 | Falster, Alexander U., Simmons, William B., Webber, Karen L., Dallaire, Donald A., Nizamoff, James W., Sprague, Raymond A. (2019) The Emmons Pegmatite, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine. Rocks & Minerals, 94 (6) 498-519 doi:10.1080/00357529.2019.1641021 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | The Emmons pegmatite in 1996. THE EMMONS PEGMATITE Greenwood Oxford County, Maine The Emmons pegmatite...WEBBER MP2 Research Group Maine Mineral & Gem Museum 99 Main Street Bethel, Maine 04217 alexander.falster@gmail...Hebron, Maine 04238 phosphate@gmail.com RAYMOND A. SPRAGUE* 33 Roger Street Lewiston, Maine 04240 *...Deceased 16 April 2019. HE MINERALOGY AND ORIGIN OF MAINE PEGMATITES have been a principal focus of our research...Louisiana, to Bethel, Maine, greatly facilitated resumption of our study of the Emmons pegmatite. For the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 3749/canmin.AB00008 THE CORE MARGIN ZONE OF THE EMMONS PEGMATITE: THE DIRECTIONAL ASPECTS OF BALL MUSCOVITE...Laboratory, Maine Mineral & Gem Museum, 99 Main Street, Bethel, Maine 04217, USA Keywords: Emmons pegmatite...margin. INTRODUCTION The Emmons pegmatite (Falster et al. 2006) on Uncle Tom Mountain (Fig. 1) is one of the...most evolved pegmatites in the Oxford pegmatite field in western Maine. Compared to other pegmatites in...direction of the convex surfaces. Lithiophilite–triphylite, pollucite (Falster et al. 2017), spodumene, |  | | 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 (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 |  | | Report (edition) | | BULLETIN 41 Third Edition A Collector's Guide to Maine Mineral Localities by Woodrow B. 7KaSVRQ Donald...Vandall T. King Robert G. Marvinney, State Geologist Maine Geological Survey Natural Resources Information...OF CONSERVATION 1998 Copyright © 1998 by the Maine Geological Survey, Department of Conservation. All...5 cm tall; gem weighs 2 carats. From the Havey Quarry, Poland, MaifJ. e. Photo copyright 1995 by Wendell...crystals, 24 x JO mm;Jrom the Bennett Quarry, Buckfield, Maine. Mined in 1996 by Holden !Jrothers Mining |  | | 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) | | Manasquan, New Jersey, visited Calamity Wash, Yavapai County, and collected several exciting and Figure 7: Arizona...groupings and distortions found in the specimens. Maine New Mining Activity Ever since the feldspar mill...mill burned in West Paris in the early 196Os, Maine pegmatite mining has been conducted only for the recovery...Sweden; the resumption of activity at Mount Mica quarry, Paris; and the find of what might be the world's...world's largest morganite at the Bennett quarry, Buckfield, in the late 1980s convinced the regional collectors |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | MINERALOGY OF THE HASKE QUARRY, CARY MOUND GRANITE/GRANOPHYRE COMPLEX, WOOD COUNTY, WISCONSIN T. W. Buchholz1...rhyolite outcrop on Cary Mound in western Wood County, Wisconsin, and are exploited in a number of quarries...January 2015 MINERALOGY OF THE EMMONS PEGMATITE, OXFORD COUNTY, MAINE: AN EXAMPLE OF A HIGHLY EVOLVED...Andover, MA 01810. The Emmons pegmatite on Uncle Tom Mountain, Oxford County, Maine, is an example of a...is muscovite-rich and contains lithiophilite-triphylite as well as amblygonite-montebrasite phosphate |  | | Report (issue) | | common late-stage hydrothermal mineral in oxidized triphylite-bearing complex granite pegmatites. Association:...siderite, ludlamite (Palermo #1 mine, New Hampshire, USA). Distribution: Well-crystallized from Hagendorf... Voron’i massif, Kola Peninsula, Russia. In the USA, at the Palermo #1 and Fletcher mines, near North...Cheshire Co., New Hampshire; in the Emmons quarry, Greenwood, Oxford Co., Maine; in South Dakota, from the White...near Custer, Custer Co.; at the Foote mine, Kings Mountain, Cleveland Co., North Carolina. From the Énio |  | | Report (issue) | | X-ray Powder Pattern: Branchville, Connecticut, USA; close to wolfeite. 2.94 (10), 3.10 (9), 3.19 (8)...85 [100.00] 100.00 (1) Branchville, Connecticut, USA. (2) Wheal Owles, England; H2 O by difference, corresponds...lithiophilite, triphylite, eosphorite, dickinsonite, rhodochrosite. Distribution: In the USA, from Branchville...Kings Mountain, Cleveland Co., North Carolina; in the Emmons quarry, Greenwood, Oxford Co., Maine. At Wheal...Material: Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA, 5.5646–5.5648. References: (1) Palache, C., H. |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | of Otago] at 13:59 13 January 2015 THE WATERLOO QUARRY A NEW LOCALITY FOR GAHNITE, MANGANOCOLUMBITE, AND...aggregate. Several pegmatites have been found in this quarry as thin veins, approximately 20-30 cm thick, that...MICROMINERALS FROM BLACK JACK CANYON, GREENLEE COUNTY, ARIZONA. E. Grundel, 2000 S. 2d St., No. 8, Arlington...mileposts 162 and 163 near Black Jack Canyon, Greenlee County, Arizona. The specimens are found in the vesicles...Graham Counties,Arizona. Arizona Bureau of Mines, county geology map series 3-4. A NEW OCCURRENCE OF CUBIC |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the Sebago granite–pegmatite system, southern Maine, USA Michael A. Wise*, Cathleen D. Brown Department...two-mica granite situated in the Oxford pegmatite field, southwestern Maine. Surrounding the pluton is an...chemistry, petrology, geochemistry, Sebago, southern Maine Received: 1 October 2009; accepted: 30 March 2010;...Introduction The granitic pegmatites of southern Maine represent one of several major pegmatite regions...Unfortunately, very little geochemical data exist for the Maine pegmatites despite their popularity among mineral |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | and Environmental Earth Science Miami University Oxford, Ohio 45056 rakovajf@muohio.edu T he 6th International...Granitic Pegmatites was held in New Hampshire and Maine from 26 May to 2 June of this year. The meeting...Jackson, Jeff Morrison, Bob and Edna Whitmore, the Maine Mineral and Dr. John Rakovan, an executive editor...mineralogy and geochemistry at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Figure 1. Attendees of the 6th International...Figure 4 (spread). The author collecting on a triphylite pod, Palermo No. 1 mine, Groton, New Hampshire |  | | Report (issue) | | Powder Pattern: Stewart mine, Pala, California, USA. (ICDD 34-146). 3.152 (100), 8.09 (70), 2.992 (65)...granite pegmatites. Association: Lithiophilite, triphylite, heterosite, rockbridgeite, cacoxenite, vivianite...from Huréaux, St. Sylvestre, and in the La Vilate quarry, near Chanteloube, Haute-Vienne. At the Mangualde... near Eräjärvi, Finland. In the USA, from the Strickland quarry, Portland, Middlesex Co., and at Branchville...Hampshire; from the Emmons quarry, Greenwood, Oxford Co., and many other places in Maine; in the Bull Moose |  | | Journal (issue) | | News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 E-mail: lream@comtch.iea.com...feldspar. The locality, I believe, is a granite quarry. I have been told that, at the site, the large...category that, if passed up, one rues it forever. ... Tom Wolfe was one of the dealers who had the entire front...Fifties, i.e. chiastolite crystals from Madera County, CA. They used to be very common, almost ubiquitous...attention to them. They they disappeared completely. Tom told me that hey are still there, but the owner doesn't |  | Simmons, William, Falster, Alexander, Webber, Karen, Roda-Robles, Encarnación, Boudreaux, Andrew P., Grassi, Leah Rae, Freeman, Gary (2016) Bulk Composition of Mt. Mica Pegmatite, Maine, USA: Implications For the Origin of An Lct Type Pegmatite By Anatexis. The Canadian Mineralogist, 54 (4) 1053-1070 doi:10.3749/canmin.1600017 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 1600017 BULK COMPOSITION OF MT. MICA PEGMATITE, MAINE, USA: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE ORIGIN OF AN LCT TYPE PEGMATITE...FALSTER, AND KAREN WEBBER Maine Mineral and Gem Museum, 99 Main St, Bethel, Maine 04217, U.S.A. ENCARNACIÓN...Coromoto Minerals, LLC, 48 Lovejoy Road, South Paris, Maine 04281, U.S.A. ABSTRACT The Mt. Mica pegmatite is...composition, anatexis, Sebago Migmatite Domain, Maine. § Corresponding author e-mail address: wsimmons@uno...Most of the exposed bedrock of Maine is Paleozoic in age. Western Maine has been affected by several orogenic |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | GRANITIC PEGMATITES OF THE BRUNSWICK AND OXFORD FIELDS, MAINE: DIFFERENTIAL TRENDS IN F-POOR AND F-RICH...FRANCIS Mineralogical Museum, Harvard University, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, U.S.A....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...observed between the CGM from the Brunswick and Oxford pegmatite fields. Columbite-group minerals from |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Mineralization at the Crooker Gem Pegmatite, Newry, Maine. V. King1, L. Jonaitis2, and R. Brown2. 1PO Box...04237. The Crooker gem pegmatite, Newry, Oxford County, Maine, has been mined sporadically since 1930...a small knoll downslope from Plumbago Mountain–Puzzle Mountain. The pegmatite was core-drilled and mapped...include triphylite (to 10 cm), fluorapatite (to 1 cm), and montebrasite (to 15 cm). Both triphylite and montebrasite... Mineralogy of Maine. Vol. 1. Maine Geological Survey. ———. 2000. Mineralogy of Maine—Addenda to volume |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Columbia University, from Grand Junction, Mesa County, Colorado, labelled as kolwezite. The associated...the Delta Mine, San Rafael Swell (valley), Emery County, Utah. It is associated with sodium-zippeite. The...mineral for this mine, Utah, as was well as the entire USA. Joscite-B was found in a specimen of metallic concentrate...Houston, Texas 77036-6742 Part 1: The P. W. Estes quarry and the Mascot Mine There was considerably more...started off at the P. W. Estes quarry in West Baldwin, Cumberland County, Maine. There had been no or very |  | | Report (issue) | | monoclinic, orthorhombic hko, tetragonal (011 triphylite) hkl, monoclinic, orthorhombic ooi2, apatite)... calcite) (111 sulfur) (1011, calcite) (120, triphylite) (210, ferberite) (112, ferberite, (201, hureaullte)...PHOSPHATES, ARSENATES. and VANADATES Montebrasite Triphylite Wardite Lithiophilite Goyazite Kehoeite Ferri-sicklerite...prospects in the lower Ludlow lignites. Harding County: 1. Abemathyite has been identified as a component...Soluble In hydrochloric acid, yielding Custer County: 1. Allanite has been reported to occur as small |  | | Field Trip Notes | | Hampshire Field Trip No. 2, Outstanding pegmatites of Maine and New Hampshire 73 Geology of the "Chelmsford...Vermont part of Greenfield quadrangle and Green Mountain front in Equinox and Bennington quadrangles, Fred...comprise the New England province of the Appalachian Mountain system is a region in which the Paleozoic rocks...Ann north past Whitehall, New York (B3), to Bald Mountain in Vermont (just north of Whitehall), folded Cambrian...Adirondack Mountains. In general, the separate mountain ranges are separate fault blocks. The faults are |  | Roda-Robles, Encarnación, Pesquera, Alfonso, García De Madinabeitia, Sonia, Gil Ibarguchi, José-Ignacio, Nizamoff, Jim, Simmons, William, Falster, Alexander, Galliski, Miguel Angel (2014) ON THE GEOCHEMICAL CHARACTER OF PRIMARY Fe-Mn PHOSPHATES BELONGING TO THE TRIPHYLITE-LITHIOPHILITE, GRAFTONITE-BEUSITE, AND TRIPLITE-ZWIESELITE SERIES: FIRST RESULTS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR PEGMATITE PETROGENESIS. The Canadian Mineralogist, 52 (2) 321-335 doi:10.3749/canmin.52.2.321 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | OF PRIMARY Fe-Mn PHOSPHATES BELONGING TO THE TRIPHYLITE-LITHIOPHILITE, GRAFTONITE-BEUSITE, AND TRIPLITE-ZWIESELITE...minerals belonging to the triplite-zwieselite, triphylite-lithiophilite, and graftonite-beusite series...primary Fe-Mn phosphate minerals. Members of the triphylite-lithiophilite series are the poorest in trace...minerals belonging to the triplite-zwieselite, triphylite-lithiophilite, and graftonite-beusite series...triplite-zwieselite (Mn2+,Fe2+,Mg,Ca) 2(PO 4) (F,OH), triphylite-lithiophilite Li(Fe2+,Mn2+)PO4, and graftonite-beusite |  | | 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 |
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Emmons Quarry, Uncle Tom Mountain, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine, USA