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Biotite from
Russell Brothers Quarry, Topsham, Sagadahoc County, Maine, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:'Biotite' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:K(Fe2+/Mg)2(Al/Fe3+/Mg/Ti)([Si/Al/Fe]2Si2O10)(OH/F)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Biotite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Russell Brothers Quarry, Topsham, Sagadahoc County, Maine, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:36153
Long-form Identifier:1:3:36153:0
GUID (UUID V4):7c900b9e-7284-4051-9123-667784bd9ff4
Nearest other occurrences of Biotite
0.0km (0.0 miles) North Russell Brothers Quarry, Topsham, Sagadahoc County, Maine, USA
0.2km (0.1 miles) Yedlin Locality, Topsham, Sagadahoc County, Maine, USA
0.4km (0.2 miles) Standpipe Hill Quarries, Topsham, Sagadahoc County, Maine, USA
3.7km (2.3 miles) Leavitt Prospect, Topsham, Sagadahoc County, Maine, USA
3.8km (2.4 miles) Consolidated #1 Quarry, Topsham, Sagadahoc County, Maine, USA
3.8km (2.4 miles) Consolidated #2 Quarry (Purington Quarry), Topsham, Sagadahoc County, Maine, USA
3.9km (2.5 miles) Swamp No. 1 Quarry, Topsham, Sagadahoc County, Maine, USA
3.9km (2.5 miles) Swamp #2 quarry, Topsham, Sagadahoc County, Maine, USA
4.0km (2.5 miles) Twin Pits Quarry, Topsham, Sagadahoc County, Maine, USA
5.0km (3.1 miles) Fisher Quarry, Topsham, Sagadahoc County, Maine, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Massachusetts 02138 MAINE Minerals of the Topsham, Maine, Pegmatite District TopshamTopsham, Maine's underappreciated...the Andros­ coggin River from Brunswick in Sagadahoc County. A mile-wide belt of granitic pegmatites runs...Androscoggin River, north-northeast through the town of Topsham. The belt extends southward into Brunswick and...but only the pegmatites actually in the town of Topsham are covered in this review. There are thirty or...named quarries and numerous unnamed prospects in Topsham. The quarries, all inactive, are usually named
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Dale, N. C. 1924. The box-vein of Lyomdale, Lewk County, New York. New York State Museum Bulletin 251:134-48...Quebec. The sill is well exposed in the Varennes quarry, which has been operated continuously for crushed... just off Route 109, there is an old pegmatite quarry known locally chiefly for its occasional production...documented, if at all. Most of the material from the quarry was evidently used in the construction of an adjacent...section of a 1.6cm graphite sphere from Sussex County, New Jersey, showing a radial texture and smooth
Book (volume)
0 n101ercai o of Maine j f·~ ....__ :,,. . - .._"' ..;. .. ~ L-- -~ \. • .J_..::.; I Volume...History, Gems, and Geology edited by Vandall T. King Maine Geological Survey DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION Robert...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
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
Report (issue)
_______________________ _ Geology of the pegmatite districts of Maine __ :. . _____ _ Metamorphic rocks _________________________...__________________ _ Maine ________________________________________ _ Androscoggin County ______________________...______________________ _ Berry feldspar quarry __________________ _ Cumberland County _______________________ _ LaChance...LaChance mines _______________________ _ Oxford County ____________________________ _ Barrett beryl prospect...prospect __________________ _ Bennett feldspar quarry ________________ _ Black Mountain area ___________________
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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...Bancroft, Ontario: an occurrence of large nepheline, biotite and albite-antiperthite crystals in calcite-cored...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
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sometimes be seen in the parallel orientation of biotite, apatite, rutile, or amphibole crystals. Carbonatites...Replacement of micaceous shear rock by quartz-biotite-hematiteilmenite mineralization; 2. Intrusion of...are especially noteworthy: At the Swamp mine, Topsham, ME uraninite forms sharp, complex crystals, typically...tall with a bit of feldspar from the Swamp mine, Maine. RJL2281 Fig. 7. A large (10 X 14 cm) slab of...collector: Lustrous black crystals are fou nd at Topsham, ME and Spruce Pine, NC. Dend ritic uraninite in
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...long (Marty, 2004 ). AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins...region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites between the towns...Litchfield County. Ilmenite masses and crystals from somewhere near Washington, Litchfield County, were described
Report (volume)
Sherwoodite___________________ Siderophyllite (variety of biotite) ---------------------Simplotite____________________...recently found in the Tenmile district, Summit County. In his booklet, which today would be classed as...feldspar, and mica, occur in some form in every county in the State. Among mineralogists, Colorado is...mineral belt that extends southwestward from Boulder County to the southern limits of the San Juan Mountains... lefferson County, the contact-metamorphic minerals of Italian Mountain, Gunnison County and elsewhere
Journal (issue)
Mining Company’s epenpit iron ore mine in Iron County, Utah. The lighter-colored overburden has been... A. Margraf, I. Kowalski, and Wilson and Dave Russell at their Charley Creek bismuth prospect about 35...partners, Wilson and Dave Russell. On October 9th, 1949, the Russell brothers and Margraf visited the property...quartz-muscovit schist containing considerable chlorite and biotite, a little graphite pyrite and tourmaline. The vei...metal- JUNE, 1951 ORE DRESSING PLANTS IN THE USA lurgical companies and machinery manufacturers.
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rep lace1nent of n1icaceous shear rock by quartz-biotite-hematite-ilrnenite minera lization; 2. intrusion...son1etin1es be seen in the para llel orientation ol' biotite, apatite, rutile, or an1phibole crystals. Carbonatites...calcite-fluoriteapatite rock. Associated minerals include biotite, titanite, scapolite, n1agnetite, tourmaline, hematite...feldspar with accessory 1nagnetite, uraninite, biotite, hornblende, ti tani te, etc. 2. A walI zone of...mine, New 1-/ampshire 36 13 Topsham, lvfaine: Russell Brothers quarry, Swa111p quarries, Yedlin locality
Report (issue)
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cordierite-anthophyllite mineralization at Blue Hill, Maine, and its relation to similar occurrences. Proc....Cal., Waldemar Lindgren, 17th Ann. Rept. Custer County, Colo., S. F. Emmons, 17th Ann. Rept. Telluride...Joplin, Mo., C. E. Siebenthal, Bull. 606. Gilpin County, Colo., E. S. Dastio and J. M. Hm, Prof. Paper... E. L.: Geology a.nd ore deposits of Sbosl1ooe County, Idaho. U. S. Geol. Survey Bttll. 732, 1923. 26...be placed on classification by their academic brothers. Apparent effects of such overemphasis may be
Journal (volume)
are competing with each other to Moreover each county establish the closest kinship. brazenly concedes... In view of the taxes which will accrue to the county that wins, if the mine develops into the bonanza...of concentrate are going become will Gogebic county, by if involved The Victoria mine action....litigation in present threats of Ontonagon county, but the source of supply and outlet of water ...Gogebic its hydraulic compressor is Lake Gogeliie. county and several residents own land on the shores of
 
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