 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Gonnardite Dr. H . Meixner of Bergdirektion, Austria, published an account o f "Some New Occurrences of Gonnardite"...(Long. 83° 2'E; Lat. 18° 17'NJ of Visakhapatnam district, Andhra Pradesh, India. The rock types around...indicates that the composition is close to that of an eastonite. A great mineralogist once said, " T e...I r S i A 1 j O s , F e ) . The no. 2 sample has an even more bizarre chemistry ( F e l r S i A 1 | O...is of Ordovician age. The gravel pit (actually a quarry) is 3 miles north of Mount Ida off U.S. 270 near |  | Falster, Alexander U., Simmons, William B., Webber, Karen L., Dallaire, Donald A., Nizamoff, James W., Sprague, Raymond A. (2019) The Emmons Pegmatite, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine. Rocks & Minerals, 94 (6) 498-519 doi:10.1080/00357529.2019.1641021 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | has been referred to as the Uncle Tom Mountain quarry. The first recorded discovery of the Emmons pegmatite... Nothing more about the quarry is known until commercial mining for feldspar began in 1931, when the...location was somewhat difficult to access, the crude feldspar was brought to Willis Mills by horse-drawn wagon...mineralogy. Raymond A. Sprague operated the Emmons quarry in Greenwood, Maine, for twenty-three seasons with...Perham records that Lewis Proctor brought an Emmons quarry sample of glassy material to Stanley Perham |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | analysis of an odd gold nugget belonging to Robert Schreiber of Akron. The nugget was obtained from an old prospector...it from a river near the base of Mount McKinley, an area since encompassed by Denali National Park. Summarizing...not be a single crystal. . . ." Richards provided an extensive, illustrated discussion showing that the...specimens. Maine New Mining Activity Ever since the feldspar mill burned in West Paris in the early 196Os,...Sweden; the resumption of activity at Mount Mica quarry, Paris; and the find of what might be the world's |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | scientifically investigated for two centuries. Feldspar is by far the most important commercial product...Maine's many pegmatites. The only other pegmatite district in North America with significant gem production...mineralogically interesting. It was the pioneering feldspar mining district in Maine. The Oxford field is much larger...whereas the Topsham series in the Brunswick field lacks an apparent parent. For this and other reasons the petrogenesis...gemmy crystals were discovered at the P.P. Pulsifer quarry in Auburn in 1901 . Spectacular new finds of particularly |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 In addition to being an executive editor for Rocks and Minerals, Richard...Fanwood, New Jersey, where since early youth he had an in terest in the local natural history. While he...would frequently collect; these included Weldon's quarry, as well as the Summit, Bound Brook, and Millington...including working for the Railway Express, and as an automobile mechanic, a bus driver, and a salesman...he had special free access to the Prospect Park quarry near Paterson where he attended nearly every blast |  | | Book (volume) | | publisher. Cover photograph: Fluorapatite, Pulsifer quarry, Auburn, Maine (2.2 cm specimen), Harvard Mineralogical...director. As a scholar of mineralogy, he has been an indefatigable researcher and collector of mining...difficulty of obtaining the source material, which an inquiring reader would want to read, but also with...the facts presented here were not the figment of an active imagination. The great number of historical...authors' visiting the locations described. Mineralogy is an enjoyable branch of natural history which has taken |  | | Catalog/List | | take phone orders . ' ,.,: but prefer you to have an order number ready. . . •• . • . . ,-• • - ,...Monazite. Please alter your labels or send back for an exchange. f _ New Minerals in this list; • • ••...Abhurite,Manasseite,Zaj acite,Vlasovite, Foittite,Perhamite,Ludwigite, Augite crystals. I , '1' Also available...mass of black crystals, some Mount Malosa, Zomba District, lxl ins £5 lx2ins _lyro?'~~e . __ __ _ ___ ___...Fluores£_C_nt orang_e Sod_-=a:.:.:li..:..:te'-------2•-=-C-=an:.:.:a::..::da __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ £2.20 Greenish |  | | Catalog/List | | I don't automatically send a second list without an order. I am sending out lists much less frequently...or Visa only] (list number and expiration date). An additional $1.00 handling charge will be added for...gray Quarlz; 3.4x2.2x2.1-$1.75 M537. Tammine11 Quarry, Gree11wood, Mai11e; (a) dark grecnish prism scctions...translucent to white Quartz xls to 1.2 cm on 2 sides of an clongatcd tctrahcdral shaped matrix (both the other...white surface etching, minor damage; was attached by an edge; 4.7x:3.3x2-$20.00 M588. Chico, Ca/ifomia; (a) |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | January 2015 ADDITIONAL MINERALOGY OF THE HASKE QUARRY, CARY MOUND GRANITE/GRANOPHYRE COMPLEX, WOOD COUNTY...indicate that the complex probably formed as part of an anorogenic, postorogenic caldera complex. Granophyric...MINERALOGY OF THE EMMONS PEGMATITE, OXFORD COUNTY, MAINE: AN EXAMPLE OF A HIGHLY EVOLVED LCT-TYPE PEGMATITE. A...pegmatite on Uncle Tom Mountain, Oxford County, Maine, is an example of a highly evolved LCTtype pegmatite. The...pegmatite is complexly zoned and is exposed over an area of 120 × 18 meters. Comb texture in the wall |  | | Journal (issue) | | FALSTER, A.U., SIMMONS, W.B., WEBBER, K.L. An unusual perhamite-pollucite-lepidolite-fluorapatite-quartz...spectroscopic characterization of an unknown metamict phase from Tuften quarry, Larvik area, S Norway……………...Secondary beryl in cordierite/sekaninaite pseudomorphs – an indicator of elevated content of beryllium in the...settings in the aftermath of orgogenic events over an almost 600 Ma period (Fig. 2). Chemically, the granites...mantle-derived magmas towards the west. Figure 2 suggests an independent test to decide between the possible origins |  | | Report (edition) | | 5 cm tall; gem weighs 2 carats. From the Havey Quarry, Poland, MaifJ. e. Photo copyright 1995 by Wendell...on quartz crystals, 24 x JO mm;Jrom the Bennett Quarry, Buckfield, Maine. Mined in 1996 by Holden !Jrothers... 1987). The "cleavelandite" variety of albite feldspar, which was named after him, can be found at numerous...Supplemental labels were added where necessary to show quarry sites, road names, and other useful landmarks....homework before starting out to the field, and develop an alternative itinerary in case the preferred locality |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Maine Articles Published in Rocks and Minerals AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY DANIEL BEHNKE 2981 Landwehr...provided. Barker, D. S. 1955. The Union Limestone quarry, Union, Maine. Rocks and Minerals 30:365-66. Short...several locations includ ing: Berry quarry, Poland; Bennett quarry, Buckfield; Hebron; Paris; and Litchfield...visit with the Tamminens, an old Finnish couple who handworked a feldspar mine near Greenwood. Brown...of a large pocket (8' x 6' X 4') in the Fisher quarry which contained the topaz and herderite. Sketch |  | | Book | | HagendorfPleystein Province: the Center of Pegmatites in an Ensialic Orogen Modern Approaches in Solid Earth...Hagendorf-Pleystein Province: the Center of Pegmatites in an Ensialic Orogen Harald G. Dill Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz...did not postpone my questions. I did not receive an answer from him, he provided me with a solution....major constituents the three rock-forming minerals feldspar, quartz and mica, which in places develop mega-crystals...share of raw material extracted from pegmatites is feldspar, quartz and mica, and only a tiny fraction of |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | OCCURRENCE OF MAGNATITE CRYSTALS FROM THE BALMAT DISTRICT, ST. LAWRENCE COUNTY, NEW YORK. S . C. Chamberlain...During the summer of 1991, magnetite crystals with an atypical suite of associated minerals were encountered...mineral samples. Furthermore, sectioning appears to be an alternative and reliable method by which to prepare...by the Office of Naval Research. S. L. Brandow is an N R W N R L research associate. ’Bidding, G., C....fits into the classification of a feldspar-bearing AFM is operated as an “atomic scale profilometer” in |  | | Book (edition) | | groups: The number of new mineral species may grow as an avalanche, flooding the mineral population with tens...lepidolite, wolfrarnite). In many cases, minerals have an intermediate composition between theoretical end-members...to crystallographic tenns (e .g. prismatine), to an organization (e.g .. mgriite). to a journal (minrecordite)...form. Many minerals display characteristic twinning, an intergrowth of two or more individual crystals of...Miller indices are used. For instance, the symbol for an orthorhombic dipyramid form is { 111}, for a hexagonal |  | | Book (volume) | | particularly impressed by Loren Merrill's activities as an isolated lapidarist who did much to foster many of...lapidarists. Their pioneering effort did much to preserve an historical treasure which cannot be recovered today...will continue to be used in subsequent studies and an independent work, co-authored with them, is planned...gratefully dedicated. Gene Foard (right) at Swamp #1 quarry, Topsham. Gene Foard speaking with Frank Perham...Gene Foard with Yan King, 1994 (left) at Nevel quarry, Newry. In Memoriam Gene Foord Gene [Eugene Edward] |  | | Book | | investment necessary to produce and publish such an index were beyond our resources at that time. We... as it turned out, by the Friends of Mineralogy, an independent non-profit organization. In 1985 the...then-president Mike Graben, compiled and published an index of volumes 1-14. This index has proven invaluable...10:215-217 ADULARIA Adu Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54...order. In those cases where the same person is both an author and a subject of articles, the authored articles |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Spectroscopy September 4th - September 8th, 2004 Vienna, Austria Abstracts MITT.ÖSTERR.MINER.GES. 149 (2004)...change as a function of the short-range distribution. An extensive study of natural and synthetic Fe-bearing...Kristallographie, Geozentrum, Althanstr. 14, A-1090 Wien, Austria 3 CNR-Istituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse, Sezione...elements in particular were analyzed by SIMS using an ion microprobe (Cameca IMS 4f) at CNR-Istituto di...The SiO2 (wt%) content (from EMPA) was selected as an internal reference for H, Li, Be and B (OTTOLINI |  | | Journal (issue) | | all occur. • Studies suggest the preferred form is an indicator of temperature for crystals with lower...altered completely to acanthite. (Continues on page 2) An extremely fine matrix wire silver from Mexico. How...or knowledge on behalf of the owners. This is not an article about estate planning, as we have been promised...lawyer-collector subscribers. Rather, this is simply an anecdotal series of suggestions about how to reasonably...Barlow's book is from Zacatecas too. At San Martin, an occasional producer of specimens, one does find thick |  | | Book (volume) | | colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY MACON: at Holton Quarry, 7½ mi. NWagate; N of Calloway airport at rd... SE 1½ mi., in Knox dolomite exposed in an abandoned quarry Barite, Calcite, Fluorite (purple cubes)...US 27: (a) along both sides of Hwy.agate; (b) quarry on W side of rd.agate, chalcedony, chert, opal;...W 3 mi. and 2 mi. N: (a) at the Marble Springs Quarrygemmy marble (red and green); (b) E, in Taylor...minerals of all mica mines include Almandite garnet, Feldspar, black Tourmaline, etc.); (e) the Alexander and |  | | Book | | MineralogicalRecord.com I IIMORIITE-(Y) EUROPE FRANCE Trimouns quarry, Luzenac, Ariege. Operated for talc since the beginning...beginning of the 20th century, the Trimouns quarry became well known to collectors around 1990 for the...Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series of incompletely...COLUMBIA Ice River complex. The Ice River complex is an intrusive body of alkaline igneous rocks where sodalite...ilmenite specimens have come from an unusual calcite vein-dike occurrence with an exposure very near, indeed |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | collected by the Museum staff, 12% were obtained as an exchange with other museums and private collectors...rhombohedra and pinacoid www2 . Of special mention is an aggregate of blocky sphere crystals of calcite from... This hematite was collected from gas caverns in an acid lava, but the exact locality is still unknown...Brazil. Among the native sulfur specimens, (20), is an interesting one which consists of a solidified fragment...binocularshaped concretion from the Ulianovsk district, donated by A. Natarius. Several very interesting |  | | Book | | encyclopedia, the result of an exhaustive and meticulous search of the literature, is an authoritative reference...Introduction he assignment of a distinctive name to an part of the 20th Century! Many words, however, al-...few people concern tion of modern English is from an ancient Indo- themselves with the origin and evolution...particularly French erals, have been named, and an accounting of the ori- and Italian. gin of mineral...Old High German and Old English feld (field) to feldspar. — Generalized scheme of language evolution |  | | Book (edition) | | 2006, with a few corrections of the text and with an appendix containing new minerals described in 2004--2006...including a few minerals missing in the 2004 edition. An important progress and many changes in mineralogy...Specific Tl(Pb) and Hg sulfosalts 2.M Sulfosalts with an excess of small cations (Ag,Cu) relative to As,Sb...departamento district municipio Saint Sainte island mount, mountain...Mineralien-Welt, Lapis, extraLapis, extraLapis English, der Aufschluss, Rocks and Minerals, etc. ABRAMOVITE |  | | Catalog/List | | I can take phone orders ~ but prefer you to have an order number ready. ~l ~I I~Individual Customers...:--;--;~:--Larvik,~~·~N~orwa~yL._______________ AN()KJØln Ix2 r I - A1ØIYDRfTE li _ lxl f4 Ri...½X½ .(A Excellentblackmicrocrystalsin vughs 0 & G Quarry,Southbury, withpossibleCalcitecrystals ConnecticutU...5cmmatrix. 1mmblackplalcsin Axiniteandor pink feldspar. VarietyProchlorite. Richgrey•gn:cn massive VarietyRIP...119 108 109 112 238 815 90 113 110 133 117 Note,._ an aalaly I■ l■ck• 2x3 !15 ------- .[I Skrikcrum |
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