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Montmorillonite from
Bell pit, Newry, Oxford County, Maine, USA


Locality type:Pit
Classification
Species:Montmorillonite
Formula:(Na,Ca)0.33(Al,Mg)2(Si4O10)(OH)2 · nH2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Montmorillonite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Bell pit, Newry, Oxford County, Maine, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:520353
Long-form Identifier:1:3:520353:6
GUID (UUID V4):897547c3-e34f-4ace-a342-75c75a24a8b4
Nearest other occurrences of Montmorillonite
0.1km (0.1 miles) Nevel Quarry (Twin tunnels; United Feldspar Quarry), Newry, Oxford County, Maine, USA
0.2km (0.1 miles) Crooker Gem Pegmatite Quarries, Newry, Oxford County, Maine, USA
0.2km (0.1 miles) Dunton Gem Quarry, Newry, Oxford County, Maine, USA
7.5km (4.6 miles) Black Mountain Quarry, Rumford, Oxford County, Maine, USA
24.7km (15.3 miles) Emmons Quarry, Uncle Tom Mountain, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine, USA
29.0km (18.0 miles) Noyes Mountain Quarry (Harvard Quarry), Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine, USA
29.0km (18.0 miles) Morgan Quarry (Upper Noyes Mountain Quarry; Upper Harvard Quarry), Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine, USA
29.8km (18.5 miles) Waisanen Quarry (Tamminen-Waisanen Quarry), Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine, USA
29.8km (18.5 miles) Tamminen Quarry, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine, USA
31.5km (19.5 miles) B.B. No. 7 Quarry, Norway, Oxford County, Maine, USA
References
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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
Journal (issue)
Profession...................184 by Paul Brian Moore Newry Maine - A Pegmatite Phosphate Locality... 189 by Vandall...motel rooms usually provide this. For example, the Maine elbaite tourmalines which were thor­ oughly discussed...for the crystal specimen quality of the San Diego County materials - both old and new. As usual, the exhibits...chemi­ cal relationships of the kaolinite and montmorillonite groups. He described the new minerals dickite...Ross and S. B. Hendricks, Minerals of the montmorillonite group, their origin and relation to soils and
Journal (issue)
Ridge and Pluntbago-Puzzle Mountain Newry, Oxford Count , Maine Van King PO Box 90888 Rochester, NY 14609...14609 newryqs@ rochester .rr .corn Halls Ridge, Newry, Maine was named for Henry C. Hall who first found...named until 1910). The number of minerals at the Newry quarries is about 116 and an additional 7 species...names have been proposed for minerals discovered at Newry, but they have been found to be misidentified or...(Continues on page 4) Mineral News ----2 Newry, Oxford County, Maine (Continued from page 1) For example.
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)
PEGMATITE MINERALS OF MAINE By D A V I D M. S E A M A N 36 Winter St., Norway, Maine 0 4 2 6 8 INTRODUCTION...of minerals have been found in the pegmatites of Maine since the discovery of Mt. Mica near Paris H i l...gem tourmaline find at the Dunton Gem Mine at Newry, Maine of watermelon and green, elbaite tourmaline...description here. The Bennett Quarry at Buckfield, Maine, was also worked by Mr. Robert Eastman of Center...cleavelandite and often as­ sociated with pink montmorillonite. Go­ shenite and aquamarine beryl crystals
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
infrequently. However, a locality in San Benito County regularly produces this oddity. The accompanying...editor's collection. The matrix is chlorite. Maine Montmorillonite Magnetite, San Benito, California Received...was found at the Bell pit in Newry by the late Professor Roger Clapp of Orono, Maine. Ms. Patricia Marie
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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 (issue)
Kvanefjeld, Point of Rocks (Colfax Co., New Mexico, USA) and a few from Aris. 5-15 mm free-standing crystals...from near Hiddenite (Alexander Co., North Carolina, USA) in the collection of Houston Museum of Natural History...library @ $195.00 plus $15.00 Priority shipping (USA). We accept all major credit cards' PayPal, checks...Draw Rods, 22-8: I Jacobson. Mark: Memoirs of a Maine Gold Huot.er by CJ. Stevens. 22-3: 14 Jensen. Martin:...:8 Werner, Bob: Fibrous Sepiolite from Stevens County, Washington, 22-5: 12 White, John: Pough and the
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abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture), dept...always included in text, except in the cases of the USA, UK, and the provinces Ontario and Quebec in Canada...Uintah County. Utah. and m (2.B. acanthite group). Monoclinic, C2/m, a,b,c Rio Blanco County. Colorado...Plat., Malawi, G 10 17 River Formation in Uintah County, Utah. Deer et al., v. 2A,483, 1997. Aenigmatite...phonolites, rhyolites, and their lavas in Sonoma County, California, in the Picture Gorge basalt, Wheeler
Report (Issue volume)
Epithermal quartz-sphalerite vein, North Kyloe pit ................................................... Steeply dipping epithermal fissure vein, Guy Bell pit ................................................Plate 15. Ladder vein stockwork in the North Kyloe pit ...................................................stockwork veining within a jigsaw breccia, Strauss pit ...................................................Lady Hampden pit (DK22).............................. 90 Plate 18. The North Kyloe pit, Mount Carrington
Journal (issue)
HiJI community is located in northeastern Kershaw County, South Carolina. [n the past few years dark, gemmy...pluton and quartz mine (modified from Overstreet and Bell, 1965a and 1965b). SC ~ QUARTZ MINE ~GRANITE-FINE...encompasses south central Lancaster County as well as northeastern Kershaw County {Fig. I). These areas are sparingly...v. 82, p. 2845-2862. Overstreet, \Villiam C. and Bell, Harry III. I 965. The crystalline rocks of South... Bull. 1183, 126 p. Overstreet, William C., and Bell, Harry Ill. 1965b. Map 41 3: U.S. Geo/. Surv. Misc
Journal (issue)
HiJI community is located in northeastern Kershaw County, South Carolina. [n the past few years dark, gemmy...pluton and quartz mine (modified from Overstreet and Bell, 1965a and 1965b). SC ~ QUARTZ MINE ~GRANITE-FINE...encompasses south central Lancaster County as well as northeastern Kershaw County {Fig. I). These areas are sparingly...v. 82, p. 2845-2862. Overstreet, \Villiam C. and Bell, Harry III. I 965. The crystalline rocks of South... Bull. 1183, 126 p. Overstreet, William C., and Bell, Harry Ill. 1965b. Map 41 3: U.S. Geo/. Surv. Misc
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(1980) A manual of mineral names. University Press, Oxford Kunz GF (1971) The curious lore of precious stones...evaporitic rocks at the Incline, Mariposa County and Big Creek, Fresno County, California. The associated minerals...Custer-Pringle area, Custer County, and at the Etta mine, Pennington County, South Dakota. Also found in...Dakota, especially at the Beecher Lode, Custer County, as masses up to 200 tons in weight; as rounded...thickness at the Giant-Volney mine at Tinton, Lawrence County; and as masses 20-40 feet long at the Hugo, Ingersoll
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Abingdon, Oxon OX4 4RN Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Taylor & Francis 270 Madison Avenue...Endless horizontal rocks exposed in Canyonlands, USA. Components of Engineering Geology The main field...bodies 3–15 km beneath surface. Britain: Land’s End. USA: Yosemite. Commonly massive and very uniform. Widely...after flowing from volcano. Britain: Skye and Mull. USA: Columbia Plateau and Hawaii. Sheets or lenses, maybe...microns across unstable (variable water); montmorillonite 3 2·7 mosaic; shell debris; rhombic cleavage
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Lincoln. Encyclopedia of minerals Sagiiache County Pu blic Library Saguache , Colorado DEMCO For...Photo Editor: Wendell E. Wilson Library Saguache County Public Saguache, Colorado VAN NOSTRAND REINHOLD...Names, 1892-1978, by P. G. Embrey and J. P. Fuller (Oxford University Press, 1980). Acta Crystallographica...oil shale of the Green River Formation, Uintah County, Utah, associated with authigenic orthoclase, pyrite;...the Fuemrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely disseminated in uraniferous
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Willard Lincoln. Encyclopedia of minerals ~~cbe County Public Library Saguache, Colorado OEMCO For Refere...nes, 1892-1978, by P. G. Embrey and J. P. Fuller (Oxford University P ress, 1980). Acta Crystallographica...the Fuemrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely disseminated in uraniferous...in the Cave Hills and Slim Buttes areas, Harding County, South Dakota. SELECTED REFERENCES: Thompson, M...oil shale of the Green River Formation, Uintah County, Utah, associated with authigenic orthoclase, pyrite;
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® -< 5 Sea ford Chai k 55- 80 m 50-55 m New Pit' Chalk 35-40 m Holywell Nodular Chalk 15-35 m...Pliocene and Quaternary events 17 8 A1ney's Eartha1n Pit sequence 18 9 Deposits of the coastal plain 19 10...an archaeological excavation at A1ney's Eartha1n Pit, Boxgrove Co1n1non [SU 92 08] in 1998. The upper...Form.ation, and. can be traced by the presence of bell-pits (p.24). The fauna of the Weald Clay includes...section in the Gault was at the Marley Ti le Company's pit [IQ 0953 1389] at Storrington, where basal fossiliferous
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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...Lake Road occurrence, Faraday Township, Hastings County. In fall 1994, Dan and Shelley Lambert extracted...Madawaska [Faraday] mine near Bow Lake, Hastings County. Some of the world's finest ilmenite specimens
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C. Kirkland Engineering Treatment of Soils F.G. Bell Foundations of Engineering Geology A.C. Waltham...to clay minerals, particularly illite and montmorillonite. Sericite is a term used to describe fine-grained...3 layer unit (c) Montmorillonite, [2Al2(A1Si3 )O10(OH)2] 2 -. In montmorillonite the units are held...the gibbsite layer Al can be replaced by Mg. Montmorillonite is a member of the smectite clays and is also...silicate similar to illite. The structure of montmorillonite is similar to that of vermiculite. In the latter
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(Brazil). Malcolm Back (Canada), Henry L. Barwood (USA). Dmitriy Belakovskiy (Russia). Fabio Bellatreccia...(Italy), T.S. Ercit (Canada). Alexander Falster (USA). Jeffrey de Fourestier (Canada). Robert Gault (Canada)...Henderson. Jr. (USA). D.D. Hogarth (Canada). J.L. Jam bor (Canada), Anthony R. Kampf (USA). Pave! M. Kartashov...Karnp-Moller (Denmark). Akira Kato (Japan). Lance E. Keams (USA). Elisabeth Kirchner (Austria), Uwe Kolitsch (Austria)...Republic). Per Nystcn (Sweden), David O'Hanlcy (USA). Filippo Olmi (deccased) (ltaly). Werner H. Paar
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(Natural History) British Museum (Natural History) Oxford University Press © Trustees of the British Museum...London SW7 5BD and Oxford University Press, Walton Street, Oxford ox2 6dp OXFORD LONDON GLASGOW NEW...NAIROBI DAR ES SALAAM CAPE TOWN Published in the USA by Oxford University Press, New York 2 Filmset in ‘Monophoto’...Co and Ni minerals in a serpentine quarry near Oxford, Llano Co., Texas, contains red-violet monoclinic...Ferrohastingsite. 12th List Alkali-montmorillonite. W. Noll, 1936. See Calcium-montmorillonite. 16th List Alkali-oxyapatite
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File, 1601 Park Lane. Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, USA. Introduction This volume is the third edition...Green River Formation in (TL) Uintah Co .. Utah. USA. Named for P.H. Abelson. 20.7.3 AbernalhJile. K(U00As0...26 A. Z=4 [PDF 1 6-386]. (TL) Temple Mts. Utah. USA. Named for J . Abernathy. Abhurite. S n 30(0HhCl...Sun,. \ler111011t, I . 484. (TL} Derby. Vermont. USA. G. Brush ( 1 862) Amer. J. Sci. 34. 2 1 6. classed...muscovite and albite. (TL) Goshen. Massachusells. USA. Named from cxy1..cxoC · shining' . from its silvery
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M. Hughes: Dept. of Geology, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. W. Barclay Kamb: Division of Geol. and Planetary... W. (1961), Chemical Crystallography, 2nd ed., Oxford Clarendon Press. (GL) Glusker, J. P., & M. Lewis...Trueblood (1985); Crystal Structure Analysis: A Primer, Oxford University Press. (ITXC) International Tables for..., Introduction to Optical Mineralogy, 2nd ed., Oxford University Press, New York, 1991; Hartshorn, N...Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi
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alters to montmorillonite (2H+2Al 2 [A1Si3 ]01 0 [OH] 2) thus: plagioclase +water= montmorillonite + calcium...hydroxide. If plenty of water is present, then the montmorillonite may change in turn to kaolin. In all cases...China, the USA, France, Malaysia and Czechoslovakia. Montmorillonite is mined in the western USA and elsewhere...during periods when drilling has stopped. Montmorillonite also has important absorbent properties and...to clay minerals, particularly illite and montmorillonite. 2.1.S Other non-silicate minerals For ease
 
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