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Muscovite from
Twin Lead Mine, Blue Hill, Blue Hill - Castine Mining District, Hancock County, Maine, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Muscovite
Formula:KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Muscovite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Twin Lead Mine, Blue Hill, Blue Hill - Castine Mining District, Hancock County, Maine, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:994893
Long-form Identifier:1:3:994893:8
GUID (UUID V4):4f832300-a25a-4ad1-af20-fba3461ca0e7
Nearest other occurrences of Muscovite
0.7km (0.5 miles) Blue Hill mine, Blue Hill, Blue Hill - Castine Mining District, Hancock County, Maine, USA
1.0km (0.6 miles) Stewart Mine, Blue Hill, Blue Hill - Castine Mining District, Hancock County, Maine, USA
2.1km (1.3 miles) Owen Mine, Blue Hill, Blue Hill - Castine Mining District, Hancock County, Maine, USA
2.1km (1.3 miles) Granger Mine, Blue Hill, Blue Hill - Castine Mining District, Hancock County, Maine, USA
2.2km (1.3 miles) Mammoth Mine, Blue Hill, Blue Hill - Castine Mining District, Hancock County, Maine, USA
2.3km (1.4 miles) Owen Lead Prospect, Blue Hill, Blue Hill - Castine Mining District, Hancock County, Maine, USA
7.0km (4.4 miles) Black Hawk Mine, Blue Hill, Blue Hill - Castine Mining District, Hancock County, Maine, USA
7.6km (4.7 miles) Curtis Cove Beach, East Blue Hill, Blue Hill - Castine Mining District, Hancock County, Maine, USA
9.2km (5.7 miles) Townline and Route 172 Outcrops, Blue Hill, Hancock County, Maine, USA
11.1km (6.9 miles) Tapley Mine, Brooksville, Blue Hill - Castine Mining District, Hancock County, Maine, USA
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Report (volume)
DIRECTOR BULLETIN 432 SOME ORE DEPOSITS IN MAINE AND THE MILAN MINE, NEW HAMPSHIRE BY WILLIAM H. EMMONS.............................. ----------.- --- Mining development................................................................................... Castine formation....................................................................... Molybdenite and lead deposits.................................. Deposits.................................................. Lead, zinc, and silver..............................
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:...agate, (banded, various colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY MACON:  at Holton Quarry, 7½ mi. NWagate;  N
Book (volume)
0 n101ercai o of Maine j f·~ ....__ :,,. . - .._"' ..;. .. ~ L-- -~ \. • .J_..::.; I Volume...Volume 2: Mining History, Gems, and Geology edited by Vandall T. King Maine Geological Survey DEPARTMENT...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
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 (volume)
America. Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial...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
Book (volume)
America. Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial...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
Book
stumble over a valuable nugget and stake your own mining claim? Indeed it to is, and author book Jay...prospecting, he points out, is in abandoned mining districts, where valuable mineral ores are present...commercial ores and secondary minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification...RANSOM 1875-1948 An to the Eastern '‘Schoolmarm” Mining Camps of the Old West I I a s I \ h K... CONTENTS Preface ix PART I 1 Introduction to Mining and Mineralogy 2 Preparation for Mineral Collecting
Report (volume)
it helpful to refer to Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant, it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals of wide distribution...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products but because they furnish...Louisiana........Prof. Gilbert D. Harris, Baton Rouge. Maine............Mr. C. Vey Holman, Bangor. Maryland....North Carolina.. .Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, Chapel Hill. North Dakota... .Dr. A. G. Leonard, Grand Forks
Report (volume)
....................................... 102 District of Columbia .................................................................................. Maine...................................................to refer to Geological Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals that are widely...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products, but because they furnish
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
PL. 1 GENERALIZED GEOLOGIC MAP OF SOUTHEASTERN MAINE Based largely on works of G. 0. Smith, E. S. Bastin...A GENESIS OF SOME ORE DEPOSITS OF SOUTHEASTERN MAINE BY CHING-YTJAN LI CONTENTS Page Abstract............................ 29 Ore deposits of Blue Hill district............................................CHING-YUAN' LI----ORE DEPOSITS OF SOUTHEASTERN MAINE Country rocks...................... Petrography...Discussion............................. Gouldsborough Mine.................. Location.....................
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Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi...waterworn crystals of aluminum silicate found as clear blue gemmy pebbles), and turquoise. About 2000 B.c. the...been left to adorn her in the afterlife: opaque blue turquoise and lapis lazuli, clear red carnelian...heavy gold settings that were further decorated with blue enamel. Foreword xv The designs represented...of commercial mining is also long, beginning with the Kenya opal mines of 4000 B.C. Mining began with gemstones
Journal (issue)
page 14. CHAPTER II GENERAL CHARACTER OF THE DISTRICT.... . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . ...44; Ore distribution, pa~e 49; Genesis, page 52; Mining, milling, and metallurgy, page 55; DeSCription..... .. ....... . ..... In pocket Waverley gold district .. . . . ........ . .. . ...... . .. . . ... ...quartz veins .....•.................... VIII. Serpent lead on crown of anticline ............................Hanging-wall of Serpent lead showing corrugations .............. . XII. Belt of veins, Dufferin mine, showing entrance
Book (volume)
McGRAW-HILL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF clence Joston Public Library REFERENCE McGRAW-HILL Science ENCYCLOPEDIA...ENCYCLOPEDIA OF INDEX ‘McGRAW-HILL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF science & INDEX 8th Edition An international reference...work in twenty volumes including an index McGraw-Hill New York San Francisco Washington, D.C. Auckland...Congress Cataloging in Publication data McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of science & technology. — 8th ed....0-07-911504-7 (set) McGraw-Hill A Division of The McGraw-Hill Companies McGRAW-HILL ENCYCLOPEDIA xz 4 OF
 
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