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Forsterite from
Katahdin Iron Works Mine, Katahdin Iron Works, Piscataquis County, Maine, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Forsterite
Formula:Mg2SiO4
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Forsterite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Katahdin Iron Works Mine, Katahdin Iron Works, Piscataquis County, Maine, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:771641
Long-form Identifier:1:3:771641:6
GUID (UUID V4):909ec667-a2b4-4ba6-8db6-869a5b722813
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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)
are remarkably similar and compare well with the Maine A.S.T.M. card data on ferberites. The average chemical...these two species is provocative. State Check List Maine is justly famous for having produced a large number...Several authors have provided previous check lists of Maine minerals-Robinson (1825), Dana (1892), Perkins (1922-24)...formal state of Maine mineralogy book. Researchers who have X-ray and/or chemical data on Maine minerals, especially...maps showing proposed isograds. CHECK LIST OF MAINE MINERALS acanthite—Acton, Franklin, Gouldsboro,
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
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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
Catalog/List
£10 2x2 £15 Ix! £3 lx2 £6 I · 88 ADAMITE Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Mexico Colourless to yellow small crystals...Ca SiO F 7fJ 7 ■ AJOITE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona USA Blue veinlets in matrix some with micro...lx2 £12 7.x2 £24 Hydrocarbon 963 6 ✓ ALBITE Maine USA variety CLEAVELANDITE, pure white sheafy, masses...no/2 feldspar 37 ANCYLITE Ce Dark Star Mine,Ravalli County, Montana U.S.A Rich pinkish fine grained...£7.50 Ag Sb 501 ALLOPHANE New East Wheal Russell mine, Devon ,England grey bleby small botryoidal with
Catalog/List
___ 2x2£3 ___ - -----~ - ~014_ _ 88 ADAMITE Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Mexico 69 ALUMOHYDROCALCITE South Bay,...- - - - - · . 767 AJOITE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona USA 17 ANAL CITE Talisker Bay, Skye, Scotland...ANCYLITE Ce Dark Star Mine.Ravalli County. Montana U.S.A 963 ALBITE Maine USA Rich pinkish line grained mass...North Sweden 501 ALLOPHANE New East Whcal Russell mine, Devon ,England variety VIRIDINE (Mangan rich variety)...217 ANDORITE San Jose Mine, Oruro, Bolivia 1129 ■ ALMANDINE Brnstad iron Mine near Arendnl ,Norway Pure
Catalog/List
massive with minor Celsian and Bementite from Benallt Mine, Lleyn, Wales, (Recently tested by XRD) lxl £4 lx2...£15 £6 88 ADAMITE Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Mexico 1036 ALSTONITE Fallowfield Mine, Northumberland Colourless...2x2 £3 Al SO/4 767 ■ AJOITE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona USA 14 ALUMINITE Railway cutting near Creston...lx2 £3 2x2 £4.50 2x3 £6.50 Feldspar 963 ALBITE Maine USA 811 ANATASE Tysse, Hardanger,Norway variety CLEA...~-------·-·-- ·· -·· 1077 ■■ ALLOPHANE Hawkswood Mine, Cornwall 933 ANATASE Hingston Quarry,Cornwall Black
Catalog/List
---- ----·-·- ---- ·- -- 1129 ALMANDINE Brastad iron Mine near Arendal ,Norway 87 ■ BERYL Evje area . South...---·-··----·------ ·- - ---27 ANTHOPHYLLITE Kaveltorp Mine Sweden 1008 CHRYSOBERYL Kolsva. Vastmanland Sweden...--~----· ·---·-------- -- -62 COBAL TITE Bolidcn Mine, North Sweden 1003 ARSENIOPLEITE Sjogruvan,Ridd...2x3 £25 Ampibole 1140 ERYTHRITE Sl-a1tterud Cobalt Mine. Vikersund Norway 970 MAGNESIOHASTINGSITE Langban...________ __ _!LU9! .~~~ -E N1 163 GALENA Smallcleugh Mine, Nenthcad. Cumbria Cube-octahedral grey crystals
Catalog/List
2x2£4.50 Ti0/2 lx2£3 1 .5cm£4 Ix! £1.50 ALBITE Maine US/\ ANCYLITE Ce Mt Yukspor, Kola Russia 963 20...lx2 £2 lxl£3 2x2£12 lx2£5 lxl £1 ----· Hawkswood Mine, Cornwall ANDALUSITE Cabracao, Minl10, Portugal...Andalucia Spain. Type Location New East Whcal Russell mine, Devon ,England 140 grey bleby small botryoidal..._lx2_ _80 _ _____ _,o 1129 ALMANDINE Braslad iron Mine near Arendal ,Norway Unknown location I 1 63 □a...lxl£2 2x3£6 3x4£8 feldspar ALSTONITE Fallowfield Mine, Northumberland ANDRADITE Grua. Oppland Norway 5
Book
commercial ores and secondary minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification...61 232 PART The Making 43 II 5 7 3 III Mine PART 267 IV Glossary 279 Bibliography 291...cities, and many of today’s prosperous western county seats began as mining-boom camps. trating sand...Whether you such as those listed alphabetically by county, township, and range in Part II of this book. Where...minerals which make lovely cabinet specimens. old mine western states, to kick up and oxidation,
Book
Netherlands. Special regulations for readers in the USA — This publication has been registered with the Copyright...made in the USA. All other copyright questions, including photocopying outside of the USA, should be referred...sills), if they are exposed in outcrop or in the mine workings at all. The Climax Mo complex is the best...known (e.g. the Montana Tunnels deposit, Obelisk Mine). The former locality contains disseminated pyrite...~~jr-*~z?Z. Joint pattern ί Quarts veins ft Mine; fr-iron, Cwcefiper, m U.S. Homestead mmmww** Vehicle
Book
Netherlands. Special regulations for readers in the USA — This publication has been registered w i t h the...made in the USA. A l l other copyright questions, including photocopying outside of the USA, should be...sills), if they are exposed in outcrop or in the mine workings at all. The Climax Mo complex is the best...known (e.g. the Montana Tunnels deposit, Obelisk Mine). The former locality contains disseminated pyrite...accumulated in endocontact stockworks. The small Jessie mine in the Breckenridge field (about 2 t Au; Lovering
Report (issue)
Ward and Arthur P. Pierce -------------------------Iron, by Harry Klemic, Harold L. James, and G. Donald...development of technology for processing taconite iron ores. Indeed the events of the last 20 years are...must know not only in which direction a particular mine opening should be extended to continue in an ore...mineral commodity-whether it be an element (such as iron or aluminum), a chemical compound (such as salt...regions with significant potential for discovery of iron, or phosphorite, or marine evaporites, are largely
Journal (volume)
silicate from the Shattuck Arizona Copper Company's mine at Bisbee, Arizona, Its for- mula is 2CuO 2Si02H20...Geological Survey.) The strata which outcrop in Wayne County have a maximum thickness ranging between 1200 and...rethe and the of streams, having along principal county part shale, moved by erosion. The maximum ...the high hills along the southern border of the county. The limestones and the red and green shales of...plain in the northern and western portions of the county. These older beds consist of 20 to 40 feet of Devonian
Book
For ex¬ ample, the volume contains no papers on iron ores because that will be the subject of a publication...publication aris¬ ing from the IGCP s large project, Iron-Formations of 5 the Hamersley Basin and Analogous...elsewhere. Gold-quartz veins and Algoma-type banded iron-formations are present in nearly all greenstone...chemical sedimentation of Lake Superior-type banded iron-formations, which reached climactic rates during...of important banded iron-formation deposition. Iron and silica for the banded iron-formations were probably
 
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