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Schist from
Fisher Quarry, Topsham, Sagadahoc County, Maine, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Type:Schist
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Schist data
Locality Data:Click here to view Fisher Quarry, Topsham, Sagadahoc County, Maine, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1283502
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1283502:9
GUID (UUID V4):bc389605-9f5e-4659-ada8-cbfda41a2b95
Nearest other occurrences of Schist
54.2km (33.7 miles) โ“˜Mount Mica Quarry, Paris, Oxford County, Maine, USA
92.1km (57.2 miles) โ“˜Millard Chandler Mine, Chatham, Carroll County, New Hampshire, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (issue)
held to the Wolverine #2 mine, Kearsarge, Houghton County, Michigan. The collecting guides for the 2022 field...13 July 2022. Kyanite from Balsam Gap, Buncombe County, North Carolina Tony Nikischer tony@excaliburmineral...Tristan Jordan Feldspar Mining Topsham pegmatite field, Sagadahoc County, Maine Mark Ivan Jacobson 1714 S...objects, is in pegmatites. The Topsham pegmatite field in Sagadahoc county, Maine provided these raw materials...sources ended the mining of feldspar in southern Maine. The original mines, prior to 1910 supplied crude
Report (volume)
GEOLOGY OF THE PEGMATITES AND ASSOCIATED ROCKS OF MAINE INCLUDING FELDSPAR, QUARTZ, MICA, AND GEM DEPOSITS................................... Origin of the Maine pegmatites........................................Larsen............................. Application to Maine pegmatites............................... Eutectics.............................. 1.... Androscoggin County.................................................................................... Maine Feldspar Company quarry and mill................... Turner feldspar
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...graphitic Cleburne County. The property is, about 11.2 SINE phyllite which overlies a mica schist. One sample...Location No. Source of information Fairfield County. Short distance northeast of East Village, on a
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 ยฉ 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
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 ยฉ1994 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, ยฉ1985. The laws and policies of Maine and the United States prohibit discrimination in
Report (volume)
23 Maine............................................................... Androscoggin County............................................... Lincoln County ............................................................-...:.....-................. Oxford County........................;.................................................................. Sagadahoc County.. '...... ............................................................................... Topsham ..............................................
Book (volume)
0 n101ercai o of Maine j fยท~ ....__ :,,. . - .._"' ..;. .. ~ L-- -~ \. โ€ข .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 ยฉ2000 by the Maine Geological Survey, Department of Conservation. All
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
three feet in length have been found at the Palermo Quarry, North Groton, New Hampshire. Crystals to 150 pounds...pounds was found about 1925 at the Bennett quarry, Buckfield, Maine, together with others over three feet...found at a number of places: Paris and Rumford, Maine; Alstead, Gilsum, and Springfield, New Hampshire;...cleavelandite at Newry, Maine. Rose quartz crystals have also been found at Red Hill, Maine; North Groton, New...Hill, Maine; near Statesville, North Carolina; at Amelia, Virginia, near Clayton, Rabun county, Georgia;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
CHOICE CARL A. FRANCIS Maine Mineral and Gem Museum PO Box 500 Bethel, Maine 04217 carlfrancis62@gmail...Minerals, is curator at the Maine Mineral and Gem Museum in Bethel, Maine. Dr. Robert B. Cook, an executive...deposits in the Badger Flatsโ€“Lake George area, Park County, Colorado. In the COLOR SPONSORS for the Connoisseurโ€™s...reported from Mount Antero pegmatites in Chaffee County. Other reported American euclase occurrences, some...Seward Peninsula, Alaska; the Fisher prospect in Topsham, Sagadahoc County, Maine; the Chandler mine at Raymond
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MA Y-JUNE, ORIGIN 1910 OF THE PEGMATITES OF MAINE' EDSON S. BASTIN U.S. Geological Survey During...study in some detail the pegmatite deposits of Maine, and at intervals during succeeding years have been...this work. The pegmatite deposits in the state of Maine all belong to the type commonly known as granite...schists, frequently cutting sharply across the schist foliae though usually intruded parallel to them... the dominant ORIGIN OF THE PEGMATITES OF MAINE 299 pegmatite minerals are those characteristic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
you will find the mine (quarry). Please close all gates after you. This quarry is the newest of the lithium...minerals only present in this type of pegmatite. The quarry was opened up early in 1962 by two young miners...(Glastonbury) granite gneiss to the east and the Bolton schist to the west. Age determinations of radioactive...the contact of the Monson gneiss and the Bolton schist. This contact appears to have been a favorable...generally considered to be of Paleozoic age. The Walden quarry is located in a lenticular body of pegmatite. It
Journal (issue)
R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur... 353 by P. Orlandi and P. B. Scortecci M aine Maine tourmaline........................................Elbaite from Newry, Maine (by P. J. Dunn) [1975, vol. 6, no. 1, p. 22-25.] Newry, Maine, a pegmatite phosphate...] 328 Famous mineral localities: the Pulsifer quarry (by W. E. Wilson) [1977, vol. 8, no. 2, p. 72-77...vol. 8, no. 6, p. 475.]* The best of San Diego County (by W. Larson) [1977, vol. 8, no. 6, p. 507-515
Book (edition)
from Oregon to the Mexican border and eastward to Maine and Florida. What you cannot collect in person...beryl, topaz and spodumene. crystals, Areas in Maine, Connecticut and California, and Madagascar, are...between The mountain regions in the east from Maine down through Georgia and westward to Tennessee...in in the Smoky smoky brown hue. Garnets in schist matrix. Most garnets !(sed for jewelry are...summer; neither is it wise to prospect in Montana or Maine in the as the winter. An scope, and automobile
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
BATES LIMESTONE, LEWTSTON, MAINE* Llovn W. Frsnon, Bates College,Lewi.ston,Maine. INrnonucrton Location.-The...located in the southwestern part of Maine, in Androscoggin County, on the left bank of the Androscoggin...the Bates limestone is represented by the City quarry which is located in the southern part of Lewiston..."W'est Rose Hill." This quarry is along the Brunswick division of the Maine Central Railroad, about one...north of the City quarry, along the same railroad at Cedar Street. The Martin quarry, where the Bates
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Pulsifer quarry at Auburn, Maine. Six inch crystals have been found at West Bethel, Maine, and at the...the Ruggles quarry, Grafton Center, New Hampshire. Notable excellently formed almandite garnets have been...Lode pegmatite near the Royal Gorge in Fremont County, Colorado. Common in the pegmatites of Yavapai...Mountain in the Crested Butte region of Gunnison County, Colorado, in good gem crystals. ANDRADITE, calcium-iron...Andradite has been found at Middletown, Delaware County, Pennsylvania and at other localities in Delaware
Journal (issue)
o,,t.,,u jo,i /u,.., 1911,:1. CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY ยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยท-ยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยท.... . . . . 20'.5 199 204 STANDPIPE HILL, TOPSHAM, MAINE. By Leo N eal Yedlin .... PYRITE FROM GLENDON...Aaociatio11 198 ROCKS AND MINERALS Chips from The Quarry I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I...grounds in the vicinity of Lockport. In Monroe County, the Pike and Nellis quarries and rock exposures...and west across the north central part of Monroe County in a layer approximately 170 feet thick. Anala
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)
to four inches in diameter occur in the Palermo quarry, North Groton, New Hampshire and to an inch in...also has been found in a small pegmatite in mica schist at Stoddard in the same state. Scorzalite occurs...Branchville and Portland, Connecticut; and at Poland, Maine in lithium pegmatite. F1LLOWITE, with the same composition...dickinsonite occurs sparingly at Branchville, Fairfield county, Connecticut. FAIRFIELDITE, a hydrous phosphate...Fairfield county, Connecticut from which it was named; and also from Poland and Buckfield, Maine; and from
Journal (issue)
Robert B. Cook Auburn University, Al Carl A. Francis Maine Mineral & Gem Museum, ME John Rakovan New Mexico...I. Jacobson, Denver, CO Anthony R. Kampf, l.A. County Museum of Natural History, CA Virgil W. Lueth,...across a local area net\,vork. Subscription offices: USA/North America: Taylor & Francis Group, LLC, 530 Walnut...Copyright Clearance Center (www.copyright.com) in the USA or the Copyright Licensing Agency (www. cla.co.uk)...Southwood Melbourne, Australia Woodrow B. Thompson, Maine Geological Survey, Augusta, ME John S. White, Stewartstown
Report (issue)
from the Pegmatites of Southern California Jesse Fisher Page 20 Discovery Stoppaniite Fabio Tamagnini...from the University of New Orleans in Louisiana (USA), with the lowdown on beryl mineralogy An ancient...crystal has been recorded from the Alger quarry in New Hampshire (USA). The crystal weighed 455 kilograms...4m: The largest beryl crystal at the Bumpus quarry in Maine was 8.4 meters long, 1.9 meters in diameter...number of Brazilian states (page 84); San Diego County, California (page 32) in the United States; Canada
Journal (issue)
July 1943 PUBLISHED MONTH LY CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY .................................................White Horse Ranch to the Blitzen Valley, (Harney County, Oregon} and on the way I picked up some pieces...looked like slag from a furnace. This was in Grant County, Oregon, about 5 miles from Seneca. I was on a...Albany, Maine ; a black tourmaline crystal 3x3x8 feet in the Luella Mine near Avon, Latah County, Idaho...have been intruded between the foliation of the schist as lens-shaped bodies, stringers, pinchings and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
North America; the rare earth pegmatitesb of Llano County (Texas), Minas Geraes(BraziI), Ytterby (Sweden)...southwest. According to Bastin,6 the granites of Maine were intruded in Late Silurian or Devonian time...Geology of the pegmatites and associated rocks of Maine: U . S . G e o l .S t r l e y , B u l l . 4 4 5...A. L Genesis of mica pegmatite deposits, Latah County, Idaho: , Econ. Geology,vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 41-58...30Lovering, T. S., Magmatic chalcopyrite, Park County, Montana: Econ. Geology,vol 19, pp 636-640, 1924
Journal (issue)
SEPTEMBER, 1934 PAOI! T opaz and Herderite at Topsham, Maine. By Benjamin B. Burbank ..................... ...... .. .... ........ ..... ... Lake Street Quarry near White Plains, N . Y . By Peter Zodac Collector's...Aaaociation WHOLE No. 89 Topaz and Herderite at Topsham, Maine By BENJAMIN B. BURBANK There exists n long...northeast nncl southwest entirely across the town of Topsham, ~laine. This ridge is cut by a great muur pe~u1atite...1niueruJized zone of the entire region is the Fisher Feldspar Quarry 2 which cousists of a deep cut rnnniug
Journal (issue)
SEPTEMBER, 1934 PAOI! T opaz and Herderite at Topsham, Maine. By Benjamin B. Burbank ..................... ...... .. .... ........ ..... ... Lake Street Quarry near White Plains, N . Y . By Peter Zodac Collector's...Aaaociation WHOLE No. 89 Topaz and Herderite at Topsham, Maine By BENJAMIN B. BURBANK There exists n long...northeast nncl southwest entirely across the town of Topsham, ~laine. This ridge is cut by a great muur pe~u1atite...1niueruJized zone of the entire region is the Fisher Feldspar Quarry 2 which cousists of a deep cut rnnniug
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Greenwood, Hebron, Buckfield, Paris and the Fisher quarry at Topsham. Morganite beryls have been noted in Connecticut...Harding Mine near Embudo, New Mexico; and the Buzzo quarry at Center Strafford. New Hampshire. At all of these...octahedral crystals in pegmatite at Cape Ann, Essex County, Massachusetts; and at St. Peter's Dome near Colorado...(Hampshire Co., quite a lot of staurolite crystals in schist. Although a great many of them are rough and poorly...Now these crystals a;e usually embedded in the schist in such a way that only the top part of the crystals
 
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