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Biotite from
Stearns Quarry, Albany, Oxford County, Maine, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:'Biotite' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:K(Fe2+/Mg)2(Al/Fe3+/Mg/Ti)([Si/Al/Fe]2Si2O10)(OH/F)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Biotite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Stearns Quarry, Albany, Oxford County, Maine, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:613251
Long-form Identifier:1:3:613251:4
GUID (UUID V4):e81c704d-eefd-4ad6-914c-f8a7bff1eb2d
Nearest other occurrences of Biotite
1.7km (1.1 miles) Wentworth Quarry, Albany, Oxford County, Maine, USA
2.6km (1.6 miles) Wardwell Quarry (Pechnic Quarry), Albany, Oxford County, Maine, USA
5.1km (3.1 miles) Emmons Quarry, Uncle Tom Mountain, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine, USA
5.1km (3.2 miles) Douglass Road Metal Quarry, Albany, Oxford County, Maine, USA
5.1km (3.2 miles) Bumpus Quarry, Albany, Oxford County, Maine, USA
6.9km (4.3 miles) Noyes Mountain Quarry (Harvard Quarry), Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine, USA
7.0km (4.3 miles) Morgan Quarry (Upper Noyes Mountain Quarry; Upper Harvard Quarry), Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine, USA
7.0km (4.4 miles) Tamminen Quarry, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine, USA
7.1km (4.4 miles) Waisanen Quarry (Tamminen-Waisanen Quarry), Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine, USA
7.8km (4.8 miles) Heikkinen Quarry, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
from Stoneham and Vicinity Oxford County, Maine Downloaded by [Penn State University] at 01:41 12 December...fALSTeR DoUGLAS A. BAILeY Maine Mineral and Gem Museum Po Box 500 Bethel, Maine 04217 cfrancis@mainemineralmuseum...came from Stoneham, Maine—a century apart. Figure 1. Aldrich quarry beryl. Maine Mineral and Gem Museum...MINERALS Dr. Carl A. Francis is curator at the Maine Mineral and Gem Museum and an executive editor of...at the Maine Mineral and Gem Museum. Alexander U. Falster is research technologist at the Maine Mineral
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...5 cm tall; gem weighs 2 carats. From the Havey Quarry, Poland, MaifJ. e. Photo copyright 1995 by Wendell...crystals, 24 x JO mm;Jrom the Bennett Quarry, Buckfield, Maine. Mined in 1996 by Holden !Jrothers Mining
Report (issue)
Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of Maine ............... 16 Table 5 Uranium occurrences in...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...deposit occurs as a thin seam in graphitic Cleburne County. The property is, about 11.2 SINE phyllite which...Location No. Source of information Fairfield County. Short distance northeast of East Village, on a
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
Book (edition)
HANDBOOK for A WEEK WITH MAINE MINERALS by NEIL A. WINTRINGHAM 1_� Cv1,_1'--A� __, SECOND EDITION...a week collecting in the pegme.tite area ot Oxford county, !!Bine, Neil Wintr:lnghal'!l, a pa.st-president...field trial of the hambook during our ''Week with Maine Minerals" furnished additional information end resulted...characterized the evenings spent with members of the Oxford County Mineral & Gem Association. N. A. W. Mountainside...minerals. The geology of pegmatites, in general, and Maine pegmatites, in particular, is summarized briefly
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Red Mountain range near Silverton, San Juan County, Colo., there is marmatite. It is a high-iron sphalerite...dark red almandite gainet xls in lustrous black biotite schist has been received from Tupper Jones (Jones...Rock Shop), Elk River, Idaho. "This garnet in biotite schist was found in a road cut on the little North...masses that the garnet alone weighed 8 lbs. This biotite is the blackest I've ever seen—this area is some...Illinois to Buffalo State Park in central LaSalle County, 111. We found many sam115 pies of the fish-tail
Report (volume)
........ 57 57 58 59 59 60 61 62 62 63 64 64 Quarry methods............... ..........................age in the Minnesota River valley...... Big Stone County .....................................'...........Consolidated Granite Co. quarry................................ Aberdeen Granite Co. quarry..................................... Chippewa County................................................. Montevideo area................................... Yellow Medicine County.......................................... Granite
Report (volume)
147 N., R. 84 W., 4 km N of Riverdale, McLean County, N. Oak. Named for Aggie Brown Coulee, which flows...NW1/4NW1/4SW1/4SW1/4 sec. 17, T. 85 N., R. 7 W., Linn County, Iowa. A-L Peak Rhyolite Oligocene 1. New Mexico...structures in the San Mateo Mountains, Socorro County, New Mexico: New Mexico Geol. Soc. Spec. Pub. 5...Mountains, 10. sees. 33-35, T. 4 S., R. 6 W., Socorro County, N.Mex. Anapra Sandstone 1. Early Cretaceous 2...6. 7. 9. 10. at Cerro de Cristo Rey, Dofta Ana County, New Mexico, Appendix 2 in Lovejoy, E. M. P., Geology
Report (volume)
rocks near Manhattan, southern Toquima Range, Nye County, Nevada, by Daniel R. Shawe Al Revision of stratigraphic...Rocks Near Manhattan, Southern Toquima Range, Nye County, Nevada By Daniel R. Shawe Abstract Volcanic rocks...of an approximate 25.0-Ma age (K-Ar method on biotite and fission-track method on zircon) from the unit...Rhyolite (now Oddie Rhyolite), as hornblende and biotite andesite porphyry dikes, and as the Hedwig Breccia...mafic minerals. The mafic minerals are mostly biotite, although hornblende is also present in some rocks
Book (volume)
Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and  the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59...along adjoining Co. linerock 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 floatjasper. CARTERSVILLE:...(banded, various colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY MACON:  at Holton Quarry, 7½ mi. NWagate;  N of Calloway
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)
They have been divided into three main groups (Stearns and Macdonald, 1942, p. 61-107). The oldest constitute...of the Honomanu volcanic series, near Nahiku (Stearns and Macdonald, 1942, p. 233-234), there appear...volcanic series by a profound erosional unconformity (Stearns and Macdonald, 1942, p. 89). A great decrease of...House. F. A. Gonyer, analyst. 3. Andesite, from County quarry, on the bank of Kalialinui Gulch half a mile...Andesite, from Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar Co. quarry near the road from Kahului to the summit of Haleakala
Report (volume)
Indiana Paleontology. Parts VI-VIII, 1901. New Albany, Ind. Hamilton Scientific Association: Journal...40-43, 45-49. 1901. 53rd Annual Report, 1901. Albany, N. Y. North Dakota Geological Survey: 1st Biennial...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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Coleman • John T. Gracely • Richard Gaschnig Michael Stearns • Received: 19 February 2011 / Accepted: 13 August...zircon and titanite, 40Ar/39Ar hornblende and biotite) of rocks from multiple plutons comprising the...intrusion and subsequent slow cooling through biotite closure. Assembly of intrusive suites in the Sierra...South Road, Mitchell Hall, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA e-mail: jesse.w.davis@exxonmobil.com Present Address:...77067, USA J. T. Gracely ExxonMobil Exploration Company, P.O. Box 4778, Houston, TX 77060, USA R. Gaschnig
Field Trip Notes
Hampshire Field Trip No. 2, Outstanding pegmatites of Maine and New Hampshire 73 Geology of the "Chelmsford...slate; (2) phyllite with biotite porphyroblasts; (3) phyllite with biotite and garnet "5- » bJ —...Q- porphyroblastsj (4) biotite-garnet-staurolite schist^ and (5) biotite-garnetsillimanite schist....assigned to five metamorphic zones - the chlorite, biotite, garnet, staurolite, and sillimanite zones. For...the green schist facies| the biotite zone is the same as the chlorite-biotite subfacies of the green schist
Report (issue)
_______________________ _ Geology of the pegmatite districts of Maine __ :. . _____ _ Metamorphic rocks _________________________...__________________ _ Maine ________________________________________ _ Androscoggin County ______________________...______________________ _ Berry feldspar quarry __________________ _ Cumberland County _______________________ _ LaChance...LaChance mines _______________________ _ Oxford County ____________________________ _ Barrett beryl prospect...prospect __________________ _ Bennett feldspar quarry ________________ _ Black Mountain area ___________________
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2008; Marsh & Smye, 2017; Spencer et al., 2013; Stearns, Hacker, Ratschbacher, Rutte, & Kylander‐Clark... & Guo, 2012; Garber, Hacker, Kylander-Clark, Stearns, & Seward, 2017; Kohn, 2017; Kohn & Corrie, 2011;...within a high-temperature migmatitic gneiss from the Albany-Fraser Orogen in southwestern Australia. The titanite...(ilmenite, 3%) and highly anhedral interstitial biotite grains (2%). Zircon and apatite are the This article... with minor amounts of alkali-feldspar (10%), biotite (5%) and ilmenite (5%). Titanite, apatite and zircon
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
during the Miocene (Stübner et al., 2013a, 2013b; Stearns et al., 2013). Seven lower-crustal xenoliths were...and sanidine. Accessory minerals are hematite, biotite, apatite, zircon, monazite, and rutile, all of...that lack biotite. Rutile is also abundant in these biotite-free areas. Observations of biotite dehydration...systematic relates to the occurrence of the reaction biotite + albite + kyanite + quartz → garnet + sanidine...sanidine formed by the dehydration melting of biotite. Grt – garnet, omp – omphacite, sd – sanidine,
Report (issue)
PUBLISHED IN GREAT BRITAIN, INDIA, AND PAKISTAN BY THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS LONDON, BOl\lIBAY, AND KARACHI.... . Bikita Quarry Lepidolite ...... . Chestnut Flat Mine Muscovite .... . Petrick Quarry Biotites .....Heart Granite ........ . · .. 129 Granite of Larsen Quarry .. . · .... 130 Fort Ridgley Granite ............Analytical Data for Lepidolite, Muscovite, and Biotite from Interlaboratory Check Samples. . . . . . ...Algoman orogeny apparently was so severe that the biotite in many of the older rocks was recrystallized,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
evidence, has now been confirmed by KAr methods: biotite and labradorite phenocrysts are both 74 + 4 m.y...other half are about equally divided between brown biotite, dark-green pyroxene, and magnetite. A few of the...tuff by E. L. Munson, 1965 (Great Northern Railway quarry, same locality as 7) 9. Standard analysis of glassy...glassy welded tuff from north side, Stearns-Wolf Creek road, 7300 feet northwest of 7 and 8, by E. L....312P 2 312G biotite plagioclase glass 312G1 649B2 649P22 649G D1303B22 D1304P glass biotite plagioclase
Report (issue)
Geology of the Cerrillos Area, Santa Fe County, New Mexico by Alan E. Disbrow and Walter C. Stoll ...Type 1. Augite-biotite monzonite ............................. Type 2. Augite-biotite monzonite porphyry.................. Type 3. Large andesine augite-biotite monzonite porphyry .................................................... Type 4. Augite-biotite syenite-trachyte porphyry ...............................structure sections of the Cerillos area, Santa Fe County, New Mexico ..................................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
..................................... Morrison county................................................................................ The hornblende-biotite schists................................................................................... The biotite schists....................................................................... The staurolitic biotite schists..........................................th an 30 miles, only granites of the hornblende-biotite type, occasionally broken by diabase dikes and
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
Report (volume)
Highway 49 (Skyway Road) near town of Abel, Cleburne County. Absaroka Supergroup/Volcanic Supergroup U ABRK03...volcanic field, Yellowstone National Park, Park County, Wyo. Academy Church Shale Member (Springer Formation)...W1/2NW1/4NE1/4SE1/4 sec. 1, T. 3 s., R. 2 E., Carter County. Adams Formation ADMS01 1. Holocene 2. Alaska (SE)...Adamstown Granite ADMS02 1. Upper Ordovician 2. Maine (WC) 3. Green, J. c., and Guidotti, C. V., 1968...Quadrangle, lat 45° N., long 70°50'-55' W., Oxford County. Adamstown Member (Frederick Limestone) U ADMS06
 
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