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Cassiterite from
Maine Feldspar Quarry, East Mount Apatite Mining District, Auburn, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Cassiterite
Formula:SnO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Montebrasite3 photos of Cassiterite associated with Montebrasite at this locality.
Spodumene2 photos of Cassiterite associated with Spodumene at this locality.
Zircon2 photos of Cassiterite associated with Zircon at this locality.
Autunite2 photos of Cassiterite associated with Autunite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Cassiterite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Maine Feldspar Quarry, East Mount Apatite Mining District, Auburn, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (6 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:28598
Long-form Identifier:1:3:28598:4
GUID (UUID V4):c0ae878b-a66b-47a2-8b09-8501529b24dd
Nearest other occurrences of Cassiterite
0.2km (0.1 miles) Greenlaw Quarry, East Mount Apatite Mining District, Auburn, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
0.8km (0.5 miles) Keith Quarry (Towne Quarry), West Mount Apatite Mining District, Auburn, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
0.9km (0.6 miles) Pulsifer Quarry & Dionne extension, West Mount Apatite Mining District, Auburn, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
1.0km (0.6 miles) Wade Quarry (Androscoggin Tourmaline prospect), West Mount Apatite Mining District, Auburn, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
1.1km (0.7 miles) Groves Quarry (Hole in the Ground Quarry), West Mount Apatite Mining District, Auburn, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
1.9km (1.2 miles) Berry-Havey Quarry (Havey Quarry; Berry Quarry), Poland, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
15.9km (9.9 miles) Mount Rubellite Quarries, Mount Rubellite, Hebron, Oxford County, Maine, USA
16.8km (10.4 miles) Hibbs Quarry, Mount Rubellite, Hebron, Oxford County, Maine, USA
18.3km (11.4 miles) Mount Marie Quarries, Paris, Oxford County, Maine, USA
20.0km (12.4 miles) Streaked Mountain, Buckfield, Oxford County, Maine, USA
References
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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...mm;Jrom the Bennett Quarry, Buckfield, Maine. Mined in 1996 by Holden !Jrothers Mining and currently in
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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............
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
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
Report (volume)
DIRECTOR BULLETIN 420 ECONOMIC GEOLOGY OF THE FELDSPAR DEPOSITS OF THE UNITED STATES BY EDSON S. BASTIN...Minerals of the feldspar deposits............."............................... Methods of mining ............ 23 Maine............................................................... Androscoggin County................................................ Auburn.............;................................................................................. Lincoln County ..............................................
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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 farmjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59...along adjoining Co. linerock 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 floatjasper. CARTERSVILLE:
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and baby blue, deep rum muscovite, many tints of apatite, beryl in every color, subtle shadings of rare... 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...elsewhere, coupled with the incidental finds of other mining. By the early part of this century over 45 mines
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Renewed Mining at the Western Quarries of Mount Apatite, Maine Downloaded by [University of Arizona]...The western quarries of Mount Apatite. A fter decades of inactivity, mining has been resumed on the...the western slopes of Mount Apatite in the town of Auburn, Maine (see fig. 1). This is the location of the...Pulsifer quarry, which has produced fine gem tourmaline but is best known for deep purple apatite, including...including the remarkable Roebling apatite, now in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution. In addition
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)
from Stoneham and Vicinity Oxford County, Maine Downloaded by [Penn State University] at 01:41 12 December...fALSTeR DoUGLAS A. BAILeY Maine Mineral and Gem Museum Po Box 500 Bethel, Maine 04217 cfrancis@mainemineralmuseum...came from Stoneham, Maine—a century apart. Figure 1. Aldrich quarry beryl. Maine Mineral and Gem Museum...MINERALS Dr. Carl A. Francis is curator at the Maine Mineral and Gem Museum and an executive editor of...at the Maine Mineral and Gem Museum. Alexander U. Falster is research technologist at the Maine Mineral
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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
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) .........important find of gem tourmaline was made at Mount Mica in Paris, Maine, though only small quantities were uncovered
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... The typical minerals of this classare potash feldspar (usually microcline), qnartz, muscovite, biotite...cleavelandite, lepidolite, lithia tourmaline, columbite, cassiterite, spodumene, and etched or pocket beryl. III....Buckfield, and to a very minor degree at Mount Mica and Auburn, an intermediate phase followed during which
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Pegmatite Mineral Localities in Oxford County, Maine Oxford County The four pegmatites described in this...in the Maine pegmatite belt. The famous pegmatite quarries of western Maine—Mt. Mica, Mt. Apatite, Har­...Har­ vard quarry, and Bennett quarry, to name a few—have been heavily picked over for desirable mineral...Realty of Norway, Maine, and was under lease to T . C . Mining Company of West Paris, Maine. There has been...been no known mining of these pegmatite dikes since the 1920s. The excavations are on three parallel pegmatite
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stumble over a valuable nugget and stake your own mining claim? Indeed it to is, and author book Jay...prospecting, he points out, is in abandoned mining districts, where valuable mineral ores are present...commercial ores and secondary minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification...address Harper 6 Row, Publishers, Incorporated, 49 East 33rd Street, New York 16, N. Y. * FIRST EDITION...RANSOM 1875-1948 An to the Eastern '‘Schoolmarm” Mining Camps of the Old West I I a s I \ h K
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;
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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
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...wishes to thank Mt-. Dana c. Douglass (Douglass Mining Co., Bethel), Mr. Stanley Feitler ( Beryllium DeveloIJDent
Journal (issue)
Mineralogy of the Bennett pegmatite, Oxford County, Maine ..............................................Microminerals Miscellany from France, the Eifel district, and Mont Saint-Hilaire ........................mines, not to mention th< potential for renewed mining someday if access is not blocked. Especially in...(first color special issue) $20 v .5 /# 5 Julcani District in Peru, Indian M tn. (A L), C apelinha (Brazil).../# 6 C alifornia Issue B enitoite, G old, L .A . County M useum , H im alaya m ine $7 Circulation Manager
Report (issue)
pegmatite mining inN ew England _______ _ Mica mining ______________________________ _ Feldspar mining ___...___________________________ _ Mining methods ___________________________ _ Geologic setting of the deposits..._______________________ _ Geology of the pegmatite districts of Maine __ :. . _____ _ Metamorphic rocks _________________________...of Connecticut ___ _ Geology of the Middletown district ___________ _ Rock units ____________________________...structural analysis of mica deposits to prospecting and mining _______________________ _ Recognition of the type
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information address Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., 10 East 53rd Street, New York, N.Y. 10022. Published simultaneously...Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi...of commercial mining is also long, beginning with the Kenya opal mines of 4000 B.C. Mining began with gemstones...gemstones, instead of metallic ores, and mining for turquoise was enormously extended throughout the...Sesostris, emeralds were being taken from mines on Mount Zabarah on the west coast of the Red Sea. King Solomon
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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.00 T..,..IIH. Maine. Bleck well terminated xi. 2 x 1 ½ . . . . . . ...1946 CONTENTS FOR SEPTEMBER, 1946 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY .................................................···································575 WINDSOR QUARRY, RUDEVILLE, N . J. By Peler Z odac ..............desert north of the old Pony Express trail, north and east of the Fish Springs Mountains, in the western parts...usually not easily distinguishable ly in Tooele County, Utah, at approxi - from the more plentiful Pleistocene
 
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