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Nontronite from
Black Mountain Quarry, Rumford, Oxford County, Maine, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Nontronite
Formula:Na0.3Fe2((Si,Al)4O10)(OH)2 · nH2O
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Albite1 photo of Nontronite associated with Albite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Nontronite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Black Mountain Quarry, Rumford, Oxford County, Maine, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:917107
Long-form Identifier:1:3:917107:7
GUID (UUID V4):334fc3ce-a443-4df1-8f42-fddbcd845110
Nearest other occurrences of Nontronite
29.4km (18.3 miles) Emmons Quarry, Uncle Tom Mountain, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine, USA
32.2km (20.0 miles) Bumpus Quarry, Albany, Oxford County, Maine, USA
61.5km (38.2 miles) Pulsifer Quarry & Dionne extension, West Mount Apatite Mining District, Auburn, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
72.2km (44.9 miles) Redstone "Red Granite" quarry, Redstone, Conway, Carroll County, New Hampshire, USA
77.2km (48.0 miles) Conway, Carroll County, New Hampshire, USA
87.5km (54.4 miles) Havey #1 & #2 Quarries, Topsham, Sagadahoc County, Maine, USA
89.6km (55.7 miles) Swamp No. 1 Quarry, Topsham, Sagadahoc County, Maine, USA
89.7km (55.7 miles) Swamp #2 quarry, Topsham, Sagadahoc County, Maine, USA
90.0km (55.9 miles) Consolidated #2 Quarry (Purington Quarry), Topsham, Sagadahoc County, Maine, USA
90.9km (56.5 miles) Yedlin Locality, Topsham, Sagadahoc County, Maine, USA
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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...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
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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...5 cm tall; gem weighs 2 carats. From the Havey Quarry, Poland, MaifJ. e. Photo copyright 1995 by Wendell...crystals, 24 x JO mm;Jrom the Bennett Quarry, Buckfield, Maine. Mined in 1996 by Holden !Jrothers Mining
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California; 550 ppm-Maple Lode mine, Aguanga Mountain, California; and 400 ppm-Satao (viseu), Portugal]...crystals but changes to translucent dark blue or black in less well-crystallized specimens. The second...GRAPHITE FROM CRESTMORE AND JENSEN QUARRIES, RIVERSIDE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA. J. A . Jmczak, 9 0 0 S. Cass Ave....at the Crestmore and Jensen quarries, Riverside County, California. While the typical tabular habit of...Pendleton County, West Virginia. The basalt exposure is located on the east limb of the Stone Mountain anticline
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had previously detected clay minerals, chiefly nontronite, montmorillonite, and cblorite, in several locations...Largest Reddingite Crystals Found at Bennett Quarry, Buckfield, Maine Van King PO Box 90888, Rochester, NY 14609...(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...reported the first rcddingite from the Bennett Quarry and provided a bulk, wet-chemical analysis: MnO
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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
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Analyses of igneous and crystalline rocks Continued. Maine. _______________________________________________...____-____________________--_-__-----__--_____-_____ Maine._----.___________-______---_-_-_--_-----_-----_-_Mississippi..._ __________________________________________ Nontronite.______________________________________________...sample of four specimens from Roughtop (Moose) Mountain, 14 miles N. 20° W. from Hot Springs. B. Composite...from Elephant Mountain, 26 miles N. 41° E. from Hot Springs. C. From Wolverine Mountain, 15 miles S. 35°
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ADULARIA Adu Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...ALABAMA Iron phosphate mineral locality at Indian Mountain, Alabama (by H. Harwood) 5:241-244 Iron-manganese...Iron-manganese phosphates of the Williams pegmatites, Coosa County, Alabama (by P. B. Leavens & T. A. Simpson) 6:66-73...18:65-74 Phosphate microminerals of the Indian Mountain area [Georgia and Alabama] (by J.B. Gordon, Jr...ALICE GLORY HOLE The Alice glory hole, Clear Creek County, Colorado (by T. A. Hanson & W. B. Craft) 18:185187
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fabulous tourmalines and kunzites of California and Maine, the sparkling sapphires of Montana, and the...careful, accurate detail and with many color and black-and-white illustrations, it describes the chemical...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...Largest crystal from Mt. Mica Eh Towne Quarry 180 Tourmaline Queen Mountain IgI Tourmaline crystal (color) following
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been found in the mining the nugget Jim, Placer County, California, in 1871 by a small girl in who town...The bibliography has been updated and expanded. County lists published by Collins (1) pp. 40-64, in Murdoch...rhyolite locality in Alameda County and the lawsonite type locality Marin County, which have been completely...housing developments. Another is the famous Crestmore quarry, where the cement production has almost destroyed...color" from Cherokee Flat, Butte County); and to borax ("Lake County, in large crystals in the clay of
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Wilkinson, R. W. Allgood, G. M. Allgood and C. Williams Black dioptase from Tiger, Arizona .....................R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Arthur Roe Tucson, AZ Abraham Rosenzweig University...YUMA COUNTY NAME CHANGED Is nothing sacred? The famous Red Cloud mine is no longer in Yuma County, Arizona...divide the county in two, the northern half (more or less) being renamed as the new county of La Paz....Paz County, Arizona.” Other mines, mining districts and localities that are now in La Paz County include:
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jewellers and inclining which that: they to black, are are no the one islands; and has been... spurred speculation eralds. Eichholz an the Black Sea and east of the Aral Sea. The entire in the...Kang Baptiste V. J.-B. Ball 1676. 2nd ed. don: Oxford Hill, Caley, E. R., ence, on Press. 238 ...Clarendon 1961. Greek and Roman R. 16:537-49. 11. Oxford; Higgins, 5:1-38. public ed. and E., Lapidibus...weighing of “noble with beryls, on in Russia the mountain Adun Chilon in Siberia, on and information
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...............•.... . ... 5.00 Chloropal v. Nontronite, California. Yellow-green mass. 2x1 ¼ .........and brown mass. 3x2 ½x2 ....... . 3.00 Apatite, Maine. Good tabular lilac xis. in vug in Feldspar. Xis...1947 CONTENTS FOR JANUARY, 1947 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY .................................................~1.INERAL LOCALITIES OF NEW ENGLAND HOLLAND ST. QUARRY. By Prof. Charles Pa/ache ...........................................................24 THE NEW QUARRY AT LOCKPORT, N . Y. By Paul E. Killinger .....
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tribes in the northeast corner of San Bernardino County in pre-historic times. The old workings here were...appears clii.sely to resemlile that at Turquoise Mountain, Arizona. * • • Stone tools are abundant in the...east of Lindsay, Tulare County near mouth of Carrizo Gorge, San Diego County west side of Williams Valley...Mendocino County; Santa Ynez Mountains; Santiago Canyon near Mount Pinos, ; ; ; Ventura County; Table...Mountain, Madera County; Fish Creek Mountain, Fresno County; northeast of Cloverdale, Sonoma County;
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"Mineralogy of Hyperagpaitic Alkaline Rocks" (1995), Oxford Uni,·ersity Press. Original Russian titles of the...MS4+0 2 )0 Locality: Poudrette Quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Rouville County, Quebec, Canada. Occurrence:...meters on the southern slope of the Vasilikon mountain chain, 2.5 km WSW of Apikia, Andros Island, Cyclades...translucent in thin fragments. Colar: black. Streak: brownish-black. Hardness : VHN 25 920 k.g/mm 2 • Tenacity:...Luster: metallic. Diaphaneity: opaque. Color: black. Streak: black. Hard11ess:VHN 30 120 kg/mm2, Mohs 3 1/
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photographs, mostly of large specimens, as well as 104 black-and-white photographs 45 new crystal drawings of...Lincoln. Encyclopedia of minerals Sagiiache County Pu blic Library Saguache , Colorado DEMCO For...Photo Editor: Wendell E. Wilson Library Saguache County Public Saguache, Colorado VAN NOSTRAND REINHOLD...Names, 1892-1978, by P. G. Embrey and J. P. Fuller (Oxford University Press, 1980). Acta Crystallographica...oil shale of the Green River Formation, Uintah County, Utah, associated with authigenic orthoclase, pyrite;
 
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