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Muscovite from
Mineral Hill Mine, Wakefield, Carroll County, New Hampshire, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Muscovite
Formula:KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Muscovite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Mineral Hill Mine, Wakefield, Carroll County, New Hampshire, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1003669
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1003669:7
GUID (UUID V4):ed1db06c-56c0-4a5b-b526-a218aceb2b43
Nearest other occurrences of Muscovite
0.5km (0.3 miles) Ham and Weeks Mine, Wakefield, Carroll County, New Hampshire, USA
8.9km (5.5 miles) Ossipee, Carroll County, New Hampshire, USA
9.4km (5.8 miles) Davis mine, Newfield, York County, Maine, USA
11.2km (7.0 miles) Knox Mountain Granite quarry, Newfield, York County, Maine, USA
18.7km (11.6 miles) Berry Ledge, Cornish, York County, Maine, USA
19.7km (12.2 miles) Lebanon-Acton mine, Lebanon, York County, Maine, USA
21.2km (13.1 miles) Deering Acton mine, Acton, York County, Maine, USA
21.3km (13.2 miles) Casco mine, Acton, York County, Maine, USA
21.5km (13.4 miles) Eldorado Mine (El Dorado Mine), Acton, York County, Maine, USA
21.8km (13.5 miles) Androscoggin mine, Acton, York County, Maine, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
New Hampshire Mineral Locality Index Downloaded by [University of Newcastle, Australia] at 15:01 05...entrance and arch of the Palermo mine, North Groton, Grafton County. Rob Lawrence photo, courtesy Bob...Bob Whitmore. 242 ROCKS & MINERALS lthough New Hampshire, the Granite State, is one of our smaller states...is one of the lowest in annual mineral production, the number of mineral collecting localities and the...recorded number of mineral species is quite high. Hawes (1878) reported 95 mineral species, Meyers and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Photographs JanuaryFebruary: Rhodochrosite, N’Chwaning mine, Hotazel, South Africa. Martin Zinn specimens, Erica...Cryo-Genie mine, San Diego County, California. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County specimen,...Ground Hog mine, Gilman, Eagle County, Colorado. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County specimen...Andradite, Michigan, 345 Anglesite, Colorado, 308; New Hampshire, 415 Ankerite, Colorado, 308 Anthony Robert...Colorado, 308; New Hampshire, 416 Barbosa, C., see In Memoriam Barite, Colorado, 308; New Mexico, 385;
Journal (issue)
Mineral Vol. 18 No. 4 April 2002 The Mineral Collector's New#, A New Discovery of Pink Tourn1aline...Tourn1aline at the Cryo-Genie Mine, San Diego County, California Kenneth L. Gochenour 2670 East Walnut St. #B Tustin...found at the C ryo-Genie mine near Warner Springs in northern San Diego County, California. The crystals...specimen will soon find its home the Los Angles County Museum of Natural History. Another , rge crystal...the ir pink body. At the recent Tucson Gem and Mineral show, held at the Tucson Conventio n Center, the
Book (edition)
ALBERT STATES WILLIAMS, Jr. ABSTRACT FROM "MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE UNITED STATES CALENDAR YEAR 1687"—DAVID...UNITED A PARTIAL LIST OF ORES, MINERALS. AND MINERAL SUBSTANCES OF INDUS TRIAL IMPORTANCE, ARRANGED...are based upon those published in the volume of Mineral Resources for 1882, pages 6G4-775, and very closely...principal occurrences of the ores, minerals, and mineral substances of industrial importance of the several...original lists were compiled, the rapid growth of the mineral industries of the country, changes in the channels
Report (volume)
the Geological Survey's annual report entitled " Mineral Resources of the United States" (the volumes for...of a century. During that period, however, the mineral resources of the United States have been enormously...showing the composition and character of each mineral and the location of. its principal deposits. Many...These are only examples of notable changes in the mineral production of the United States and of correlated...changes in the appraised value of some of the mineral deposits. In this list, as in the earlier lists
Book (volume)
fossils, Illinois has little to offer gem and mineral collectors, even though the state produces more...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...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods
Book (volume)
fossils, Illinois has little to offer gem and mineral collectors, even though the state produces more...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...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods
Report (volume)
...... New Hampshire........................................................... 190 201 New Jersey.............. New Mexico............................................................. New York. .........the Geological Survey's annual report entitled "Mineral Eesources of the United States" for 1882 and 1887...more until 1914. During that period, however, the mineral resources of the United States were enormously...resources of the country. Many changes in the mineral industry other than increase in production have
Book
( C. 4 ( MINERAL & GEM TRAILS of NEW ENGLAND .� ';� M � [- ' 1f,.,,1 " VE M NlN[W �IUWPS�l-...$2.50 MINERAL & GEM TRAILS OF NEW ENGLAND by Ed & Bert Sloan Maine Vermont New Hampshire Massachusetts...Massachusetts Rhode Island PERHAM'S MAINE MINERAL S'toRE INC. JUNCTION RTE8. '1LJ &_ 219 WEST PARIS, MAINE...Company Mine Hyde Park, Lamoille Co. , Vermont Copper Mine Locality Milton, Vermont Parrot Jasper Mine Reading...Talc Mine Saxtons River, Vermont Davis Soapstone Quarry South Newfane, Vermont Adams Hill Site NEW HAMPSHIRE
Book (volume)
chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...townagate, chalcedony, jasper, petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville...chalcedony, jasper, fossils. CHERRY COUNTY VALENTINE, in the Sandhills county along the Niobrara R. and Minnechaduza...gem qualityagatized and opalized wood. DAWES COUNTY CHADRON, in N part of Co. and as far W as Crawford...cuts, cut banks, breaks, draws and washes, gullies, hill slopes, etc.chalcedony roses, Celestite crystals
Journal (issue)
Mineral Vol. 17 No. 12 December 2001 The Mineral Collector's Newslette Black Money, Tennyson, and Drug...Giazotto, photo by Claus Hedegaard. News from Pakistan New Finds and Information Dudley Blauwet Mountain Minerals...from hat down to local sandals, and I bought my new tinted glasses to shade my blue eyes, though everyone...Two of my Afghani friends, took me down to the mineral market that first afternoon. and told me that they...- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Mineral News December 2001 - - - - to buy Pakistani material
Book (volume)
Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and  the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59...along adjoining Co. linerock 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 floatjasper. CARTERSVILLE:...agate, (banded, various colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY MACON:  at Holton Quarry, 7½ mi. NWagate;  N
Book (volume)
excavations in the underlying black, Upper Devonian (New Albany) shales occasionally produces pieces of silicified...gas and coal from thick beds contributes to the mineral economy. But as far as the collector is concerned...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
Report (volume)
separating and purifying hundreds of accessory mineral samples from igneous rocks. The authors are grateful...number Geographic locality Collector of the sample Mineral used for age determination Mesh size of the crystals...activity of the mineral used for age determination Total lead content of the mineral used for age determination...Lead-alpha age of the mineral Geologic age * of the rock from which the mineral was separated, based on...activity and total lead content of each accessory mineral. The age equations, repeated here for convenience
Book (volume)
excavations in the underlying black, Upper Devonian (New Albany) shales occasionally produces pieces of silicified...gas and coal from thick beds contributes to the mineral economy. But as far as the collector is concerned...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
Report (issue)
CONTENTS Introduction 1 Scope of report 4 Mineral collecting 5 Acknowledgments 6 Introduction..." -. _>-.--_>-->.-..-. Triassic deposits 31 Mineral localities 38 District of Columbia Mavtrl a Tirl...^ Anne Arundel County 43 Baltimore County 45 Howard County - Montgomery County 88 Prince Georges...Georges County Virginia 74 . 120 129 Arlington County 129 Fairfax County 131 Fauquier County 139...139 Loudoun County 143 Prince William County 149 Diabase quarries of northern Virginia 155 CAPTIONS
Catalog/List
OFF SPECIMENS. JUST GIVE HE A RING TO.HAKE SURE 1 HILL BE HERS. I All ALSO PLEASED TO DISCUSS YOUR REQUIREMENTS...EACH PIECE. PLEASE QUOTE BOTH THE CODE AND THE MINERAL NAME. IF YOU WANT TO SEND BACK THE CATALOGUE WITH...AVAILABLE. I NORMALLY HAVE A SHALL STOCK OF EACH MINERAL' IN THE CATALOGUE UP TO WHERE IT SAYS 'SINGLE SPECIMENS'...OF ROCKS MID MINERALS 10 68 issue 2 available. NEW STOCK s Rare minerals Kellyite page 11. Wolfeite...All page 7 Brianyoungite Scawtite; Lizardite Mineral with unusual elements Page 1 Greenockite General
Report (volume)
may be determined by scratching it with another mineral or with a knife blade. This may mutilate tllQ StOne...Topaz Corundum Diamond The numbers preceding each mineral indicate only increasing degrees of hardness, not...placed next to diamond only because it is the mineral nearest the diamond in hardness. Because much dust...contact with one another. The specific gravity of a mineral is the ratio between its weight and the weight...of stones. Luster, the general appearance of a mineral in reflected light, is of two types: metallic and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pegmatites at QUARTZ, silica, Si02, is an essential mineral in the granite pegmatites. Massive, white, or smoky...found at the Palermo Quarry, North Groton, New Hampshire. Crystals to 150 pounds in weight have been...crystal was recovered about 1905 from the Barringer Hill, Texas locality, which measured 43x28x15 inches...Maine; Alstead, Gilsum, and Springfield, New Hampshire; Bedford, New York; the Scott and other quarries near...crystals have also been found at Red Hill, Maine; North Groton, New Hampshire, and from Pala, Rincón, and Mesa
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Clearwater_ --- - .'L- 'I i INDEX "'1": I ') MINERAL LOCALITY ·~~e" I ' I' - BenewahI • r (' /----...its pyromorphite, Idaho also boasts many other mineral species. ( :\.. -~:/ Idaho <....: (_ ", I ...- - : r -\ THIS INDEX BRIEFLY DESCRIBES the mineral localities in Idaho; all known localities that...low population of Idaho, it receives much less mineral collector attention than some other states. For...geologic data have not been recently prospected by mineral collectors. Recently, politics have been playing
Book
of and MINERAL AMERI A A Guide to Rock Collecting HARPER & ROW, PUBLISHERS ....... New York, Evanston...Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., 10 East 53rd Street, New York, N.Y. 10022. Published simultaneously in Canada...bdg.) 1 For America's millions of gerr1 and mineral collectors, but especially for Karl Denny, whose...Collecting 1. Rocks, Minerals, and Gemstones 1 3 Mineral Characteristics; Gemstone Characteristics; The...Stones vs. Gemstones; Colorful Ore Minerals 2. Mineral Environments (I): The Igneous Rocks 11 The American
Book
V ft > Z r > 0 c o m * 1 Woe AMERICAN MINERAL GUIDE & S' is 531 o K C O SQ Cc .-1 r u...American Mineral (5uidc to Notable Collecting Areas and ©ircctoru Cn of American Mineral & Gem Collectors...BY Western Mineral Exchange Seattle, Washington 1941 t Copyright 1941 WESTERN MINERAL EXCHANGE PKISTKD...volume is dedicated is four-fold: (1) To locate by mine, deposit, or community those mineralized areas of...our United States of particular interest to the mineral collector. (2) To itemize those minerals occuring
Book
abandoned mining districts, where valuable mineral ores are present and man generally absent. He tells...commercial ores and secondary minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification...provides a comprehensive, alphabetical listing of 400 mineral species and an outline of the essential chemical...Jay Ellis Ransom )' HARPER & ROW, PUBLISHERS New York, Evanston, and London A RANGE GUIDE TO MINES... Publishers, Incorporated, 49 East 33rd Street, New York 16, N. Y. * FIRST EDITION LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
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Ellicott Station Buffalo, New York 14205 66 Leek Crescent Richmond Hill, Ontario L4B 1H1 Design and...Dimensions in the captions refer to the entire gem or mineral; however, in some cases only a portion is shown...destroyed in these changing conditions. In the process, new minerals and rocks are formed. RIGHT: Malachite... living organisms rocks such as granite. The mineral grains in these rocks are actually crystals, but...are yet these crystals are considered to be a mineral called crystal structures. Natural crystals formed
Book (volume)
.......................................... xi Mineral Locations by State Alabama .............................................................288 New Hampshire ..........................................................................................307 New Jersey ........................................................................................315 New Mexico ........................................................................................329 New York............................................
 
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