 | | 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 | | " VE M NlN[W �IUWPS�l- ( MASSACHUSETTS RHODE ISLAND 1 #'vp ,#,V,4 I' vr Go � - PRICE $2.50...Ed & Bert Sloan Maine Vermont New Hampshire Massachusetts Rhode Island PERHAM'S MAINE MINERAL S'toRE...S'toRE INC. JUNCTION RTE8. '1LJ &_ 219 WEST PARIS, MAINE 04289 Copyright 0 1976 by Edward Sloan. All rights...Company Mine Hyde Park, Lamoille Co. , Vermont Copper Mine Locality Milton, Vermont Parrot Jasper Mine Reading...Reading, Windsor Co., Vermont Reading Talc Mine Saxtons River, Vermont Davis Soapstone Quarry South Newfane |  | | Report (volume) | | Louisiana........Prof. Gilbert D. Harris, Baton Rouge. Maine............Mr. C. Vey Holman, Bangor. Maryland....Beaver. Prof. Florence Bascom, Bryn Mawr. Rhode Island.... .Prof. Charles W. Brown, Providence. South...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. 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, Pv. 7 E.; Jefferson |  | | Book (volume) | | geologic ages and under varied conditions: the Cumberland Plateau, the Appalachian Valley, the Appalachian...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: |  | | Report (issue) | | DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY TALC RESOURCES OF THE CONTERMINOUS UNITED STATES By...the U.S. Government. 1995 Menlo Park, CA 94025 Talc Resources of the conterminous United States Contents............................................8 Talc and talc-bearing rocks ................................optical properties of talc .........................10 Geology and Genesis of Talc Deposits .................................................12 Uses for talc ............................................... |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | of black, crystallized ferberite from the Conger Mine, near Nederland, Boulder Co., Colo. It is good to...albite, oligoclase, anorthite), quartz, mica (biotite, muscovite) obsidian and gold??? Who would suppose...in Georgia at the fo'lowing localities: Cherokee County —2V2 miles northeast of Ball Ground, 1 mi'e northwest...of Cherry Grove School; Fayette County—near Fayetteville; Fulton County—near College Park. (Georgia Mineral...Iowa. Among the minerals noted in the lot were: biotite (black flakes in granite), epidote (green, in granite) |  | | 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...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods...gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason Cr.⎯fossils; |  | | 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...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods...gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason Cr.⎯fossils; |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Investigation of Gilley Fluorspar Deposits in Cherokee County, Alabama, by James F. O'Neill. It is interesting... 50 miles northeast of Birmingham, in Cherokee County, located in West 1/2, West V2 of Section 16, Township...crystal'ized cinnabar which comes from the Culver-Baer mine, Sonoma Co., Calif. Colorado—An interesting article...pegmatite district lies across the Park-Fremont County line in south-central Co'crado, a few miles northwest...consisting chiefly of muscovite, chlorite, and biotite, and traces of garnet, zoisite, and tourmaline |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 954) are not included in this index. Aberdeen, biotite, 606. Acmite, synthesis, solid solution with diopside...AKHTER (S. M.), see QAISER(M. A.), 735. Alaer6n mine, Copiap6, Chile, arsenolamprite, 732. Ala di Stura...quartz or dickite or both, i28. Amblygonite, France, Maine, New South Wales, Saxony, anal., cell-dimensions...montebrasite, 4r4. Amblygonite mine, Caceres, Spain, montebrasite, 414. Amelia County, Virginia, albite, I56;...Microcline perthites, I35; Muscovite from Nellore, I4O; Biotite from Nellore, 39 I. 974 ALPHABETICAL Baia Mare |  | | Book (volume) | | series of pegmatite dikes ranking with those in Maine and Southern California for their production of...instance, a single Spodumene crystal from the Etta Mine near Keystone on the east side of the Mount Rushmore...beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm...gray Barite rosette up to 5 or 6 inches. CAMPBELL COUNTY MOUND CITY, W to the Missouri R., regional hillsides...gravels, etc.petrified wood, wood opal. CORSON COUNTY LITTLE EAGLE: area ridges, slopes, stream beds |  | | Report (volume) | | .............................................. Maine........................................................................................... Rhode Island..................................................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 (volume) | | ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA |  | | Book (edition) | | MOHS TABLE OF HARDNESS minium powder ( + 1. TALC 6. 2. GYPSUM 7. ) 3. 4. 5. sulfur ^/sjpowder...(cerargyrite and gypsum). Other minerals are flexible (talc, molybdenite); others elastic so that if bent and...iron and also certain iron-bearing silicates (biotite, hornblende, black tourmaline, etc.) can be magnetized...Mother-of-pearl or pearly (the micas and which talc), is slightly iridescent because part dispersed...a mineral was discovered (benitoite, San Benito County, California), or dedicated to a scholar (dolomite |  | | Catalog/List | | mineral, "At were of large, prisms, of this mine have been obtained, more Note. - Galena offer...in the specimens Dundasite, bunches samples Mine, of occurs lode. beautiful white large more...originally Cornish mining ceeding by colour, Mine fractures of great the mineral often Mount ...extremely some rarely Anglesite. Embolite, back Mine. with minute of small of capping gossan the...characteristic somewhat lead, Siberia. in this island discovery occurs of beautiful mineral, generally |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | have been found along the Cahaba River in Shelby County, Ala. The colors are gray with red veins, red and...abandoned diamond mine near Murfreesboro, Pike Co., Ark. Murfreesboro has the only diamond mine in the United...United States and though the mine is no longer in operation it has been "opened up" as a tourist attraction...close by, quartz crystals, of odd, ago at the same mine in Arkansas. Howard A. Millar, Manager, Crater of...early. "Near Eddyville in Pope Co., 111., is an old mine dump, its name I could not find, we obtained some |  | | Catalog/List | | enlarged photograph of a piece of Obsidian, from Lake County, Oregon, which shows a Conchoidal fracture. t...(sodium and calcium aluminum silicate) Xline, with biotite; Transvaal ........ ... .. .. .... .. INC. .40...magnesium metasilicate) "Asbestos", fibrous with talc; North Carolina ........ ANTHRACITE-See Mineral...New Hamp shire . 40 l\lassive, pale bluish-green; Maine, Connecticut or North Carolina ....................25 Cae.sium-bearing, white masses; Maine ...... ...... BIOTITE (acid potassium magnesium and iron aluminum |  | | Book (volume) | | ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA |  | | | | surrounded ce ne white calcite, from!iheBluebell Mine; Riondel, Digitized by the Internet Archive...titanite, zircon, amphibole, pyroxene, chlorite, talc, clay, chrysotile, chrysocolla, quartz, lazurite...hardness (with | being the softest) is as follows: | talc, 2 gypsum, 3 calcite, 4 fluorite, 5 apatite, 6 feldspar...actually two thousand times harder to scratch than talc, whereas on the Mohs relative scale it appears to...(41795): Massive native gold in quartz. Mcintyre Mine, Timmins, Tisdale Tp., Cochrane Dende TOntaae |  | | Report (issue) | | Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of Maine ............... 16 Table 5 Uranium occurrences in...Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of Rhode Island ....... 83 Table 14 Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary...occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of eastern Maine................^..............i.29 Figure 6. Uranium...occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of western Maine.................................30 Figure 7. Uranium...Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of Rhode Island..................................84 Figure 19. | | | | | 112, 1/3 betafite 28 beudantite 58 binnite 11 biotite 80, 104 bismuthides 8 bismuthinite /4, 15 blende...rutherfordine 53 linarite 59, 60 liroconite 74 talc 102 talc, precious 104 orthite 88 orthoclase 93, 95...suppliers are, in order, the USSR, Canada, and the USA (South Dakota, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and California)...especially near Kimberley); diamonds from the Kimberley mine are embedded in ultrabasic blue rock called kimberlite...carats, equal to 621 grams) was found at the Premier Mine; named the Cullinan diamond, it was presented to |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | entrance and arch of the Palermo mine, North Groton, Grafton County. Rob Lawrence photo, courtesy Bob...at 15:01 05 January 2015 LOCATIONS BY COUNTY Belknap County Alton area: arsenopyrite, galena, quartz...area: psilomelane, quartz (crystals), sphalerite, talc. Figure 2. Map of New Hampshire showing the counties...occurrence is particularly noteworthy for Carroll County Albany, Blackberry Crossing (includes the Moose...(microcrystals), bertrandite (microcrystals), biotite/annite (crystals), calcite, cassiterite (microcrystals) |  | | Report (issue) | | 4, A1 2 O 3 26.8, Na 2 O 16.3, Lenni, Delaware County. Crystals. Eyerman, 1911, 11. Composition: Analysis:...Sp.gr LOCALITIES: Berks County: Birdsboro, and Gickerville; Delaware County: Leiperville, Lenni (druses...Felton's farm (Chester), and Ward's quarry; Montgomery County: Sumneytown, and Perkiomenville ; Philadelphia:...cut east of Reading (probably Birdsboro), Berks County. White, Smith, 1910, 540. silky mass of radiating...42 9.86 4.77 13.60 100.69 2.277 LOCALITY: Berks County: Birdsboro. MESOLITE m Na Al Si3Oio.2H O 2 2 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Michigan . 4 x 3 x 2 1 ·2 ... . 5.00 FLUORITE, Cumberland . Twin lilac xis. w. Ankerite. 2 ½ x 2 ........fibrous mass. 3 ½ x 2 ¼ ..... . 3.00 BARYTOCALCITE, Cumberland. Xld., xis. coated w. m icro . xld . Barite.................................... 1114 MOSS OPAL MINE IN WESTERN NEBRASKA. By Richard Mitchell .........AND PHYSIOGRAPHICAL MEM\ORANDA OF SAN CLEMENTE ISLAND, CALIF. By M / Sgt. John 0. Griesbach ...........Foster Mine Open to Collectors Editor R. & M .: The writer purchased the Tilly Foster Iron Mine property |
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