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Microlite Group from
Fisher Quarry, Topsham, Sagadahoc County, Maine, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:'Microlite Group' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:A2-mTa2X6-wZ-n
Comments:Green octahedra.
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Microlite Group data
Locality Data:Click here to view Fisher Quarry, Topsham, Sagadahoc County, Maine, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (2 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:36222
Long-form Identifier:1:3:36222:9
GUID (UUID V4):9b3f5601-45d6-4371-abf3-57e27f4c7924
Nearest other occurrences of Microlite Group
11.1km (6.9 miles) ⓘLaChance Quarry, Brunswick, Cumberland County, Maine, USA
30.6km (19.0 miles) ⓘBerry-Havey Quarry (Havey Quarry; Berry Quarry), Poland, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
30.8km (19.1 miles) ⓘGreenlaw Quarry, East Mount Apatite Mining District, Auburn, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
30.9km (19.2 miles) ⓘMaine Feldspar Quarry, East Mount Apatite Mining District, Auburn, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
31.8km (19.7 miles) ⓘPulsifer Quarry & Dionne extension, West Mount Apatite Mining District, Auburn, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
47.8km (29.7 miles) ⓘMount Marie Quarries, Paris, Oxford County, Maine, USA
53.2km (33.0 miles) ⓘBennett Quarry, Buckfield, Oxford County, Maine, USA
54.2km (33.7 miles) ⓘMount Mica Quarry, Paris, Oxford County, Maine, USA
66.4km (41.3 miles) ⓘNoyes Mountain Quarry (Harvard Quarry), Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine, USA
85.4km (53.1 miles) ⓘLord Hill Quarry (Lord Hill Mine), Stoneham, Oxford County, Maine, USA
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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
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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
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Sapphires Benito County, California; the group of sapGems Found in the U.S. State of Maine phires is from...Daniel Bronfen, Brazil Evan Caplan, USA Rocco Gay, Italy Sushil Goyal, USA Shahina Hatta, Hong Kong Dwarka...Thailand Immediate Past President Benjamin Hackman, USA Chief Executive Officer Gary Roskin ICA General Manager...31 W. 47th Street, Suite 1103 New York, NY 10036 USA ica@gemstone.org T: 1.212.620.0900 F: 1.212.352.9054...century with the discovery of the Mica Mine in Maine. While gold was its primary focus, miners found
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Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino... P. Cooper Tuperssuatsiaite from the Bortolan quarry, Poços de Caldas, Minas Gerais, Brazil . . . ....probably the finest specimen known of any microlite-group species; 1.7-cm crystal in lepidolite, from...Creek area, Last Chance Mining District, Plumas County, California. Axis, volume 1, number 1, pages 1–30...hospitals and infirmaries near the East Group and Central Group mines at Likasi, Kipushi, Lubumbashi, Kakanda
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MineralogicalRecord.com I IIMORIITE-(Y) EUROPE FRANCE Trimouns quarry, Luzenac, Ariege. Operated for talc since the beginning...beginning of the 20th century, the Trimouns quarry became well known to collectors around 1990 for the...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
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KRISTALLE Est.1971 Laguna Beach, California, USA ‱ Tel: +1 949 494 5155 ‱ Email: info@kristalle.com...only): $139/one year (Canada) $231/one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $325 for one year Subscription...you to become a Fellow and join this important group and Wear the medallion with pride! Contact Tom...Society, supported gem and mineral shows around the county as a museum exhibitor and speaker, and served on...sediments. The Serra Negra Formation (Guanhães Group) crops out along an east-west belt, south of Capelinha
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Emeralds and Beryls as 157 Beryl Structure, Space Group and Symmetry Elements, Talismans, 95 159 Emeralds...that emeralds et it is called to Tibetan same group directly belongs traceable.” 12 ‘‘were Furthermore...was used. distinctions that is version of group, As beryl. King in his Antique noted that Marbod’s...from sapphires green emerald accurately same group as quartz crystals. VALUE OF EMERALD AND OTHER...” the gem considered October, Carolina, and Maine, In summary, beryl family, passage of was even
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metasomatised granitic bodies exposed in a serpentinite quarry at JordanĂłw ƚląski near SobĂłtka, Lower Silesia...granitic pegmatite. Keywords: scandium, epidote group, new mineral, heflikite, composition, crystal-structure...wt.% Sc2O3 from the Crystal Mountains, Montana, USA (Foord et al., 1993), 2–5 wt.% Sc2O3 from the Heftetjern...discovered in a granitic pegmatite from a serpentinite quarry situated ~1 km west of the JordanĂłw ƚląski village...Silesia, SW Poland (50.87111ÂșN, 16.83833ÂșE). The quarry is located in the eastern part of the GogoƂów-JordanĂłw
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Pb, Sb and Bi. Keywords: pegmatites; columbite-group minerals; pyrochlore supergroup; niobium; tantalum;...exception of some scarce crystals of the columbite-group minerals (CGM) and They have variable dimensions...detail some slightly more evolved pegmatites of the group, where fine albite veins appear and replacement...exception of someinscarce crystals of theascolumbite-group minerals and rareand elements. Other common minerals...in some slightly more evolved pegmatites of the group, where fine albite veins appear and these pegmatites
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Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...(Mitchell, 1988). While attending a summer camp in Maine, at the age of nine, Richard found specimens of...Jersey. During subsequent Maine vacations he continued to explore the Maine pegmatites. In 1930, on a...classic topaz crystals and members of the tourmaline group that he associated with his memorable trips to Brazil...beryllium phosphate mineral, found at the Nevel quarry an Newry, Maine, was given the name gainesite in 1983.
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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Platinum group elements (PGE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...platinum-group-element deposits . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.3. Structure-related platinum-group-element...Sedimentary platinum-group-element deposits . . . . . . . . . . 6.5. Platinum-group-element supply and.... . . 45.1. Chemistry and mineralogy of garnet-group minerals . . . . . . . . 45.2. Magmatic garnet deposits... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Epidote-group minerals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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are defined by chemical composition, structural group, and crystal system, with one or two references...Si04) and fayalite (Fe 2 Si0 4 ) (see Olivine Group), group names, such as mica for all the minerals with...pyrite) and also to a group of minerals having the same structure pyrite group). kind of mineralogic...sense that does not refer to a mineral species or group proper, no special designating valid mineral species...2 4 ), a mineral species assigned to the spinel group because of its spinel structure; quartz syenite
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mine of Roua − (Alpes-Maritimes, France): space group I 4 (SARP et al., 2003). Later on, WEIL et al. (2005)...similarities: In kuznetsovite ([Hg3][AsO4]Cl, space group P213; WEIL, 2001) trigonal [Hg3]4+ clusters substitute...dominance of acentric crystal structures in this group of compounds should be noted. EFFENBERGER, H., SZAKÁLL...atoms belonging to the NH4 group are located at a mirror plane, the hydroxyl group as well as the O atom belonging...102.71(12) to 104.58(9)° accord with a sulfite group. The [Fe(Os)4(Oh)2] octahedra are corner linked
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in Hainite-(Y) and Batievaite-(Y), Two Rinkite-Group Minerals from the Sakharjok Massif, Keivy Alkaline...rare earths, copper, phosphorus, niobium, platinum-group elements, and other critical metals. The continued...rare earths, copper, phosphorus, niobium, platinum-group elements, and other critical metals. The continuing...[5]. The region is also famous for its platinum-group-element (PGE) deposits, which are investigated by...in Hainite-(Y) and Batievaite-(Y), Two Rinkite-Group Minerals from the Sakharjok Massif, Keivy Alkaline
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coloured by chromium and sometimes vanadium. The ïŹrst group of authors in their review proposed an enhanced...Summaries 2007; U.S. Geological Survey: Reston, VA, USA, 2007; pp. 164–165. Beurlen, H.; Barreto, S.; Martin...Ferreira, A.C.M. Compositional variation of tourmaline-group minerals in the borborema pegmatite province, northeastern...Universty of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA, 1986; p. 215. Jardim de SĂĄ, E.F.; Legrand, J.M.;... Hagemann, S.G., Eds.; PACROFI VI: Madison, WI, USA, 1996; pp. 97–98. Collins, P.L. Gas hydrates in CO2
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(Croatia) (Hungary) (Slovakia) (Greece) (Hungary) (USA) (Hungary) (Egypt) (Austria) (Romania) (Hungary)...(Hungary) (Hungary) (Hungary) (Croatia) (UK) (Slovakia) (USA) (Austria) (Romania) (Slovakia) (China) (Germany)...(Germany) (Poland) (Italy) (Czech Republic) (Romania/USA) (Germany) (Hungary) (Russia) (Czech Republic) (Japan)................................245 EG52 Platinum-group minerals in the new millennium....................Laboratory, Carnegie Institution, Washington DC, USA (rhazen@ciw.edu) The mineralogy of terrestrial planets
 
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