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Elbaite from
Mount Mica Quarry, Paris, Oxford County, Maine, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Elbaite
Formula:Na(Li1.5Al1.5)Al6(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3(OH)
Comments:In 1904, the world's largest elbaite crystal record was held by Mount Mica Quarry and the specimen was illustrated by Bastin (1911).
Habit:Prismatic crystals showing a variety of terminations: pedion, trigonal pyramidid, and occasionally a ditrigonal pyramid.
Colour:Green, Red, Colorless, Blue, may be concentrically zoned in "watermelon" style or longitudinally color zoned.
Luminescent properties:Pink crystals sometimes fluoresce weakly to moderately in SW
Quality for species:Excellent - world class for species or very significant. (!!)
Abundance at site:Common
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Wet Chemical
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Quartzā“˜22 photos of Elbaite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Cookeiteā“˜10 photos of Elbaite associated with Cookeite at this locality.
Lepidoliteā“˜10 photos of Elbaite associated with Lepidolite at this locality.
Albiteā“˜8 photos of Elbaite associated with Albite at this locality.
Muscoviteā“˜5 photos of Elbaite associated with Muscovite at this locality.
Cleavelanditeā“˜4 photos of Elbaite associated with Cleavelandite at this locality.
Foititeā“˜3 photos of Elbaite associated with Foitite at this locality.
Polluciteā“˜1 photo of Elbaite associated with Pollucite at this locality.
Tourmalineā“˜1 photo of Elbaite associated with Tourmaline at this locality.
Moraesiteā“˜1 photo of Elbaite associated with Moraesite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Elbaite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Mount Mica Quarry, Paris, Oxford County, Maine, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (88 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:13533
Long-form Identifier:1:3:13533:3
GUID (UUID V4):47152057-3961-426d-b589-0dc12861a18b
Nearest other occurrences of Elbaite
2.9km (1.8 miles) ā“˜Ryerson Hill Quarries, Paris, Oxford County, Maine, USA
4.5km (2.8 miles) ā“˜Bennett Quarry, Buckfield, Oxford County, Maine, USA
5.7km (3.5 miles) ā“˜GE-SE Mine, Buckfield, Oxford County, Maine, USA
5.7km (3.5 miles) ā“˜Streaked Mountain, Buckfield, Oxford County, Maine, USA
6.2km (3.8 miles) ā“˜Westinghouse Quarry (Dudley Ledge Quarry; Irish Quarry; Lewis Quarry), Buckfield, Oxford County, Maine, USA
6.6km (4.1 miles) ā“˜Mount Marie Quarries, Paris, Oxford County, Maine, USA
7.1km (4.4 miles) ā“˜Ski Pike Quarry, West Paris, Oxford County, Maine, USA
9.3km (5.8 miles) ā“˜Mount Rubellite Quarries, Mount Rubellite, Hebron, Oxford County, Maine, USA
12.0km (7.4 miles) ā“˜B.B. No. 7 Quarry, Norway, Oxford County, Maine, USA
13.3km (8.3 miles) ā“˜Waisanen Quarry (Tamminen-Waisanen Quarry), Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine, USA
References
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Journal (issue)
Carson City, NV photography: Nelly Bariand Sorbonne Paris, France Werner Lieber Heidelberg, W. Germany Olaf...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........................................14-21.] Elbaite from Newry, Maine (by P. J. Dunn) [1975, vol. 6, no. 1, p. 22-25.] Newry, Maine, a pegmatite...] 328 Famous mineral localities: the Pulsifer quarry (by W. E. Wilson) [1977, vol. 8, no. 2, p. 72-77
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Some Notable MAINE GEMSTONES J A N E C. P E R H A M Route 1, Box 1890 West Paris, Maine 04289 Mining...southwestern Maine. The pegmatite deposits in Oxford County and northern Androscoggin County have yielded...Whispering-Pines in South Paris, the Slattery quarry in Paris, and the Hibbs quarry in Hebron. Fine tourmaline...Dunton quarry in Newry, the B . B . #7 quarry in North Norway, Mount Mica at Paris Hill, and Mount Rubellite...These are all Oxford County locales. Producers of gem tourmaline in nearby Androscoggin County are the Pulsifer
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 Ā©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, Ā©1985. The laws and policies of Maine and the United States prohibit discrimination in
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 Ā© 1998 by the Maine Geological Survey, Department of Conservation. All...permission of the publisher. Front cov5r photograph: Elbaite crystals. Crystal at left is 4. 5 cm tall; crystal...5 cm tall; gem weighs 2 carats. From the Havey Quarry, Poland, MaifJ. e. Photo copyright 1995 by Wendell
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
aā€œMineralā€ Figure 1. The famous 32-cm (13-inch) elbaite crystal known as the ā€œRose of Asia.ā€ This Paprok...Dakota and a 6.1-meter (20-foot) microcline from Maineā€”tourmaline (now considered a supergroup of minerals...particularly common in the Kinkel quarry near Bedford, Westchester County, New York. One fragmented group...5 and 4.0 feet) in length were described for Mount Mica pegmatites by Bastin (1911) and Hamlin (1895)...inches) in diameter, was found in a mica mine near Micaville, Randolph County, Alabama (Van Horn 1926). Even
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El Paso] at 08:49 30 December 2014 from Mount Mica, Maine Americaƕs First Gem Pegmatite WILLIAM B. ā€œSKIPā€...Coromoto Minerals, LLC 48 Lovejoy Road South Paris, Maine 04281 ALEXANDER FALSTER Department of Geology...Louisiana. Gary Freeman, of South Paris, Maine, is the owner of Mount Mica and Coromoto Minerals, LLC. Alexander...1. Elbaite, 3.1 cm high, Mount Mica, Oxford County, Maine. Jeff Scovil photo. Figure 2. Elbaite, 6...6.5 cm high, Mount Mica; Jeff Scovil photo. Downloaded by [The University of Texas at El Paso] at 08:49
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CRYSTALS FROM THE BALMAT DISTRICT, ST. LAWRENCE COUNTY, NEW YORK. S . C. Chamberlain, Department of Bioengineering...locality. FIBROUS MUSCOVITE FROM MOUNT MICA PEGMATITE, PARIS, MAINE. V. T. King, P.O. Box 90888, Rochester...Rochester, NY 14609. The Mount Mica granitic pegmatite is a thin (3-7 meter), moderately dipping (20ā€-30ā€s)...exposed on a small knoll near Paris Hill village, Paris, Oxford County, Maine. It intrudes the Silurian-age...Sebago batholith was probably the source of the Mount Mica pegmatite fluids and the thermal source for the
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l(Zrr(PO)r, a new mineral from Mount Mica and Black Mountain, Oxford County, Maine Mrcnlnr- E. BnowNprnr,o M...the Mount Mica pegmatite at Paris, and from the Black Mountain pegmatite, Rumford, Oxford County, Maine...Maine. Kosnarite from Mount Mica occurs as pseudocubicrhombohedral crystals, as much as 0.9 mm in maximum...strongestdiffraction lines [d(A), hkl, I/ I"l from the Mount Mica occurrence are 6.41,012,50;4.679,104,50; 4.329...werecollectedat the Mount Mica granite pegmatite in 1989 by Gene T. Bearssof Sanford, Maine. At about the same
Book (volume)
0 n101ercai o of Maine j fĀ·~ ....__ :,,. . - .._"' ..;. .. ~ L-- -~ \. ā€¢ .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 Ā©2000 by the Maine Geological Survey, Department of Conservation. All
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Gems and Minerals of Maine Pegmatites Carl A. Fran cis Granitic pegmatites in Maine have been collected...with significant gem production is in San Diego County of southern California. In a review paper Wise...located along the seacoast northeast of Portland. The Oxford field is inland northwest of Portland. A fault...the pioneering feldspar mining district in Maine. The Oxford field is much larger and comprises nine series...least superficially the pegmatite series of the Oxford field corresponds to this model, whereas the Topsham
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IN THE GARNET LINE IN THE MT. MICA AND HAVEY PEGMATITES, WESTERN MAINE MYLES FELCHĀ§, ALEXANDER U. FALSTER...SIMMONS Maine Mineral and Gem Museum, PO Box 500, 99 Main Street, Bethel, Maine 04217 USA ABSTRACT...just beneath the core zone in many of the western Maine pegmatites. This study focuses on the mineralogical...of the garnet line within the Mt. Mica pegmatite, Oxford Co., Maine and a similar, but less pronounced...feature at the Havey pegmatite, Androscoggin Co., Maine. Within garnet lines of both pegmatites there is
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3749/canmin.1600017 BULK COMPOSITION OF MT. MICA PEGMATITE, MAINE, USA: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE ORIGIN OF AN LCT...FALSTER, AND KAREN WEBBER Maine Mineral and Gem Museum, 99 Main St, Bethel, Maine 04217, U.S.A. ENCARNACIOĢN...LLC, 48 Lovejoy Road, South Paris, Maine 04281, U.S.A. ABSTRACT The Mt. Mica pegmatite is famous for producing...was representative of the bulk composition of Mt. Mica. The sample was then analyzed by fusion ICP spectroscopy...similar patterns. These results suggest that the Mt. Mica pegmatitic melt did not form by fractional crystallization
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Li-Al MICAS AND FELDSPARS FROM THE MOUNT MICA PEGMATITE, MAINE, USA Karen L. MARCHALĀ§, William B. SIMMONS...P.O. Box 644, Eā€“48080 Bilbao, Spain Abstract Mount Mica is a poorly zoned, sodic LCT-type pegmatite consisting...and rare-element minerals such as lepidolite, elbaite, Cs-rich beryl, fluorapatite, and pollucite are...species as F-rich lepidolite, pollucite pods, elbaite tourmaline, Cs-rich beryl, and spodumene in miarolitic...in incompatible elements. Keywords: pegmatite, Mount Mica, muscovite, Li-rich muscovite, lepidolite, feldspar
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in 1996. THE EMMONS PEGMATITE Greenwood Oxford County, Maine The Emmons pegmatite, noted for its many...WEBBER MP2 Research Group Maine Mineral & Gem Museum 99 Main Street Bethel, Maine 04217 alexander.falster@gmail...Hebron, Maine 04238 phosphate@gmail.com RAYMOND A. SPRAGUE* 33 Roger Street Lewiston, Maine 04240 *...Deceased 16 April 2019. HE MINERALOGY AND ORIGIN OF MAINE PEGMATITES have been a principal focus of our research...in 2014 from New Orleans, Louisiana, to Bethel, Maine, greatly facilitated resumption of our study of
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cookrob@auburn.edu Beryl, Variety Morganite San Diego County, California O ne of the most popular of all collectible...so well known from the pegmatites of San Diego County, has been nominated for this issueā€™s Connoisseurā€™s...the White Queen mine, Pala district, San Diego County, California. The 11-cm specimen is in the Bob and...morganite, with associated elbaite from the Stewart mine, Pala district, San Diego County, California. The 5...the White Queen mine, Pala district, San Diego County, California. Fisher-Kureczka specimen, Jesse Fisher
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International, LLC P.O. Box 263, East Hampton, CT 06424, USA Phone 1.860.267.1512; fax 1.860.267.7225 www.lapisint...GS/GN A lifesize pen and ink renderĀ­ ing of elbaite crystals with lepidolite from the Golconda Mine...CHRISTIAN WEISE VERLAG, GERMANY AND LAPIS INTERNATIONAL, USA Tourmaline ā™¦ History ā™¦ Mineralogy ā€¢ Tourmaline...Maximilian Glas ............ 62 ā€¢ Inclusions in Elbaite Crystals .......... 64 John I. Koivula ā€¢ If Icarus...Overview .............70 William B. Simmons ā€¢ From Paris in America to Amerika in Saxony A Survey of the
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Mining at HE BENNETT QUARRY BUCKFIELD, MAINE RONALD E . HOLDEN, J R . Sugar Hill Minerals P.O. Box 565...565 Norway, Maine 04268 I T W A S T H E S P R I N G of 1989, and the snow had begun to melt. A s outcrops...of my early experience was at the Mount Mica quarry in Paris, Maine, where I found my first tourmaline...an interest in the BenĀ­ nett quarry in Buckfield, Oxford County, Maine, an old feldspar mine famous for...lieved that similar ones still existed. The Bennett quarry was opened by Loren B . Merrill in 1917 (Blanche
phosphate mineral from the Dunton Quarry, Newry, Oxford County, Maine, USA F. C. HAWTHORNE1,*, N. A. BALL1...University of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana 70148, USA 2 [Received 8 April 2009; Accepted 6 July 2009]...tourmaline-bearing pocket at the Dunton Quarry, Newry, Oxford County, Maine, USA. It occurs as subhedral blocky...properties, X-ray powderdiffraction data, Newry, Maine, USA. Introduction MAHLMOODITE, Fe2+Zr(PO4)2(H2O)4...ore deposit at Wilson Springs, Garland County, Arkansas, USA, was described by Milton et al. (1993) as
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Maine Articles Published in Rocks and Minerals AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY DANIEL BEHNKE 2981 Landwehr...Gentleman of Oxford County. Rocks and Minerals 35:28-29. A tribute to "the dean of Maine minerals," Charles...of Buckfield, Maine. Bailey, E . M. 1929. A catalog of minerals found at Rumford, Maine. Rocks and Minerals...Barker, D. S. 1955. The Union Limestone quarry, Union, Maine. Rocks and Minerals 30:365-66. Short description...locations includĀ­ ing: Berry quarry, Poland; Bennett quarry, Buckfield; Hebron; Paris; and Litchfield. . 1942
Report (issue)
= 17.28(2) Z=2 X-ray Powder Pattern: Mt. Mica, Maine, USA; close to gainesite. 3.060 (100), 6.159 (90)...< 0.1 15.3 0.5 3.0 0.2 Total 99.9 (1) Mt. Mica, Maine, USA; by electron and ion microprobe, average of...almandine, muscovite, siderite, fluorapatite, elbaite, lepidolite, beryl, montebrasite, rhodochrosite...manganocolumbite. Distribution: From Mt. Mica, near Paris, Oxford Co., Maine, USA. Name: Honors the McCrillis family...his son, Phillip, pegmatite miners from Oxford Co., Maine, USA. Type Material: National Museum of Natural
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Massachusetts 01060 The Fascinating Story of Mount Mica's Largest and Most Remarkable Tourmaline Crystal...M I C A Q U A R R Y , which is located near Paris, Maine, has been in operation intermittently since...(1985) lists twenty-nine species as occurring at Mount Mica. Some feldspar was saved from time to time and...tourmaline excavated from the Mount Mica pegmatite was a compound crystal of elbaite, 15.5 inches long, 7 inches...relatively short, pink and colorless crystals of elbaite. A small, doubly terminated crystal of quartz,
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Case Study of Pegmatites from the Oxford Pegmatite Field (Maine, USA) Lorena HernƔndez-Filiberto 1, *...Case Study of Pegmatites from the Oxford Pegmatite Field (Maine, USA). Minerals 2021, 11, 802. https://...roda@ehu.es Maine Mineral & Gem Museum, P.O. Box 500, 99 Main Street, Bethel, ME 04217, USA; wsimmons@uno...Abstract: Almandine-spessartine garnets, from the Oxford County pegmatites and the Palermo No. 1 pegmatite,...Garnets from the most fractionated pegmatites (Mt. Mica, Berry-Havey, and Emmons) show the highest Mn, Nb
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SVNPJHSQUARRY, GARLAND COUNTY, ARKANSAS. S. L. Hanson1, A. U. Falster2...pale green to dark green sequence, although Dunton quarry green tourmaline generally fluoresces in contrast...most green tourmalines worldwide. At the Dunton quarry, green tourmaline without adjacent red zones fluoresces...treating rubellite increased the brightness of Dunton quarry tourmaline. Hawkins, Mackinnon, and Schneeberger...(1995) published a chemical analysis of Dunton quarry elbaite and revealed that there was an equal concentration
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Figure 2 (below). Tourmaline (elbaite) from the Dunton mine, Newry, Maine. A selection of some of the crystals...major tourmaline mines in New England (principally Maine) and California, with virtually no important tourmaline...Appalachian Mountains, stretching all the way from Maine to Georgia (White and Cook 1990), and a sporadic...currently being mined at Jacksons Crossroads, Wilkes County, Georgia. The more familiar and more highly regarded...tourmaline (the species elbaite exclusively) occurs in pegmatites in both Maine and California. Glassy
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who collected it from a river near the base of Mount McKinley, an area since encompassed by Denali National...Manasquan, New Jersey, visited Calamity Wash, Yavapai County, and collected several exciting and Figure 7: Arizona...specimens. Maine New Mining Activity Ever since the feldspar mill burned in West Paris in the early...early 196Os, Maine pegmatite mining has been conducted only for the recovery of gems or collector specimens...Sweden; the resumption of activity at Mount Mica quarry, Paris; and the find of what might be the world's
 
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