 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Massachusetts 02138 MAINE Minerals of the Topsham, Maine, Pegmatite District Topsham • Topsham, Maine's underappreciated...district, is particularly noted for fine specimens of beryl, topaz, and uraninite. T O P S H A M I S L O C A...the Andros coggin River from Brunswick in Sagadahoc County. A mile-wide belt of granitic pegmatites runs...Androscoggin River, north-northeast through the town of Topsham. The belt extends southward into Brunswick and...but only the pegmatites actually in the town of Topsham are covered in this review. There are thirty or |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | (Tolman, Koch) 208 Adamite from Gold Hill, Tooele (Staples) .200, 37r Co., Utal. Ahlfeldite. (Ramdohr). 678... H. 197,2Il Bernal, J. D. 811 Bertrandite. 747 Beryl (analysis and optical data).. . . . l7 , 234, 747...pegmatite a.rrdreplacement veins in the Sheahan quarry, Graniteville, Mo. ( T o l m a nG , o l d i c h...syenites of phism in Virginia mining PleasantMountain, Maine, district,N.M. (Lasky).... 552 discussionof. (Marsden)...t t ) . . . 3I4 Iferderite from Topsham, 137 Jarlite. (Blgvad). Maine, crystallography of. Jarosite in |  | | Book (volume) | | occur in pegmatite exposures, such as Aquamarine, Beryl, some Ruby-red Corundum, Spodumene and Topaz. Georgia...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...Co. lineBeryl. MAYSVILLE, area gravels along adjoining Co. linerock crystal. BARROW COUNTY WINDER,...inside the Co. line in a Hornblendegneiss exposureBeryl, black Tourmaline. 146 A Location Guide for Rock |  | | Book (edition) | | describes sites under of the nearest town and county. and the many maps included book contain such...Malachite, Chrysocolla, Turquoise LJ Emerald, Beryl ^"^ Agate ** Jade Amethyst nq -* % Gem...from Alaska to the Mexican border and eastward to Maine and Florida. Still others are to be found in Canada... TYPICAL CRYSTAL FORMS <^ bi ^P CHIASTOLITE BERYL EMERALD FELDSPAR EPIDOTE ^?^ (& \ ^^ GARNET...with their six-faced flat-terminated prism of beryl belong here, as well as the variations that calcite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | in Aquia (Mi.ddle Eocene), Anne Arun629 383 del County, Maryland Basaluminite, hydrobasaluminite. (Hollingworth...magnetoplumVitaliano). 320 bite... 512 Beryl at Mount Mica, Maine. Ca-Mg-Fe carbonate minerals, ( H u r...of. (Weymouth, Williamson). Fluid inclusions in beryl and quartz from pegmatites of the Middletown District...Uranium minerals from Mine, YavaPai the Hillside County, Arizona. .. . Grogan, R. M. Detection of fluorite...Ifietanen, A. Chloritoid from Rawlinsville, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.. Higginsite. (Berry) High temperature |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Oregon and the White-throated Sparrow in Harney County, Oregon (Marshall, 1959). Although he paid little...dis covered a new mineral species in the Chapman quarry near Goble in 1963. However, unknown to him, this... S. Wise. County, Oregon, by other collectors. It was eventually named cavansite (Staples et a l . ,...1978. A "stoned" clan. Lapidary Journal 32: 816. Staples, L . W.; Evans, H . T., Jr.; and Lindsay, J . R...with topaz in rhyolite in the Thomas Range, Juab County, Utah, and at numerous other places including Mexico |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | nor even under an argon lamp. "Fluorite. Teller County, Colorado." —on label. CONNECTICUT—"Perhaps you...Eight years ago I found a greenish golden beryl at Slocum's quarry in East Hampton (Middlesex Co.), Conn...in the U. S. have come from this quarry. Also found in this quarry was a y2 inch crystal of gem, pink...found in Dodge County near Empire, Plainfield and Jay Bird Springs, and in Irwin County near Osierfield...Newsletter is pub- GOLDEN BERYL FOUND AT SLOCUM'S Beryl from Slocum's Quarry, East Hampton, Conn. A combined |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Crystals of herderite-CaBe (OH,F)POn-from Topsham, Maine, a new locality, exhibit several novelties:...y(121).Herderite from a new find at Greenwood, Maine, shows the normal columnar development of the clinodome... A mass of mica peridotite is exposed in Union County, Tennessee. Excellent octahedra of magnetite have...Ansrxe:ro Mrwrnnr FRoM GoLD Hrr.r, by Lloyd W. Staples. This mineral occrirs in the oxidized zone closely...University. Aonurra FRoM Gor.D Hrrr,, by Lloyd Staples. The adamite is found in the oxidized zone coating |  | | 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 (edition) | | MARIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY 3 1111 00289 4184 \ I s Fifth Revised Edition A complete, state-by-state...Malachite, Chrysocolla, Turquoise LJ Emerald, Beryl *"» Agate ** Jade =p Amethyst ^ X ) y '...on the gem resources of our land. "Do you, Mr. Maine," he continued, "know that some of the finest tourmalines...from Alaska to the Mexican border and eastward to Maine and Florida. Still others are found in Canada and...strike gem tourmaline by the bushel basketful in Maine and California; emerald in North Carolina, a big |  | | Journal (issue) | | from Collecting at the Kezar Falls Mine, York County, Maine In The Summer of 2001 Art Smith 9118 Concho...minerals in the summer with Gene Bearss and others in Maine and New Hampshire, we always try to add at lea t...collected at the Mascot lead mine in Gorham, Coos County, New Hampshire and the Madison lead-zinc mine in...and at Mineral Hill in Wakefield, both in Carroll County, New Hampshire. One of our sources of information...and western Maine. One of these, the Kezar 91ls Mine, is just across the border in Maine. The usual guide |  | | Book (volume) | | cut purplish pink elbaite tourmaline (30.89 ct), Maine; round brilliant red-orange spessartine garnet (16...Colorado; colorless scheelite (19.66 ct), Kern County, California; octagonal step cut violetish pink...Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from San Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...improved clarity and color. Beautiful, intense red beryl crystals, many of facet-grade, found in the Wah...crushed and treated to release the crystals. Red beryl gems, resembling the finest red spinels in color |  | | Report (volume) | | .............................................. Maine...................................................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.;...; Jefferson County, at Ely ton; Lee County, at Chewacla lime works"; St. Clair County, at Greensport; |  | | Book (volume) | | Co1mecticut Delawar District of Columbia IUinois Indiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan New Hampshire New...only in America. Others, like the tourrnaunes of Maine and California, rival specimens found in better-known...exclusively i.n the Blue Ridge Mountains of Mitchell County, North Carolina, to be true hiddenite. Preface...ME); Perhams (West Paris, ME); and Gem Mountain Quarry Trips (Spruce Pine, NC). Knowing What You 're...hats-may be mandatory if you are visiting an active quarry or mine; suggested near cliffs. lntmduction 29 |  | | Book | | world mineralo- authority provides cultural beryl: and mineral collectors. here sciences, yet...material causes of to jewelry on the and beryl uses the techno- fora mineral only for and...cultural mineralogical once events. languages for beryl emerald logical to and part, Sinkankas explores...jewels—and relatives, beryl is a of the ago, the fabled Table golden beryl medicine years of...Queen 5500 Egypt the part is anywhere an beryl deposits, of fine crystal Sinkankas has in the | | | Book (volume) | | cut purplish pink elbaite tourmaline (30.89 et), Maine; round brilliant red-orange spessartine garnet (...Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from Sai, Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...improved clarity and color. Beautiful, intense red beryl c1ystals, many of facet-grade, found in the Wah...crushed and treated to release the crystals. Red beryl gems, rese1nbling the finest red spinels in color...Cantlin, Ellis, ID; Jeannette B. Carillo, Gen1 Center USA, El Paso, TX; Gary Christopher, The Prospectors Cache |  | | Journal (issue) | | prominent constituent of the pegrnatite veins of Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Pennsylvania...Carolina. Muscovite (twinned) from the Nello Teer Quarry near Raleigh, N. C. in pegmatite veins where pneumatolytic...Hebron, Auburn, and Rumford, Maine; Chesterfield, Massachusetts; San Diego County, California; Colorado and...muscovite crystals from Brooks Fann, Cleveland County, North Carolina. ~ TABLE 1.-MICA-GROUP MINERALS...in a dolomite from near Bonneterre, St. Francis County, Missouri ; in the Mesabi district of Minnesota; |  | | Book | | 100 maps geared to leading the " hunter to his quarry" and more than eighty photographs of minerals in...easier for you If you plan to vIsIt an operating quarry or mine where a permll Is required make the necessary...topographic map of the Delaware q uadrangle o f Keweenaw County, Michigan This ,s an example o f the more picturesque...be discovered by locating the porous layers In a quarry or other exposure and following them along the...been washed into the stream ,tselt. Southwestern Maine around the town of Pans. and the rugged area north | | | Book | | HfiRIN COUNTY FREE LIBRfiRY 311110G386652Q I V Russell P MacFal A COLOR TREASUF FOR COLLECTORS...are 100 maps geared to leading the "hunter to his quarry" and more than eighty photographs of minerals in...to Hunting Locations ? i 9 GIVEN TO THE MARIN COUNTY LIBRARY BY MARI N L MTNF.RAT. SOCTETY DAVID...knapsack you can use a mountaineering bag or a mili- quarry or mine where a permit tary bag; make it it...may be able to buy specimens. map of Keweenaw County. Mich- Part of the U.S. Geological Survey topographic |  | | Journal (issue) | | y, CONTENTS FOR NOVEMBER, 1946 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY ...................:.............................FRANKLIN QUARRY, FRANKLIN, N. J. By Peter Zodac ................................ 760 HERKIM ER COUNTY ''DIAMONDS''...the southwest face of the Cedar Mountains, Tooele County, Utah. Its geo- graphic position, as indicated...Lower Manhattan Island old stamping grounds-Oxford County, (New York City ) After many Saturday afternoon...members of the tions of the many new buildings being Maine Mineralogical Club, with whom erected on the island |  | | Journal (issue) | | Contents for March - April, 1950 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY ...................................................................... 135 POUND OF TEA ISLAND, MAINE. By Peter Zodac ·······················-·············...················· 155 SOME MINES OF OXFORD COUNTY, MAINE. By N eil Jorgensen ............ 158 NEWARK............ 1 78 }ADE AND CHRYSOPRASE IN T ULARE COUNTY, CALIF . ........................................Aueciatien i14 ROCKS AND MINEMU CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY COMING EVENTS NATIONAL SPELEOLOGICAL SOCIETY CONVENTION |  | | Report (issue) | | C. A. Michael. COLD NUGGET FROM SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY: Longest dimension approximately 13 cm., photograph...updated “check list” just alluded to, (2) a county-by-county listing of the minerals, and (3) resumes of...Nenadkcvichite Prehnite Bavenite Axinite Beryl (Aquamarine) (Golden beryl) Cordieritc Tourmaline Group Elbaite...(Haydcnitc) 9 Virginia Mineral Localities by County This list is included for possible aid in planning...listed only* if localities arc given for them. The county lists do not include com mon rock-making materials |
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Staples Quarry, Topsham, Sagadahoc County, Maine, USA