 | | 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 |  | | | | 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...tourmaline, microcline, quartz, albite, beryl, amblygonite-montebrasite, childreniteeosphorite and apatite...properties, X-ray powderdiffraction data, Newry, Maine, USA. Introduction MAHLMOODITE, Fe2+Zr(PO4)2(H2O)4 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | PARAGENESIS OF THE GRANITE PEGMATITES OF CENTRAL MAINE Knr.txprn K. Laxons.* Haraard Uni.aersif'y SUMMARY...the paragenesis of certain pegmatites in central Maine has caused the writer to advance the following ideas... At Buckfield, and to a very minor degree at Mount Mica and Auburn, an intermediate phase followed during...solutions. Typical products of this phase are: amblygonite, lithiophilite or triphylite, rhodochrosite,...and francolite were formed. B. The pockets of the Maine pegrnatites are largely secondary, produced by dissolving |  | | Report (volume) | | PEGMATITES AND ASSOCIATED ROCKS OF MAINE INCLUDING FELDSPAR, QUARTZ, MICA, AND GEM DEPOSITS BY EDSON S...minor constituents............................. Mica................................................................................... Origin of the Maine pegmatites........................................Larsen............................. Application to Maine pegmatites............................... Eutectics.............................. 1.... Androscoggin County............................................... |  | Falster, Alexander U., Simmons, William B., Webber, Karen L., Dallaire, Donald A., Nizamoff, James W., Sprague, Raymond A. (2019) The Emmons Pegmatite, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine. Rocks & Minerals, 94 (6) 498-519 doi:10.1080/00357529.2019.1641021 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 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 |  | | 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 (article/letter/editorial) | | 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 includ ing: Berry quarry, Poland; Bennett quarry, Buckfield; Hebron; Paris; and Litchfield. . 1942 |  | | 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) | | Renewed Mining at the Western Quarries of Mount Apatite, Maine Downloaded by [University of Arizona] at... D.C. 20560 Figure 1. The western quarries of Mount Apatite. A fter decades of inactivity, mining...resumed on the western slopes of Mount Apatite in the town of Auburn, Maine (see fig. 1). This is the location...location of the world-famous Pulsifer quarry, which has produced fine gem tourmaline but is best known...addition to the resumption of mining in the Pulsifer quarry, two new cuts have been made into the pegmatite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | we cherished. There were a few quarries in the county, but not until we got bicycles was it possible...color, although gold-like, was just iron-stained mica, locally known as Crow's gold. One of our neighbors...Fame JANET CARES Harvard Mineralogical Museum 24 Oxford Street Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 E A C H Y...babingtonite specimens in the Blueberry Mountain quarry, Woburn, Massachusetts. It was the first time any...were long rides in cars, buses, and trains up to Maine, New Hampshire, and Connecticut. The following spring |  | | 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...minerals to the section on mineral descriptions. Mount Rubellite, long inactive, bas been replaced in the...characterized the evenings spent with members of the Oxford County Mineral & Gem Association. N. A. W. Mountainside |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | University of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana 70148, USA [Received 28 April 2010; Accepted 1 July 2010] ABSTR...from the giant 1972 pocket at Newry, Oxford County, Maine, USA, has been solved and refined to R1 3.75%...phosphate, crystal structure, Newry pegmatite, Maine, malhmoodite Introduction ZIGRASITE, MgZr(PO4)2(H2O)4...tourmalinebearing pocket at the Dunton Quarry, Newry, Oxford County, Maine, USA, by Hawthorne et al. (2009). It...tourmaline, microcline, quartz, albite, beryl, amblygonite-montebrasite, childrenite-eosphorite and apatite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | FRANK A. PITTS: A 91-YEAR-OLD MICRO-MOUNT ENTHUSIAST Downloaded by [University of Florida] at 13:13...Minot, Maine, is a real "downeast" native for he was born in the town of Buckfield, Oxford County, Maine...Boston and Maine Railroad. After four years of work with this railroad, he returned to Maine and purchased...With some of the specimens from his mine and other Maine mineral localities Frank was able to exchange specimens...specimens. During the years he collected at Mount Apatite, Mount Mica, Noyes Mountain and other localities, |  | | 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........................................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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | nearby Dunton quarry,Maine. Other unconfirmed Maine occurrences include the Harvard quarry at Greenwood...Nevel quarry, the rose quartz crystal locality of Mount Plumbago, and the Mount Mica quarry at Paris. Brazilianite...Grafton County; the Charles Davis (Morrill 1956) and Nancy No. 1 mines, also in Grafton County; and the...at the G. E. Smith mine near Newport, Sullivan County. Much of what we know about the occurrence of brazilianite...veinlets and small subhedral crystals coating amblygonite at Alto Patrimonio, Paraiba, and at Boqueirao |  | | 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 (issue) | | Robert B. Cook Auburn University, Al Carl A. Francis Maine Mineral & Gem Museum, ME John Rakovan New Mexico...I. Jacobson, Denver, CO Anthony R. Kampf, l.A. County Museum of Natural History, CA Virgil W. Lueth,...across a local area net\,vork. Subscription offices: USA/North America: Taylor & Francis Group, LLC, 530 Walnut...Copyright Clearance Center (www.copyright.com) in the USA or the Copyright Licensing Agency (www. cla.co.uk)...Southwood Melbourne, Australia Woodrow B. Thompson, Maine Geological Survey, Augusta, ME John S. White, Stewartstown |  | | Journal (issue) | | ith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.00 HANDIOOK OF MICA by R. R. Chowdh ury . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.00 THE HISTORY OF MOUNT MICA by Hamlin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...1945 Contents for February, 1945 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY .................................................FOUND IN SWilZERLAND ............ REPORT ON TWO MAINE MINES. By Charles F. Ma,.ble and Philip J)'lorrilt............................ TRILOBITES FROM GElZ QUARRY, PENN . .................................... A |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Zapot pegmatite, Gillis Range, Mineral Co., Nevada, USA. Named in honor of W.B. Simmons. The sample is 1...Orleans, 2000 Lakeshore Drive New Orleans, LA 70148, USA E-mail: wsimmons@uno.edu 2 Museo di Storia Naturale...America 5345 Armada Drive, Carlsbad, CA 92008-4602, USA E-mail: jshigley@gia.edu 4 Department of Geology... Left to right: spodumene (kunzite, California, USA, 284 g), spodumene (triphane, Afghanistan, 196 g)...pocket in the Dunton pegmatite on Newry Mountain, Maine, USA, yielded about two tons of gemmy, bicolored, |  | | Book | | PLATE XV. THE HISTORY OF MOUNT MICA OF U. MAINE, S. A. AND Its Wonderful of Deposits...Among Advancement of of Russia, Northern etc. MAINE Augustus 1895 Choate the Hamlin Gems of Science... the States to the mineral To a Mica Elijah of Mount have, and some the United and proper...proper by time, its Livermore Mica, Frederick in whose of the past twenty by his early...terminated S. A., dedicated Memoriam. Augustus Maine, Hamlin, — in Bangor, known deserving who |  | | 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...Overview .............70 William B. Simmons • From Paris in America to Amerika in Saxony A Survey of the...important find of gem tourmaline was made at Mount Mica in Paris, Maine, though only small quantities were uncovered...the north side of the Himalaya Mine in San Diego County, CA. D. Sterrett photo provided by Jesse Fisher |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | takes placewith the introductionof pyrite, garnet, mica, black tourmaline,and other minerals,first along... PEGMdITITES. 453 At C•tceres,Spain,2 a vein in mica schistscarriesamblygonite, cassiterite,apatite and...extendingfrom Kingston, 2 Dorpinghaus,W. T.: Amblygonite-ZinnVorkommenvon Caceresin Spanien. Ein neuer...and was 2.•A feet thick, but it was not all good mica.•8 This year a book 3 by 3I• feet and 32 inchesthick...SprucePine Mica Company's No. Io mineat SprucePine andwasall merchantable s Spence,Hugh S.: Mica. Canada |  | | Journal (issue) | | Hamlin has written concerning the output of Mount Mica and the regions roundabout and given us illustrations...Bangor bar-room. Charles D. Nims of St. Lawrence County, New York, induced a cer tain Thomas Rees to allow...those found at Haddam, Co a , or in s : H aw:ence County, New York. - - - - - - - : . - - - - - - - - -...for this purpose, which are lepidolite, a lithia mica, in part a metasilicate of aluminum with potassium...MINERAL COLLECTOR. States are near Pala, San Diego County, Cal., which were the largest producers of this |  | | Journal (issue) | | country village in the Saucon Valley of Lehigh County, Pa., occurs a vast deposit of zinc blende which...quarries. Two of the holes are worked en tirely on the quarry plan, while the third is worked by underground...limestone quarry in Pennsbury, Chester County , and the zinc mines at Friedensville, Lehigh County. It is...chrome mines in Little Britian township, Lancaster County. Thompson Harris was the superintendent and the...3x4 inches . Since it is becoming customary to mount large rock sections and particularly micas in such |  | | Report (issue) | | Page 11 Pezzottaite Federico Pezzatta Page 26 Mount Antero: The Peak of Colorado Beryl Collecting Mark...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...systems, such as the complex type (lepidolite, amblygonite, elbaite and danburite subtypes) beryl can be |
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