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Vesuvianite from
LaFlamme Quarry, Minot, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Vesuvianite
Formula:Ca19Fe3+Al4(Al6Mg2)(◻4)◻[Si2O7]4[(SiO4)10]O(OH)9
Comments:Excellent lustrous brown prismatic crystals found in calc-silicate contact with granite pegmatite.
Quality for species:Good crystals or rich for species - important (!)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Vesuvianite data
Locality Data:Click here to view LaFlamme Quarry, Minot, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:35773
Long-form Identifier:1:3:35773:1
GUID (UUID V4):bdca88cb-20d7-49f0-96ea-612c45ddf7cd
Nearest other occurrences of Vesuvianite
3.9km (2.4 miles) Pitts-Tenney Quarry, Minot, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
9.2km (5.7 miles) City quarry, Lewiston, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
11.1km (6.9 miles) Mount Rubellite Quarries, Mount Rubellite, Hebron, Oxford County, Maine, USA
13.7km (8.5 miles) Mount Marie Quarries, Paris, Oxford County, Maine, USA
15.6km (9.7 miles) Robinson Mountain, Lewiston, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
19.9km (12.3 miles) Heath Quarry, Casco, Cumberland County, Maine, USA
24.3km (15.1 miles) Camp Hinds locality, Raymond, Cumberland County, Maine, USA
31.5km (19.6 miles) Tamminen Quarry, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine, USA
32.0km (19.9 miles) Morgan Quarry (Upper Noyes Mountain Quarry; Upper Harvard Quarry), Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine, USA
32.1km (19.9 miles) Noyes Mountain Quarry (Harvard Quarry), Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine, USA
References
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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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
would frequently collect; these included Weldon's quarry, as well as the Summit, Bound Brook, and Millington...he had special free access to the Prospect Park quarry near Paterson where he attended nearly every blast...Corporation and the Mt. Mica Land Corporation in Maine. The major tourmaline deposits here may be de­ veloped...Although Charles Key is now located in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, he has lived, and has had businesses in, New Jersey...Dunton Gem mine (Nevell mine), Newry Hill, Newry, Maine. 7 Figure 1: Frank C. Perham. 442 ROCKS A M )
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
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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)
of alteration minerals like those of San Benito County. William P. Moller is research associate in mineralogy...bodies include several varieties of garnet, vesuvianite, diopside, perovskite, baddelyite, and titanite...and is commonly associated with diopside and vesuvianite. The best of these garnets are dodecahedra with...and demantoid are also varieties of andradite. Vesuvianite occurs as either pale green masses associated...Benitoite Gem mine, New (dria district, San Benito County. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles specimen
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Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles , CA Joseph A. Mandarino...green grossular; vesuvianite crystals of many colors, as well as violet manganoan vesuvianite; and well-terminated...24, No. 1); vesuvianite crystals of many colors, as well as violet manganoan vesuvianite; prehnite in...in 1996. The arrow shows the location of the vesuvianite discoveries. Photo courtesy of JM Asbestos Inc...are included in the dunite and peridotite. The vesuvianite crystals are found in a large rodingite dike
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.................93 by J. L. Jambor, J. H. G. LaFlamme and D. A. Walker Bytownite —a legacy of early...Raven Hills Court, Colorado Springs, Colorado 80919 USA; tel: (303) 598-1233 66 The Mineralogical Record...vein-dike near Long Lake in Olden Township, Frontenac County. Tabular pseudo-orthorhombic euhedra up to 10 cm...crystal (1.6 x 2 cm) from Olden Township, Frontenac County, Ontario. George and Susan Robinson specimen. menite...itself is for the type locality near Perth, Lanark County, Ontario.) Huge crystals of microcline up to half
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J.D. Grice. 1994. Can. Min. 32, 843. Poudrette Quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada. Na26REE(S...subhedral crystals to 1 mm in a quartz vein from Ankang County, Shaanxi Province, China. Ideal formula Ba(Ti,V...pleochroism; reflectance data are given. Named for the County in which the type locality is situated. Antimonselite...mine, found in human secretions. Graham County, Arizona, USA. PbA1F3(OH)2. Baumhauerite-2a. A. Pring...basalts from the Goble district, Columbia County, Oregon, USA. (Ca,Na)ll(Fe,A1,Si)980192-70H20. Zeolite
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Fe,Mg)2(Be,Al)3(Si12O30) H EXAGONAL Locality: A quarry at the Bellerberg volcano lava field, near Ettringen...F-dominant member of the vesuvianite group. Name: Reflects its relationship to vesuvianite. Comments: IMA No...Rondorfite Ca8Mg(SiO4)4Cl2 C UBIC Locality: A quarry at the Bellerberg volcano lava field, near Ettringen...STANLEY, C.J., CRIDDLE, A.J., HAWTHORNE, F.C., LAFLAMME, J.H.G. & TISCHENDORF, G. (2003): Schlemaite,...Locality: The Taguchi mine at Yatuhashi, Kita-shitara County, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. Occurrence: In a stratabound
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of the Chinle Formation, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah, U.S.A. Cooper, M.A. et al. (2003): Can....of Skeleton Mountain, along Lake Greeson, Pike County, Arkansas, U.S.A. Roberts, A.C. et al. (2003):...Triassic age in the Temple Mountain region, Emery County, Utah. Schindler, M. et al. (2003): Can. Mineral...in veins in an altered diorite, New Cliffe Hill quarry, Stanton-upon-Bardon, Leicestershire, U.K. Hawthorne...region. Found in cavities within marble, Gioia quarry, Colonnata Valley, Carrara region, Apuan Alps,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Cu2+5Cl2(OH)8(H2O)2 M ONOCLINIC Locality: The New Cliff Hill quarry, Stanton-under-Bardon, Leicestershire, England...Cu2+5Cl2(OH)8(H2O)2, a new mineral from New Cliff Hill quarry, Stanton-under-Bardon, Leicestershire, UK. Mineralogical...Cronusite Ca0.2(H2O)2CrS2 T RIGONAL Locality: Norton County meteorite (enstatite achondrite), which fell on...Ca0.2(H2O)2CrS2, a new mineral from the Norton County enstatite achondrite. Zapiski Vserossiyskogo Mineralogicheskogo...parkerite, Ni3(Bi,Pb)2S2. Name: After J.H. Gilles Laflamme (b. 1947), Mining and Mineral Sciences Laboratories
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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 (article/letter/editorial)
et al. 1994). Except in rare instances (Cabri & Laflamme 1997), reflections attributed to the superstructure... 1992), as well as monticellite + melilite, vesuvianite + clintonite, grossular + diopside and scapolite-bearing...Large (up to 2 mm) red-brown single crystals of vesuvianite and faintly pink xenomorphic grains (1–2 mm)...with a film of Cu-bearing gold (after Cabri & Laflamme 1997, Shcheka et al. 2004). Contours of fields...(32-56; in Russ.). CABRI, L.J., CRIDDLE, A.J., LAFLAMME, J.H.G., BEARNE, G.S. & HARRIS, D.C. (1981): Mineralogical
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and the Thetford Mines complex (Corrivaux and Laflamme, 1990). Moreover, mantlenormalised P G E distribution...chloritised and serpentinised, or altered to mainly vesuvianite. Preserved cumulate texture in these rocks, displayed...(Desborough and Criddle, 1984). Corrivaux and Laflamme (1990) reported in the chromitite of the Thetford...London, pp 383-403 Cabri L J, Blank H, Goresy AE, Laflamme JHG, Nobiling R, Sizcoric MB, Traxel K (1984)...Springer, Berlin Heidelberg New York Corrivaux L, Laflamme JHG (1990) Min~ralogie des 616ments du group du
Report (issue)
Stewart, J.H.G. Laflamme and J. T. Szymanski L.J. Cabri, Platarsite (1 977) J.H.G. Laflamme and J.M. Stewart...1960) and in the Barringer Hill pegmatite, Llano County, Texas, U.S.A (Marble, 1940). Manganoan varieties...1972); also from pegmatites at Ragged Peak, Tuolumne County, California, U.S.A (Hutton, 1951 a) and at Chari...(Hentschel, 1964); lnishcrone, County Sligo, Eire; from Scawt Hill and Carneal, County Antrim, Northern Ireland...(Grunhagen and Mergoil, 1963); Commercial Quarry, Crestmore, Riverside County, 6 Himmelleitenbruch, near Rossbach
Report (volume)
Geological Survey: vol. 4,1902; Garrett County, 1902; Cecil County, 1902. Baltimore, Md. Mexico, Institute...Jr.). [Maryland]. The physiography of Garrett County Md. Geol. Surv., Garrett Co., pp. 27-54, pis....Describes .the topographic and drainage features of the county, and discusses its physiographic history. 2 Adams...Knoydart formation (Eq-Devonian) of Antigonish County, Nova Scotia. N. S. Inst. Sci., Trans., vol. 10...the NeoCarboniferous or Permian strata of Pictou County, Nova Scotia. Can. Mg. Rev., vol. 21, pp. 160-162
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Company's spodumene mine at Kings Mountain, Cleveland County, North Carolina, have a IO.OI67, c I4"2452 /k;...399. An unnecessary name for cerian idocrase (vesuvianite). Chalcoeite, Tetragonal. A. H. Clark and R....crystals from the Betty Jo claim, Ely, White Pine County, Nevada, have a 8-9Io, b 6.oi7, c 7"734 A,/3 111...phosphates in the Tip Top pegmatite, Custer, Custer County, South Dakota, have a 14-94 , b 7"I4, c 9'93 A...44, 7- Doubtful sulphosalts from the Lengenbach quarry, Binnatal, Switzerland. No formulae given. Rathite-IV
Book
Nephrite, b) mixture of Grossular and Vesuvianite, c) Vesuvianite (Californite) American Ruby = Pyrope...Pyrope Amerikaijade, Amerikainefrit = Vesuvianite Amerikairubin = Almandine, Pyrope, Quartz: [Rose Quartz)...Vulgaris Schistosus (Shale] Arizona Jade = Vesuvianite Argilla Wocco = = a rock a rock [Tropp,...lodargyrite, Gold, Pyrite and Stibnite (from Yovopoi County, Arizona) Arkonite = Arcanite = Quartz [Rock ...mixture of Breithauptite and Arizonoijade = Vesuvianite Argillaceous Iron Ore ., Hematite, hydrous iron
Journal (issue)
mineral from the Clear Creek claim, San Benito County, California ............269 by A. C. Roberts, M...howieite, and zussmanite at the Laytonville quarry in Mendocino County, California. He brought the minerals...area to be responsible for (as, for example, a county or state museum), but there would be no particular...chief chef for a hospital (I believe in Sonoma County), was an expert on rare conifers of the California...PUBLISHING P.O. Box 37072, Tucson, Arizona 85740 USA Richard A. Bideaux, General Partner (602) 297-4862
Report (volume)
Knoj^dart formation (Eo-Devonian) of Antigonish County, Nova Scotia. N. S. Inst. Sci., vol. 10, pp. 330-332...52 Note on the Cambrian fossils of St. Francois County, Missouri. Am. Jour. Sci., 4th ser., vol. 12, pp...Bell (W. T.). The remarkable concretions of Ottawa County, Kansas. Am. Jour. Sci., 4th ser., vol. 11, pp...borate from Mine Hill, Franklin Furnace, Sussex County, New Jersey. Yale Bicentennial publications, Cont...remarkable mineral locality at Branchville, in Fairfax County, Connecticut; with a description of several new
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trails over the site or to overlook the nearby Dene Quarry which still produces aggregate. The Centre offers...see the new exposures in an extension to Ketton Quarry, led by Alan Dawn, was the first of the season’s...Crich Quarry to discuss with the company geologist and site manager proposals to extend the quarry and...to the river and the outcrop of the vein in the quarry cliff behind the Sainsbury’s recycling site. The...pumping was at its zenith a hundred years ago. quarry, producing sands for foundry moulding and for making
Journal (issue)
Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Bishop copper prospect near Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...Cd-bearing phosphate mineral from the Gold Quarry mine, Eureka County, Nevada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...BISHOP COPPER PROSPECT near Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia Henry Barwood Route 3, Box 144 Auburn...about 1 mile west of Lynch Station in Campbell County, Virginia, on the southern bank of Bishop Creek
Book (edition)
from the Tourmaline Q ueen .1ine, Pala, San Diego County, California. From a pen-and-ink drawing by W. E...Pocket in pegmatite, Newry, Maine 34. Loading pocket contents, Newry, Maine 35. Large tourmaline crystal...of tourmaline crystal forms 38. Map of San Diego County, California gem sources 3 9. Stewart Lithia· and...View of Clear Creek, San Benito County, California 55. Monterey County jade-producing shoreline, California...California 56. Rhodonite quarry, Salt Spring Island, Vancouver Island 57. Drawing of garnet crystal forms
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
minerals such as chlorite, serpentine, prehnite, vesuvianite and hydrogarnet. The compositions of minerals...Cabri LJ, Sylvester P, Tubrett MN, Perogoedova A, Laflamme JHG (2003) Comparison of micro-PIXE and LAM-ICP-MS...Mineral 41:321–329 Chen TT, Dutrizac JE, Owens DR, Laflamme JHG (1980) Accelerated tarnishing of some chalcopyrite...Petrol, pp. 757–791 Kwitko R, Cabral AR, Lehmann B, Laflamme JG, Cabri LJ, Criddle AJ, Galbiatti HF (2002)
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porphyry copper deposits (white squares). CQ, Cadia Quarry; E22 etc., Endeavour 22 etc.; GC, Galore Creek;...sills. Massive zones of garnet, wollastonite and vesuvianite result from metasomatism of the calcareous protolith...Cu mineralisation also characterises the Cadia Quarry prospect, and the E31 prospect at Northparkes....chalcopyrite veins at Cadia Hill, Cadia East and Cadia Quarry typically have orthoclase selvages that are magnetite-deficient...contrast, copper – gold ore at Cadia Hill, Cadia Quarry and Cadia East (underground resource) is hosted
 
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