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


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Muscovite
Formula:KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Beryl2 photos of Muscovite associated with Beryl at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Muscovite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Rice Quarry, Groton, Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:38286
Long-form Identifier:1:3:38286:1
GUID (UUID V4):6b794d7e-5d5e-4846-a21b-f266c28df852
Nearest other occurrences of Muscovite
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
6.6km (4.1 miles) No. 3 pit, Keyes Mica Quarries, Orange, Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA
6.9km (4.3 miles) No. 1 pit, Keyes Mica Quarries, Orange, Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA
6.9km (4.3 miles) Keyes Mica Quarries, Orange, Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA
7.3km (4.5 miles) No. 5 pit, Keyes Mica Quarries, Orange, Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA
7.7km (4.8 miles) Keniston mica prospect, Rumney, Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA
7.9km (4.9 miles) Atwood Mine, Rumney, 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...graphic granite.) Typically, smoky quartz, albite, muscovite, and microcline line the cavity walls, and aquamarine...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...Aquamarine, 50.32-carat cushion, Keyesmine, Orange, New Hampshire. Harvard specimen; Tino Hammid photo; courtesy
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...characteristics of mica _________________ _ Properties of muscovite _____________________ _ Structural imperfections...quality __ AnalyHis of the wartime mica industry of New England ________________________________________
Report (issue)
17–6.24 X-ray Powder Pattern: Greenwood, Maine, USA. 2.867 (10), 3.50 (9), 2.715 (7), 3.01 (4), 4.30...100.18 99.68 (1) Grafton, New Hampshire, USA. (2) Nickel Plate mine, South Dakota, USA; corresponds to... almandine, zircon, albite, muscovite, biotite. Distribution: In the USA, on Melvin Mountain, about eight...eight km west of Grafton, at the Palermo #1 and Rice mines, near North Groton, Grafton Co., at the Parker...Parker Mountain quarry, Center Strafford, Strafford Co., and many other places in New Hampshire; from the Waisenen
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
desirable as brazilianite. Unlike many relatively new minerals, brazilianite made its debut in unusually...Inclusions of quartz, tourmaline, apatite, and muscovite crystals have been described. Brazilianite is...scorzalite, wylleite, eosphorite, siderite, albite, muscovite, quartz, and microcline. It also occurs as a sparse...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
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)
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
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............................................... Muscovite in pegmatites ................................................... Types of mica depositsin New England pegmatites....................... Wall-zone deposits...GeologicalSurveyhasbeenengagedin a comprehensive investigationof New England mica pegmatites. More than 200 pegmatiteshave
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 _______________________________
Book
( C. 4 ( MINERAL & GEM TRAILS of NEW ENGLAND .� ';� M � [- ' 1f,.,,1 " VE M NlN[W �IUWPS�l-...MINERAL & GEM TRAILS OF NEW ENGLAND by Ed & Bert Sloan Maine Vermont New Hampshire Massachusetts Rhode...Soapstone Quarry South Newfane, Vermont Adams Hill Site NEW HAMPSHIRE Center Strafford, New Hampshire Parker...Conway, New Hampshire Hurricane Mt. Grafton, New Hampshire Ruggles Mine Newport, New Hampshire Chandler...Conway, New Hampshire Lovejoy Gravel Pit North Groton, New Hampshire Fletcher Mine Palermo Mine Rice Mine
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 (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
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
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 ...................................
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
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 (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
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 (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 (volume)
Director Bulletin 738 THE COMMERCIAL GRANITES OF NEW ENGLAND BY T. NELSON DALE WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT...Pegmatite dikes in groups____________________ Muscovite veins___________________________ Zeolite vein...expansion____^_________________ Geographic distribution of New England granite quarries____ Descriptions of the...___ Groton____________________________ Oriinge County __________________________ Topsham___________________________..._ Randolph ___________________________ Orleans County- _______________________ Derby Barton _ _________
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
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
Book (volume)
chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville Quarry chalcedony, jasper...jasper, fossils. CHERRY COUNTY VALENTINE, in the Sandhills county along the Niobrara R. and Minnechaduza...gem qualityagatized and opalized wood. DAWES COUNTY CHADRON, in N part of Co. and as far W as Crawford...woods, etc. DAWSON COUNTY GOTHENBURG, in sand pitspetrified palm wood. DEUEL COUNTY CHAPPELL, all regional
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pegmatite are: a:1.664,0:1.670, 2V:86o, rNew optical less,Y pale green, Z pale yellow green, X:b...pegmatite. A new analysis is given, together with a partial analysis of graftonite from the Rice pegmatite...766:l:.533, P:99'12'. The relationship between the new cell and the Penfield orientation is discussed. ...(Headden, 1891) from the Nickel Plate mine, Pennington County, S. Dak. Direct comparison of the two had never...outside, was found to contain small books of muscovite, granular quartz, graftonite, and cassiterite
 
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