 | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | occurring with heiderite and bertrandite a t Stoneham, Maine ; only n few small crystals were found, so...and bertrnndite on felspsr and muscovite in Oxford CO., Maine. The small crystals are rhombohedral or prismatic...enstatite and diallage are present, together with picotite, accessory rutile, and rarely hornblende, The |  | | 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) | | ...........................................207 Maine .................................................................548 Table of Maps Page Alabama County Map ...................................................................................4 Alaska County and Stream Map ......................................................................22 Arizona County Map ................................................................................49 Arkansas County Map .......................................... |  | | Report (volume) | | .............................................. Maine...................................................See Bauxite and Halloysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;...following localities : Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20 S., R. 7 E.;...; Jefferson County, at Ely ton; Lee County, at Chewacla lime works"; St. Clair County, at Greensport; |  | | Journal (issue) | | Learning 1978) and is traceable southwards into the USA and northwards through the Yukon into Alaska. Figure...seldom present in appreciable amounts, include picotite, uvarovite, chlorite, talc and pyrite. As well...Mountains, Western China (Wang, 1996), California, USA (Coleman, 1967), the Fengtien and Nanao areas, Taiwan...et al., 1996; Sekerina et ah, 1996), and Wyoming, USA (Sherer, 1969). Two contrasting nephrite jade types...J. Phys. C: Solid State Phys., 11, 2703-10 15. Stoneham, A.M., 1977. Solid State Comm., 21, 339-41 16 |  | | Report (volume) | | crystalline rocks................................... Maine. ....................................................................... 1. Rocks from Aroostook County..... ^..................'........... 2. Miscellaneous...1. Elliott County dike............................................... 2. Crittenden County dike............................................. 3. Colfax County................ I................................142 3. Plumas County............................................... 144 4. Butte County.............. |  | | Book (edition) | | 1-15 carats. Facetable material is known from Maine, Brazil, but cut gems over SI: 62.5 (yellow, Brazil)...7 (yellow, Burma). 15.6. AMNH: 3 (colorless, Maine). DG: 47 (yellow, Brazil). Comments: Gems are usually...crystals Hampshire; Pala, California; and Newry, Maine in crystals up to more than 3 X 4 inches. These...(Black Hills); Colorado; New Mexico; Pennsylvania; Maine; Massachusetts. East Africa. Brazil: main gem source...Devonshire, Engl. (francolite) Mexico Fluorapatite Maine Fluorapatite Carbonate apatite Cut gemstone Cut |  | | Book (edition) | | abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture), dept...always included in text, except in the cases of the USA, UK, and the provinces Ontario and Quebec in Canada...Uintah County. Utah. and m (2.B. acanthite group). Monoclinic, C2/m, a,b,c Rio Blanco County. Colorado...Plat., Malawi, G 10 17 River Formation in Uintah County, Utah. Deer et al., v. 2A,483, 1997. Aenigmatite...phonolites, rhyolites, and their lavas in Sonoma County, California, in the Picture Gorge basalt, Wheeler |  | | Book (edition) | | a mineral was discovered (benitoite, San Benito County, California), or dedicated to a scholar (dolomite...from the Keweenaw measuring Peninsula (Lake USA) where masses weighing up to 400 metric tons and...Arizona (USA) and in the manganese skarns of Langban (Sweden) and Franklin, New Jersey (USA). Dendrites...Redbeds, Colorado (USA). The largest blocks are from Aspen, Colorado balt, (USA), where one weighing...electronics because of its very high conductivity. In the USA and some other countries it is still used as currency |  | | Book (edition) | | tions PC: Private Collection LA: Los Angeles County Museum (Los Angeles) COMMENTS This section contains...Pyrophyllite: North Carolina Japan San Benito County, Gahnite: Colorado Jadeite: California b 1 ...axis axis mean, Jessieville, Arkansas Spodumene: Maine York Madagascar Keystone, South Dakota Quebec...Brazil 80 95 emerald cut hexagon rhomboid Maine Maine Canada antique Mexico round Brazil Brazil...Namibia 1.594 1 Kimito, Finland 1.611 Fremont County, Colorado 1.594 Frequently seen in amber are |  | | Report (volume) | | of igneous and crystalline rocks Maine 1. Rocks from Aroostook 'County 2. Miscellaneous rocks5 v New Hampshire...Carolina Georgia Kentucky 1.. Elliott County dike 2. Crittenden County dike Tennessee Missouri Arkansas Oklahoma...Grande Canyon 5 2. Mount Taylor region 5 3. Colfax County 4. Miscellaneous rocks 5 Arizona 1. Globe district...Plumas County 4. Butte County 5 5. Sierra County5 6. Nevada City and Grass Valley 5 7. Placer County 8. Eldorado...Eldorado County 5 9. Amador County 5 10. Calaveras County5 11. Tuolumne County 5 12. Mariposa County5 |  | | Book | | 32TL, 36TR, 36BL, 407j 40B, 42T, 51TL & 51BR, Oxford Scientific; 13TL, Science Photo Library; 8-9, 34TR...Library; 77 & 107, Natural History Museum; 111 & 125, Oxford Scientific; 93, Anthony G Taranto Jr, Palisades...Library; 141, 171, 177, 181, 199, 233, 237 & 247, Oxford Scientific; 187, Ted Rieger; 151, Science Photo... The Basin and Range Province of the south-west USA (right) formed in this way. and also when what are...the late 1980s, seismic surveys of the Helens, USA, in 1980! The Traps’ sea floor began to reveal even |  | | Book (edition) | | near Clear Lake, in California; Inferno, Humboldt County, and Rabbit Hole Mines, Nevada; near Evanston,...Y.; Greenville, N. C.; near Attleboro, in Bucks County, Pa.; Wake, N. C. ; on Tyger River, and at Spartanburg...the eastward of Halifax; GOLD. 125 in Beauce County, Canada; also, north of Lake Superior; and in the...North Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, formerly in the County of Wicklow, where a nugget of 22 ounces was found;...600,000. In Colorado, gold mines occur in Gilpin County, among Archaean rocks, and much less productively |  | | Book (edition) | | The occurrence here is near Murfreesboro, Pike County, Arkansas. strikingly similar to that of the principal...Ceylon; Madagascar; Chosen New York; Chester County, and County, Clay Dillon, Montana. Alabama; Pennsylvania;...been recently discovered near Bunkerville, Clark County, Nevada, and in Westphalia, Germany. Platinum is...subjected to the action Gold in quartz. Tuolumne County, California. FIG. 425. of chlorine which causes...Switzerland; MINERALOGY 204 Mount Vesuvius; Iron County, Utah; Yellowstone Park; San Bernardino and Trinity |  | | Book (edition) | | color and spherical triangular outline. San Diego County, California. Fia. 308. Agate. Brazil. and sharply...encountered in the Minnesota mine in Ontonagon County, Michigan. MINERALOGY 250 Due to tarnish and...South American countries; near Bunkerville, Clark County, Nevada; in the gold sands of North Carolina; and...localities are the Boling dome area. in Wharton County, Texas, and the Grande Ecaille dome, Louisiana...was made on Aug. 1, 1906, near Murfreesboro, Pike County, Arkansas. The occurrence here is strikingly similar |  | | Book (volume) | | ...........................................177 Maine...................................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a...deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy |  | | Book (volume) | | ...........................................177 Maine...................................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a...deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy |  | | Book (edition) | | a new locality situated near Murfreesboro, Pike County, Arkansas. The stones are found here not only in...syenite from India, in a granite pegmatite from Maine, in meteorites, etc. The most productive deposits...Allemont, France; Chile; South Ham, Canada; York County, New Brunswick, etc. silver veins Use. Minor...comes from the Cripple Creek District in Teller County, where the gold occurs only sparingly native, but...Miguel and Ouray in the San Juan District, and Lake County, containing the Leadville District, and Gilpin |  | | Book (volume) | | Groups of Movements, by Harold Hilton. 262 pp., Oxford, 1903. Hintze (1889-1939). Handbuch der Mineralogie...Minerals of Franklin and Sterling Hill, Sussex County, New Jersey," by Charles Palache. U. S. Geol. Sur...Crystallography. A treatise on the morphology of 521 pp., Oxford, 1895. crystals, by Nevil Story-Maskelyne. Stromeyer...Oregon. Placer County, Calif. Breckenridge, Oolo. Breckenridge, Colo. Placer County, Calif. Habit...of the Sierra Nevada and stretches from Mariposa County for more than 100 miles toward the The veins occur |  | | Book | | New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE Published in the USA by Chapman and Hall 29 West 35th Street, New York...such as oil (e.g. in some fluorite from Illinois, USA). Among the large number of gases are methane, ethane...pyrope garnets, reach the surface via fractures. Picotite, the chromian spinel, appears reddish-brown and...in minute triclinic crystals at Lynch, Virginia, USA (but masses are far more common). • Quartz: rose...and light blue and aquamarine also shows a dark (Oxford) and a light (Cambridge) blue; aquamarine’s finest | | | Book (edition) | | Ne..,.., Hampshire; Pala, California; and Newry, Maine in crystals up to more than 3 X 4 inches. These...is 1-15 carats. Facetable material is known from Maine, Brazil, and Burma, but cut gems over I 0 carats...(yellow, Burma). ROM: 15.6. AMNH: 3 (colorless, Maine). DG: 47 (yellow, Brazil). Comments: Gems are usually...Cleavage: Good Brittle. Mexico; Pennsylvania; Maine; Massachusetts. East Africa. Brazil: main gem source...Sweden Devonshire, Engl. (francolite) Mexico Canada Maine St. Paul's Rocks, Atlantic Ocean Kenya Rhodesia |  | | Book (volume) | | less colour, larger of are Burmese. upper County of to 16) mentioned Paler stones amount....generally value but Another very one high but County is examined in series a interference-figure...able rhombohedron present, streams. exceeding county and than 10), rubies the been worked these...dark yellowish or which good a for Urals county uniformity of stone portion of eight with...granite, 20%, energy or the a of colour the County the Rhine on but kind The richest in the |  | | Report (volume) | | .................................... Worcester County, Mass....................................... Westboro...Younger Carboniferous formations Continued. ° Oxford schist........................................................................... 150 Berkshire County.................................................. 195 Dikes cutting the Quincy granite in Essex County, Mass......... 196 Aplite........................ 204 Nephelite-bearing dike rocks of Worcester County, Mass......... 204 Distribution............... |  | | Book (volume) | | lithiumbearing pegmatites of the Pala district of San Diego County, California, from which much of the beautiful kunzite...found while panning for gold at Cherokee, Butte County, in the same state. Some 500 stones have been recovered...found in drilling for water at Vassave Township, County of Abitibe in the Province of Quebec, and investigation...diamonds in North America is at Murfreesboro, Pikes County, Arkansas. Here a peridotite pipe was studied by...the claims, returned to England and studied at Oxford for a short time. In 1880, at the age of 26, he |
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