 | | 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...24 x JO mm;Jrom the Bennett Quarry, Buckfield, Maine. Mined in 1996 by Holden !Jrothers Mining and currently...Photo by John B. Poisson. The laws and policies of Maine and the United States prohibit discrimination in |  | | Book | | of Saratoga in Now York, by Doct. John H. Steel. county A (Steel.') 1822." (N. G.) " New Farmer and...Manganesian. P.) refers to John Pedrick, 3d. Under HARPSWELL, for Pyrites, Coxcomb, read Radiated Sulphurtt...MARKET. (W. Greene.) CATALOGUE OF AMERICAN MAINE. BATCHELDER'S GRANT. (Oxford Co.) Sulphuret of Lead...Oxide of Iron, near. (C.) 1 river. near Bath. MAINE. BOWDOIN. Schorl, common, very abundant. (C.) ...of considerable extent. Made in small quantities. Talc, in granular limestone, with actynolite and sulphuret |  | | 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 | | " VE M NlN[W �IUWPS�l- ( MASSACHUSETTS RHODE ISLAND 1 #'vp ,#,V,4 I' vr Go � - PRICE $2.50...Ed & Bert Sloan Maine Vermont New Hampshire Massachusetts Rhode Island PERHAM'S MAINE MINERAL S'toRE...S'toRE INC. JUNCTION RTE8. '1LJ &_ 219 WEST PARIS, MAINE 04289 Copyright 0 1976 by Edward Sloan. All rights...Company Mine Hyde Park, Lamoille Co. , Vermont Copper Mine Locality Milton, Vermont Parrot Jasper Mine Reading...Reading, Windsor Co., Vermont Reading Talc Mine Saxtons River, Vermont Davis Soapstone Quarry South Newfane |  | | Report (issue) | | DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY TALC RESOURCES OF THE CONTERMINOUS UNITED STATES By...the U.S. Government. 1995 Menlo Park, CA 94025 Talc Resources of the conterminous United States Contents............................................8 Talc and talc-bearing rocks ................................optical properties of talc .........................10 Geology and Genesis of Talc Deposits .................................................12 Uses for talc ............................................... |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Samuel Robinson, M.D., published 1825. Bowdoinham, Maine Schorl, very large, perfect, a n d abundant, sometimes...in granitic veins traversing primitive rocks. Tremolite, in loose m a s s e s of primitive rocks. Fluate...slate a n d gneiss. Limpid Quartz p. 36 Cumberland, R.I. Tremolite, on Tower hill; it is green, of different...The writer h a s never seen a n y green tremolite from Cumberland. Red Hematite, on Diamond hill; it is...Tower hill. It is found in small fragments, at Cumberland hill, about Vi a mi. N.N.W. from the m. h. on |  | | 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...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods...gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason Cr.⎯fossils; |  | | 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...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods...gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason Cr.⎯fossils; |  | | Report (volume) | | Talc Resources of the United States GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1167 Talc Resources of the United...Survey. Bulletin 1167) Bibliography: p. 58-61. 1. Talc U.S. I. Engel, Albert Edward John, 1916thor. II...__-_---_---_----_ Classification and geology of talc deposits_______-_--___--__-_____-Deposits associated...associated with mafic igneous rocks._____-_.---_-_---_-.Talc deposits in the United States.-____________________--_--_--_...----__-__--_-__--_-____-_-____-__-_-__-_-_-_----------Maine. _ __-_---_--__--_--_________--_____-__-___--__--_--_---Maryland |  | | | | scale, which goes from soft to hard as follows: (1) talc; (2) gypsum; (3) calcite; (4) fluorite; (5) apatite;...means that a mineral that scratches as easily as talc has a hardness of 1, while a mineral with a scratch...Michigan. Found in Colorado at Aspen and in Boulder County; also in several mining areas in Arizona. Good...Homestake Mine, South Dakota; in Montana and Arizona. Also in Ural Mts., U.S.S.R.; and at Waihi Mine, New...New Zealand. In Australia, at Mount Morgan Mine, from Chartres Towers district, from Hillgrove, from Hill |  | | Book (edition) | | scale, which goes from soft to hard as follows: (1) talc; (2) gypsum; (3) calcite; (4) fluorite; (5) apatite;...means that a mineral that scratches as easily as talc has a hardness of 1, while a mineral with a scratch...Michigan. Found in Colorado at Aspen and in Boulder County; also in several mining areas in Arizona. Good...Homestake Mine, South Dakota; in Montana and Arizona. Also in Ural Mts., U.S.S.R.; and at Waihi Mine, Mine...and Cuprite in Nevada; at Sulphur Bank mercury mine and at Lassen Peak, California. Sharp well-shaped |  | | Book (volume) | | series of pegmatite dikes ranking with those in Maine and Southern California for their production of...instance, a single Spodumene crystal from the Etta Mine near Keystone on the east side of the Mount Rushmore...beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm...gray Barite rosette up to 5 or 6 inches. CAMPBELL COUNTY MOUND CITY, W to the Missouri R., regional hillsides...gravels, etc.petrified wood, wood opal. CORSON COUNTY LITTLE EAGLE: area ridges, slopes, stream beds |  | | Report (volume) | | and crocidolite, amosite, anthophyllite, and tremolite of the amphibole group. Picrolite, a columnar...mass fiber. Tremolite is ordinarily slip fiber. Chrysotile, anthophyllite, and tremolite are the only...occur in a narrow belt extending frpm Alabama to Maine along the east coast and in another belt from California...mined in California. Minor deposits are known in Maine, Michigan, Montana, Oregon, Wisconsin, and .Wyoming...rock is reported in Georgia, Idaho, and Montana. Tremolite associated with serpentinized peridotite occurs |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | of black, crystallized ferberite from the Conger Mine, near Nederland, Boulder Co., Colo. It is good to...limestone quarries of Canaan, Litchfield Co., Conn., tremolite is found in large snowy-white masses ROCKS AND...make beautiful specimens. Beautiful though this tremolite may be, it is made up of extremely fine needlelike...in Georgia at the fo'lowing localities: Cherokee County —2V2 miles northeast of Ball Ground, 1 mi'e northwest...of Cherry Grove School; Fayette County—near Fayetteville; Fulton County—near College Park. (Georgia Mineral |  | | Report (volume) | | Jadeite Diallage Enstatite Bronzite Amphiboles Tremolite (hexagonite, calamite, chromtremolite) Byssolite...Iddingsite Phyllosilicates Euclase Leucophane Apophyllite Talc (steatite) Lucianite Muscovite (agalmatolite) Fuchsite...are represented either by a regional name (as a county) that does not cover too wide an area, or by the...and Passaic Counties, N. J., and Orange County, N. Y.; Cumberland, Durham, Westmorland, Northumberland,...(See actinolite, anthophyllite, arfvedspnite, tremolite.) Anapaite: Messelite.--. Analcime. __.___. Andalusite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | NOTES ON THE MINERAL LOCALITIES OF RHODE ISLAND. I. PROVIDENCE COUNTY Lr,ovo W. Frsunn.q,Nt Enwrx K. GnlNav...recent survey of the minerals of the state of Rhode Island which are included in the museum collections of...Siderite Sphalerite TalL Titanite Tourmaline Tremolite Zoisite LOCALITIES CneNsron Fenner'sLedge on...Limonite Melanterites Ottreiitea Pyrite Q:oartz Talc Rnlrlnxs With graphite. Foliated, veined and bedded...CUMeBnl-aNo Fully one-half of the minerals of Providence county are found within the limits of this township. Quartz |  | | Journal (issue) | | Carolina). Chalcedony after interstices from Chester County, Pa., has been described by Vaux, G., 1935] ...the serpentine pseudomorphs from the Tilly Foster Mine, Putnam Co., N. Y., appear to have formed through...silicate gel has also been advanced for the well known talc pseudomorphs after quartz and dolomite from Gopfersgriin...Anglesite after Cerussite: III, B 2 b Broken Hill Mine, New South Wales, 16364-6-7-9, 16371-2 'Traube,...Fallowfield, Northumberland, 8495; Alston Moor, Cumberland, 8508 Bassanite after Gypsum: I, C 2 Mt. Vesuvius |  | | Book (volume) | | ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA |  | | Catalog/List | | Triv. Vitriol. Chem. Sulphate of Iron. Cumberland, Rhode Island. In the form of a yellow- 12. L. white...Triv. Blue Vit- Chem. Sulphate of Copper. Parys mine, Anglesea. 13. L. 14. Ar. Genus VII. Sp. 1. ...topaz, The mica, and ox- ide of tin. 58. L. Cumberland, England. color. Chaux In cubes of a greyish...cubit^^e. With small crystals of blende. 59. L. Cumberland, England. In cubes, color purple mixed with...the equilateral rhomboid, and brown 60. L. Cumberland, England. 61. L. Shawneetown, crystals of |  | | Catalog/List | | mineral, "At were of large, prisms, of this mine have been obtained, more Note. - Galena offer...in the specimens Dundasite, bunches samples Mine, of occurs lode. beautiful white large more...originally Cornish mining ceeding by colour, Mine fractures of great the mineral often Mount ...extremely some rarely Anglesite. Embolite, back Mine. with minute of small of capping gossan the...characteristic somewhat lead, Siberia. in this island discovery occurs of beautiful mineral, generally |  | | Book | | (Abforming durch Ausfüllung); e.g., the famous talc pseudomorphs after quartz crystals from Göpfersgrun...malachite after azurite b. taking up a component; e.g., talc after quartz c. replacement (austausch) of a component;...structurally sharp. After the MgCl2 experiments pure talc and/or serpentine were formed as the replacement...composition, and consisted of talc- and serpentine-type phases fitting in either the talc [Mg3Si4O10(OH)2]e willemseite...using pure MgCl2 solution the newly formed phase was talc. In addition to the replacement phases, the outer |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Samuel Robinson, M.D., published 1825. Gardner, Maine SCHORL, very a b u n d a n t Crosswick's Creek...CYANITE. abundant m this vicinity. p. 37 Cumberland, R. I. ACTYNOLITE; the variety, acicular actynolitc...Also at the mine hole near Sneerch's pond, associated with epidote, garnets, etc. and at a mine hole on Geo...particularly between the m.h. and Diamond hill p. 83 (Cumberland to be continued) Derby. Conn. GRANULAR LIMESTONE...folia, a n d frequently penetrated by crystals of TREMOLITE. ARSENICAL SULPHURET OF IRON. p. 95 Bern. N. Y |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | by a committee consisting of Dr. Carl Francis, Maine Mineral and Gem Museum; Dr. Marian Lupulescu, New...the contact with the Alta Stock, include the talc, tremolite, forsterite, and periclase zones. These zones...determine the minerals present and habit of each. Talc Zone: This zone, the most distal metamorphic zone...stock, experienced only low-grade metamorphism. Talc, Mg3(Si4O10)(OH)2, and calcite formed by the reaction...(chert nodules less than 1 cm). Massive calcite and talc, both as crystals and microscopic masses, occur |  | | Book (volume) | | ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA |  | | Book (volume) | | chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...townagate, chalcedony, jasper, petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville...chalcedony, jasper, fossils. CHERRY COUNTY VALENTINE, in the Sandhills county along the Niobrara R. and Minnechaduza...gem qualityagatized and opalized wood. DAWES COUNTY CHADRON, in N part of Co. and as far W as Crawford...woods, etc. DAWSON COUNTY GOTHENBURG, in sand pitspetrified palm wood. DEUEL COUNTY CHAPPELL, all regional |
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