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Smoky Quartz from
Swamp No. 1 Quarry, Topsham, Sagadahoc County, Maine, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Quartz var: Smoky Quartz
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Smoky Quartz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Swamp No. 1 Quarry, Topsham, Sagadahoc County, Maine, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:556985
Long-form Identifier:1:3:556985:4
GUID (UUID V4):82a3adfe-9b0b-4cb8-8c2e-c2bf57a07dc1
Nearest other occurrences of Smoky Quartz
0.1km (0.0 miles) Swamp #2 quarry, Topsham, Sagadahoc County, Maine, USA
0.4km (0.3 miles) Consolidated #1 Quarry, Topsham, Sagadahoc County, Maine, USA
1.1km (0.7 miles) Fisher Quarry, Topsham, Sagadahoc County, Maine, USA
1.8km (1.1 miles) William Willes #1 Quarry, Topsham, Sagadahoc County, Maine, USA
1.9km (1.2 miles) Square Pit (Consolidated #4 Quarry), Topsham, Sagadahoc County, Maine, USA
2.9km (1.8 miles) Trenton Quarry, Topsham, Sagadahoc County, Maine, USA
3.7km (2.3 miles) Havey #1 & #2 Quarries, Topsham, Sagadahoc County, Maine, USA
3.9km (2.4 miles) North Russell Brothers Quarry, Topsham, Sagadahoc County, Maine, USA
14.1km (8.7 miles) Route 1 Road Cut, Woolwich, Sagadahoc County, Maine, USA
19.9km (12.3 miles) Pound of Tea Island Epidote locality, Freeport, Cumberland County, Maine, USA
References
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unusual boxlike cavities lined with comb-structured quartz. Although Dale (1924) named the vein after the...the outer walls of the quartz-lined cavities, at the boundary between quartz and calcite, pyrolusite...along the cleavage directions of calcite. Euhedral quartz characterized the interior of the cavities, Volume69...University Library] at 17:06 10 August 2015 Calcite and quartz mineralization typical of the box-vein of Lyonsdale...with Herkimer quartz) locally occurs on the surfaces and within the outer margins of quartz. Textural evidence
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Unusual Quartz John Ebner of Manasquan, New Jersey, visited Calamity Wash, Yavapai County, and collected...and Figure 7: Arizona quartz; John Ebner photo. Figures 2 & 3 Arizona quartz; John Ebner photos. unusual...unusual micromount-sized quartz crystals. The accompanying photographs illustrate the variety of groupings...groupings and distortions found in the specimens. Maine New Mining Activity Ever since the feldspar mill...mill burned in West Paris in the early 196Os, Maine pegmatite mining has been conducted only for the recovery
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Jan/Feb 2024 Vol.99, No.1 ROCKS MINE ."Iii[! iil"J www.tandfonline.com/vram Pegmatite Minerals & Gems...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...Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored
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Congress Control Number: 2007939782 All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced or used in any... .. ............. ..... ..... ....... 6 Chapter 1: Introduction • Discovery and Exploitation of Uranium...generally meaningful to most mineral collectors: 1. Primary minerals; 2. Secondary minerals; 3. Other...their formation and general characteristics. Because no single book can do justice to the vast literature...scientific books. This is all her fault. Chapter 1 Introduction • Discovery and Exploitation of Uranium
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Topeka-Kentucky Giant and Indiana veins, Ouray County, Colorado........................................the Rose of Itatiaia, or the Van Allen Belt rose quartz. (How many remember it by that name? How many know...only to appreciate it and, perhaps, to appraise it, no longer do I feel a desire to possess it. Some of...museums, some for private collectors, and some with no idea whatsoever of what their ultimate fate will...specin “handler.” I know that this is considered a no-no when view another’s collection and I strongly support
 
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