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


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Albite
Formula:Na(AlSi3O8)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Albite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Russell Brothers Quarry, Topsham, Sagadahoc County, Maine, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:536059
Long-form Identifier:1:3:536059:8
GUID (UUID V4):2591aaab-49cc-4928-a91f-bd3337b5517f
Nearest other occurrences of Albite
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 (2.4 miles) William Willes #3 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
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...rarely exceeding 1-3 mm. Minerals include aegirine, albite, those in the amphibole group, analcime, anacylite... 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
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
Catalog/List
Very nice! ••• $75.00 81B02 URANINITE, Kinkel Quarry, Bedford, N.Y. (a) Excellent micro (to 3 mm) octahedral...x 6 cm) 81B03 MACDONALDITE, Rush Creek, Fresno County, California. (a) Micro acicular white macdonaldite...masses(3 x 4 cm),.$5.00 81B04 RUTILE, Lengenbach Quarry, Binn, Switzerland.m/m single, black, bipyramid....•• $22.50 81B08 ELBAITE, Dunton Gem Q, Newry, Maine. Classic "watermelon" crystal section (4 x 4.5 x... (Western Russell Brothers Quarry), near Standpipe Hill, Topsham, Sagadahoc County, Maine. These are
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 ___________________
Book
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...14:157168 ALBITE Davis Hill near Bancroft, Ontario: an occurrence of large nepheline, biotite and albite-antiperthite...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
Journal (issue)
Mira Loma, Cali- RED CLOUD MINE SITE, YU M A COUNTY. ARIZONA WULFENITE, Red Ckud M m 7 JTQ MINERAL...Vermont-garnets, from New Hampshire-topaz, from Maine-rose quartz—these outstanding locally collected...Christian Gottlob Gmelin; Eilhard Mitscherlich and the brothers Hein­ rich and Gustav Rose. Sefstrom had discovered...labels, polybags, vials. WOW! 2nd occurrence (1st in USA) of this rare sodium phosphomolybdate! Rich yellow...hardware 196 Beechwood Ave. Bogota, N .J. 07603 USA (201) 487-3254 The Mineralogical Record , volume
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)
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...minerals in the alkalic rocks of Iron Hill, Gunnison County. Colorado pegmatite bodies, considered as a unit
Book
mine, New 1-/ampshire 36 13 Topsham, lvfaine: Russell Brothers quarry, Swa111p quarries, Yedlin locality...especially note,vorthy: At the Svvamp n1ine, Topsham, Maine, uraninite fom1s sharp. con1plex crystals,...colJector: Lustrous black crystals are found at Topsham, Maine; and Spruce Pine, North Carolina. Dendritic...include: Palermo No. 3 n1ine, New Han1pshire; New1y, Maine; the Rabejac deposit, France; and Menzenscbwand...mine ra l occurs as a late-stage cavity filling in albite, c losely associated with zircon, 111uscovite,
Book
H11umki gold6elds, Kew Zealand. Occurrence or albite in the Bendigo veins. Econ. Oeol., vol. 1, pp...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
Report (issue)
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