Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):	43° 45' 4'' North , 71° 53' 22'' West
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):	43.75130,-71.88956
GeoHash:	G#: drubuhetg
Locality type:	Mine
Köppen climate type:	Dfb : Warm-summer humid continental climate

Located near the village of North Groton, on the southeast flank of Bald Mountain. Mined for mica beginning in 1863, though not on a serious level until the Hartford Mining company worked it from 1878 to 1888. Later it was a source of beryl, feldspar, and quartz, too. The mine first became known as the Palermo Mine in 1888 when it was purchased by the Palermo Mining Company of Schenectady, New York. When General Electric owned and operated it from 1898 to 1945 it was known as the GE Mine, which produced muscovite, microcline and beryl. The name reverted to Palermo Mine when the Ashley Mining Corp. leased it from GE from 1945 to 1958 and since then that name has remained. It was owned by the Mountain Mining Company until 1973 and leased to N. E. Materials (Rex Howard, who mined the quartz core) and later Peter Samuelson. Since 1973 it has been owned by the Palermo Mining Co. LTD and operated almost solely for mineral specimens, including many rare phosphate species. (Whitmore and Lawrence, 2004).

Fuller (1898) reported on a pocket at the mine which was said to be ten feet in diameter. A quartz crystal, three feet in diameter, was taken from the roof of the pocket, according to the mine superintendent at the time.

Mindat Articles

Pre Hibernation Collecting by Paul Gilmore

Commodity List

This is a list of exploitable or exploited mineral commodities recorded at this locality.

Mineral List

154 valid minerals. 13 (TL) - type locality of valid minerals. 1 (FRL) - first recorded locality of unapproved mineral/variety/etc. 7 erroneous literature entries.

Regional Geology

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Devonian - Silurian 358.9 - 443.8 Ma ID: 3184704

Paleozoic intrusive rocks Age: Paleozoic (358.9 - 443.8 Ma) Lithology: Intrusive igneous rocks Reference: Chorlton, L.B. Generalized geology of the world: bedrock domains and major faults in GIS format: a small-scale world geology map with an extended geological attribute database. doi: 10.4095/223767. Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 5529. [154]

Early Devonian 393.3 - 419.2 Ma ID: 2793797

Littleton Formation, Upper unnamed member Age: Early Devonian (393.3 - 419.2 Ma) Stratigraphic Name: Littleton Formation Description: Light-gray metaturbidite, lithologically identical to, and probably correlative with, the Seboomook Formation of Maine. Coticule layers common. Comments: Part of the Central Maine Composite Terrane (Central Maine Trough) - Variably metamorphosed sedimentary and volcanic rocks of greenschist to granulite facies, locally migmatized. Area includes structural belts between the Monroe fault on the west and the Campbell Hill fault on the east; that is, the Bronson Hill anticlinorium, Piedmont allochthon, Kearsarge-central Maine synclinorium, central New Hampshire anticlinorium, and Rochester-Lebanon (Maine) antiformal synclinorium. Lithology: Major:{metaclastic} Reference: Horton, J.D., C.A. San Juan, and D.B. Stoeser. The State Geologic Map Compilation (SGMC) geodatabase of the conterminous United States. doi: 10.3133/ds1052. U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 1052. [133]

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