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


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:'Biotite' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:K(Fe2+/Mg)2(Al/Fe3+/Mg/Ti)([Si/Al/Fe]2Si2O10)(OH/F)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Biotite 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:1351282
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1351282:4
GUID (UUID V4):08cd1a5c-56af-456d-b8c7-2a1c6d346cd5
Nearest other occurrences of Biotite
4.6km (2.9 miles) Black Hawk Mine, Blue Hill, 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
8.9km (5.5 miles) Owen Lead Prospect, Blue Hill, Blue Hill - Castine Mining District, Hancock County, Maine, USA
9.0km (5.6 miles) Mammoth Mine, Blue Hill, Blue Hill - Castine Mining District, Hancock County, Maine, USA
9.1km (5.6 miles) Owen Mine, Blue Hill, Blue Hill - Castine Mining District, Hancock County, Maine, USA
10.2km (6.3 miles) Stewart Mine, Blue Hill, Blue Hill - Castine Mining District, Hancock County, Maine, USA
11.1km (6.9 miles) Twin Lead Mine, Blue Hill, Blue Hill - Castine Mining District, Hancock County, Maine, USA
13.2km (8.2 miles) Granger Mine, Blue Hill, Blue Hill - Castine Mining District, Hancock County, Maine, USA
25.5km (15.9 miles) Mosquito Mountain Granite Quarry, Frankfort, Waldo County, Maine, USA
32.7km (20.3 miles) Mount Desert Township, 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)
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:...agate, (banded, various colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY MACON:  at Holton Quarry, 7½ mi. NWagate;  N
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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...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...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...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods
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
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...places the ore bodiesare lenseswhi.chin a single mine are parallel and usually overlapping. The lodes...whichhasescapedglaciation. The ganguemineralsinclude chlorite,biotite, muscovite,quartz, calcite,garnet, tremolite, actinolite...depositsof Gardner Mountain, Grafton County, and the Milan mine, New Hampshire, and gives the following
Report (Issue volume)
.....................................42 Hopeful Hill Basalt. ..........................................................................43 Blackfellow Hill Pyroxenite .........................................................................68 Wilgena Hill Jaspilite ...................................................97 Metasediments near Parabarana Hill ...................................98 Correlation..........................132 Exploration and mine development... ..........................132
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...coarse-grained gangueof quartz,microcline, and biotite, with minorhematite,pyrite, and hematiticmatri
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
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)
laminated, dolomite-rich, uppermost Sturtian Tapley Hill formation. The Fig. 1. Map of the Adelaide Geosyncline... / Precambrian Research 106 (2001) 291–308 Tapley Hill formation is the most widespread unit in the...with thermal sag (Jenkins, 1990). Above the Tapley Hill formation, the Marinoan is composed of the upper...Enorama Enorama Enorama Tapley Hill Tapley Hill Tapley Hill Tapley Hill Tapley Hill Skillogalee Skillogalee.../18 /15 /23 /35 /31 /28 27A /25B /25 GH/36 a Tapley Hill Balcanoona Balcanoona Enorama Enorama Enorama
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Survey of South Australia, Department for Energy and Mining, Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia; anthony.reid@sa...oxide-copper-gold (IOCG) deposits including Prominent Hill and Carrapateena. This paper reviews the geology...mineral resources. Keywords: IOCG deposits; mineral district; mineral deposit; alteration assemblages; lithosphere;...The approach taken here is to describe this IOCG district with reference to four major themes: 1. 2. 3...exhalative-type processes resulted in formation of the Broken Hill Zn-Pb-Ag orebody (e.g., [66,67]). These packages
Book
Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi...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...heavy gold settings that were further decorated with blue enamel. Foreword xv The designs represented...of commercial mining is also long, beginning with the Kenya opal mines of 4000 B.C. Mining began with gemstones
Report (chapter)
Wales 2351, Australia 4 CSIRO Exploration and Mining, PO Box 136, North Ryde, New South Wales 1670,...calcite), plagioclase, muscovite, chlorite and biotite. There is an antithetic relationship between iron...metamorphosed to greenschist facies (chlorite to biotite grade). Geochemically, the ironstones display a...of the basal Tindelpina Shale Member of the Tapley Hill Fm. The Sturt Tillite is interpreted as glaciomarine...SUBGROUP Mt Lofty Ranges Nackara Arc Tapley Hill Fm. Tapley Hill Fm. Tindelpina Shale Member Tindelpina
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...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...units at Kapunda, which have been called the Kapunda Mine Series by Rowlands (1974), who correlates the Adelaidean
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)
with area: X being yellow; Y being red; and Z being blue. From a mineral residuals will generate images that...yellow; Y being and red;neighboring and Z beingmapped blue. From a mineral spectroscopy areas nearwith Y (Figure...nm, respectively. In contrast, pixel spectra from blue/cyan areas near Z (Figure 2a) over alluvium (Z)...South Australia (e.g., Mount Fitton) and Broken Hill in New South 6, 52 Minerals targeted at these test...Airborne MIRACO2 LAS results (~1992) for the Broken Hill area, New South Wales, Australia. Figure 3. Airborne
Report (Issue volume)
REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR • •• ••• • •• ••• 5 DISTRICT REPOR'l"S ( ... i\.)-ENGLAND1\ND \V1\I�ES: I...4. 5. 6. District, l)y IIENRY ••• •• • ••• ••• ••• D.H.\V.EY... 1Vlidla11cls District , by T. C....Yorkshire District, by (,. E. N. BRo�IEHEAD, B .....i\. · · · ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· Lancashire District, by vv.... •• • 1\-1.I.lvl E. ••• •• • ••• Cumberlancl District, by BERNARD S:\1ITH I l\'I ..l\., Sc.D. ... •••...•• • ••• ••• ::N"orth111nberland and Durha111 District, by R. G. CARRUTHERS ... • • • • •• ••• 44 I
Report (Issue volume)
Papua New Guinea The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy MONOGRAPH 1.* Detrital Heavy Mineral...1962 1967 A.E. Jenkins and G.M. Willis 3. Broken Hill Mines — 1968 1968 and Papua New Ed. C.L. Knight...W. Ryall — 2nd Edition* — 3rd Edition 10.* Mining and Metallurgical Practices in Australasia (The...Willis Connolly Memorial Volume) Australasian Coal Mining Practice Mineral Deposits of New Zealand Geology...be obtained from The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy 191 Royal Parade, Parkville, Vic
Report (issue)
__________________________________ _ History of mining ________________ ·__________________ _ Production...34 35 35 36 39 44 44 45 46 47 47 49 49 50 50 Mine descriptions ___________ --------- -- .. -------...___ _______________________ _______ _ Fauquier County ____ ______ ______ _____ _____ _ Franklin ____...properties _________ .. _____________ _ Halifax County ______ - _____ - __________ ~- _'- __ _ Virgilina..._____ _ ____ __ ... _________________ _ Orange County-· ___________________________ _ Melville ____ -
Report (Issue volume)
•• ••• ••• 5 DISTRICT REPORTS II. (A)-ENGLAND AND WALES r. Southern District, by HENRY DEWEY...... ... 3. Yorkshire District, by C. E. N. BROMEHEAD, B.A. 4. Lancashire District, by W. B. WRIGHT, Sc...5. Cumbrian District, by T. EASTWOOD, A.R.C.Sc. . .. 6. Northumberland and Durham District, by R. G. ..... ... E. RICHEY, M.C., B.A. 2. West Highland District, by J. E. RICHEY, 1\,1.C., B.A. ... ... 3. Shetland...engaged in the undermentioned districts :Southern District (primary six-inch survey). Midlands and South
Journal (issue)
• PAGE ARTICLES The Wolfram Deposits of Singo County, Buganda Province, Uganda. By Basil C. King, D...Map showing Positions of Wolfram Deposits, Singo County • • • • ,, 309 Fig. 4 Wolfram Workings, Kyasampawo... • e X ' • THE WOLFRAM DEPOSITS OF SINGO COUNTY, BUGANDA PROVINCE, UGANDA By BASIL C. KING, D.Sc...short grass is confined to the plateaux and , I , hill-tops, while forests often LAKE • ~ , ~ ------------...pre-Cambrian age, the hill-tops in • I THE WOLFRAM DEPOSITS OF SINGO COUNTY 307 the granite areas
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
OF THE LOWER GREENSAND IN THE DORKING-LEITH HILL DISTRICT, SURREY. By H. A. HAYWARD, F.G.S. WEALD RESEARCH...] [Read July 6th, 1928.1 I. INTRODUCTION. H E district described in this paper extends from Brockham...Map is the Old Series r-inch Sheet, No.8. The district is interesting from many points of view. Here...attains in the Weald. In the western half of the district under consideration are some extremely picturesque...well-wooded character of the maj or portion of the district is the legacy of the arboricultural enterprise
 
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