 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 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 |  | | 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 (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 |  | | 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 |  | | 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 (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 |  | 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 |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Gibson mine, Bertrandite, New Hampshire, 161 Pitkin County, Colorado; specimen Beryl, South Dakota, 383 Biology-Earth...Russell, 396-99 mine, Magdalena district, Socorro County, New Mexico; Ron Gibbs specimen and Biotite: New...Bismuth, South Dakota, 383 tite, Thomas Range, Juab County, Utah; Bolt, E., see Spotlight on Juniors Martin...190-93 Carnegie Award, 150 Arkansas, Kimzey Calcite quarry, 402-404 Cerussite, South Dakota, 383 Arrojadeite...Hampshire, 162; South Dakota, 383 Chips from the Quarry, 7, 77, 149,221, 373 Chlorite-group minerals, New |  | | 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 |  | Simmons, William, Falster, Alexander, Webber, Karen, Roda-Robles, Encarnación, Boudreaux, Andrew P., Grassi, Leah Rae, Freeman, Gary (2016) Bulk Composition of Mt. Mica Pegmatite, Maine, USA: Implications For the Origin of An Lct Type Pegmatite By Anatexis. The Canadian Mineralogist, 54 (4) 1053-1070 doi:10.3749/canmin.1600017 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 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. ENCARNACIÓN...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 |  | | 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............................................... |  | | 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, |  | | Journal (issue) | | Complex, Wausau Syenite Compley, Marathon County, Wisconsin, USA……………………………………………..21 DOLGOPOLOVA, A.,...assemblage in the Emmons pegmatite, Greenwood, Oxford Co., Maine, USA: implication for the origin of this unusual...evolution of the Emmons rare-element pegmatite (Maine, USA)…………………………………………37 GUASTONI, A., GENTILE, P...characterization of an unknown metamict phase from Tuften quarry, Larvik area, S Norway…………………………………………………………………………………………………………...evolution of the Berry-Havey rare-element pegmatite (Maine, USA): preliminary results…………………………………………………………… |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73019 USA * Corresponding author. ABSTRACT of Crystallization...(OH)8 ) in an assemblage including kaolinite, lP mica, and quartz was calculated at 205-240C at 200-220...includes Li-rich minerals (spodumene and rarely petalite, elbaite-rossmanite, lepidolite), Cs-beryl variety...follow the LCT trend (including the pegmatites from Maine, California, Afghanistan, and Brazil that were part...lithium aluminosilicates at higher temperatures (petalite) and lower lP pressures (eucryptite). For the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Geophysics, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019 USA (email: dlondon@ou.edu) ABSTRACT Pegmatites are...industrial minerals (feldspars, quartz, spodumene, petalite) for glass, ceramic, and electronic applications...trench, and coring program conducted in Colorado (USA) during WWII generated modal analyses of 1,803 pegmatites...7300-0.790 for whole rock samples from the Hale quarry, Portland (Methot, 1973). Initial 87Sr/86Sr ratios...always quartz-saturated. Biotite is the dominant mica in the NYF pegmatites, as opposed to muscovite in |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Massif Central) RI P T exhibit a narrow range of mica 7Li values, ranging from -3.6 to +3.4‰. The value...to confirm that the 7Li (‰) values recorded in mica are inherited from crustal source rocks common to...protoliths enriched in rare-element bearing phases, e.g., mica, garnet, seems to be more T responsible for Li-isotope...et al., 2000, 2003). Moreover, crystallization of mica can occur 6 ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT during all stages...Unfortunately, only a few analyses have been performed on mica separates (Barnes et al., 2012; Teng et al., 2006a; |  | | 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 |  | Siegel, Karin, Wagner, Thomas, Trumbull, Robert B., Jonsson, Erik, Matalin, Gabriella, Wälle, Markus, Heinrich, Christoph A. (2016) Stable isotope (B, H, O) and mineral-chemistry constraints on the magmatic to hydrothermal evolution of the Varuträsk rare-element pegmatite (Northern Sweden) Chemical Geology, 421. 1-16 doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2015.11.025 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | partial fluid loss. Hydrogen isotope variations in mica support this model. The systematic increase in δD...closed-system variations in temperature or melt-mica fractionation, but it is consistent with late fluid...(δ18O from 9.7‰ to 11.6‰), quartz (13.3‰ to 14‰) and mica (10.3‰ to 11.3‰) show good agreement with equilibrium...with the stability fields of Li-aluminosilicates petalite and spodumene indicates crystallization pressures...scheme, the Varuträsk pegmatite belongs to the petalite subtype of the LCT family, along with other well-known |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Department, 110 S. Madison St., Adrian, Michigan 49221, USA ABSTRACT Pegmatites containing rare elements can...Wisconsin, USA McAllister pegmatite, Alabama, USA S. Maine pegmatites, USA Brown Derby, Colorado, USA San Diego...Diego Co., California, USA Black Hills, South Dakota, USA Red Cross Lake, Manitoba Canada Mavis Lake...1988 Duke et al. 1992 Lamott & Lacorne plutons Two-mica leucogranite Monte Capan Härnö granite Mulja...Pegmatites Mount Antero, Colorado, USA South Platte, Colorado, USA Lake George, Colorado, USA Mt. Rosa/Stove |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | of the largest deposits of lithium and ceramic petalite, with minor reserves of tin, tantalum and beryllium...compositions of impure mineral concentrates of petalite, eucryptite, lepidolite, “zinnwaldite”, pollucite...sectors (the latter in turn subdivided into a central Quarry and southern Southeastern Area sectors) of the...asymmetry along dip, from a feldspathic keel to petalite-rich crest, with lepidolite and pollucite accumulated...________ & WENDEN, H.E. (1951): Beryl at Mount Mica, Maine. Am. Mineral. 36, 751-759. ________ (1975): |  | | Report (volume) | | ..-..--.--.-...-..........-.....-..-.-........Petalite '............-.--...-.--.-..-.-.----.-- ---.....From the Silver King mine, Calico, San Bernardino County, Cal. Specific gravity, 6:28. Analysis by W. H...From .Teocalli Mountain, Brush Creek, Gunnison County, Colo. Specific gravity, 7.400 at 14.5°, corrected...vol. 3, pt. 1, p. 46. From the Rose mine, Grant County, N". Mex. Specific gravity, 6.644 at 20°. Probably...impurities. From the Missouri mine, Halls Valley, Park County, Colo. Analyses, by Hillebrand, of three different |  | | 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...Cantlin, Ellis, [D; Jeannette B. Carillo, Gem Center USA, EI Paso, TX; Gary Christopher, The Prospectors Cache...Resources, Vancouver, BC; Barbara L. Muntyan, Ouray County Historical Society, Ouray, CO; Merrill O. Murphy |
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