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Microcline from
Rice Quarry, Groton, Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Microcline
Formula:K(AlSi3O8)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Microcline data
Locality Data:Click here to view Rice Quarry, Groton, Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:38291
Long-form Identifier:1:3:38291:3
GUID (UUID V4):ef6a5971-aaf0-4a62-84d6-59dffb78b4f7
Nearest other occurrences of Microcline
0.8km (0.5 miles) Palermo No. 2 Mine, Groton, Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA
0.9km (0.6 miles) Palermo No. 1 Mine, Groton, Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA
2.2km (1.4 miles) Charles Davis Mine, Groton, Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA
5.8km (3.6 miles) Fletcher Mine, Groton, Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA
6.9km (4.3 miles) Keyes Mica Quarries, Orange, Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA
10.1km (6.3 miles) Morgan Mica prospect, Alexandria, Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA
11.3km (7.0 miles) Truman Patten Quarry, Alexandria, Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA
12.1km (7.5 miles) Monarch Quarry, Alexandria, Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA
12.9km (8.0 miles) Hoyt Hill Quarry, Orange, Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA
13.3km (8.3 miles) Wadhams-Tucker Quarry, Alexandria, Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
New Hampshire Mineral Locality Index Downloaded by [University of Newcastle, Australia] at 15:01 05...entrance and arch of the Palermo mine, North Groton, Grafton County. Rob Lawrence photo, courtesy Bob Whitmore...Whitmore. 242 ROCKS & MINERALS lthough New Hampshire, the Granite State, is one of our smaller states...reading Jackson (1844) on the mineralogy of New Hampshire that even at this early date there was already...activity produced new localities, renewed some old localities, and resulted in new minerals being discovered
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
cm long), Beebe Hall, McCain Valley, San Diego County, California. Cal and Kerith Graeber specimen; Jeffrey...as elongated crystals that are rooted in the microcline-plagioclase-quartz wall zone Downloaded by...Typically, smoky quartz, albite, muscovite, and microcline line the cavity walls, and aquamarine occurs...Aquamarine (6.7 cm long), Mount Antero, Chaffee County, Colorado. Martin Zinn specimen; Jeffrey Scovil...Aquamarine (8.8 cm long), Black Panther mine, Riverside County, California. Bill Larsen specimen; Jeffrey Scovil
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
be the intermediary Mountain, Center Strafford, New Hamp- alteration species ferri-sicklerite or if you...been up near the southern end of Lake accicular new mineral. When I broke this Winnipesaukee for a week...1938 and a found more and larger crystals of this new persistent drizzle made the snow too species which...to remain an undescribed enigmatic and had our quarry tools along. Since problem to mineral collectors...Dover, big old pine at the entrance. W e were New Hampshire. He too was collecting surprised to see the
Report (issue)
Pegmatite Investigations 1942-45 New England By EUGENE N. CAMERON and OTHERS GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL..._______ _ Geology of the pegmatite districts of New Hampshire_ Rock units ________________________________...pegmatites ___________________ _ Pegmatites of the Grafton and Keene districts __ _ Sources of pegmatites...quality __ AnalyHis of the wartime mica industry of New England ________________________________________...Androscoggin County ______________________ _ Berry feldspar quarry __________________ _ Cumberland County ___
Report (volume)
Bulletin 931-P MICA-BEARING PEGMATITES OF NEW HAMPSHIRE A PRELIMINARY REPORT BY J. C. OLSON Strategic................................................ Grafton district.........................................Geologic map of the Alstead area, Keene district , New Hampshire........................ 62. Map showing locations...of mica and feldspar mines of the Grafton district, New Hampshire .....................................district, New Hampshire.. Figure 38. Index map of New Hampshire showing locations of the Grafton and Keene
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
desirable as brazilianite. Unlike many relatively new minerals, brazilianite made its debut in unusually...eosphorite, siderite, albite, muscovite, quartz, and microcline. It also occurs as a sparse component of fracture...nearby Dunton quarry,Maine. Other unconfirmed Maine occurrences include the Harvard quarry at Greenwood...the Nevel quarry, the rose quartz crystal locality of Mount Plumbago, and the Mount Mica quarry at Paris...Brazilianite has been reported from several New Hampshire localities, including aggregates of spear-shaped
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1945 STRUCTURAL AND ECONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS NEW ENGLAND MICA DEPOSITS. 6 OF E. N. CAMERON, D............................ Types of pegmatitesin New England ..................................... Zoning......................... Types of mica depositsin New England pegmatites....................... Wall-zone...GeologicalSurveyhasbeenengagedin a comprehensive investigationof New England mica pegmatites. More than 200 pegmatiteshave...pegmatite study has been unprecedented, and much new information on the characteristicsof pegmatiteshas
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Minerals of North Groton, New Hampshire The historical background of the famous North Groton mines is as fascinating...Candia Road Chester, New Hampshire 03036 R O B E R T W. WHITMORE Weare, New Hampshire 03281 N O R T H G...from local residents and collectors. History North Groton is unknown to many people outside the mineral fraternity... a large percentage of the popula­ tion of New Hampshire would not recognize the name, let alone be able...Forest. 350 ROCKS & MINERALS In the early 1800s, Groton was a thriving farming com­ munity with a population
Report (volume)
General features____________________________ Coosa County _________ ____________________ Randolph County...Cherokee County_____________________________ 72 Elbert County _____________________________ 75 Hall County__...County_______________________________ 76 Hart County. ___ __ __________________ 77, Lumpkin and Union counti...___________ S3 Pickens County _______-______________________ 83 Rabun County-_____________________________...____________ 86 Troup County ________________________________ 86 Upson County _______________________________
Report (volume)
__________________ Voorhis quarry _________________________ Ritch quarry _____________________ _____...__________ Norwalk ____________________________. __ Hall quarry __________________________ Hartford County____...Bristol_______ i ________________.__ __ ___________ Dunn quarry _ - _________________________ _ Seymour Street...Glastonbury___..________________________..__ Corbin quarry.______________ _________ Carline quarry____________________:____...Dauielson quarry________________________ Belden quarry _______:______________: ____ 51 51 52 52 52 52
Journal (issue)
July 1943 PUBLISHED MONTH LY CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY .................................................favorably received by our readers as a number of new subscriptions - from unexpected quarters - have been...interest to avoid the danger of being replaced by new members from the waiting list. Exhibition at the...White Horse Ranch to the Blitzen Valley, (Harney County, Oregon} and on the way I picked up some pieces...looked like slag from a furnace. This was in Grant County, Oregon, about 5 miles from Seneca. I was on a
Journal (issue)
abou nd . The show provided relati vely little " new" material and its • pro!ile s hi fted a bit further... T hi s year's show stopper was definite ly the new mineral pez.zottaite fro m Madagascar. I saw it labelecl...rarely seem clean. Several dealers hacl the new microcline (var. a mazonite) from Konzo. Siclamo in Ethiopia...2003). The material is very interesting clue to The new mineral pezzottaile as 4 cm raspberry crystal on...had also produced some dioptase specimens from a "new" d e posit in the Kaokoveld. That deposit is supposedly
Field Trip Notes
//' . GUIDEBOOK FOR FIELD IN ''fy,.'t:J TRIPS NEW ENGLAND NOVEMBER 10-12, 1952 Organized by the...Before visiting any of the sites described in the New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference guidebooks...Highlands of East-Central New York, Southern Vermont, and Southern New Hampshire Field Trip No. 2, Outstanding...Outstanding pegmatites of Maine and New Hampshire 73 Geology of the "Chelmsford Granite" 103 Field Trip...OF EAST-CENTRAL NEW YORK, SOUTHER Leaders: VERJ-IONT, AND SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE Marland P, Billings
Report (volume)
Director Bulletin 738 THE COMMERCIAL GRANITES OF NEW ENGLAND BY T. NELSON DALE WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT...expansion____^_________________ Geographic distribution of New England granite quarries____ Descriptions of the...___ Groton____________________________ Oriinge County __________________________ Topsham___________________________..._ Randolph ___________________________ Orleans County- _______________________ Derby Barton _ _________...granite and finished product Continued. Washington County _____________________ 121 Barre and Williamstown________________
Report (issue)
rocks of New Hampshire ....... 44 Table 9 Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of New Jersey ...Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of New York ........... 56 Table 11 Uranium occurrences...Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of New Hampshire.......................^..^.i....48 Figure 12...Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of New Jersey....................................55 Figure...occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of northeastern New York.........................64 Figure 14. Uranium
Book (edition)
FOREWORD Le.ta in the fall of 1953, members ot the New Jersey Mineralogical Society expressed an interest...week collecting in the pegme.tite area ot Oxford county, !!Bine, Neil Wintr:lnghal'!l, a pa.st-president...Stewart C. Fulton Westfield, New Jersey June ll, 1955 Director & Past-President New Jersey Mineralogical Society...for the many courtesies extended to members of the New Jeraey Mineral.ogical Sooiety (Inc.) during their...members of the Oxford County Mineral & Gem Association. N. A. W. Mountainside, New Jersey June 1, 1955
Report (issue)
showing position of syenite hills in Canada and New England............................................phyllite schist, Springfield, Vt . .............. 21—Quarry, granite-gneiss. Zenolith of Cavendish schist,...27—Areal map of Grafton, Vt. ................................. 28—Cross section in Grafton ...............30—Pegmatite dike cutting granite-gneiss, Bull Hill, Grafton, Vt 31—Djabase dike cutting Bellows Falls gneiss...of Vermont geology southward into Springfield, Grafton and Rockingham. It is hoped that he may be able
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Cheshire County New Hampshire 410 ROCKS & MINERALS 79 Meadow Lane Campton, New Hampshire 03223 rwilken@roadrunner...Merrimack, New Hampshire 03054 janules@att.net THOMAS MORTIMER 3 Roberts Road Amherst, New Hampshire 03031...Chickering mine area: Pierre Hoge Reservation of the New Hampshire Daniel Webster Council of the Boy Scouts of...the Program Assistant Camping Services of the New Hampshire Daniel Webster Council of the Boy Scouts of...Chickering mine in Walpole, New Hampshire. We all share a common interest in New Hampshire mineral species, have
Report (issue)
William "Skip" Simmons and Alexander Falster Page 28 New England Gem Beryl Bruce Jarnot Page 16 Bazzite of...specialists from the University of New Orleans in Louisiana (USA), with the lowdown on beryl mineralogy...crystal has been recorded from the Alger quarry in New Hampshire (USA). The crystal weighed 455 kilograms... 8.4m: The largest beryl crystal at the Bumpus quarry in Maine was 8.4 meters long, 1.9 meters in diameter...pegmatites, beryl is associated with quartz, microcline, albite, muscovite, biotite, ferrocolumbite,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
rticle-pdf/51/7/971/3415821/BUL51_7-0971.pdf by Rice University user Page 972 972 974 974 975 975 976...rticle-pdf/51/7/971/3415821/BUL51_7-0971.pdf by Rice University user INTRODUCTION 973 ter, and in...rticle-pdf/51/7/971/3415821/BUL51_7-0971.pdf by Rice University user 974 DAVID KEPPEL----GRANITES...rticle-pdf/51/7/971/3415821/BUL51_7-0971.pdf by Rice University user D E S C R IP T IO N OF T H E...10.8 6.8 4.3 3.4 3.9 5.4 5.6 1.9 Per cent of microcline 20 43 7 41 Average grain size (mm.) 2 7 6 0.5
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Gold Collection Figure 1. The best of Canning’s New England gold specimens are these 3.3-gram and 2.4-gram...Minerals. It notably included two self-collected microcline crystals that are museum worthy. A large reddish...locality. Thus, other factors being equal, adding new localities is more desirable than cataloguing additional...Mexico New Zealand Nicaragua Nigeria Romania Romania Russia Russia USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA...USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA
Report (issue)
SHALLOW BEDROCK IN THE MIRROR LAKE AREA, GRAFTON COUNTY, NEW HAMPSHIRE By Philip T. Harte U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...Geological Survey Toxics Waste Group Pembroke, New Hampshire 1997 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR BRUCE...well data from the Mirror Lake area, Grafton County, New Hampshire.......................................used for slug tests, Mirror Lake area, Grafton County, New Hampshire.......................................clusters FS3C and CO, Mirror Lake area, Grafton County, New Hampshire ...................................
Report (volume)
Prof. William N. Rice, Middletown. Prof. H. E. Gregory, Sheffield Scientific School, New Haven. Delaware...Tangier Smith, Berkeley, Cal. New Jersey...... .Dr. H. B. Kummel, Trenton. New York.........Mr. D. H. Newland...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;...following localities: Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20, Pv. 7 E.; Jefferson
Report (issue)
Beryl Resources of New Hampshire GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 353 Prepared on behalf of the...with the New Hampshire State Planning and Development Commission Beryl Resources of New Hampshire By JAMES...Commission^ and in part in cooperation with the New Hampshire State Planning and Development Commission UNITED...Page, James Jeffers, 192ftBeryl resources of New Hampshire, by James J. Page and David M. Larrabee. Washington...Commission, and in part in cooperation with the New Hampshire State Planning and Development Commission. Bibliography:
Book (volume)
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...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason
 
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