralogical Museum...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 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:...agate, (banded, various colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY MACON: at Holton Quarry, 7½ mi. NWagate; N |  | | 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) | | tourmaline in quartzite, lound in an old roadbed in Lee County, Alabama, about 10 miles north of Auburn, on Highway...at the barite mines at Magnet Cove, Hot Spring County, Arkansas. "A sample was sent to the Smithsonian... Fla."-on label. GEORGIA - "Slender hexagonal apatite prisms occur in the Appalachian Minerals Company...111. Though small, the specimen is a colorless little cleavage showing double refraction. A calcite which...for testing the color of the streak of metals. MAINE—Gem quality dark green serpentine, on common green |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | PROSPECTING IN MAINE THIRTY YEARS AGO By P H I L I P M O R R I L L High St., Route 1 , West Paris, Maine 04239...slopes, tried to force the season. Went to Paris (Maine); up a muddy road and a very steep long hill and...many years into a large open pit. Most spar from Maine is white or cream in color. This mine pro duces...this color and likewise a uniform tint. Found very little of interest here but took a few pieces of the green..."Steep. Steep. You find out." We stopped at the little brook on the trail almost at the top where Frank |  | | Book (volume) | | Though well endowed with fossils, Illinois has little to offer gem and mineral collectors, even though...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 |  | | Book (volume) | | Though well endowed with fossils, Illinois has little to offer gem and mineral collectors, even though...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 |  | | Report (volume) | | .............................................. Maine...................................................Compendium of the mineral resources of Arkansas, Little Rock Board of Trade Bulletin, 1912. Eakle, A. S...See Bauxite and Halloysite. 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 S., R. 7 E.; |  | | Book | | Fort Kent ♦ ♦ ♦ I I • I I Caribou Presque Isle ·1 • I• I• 1 I• ~• I ♦ I N 0 I 0 40 Miles...Geology of Maine. Conte11ts Preface vii Geology of Maine 7 Coastal Maine 25 Interstate 95 (Maine-furnpike)...tli S / Down East Maine: Bangor ;:incl Elli;worll1 to ( ,.i l:tic.; 1/S Maine 3, Maine 102, ancl rh(.;... Bangor (,a ln,s JOI Central Maine 707 M aine 5: Saco-Bethel / 14 Maine 26: Pegmatite Alley, Portland...ton / 49 Maine 7: Belfast-Dover-Foxcrofl I 57 Maine 15: Bangor-Abhot Village.: / 6 / Maine 11: Milo-Millinocket |  | | Book (volume) | | fabulous tourmalines and kunzites of California and Maine, the sparkling sapphires of Montana, and the...are primarily cut as gemological curiosities with little or no regular place in commerce. Coarser gemstones...Superintendent, while similar services in respect to Isle Royale National Park were rendered by Superintendent...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 |  | | Book | | Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi...literally sweep over a collecting locality, missing little along the way. Thus, field trips today, except...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 |  | | Report (issue) | | ...........................................122 Maine ..................................................dark talc very low in Fe. A talc district west of Little Rock, Arkansas is in Ordovician rocks of the Ouachita...marble containing much serpentine and phlogopite but little talc are located near the east border of the state...analogue, pyrophyllite, with diagrams, are provided in Deer and others (1962, p. 115-116 and 121-124) and in...described as having a greasy feel and pearly luster (Deer and others, 1962, p. 126). The chemical formula |  | | Report (volume) | | Geological Survey, Report for 1888, vols. 1-3. Little Rock. Boston Society of Natural History, Memoirs...Baltimore. Massachusetts, Gazetteer of Hampshire County, 1854-'87, by W. B. Gay. Syracuse, New York. Meriden...a few notes on some rocks associated with the apatite deposits. Canadian Record Science, vol. 3, pp....(February No.), 1890. Petrographic description of apatite-bearing pyroxenites from Portland West, the McLaurian...Arkansas crystallines, BRAN NER. Peridotites of Pike County, Arkansas, BRANNER and BRACKETT. Granites of Northwest |  | | Report (volume) | | NORTH AMERICAN GEOLOGY. [BULL. 127. Louisiana. Maine. Maryland (including District of Columbia). Massachusetts... Transactions, 1887-1889. Utica, N. Y. Orleans County Society of Natural History, Transactions and Archives...a few notes on some rocks associated with the apatite deposits. Canadian Reo. of Sci., voT. 3, pp; 185-201... 270-273,1882. The pyrites deposits of Louisa County, Va. Am. lust. Mining Eng., Trans., vol. 12, pp...Akerly, Samuel. A geological account of Dutchess County in New York. Discussed by Foster, Hall, Hough |  | | Report (issue) | | Silurian stratigraphy of northeastern Aroostook County, Maine 1 . David C. Roy and Ely Mencher Discussion:...Silurian stratigraphy of northeastern Aroostook County, Maine... Louis Pavlides Lower Devonian Seboomook Formation...Formation and Matagamon Sandstone, northern Maine: A flysch basin-margin delta complex.Bradford A. Hall...central Maine . Allan Ludman Pre-Silurian stratigraphic succession in central western Maine . Eugene... Boone Stratigraphy of the Belfast quadrangle, Maine .Charles E. Bickel Geochronologic contributions |  | | Report (issue) | | topography and illustrating the development of the Deer Kiver IX. Sketch of the Mansfield mine as it was...end of Lower Huronian time there may have been little variation in the elevation of the upper surface...of the drainage is illustrated in the ease of the Deer River. The timber are everywhere present. topography...used for building or ornamental purposes. arc little likely, They offer, owing to their somber...to the sedimentary. The metabasalt dikes are of little interest. The ultrabasic picrite-porphyries are |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | often feel ashamed and mortified that I can do so little to keep myself abreast of the rapid and astounding...towards making known the past history of their county and of its inhabitants from the earliest times...position of the interesting rocks found in his native county. In addition to his scientific labours, Mr. Champernowne...other geological friends. In 1857 he published a little work entitled ' Stones of the Valley ' ; and in...and also to our own Journal; and he also wrote a little book on the'Geology of Stroud.' He took a very |  | | Report (volume) | | Clay County. Macon County. Jackson County. Transylvania County. Swain County. Haywood County. Buncombe...Buncombe County . Madison County. Yancey County. Mitchell County . Watauga County . Wilkes County. Ashe County...County . Alleghany County . Physiography and ecology of the peridotites. 28 28 29 32 34 35 36 38 42 46...mag¬ nesian rocks. Shooting Creek region, Clay County, North Carolina. Elf dunite. Elf amphibole-peridotite...amphibolite near Marshall. Peridosteatite at the Madison County Home. Peridotites on Ivy River. Carter mine dunite |  | | Journal (volume) | | “L'Homme,” is")5 ierr aA n z Lizards were Once Little Men, 477—Fraudulent Spears or Arrowheads, 555—...current, although his purely negative testimony is of little weight. Still the question might be pertinently...sinking into the same surface; and, though we take little note of it, this amounts to a vast quantity, in...of identification, and gives rise to names like Apatite, der. Gr. dzaraw, I deceive, on account of its...treacherous, was so named because it carried very little silver, though generally associated with argentiferous |
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