 | | 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) | | 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 |  | | 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 |  | | 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 (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 ___ |  | | 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 |  | | Book | | recent findings. For the new minerals described since 1973, I have used the New Minerals section of the...the American Mineralogist, Lists of New Mineral Names of Mineralogical Magazine and the recent compilation...deposits in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah were opened centuries ago by the...the mines in the Cerrilos Hills, near Santa Fe, New Mexico (Encyclopedia Britannica 968, p 415). Turquois...pyromorphite (in essence, lead apatite), torbernite and vivianite. Mandarino (1977) estimates that less than 100 |  | | Journal (issue) | | _, $2.00 ----~~--~--------~-----'· I What's New at Denver in 1998? ·The Fall Mineral Shows We've...a fabulous job of filling my need to see what's new and overdose on minerals and mineral-collecting friends...visiting most of the dealers and finding out what's new. Unfortunately, this year, due to back trouble, I...quite as intense and thorough in my search for the new discoveries in the mineral rid. There are a lot of...Colorado Springs, CO. Palermo Mines, North Groton,New Hampshire Summer 1997 Art Smith 9118 Concho Street |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | World News en Mineral Occurrences Items on new finds are desired. Please send them in. Abbreviations:...road. Yellville is the county seat and is situated in about the center of the county. I do not know if this...Sea (in southern California —chiefly in Imperial County) one of the World's great geological freaks of...shores." ARKANSAS—The Morning Star mine, in Marion County, Ark., has furnished many handsome specimens of...little village of Rush, on Rush Creek, in Marion county. This village of Rush, is 254 Mr. Ives' letter |  | Clark, A. M., Smith, D. A., Symes, R. F., Tandy, P. C., Hart, A. D. (1995) Catalogue of Type Mineral Specimens in the Natural History Museum, London - With an appendix listing mineral species and varieties originally described from the British Isles. Natural History Museum, London. | Book | | to the approved definitions of the Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names and the Commission on...History Museum specimen is from Terlingua, Texas, USA, and was used for the determination of the mineral's...of the species nominates Socrates mine, Sonoma County, California, as the type locality. The NHM specimen...material of species approved by the Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names. For material described...likely to be continually updated in the light of new research and reappraisal of earlier work. The authors |  | | Journal (issue) | | you wish to receive a copy. Please request our new arrivals list Dealers in: • rare minerals • fine... Paul Brian Moore Wyllieite, Na2Fe2AI(P04)3, A New Species........ Paul B. Moore Jun Ito Richard V...Scarsdale, New York, measures 8-1/2 by 10 inches. Photograph by HenriJansen, Ardsley,New York. Editorial...Tourmaline Tourmaline Queen Mine Pala, California NEW ACQUISITIONS: RUTILE from Graves M tn., Georgia BENITOITE...TOURMALINE from Pala, California We w ill offer fine new material from Europe and A frica fo llo w in g our |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | from all parts of the country have come to New Hampshire to collect at the Palermo Mine —• noted for...road just to the left inside the old gate to the Rice Mine. This mine was worked during the summer of...eral specimens and a study of the area known as the Rice — Pike's Ledge Area. As I am having to work so far... N. H . I feel it would be well worth a trip to Rice Mine. If you would like to take a try the charge...Peter's display of the minerals from Rice were unusually fine. The Rice Mine was originally opened in 1 8 |  | Thompson, Woodrow B., Bearss, Gene T., Falster, Alexander U., Simmons, William B., Nizamoff, Jams W. (2000) The Estes Quarry, Cumberland County, Maine: A New Pegmatite Mineral Locality. Rocks & Minerals, 75 (6) 408-418 doi:10.1080/00357520009605667 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Cumberland Countv. Mahe A New Pegmatite M ineral Locality T he Estes quarry in southwestern Maine exposes...highly mineralized pegmatites in Maine and New Hampshire. The quarry has yielded fine specimens of eosphorite...montebrasite, roscherite. and vivianite. Locrtlon and Hlstory The Estes quarry is located on Route 5 in West...West Baldwin, Cumberland County, Maine (fig. 1). It is on the western flank of an unnamed hill just east...Contractors of West Baldwin. This is a working quarry with high rock walls and unstable boulder piles |  | | 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...nes rarely seem clean. Several dealers hacl the new microcline (var. a mazonite) from Konzo. Siclamo...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 |  | | 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 |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | having been updated and combined with data from new sites. 306 ROCKS & MINERALS OCCURRENCES Concretions...at mouth of Silver Creek near Edinburg, Portage County. Figure 1 (left). Rosanna Carlson sitting in dolostone...septarium, Copperas Mountain near Spargursville, Ross County. Ernest Carlson photo. Figure 3. Map showing mineral...were observed in the Huron Shale of western Ross County (J. Medici, pers. com., 1998) (Frankfort site)...marcasite crystals, Melvin Stone Co. quarry near Williamsport, Pickaway County. Figure 5. Hematite nodules (largest |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Geological Sciences State University of New York 4240 Ridge Lea Amherst, New York 14226 Molybdenite was found...white micaceous mineral was found at the Dresser quarry in Walton. Associated material includes tennantite...T A T E S Ontario'-Carl Sheliga of Swormsville, New Y o r k sent a specimen for identifi cation. The...The piece, from the Canada Crushed Stone quarry in Dundas, con sists of a dark brown dolomitic limestone...fluorite, and some galena. Mike Wulmer of Buffalo, New Y o r k has found blue corundum crystals in syenite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | graftonite-like compositions, indicating the potential for new mineral species in this group. Keywords: Graftonite...Penfield (1900) from a granitic pegmatite in New Hampshire. Beusite, ideally [Mn2+3(PO4)2], was first noted...Karoi, Hurungwe, Zimbabwe Rice mine, North Groton, Grafton Co., New Hampshire, U.S.A. Los Aleros, San Luis...Range, Kyrgyzstan Palermo mine, North Groton, Grafton Co., New Hampshire, U.S.A. Mwami district, Hurungwe...Hurungwe, Zimbabwe East Alstead, New Hampshire, U.S.A. TABLE 2. MISCELLANEOUS DATA-COLLECTION AND STRUCTURE-REFINEMENT |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | same county. I t also has been observed i n pegmatites i n Powhatan County, Spotsylvania County, and...the world have specimens of allanite from Amherst County, Virginia. The mineral is usually black and is...radioactive. The mineral was reported in Amherst County as early as 1874. Mallet ( 1 8 7 7 ) first described...Specimens from the Rutherford pegmatites, in Amelia County, are famous for the per fection of their thin...also occur near Lynchburg Reservoir in Amherst County. Mitchell ( 1 9 6 6 ) summarized the localities |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | tt-t2 2t64 Bakerite,San Bernardinocounty,Inyo county 5-6lr09 (Pemberton,H. Earl.) Birnessite,Boron 5-6...Erlichmanite, Humboldt county 9-10 1501 (Snetsinger, KennethG.) Iridosmine, platinum, Trinity county 5-6 1101 (Snetsinger...(Snetsinger, KennethG.) K-feldspar,Inyo countY (Martin, Robert F.) l-2 281 Central African Republic Mineralogy...Mineralogy Amphibole, phlogopite, San Bernardino county, Ludlow, Dish Hill (Wilshire, H. G., et al) l-2...Probe (Brown, F. H., et al) 5-6 1057 Carletonite,new mineral, Canada,Quebec ll-12 1855 (Chao,G. Y.) Chromite |  | | Journal (issue) | | locations. There have been sadly few new finds of minerals lately and little new material was available in Tucson...a host of new finds, reflected in the stock of many Tucson dealers. By volume the vivianite found near...2) The Madison Mine, Madison, Carroll County, New Hampshire: An Addendum Art Smith 9118 Concho Street...An article on the Madison mine, Madison, Carroll County, briefly describing the mining history and my experiences...research on the mines and mineral localities in New England will find the search frustrating with only |  | | Journal (issue) | | Speer Minerals from the Old Sulphur Mine, Louisa County, Virginia Richard S. Mitchell and Arthur S. Katz...CRYSTALLIZED TURQUOISE from near Lynch Station, Campbell County, is Virginia's unique contribution to the mineral...Specimens from the Rutherford pegmatites, in Amelia County, are famous for the per fection of their thin...the same county. It also has been observed in pegmatites in Powhatan County, Spotsylvania County, and elsewhere...the world have specimens of allanite from Amherst County, Virginia. The mineral is usually black and is |
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