 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Massachusetts 02138 MAINE Minerals of the Topsham, Maine, Pegmatite District Topsham • Topsham, 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 |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | After receiving comments that the Goodall Farm Quarry, also known as the Sanford vesuvianite locality...following encouraging information on the locality from Maine collector Duane Leavitt (Skarnrx@megalink.net)....News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 • 3 E-mail: lream@comtch.iea... Y.T., and Foord, E.E., 1994, Mineralogy of Maine: Maine Geological Survey, p. 292. Rutherford, R.L....V anadiun1 l\'line, l\fagnet Cove, Hot Springs County, Arkansas is Reclaimed and Collecting Ceases |  | | Book (volume) | | Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59...along adjoining Co. linerock crystal. BARROW COUNTY WINDER, along rd. to Jefferson and 1½ mi. inside...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States BARTOW COUNTY AREA, Saltpeter Cave, as floatjasper. CARTERSVILLE:...(banded, various colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY MACON: at Holton Quarry, 7½ mi. NWagate; N of Calloway |  | | Book (volume) | | series of pegmatite dikes ranking with those in Maine and Southern California for their production of...beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm...gray Barite rosette up to 5 or 6 inches. CAMPBELL COUNTY MOUND CITY, W to the Missouri R., regional hillsides...gravels, etc.petrified wood, wood opal. CORSON COUNTY LITTLE EAGLE: area ridges, slopes, stream beds...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States CUSTER COUNTY AREA: The November Mine, 1.2 mi. SE of the Needles |  | | 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 |  | | Book (volume) | | the western counties, especially the Clay Center Quarry 12 miles southeast of Toledo but in Ottawa Co....ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay |  | | Book (volume) | | the western counties, especially the Clay Center Quarry 12 miles southeast of Toledo but in Ottawa Co....ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay |  | | Report (issue) | | C. A. Michael. COLD NUGGET FROM SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY: Longest dimension approximately 13 cm., photograph...updated “check list” just alluded to, (2) a county-by-county listing of the minerals, and (3) resumes of...(Moonstone) AI bite (Clcavclanditc) Checklist Microcline (Amazonstone) Orthoclase (Moonstone) (Iso-orthoclasc)...(Haydcnitc) 9 Virginia Mineral Localities by County This list is included for possible aid in planning...listed only* if localities arc given for them. The county lists do not include com mon rock-making materials |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | industrial processes such as extractive metallurgy (Booker and Fredrickson, 1969) and the formation of thin...mainly by the crystallization of muscovite and microcline, respectively. For example, at the Questa, New...of muscovite occurs at lower pH than that of microcline, and thus the oreforming fluids responsible for...presence of water vapor. J. Phys. Chem. 69, 2065–2071. Booker J. L. and Fredrickson R. E. (1969). Vaporizing...deposits of the Questa molybdenum mine area, Taos county, New Mexico. In Ore Deposits of the United States |  | | Journal (issue) | | TeHurium Sulphur Dinmond Gra1,hitc GOLD Albemarle County.-"Streaks" occur in quartz veins in slate belt...east of South western Mt. (ll. 8). Buckingham County.-A placer gold specimen about 7 x 10 x 17 mm. which...collections of the Smithsonian Institution. Culpeper County.-Two specimens with flakes of gold up to 1 cm....collections of the Smithsonian Institution. Dinwiddie County.-Two specimens from the Whitehall Mine with gold...error and should refer to Spotsylvania County.) Fairfax County.-A specimen of gold with galena in quartz |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | increases. Conversely, the contents of quartz, microcline and albite show a decreasing trend (Fig. 4)....pressure in the fractures as well (e.g. Nur and Booker 1972; Schloz et al. 1973, etc). There is a positive...crystalline thrust sheets, northwestern Wyoming, USA. J Struct Geol 17:533–547 Gough DI, Gough WI (1970)...northeast Brazil. Geophys J Int 160(1):249–262 Nur A, Booker JR (1972) Aftershocks caused by pore fluid flow |  | | Book | | commercial ores and secondary minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification...cities, and many of today’s prosperous western county seats began as mining-boom camps. trating sand...Whether you such as those listed alphabetically by county, township, and range in Part II of this book. Where...granite which was pushed up from great depths. Maine), New California The gem Jersey, show pegmatites...will help you prospect and explore any state and county. etc., for mineral deposits in Finding Suitable |  | | Report (issue) | | SHALLOW BEDROCK IN THE MIRROR LAKE AREA, GRAFTON COUNTY, NEW HAMPSHIRE By Philip T. Harte U.S. GEOLOGICAL...and well data from the Mirror Lake area, Grafton County, New Hampshire...................................used for slug tests, Mirror Lake area, Grafton County, New Hampshire...................................clusters FS3C and CO, Mirror Lake area, Grafton County, New Hampshire ..................................provinces and location of Mirror Lake area, Grafton County, New Hampshire................................ |  | | Journal (issue) | | moonstone that is cut in cabochon; green amazonite (microcline) and light brown sanidine that can be cut in...org February 18-19 Georgetown, TX Williamson County Gem & Mineral Society Community Center; San Gabrial...Mineral Society Live Oak Civic Center; 8101 Pat Booker Rd. March 17-18 San Antonio, TX San Antonio...Mineral Society Live Oak Civic Center, 8101 Pat Booker Road Web site: www.swgemandmineral.org April 14-15 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | and Lindsley 1988; the phases low-albite and microcline were excluded), Gt(HP) for garnet, IlGkPy for...Nabelek, J., Chen, L., Tan, H., Wei, W., Jones, A.G., Booker, J., Unsworth, M., Kidd, W.S.F., Hauck, M., Alsdorf...Brown, M., 2001, Petrogenesis of migmatites in Maine, USA: Possible source of peraluminous leucogranite |  | | Report (issue) | | Slate __ . Halifax County Other localities North Carolina Hagers Mountain, Person County.- _.______ Corbett...Corbett deposit, Johnston County Burnsville-Swannanoa area, Buncombe, Yancey, and Mitchell Counties ________...________ ____ Rutherford County Other localities North Carolina-South Carolina Kings Mountain district, Cleveland...Cleveland, Gaston, and Lincoln Counties, N.C., and York County, S.C. ._ __-__ ____ --- ---General geology Rock..._Bowlings Mountain, Granville County.- _______ Hillsboro, Orange County..._________________________ Snow |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | K-feldspar) are also observed (Fig. 3d). Both microcline and orthoclase show deformation bands (Fig. 3e...quartz; (e) undulose extinction and bending in microcline; (f) presence of bending in orthoclase; (g) lobate...lobate phase boundary between quartz and microcline grain; (h) well developed myrmekite at the margin...presence of tourmaline (Tur) associated with microcline and quartz; (p) subrounded zircon inclusion with...Hope Valley shear zone, New England Appalachians, USA. Journal of Metamorphic Geology 22, 45–62. Gilkson |  | | Journal (issue) | | KRISTALLE Est.1971 Laguna Beach, California, USA • Tel: +1 949 494 5155 • Email: info@kristalle.com...Dragon Gold Specimen, Colorado Quartz mine, Mariposa County, California........................463 by M. I...22.9 cm, from the Colorado Quartz mine, Mariposa County, California. Collector’s Edge specimen (now in...only): $139/one year (Canada) $231/one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $325 for one year Subscription...venture is the Tucson Fine Mineral Gallery in Arizona, USA, which opened to the public in early 2022. This state-of-the-art |  | Lange, K., Rowe, R.K., Jamieson, H., Flemming, R.L., Lanzirotti, A. (2010) Characterization of geosynthetic clay liner bentonite using micro-analytical methods. Applied Geochemistry, 25 (7) 1056-1069 doi:10.1016/j.apgeochem.2010.04.011 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, USA b a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received...correspond to polymorphs of K-Feldspar such as microcline as identified in some S-lXRD samples. The Fe content...(PDF), 12 Campus Boulevard, Newtown Square, PA, USA. Isaure, M.P., Manceau, A., Geoffroy, N., Laboudigue...1211–1221. Rowe, R.K., Quigley, R.M., Brachman, R.W.I., Booker, J.R., 2004. Barrier Systems for Waste Disposal...Geo-environmental Engineering, first ed. CRC Press LLC, USA. Yong, R.N., MacDonald, E.M., 1998. Influence of pH |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | internal pegmatites that comprise quartz, albite, microcline, orthoclase, tourmaline, muscovite, Li-mica,...to supply half of the World‟s As in the 1920s (Booker 1967). The polymetallic sulphide lodes occupy faults...Wheal Penrose, Wrey- IP Ludcott United, Greystone Quarry, Wheal Betsy, Buttspill Mine, Holmbush Mine, and...Wheal Betsy, Holmbush, Wheal Penrose and Greystone Quarry is dominated by quartz. One sample from Wrey-Ludcott...of cassiterite and The samples from Greystone Quarry and Wheal Exmouth (Fig. 8a-c) carry no traces |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Palaeoproterozoic Río de la Plata craton to the east (Booker et al. 2004, López de Luchi et al. 2005, Rapela...characterized by variably perthitic and poikilitic microcline megacryst- mostly of the same the size than those...MANUSCRIPT AC CE P TE D MA NU SC R IP T Booker J.R., Favetto A., Pomposiello M.C., 2004. Low electrical...de Luchi, M.G, Favetto, A., Pomposiello, M.C., Booker, J, 2005. Magnetotelluric evidence for the suture |  | | Journal (issue) | | for the Houston area. My previous record was to Maine where the teacher said that although she had an...(kunzite), beryl (aquamarine and morganite), garnets, microcline (amazonite) and a lot of others that are pretty...from George West and “painted” wood from Live Oak County. He also had some palmwood with color from near...early conifer from the Pennsylvanian of Eastland County that grew into large trees and is preserved as...Mineral Society Live Oak Civic center, 8101 Pat Booker Rd. www.swgemandmineral.org San Antonio, TX July |
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