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


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Metatorbernite
Formula:Cu(UO2)2(PO4)2 · 8H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Metatorbernite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Mount Mica Quarry, Paris, Oxford County, Maine, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:28240
Long-form Identifier:1:3:28240:0
GUID (UUID V4):b1980f0b-99ef-4b14-9baf-b68b9b3af5a1
Nearest other occurrences of Metatorbernite
12.7km (7.9 miles) Witt Hill Chrysoberyl locality, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine, USA
21.6km (13.4 miles) Wardwell Quarry (Pechnic Quarry), Albany, Oxford County, Maine, USA
24.6km (15.3 miles) Lobikis Quarry, Peru, Oxford County, Maine, USA
24.8km (15.4 miles) Greenlaw Quarry, East Mount Apatite Mining District, Auburn, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
24.9km (15.4 miles) Maine Feldspar Quarry, East Mount Apatite Mining District, Auburn, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
25.0km (15.5 miles) Bumpus Quarry, Albany, Oxford County, Maine, USA
36.3km (22.6 miles) Dunton Gem Quarry, Newry, Oxford County, Maine, USA
36.4km (22.6 miles) Bell pit, Newry, Oxford County, Maine, USA
37.7km (23.4 miles) Black Mountain Quarry, Rumford, Oxford County, Maine, USA
38.6km (24.0 miles) Lord Hill Quarry (Lord Hill Mine), Stoneham, Oxford County, Maine, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2014 SHABA DISTRICT, ZAIRE This attractive metatorbernite is typical of the best that has been available...metauranocircite (Cook 1994), and torbernite and metatorbernite are but a few examples of this phenomenon....as torbernite but which today is certainly metatorbernite. Metatorbemite, also known historically as...gemmy to decidedly turbid and almost opaque. Metatorbernite is brittle, exhibits cleavage on { 001 }, and...meta-uranocircite, and meta-uranospinite. The question of metatorbernite occurrences is an interesting one. Certainly
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 (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)
November-December: Roebling Apatite, Pulsifer quarry, Auburn, Maine; photo by Victor E . Kranz. Aegirine-augite...114 Baumann, H . , 330 Bavenite, 189 Behnke, D., Maine Articles Published in Rocks and Minerals: An Annotated... , book review, The Tourma­ line, 453 Berkeley Quarry, Cross, South Carolina, J . J . Howe, 240 Bertrandite...Burbank, B . B . , Topaz and Herderite at Topsham, Maine, 434 Calaverite, 190 Calcite, 81, 112, 155, 190...Wollastonite and Titanite Near Natural Bridge, Lewis County, New York, 78; 13th Rochester Academy of Science
Book (volume)
series of pegmatite dikes ranking with those in Maine and Southern California for their production of...Etta Mine near Keystone on the east side of the Mount Rushmore National Memorial in Pennington Co. measured...beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm...gray Barite rosette up to 5 or 6 inches. CAMPBELL COUNTY MOUND CITY, W to the Missouri R., regional hillsides...gravels, etc.petrified wood, wood opal. CORSON COUNTY LITTLE EAGLE:  area ridges, slopes, stream beds
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
Report (issue)
Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of Maine ............... 16 Table 5 Uranium occurrences in...occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of eastern Maine................^..............i.29 Figure 6. Uranium...occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of western Maine.................................30 Figure 7. Uranium...graphitic Cleburne County. The property is, about 11.2 SINE phyllite which overlies a mica schist. One sample...Location No. Source of information Fairfield County. Short distance northeast of East Village, on a
Book (edition)
from Oregon to the Mexican border and eastward to Maine and Florida. What you cannot collect in person...beryl, topaz and spodumene. crystals, Areas in Maine, Connecticut and California, and Madagascar, are...grained and often sprinkled with tiny golden flakes of mica, and quartzites. Corundum, — — spinel and garnet...between The mountain regions in the east from Maine down through Georgia and westward to Tennessee...summer; neither is it wise to prospect in Montana or Maine in the as the winter. An scope, and automobile
Journal (issue)
acting caretaker of the San Pedro Mine in Santa Fe County, and along with his son Phillip is actively exploring...during the last year: a presidential election in the USA, more lands closed to public use, mineral localities...cutte rs • Freestanding for use in the field or mount on your working table • Capacity over 3 tons • Can...News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 Email: lanny @mineralnews.com...undamaged. When was the last time you saw decent mica crystals? I mean really good ones, not just a comer
Book (volume)
the western counties, especially the Clay Center Quarry 12 miles southeast of Toledo but in Ottawa Co....ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay
Book (volume)
the western counties, especially the Clay Center Quarry 12 miles southeast of Toledo but in Ottawa Co....ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay
Book (edition)
describes sites under of the nearest town and county. and the many maps included book contain such...from Alaska to the Mexican border and eastward to Maine and Florida. Still others are to be found in Canada...in cavities in the dike. Such pegmatite dikes in Maine, Connecticut, New Hampshire, North Carolina, South...changes either to slate or to schist, which contains mica; sandstone alters to quartzite or gneiss, limestone...affording a challenge to the collector, especially in Maine, New Hampshire, Connecticut, New Jersey, Virginia
Book (edition)
so as to be distinc tive. Found only in Benito County, Cali fornia, the mineral is reported to fluo resce...ultraviolet light; however, the beryl from Weeks Quarry, East Wake field, N. H., sometimes fluoresces a...color under long waves. Cesium- beryl from Newry, Maine, fluoresces weak yellow to flesh with long waves...colorful fluorescent minerals, mounted in plaster paris to form removable and portable plaques. The use...equally good speci mens. The agate from Sweetwater County, Wyoming, exemplifies the uranium-acti vated quartz
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...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;
Book (edition)
MARIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY 3 1111 00289 4184 \ I s Fifth Revised Edition A complete, state-by-state...on the gem resources of our land. "Do you, Mr. Maine," he continued, "know that some of the finest tourmalines...hundred yards from your doorstep in the vicinity of Paris? Have you heard, Mr. New Jersey, of your famous...from Alaska to the Mexican border and eastward to Maine and Florida. Still others are found in Canada and...strike gem tourmaline by the bushel basketful in Maine and California; emerald in North Carolina, a big
Book
fluorescing minerals. The field—mine, mine dump, or quarry—can be richly rewarding in its production of...lamp—the fluorescent blue of benitoite from San Benito County, California; the lemon yellow of esperite from... or the intense green of autunite from Spokane County, Washington. The color and beauty of minerals under...reference to the nearest town or village, a province or county name, or a prominent geographical feature, such...fluorescent minerals. Certain tourmaline from Newry, Maine, fluoresces blue. In most of these pegmatites, green-fluorescing
Book
fluorescing minerals. The field—mine, mine dump, or quarry—can be richly rewarding in its production of...lamp—the fluorescent blue of benitoite from San Benito County, California; the lemon yellow of esperite from...or the intense green of autunite from Spokane County, Washington. The color and beauty of minerals under...reference to the nearest town or village, a province or county name, or a prominent geographical feature, such...fluorescent minerals. Certain tourmaline from Newry, Maine, fluoresces blue. In most of these peg- matites
Book (edition)
so as to be distinc­ tive. Found only i11 Benito County, Cali­ fornia, the mineral is reported to fluo­...ultraviolet light ; however, the beryl from Weeks Quarry, East Wake­ field, N. H., sometimes fluoresces...color under long wa,res. Cesium­ beryl from Newry, Maine, fluoresces weak yellow to flesh with long waves...hrown zircons from Henderson County, North Carolina. and Placer County, Calif., have an orange-brown...'pecime11s f ron1 Portland, Conn., and X c ,,·r)·, :Maine. Short \,·a,·es used. ALLOPHANE. \\t i t l1 sl1ort
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that could be transformed into a producing mine or quarry, even though his original intention was only to...vegetable fibers. This specimen came from Orleans County, Vermont. Galena is the most important ore...patience and diligence, too. Tourmaline comes from Maine as well as California; a notable place for ruby...discovery in the Divine Gulch region of Eldorado County, California the story of a man who found spending...jade boulder weighing over 1,300 pounds in Shasta County. Some fantastic stories credit not only the pros-
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...region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites between the towns...Amity (Chamberlain and Robinson, 2013). MALAWI Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district
Book
variety amethyst, sceptre habit, Denny Mountain, King County, Washington, U.S.A. / Photo by Ken Mayer Production...BERZELIUS, J.J. (1819): Nouveau Systéme de Minéralogie. Paris (original Swedish version, Stockholm, 1814). R...Germany. HAbvY, R.-J. (1801): Traité de Minéralogie. Paris, France. HILL, J. (1748): History of Fossils. London...LISLE, J.B.L. (1772): Essai de Cristallographie. Paris, France. SCHALLER, W.T. (1930): Adjectival ending...Letztes Mineral-System. Graz Oxford English Dictionary (1971): Oxford University und Gerlach, Freiberg
Book (edition)
Distances 4. Plotting a Position 5. Land Subdivisions, USA 6. Land Subdivisions, Canada 7. Student Rock and...Silicified Tree Trunk View in Granite Terrain View of Mount Antero-White Mountain Weathered Granite View Near...Gem Pocket View of Hercules Mme Outcrop View of Mount Apatite Pegmatite Family Basalt Sills in Yellowstone...Thunderegg Polished Up-tilted Lava Flow Prospect Park Quarry Cavity in Pillow Basalt Prehnite Pipes in Diabase...example, an uninformed collector may decide to visit Mount Antero in Colorado, having heard that the area 1
Book (edition)
Distances Plotting a Position Land Subdivisions, USA Land Subdivisions, Canada Student Rock and Mineral...Polished oo: Lava Capped Buttes 100. Prospect Park Quarry 101. Cavity in Pillow Basalt 102. Prehnite Pipes...example, an uninformed collector may decide to visit Mount Antero in Colorado, hav- ing heard that the area...planned. As so often happens, the dumps of a mine or quarry famous for its ore or mineral production may be...States and Canada, one cannot depend upon seeing a quarry or mine but must know exactly the trail or woods
Journal (issue)
Tucson USA Visit us at these international shows: Houston Ste. Marie Denver Munich USA France USA Germany...and Riverpark Inn Rhodochrosite, Sweet Home Mine, USA, 10 cm Photo: Malte Sickinger MARCUS BUDIL Monaco...now in the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County collection; Anthony Kampf photo. Figure 211. Rhodochrosite...mine. Museum of Mineralogy collection, no. 16552, Paris School of Mines (MINES ParisTech) collection; Eloïse...Rudolf Watzl, Roberto Appiani, Eloïse Gaillou of the Paris School of Mines, Marc Wilson of the Carnegie Mineralogical
Book (edition)
Distances 4. Plotting a Position 5. Land Subdivisions, USA 6. Land Sutxiivisions, Canada 7. Student Rock and...Silicified Tree Trunk View in Granite Terrain View of Mount Antero-White Mountain Weathered Granite View Near...Gem Pocket View of Hercules Mine Outcrop View of Mount Apatite Pegmatite Family Basalt Sills in Yellowstone...Thunderegg Polished Up-tilted Lava Flow Prospect Park Quarry Cavity in Pillow Basalt Prehnite Pipes in Diabase...example, an uninformed collector may decide to visit Mount Antero in Colorado, having heard that the area
 
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