 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | L etters CONNECTICUT UPDATE Reexamination of specimens from closed localities can yield surprising results...(shown here) collected at the Strickland pegmatite, Portland, Connecticut, recently proved this point....contains foitite grading into elbaite and the uncommon zeolite gobbinsite mixed with quartz. Foitite and gobbinsite...wodginite on cassiterite from the Strickland pegmatite, Portland, Connecticut. The specimen was collected by |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | L etters CONNECTICUT UPDATE Reexamination of specimens from closed localities can yield surprising results...(shown here) collected at the Strickland pegmatite, Portland, Connecticut, recently proved this point....contains foitite grading into elbaite and the uncommon zeolite gobbinsite mixed with quartz. Foitite and gobbinsite...wodginite on cassiterite from the Strickland pegmatite, Portland, Connecticut. The specimen was collected by |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | accepted abstracts follow. THE GARNET LINE IN OXFORD COUNTY, MAINE, PEGMATITES. M. M. Felch, W. B. Simmons...intermediate and core zones in many of the Oxford County, Maine, pegmatites. This study primarily focuses...tourmaline-rimmed garnet was recently reported from a pegmatite in the Sahatany Valley, Madagascar (Buřival and...similar to the model proposed for the San Diego County pegmatites (Webber et al. 1997, 1999). The garnet...oscillatory nucleation in the formation of line rock in pegmatite-aplite dikes. Journal of Petrology 38:1777–91 |  | | Report (issue) | | International, LLC P.O. Box 263, East Hampton, CT 06424, USA Phone 1.860.267.1512; fax 1.860.267.7225 www.lapisint...CHRISTIAN WEISE VERLAG, GERMANY AND LAPIS INTERNATIONAL, USA Tourmaline ♦ History ♦ Mineralogy • Tourmaline...spelling of the old word turamalin to tourmalin. Hill coined the term tourmaline garnet in 1771 in reference...the north side of the Himalaya Mine in San Diego County, CA. D. Sterrett photo provided by Jesse Fisher...tourmaline was found in the pegmatites of San Diego County, California. The Advent of Chemical Analysis |  | | Report (issue) | | Alexander Falster, pegmatite specialists from the University of New Orleans in Louisiana (USA), with the lowdown...pegmatites. Most ore beryl occurs in massive pegmatite zones where crystals may reach considerable size...can be found adjacent to the core margin of the pegmatite and in Suggested Chromophores for Beryl Color-generating...crystal has been recorded from the Alger quarry in New Hampshire (USA). The crystal weighed 455 kilograms... 8.4m: The largest beryl crystal at the Bumpus quarry in Maine was 8.4 meters long, 1.9 meters in diameter |  | | Book (edition) | | abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture), dept...always included in text, except in the cases of the USA, UK, and the provinces Ontario and Quebec in Canada...Uintah County. Utah. and m (2.B. acanthite group). Monoclinic, C2/m, a,b,c Rio Blanco County. Colorado...Rare-with scorodite in U-bearing lignite in the Caves Hill and Slim Buttes areas, both Harding Co .. South...Menzenschwand Scbwarzwald Mts., in the Sailauf quarry, Spessart Mts., Bavaria. both Germany, and from |  | | Book (volume) | | ........................ 83 The History of Lord Hill, Black Mountain, Mount Apatite, and Nathaniel H...... 315 Duane L. Leavitt The Bennett Pegmatite, Oxford County, Maine . ...............................permanent photographic exhibits in the northeastern USA. The Shaubs have been active in ornithological research...gratefully dedicated. Gene Foard (right) at Swamp #1 quarry, Topsham. Gene Foard speaking with Frank Perham...Gene Foard with Yan King, 1994 (left) at Nevel quarry, Newry. In Memoriam Gene Foord Gene [Eugene Edward] |  | | Book | | magmatic or hydrothermal origins of elbaite in the pegmatite cavities; the mctamorphic or hydrothermal origins...copper are in the Keweenaw Peninsular. Lake Superior, USA, the largest being 15 x 7 x 3m (approx. 50 x 23 x...occurred in the Ray mine and in Bisbce, Arizona, USA. Very fine spincl-law twins up to 5 cm in size and...Keweenaw Peninsula near Lake Superior, Michigan, USA. Wires, up to 100 mm (4 in) long, come also from...many localities in California, USA (Colorado Quartz mine. Nigger Hill and others). Fine leaf gold comes |  | | Book | | magmatic or hydrothermal origins of elbaite in the pegmatite cavities; the metamorphic or hydrothermal origins...copper are in the Keweenaw Peninsular, Lake Superior, USA, the largest being I 5 x 7 x 3m (approx. 50 x 23...occurred in the Ray mine and in Bisbee, Arizona, USA. Very fine spinel-law twins up to 5 cm in size and...Keweenaw Peninsula near Lake Superior, Michigan, USA. Wires, up to 100 mm (4 in) long, come also from...fine gold wires come from Farncomb Hill near Breckenridge, Colorado, USA. Fine crystals were also found in |  | | Journal (issue) | | India Jim Clanin JC Mining, Bethel, Maine Dr. Alan Collins King’s College, London Dr. Robert Downs University...Street Michele Daniels Rick Melfe Richard Strickland Ken Davidson Don Mengason Vance Sutton Joann...New York Wuyi Wang New York, New York Alan T. Collins London, UK Mary L. Johnson San Diego, California...Daniel President, Platinum Guild International USA opular jewelry designs now appear in a variety of...Cryo-Genie mine, near Warner Springs, San Diego County, California. Photo by Brendan M. Laurs. THE MAKING |  | | Corporate Document (Series) | | a broad reference such as 'Pieman River' or 'Middlesex' has been retained due to a lack of more specific...least one sample so-labelled is probably from Broken Hill, NSW. Catalogues of the major mineral finds have...Cleveland tin deposit, Avebury nickel mine, Colebrook Hill copper-bearing axinite skarn and Mt Ramsay tungsten...in the 1880s and 1890s, including the Colebrook Hill copper mine south of Rosebery and the Balfour copper...clinochlore), based on specimens from Stichtite Hill,near the Adelaide mine at Dundas. AS. Wesley, the |  | | Book (volume) | | publisher. Cover photograph: Fluorapatite, Pulsifer quarry, Auburn, Maine (2.2 cm specimen), Harvard Mineralogical...greater variety of minerals are found in Oxford County, alone, than anywhere else on Earth of comparable...than Maine's, as well. An area smaller than Oxford County in Murmansk Ob last, Kola Peninsula, Russia, has...gem-producing areas in the United States, admittedly. Connecticut has produced a few tourmalines, aquamarines,...However, San Diego County, California, is arguably the most important gem-pegmatite district in North |  | | Book (edition) | | Co\·er photo: \\ 7 ulfenite, Rowley Mine, Maricopa County, 4 cm high specimen, Evan and Melissa Jones Collection...six other special lists of minerals, such as pegmatite minerals, contact-metamorphic minerals, and secondary...gemandmineralmuseum.arizona.edu) is located in the old Pima County Courthouse building at 115 North Church Avenue...on the market. The mines at Bisbee, in Cochise County, have produced large quantities of gem-quality...mineral stamp issued in 1992. At Morenci, in Greenlee County, gem-quality azurite was also commercially recovered |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | properties of the calcium aluminates occurring in Portland cement clinkers (AKATSU et al., 1968). In an investigation...During field work in the coal open pit near Köves Hill (Pécs-Vasas, Mecsek Mts., South Hungary) the new...END-MEMBERS ALUMINO-OXY-ROSSMANITE AND OXY-FOITITE FROM A PEGMATITE IN HIGH-GRADE METAMORPHIC ROCKS Ertl,...in a Moldanubian pegmatite (of the Drosendorf Unit) that occurred in a large quarry near the village...assumed that the silica melt, which formed this pegmatite, crystallized under relatively dry conditions |  | | Book | | MineralogicalRecord.com I IIMORIITE-(Y) EUROPE FRANCE Trimouns quarry, Luzenac, Ariege. Operated for talc since the beginning...beginning of the 20th century, the Trimouns quarry became well known to collectors around 1990 for the...long (Marty, 2004 ). AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins...region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites between the towns...5 cm (Grice and Gault, 1981). CONNECTICUT Litchfield, Litchfield County. Ilmenite masses and crystals |  | | Journal (issue) | | Los Angeles, California Beijing, China Alan T. Collins Robert E. Kane James E. Shigley London, UK ...Mouawad Campus 5345 Armada Drive Carlsbad, CA 92008 USA © 2019 Gemological Institute of America All rights...a dramatic increase in mining of the San Diego County pegmatites in the late nineteenth and early twentieth...Subgroup 1 Magnesio-foitite Foitite Subgroup 2 Rossmanite Subgroup 3 Oxy-foitite *** ...OH)3(OH) 8. Liddicoatite X 9. Foitite X Y 10. Magnesio-foitite 11. Rossmanite □ (LiAl2)ZAl6TSi6O18(BO3)3(OH)3(OH) |  | Gaines, Richard V., Skinner, H. Catherine W., Foord, Eugene E., Mason, Brian, Rosenzweig, Abraham, King, Vandall T. (1997) Dana's New Mineralogy (8th ed.) Wiley-Interscience. p.1872 | Book (edition) | | Yale University. Eugene Alexandrov: Hamden, Connecticut. Eric Asselborn, M.D.: Montrevel-en-Bresse, Ain...and Geophysics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. James A. Ferraiolo: Bowie, Maryland. Michael...Geology Library, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. Luiz A. D. Menezes: Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais...Sheldon Thompson: R. T. Vanderbilt Co., Norwalk, Connecticut. Kenneth M. Towe: Dept. of Paleobiology, Smithsonian...M. J. Buerger (1958), The Powder Method, McGraw Hill, New York. (B) Bunn, C. W. (1961), Chemical Crystallography |
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Strickland Quarry, Strickland pegmatite, Collins Hill, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA