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Rubellite from
Fisher Quarry, Topsham, Sagadahoc County, Maine, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Tourmaline var: Rubellite
Formula:A(D3)G6(T6O18)(BO3)3X3Z
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Rubellite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Fisher Quarry, Topsham, Sagadahoc County, Maine, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:36220
Long-form Identifier:1:3:36220:1
GUID (UUID V4):136df778-7527-44b1-ab29-5a97583d8367
Nearest other occurrences of Rubellite
30.6km (19.0 miles) Berry-Havey Quarry (Havey Quarry; Berry Quarry), Poland, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
30.8km (19.1 miles) Greenlaw Quarry, East Mount Apatite Mining District, Auburn, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
30.9km (19.2 miles) Maine Feldspar Quarry, East Mount Apatite Mining District, Auburn, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
31.7km (19.7 miles) Keith Quarry (Towne Quarry), West Mount Apatite Mining District, Auburn, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
31.8km (19.7 miles) Pulsifer Quarry & Dionne extension, West Mount Apatite Mining District, Auburn, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
31.9km (19.8 miles) Wade Quarry (Androscoggin Tourmaline prospect), West Mount Apatite Mining District, Auburn, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
44.9km (27.9 miles) Mount Rubellite Quarries, Mount Rubellite, Hebron, Oxford County, Maine, USA
47.8km (29.7 miles) Mount Marie Quarries, Paris, Oxford County, Maine, USA
89.0km (55.3 miles) Black Mountain Quarry, Rumford, Oxford County, Maine, USA
89.5km (55.6 miles) Dunton Gem Quarry, Newry, Oxford County, Maine, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (issue)
6 (Right) - Sheet Copper – Flambeau Mine (Rusk County, WI) Figure 2—Dr. Weis’s Personal Memorabilia... If you have ever had the desire to detonate a quarry blast or create an earthquake you will be able...Figure 7—Manganoan Calcite – Montreal Mine (Iron County, WI). Figure 3 (left) - “Wonderful World of Agates”...mineral specimens from the Montreal Mine (Iron County, Wisconsin). Most of the specimens came from the...An unusual specimen from the Flambeau Mine (Rusk County, Wisconsin) is a sheet copper (figure 6). One of
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 (volume)
GEOLOGY OF THE PEGMATITES AND ASSOCIATED ROCKS OF MAINE INCLUDING FELDSPAR, QUARTZ, MICA, AND GEM DEPOSITS................................... Origin of the Maine pegmatites........................................Larsen............................. Application to Maine pegmatites............................... Eutectics.............................. 1.... Androscoggin County.................................................................................... Maine Feldspar Company quarry and mill................... Turner feldspar
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
you will find the mine (quarry). Please close all gates after you. This quarry is the newest of the lithium...minerals only present in this type of pegmatite. The quarry was opened up early in 1962 by two young miners...generally considered to be of Paleozoic age. The Walden quarry is located in a lenticular body of pegmatite. It...colored lithium tourmalines with the pink or rubellite being the most prevalent color, also light green...at the Brown Derby Mine near Ohio City, Gunnison County, Colorado; the pegmatites are quite similar in
Journal (issue)
R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur... 353 by P. Orlandi and P. B. Scortecci M aine Maine tourmaline........................................Elbaite from Newry, Maine (by P. J. Dunn) [1975, vol. 6, no. 1, p. 22-25.] Newry, Maine, a pegmatite phosphate...] 328 Famous mineral localities: the Pulsifer quarry (by W. E. Wilson) [1977, vol. 8, no. 2, p. 72-77...vol. 8, no. 6, p. 475.]* The best of San Diego County (by W. Larson) [1977, vol. 8, no. 6, p. 507-515
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
black, green, or blue tourmaline; montebrasite; rubellite tourmaline; spodurnene; rnangantantalite ; manganapatite;...inter-grown with c/eavelandite Irom the Walden Quarry, Poriland, Conn"ecticut. ROCKS AND MINERALS 595...pollucite with sometimes a little lepidolite, rubellite tourmaline, or microlite enclosed in it (a strong...accessory mineral. At the Lord's Hill, Stoneham, Maine locality; autunite occurs as excellent haloes surrounding...crystals in vugs in cleavelandite. At the Ruggles Quarry, Grafton Center, New Hampshire autunite is closely
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
PEGMATITE MINERALS OF MAINE By D A V I D M. S E A M A N 36 Winter St., Norway, Maine 0 4 2 6 8 INTRODUCTION...of minerals have been found in the pegmatites of Maine since the discovery of Mt. Mica near Paris H i l...close association with spodumene and the pink, rubellite variety of elbaite tourmaline. Cassiterite crystals...tourmaline find at the Dunton Gem Mine at Newry, Maine of watermelon and green, elbaite tourmaline, has...further description here. The Bennett Quarry at Buckfield, Maine, was also worked by Mr. Robert Eastman
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
body in the Walden pegmatite. It envolved the rubellite tourmalines especially, which were still partially...deposition of the caesium beryl, montebrasite, rubellite, other colored tourmalines, spodurnene, and mangantantalite...or embedded in blue and white cleave1andite, rubellite, tourmaline, lepidolite, and quartz. Much of the...in parallel position to the previously formed rubellite tourmaline broken crystal sections and to have...Sehist 15-20 feet (not repl aced by eleayelanditel Quarry Exeavation 523 dosed them, indicating that the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Maine Articles Published in Rocks and Minerals AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY DANIEL BEHNKE 2981 Landwehr...Gentleman of Oxford County. Rocks and Minerals 35:28-29. A tribute to "the dean of Maine minerals," Charles...of Buckfield, Maine. Bailey, E . M. 1929. A catalog of minerals found at Rumford, Maine. Rocks and Minerals...Barker, D. S. 1955. The Union Limestone quarry, Union, Maine. Rocks and Minerals 30:365-66. Short description...several locations includ­ ing: Berry quarry, Poland; Bennett quarry, Buckfield; Hebron; Paris; and Litchfield
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in pegmatites. It has been found at the Andrews quarry, Portland, Connecticut; with monazite crystals...New York City, N.Y. ; at the Dake mine, Mitchell County, North Carolina; with tysonite in Cheyenne Canyon...Springs, Colorado; and with rutile in Alexander County, North Carolina. MONAZITE, is essentially a phosphate...half inches in size at the Dake mine in Mitchell County. It occurs also in crystals at the Ray mine near...Burnsville and the Ramsey mine near Toledo in Yancy County, North Carolina. Large masses of Monazite occurred
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
PEGMATITE MINERALS OF MAINE B y D A V I D M. SEAMAN 36 Winter St., Norway, Maine 04268 (Continued from...frequently in the gem pockets in the pegmatites of Maine, formed by the weathering or hydrothermal alteration...reddingite as octahedral-like crystals at the Berry Quarry in Poland; also as one of the rare secondary phosphates...Bennett Quarry at Buckfield, the Dun­ ton Gem Mine at Newry, and at Black Mt. at Rumford in Maine. Its crystals...and aluminum phosphate, is a very rare mineral in Maine, but has been noted at the Dunton Gem Mine, and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
SVNPJHSQUARRY, GARLAND COUNTY, ARKANSAS. S. L. Hanson1, A. U. Falster2...pale green to dark green sequence, although Dunton quarry green tourmaline generally fluoresces in contrast...most green tourmalines worldwide. At the Dunton quarry, green tourmaline without adjacent red zones fluoresces...noted that heat treating rubellite increased the brightness of Dunton quarry tourmaline. Hawkins, Mackinnon...(1995) published a chemical analysis of Dunton quarry elbaite and revealed that there was an equal concentration
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of Natural History, 1957. PEGMATITE MINERALS OF MAINE phosphate, has been located as a rare, secondary...mine at Newry. Quarry at Poland; also at the Bennett RUTILE, one of the trimorphs of Quarry at Buckfield...the Consolidated No. 1 Quarry bonate, has been noted as a rare mineral at Topsham, but none has been found...ago Rumford many years ago. at Standpipe Hill in Topsham along with ROCKBRIDGEITE, a hydrous, iron, monazite...has been noted at the Dunton Gem Mine at Newry Maine. SCHEELITE, calcium tungstate, has together with
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
PEGMATITES OF THE BRUNSWICK AND OXFORD FIELDS, MAINE: DIFFERENTIAL TRENDS IN F-POOR AND F-RICH ENVIRONMENTS...field and the Central Maine Synclinorium of the Oxford pegmatite field, in Maine, are intruded by numerous...(Nb,Ta)-bearing phases. Generally, the CGM from Maine are hosted by pegmatites characterized by a LCT...pegmatites with NYF (Nb–Y–F) characteristics (e.g., Topsham area of the Brunswick pegmatite field). Significant...trends, fluorine, Brunswick field, Orford field, Maine. Introduction As the primary carriers of Nb and
Journal (issue)
Robert B. Cook Auburn University, Al Carl A. Francis Maine Mineral & Gem Museum, ME John Rakovan New Mexico...I. Jacobson, Denver, CO Anthony R. Kampf, l.A. County Museum of Natural History, CA Virgil W. Lueth,...across a local area net\,vork. Subscription offices: USA/North America: Taylor & Francis Group, LLC, 530 Walnut...Copyright Clearance Center (www.copyright.com) in the USA or the Copyright Licensing Agency (www. cla.co.uk)...Southwood Melbourne, Australia Woodrow B. Thompson, Maine Geological Survey, Augusta, ME John S. White, Stewartstown
Journal (issue)
July 1943 PUBLISHED MONTH LY CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY .................................................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...Albany, Maine ; a black tourmaline crystal 3x3x8 feet in the Luella Mine near Avon, Latah County, Idaho...have been obtained at Black Mountain, Rumford, Maine. However the cassiterite found in the United States
Show/Event (guide)
during highway construction, Hull Township, Gatineau County, Quebec. P. M. Bellev, R. Rowe & M. Picard. 2:45...e " from the Harder Farm, Hammond, St. Lawrence County, NY. M. Lupulescu. 3:45 H i s t o r y of the Powers...Powers farm streamside veins, St. Lawrence County, New York. M. R. Walter & S. C. Chamberlain. 4:00 M...Louisa County, Virginia. L. E. Kearns & M. D. Dunn. 4:30 B l u e wavellite from the De Linde quarry, Garland...Garland, County, Arkansas. S. L. Hanson, A. U. Falster & Win. B. Simmons. 4:45 H a f n i a n zircon from
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Minerals of Franklin and Sterling Hill, Sussex County, New Jersey (1935), a predecessor and obvious inspiration...Meteorites Srnithsonian Institution MAINE MINING C, J. Stcieiir Maine Mining Adventure by C. J. Stevens...Lethbridge] at 16:13 15 June 2016 Maine (mostly southeastern Maine), who have dug or discovered the amethysts...1989 discovery of gem morganite at the Bennett quarry); Priscilla Chavarie (owner of the Winthrop rock...Blakemore (author of one of the first guidebooks to Maine mineral localities); Phillips Cole, Orman McAllister
Journal (issue)
Finger) and LKA Emeralds, Hiddenite, Alexander County, NC Go On Public Exhibit in New York City. Emeralds.................................... 3 Hewitt Gem Quarry................................................................................... 3 Walden Gem Quarry ........................................................................................ 4 Maine .......................................................................................... 4 Greenlaw Quarry ..............................................
Book (edition)
from Oregon to the Mexican border and eastward to Maine and Florida. What you cannot collect in person...beryl, topaz and spodumene. crystals, Areas in Maine, Connecticut and California, and Madagascar, are...between The mountain regions in the east from Maine down through Georgia and westward to Tennessee...summer; neither is it wise to prospect in Montana or Maine in the as the winter. An scope, and automobile...mine, Racooche Valley, White Co. 1866 Vs White County Daniel Light form, % mi. NE Less than 1887
Report (issue)
International, LLC P.O. Box 263, East Hampton, CT 06424, USA Phone 1.860.267.1512; fax 1.860.267.7225 www.lapisint...CHRISTIAN WEISE VERLAG, GERMANY AND LAPIS INTERNATIONAL, USA Tourmaline ♦ History ♦ Mineralogy • Tourmaline...be seen along the surface of the stone. This rubellite was broken perpendicular to the c-axis, and only...reference to what most certainly would be known as rubellite today. Hill's was the first known use of the modern...tourmaline (all colors other than black and blue). Rubellite was consid­ ered a sub-species of tourmaline.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
U.S.A. Mr. Apatite, Auburn, AndroscogginCo., Maine Gem tourmaline, beryl, albite, lepidolite, amblygonite... 52-53 Fisher and Barrell, 1934 Ingraham, 1964 Berry Quarry, Poland, AndroscogginCo., Maine Gem tourmaline...Berman and Gonyer, 1930 Paul Bennett Quarry, Buckfield, Oxford Co., Maine Beryl, lepidolite, albite, amblygonite... Tamminen-WaisanenMine, Greenwood,Oxford, Co., Maine Beryl, albite, bertrandire, apatite, triphylite...EmmonsQuarry (Uncle Tom Mine), Greenwood,Oxford Co., Maine Gem tourmaline, beryl, amblygonite Rand, 1957
Journal (issue)
Sapphires Benito County, California; the group of sapGems Found in the U.S. State of Maine phires is from...Daniel Bronfen, Brazil Evan Caplan, USA Rocco Gay, Italy Sushil Goyal, USA Shahina Hatta, Hong Kong Dwarka...Thailand Immediate Past President Benjamin Hackman, USA Chief Executive Officer Gary Roskin ICA General Manager...31 W. 47th Street, Suite 1103 New York, NY 10036 USA ica@gemstone.org T: 1.212.620.0900 F: 1.212.352.9054...century with the discovery of the Mica Mine in Maine. While gold was its primary focus, miners found
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Zapot pegmatite, Gillis Range, Mineral Co., Nevada, USA. Named in honor of W.B. Simmons. The sample is 1...Orleans, 2000 Lakeshore Drive New Orleans, LA 70148, USA E-mail: wsimmons@uno.edu 2 Museo di Storia Naturale...America 5345 Armada Drive, Carlsbad, CA 92008-4602, USA E-mail: jshigley@gia.edu 4 Department of Geology...hiddenite), topaz, and tourmaline (indicolite, rubellite, verdelite, liddicoatite, etc.) occur almost exclusively... Left to right: spodumene (kunzite, California, USA, 284 g), spodumene (triphane, Afghanistan, 196 g)
 
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