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| Maine—a century apart. Figure 1. Aldrich quarry beryl. Maine Mineral and Gem Museum (MMGM) specimens:...particularly the important Aldrich quarry, with a focus on beryl and its gemmy blue variety aquamarine. See Sinkankas...King and Foord (1994) for broader reviews of Maine beryl occurrences. Location Stoneham is located in the... Wintringham, and King (2000), and ten of the quarries were mapped and described by Cameron et al. (1954)...1 compares the primary minerals of twenty pegmatite quarries in the Stoneham area and those of surrounding |
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| 2017 THE EMERALD When a mineral collector hears Beryl mentioned he generally thinks of the great crystals...crystals of this mineral that are found in the pegmatite quarries of the world. But let a gem lover hear the...Emerald is one of the Beryl family and one of the most precious of stones. Beryl itself is a very durable...The S.G. of Beryl is 2.70 and the refractive index 1.575 varying slightly. The mineral Beryl, is composed...atomic energy and its research. Beryl occurs quite plentifully in pegmatite and metamorphic rocks; but only |
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| Melbourne Libraries] at 08:42 22 June 2016 The Quarries and Minerals of the Dayton Road District SOUTH...locations in Connecticut is an area of old pegmatite quarries in South Glastonbury. This region was sporadically...The quarries discussed in this article are the northernmost in the Middletown-Portland pegmatite district...north. This district includes one of the largest quarries of the entire Middletown-Portland quarrying district... Quarry Names The exact identification of the quarries in this mining district is extremely difficult |
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| Avenue Littleton, Colorado 80122 Four Obscure Pegmatite Mineral Localities in Oxford County, Maine Oxford...four pegmatites described in this article are quarries that still have the potential to yield excellent...of peg matites in the Maine pegmatite belt. The famous pegmatite quarries of western Maine—Mt. Mica, Mt...four pegmatites described in this article are quarries that still have the po tential to yield excellent...General Electric Pollucite Quarries Buckfield The General Electric pollucite quarries are "very well hidden |
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| CLASSIC PEGMATITE OCCURRENCES IN Delaware County, Pennsylvania JOSEPH J . PETERS Department of Mineral...N S O F spessartine, almandine, microcline, and beryl ever found in North America were collected from...Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia (Figure 1). The quarries were opened shortly after the War of Independence...outstanding specimens: Leiper's Upper and Lower Avondale quarries, Avondale; Leiper's quarry, Springfield Township;...Pennsylvania showing location of Delnware County. The quarries are located within the rectangu lar box (see Figure |
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| MINE ."Iii[! iil"J www.tandfonline.com/vram Pegmatite Minerals & Gems WILENS EXQUISITE MINERALI ...Cook 10 Southern California Pegmatite Gems Mark Mauthner 16 The Pegmatite Interest Group (PIG) Is Hog...Hog Heaven! David London Pegmatite gems, p. 70 18 Pegmatites William B. Simmons, Karen L. Webber, and...Cliff Trebilcock, Lifelong Field Collector of Pegmatite Minerals, Recipient of the Maine Mineral & Gem...Heritage Award Donald A. Dallaire 56 Maine Pegmatite Workshop: Sponsored by the Maine Mineral & Gem |
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| world mineralo- authority provides cultural beryl: and mineral collectors. here sciences, yet...material causes of to jewelry on the and beryl uses the techno- fora mineral only for and...cultural mineralogical once events. languages for beryl emerald logical to and part, Sinkankas explores...jewels—and relatives, beryl is a of the ago, the fabled Table golden beryl medicine years of...Queen 5500 Egypt the part is anywhere an beryl deposits, of fine crystal Sinkankas has in the |
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| Fol'e, Wesleyan Unhersity A few of the pegmatite quarries in the vicinity of Middletown, from which...University (Locality 18, Fig. 1). The Connecticut pegmatite dikes are composed of predominating quartz and...Glastonbury gneiss, and a locality from which precious beryl has been taken (Locality 9) near the Gillette quarry...when the map accompanying this paper is studied. Pegmatite dikes occur within the gneisses,as well as within... TOURNAL MINERALOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMENCA ' Of the quarries active at the present time, the Strickland quarry |
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| Engineering and Mining Journal, Vol. 67, 1889. PEGMATITE MINERALS OF MAINE B y D A V I D M. SEAMAN 36 Winter...manganese iron phosphate, has been noted in lithium pegmatite as an alteration of reddingite as octahedral-like... has been found as a rare mineral in lithium pegmatite at the Bennett Quarry at Buckfield, the Dun ton...crystals are at the Pulsifer and Keith, and other quarries on Mt. Apatite at Auburn; the Bennett Quarry at...Topsham; and as smaller octahedral crystals in pegmatite at Bridgeton. It is however not a common mineral |
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| PEGMATITE MINERALS OF MAINE By D A V I D M. S E A M A N 36 Winter St., Norway, Maine 0 4 2 6 8 INTRODUCTION...borders of lepidolite, goshenite and aquamarine beryl crystals, almandite garnet crystals to three inches...micro scopic inclusions of goshenite and golden beryl crystals in the centers of some of the broken almandite...pink montmorillonite. Go shenite and aquamarine beryl crystals to four inches in diameter and to eight...been found here, as well as a little morganite beryl. Small, blue crystals of fluorapatite have been |
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| New Hampshire (after Page and Larrabee, 1962). beryl a cotumblt* Twenty-three minerals are now known...the CHANDLER MINE A ZONED, LITHIUM-RICH dump* PEGMATITE C A R L A. FRANCIS Harvard Mineralogical Museum...County, New Hampshire, is an open pit in a granite pegmatite that was operated for feldspar by the Whitehall...abundant lithium mineralization, the Chandler pegmatite is perhaps the most interesting of the many pegmatites...and the Chandler Mining Company's stock piles of beryl, columbite, and lepidolite was instructive. This |
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| will be held Sunday, August 17th, at the pegmatite quarries at Haddam Neck and Rock Landing, Conn., where...fine golden beryl crystals were found. The prize specimen, a two inch, loose, golden beryl of gem quality |
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| gem crystal species occur in pegmatite exposures, such as Aquamarine, Beryl, some Ruby-red Corundum, Spodumene...along Hwy. 59, 5 mi. E of Jackson-Banks Co. lineBeryl. MAYSVILLE, area gravels along adjoining Co. linerock...inside the Co. line in a Hornblendegneiss exposureBeryl, black Tourmaline. 146 A Location Guide for Rock... NWagate; N of Calloway airport at rd. jct.Beryl. BURKE COUNTY GIRARD, along the GA side of the...the United States Hendrix mica minesAquamarine, Beryl, Amethyst, Garnet, Smoky Quartz crystals, black |
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| of the Tilly Foster Mine . . The Branchville Pegmatite............................. On the Luminescent...consequently, the texture of the pegmatite is much coarser. In a very coarse pegmatite a small crystal of one mineral...difference in crystal size that characterizes the pegmatite. Pegmatites are thought to have been formed deep...bending it around the ends of the pegmatite; consequently, the pegmatite assumes either a lense-shaped structure...Pegmatitic contacts are often times distinct where the pegmatite meets the mica schist: If the pegmatitic intrusion |
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| 2014 from Mount Mica, Maine AmericaÕs First Gem Pegmatite WILLIAM B. “SKIP” SIMMONS Department of Geology...mineral community. M.E.H. M aine’s many pegmatite quarries have long been important as commercial sources...more famous than Mount Mica, America’s first gem pegmatite (Hamlin 1895). Mount Mica is located in the town...Bowker, owner of the farm on which the Mount Mica pegmatite was located, discovered a large tourmaline pocket...Numerous fine specimens of tourmaline and other pegmatite minerals were discovered. In 1871 Hamlin blasted |
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| with the cooperation of Ralph Lieser of Pappy's Beryl Shop, East Hampton, Conn., and Howard Pate of Fluorescent...Connecticut, such as the Strickland and Gillette pegmatite quarries, are fully covered in this most interesting...purchased direct from the author or from Pappy's Beryl Shop or the Fluorescent House. Mr. Schooner is one...Petroleum, by Iwao Kato and Masahiko Abe. Some Pegmatite Minerals from the Southern Inner Mongolia, by |
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| University. The accepted abstracts follow. THE QUARRIES AND MINERALS OF SOUTH GLASTONBURY, CONNECTICUT...promising forgotten locations is an area of old pegmatite quarries in South Glastonbury, Connecticut. This region...thirteen quarries in the Mid196 ROCKS 81MINERALS dletown-Portland, Connecticut, pegmatite district...north. This region includes one of the largest quarries of the entire district, the Howe No. 1. Access...known for gem beryl (aquamarine); and the Hollister quarry, known for lithium pegmatite minerals. Minerals |
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| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 PEGMATITE OCCURRENCES . .. .. . .........................18 THE PEGMATITE OCCURRENCE OF LUOLAMÄKI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 PEGMATITE OCCURENCES...connection with synorogenie rocks. Pegmatite dikes and lumps containing beryl are found mostly within the diorite...from coarse-grained varieties of granite, i.e., pegmatite occurrences. It was in 1956 that the Geological...Finland undertook to investigate and map out pegmatite occurrences as part of its systematic work program |
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| Scandian Ixiolite, Pyrochlore and Bazzite in Granite Pegmatite in Tordal, Telemark, Norway. A Contribution to...February 15, 1988 Summary In Tordal granite pegmatite veins cut through a volcano-sedimentary sequence...cleavelandite-amazonite pegmatite occurring as a part of a larger network of granitic pegmatite veins. Alteration...Scandium, tin, beryllium, mineralogy, geochemistry, pegmatite Schliisselw6rter: Scandium, Zinn, Beryllium, Mineralogie...together with the scandium-rich beryl bazzite in a cleavelandite-amazonite pegmatite vein in Tordal, Telemark |
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| interest because they are the potential source of beryl, the ore mineral of beryllium. From 1948 to 1950...area and to ascertain relations of beryl-bearing pegmatites to non-beryl-bearing pegmatites and to type of...muscovite. The common accessories are tourmaline, beryl, garnet, and biotite. The pegmatites have been divided...and without beryl; and those with more than 40 percent of plagioclase, with and without beryl. About 42...similar to the main part of the body. This type of pegmatite is of limited economic value. About 25 percent |
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| just as well have been included in the eventual Beryl Issue. Although discussion of the aquamarines may...Gerais, Brazil (by J. S. White) [1970, vol. 1, no. 2, p. 73.] Locality —Minas Gerais, Brazil: a response...[1975, vol. 6, no. 1, p. 22-25.] Newry, Maine, a pegmatite phosphate locality (by V. T. King) [1975, vol...301-308.]* New tourmaline discovered in [Itatiaia] Brazil (by A. Lallemant) [1978, vol. 9, no. 5, p. 298-299...298-299.] * More on rubellite from the Itatiaia mine, Brazil (by P. C. Keller) [1979, vol. 10, no. 1, p. 33-34 |
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| very different place, and we had access to many quarries in the state of Connecticut. Gem-quality tourmaline...mines. My father and I paid a few visits to these quarries, and it was not long before he uncovered the 1-inch-tall...by. Treasured Minerals 45 Blue Topazes from Brazil In the 1960s when I was just starting out, topaz...ever seen. Although they had larger specimens from Brazil, including one weighing perhaps as much as 200...Minerals 49 Bicolor Tourmaline from Minas Gerais, Brazil If the chemistry of the environment changes as |
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| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Pegmatite deposit in Kaatiala . . . . . . . . . . . . ...prospecting of gemstones . . . . . . . . . 49 Pegmatite deposit in Haapaluoma . . . . . . . . . . . ..... . . . . . . . 77 Northern Finland 279 Gem beryl in Luumäki . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . 304 the Viitaniemi pegmatite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104...orbicular rocks. He is particularly familiar with the pegmatite mineralogy, even described two new mineral species |
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| City Geode Location WARSAW, area rd. cuts, pits quarries, gravels, banks along regional creeks and streams...area⎯tripoli. VERMILION COUNTY DANVILLE, area quarries in dark shale⎯Marcasite replacement of marine...marine fossils. WILL COUNTY LEMONT, area quarries⎯glistening Quartz replacement fossils. WILMINGTON, regional...Pyrite, Selenite and Sphalerite. Regional limestone quarries produce some gemmy Apatite, Calcite, Glauconite...Siderite can also be found in regional limestone quarries. ALLEN COUNTY FORT WAYNE: c area farms, as glacial |
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| City Geode Location WARSAW, area rd. cuts, pits quarries, gravels, banks along regional creeks and streams...area⎯tripoli. VERMILION COUNTY DANVILLE, area quarries in dark shale⎯Marcasite replacement of marine...marine fossils. WILL COUNTY LEMONT, area quarries⎯glistening Quartz replacement fossils. WILMINGTON, regional...Pyrite, Selenite and Sphalerite. Regional limestone quarries produce some gemmy Apatite, Calcite, Glauconite...Siderite can also be found in regional limestone quarries. ALLEN COUNTY FORT WAYNE: c area farms, as glacial |
