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Spodumene from
Frye, Roxbury, Oxford County, Maine, USA


Classification
Species:Spodumene
Formula:LiAlSi2O6
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Dealer/Collection Label
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Spodumene data
Locality Data:Click here to view Frye, Roxbury, Oxford County, Maine, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:940384
Long-form Identifier:1:3:940384:0
GUID (UUID V4):8c02abdf-87db-422d-9f71-9f6e3300f399
References
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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
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as Aquamarine, Beryl, some Ruby-red Corundum, Spodumene and Topaz. Georgia has been actively prospected...Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and  the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59...along adjoining Co. linerock crystal. BARROW COUNTY WINDER, along rd. to Jefferson and 1½ mi. inside...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States BARTOW COUNTY AREA, Saltpeter Cave, as floatjasper. CARTERSVILLE:
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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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HANDBOOK for A WEEK WITH MAINE MINERALS by NEIL A. WINTRINGHAM 1_� Cv1,_1'--A� __, SECOND EDITION...a week collecting in the pegme.tite area ot Oxford county, !!Bine, Neil Wintr:lnghal'!l, a pa.st-president...field trial of the hambook during our ''Week with Maine Minerals" furnished additional information end resulted...characterized the evenings spent with members of the Oxford County Mineral & Gem Association. N. A. W. Mountainside...minerals. The geology of pegmatites, in general, and Maine pegmatites, in particular, is summarized briefly
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Edited by KEITH FRYE of the ENCYCLOPEDIA o* MINERALOGY Edited by Keith Frye Department of Geophysical...Fairbridge IVB THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MINERALOGY/^ezY/z Frye VI THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SEDIMENTOLOGY/ZMocto W...The ENCYCLOPEDIA of MINERALOGY EDITED BY Keith Frye Old Dominion University Hutchinson Ross Publishing...Pennsylvania Dedicated to the memory of Nancy Ferguson Frye (1943-1975) © 1981 by Hutchinson Ross Publishing...bibliographies and indexes. 1. Mineralogy-Dictionaries. I. Frye, Keith, 1935II. Series. 549'.03'21 QE355.E49 81-982
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
PROSPECTING IN MAINE THIRTY YEARS AGO By P H I L I P M O R R I L L High St., Route 1 , West Paris, Maine 04239...slopes, tried to force the season. Went to Paris (Maine); up a muddy road and a very steep long hill and...many years into a large open pit. Most spar from Maine is white or cream in color. This mine pro­ duces...lepidolite and colored tourmaline. The east pit shows spodumene, some of it pink. Nothing spectacular. Patches...much Maine rose quartz fades rapidly. The next morning went over to the Hibbs Quarry (Hebron, Maine). This
Report (volume)
GEOLOGY OF THE PEGMATITES AND ASSOCIATED ROCKS OF MAINE INCLUDING FELDSPAR, QUARTZ, MICA, AND GEM DEPOSITS................................... Origin of the Maine pegmatites........................................Larsen............................. Application to Maine pegmatites............................... Eutectics.............................. 1.... Androscoggin County................................................................................................ Maine Feldspar Company quarry and mill...............
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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...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason
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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...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason
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chrysoberyl, apatite, brazilianite, tourmaline, spodumene, topaz, danburite, microlite and peta- lite....from this large open-pit mine at Bisbee, Arizona, USA. Bisbee is one of the world’s best locations for...Thin sections are cut and examined Cerussite (Utah, USA) MINERALS Calcite (Chihuahua, Mexico) under the... Such sites include lithium mines in San Diego county, California, now famous for fine tourmaline...Petrified wood from the Petrified Forest, Arizona, USA. The structure of the original wood remains after
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e Rt. 2 2 4 west 1 mile from Interstate 7 5 and County Road 140 north V2 mile. M E X I C A N C U T T...e n t purple apatites from last find at Auburn, Maine $2.50. Diamond, Africa $3.00. Legrandite-Mexico...lithiophilite, colored tour­ maline, damourite, spodumene and " l u s ­ trous" hallyosite pseudo. T h e...send $ 5 . 0 0 to cover my handling cost. O. L . Frye Shellogest, A u ­ thor, 3 3 3 Frederick St., Santa...Everett Lapidary 263 263 265 264 264 Frazier, K Frye, O. L 252 26S ROCKS A N D MINERALS TO CLASSIFIED
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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
Report (volume)
classn_____ classification Co_______. Company, County Coll______ Collections Conini_____ Committee Cominuii____... SERIALS EXAMINED Maine State Geologist Report 1942-43. 5 Orono, Maine. Maine Technology Experiment...Experiment Station Papers 40-44. Orono, Maine. Maryland, Natural History Society: Annual Reports vol. 13 (no...well at the Jayhawk Ordnance Works in Cherokee County, Kans.: Kansas Univ. Geol. Survey Bull. 47, pt...C. K., 1. 1. The geology of Long Reach, King's County, New Brunswick: Royal Soc. Canada Trans. 3d ser
Journal (issue)
Amethyst | Aquamarine with Spodumene Inclusions from the Oceanview Mine, California, USA | Demantoid/ Andradite...Alonso-Perez Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA Editorial Assistant Carol M. Stockton Edward Boehm...Boehm RareSource, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA Editor Emeritus Roger R. Harding Maggie Campbell Pedersen...Mary Johnson Consulting, San Diego, California, USA Stefanos Karampelas Bahrain Institute for Pearls...Emmett Crystal Chemistry, Brush Prairie, Washington, USA Hiroshi Kitawaki Central Gem Laboratory, Tokyo,
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the Stewart Pegmatite, Pala District,lSan Diego County, California J,c,MssE. Stncr,svr exo GonooN E. BnowN...pegmatitesin the Pala pegmatitedistrict, San Diego County, California. At the Stewart pegmatite, lithiophilite...is located in the northwest corner of San Diego County (Fig. 1). Several hundred granitic pegmatites,...Dalrymple, 1976). This Fig. 1. Map of San Diego County showing the location of the orogenic-typebatholith...microcline-perthite, albite, quartz, muscovite, lepidolite, spodumene,amblygonite,and tourmaline,while additional acc€ssoryminerals
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Anorthite Microcline Sodalite BiotiteCordierite Spodumene-' Pyrope Almandine Spessartine Grossular Clinozoisitet...'HrO in this mineralwas not determined. *'Li in spodumene, Be in beryl, and B in tourmalinewere not determined...somerepresentative pyaluminosilicateminerals,namelyalmandine,spodumene, rophyllite,tourmaline,kaolinite,topaz,kyanite...osilicateminerals containing t6rAl Al K-edge Spodumene Assignments A 1s - als (SsJike) C 1s-tl,(3pJike)...licate minerals containing r6tAl (almandine, spodumene, pyrophyllite, tourmaline, kaolinite, topaz,
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Mineralogy-___________________________________ 55 Spodumene _______-_-____-_--____------____ 55 Amblygonite..._________________- i __-__-__--___-__ 57 Prospecting for spodumene, amblygonite, and lepidolite ________ ______:..._______________ 65 Beecher No. 2 and Longview spodumene claims by Peter Joralemon. ____--_____-_-__-___-________...Lode__________---______--_____-_-,-----Edison spodumene mme__-____-_-___---_-------Elkhorn and Hot Shot...micaprospect by R. F. Stopper.________ Mateen spodumene prospect by M. P. Erickson and T. A. Steven__
Report (volume)
Orleans, La. Maine Geol. Survey Bull.-Maine Geological Survey Bulletin. Augusta, Maine. Maine State Geologist...Geologist Rpt.-Maine State Geologist Report. Orono, Maine. Manitoba Dept. Mines and Nat. Res., Mines Br...Bull.; County Rpt.-Maryland Department of Geology, Mines and Water Resources Bulletin; County Report...resources of the valley-fill deposits of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania: Pa. Geol. Survey, 4th ser. Bull...Permian age in the northwestern Marfa Basin, Hudspeth County, Texas [abs.]: Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., v. 60, no
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series of pegmatite dikes ranking with those in Maine and Southern California for their production of...spectacular crystals of Beryl and Spodumene. For instance, a single Spodumene crystal from the Etta Mine near...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
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fabulous tourmalines and kunzites of California and Maine, the sparkling sapphires of Montana, and the...Kobuk jade locality. Descriptions of San Diego County, California, gemstones and the mines in which they...the generous assistance of many residents of that county. My special thanks are extended to Elbert H. McMacken...Opal. IMPORTANT GEMSTONES The Feldspar Group, Spodumene, Tourmaline, Sodalite and Cancrinite, Olivine...Hills of South Dakota, once yielded a single spodumene crystal over forty feet long! Flawless blue beryl
Report (volume)
Orleans, La. Maine Technology Experiment Station: Bulletins 36-?S. University of Maine, Orono, Maine. Massachusetts..., and Lee, Wallace). Oil and gas in Montgomery County, Kans.: Kansas Univ. Bull. 31, pp. 5-29, 2 pis...Chattanooga shale in Chetopa oil pool, Labette County Kans.: Am. Assoc. Petroleum Geologists Bull., vol...also Hake, B. F., 1. 1. Buckeye oil field, Gladwin County, Mich.: Am. Assoc. Petroleum Geologists Bull.,...188, 1941. 5. The geology of Long Reach, King's County, New Brunswick: Royal Soc. Canada Trails. 3(1 ser
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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
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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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-2115, USA Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, MS 69...SLAC, 2545 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA c Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,...California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA Received 18 September 2008; accepted in revised...small amount (15%) of the Al as crystalline spodumene. Microprobe analysis indicated that the glassy...comparing this spectrum with that of crystalline spodumene. However, extensive microprobe analyses indicate
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from the Tourmaline Q ueen .1ine, Pala, San Diego County, California. From a pen-and-ink drawing by W. E...68 IMPORT ANT GEMSTONES The Feldspar Group, Spodumene, Tourmaline, Sodalite, Olivine (Peridot), Turquois...Pegmatite pocket, Crystal Peak, Colorado 31. Spodumene, Pala Chief mine, Pala, California 32. Dean A...Pocket in pegmatite, Newry, Maine 34. Loading pocket contents, Newry, Maine 35. Large tourmaline crystal...of tourmaline crystal forms 38. Map of San Diego County, California gem sources 3 9. Stewart Lithia· and
 
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