 | | 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 (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 |  | Roda-Robles, E., Simmons, W., Pesquera, A., Gil-Crespo, P. P., Nizamoff, J., Torres-Ruiz, J. (2015) Tourmaline as a petrogenetic monitor of the origin and evolution of the Berry-Havey pegmatite (Maine, U.S.A.) American Mineralogist, 100 (1) 95-109 doi:10.2138/am-2015-4829 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | origin and evolution of the Berry-Havey pegmatite (Maine, U.S.A.) Encarnación Roda-Robles1,*, William Simmons2...Berry-Havey pegmatite (Oxford pegmatite field, Androscoggin County, Maine, U.S.A.), enriched in Li, F, B, Be, and...intruded in hornblende-rich amphibolite, with minor biotite or diopside. The pegmatite has a complex internal...mineral chemistry, Maine, U.S.A. Introduction Pegmatites are common in the Central Maine Belt of the United...this region. The Berry-Havey pegmatite (Androscoggin County, Maine, U.S.A.), is a highly evolved, rareelement |  | | Book | | Geology of Maine. Conte11ts Preface vii Geology of Maine 7 Coastal Maine 25 Interstate 95 (Maine-furnpike)...tli S / Down East Maine: Bangor ;:incl Elli;worll1 to ( ,.i l:tic.; 1/S Maine 3, Maine 102, ancl rh(.;... Bangor (,a ln,s JOI Central Maine 707 M aine 5: Saco-Bethel / 14 Maine 26: Pegmatite Alley, Portland...ton / 49 Maine 7: Belfast-Dover-Foxcrofl I 57 Maine 15: Bangor-Abhot Village.: / 6 / Maine 11: Milo-Millinocket...ountains of Maine 17 3 U.S. 2: Skowhegan-Bcthc: I 179 M aine 4 : Farmington-Rangcley / 91 Maine 27: Farmington-C~oburn |  | | Book (volume) | | 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:...(banded, various colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY MACON: at Holton Quarry, 7½ mi. NWagate; N of Calloway |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | sylvite, and anhydrite. Quebec Francon quarry The large Francon quarry in Montreal is located in a residential...little or no land available for expanding the quarry. The economics of dig ging deeper for the construction-grade...mining offsets transportation costs. The Francon quarry is world-famous for being the first (or only) producing...dawsonite are found at the Francon quarry. Dawsonite was first found in a quarry near the Francon. The city of...agreement with the Fran con company to use the quarry as a landfill. Reports from several collectors |  | | 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 |  | Moench, R.H., Pankiwskyj, K.A., Boone, G.M., Boudette, E.L., Ludman, Allan, Newell, W.R., Vehrs, T.I. (1982) Geologic map of western interior Maine. Open-File Report Vol. 1982 (82-656) US Geological Survey doi:10.3133/ofr82656 | Report (issue) | | cooperation with the Maine Geological Survey GEOLOGIC MAP OF WESTERN INTERIOR MAINE • - Chen-f0e. wit...Augusta, Maine, and University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii --Maine Geological Survey, Augusta, Maine, and...University, Syracuse, New York 4/ --Maine Geological Survey, Augusta, Maine, and Queens College, Flushing,...Mountain quadrangle Alkali gabbro and syenite at Androscoggin Lake in the Livermore Falls quadrangle DEVONIAN--Rocks...typically intrude more mafic varieties Biotite- and hornblende-biotite granite and granodiorite-Predominant |  | | Journal (issue) | | New York Famous Mineral Localities —The Pulsifer Quarry....................... 72 by Wende|| E Wi|son ...Creek Pegmatite: A Rare Earth Pegmatite in Burnet County, Texas...........................................by Anthony Robert Kampf The Harding Mine, Taos County, New Mexico......................... 115 by Richard...(actually fluorapatite), from the Pulsifer quarry near Auburn, Maine; H 3 x 3.8 x 4.3 cm, on display in the...newsletter, the Quarry. Some club newsletters are, frank ly, boring but the Quarry is alive and interesting |  | | Field Trip Notes | | West-Central Maine DISCLAIMER Before visiting any of the sites described in the New England Intercollegiate...GEOLOGICAL CONFERENCE FIELD TRIPS IN WEST- CENTRAL MAINE Andrew Griscom Daniel J. Milton, s U. So Geological...Survey U. S. Geological Survey Editors Rumford, Maine October 8-9, I960 I ! CONTENTS Page Introduction...Quadrangle, Maine Leader: Trip B. Stratigraphy and General Geology to Phillips, Maine. Leader: Trip...Mineralogy of Pegmatites of the Newry Hill Area, Newry, Maine Leader: 19 Calwell Geology of the Old Speck Mountain |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 954) are not included in this index. Aberdeen, biotite, 606. Acmite, synthesis, solid solution with diopside...quartz or dickite or both, i28. Amblygonite, France, Maine, New South Wales, Saxony, anal., cell-dimensions...mine, Caceres, Spain, montebrasite, 414. Amelia County, Virginia, albite, I56; - - , anal., d2o i, 489...Microcline perthites, I35; Muscovite from Nellore, I4O; Biotite from Nellore, 39 I. 974 ALPHABETICAL Baia Mare...apatites, 527 and xi. BHATTACHARYVA(C.), Pyroxene and biotite in charnockites from India, 682. BHATTY (M. S. |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | St., Miami, Fla. Lynchburg, Va. The Chautauqua County Gem and Mineral Society, of Dunkirk, New York The...Society, of Richmond Hill, Long Island, N. Y. Moore County Rockhounds Club, Inc., of Pinehurst, N. C. Northland...the New Jersey Mineral and Gem Show. The Fulton County Mineral Club of New York, at a May meeting viewed...taken on the recent trips of the club. The Rockland County Mineral and Gem Society of New York heard Mr. Ed...June was to the Woodbury, Connecticut Trap Rock Quarry, where permission was granted for a visit. Specimens |  | | Report (volume) | | ............. Technical description of a slate quarry............................. PART II. SLATE DEPOSITS...........,..................................... Maine............................................................ 138 GLOSSARY OF GEOLOGICAL AND SLATE-QUARRY TERMS ....................... 146 INDEX .........showing location of slate deposits of Montgomery-Polk County slate district, Arkansas.........................Merrill quarry at Brownville, Me................................. 66 XIII. Old Bangor quarry (north-northeast |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | PEGMATITES OF THE BRUNSWICK AND OXFORD FIELDS, MAINE: DIFFERENTIAL TRENDS IN F-POOR AND F-RICH ENVIRONMENTS...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...trends, fluorine, Brunswick field, Orford field, Maine. Introduction As the primary carriers of Nb and...extensive, ongoing investigation of the genesis of Maine pegmatites (e.g., Wise & Francis 1992, Wise 1995 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Falster MP2 Research Lab—Maine Mineral & Gem Museum 99 Main St., Bethel, Maine 04127 Email: afalster4@yahoo...the intermediate (n) refractive index (e.g., Phillips and Griffin, 1981; Winchell, 1943) is 1.561; given...consistent with prior reports (Palache et al., 1951; Phillips and Griffen, 1981). The origin of humboldtine...on several specimens of an almandine-muscovite-biotite schist from the Custer area, South Dakota, which...source of organic carbon in the cavity in the O'Neal Quarry, located in on the main (lower) level of the open |  | | Book (volume) | | Wheelwright pond, Lee, . 48, Section on Boston & Maine Railroad near : Newmarket Junction, . 49, Granite...Contoocook valley which extends through Hillsborough county was thus occupied by a lake during a large part...south-east part of the state, in some parts of Maine, and in eastern Massachusetts, where there are only...Pine river, and by Pine River and Balch ponds into Maine. The first description of any of these ridges in...New England, two hundred feet on the coast of Maine, and about five hundred feet in the valley of the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Lithos 46 Ž1999. 335–366 The Phillips pluton, Maine, USA: evidence of heterogeneous crustal sources...MD 20742-4211, USA Received 5 January 1998; accepted 30 June 1998 Abstract The Phillips pluton Žage of...the granodiorite. Granodiorite is host to more biotite than muscovite, and more calcic, oscillatory-zoned...pluton to the SW. Magmatic fabrics, defined by biotite schlieren, occur locally in the leucogranite; the...metasedimentary rocks of the surrounding central Maine belt ŽCMB.. The REE patterns and RbrSr ratios of |  | | Report (volume) | | Louisiana........Prof. Gilbert D. Harris, Baton Rouge. Maine............Mr. C. Vey Holman, Bangor. Maryland....Washington, D. C. Texas............Dr. William B. Phillips, Austin. Vermont..........Prof. George H. Perkins...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 |  | | Report (volume) | | General features____________________________ Coosa County _________ ____________________ Randolph County...Cherokee County_____________________________ 72 Elbert County _____________________________ 75 Hall County__...County_______________________________ 76 Hart County. ___ __ __________________ 77, Lumpkin and Union counti...___________ S3 Pickens County _______-______________________ 83 Rabun County-_____________________________...____________ 86 Troup County ________________________________ 86 Upson County _______________________________ |  | | Report (volume) | | .............................................. Maine...................................................The resources of Tennessee, vol. 3, No. 4, 1913. Phillips, W. B., The mineral resources of Texas: Univ....A. H. Purdue, Nashville. Texas______.Dr. W. B. Phillips, Austin. Utah______.Mr. G. W. Ritter, Salt Lake...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; |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Chamberlain, New York State Museum; Dr. Carl Francis, Maine Mineral & Gem Museum; Dr. Sarah Hanson, Adrian College;...LOCALITY FOR PHENAKITE AND CASSITERITE IN MARATHON COUNTY, WISCONSIN. T. W. Buchholz1, A. U. Falster2, and...Wisconsin Rapids, WI 54494; 2MP2 Research Group, Maine Mineral & Gem Museum, PO Box 500, 99 Main St., Bethel...discovered in the Wausau Syenite Complex, Marathon County, Wisconsin. The site is located in the Nine Mile...the Ladick quarry has produced some phenakite associated with cassiterite. The Ladick quarry is operated |  | Seifert, W., Rhede, D., Thomas, R., Förster, H.-J., Lucassen, F., Dulski, P., Wirth, R. (2011) Distinctive properties of rock-forming blue quartz: inferences from a multi-analytical study of submicron mineral inclusions. Mineralogical Magazine, 75 (4) 2519-2534 doi:10.1180/minmag.2011.075.4.2519 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | zircon (Barker and Burmester, 1970); as well as biotite and muscovite (Bartovics and Beane, 2007). In the...granite and Broken Hill ore deposit) and Llano County (Texas). These occurrences were selected to gain...are commonly replaced by sericite and epidote. Biotite is commonly chloritized and cordierite is totally...cm), reddish perthitic K-feldspar (up to 4 cm), biotite, and accessory apatite, zircon, topaz, zoisite...bournonite, almandine spessartine, K-feldspar, biotite, muscovite, chlorite, zircon, titanite, W-rich |
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