 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | mounting done all over again. SOME MINES OF OXFORD COUNTY, MAINE By NEIL JORGENSEN 247 W. Summit Ave., Haddonfield...region of Oxford County, Maine, near the villages of Buckfield and Paris, are the Mt. Mica, Bennett and Bessey...several smaller quarries. Of these, the Mt. Mica and Bennett Mines are the best known. A few gems and a host...larger, but has been filled in with the dumping of quarry waste in the abandoned parts. Probably the mine... as well as caesium and aquamarine beryl, montmorillonite, francolite, purpurite, (heterosite),spodumene |  | | Report (edition) | | 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...5 cm tall; gem weighs 2 carats. From the Havey Quarry, Poland, MaifJ. e. Photo copyright 1995 by Wendell...quartz crystals, 24 x JO mm;Jrom the Bennett Quarry, Buckfield, Maine. Mined in 1996 by Holden !Jrothers |  | | 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...Cover photograph: Fluorapatite, Pulsifer quarry, Auburn, Maine (2.2 cm specimen), Harvard Mineralogical...Wendell E. Wilson, ©1985. The laws and policies of Maine and the United States prohibit discrimination in |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | PEGMATITE MINERALS OF MAINE By D A V I D M. S E A M A N 36 Winter St., Norway, Maine 0 4 2 6 8 INTRODUCTION...of minerals have been found in the pegmatites of Maine since the discovery of Mt. Mica near Paris H i l...tourmaline find at the Dunton Gem Mine at Newry, Maine of watermelon and green, elbaite tourmaline, has...no further description here. The Bennett Quarry at Buckfield, Maine, was also worked by Mr. Robert Eastman...cleavelandite and often as sociated with pink montmorillonite. Go shenite and aquamarine beryl crystals |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | mounting done all over again. SOME MINES OF OXFORD COUNTY, MAINE By NEIL JORGENSEN 247 W. Summit Ave., Haddonfield...region of Oxford County, Maine, near the villages of Buckfield and Paris, are the Mt. Mica, Bennett and Bessey...several smaller quarries. Of these, the Mt. Mica and Bennett Mines are the best known. A few gems and a host...larger, but has been filled in with the dumping of quarry waste in the abandoned parts. Probably the mine... as well as caesium and aquamarine beryl, montmorillonite, francolite, purpurite, (heterosite),spodumene |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | headed north for a week's collecting mostly in Oxford Co., Maine. Included in the group were Mr. and Mrs. Philip...our way to the Snow Falls Cabins in West Paris, Maine, which was to be our headquarters. On arriving there...Talamini. Tuesday morning we visited Mt. Newry, Maine, and spent the entire day there. I had heard reports...Muscovite, Spodumene, Amblygonite. M t . Marie, Paris, Maine. 1—Albert S. W h i t e ; 2 — 4 — A r t h u r Morison;...MINERALS Wednesday was spent at the Wardwell Quarry in Albany, Maine. I believe we found our most interesting |  | | Book (volume) | | 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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | detected clay minerals, chiefly nontronite, montmorillonite, and cblorite, in several locations (Poulet...Largest Reddingite Crystals Found at Bennett Quarry, Buckfield, Maine Van King PO Box 90888, Rochester,...(newryqs@rochester.rr.com) Jim Mann 57 Main Street, Bethel, Maine 04217 (m tm ann@megamlink.net) Reddingitc is a late-stage...locality for reddingite is the Abidja N. Fillow Quarry, Branchville village, Redding, Fairfield Co., Connecticut...1925) reported the first rcddingite from the Bennett Quarry and provided a bulk, wet-chemical analysis: |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | MINERALS Wednesday was spent at the Wardwell Quarry in Albany, Maine. I believe we found our most interesting...specimens had both minerals. Near the Wardwell quarry is a Garnet pit where Garnets, some as large as...as a hen's egg, were found. W e visited the quarry at night with a portable Mineralight and collected...Society. Our next stop was at Noyes Mt. in Greenwood, Maine, where we met Mr. Nestor Tamminen and his family...summer at Buckfield, Maine. Friday we made short stops at the Bennett Quarry in Buckfield, Mt. Mica and |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Minerals in Keweenawan Basalt, South Range Quarry, Douglas County, Wisconsin, W. S. Cordua, 412-415 Anatase...wulfenite, 58-61 Columbite: New Hampshire, 346; Maine, 503 Coming Events, 79, 169, 363, 466, 549 Cook...Minerals in Ke weenawan Basalt, South Range Quarry, Douglas County, Wisconsin, 412-415 Covellite, Colorado...California, J. A. Bartsch, 42-48 Camp Bird Mine, Ouray County, Colorado, T. Rosemeyer, 114-149 Cares, J . W....the Prospector and Collector, 258 Chips from the Quarry, 5, 109, 197, 397, 493 Classified Advertisements |  | | Journal (issue) | | J. N. Alves Mineralogy of the Bennett pegmatite, Oxford County, Maine ................................./# 6 C alifornia Issue B enitoite, G old, L .A . County M useum , H im alaya m ine $7 Circulation Manager...Kaolinite and other clays (such as nontronite and montmorillonite) produced as weathering products are not abundant...the weathering of tourmaline, and pink soapy montmorillonite by the weathering of spodumene (as at the Cruziero...specimens were collected in the northern margin j f the quarry, inside the entrance to the main adit, on the left |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | can stain the pyrophyllite red to orange. Maine Bennett Quarry Ron and Dennis Holden, Leonard Beliveau...brothers—Gary, Brian, and Mark—opened up the Bennett quarry in Buckfield, as reported in the November/ December...1990 issue (65:498-504). During August 1990, the quarry was reopened and almost immediately more quartz...Wodginite This has been the year of wodginite in Maine. It was dis covered in the Effe and Clifford Gray...Pegmatite Wodginite, Black Mountain, Rumford, Maine. blance to rutile; horizontal striations are a |  | | Book (edition) | | 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 |  | | 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................... Turner feldspar |  | | Journal (issue) | | Contents for March - April, 1950 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY ...................................................................... 135 POUND OF TEA ISLAND, MAINE. By Peter Zodac ·······················-·············...····················· 155 SOME MINES OF OXFORD COUNTY, MAINE. By N eil Jorgensen ............ 158 NEWARK............ 1 78 }ADE AND CHRYSOPRASE IN T ULARE COUNTY, CALIF . ........................................Aueciatien i14 ROCKS AND MINEMU CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY COMING EVENTS NATIONAL SPELEOLOGICAL SOCIETY CONVENTION |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | arrived at the quarry at about 11 A.M. By this time it was very sunny and hot. This quarry is in active...canteens were soon drained and fortunately for us, the quarry had an automatic canteen and we soon filled ourselves...Field Trip a n d Outdoor Meeting, Strickland Quarry, Portland, Conn. June 23, 1 9 5 7 We picked an...local youngsters swimming in the upper abandoned quarry. It was said that at one point, the water was more...fluoresced nicely. None of our group collected any montmorillonite. cookeite or uraninite altho we were on the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | quartz or dickite or both, i28. Amblygonite, France, Maine, New South Wales, Saxony, anal., cell-dimensions...mine, Caceres, Spain, montebrasite, 414. Amelia County, Virginia, albite, I56; - - , anal., d2o i, 489...Benares (= Varanasi), lndia, phlogopite, 6o6. BENNETT(J. M.), see MOORE(P. B.), 515. BERROW (M. L.),...Australia, alkali feldspar, anal., d2oi, 489. Bosahan quarry, Falmouth, Cornwall, biotite, 2IO. BOWDEN (P.)...Cell-contents of arthurite, 52o. - - - - Dean quarry, Coverack, The Lizard, Cornwall, analcime, natrolite |  | Gifford, Jennifer N., Vitale, Elizabeth J., Platt, Brian F., Malone, David H., Widanagamage, Inoka H. (2020) Detrital Zircon Provenance and Lithofacies Associations of Montmorillonitic Sands in the Maastrichtian Ripley Formation: Implications for Mississippi Embayment Paleodrainage Patterns and Paleogeography. Geosciences, 10 (2) 80 doi:10.3390/geosciences10020080 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Engineering, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS 38677, USA; ejayvit@gmail.com (E.J.V.); bfplatt@olemiss...Environment, Illinois State University, Normal, IL 61790, USA; dhmalon@ilstu.edu Correspondence: jngiffor@olemiss...drainage system. Fieldwork conducted in Pontotoc County, Mississippi, targeted two sites containing montmorillonitic...bentonitic intervals (e.g., [4,5]). In Pontotoc County, MS, the purest of these bentonites Geosciences...investigations within an active sand quarry in central Pontotoc County (Figure 1), yielded a clay-rich interval |  | | Journal (issue) | | R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur... 353 by P. Orlandi and P. B. Scortecci M aine Maine tourmaline........................................Elbaite from Newry, Maine (by P. J. Dunn) [1975, vol. 6, no. 1, p. 22-25.] Newry, Maine, a pegmatite phosphate...] 328 Famous mineral localities: the Pulsifer quarry (by W. E. Wilson) [1977, vol. 8, no. 2, p. 72-77...vol. 8, no. 6, p. 475.]* The best of San Diego County (by W. Larson) [1977, vol. 8, no. 6, p. 507-515 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | schorl, and later filled with a beidellite – montmorillonite assemblage. A breccia pipe containing the aluminofluoride...pegmatites of central Maine and New Hampshire The miarolitic granitic pegmatites of central Maine have long been...wallrocks. The Bennett Li-rich pegmatite, of the Sebago group of pegmatites in Oxford County, Maine, is rich...6A shows the overall evolutionary trends in the Bennett and five other Li-rich pegmatite bodies. Wise et...degree of fractionation attained is extreme in the Bennett body, as measured by relative enrichment in Ta |  | | Report (issue) | | from the University of New Orleans in Louisiana (USA), with the lowdown on beryl mineralogy An ancient...crystal has been recorded from the Alger quarry in New Hampshire (USA). The crystal weighed 455 kilograms...4m: The largest beryl crystal at the Bumpus quarry in Maine was 8.4 meters long, 1.9 meters in diameter...number of Brazilian states (page 84); San Diego County, California (page 32) in the United States; Canada...adjacent to the famous Bennett quarry in Oxford County near Buckfield, Maine. In 1998, they opened a |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 60, No. 1, 89–98, 2012. ROLE OF CHITIN IN MONTMORILLONITE FABRIC: TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPE OBSERVATIONS...Sciences Branch, Stennis Space Center, MS 39529, USA Department of Biological Sciences, University of...Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS 39406, USA 4 SEAPROBE, Inc., Picayune, MS 39466, USA 2 3 Abstract—Particle concentration...flocculation experiments, the aqueous suspension of montmorillonite and chitin was mixed with NaCl/MgSO4 electrolyte...location of electron-transparent chitin in montmorillonite aggregates. Chitin appeared to link the face-to-face |  | Kubicki, J.D., Schroeter, L.M., Itoh, M.J., Nguyen, B.N., Apitz, S.E. (1999) Attenuated total reflectance Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy of carboxylic acids adsorbed onto mineral surfaces. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 63 (18) 2709-2725 doi:10.1016/s0016-7037(99)00194-5 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Copyright © 1999 Elsevier Science Ltd Printed in the USA. All rights reserved 0016-7037/99 $20.00 ⫹ .00 Pergamon...University Park, PA 16802 USA 2 San Diego State University Foundation, San Diego, CA 92182 USA 3 Remediation Research...Warfare Systems Center D361, San Diego, CA 92152-6325 USA (Received May 31, 1998; accepted in revised form...substrates (quartz, albite, illite, kaolinite and montmorillonite) in batch slurry experiments. Solution pH’s...distilled water. The clays (illite, kaolinite and montmorillonite) each exhibited similar ATR FTIR spectra. However |  | Playter, Tiffany, Konhauser, Kurt, Owttrim, George, Hodgson, Cheryl, Warchola, Tyler, Mloszewska, Aleksandra M., Sutherland, Bruce, Bekker, Andrey, Zonneveld, J.-P., Pemberton, S. George, Gingras, Murray (2017) Microbe-clay interactions as a mechanism for the preservation of organic matter and trace metal biosignatures in black shales. Chemical Geology, 459. 75-90 doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2017.04.007 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | California at Riverside, Riverside, California, USA, 92521 * Corresponding author: tdavies@ualberta...microbes, black shale, organic-matter, kaolinite, montmorillonite, flocculation, anoxia 2 ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT...Hedges and Keil, 1995; Ransom et al., 1997, 1998; Bennett et al., 1999; Lünsdorf CE Macquaker, 2011). ...Synechococcus in the presence of clay (kaolinite and montmorillonite); (2) assessing if clay deposition is US ...These clays were chosen because they are (montmorillonite; e.g., Taggart and Kaiser, 1960) environments |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | University of California, Berkeley, California, USA 2 Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Moscow...Outcrop pictures. (a) Death Valley, California, USA, near Mesquite Flat sand dunes. Notice hexagonal...(b) Mud volcano in Imperial Valley, California, USA, near Salton Sea. (c) Val Albigna, Swiss Alps with...pixels) (Perkin Elmer, Waltham, Massachussetts, USA), at a distance of ~200 cm from the sample. For DV1...orientation are marked: I-M (illite-mica), Mm (montmorillonite), Kao (kaolinite), Chl (chlorite), Bio (biotite) |
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Bennett Quarry, Buckfield, Oxford County, Maine, USA