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Quartz from
Tapley Mine, Brooksville, Blue Hill - Castine Mining District, Hancock County, Maine, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Quartz
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Quartz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Tapley Mine, Brooksville, Blue Hill - Castine Mining District, Hancock County, Maine, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1351289
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1351289:7
GUID (UUID V4):08101589-d1e4-441e-98dc-084166a4959c
Nearest other occurrences of Quartz
3.9km (2.4 miles) Perkins mine, Brooksville, Blue Hill - Castine Mining District, Hancock County, Maine, USA
4.6km (2.9 miles) Black Hawk Mine, Blue Hill, Blue Hill - Castine Mining District, Hancock County, Maine, USA
5.3km (3.3 miles) Emerson Mine, Castine, Blue Hill - Castine Mining District, Hancock County, Maine, USA
5.5km (3.4 miles) North Castine mine, Castine, Blue Hill - Castine Mining District, Hancock County, Maine, USA
5.8km (3.6 miles) Cape Rosier Mine (Callahan Mine; Rosier Consolidated Mine), Brooksville, Blue Hill - Castine Mining District, Hancock County, Maine, USA
6.2km (3.8 miles) Jones Mine, Brooksville, Blue Hill - Castine Mining District, Hancock County, Maine, USA
6.8km (4.3 miles) Hercules Mine, Castine, Blue Hill - Castine Mining District, Hancock County, Maine, USA
8.3km (5.1 miles) Eggemoggin Silver mine, Sedgwick, Hancock County, Maine, USA
8.5km (5.3 miles) Limeburner prospect (Lymburner Prospect), Penobscot, Hancock County, Maine, USA
8.6km (5.4 miles) Highland Mine, Castine, Blue Hill - Castine Mining District, Hancock County, Maine, USA
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Report (volume)
DIRECTOR BULLETIN 432 SOME ORE DEPOSITS IN MAINE AND THE MILAN MINE, NEW HAMPSHIRE BY WILLIAM H. EMMONS.............................. ----------.- --- Mining development................................................................................... Castine formation...................................................................... 30 Mines of Hancock County.............................................. 30 Douglas mine..................................................... 31 Twin Lead mine.............
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)
0 n101ercai o of Maine j f·~ ....__ :,,. . - .._"' ..;. .. ~ L-- -~ \. • .J_..::.; I Volume...Volume 2: Mining History, Gems, and Geology edited by Vandall T. King Maine Geological Survey DEPARTMENT...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
Book (volume)
gold-bearing areas. Lode deposits usually consist of Quartz veins in solid rock, while placer deposits occur...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:
Report (issue)
decide whether a certain metalliferous deposit or district should be included or not. The problem was also...other forms) since 1935 is reviewed. New sulfur mining and recovery projects in the United States and...chemical properties of sulfur, the geology and mining operations of the salt-dome sulfur deposits, the...sulfur by superheated water through wells at Sulphur mine, Louisiana, are fully detailed. Exploration and...Swager, W. L. , and Sullivan, J. D. , 1951, Sulphur: Mining Engineering, vol. 3. , pp. 403409. The history
Book (volume)
Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift...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...Amethysts, or Quartz crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods
Book (volume)
Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift...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...Amethysts, or Quartz crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods
Book (edition)
YEAR 1687"—DAVID T. DAY, CHIEF OF THE DIVISION OF MINING STATISTICS AND TECHNOLOGY WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT...and consump tion, or better and cheaper means of mining, extraction, and convey ance to market, may in...correspondence has been carried on with geologists, mining engineers, and other local authorities, and various...mmed at Broken Arrow aud Trout creek, in Sc. Clair county. The strata in this field are more faulted und...prong of Canoe creek, in St. Clair county, to Ha\sop creek, in Bibb county, a distance of 60 miles. Down to
Journal (issue)
the granites at Lake Boga, Wycheproof and Pyramid Hill, Victoria W. D. Birch ......................................... 51 Minerals from the Spring Creek Mine, near Wilmington, South Australia B. Beyer & P................ 57 Heulandite from the Illawarra District, NSW P. Carr, M. Perkins, B. Chenhall, f. Pemberton...of interesting mineral discoveries in the western USA. FRANCIS COLLECTION WEB SITES The Mineralogical...first theme issue of AJM, which will be on Broken Hill. The planned highlight is a feature on the minerals
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
writer studiedin detail certain pyritic ore bodiesin Maine and New Hampshire which proved to be pre-Silurian... 756 WILLIAM H. EMMONS. tion with the state of Maine. I acknowledgemy indebtedness to Messrs.G. O. Smith...followingcharacters: They are inclosedin schistsof various kinds--quartz schists,mica schists, chlorite schists,chloritebiotite...places the ore bodiesare lenseswhi.chin a single mine are parallel and usually overlapping. The lodes...ganguemineralsinclude chlorite,biotite, muscovite,quartz, calcite,garnet, tremolite, actinolite and zoisite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Johannesburg (South Africa) 2 Klein Aub Copper Mine, Klein Aub (SWA/Namibia) 3 Formerly M.T.D. (Mangula)...(Mangula) Limited, Mhangura, Zimbabwe; now General Mining Union Corporation, Johannesburg (South Africa)...Limited, Mhangura (Zimbabwe) 5Lomagundi Smelting and Mining Limited, Chinhoyi (Zimbabwe) ABSTRACT Maiden...compare the geological situation in three copper mining districts and in so doing to select features which...SELECTED DEPOSITS Klein Aub, SWA/Namibia Klein Aub mine is at the south-western extremity of a m ~ r a l
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Most of these were small,but there was protracted mining at Kapunda, Burra, Blinman, Kanmantoo, Moonta-Wallaroo...evaporite-richCallannaGroup strata; Betweenthe Tapley Hill Formationand the upper deformationof Callann...Preparationsfor Hydrothermalstrata-boundand transgressive mining mineralizationin middle Proterozoicgraben sequencedominatedby...dolosiltstone;sulfideveinlets common;secondary enrichment Tapley Hill Formation SubeconomicCu (Pb, Zn) (Myall Creek...barite,and gold. bornitcin a coarse-grained gangueof quartz,microcline, and biotite, with minorhematite,pyrite
Book
stumble over a valuable nugget and stake your own mining claim? Indeed it to is, and author book Jay...prospecting, he points out, is in abandoned mining districts, where valuable mineral ores are present...commercial ores and secondary minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification...RANSOM 1875-1948 An to the Eastern '‘Schoolmarm” Mining Camps of the Old West I I a s I \ h K... CONTENTS Preface ix PART I 1 Introduction to Mining and Mineralogy 2 Preparation for Mineral Collecting
Report (Issue volume)
.....................................42 Hopeful Hill Basalt. ..........................................................................43 Blackfellow Hill Pyroxenite .........................................................................68 Wilgena Hill Jaspilite ...................................................97 Metasediments near Parabarana Hill ...................................98 Correlation..................................100 Unnamed quartz schist (P L d2) ..............................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the base of the late Proterozoic (Adelaidean) Tapley Hill Formation. It contains disseminated, fine-grained...and early Adelaidean rocks. They entered the Tapley Hill sediments at moderately low temperatures via...(Fig. 1), in the late Proterozoic (Adelaidean) Tapley Hill Formation. It lies on a general alignment of...Cu are common in the basal few metres of the Tapley Hill Formation. The host unit is widely distributed...basement ~ Mainminera/isedzone FF Fault "~" Hill .'. : ~." • Formation ¢, ~2--.:-.. .'.-. ~
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
derived from Mawson and Sprigg, (1950). The Tapley Hill Formation overlies the Sturtian glacials (Merinjina...Tindelpina Shale is the basal member of the Tapley Hill Formation and contains the Sturtian cap dolomite...2009a). In the Arkaroola-Gammon Ranges area, the Tapley Hill Formation has been subdivided into a number of... Laterally equivalent to, and overlying the Tapley Hill Formation, is the Balcanoona Formation. The Balcanoona...(Preiss et al., 1998) unconformably overlies the Tapley Hill Formation and consists of a series of calcareous
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
stratiformdolostone-mudstone-hosted depositsin the TapIcy Hill Formation.Initial precipitation of Cu-Fe sulfidemineralsin...inward from bothupperand lowersurfaces of the TapIcy Hill Formationwith a relativelybarrenpyrite zonein the...the distinctiveS isotopedistributionin the TapIcy Hill Formationuniquelydefinesthis stratigraphicunit....minor elementtrendsin both the Pandurraand TapIcy Hill Formationssuggests a commonmineralizingeventfor...Cattle Grid depositwhich, beforecommencementof mining in 1974, had a measuredre- 250 i 137ø 138
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
finergrained calcmudstones and siltstones. The Mine Series accumulated in shallow water to supratidal...Adelaide (Fig. i). This signalled the birth of copper mining in Australia. The Kapunda deposits were mined continuously...represented by the Callana Beds. These comprise quartz-rich arenites, siltstones, stromatolitic carbonates...bottom by 3 major tillites. The interglacial Tapley Hill formation is a widely distributed unit both in...conditions in parts of the lower section of the Tapley Hill Formation. The second major glacial event was
Report (issue)
H. LUDBROOK HPRM 2018D037863 Cover Parabarana Hill in the Mount Painter Complex. Early Cretaceous sediments...Great Artesian Basin crop out at the foot of the hill. Department of Mines and Energy South Australia... . . . . . . . . . 95 Fig. 35 Section through Blue Lake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . 96 PLATES Cover-Parabarana Hill .... . ... . ...... .. . ........ ... ... . .. . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Plate 6 Kanmantoo Mine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
cavities in altered variscite at Fairfield, Utah County, Utah; also manganoan overite recently has been...the Colorado School of Mines, he married Loise Tapley. For a while he worked at his uncle's gold mill...minerals from around Colorado Springs ( E l Paso County), Colorado. His first professional collecting venture...Harvard Museum, E d Over also searched in Mineral County, Nevada, and in the Thomas Range, Utah, in 1933...Institution. Figure 4: Over at entrance to variscite mine, Fairfield Utah. A . Montgomery photograph. Note
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
follows a steady climb through the shoaling upward Tapley Hill Formation reaching +4‰ in the Brighton Limestone... / Precambrian Research 106 (2001) 149–186 Tapley Hill Formation (d34S= +9 to +40‰) is distinctly heavier...north-western Canada (Kaufman et al., 1992, 1997); western USA (Smith et al., 1994; Prave, 1999); central Brazil...determined. They include 7509 53 Ma for the Tapley Hill Formation low in the Umberatana Group on the...grey to dark grey shales and siltstones of the Tapley Hill Formation. The unit averages 2 km in thickness
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
65 70 superheavy (> +26‰) (anhydrite, n=5) Tapley Hill Fm (Adelaide Rift Complex), Australia (CAS, n=36)...Datangpo Fm (Dawu mine), China Datangpo Fm (Xiangtan), China Datangpo Fm (Zhailanggou mine), China Datangpo...Datangpo Fm (Yanglizhang mine), China Datangpo Fm (Minle mine), China (n=66) 10 Datangpo Fm (Lijiawan)...(Lijiawan), China (n=6) 11 Datangpo Fm (Xixibao mine), China (n=10) 12 (n=4) 13 (n=15) 14 Datangpo Fm...(Datangpo mine), China Datangpo Fm (Daotuo mine), China (n=21) 15 (n=50) 16 Tapley Hill Fm (Adelaide
Report (chapter)
found in an abundant range of types, from huge quartz veins in Brazil and Australia (e.g. Hippertt &...the fibre-forming minerals (typically calcite or quartz) rarely grow fibrous crystals in other circumstances...calcite veins were sampled from the Neoproterozoic Tapley Hill Formation in the northern Flinders Ranges (Fig...Drexel et al. 1993 for regional geology). The Tapley Hill Formation forms part of the Adelaidean (Neoproterozoic)...carbonate-rich in the upper part of the sequence. The Tapley Hill Formation overlies Sturtian tillites, which have
Book
Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi...Size Categories Dana's Classification of Minerals Quartz Family Gemstones The Various Names and Forms of...ancient gems), calcite, fluorspar, jadeite, pyrite, quartz family minerals ( agate, carnelian, chalcedony...waterworn crystals of aluminum silicate found as clear blue gemmy pebbles), and turquoise. About 2000 B.c. the...been left to adorn her in the afterlife: opaque blue turquoise and lapis lazuli, clear red carnelian
Report (chapter)
Wales 2351, Australia 4 CSIRO Exploration and Mining, PO Box 136, North Ryde, New South Wales 1670,...silty facies by the presence of occasional outsized quartz or feldspar sand grains and the general absence...mostly well-sorted and dominated by well-rounded quartz of medium sand size, but fine-grained and coarse-grained...hematite deposited along with clastic silt-sized quartz and clay minerals. Locally there are very thin...composed of dominant fine-grained magnetite, hematite, quartz, carbonate (ferroan dolomite, ferroan calcite)
 
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