 | | Journal (issue) | | Finger) and LKA Emeralds, Hiddenite, Alexander County, NC Go On Public Exhibit in New York City. Emeralds.................................... 3 Hewitt Gem Quarry................................................................................... 3 Walden Gem Quarry ........................................................................................ 4 Maine .......................................................................................... 4 Greenlaw Quarry .............................................. |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Notable MAINE GEMSTONES J A N E C. P E R H A M Route 1, Box 1890 West Paris, Maine 04289 Mining and collecting...southwestern Maine. The pegmatite deposits in Oxford County and northern Androscoggin County have yielded...tourmaline, aquamarine, rose quartz, ame thyst, and apatite. The most notable gem-producing locales in the...Whispering-Pines in South Paris, the Slattery quarry in Paris, and the Hibbs quarry in Hebron. Fine tourmaline has been...Dunton quarry in Newry, the B . B . #7 quarry in North Norway, Mount Mica at Paris Hill, and Mount Rubellite |  | | 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...Volume 2: Mining History, Gems, and Geology edited by Vandall T. King Maine Geological Survey DEPARTMENT...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 |  | | Report (volume) | | THE PEGMATITES AND ASSOCIATED ROCKS OF MAINE INCLUDING FELDSPAR, QUARTZ, MICA, AND GEM DEPOSITS BY EDSON................................................ Feldspar brushes......................................................................... Origin of the Maine pegmatites........................................Larsen............................. Application to Maine pegmatites............................... Eutectics........ 1.... Androscoggin County.................................................. Auburn............ |  | | Journal (issue) | | 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...localities: the Himalaya dike system, Mesa Grande district, California (by E. E. Foord) [1977, vol. 8, no |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | and baby blue, deep rum muscovite, many tints of apatite, beryl in every color, subtle shadings of rare...white; but our real interest lies in the red of rubellite, blue of indicolite, purplish-red of Siberite... yellow of Ceylonite, shadings Dunton Mine in Maine ROCKS AND MINERALS of bi-colors, red with green...Columbus, probably had some knowledge Newry Mountain, Maine Tourma/ine area. 155 of tourmaline in spite of...1820 Mt. Mica (Paris, Me.) and the 1862 Mt. Apatite (Auburn, Me.) discoveries came the impetus to look |  | | 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...found in the specimens. Maine New Mining Activity Ever since the feldspar mill burned in West Paris...Paris in the early 196Os, Maine pegmatite mining has been conducted only for the recovery of gems or collector...in Sweden; the resumption of activity at Mount Mica quarry, Paris; and the find of what might be the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | MT. APATITE, AUBURN, MAINE By M. Jean Ingraham Smith College, Northampton, Mass. INTRODUCTION the Auburn...the hill, and show a garnetiferous zone in the feldspar. N o garnets are present in pits near the summit...The outer pits contain a pegmatite of quartz and feldspar in graphic interGENERAL GEOLOGY growth, which...becomes coarser in texture The country rock at Mt. Apatite may be toward the core zone, where it finally observed...and lithia-rich zones are ated rocks of western Maine. With regard less likely to do so. Heinrich also |  | | Report (issue) | | 3: Tourmaline Publisher Lapis International, LLC; East Hampton, CT Concept & Design Maximilian Glas, Stamberg...Lapis International, LLC P.O. Box 263, East Hampton, CT 06424, USA Phone 1.860.267.1512; fax 1.860.267.7225...CHRISTIAN WEISE VERLAG, GERMANY AND LAPIS INTERNATIONAL, USA Tourmaline ♦ History ♦ Mineralogy • Tourmaline...78 Australia ......................... 82 Europe (east) ...................... 83 Europe (west) .........be seen along the surface of the stone. This rubellite was broken perpendicular to the c-axis, and only |  | | Book (volume) | | lie some of the oldest crystalline rocks in the East, both igneous and metamorphic, strongly mineralized...Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59...along adjoining Co. linerock crystal. BARROW COUNTY WINDER, along rd. to Jefferson and 1½ mi. inside...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States BARTOW COUNTY AREA, Saltpeter Cave, as floatjasper. CARTERSVILLE: |  | | Book (volume) | | Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift...600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip |  | | Book (volume) | | Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift...600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip |  | | Book (edition) | | HANDBOOK for A WEEK WITH MAINE MINERALS by NEIL A. WINTRINGHAM 1_� Cv1,_1'--A� __, SECOND EDITION...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 locality...wishes to thank Mt-. Dana c. Douglass (Douglass Mining Co., Bethel), Mr. Stanley Feitler ( Beryllium DeveloIJDent |  | | Book | | ADULARIA Adu Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...Iron-manganese phosphates of the Williams pegmatites, Coosa County, Alabama (by P. B. Leavens & T. A. Simpson) 6:66-73...ALICE GLORY HOLE The Alice glory hole, Clear Creek County, Colorado (by T. A. Hanson & W. B. Craft) 18:185187...--and W. Hunt: The Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County, Arizona 19:139-144 ALLGOOD, GENNE MYERS --and...Allgood, J. Pradenas: Gold occurrences in Tuolumne County, California 18:41-45, 18:62-64 --with W. H. Wilkinson |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the Sebago granite–pegmatite system, southern Maine, USA Michael A. Wise*, Cathleen D. Brown Department...situated in the Oxford pegmatite field, southwestern Maine. Surrounding the pluton is an area designated as...pegmatites) and include: megacrystic graphic K-feldspar, sodic aplite and potassic pegmatite pods hosting...fractionation are encountered in pegmatitic K-feldspar (K/Rb ≈ 17, K/Cs ≈ 90, Rb/Tl ≈ 75), muscovite...chemistry, petrology, geochemistry, Sebago, southern Maine Received: 1 October 2009; accepted: 30 March 2010; |  | | Journal (issue) | | This Issue Osmiridium Mining in Tasmania. By P. Ormsby Lennon Beryllium in Maine. By Prof. Freeman F...By David Modell A NON-TECHNICAL MAGAZINE - -ON- MINING · PROSPECTING • GEOLOGY - MINERALOGY • . THE... ROCI\S and MINERALS A NON-TECH NICAL MAGAZINE ---ON-MINING-PROSPECTING-GEOLOGY-MINERALOGY Published Quarterly...19. 1926 Contents for March, 1931 Osmiridium Mining in 'l'asmania. Bu P. Orm11bu Lennon . . . . . ...Postage Extra CRYSTALLIZED VANADINITE From Pinal County, Arizona Flame red crystals on a dnrk yellow matrix |  | | Book (volume) | | Cultural Art Santa Ana, California + GEMSTONES OF EAST AFRICA by Peter C. Keller + GEMSTONES OF AFGHANISTAN...calcite (21.30 ct), Montana; light yellow orthoclase feldspar (25.03 ct), Idaho; rectangular step cut purplish...purplish pink elbaite tourmaline (30.89 ct), Maine; round brilliant red-orange spessartine garnet (16.62 ct)...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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | MONTHLY Contents for September, 1939 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY ...................................................................................... 270 LOST QUARRY ( a poem). 8 ) D . H opkins . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271 THE MAINE PEGMATITE BELT. By Philip iWorri/l .............. 272 $500...Chiapas, and enter the republic from Honduras to the east. Except for a narrow coastal plain on the Pacific...City. This is by far the most accessible of the mining regions. To visit it permits must be obtained from |  | | Catalog/List | | 2. Do. Rhomhohedral Fluor- Haloide. Triv. Apatite. Chem. Phosphate of Lime. Norway. 76. L. Arendal...Minute blue crystals 78. L. Cornwall. 79. its apatite. In pale, rose colored, six sided prisms, ter-...Connecticut. 164. L. Middlebury, Vermont. 165. L. Mount Vesuvius. 168. L. New-York. Rouge antique marble...Talc-Mica. Sp. 2. do. Haddam, Connecticut. ol' feldspar. Exhibiting a section of a large six-sided table... L. Maine. Pari:), large foliae, of a yellowish In color, containing 341. L. Paris, Maine. 342 |  | | Field Trip Notes | | Trip No. 1. Geology of the Appalachian Highlands of East-Central New York, Southern Vermont, and Southern...Hampshire Field Trip No. 2, Outstanding pegmatites of Maine and New Hampshire 73 Geology of the "Chelmsford...Trip No. 1 GEOLOGY OF THE APPALACHIAN HIGHLANDS OF EAST-CENTRAL NEW YORK, SOUTHER Leaders: VERJ-IONT,...University GEOLOGY OF THE APPALACHIAN HIGHLANDS OF EAST-CENTRAL NEW YORK, SOUTHERN VERMONT, AND SOUTHERN...Acknowledgments 2 General geological features 5 East-central New York and parts of western Vermont 7 | | | Book (volume) | | Cultural Art Santa Ana, California GEMSTONES OF EAST AFRICA by Peter C. Keller GEMSTONES OF AFGHANISTAN...(21 .30 et), 1\1ontana; light yellow orthoclase feldspar (25.03 et), Idaho; rectangular step cut purplish...purplish pink elbaite tourmaline (30.89 et), Maine; round brilliant red-orange spessartine garnet ( 16.62...Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from Sai, Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...long. BOTTOM GROUP. Deep, spine! red oligoclase feldspar (5.04 et), Oregon; and three Montana sapphires |  | | 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...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...A. MOHS' HARDNESS SCALE Talc 6. Orthoclase feldspar 2. Gypsum 7. Quartz 3. Calcite 8. Topaz |  | | 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...CRYSTAL FORMS <^ bi ^P CHIASTOLITE BERYL EMERALD FELDSPAR EPIDOTE ^?^ (& \ ^^ GARNET KYANITE IOLITE...Carlsbad (One twin shown dark; other, light) FELDSPAR TWINS I J PHENACITE QUARTZ CRYSTALS ffrl...identify minerals pyramid terminations, and the apatite, with their six-faced flat-terminated prism of |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | PEGMATITES OF THE BRUNSWICK AND OXFORD FIELDS, MAINE: DIFFERENTIAL TRENDS IN F-POOR AND F-RICH ENVIRONMENTS...field and the Central Maine Synclinorium of the Oxford pegmatite field, in Maine, are intruded by numerous...(Nb,Ta)-bearing phases. Generally, the CGM from Maine are hosted by pegmatites characterized by a LCT...trends, fluorine, Brunswick field, Orford field, Maine. Introduction As the primary carriers of Nb and...paragenetic variations of CGM at the field or district scale. In this study, which is part of an extensive |
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