 | | 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...crystals, 24 x JO mm;Jrom the Bennett Quarry, Buckfield, Maine. Mined in 1996 by Holden !Jrothers Mining |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | PEGMATITE MINERALS OF MAINE By DAVID M. SEAMAN 36 Winter Street, Norway, Maine 04268 (continued from... is a rather rare mineral in the pegmatites of Maine. Always a secondary mineral, it has been noted as...as crystals on quartz crystals at the Bennett Quarry at Buckfield. Yellow, scalenohedral calcite crystals...pegma tite with the wall rock at the Tamminen Quarry in Greenwood. C A S S I T E R I T E , tin oxide...noted in small amounts in a number of pegmatites in Maine, chiefly in the lithium replacement zones. It is |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | in pegmatites. It has been found at the Andrews quarry, Portland, Connecticut; with monazite crystals...New York City, N.Y. ; at the Dake mine, Mitchell County, North Carolina; with tysonite in Cheyenne Canyon...Springs, Colorado; and with rutile in Alexander County, North Carolina. MONAZITE, is essentially a phosphate...half inches in size at the Dake mine in Mitchell County. It occurs also in crystals at the Ray mine near...Burnsville and the Ramsey mine near Toledo in Yancy County, North Carolina. Large masses of Monazite occurred |  | | 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) | | Parker a rusty streak it may be the intermediary Mountain, Center Strafford, New Hamp- alteration species...exciting. Mr. and Mrs. Jack dal group of nearly black crystals of Dyer of Boston, Mrs. Bjareby and I had...to remain an undescribed enigmatic and had our quarry tools along. Since problem to mineral collectors...way home we soon parked under the collector in Maine now living in Dover, big old pine at the entrance...body I was looking for was had found at Newry, Maine. Since we completely hidden. Fortunately there was |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Phosphate-rich Pegmatite Formation in Maine The phosphate minerals of Maine are found principally within granitic...granitic pegmatites in Oxford, Androscoggin, and Sagadahoc counties located in the south central portion...Newry complex of pegmatites, the Black Mountain quarries in Rumford, and from miscellaneous occurrences...known primary source. The primary phosphates in Maine are few: fluorapatite, triphylite, lithiophilite...Monazite-(Ce) is also a primary pegmatitic phosphate in Maine, but unlike the others, it has not been altered |  | | 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...amblygonite crystals over a foot in size, large black (schorl) tourmaline crystals to four inches in diameter...tourmaline find at the Dunton Gem Mine at Newry, Maine of watermelon and green, elbaite tourmaline, has...further description here. The Bennett Quarry at Buckfield, Maine, was also worked by Mr. Robert Eastman |  | Birch, William D., Pring, Allan, Bevan, D. J. M., Kharisun, (1994) Wycheproofite: a new hydrated sodium aluminium zirconium phosphate from Wycheproof, Victoria, Australia, and a new occurrence of kosnarite. Mineralogical Magazine, 58 (393) 635-639 doi:10.1180/minmag.1994.058.393.13 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | wardite, eosphorite, cyrilovite, leucophosphitc, rockbridgeite, a kidwellite-like mineral and saleeite. The...discovered pegmatite veins in granite boulders in a quarry at Wycheproof, a small town in northwestern Victoria...discovered in the late 1980s in pegmatites in Maine, USA (Brownfield et al., 1993). The s e c o n d new...present on five specimens. Occurrence The granite quarry yielding the wycheproofite and kosnarite is on...found at the base of the southeastern wall of the quarry and were probably close to their original position |  | | Journal (issue) | | .................184 by Paul Brian Moore Newry Maine - A Pegmatite Phosphate Locality... 189 by Vandall...motel rooms usually provide this. For example, the Maine elbaite tourmalines which were thor oughly discussed...for the crystal specimen quality of the San Diego County materials - both old and new. As usual, the exhibits...both the county (pro vince) and its capital; there are thirty-one separate mines in the county. The mines...another new borate mineral at Borax Lake, Lake County, California, and in 1939 was co-author with W. |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | December 2014 THE FENGJIASHAN WOLLASTONITE MINE, DAYE COUNTY, HUBEI PROVINCE, CHINA. B. Ottens, Klingenbrun-Banhof...visited the Fengjiashan Wollastonite mine in Daye County, and a huge number of well-developed minerals have...that have not previously been reported. The Gole quarry, approximately 80 kilometers north of Bancroft...positive identification of kamotoite-(Y) from the Gole quarry was confirmed. In 1999, coauthor Fodi found some...WISCONSIN MINERALS FROM THE NINE MILE PLUTON, MARATHON COUNTY, WISCONSIN. T. W. Buchholz1, A. U. Falster2, and |  | | Journal (issue) | | Rosemeyer Phosphate minerals from the Tip Top mine, Black Hills, South D a k o ta ..........................R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur...Carl A. Francis Harvard Mineralogical Museum 24 Oxford Street Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 be done...final tortuous assault on the mountains. Here the mountain sides are spotted with abandoned mines, the faded...red and yellow iron oxide paint the looming Red Mountain peaks. In the warm sun the acrid smell of disintegrating |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Silver, Wolverine mine, Kearsarge lode, Keweenaw County, Michigan. William Severance specimen, Jeff Scovil...claim (Hallelujah Junction), Petersen Mountain, Washoe County, Nevada. Paul Geffner specimen, Jeff Scovil...November/December: Millerite, Sterling mine, Antwerp, Jefferson County, New York. National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian...Pogson, 29–38 Albini, A., see In Memoriam Albite, Maine, 11; Michigan, 288 Allanite-Ce, New York, 497 Almandine...Minerals from the Huron River Uranium Prospect, Baraga County, Michigan, 298–308 Bornite, Michigan, 302 Brachiopods |  | | 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 |  | | Show/Event (guide) | | Collecting: A Review of the Powers Farm and Treasure Mountain Locales by Michael Walter 3 6 We warmly welcome...cathodoluminescence to the evolution of the Black Mountain pegmatite by]. Maloney and M. A Wise 2:15 S...2:45 R a r e - e a r t h mineralogy of the Mohave County pegmatites, NW Arizona byS.L. Hanson, A U. Falam;... 4:15 Natromontebrasite from the Meyers quarry, Fremont County, CObyM. I. Jacobson,.1, W Nizamoff,A. U...10:30 T h e Fengjiashan Wollastonite mine, Daye County, Hubei Province, China by B. Opens 10:45 N e w |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | ............... 136 Diamond, 8.2 carats, from Black Sands Creek, Beechworth, Victoria. The stone was...P. 0. Box 39100 Lafayette, LA. 70593 California, USA This n otable Australian pegmatite locality has...hundred metres is sufficient distance to hide a large quarry. During the long summer (November to April), no...succession from the Coolgardie group (oldest) to the Black Flag Group (youngest), with hypabyssal rocks and...(1942), in his report on the Londonderry Feld spar quarry, observed a fine-grained p urple lepidolite outcrop |  | | Book | | nests of the birds known as 'melanchoryphi' or 'black caps'." Historical 3 The accounts left by the...(1980) A manual of mineral names. University Press, Oxford Kunz GF (1971) The curious lore of precious stones...evaporitic rocks at the Incline, Mariposa County and Big Creek, Fresno County, California. The associated minerals...Color-Luster: Dull greenish black; dirty yellow, brownish yellow to brownish black. Subtranslucent to opaque...Custer-Pringle area, Custer County, and at the Etta mine, Pennington County, South Dakota. Also found in |  | | Catalog/List | | radial groups on limonite ....... . Utah Toelle County, Gold Hill, Gold Hill mine --=.rransparent micro... AJOITE Copper aluminum silicate' Arizona Pima County, Ajo, New Cornelia mine Sky blue micro xls and...quartz . ALTAITE Lead telluride • Colorado Saguache County, Klondike mine Brilliant metallic tin white cleavable...sodium and iron Norway Langesundsfjiord , Lustrous black cleavable .............. . GRUNERITE Iron magnesium...alumino-silicate Italy Island of Linosa ----Y:-ustrous black rectangular crystal sections ¼" to ½"$. 25, 5/$1 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Jr. Inesite from the Hale Creek mine, Trinity County, California......................................(no classified ads). Prices are as follows for black & white ads: Full page $550 Vi page $275 l/3 page... Large diamond crystal, 28 carats, from Liagsu County, Shangdong Province, China. (All specimens pictured...rare mineral found only at Hsianghualin, Linwu County, Hunan Province, China. There followed a very large...dolomite matrix, from the Yanwuping mine, Wanshan County, Guizhou Prov-ince, China. (Ed. Note: This specimen |  | | Book | | 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 |  | | 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...old dumps. In 1975-1976, Brunet collected sharp, black, flattened hexagonal ilmenite crystals to 7 .5 cm...region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites between the towns |  | | Book (volume) | | cut purplish pink elbaite tourmaline (30.89 ct), Maine; round brilliant red-orange spessartine garnet (16...Colorado; colorless scheelite (19.66 ct), Kern County, California; octagonal step cut violetish pink...Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from San Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...Dosen ONN/ QBI96-40247 Trade Distribution by Mountain Press Publishing Company P.O. Box 2399, Missoula...Cantlin, Ellis, [D; Jeannette B. Carillo, Gem Center USA, EI Paso, TX; Gary Christopher, The Prospectors Cache |  | | Book | | Environmental Earth Science, Miami University, Oxford, OH, U.S.A. Franco Pirajno, Geological Survey of...account these mineralogical features, these dull black heavy mineral aggregates can successfully be used...Evolution of the Variscides Within the Alpine Mountain Range with Special Reference to Pegmatites .....The Variscan Massifs in the Alpine-Carpathian Mountain Range ..........................................Their Associated Pegmatites in the Swiss Alpine Mountain Range and the External Moldanubian Zone ..... |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Triplite–zwieselite Fairfieldite (II) Lacroixite (II) Rockbridgeite (II) Pyrite Arsenopyrite Sphalerite Chalcopyrite...supported by the crystallization of hydrothermal rockbridgeite (Table 1). The enrichments in Sn and Ti in the...Serra area; red, Cabeço dos Poupos (Sabugal area); black, Gonçalo (Guarda-Belmonte area); blue, Gouveia...minerals and cassiterite from the Black Mountain pegmatite, Maine. Eur. J. Mineral., 23, 817–828. Zhang |  | | Journal (issue) | | R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur...mineral localities: the mineralogy of Graves Mountain, Lincoln County, G eorgia...............................Simmons & F. J. Wicks Calcioferrite from the Moculta quarry, near Angaston, South Australia ................. from the Sweetwater mine, Ellington, Reynolds County, Missouri. Collection of Maudine and Bob Sullivan;...still riding the fine line between red ink and black in the financial ledger. Just because we’re looking |
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