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Spessartine from
Bennett Quarry, Buckfield, Oxford County, Maine, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Spessartine
Formula:Mn32+Al2(SiO4)3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Schorlⓘ2 photos of Spessartine associated with Schorl at this locality.
Cleavelanditeⓘ1 photo of Spessartine associated with Cleavelandite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Spessartine data
Locality Data:Click here to view Bennett Quarry, Buckfield, Oxford County, Maine, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:514484
Long-form Identifier:1:3:514484:6
GUID (UUID V4):8276e14b-00e2-44ba-a55c-6ccf7cdc4cdb
Nearest other occurrences of Spessartine
3.2km (2.0 miles) ⓘRyerson Hill Quarries, Paris, Oxford County, Maine, USA
21.6km (13.4 miles) ⓘEmmons Quarry, Uncle Tom Mountain, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine, USA
24.7km (15.3 miles) ⓘPulsifer Quarry & Dionne extension, West Mount Apatite Mining District, Auburn, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
24.7km (15.4 miles) ⓘKeith Quarry (Towne Quarry), West Mount Apatite Mining District, Auburn, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
26.6km (16.6 miles) ⓘBerry-Havey Quarry (Havey Quarry; Berry Quarry), Poland, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
78.1km (48.5 miles) ⓘConsolidated Feldspar Quarries, Georgetown, Sagadahoc County, Maine, USA
83.6km (51.9 miles) ⓘHam and Weeks Mine, Wakefield, Carroll County, New Hampshire, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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 Š1994 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, Š1985. The laws and policies of Maine and the United States prohibit discrimination in
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 Š 1998 by the Maine Geological Survey, Department of Conservation. All...5 cm tall; gem weighs 2 carats. From the Havey Quarry, Poland, MaifJ. e. Photo copyright 1995 by Wendell...quartz crystals, 24 x JO mm;Jrom the Bennett Quarry, Buckfield, Maine. Mined in 1996 by Holden !Jrothers
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
November/December: Gold on quartz, Eagle's Nest mine, Placer County, California. Wayne and Dona Leicht specimen, Harold...Mineralization at Pedreira Atalaia (the Sentinel Quarry) near Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil...310-13 Amethyst Discovery on Deer Hill, Stow, Oxford County, Maine, W. B. Thompson, 44-51 Anatase, Colorado...the Walker Vein, Caldwell Stone Company Quarry, Boyle County, Kentucky, 254-58 Andorite, 27 Andradite...Mineralization at Pedreira Atalaia (the Sentinel Quarry) near Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
cookrob@auburn.edu Beryl, Variety Morganite San Diego County, California O ne of the most popular of all collectible...so well known from the pegmatites of San Diego County, has been nominated for this issue’s Connoisseur’s...the White Queen mine, Pala district, San Diego County, California. The 11-cm specimen is in the Bob and...from the Stewart mine, Pala district, San Diego County, California. The 5 × 4 × 3.5-cm specimen is in...the White Queen mine, Pala district, San Diego County, California. Fisher-Kureczka specimen, Jesse Fisher
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of Natural History, 1957. PEGMATITE MINERALS OF MAINE phosphate, has been located as a rare, secondary...beryllonite at Newry; also found at Paris, Rumford, and Buckfield. It occurs as crystal aggre­ (continued from May...Newry. Quarry at Poland; also at the Bennett RUTILE, one of the trimorphs of Quarry at Buckfield. titanium...RHODOCHROSITE, manganese car­ ago at the Consolidated No. 1 Quarry bonate, has been noted as a rare mineral at Topsham...Topsham, but none has been found at Auburn, Buckfield, Poland, and Rum­ in recent years. ford, but not
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 (issue)
J. N. Alves Mineralogy of the Bennett pegmatite, Oxford County, Maine ................................./# 6 C alifornia Issue B enitoite, G old, L .A . County M useum , H im alaya m ine $7 Circulation Manager...Almandine-Spessartine (Fe,M n)2+Al2(S i0 4)3 A few rounded, weathered crystals of almandine-spessartine garnet...specimens were collected in the northern margin j f the quarry, inside the entrance to the main adit, on the left...Uraninite Carbonates Cerussite Silicates Almandine-Spessartine Beryl Clays Kaolinite Montmorillonite Nontronite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
can stain the pyrophyllite red to orange. Maine Bennett Quarry Ron and Dennis Holden, Leonard Beliveau...brothers—Gary, Brian, and Mark—opened up the Bennett quarry in Buckfield, as reported in the November/ December...1990 issue (65:498-504). During August 1990, the quarry was reopened and almost immediately more quartz...Wodginite This has been the year of wodginite in Maine. It was dis­ covered in the Effe and Clifford Gray...Pegmatite Wodginite, Black Mountain, Rumford, Maine. blance to rutile; horizontal striations are a
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in 1996. THE EMMONS PEGMATITE Greenwood Oxford County, Maine The Emmons pegmatite, noted for its many...WEBBER MP2 Research Group Maine Mineral & Gem Museum 99 Main Street Bethel, Maine 04217 alexander.falster@gmail...Hebron, Maine 04238 phosphate@gmail.com RAYMOND A. SPRAGUE* 33 Roger Street Lewiston, Maine 04240 *...Deceased 16 April 2019. HE MINERALOGY AND ORIGIN OF MAINE PEGMATITES have been a principal focus of our research...in 2014 from New Orleans, Louisiana, to Bethel, Maine, greatly facilitated resumption of our study of
Report (issue)
from the University of New Orleans in Louisiana (USA), with the lowdown on beryl mineralogy An ancient...crystal has been recorded from the Alger quarry in New Hampshire (USA). The crystal weighed 455 kilograms...4m: The largest beryl crystal at the Bumpus quarry in Maine was 8.4 meters long, 1.9 meters in diameter...cookeite, tourmaline, lepidolite, topaz, and spessartine (Pezzotta, 2001; Cerny, 1992). In greisen deposits...number of Brazilian states (page 84); San Diego County, California (page 32) in the United States; Canada
Journal (volume)
Braithwaite, Manchester, U.K. M.T. Price, OUMNH, Oxford, U.K T.E. Bridges, Ovington, U.K. R.E. Starkey...Bridges 6-12 Unusual fluorite from Old Towns Quarry, Newton Aycliffe, Co. Durham Trevor F. Bridges... 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 (article/letter/editorial)
the Sebago granite–pegmatite system, southern Maine, USA Michael A. Wise*, Cathleen D. Brown Department...two-mica granite situated in the Oxford pegmatite field, southwestern Maine. Surrounding the pluton is an...chemistry, petrology, geochemistry, Sebago, southern Maine Received: 1 October 2009; accepted: 30 March 2010;...Introduction The granitic pegmatites of southern Maine represent one of several major pegmatite regions...Unfortunately, very little geochemical data exist for the Maine pegmatites despite their popularity among mineral
Journal (issue)
R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur... 353 by P. Orlandi and P. B. Scortecci M aine Maine tourmaline........................................Elbaite from Newry, Maine (by P. J. Dunn) [1975, vol. 6, no. 1, p. 22-25.] Newry, Maine, a pegmatite phosphate...] 328 Famous mineral localities: the Pulsifer quarry (by W. E. Wilson) [1977, vol. 8, no. 2, p. 72-77...vol. 8, no. 6, p. 475.]* The best of San Diego County (by W. Larson) [1977, vol. 8, no. 6, p. 507-515
Book (volume)
elbaite tourmaline (30.89 ct), Maine; round brilliant red-orange spessartine garnet (16.62 ct), Ramona, California;...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...Cantlin, Ellis, [D; Jeannette B. Carillo, Gem Center USA, EI Paso, TX; Gary Christopher, The Prospectors Cache...Resources, Vancouver, BC; Barbara L. Muntyan, Ouray County Historical Society, Ouray, CO; Merrill O. Murphy
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
GRANITIC PEGMATITES OF THE BRUNSWICK AND OXFORD FIELDS, MAINE: DIFFERENTIAL TRENDS IN F-POOR AND F-RICH...FRANCIS Mineralogical Museum, Harvard University, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, U.S.A....field and the Central Maine Synclinorium of the Oxford pegmatite field, in Maine, are intruded by numerous...(Nb,Ta)-bearing phases. Generally, the CGM from Maine are hosted by pegmatites characterized by a LCT...observed between the CGM from the Brunswick and Oxford pegmatite fields. Columbite-group minerals from
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Library] at 14:12 03 February 2015 Bernalillo County Cerro Colorado, W. of Albuquerque: carnotite. Placitas...Milagros mine): copper, cuprite, malachite. Catron County Apache Creek, N. of Reserve: quartz (chalcedony)...Library] at 14:12 03 February 2015 Chaves County DeBaca County Bosque Draw, E. of Roswell: gypsum, pyrite...Fort Sumner: quartz (“Pecos diamonds”). Cibola County Bear Canyon district, San Andres Mountains. Stevens...(East Grants Ridge), N. of Grants: hematite, spessartine, topaz. Zuni Mountain district, W. of Grants
Book
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
Book (volume)
elbaite tourmaline (30.89 et), Maine; round brilliant red-orange spessartine garnet ( 16.62 et), Ramona,...Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from Sai, Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...Cantlin, Ellis, ID; Jeannette B. Carillo, Gen1 Center USA, El Paso, TX; Gary Christopher, The Prospectors Cache...Resources, Vancouver, BC; Barbara L. Muntyan, Ouray County Historical Society, Ouray, CO; Merrill 0. Murphy... 15 Figure 6. Dallas Gem Mine in San Benito County, CA...........................................
Journal (issue)
Franklin-Sterling Hill mineral deposit • Geology of the Hamburg Quarry • A rare mineral discovered in the New Jersey Highlands...Calcite-Apatite-Pyroxene Occurrence at Hamburg Quarry: A Bancroft Terrane Style Vein-Dike? Warren Cummings...Franklin-Sterling Hill mineral deposit • Geology of the Hamburg Quarry • A rare mineral discovered in the New Jersey Highlands...permitted on the Mine Run Dump and in the Fill quarry, Passaic pit, and “Saddle” area. Fees for mineral...Collecting on the the Mine Run Dump and in the Fill quarry, Passaic pit , and “Saddle” area. 9:00 AM to 3:00
Journal (issue)
acting caretaker of the San Pedro Mine in Santa Fe County, and along with his son Phillip is actively exploring...during the last year: a presidential election in the USA, more lands closed to public use, mineral localities...News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 Email: lanny @mineralnews.com...grow to around J t/4 inches (3 cm). The Chavan Quarry (W agho li. 12 miles (20 km) east of Pune (Poona)...and less green than s pecime ns from the Dhoot Quarry, producing the first Indi a n specimens. The crystal
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and western Maine (near Rangeley), and the Cambrian Megunticook Formation of coastal Maine (Camden and...Electron-microprobe analyses of garnet show higher spessartine and lower almandine components relative to garnet...Perry Mountain Formation, Megunticook Formation, Maine, New Hampshire. SOMMAIRE Les coticules (quartzites...Hampshire, près de Rochester, et de l’ouest du Maine, près de Rangeley, ainsi que la Formation de Megunticook...Megunticook (cambrien), de la partie côtière du Maine, près de Camden et de Calais. Par rapport à leurs
Journal (issue)
Three Interesting Silicates from the Laytonville Quarry, California Robert J. Lauf Oak Ridge, Tennessee...silicate minerals were discovered at the Laytonville quarry, Mendocino Co., California, Agrell and coworkers...collector. Geology of the Laytonville Quarry The Laytonville quarry, Mendocino Co., California, contains...mineral assemblage that includes stilpnomelane, spessartine, riebeckite, crocidolite, quartz, aegirine, grunerite...(Agrell, Bown, and McKie 1964). The Laytonville quarry exotic block represents a series of deep-ocean
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
world-wide locality index. The localities are listed by county, followed by a listing of the most prominent minerals...Alleghany County. Howard Freeland specimen and photo. Rutherford pegmatite in Amelia County and the Lynch...Station locality (turquoise crystals) in Campbell County, are now closed to collectors. However, landowners...currently closed to collecting Albemarle County Alberene soapstone quarry—Alberene amphiboie asbestos, apatite...goethite pseudomorphs after pyrite Esmont slate quarry—Esmont dolomite, limonite pseudomorphs after pyrite
Journal (issue)
world-wide locality index The localities are listed by county, followed by a listing of the most prominent minerals...pegmatite in Amelia County and the Lynch Station locality (turquoise crystals) in Campbell County, are now closed...currently closed to collecting ALBEMARLE COUNTY Alberene soapstone quarry-Alberene actinolite-tremolite, apatite...goethite pseudomorphs after pyrite Esmont slate quarry-Esmont dolomite. limonite pseudomorphs after pyrite...microlite, monazite, muscovite, phenakite, rutile, spessartine, topaz, tourmaline, triplite Trueheart pegmatite
Report (chapter)
Haddington Road, Dublin 4, Ireland Abstract: Spessartine-garnet quartzites (coticule) are now widely recognized...in the typical case, are usually described as spessartine rich. However, the garnet in coticule worldwide...the Belgian Ardennes, the multitudes of tiny spessartine garnets lie in a matrix of fine sericite (Lamens...of carbonate sediment (e.g. Lamens et al. 1986; Bennett 1989; Jones 1994). In southeast Ireland, Shannon...garnets (13.1% spessartine) and a dark band of very garnetiferous rock (0.09% MnO) from a quarry - Downloaded
 
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