 | | 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............................................... |  | | 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...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) | | 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 |  | | 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 includĀ ing: Berry quarry, Poland; Bennett quarry, Buckfield; Hebron; Paris; and Litchfield. . 1942 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | visited,and samplesof mica schistor mica gneisswere taken at ten localitiesin Maine, five in southern New...Golding's Feldspar Quarry, near Bay Point Landing, Georgetown, Sagadahoc County, Maine ....................... G. B. Willes Quarry, near Cathance Station, Topsham, Sagadahoc County, Maine .....................AndroscogginCounty, Maine ........... Bastin, pp. 49-59 Mt. Mica, Paris, Oxford County, Maine ...............Millettville, near Norway, Maine Alvin Brown Farm, Millettville, near Norway, Maine Tamminen Farm, at foot |  | | Report (issue) | | QUARTZ AND FELDSPAR. FELDSPAR AND QUARTZ DEPOSITS OF MAINE, By EDSON S. BASTIN. INTRODUCTION. The commercially...commercially important feldspar and quartz deposits, of Maine all belong to a single type of rocks known to the...quartz, and mica, usually with subordinate amounts of other minerals. The pegmatites of Maine were studied... Cumberland, Androscoggin, and Oxford counties, in southwestern Maine, though occurring to some extent...in many open pits, from which feldspar, quartz, mica, or gem minerals have been mined, and in the cliffs |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | OXFORD COUNTY, MAINE: THE PLACE TO GO By F R A N K W A R D 2 Mildred A v e n u e , Rye, N . Y . 1 0 5...bring to light numerous specimens labeled Oxford County, Maine. M y own collection boasts quite a few that...collected from the numerous mines and quarries of Oxford County over the past five summers. A scattering of...come to Oxford County. T h e pegmatites that comprise the minĀ eralized zone of Oxford County are in many...however, some minerals that are unique to O x f o r d County alone and these aren't as rare as the collector |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Case Study of Pegmatites from the Oxford Pegmatite Field (Maine, USA) Lorena HernĆ”ndez-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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | cm long), Beebe Hall, McCain Valley, San Diego County, California. Cal and Kerith Graeber specimen; Jeffrey...iron-rich minerals, such as black tourmaline, biotite, pyrite, magnetite, triplite, and triphyllite....distinction because of the spectacular gemstones found on Mount Antero in central Colorado. and project into the...doubly terminated crystals. In the United States, Mount Figure 2. Index map of aquamarine occurrences in...Figure 4. Aquamarine (6.7 cm long), Mount Antero, Chaffee County, Colorado. Martin Zinn specimen; Jeffrey |  | Simmons, William, Falster, Alexander, Webber, Karen, Roda-Robles, EncarnaciĆ³n, 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. ENCARNACIOĢN...LLC, 48 Lovejoy Road, South Paris, Maine 04281, U.S.A. ABSTRACT The Mt. Mica pegmatite is famous for producing...composition where the two are in contact. Garnet-biotite thermometry of the migmatite at the contact yields...assemblage of sillimanite, quartz, muscovite, biotite, and alkali feldspar formed at 650 8C and 3 kb |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 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 |  | | 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...feldspar (usually microcline), qnartz, muscovite, biotite, black tourmaline, beryl, garnet, arsenopyrite... At Buckfield, and to a very minor degree at Mount Mica and Auburn, an intermediate phase followed during...and francolite were formed. B. The pockets of the Maine pegrnatites are largely secondary, produced by dissolving |  | Simmons, William B., Freeman, Gary, Falster, Alexander, Laurs, Brendan, Webber, Karen (2005) New tourmaline production: From Mount Mica, Maine America's First gem pegmatite. Rocks & Minerals, 80 (6) 396-408 doi:10.3200/rmin.80.6.396-408 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | El Paso] at 08:49 30 December 2014 from Mount Mica, Maine AmericaĆs First Gem Pegmatite WILLIAM B. āSKIPā...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...MINERALS Figure 1. Elbaite, 3.1 cm high, Mount Mica, Oxford County, Maine. Jeff Scovil photo. Figure 2. Elbaite...Elbaite, 6.5 cm high, Mount Mica; Jeff Scovil photo. Downloaded by [The University of Texas at El Paso] |  | 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 |  | Marchal, Karen L., Simmons, William B., Falster, Alexander U., Webber, Karen L., Roda-Robles, EncarnaciĆ³n (2014) GEOCHEMISTRY, MINERALOGY, AND EVOLUTION OF Li-Al MICAS AND FELDSPARS FROM THE MOUNT MICA PEGMATITE, MAINE, USA. The Canadian Mineralogist, 52 (2) 221-233 doi:10.3749/canmin.52.2.221 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Li-Al MICAS AND FELDSPARS FROM THE MOUNT MICA PEGMATITE, MAINE, USA Karen L. MARCHALĀ§, William B. SIMMONS...P.O. Box 644, Eā48080 Bilbao, Spain Abstract Mount Mica is a poorly zoned, sodic LCT-type pegmatite consisting...in incompatible elements. Keywords: pegmatite, Mount Mica, muscovite, Li-rich muscovite, lepidolite, feldspar...pegmatite melt. Mica minerals are abundant throughout the Mount Mica pegmatite. The wide range of mica stability...of the Mount Mica pegmatite. 222 the canadian mineralogist Geology of Mount Mica Mount Mica rose to |  | | Report (volume) | | Del Norte County; Trinity River, Trinity County; Spanish Creek and Gopher Hill, Plumas County; Placerville...Dorado County; Cherokee Flats, Yankee Hill,and Oroville, Butte County; French Corral, Nevada County; Indian...Indian Gulch and Volcano, Amador County; and Alpine Creek, Tulare County. Other western localities are:...Diamond Basin, Ada County, Idaho; Curry County, Oreg.; and Nelson Hill, near Glacier County, Mont. The Great...Pierce County; Oregon, Dane County; Kohlsville, Washington County; Saukville, Ozaukee County; Eagle, |  | | 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 |  | | Book (edition) | | HANDBOOK for A WEEK WITH MAINE MINERALS by NEIL A. WINTRINGHAM 1_ļæ½ Cv1,_1'--Aļæ½ __, 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 (issue) | | mined by Loren Merrill a century ago at Mt. Mica in Paris, Maine. This specimen was donated by Robert Whitmore...White Mountainsā has just rolled off the press. Maine co-authors are Dyk Eusden, Woody Thompson, and John...years, having originally been proposed at a 1993 Mount Washington Observatory symposium on the glacial...mines operated until the 1940s and yielded feldspar, mica and beryl. Most are now abandoned, although one...Merrill sometime around 1890 to 1913 at Mt. Mica in Paris, Maine. Since Merrill is a family name, I did some |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the historic Deer Hill locality in southwestern Maine. Downloaded by [NUS National University of Singapore]...Amethyst Discovery on Stow, Oxford County, Maine WOODROW B. THOMPSON Maine Geological Survey State House...House Station 22 Augusta, Maine 04333 In the summer of 1993, a trio of Maine mineral collectors worked...reviewing three of the major amethyst localities in Maine and the history of amethyst finds on Deer Hill,this... Ovewiew of Maine Amethyst Localities THE DEER HILL amethyst deposits in Stow, Maine, have been known |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Don Dallaire photo. 64 Mineral Drive Hebron, Maine 04238 phosphate@gmail.com W hen one thinks of...Neumeier. 302 3 South Baldface 93 302 Redstone Quarry Bartlett Lincoln Huntington Mountain Moat Mountain...minerals. He is on the board of trustees of the Maine Mineral & Gem Museum. James Nizamoff has a masterās...of the āMP2ā research group associated with the Maine Mineral & Gem Museum. Volume 92, November/December...the group of mountains immediately surrounding Mount Washington or those within the boundaries of the |
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