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Molybdenite from
Ruggles Mine, Grafton, Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Molybdenite
Formula:MoS2
Comments:Listed as a "general" mineral for the town of Grafton, only. No specific locality.
Confirmation
Validity:Erroneously Reported
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Molybdenite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Ruggles Mine, Grafton, Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:156058
Long-form Identifier:1:3:156058:9
GUID (UUID V4):8f63d9af-a5c5-4add-bc99-00c412c38df4
Nearest other occurrences of Molybdenite
22.7km (14.1 miles) ⓘHolts Ledge, Lyme, Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA
37.7km (23.4 miles) ⓘElizabeth Mine, South Strafford, Strafford, Orange County, Vermont, USA
51.2km (31.8 miles) ⓘRoute 11 road cuts, Gilford, Belknap County, New Hampshire, USA
54.7km (34.0 miles) ⓘColony Quarry, Alstead, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
57.1km (35.5 miles) ⓘProctorsville, Cavendish, Windsor County, Vermont, USA
57.5km (35.7 miles) ⓘAlstead, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
60.7km (37.7 miles) ⓘBig Mine, Alstead, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
68.0km (42.3 miles) ⓘCoppermine Brook Mine, Franconia, Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA
71.1km (44.2 miles) ⓘOssipee, Carroll County, New Hampshire, USA
73.8km (45.9 miles) ⓘGranite Hill, Cuttingsville, Shrewsbury, Rutland County, Vermont, 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...reading Jackson (1844) on the mineralogy of New Hampshire that even at this early date there was already...activity produced new localities, renewed some old localities, and resulted in new minerals being discovered
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
bismuthinite, pyrite, loellingite, arsenopyrite, and molybdenite. They generally oc­ cur in small amounts in or...Sphalerite is less common, fallowed by chalcopyrite, molybdenite, and galena. Tetradymite, argentite, chalcocite...bismuthinite, and molybdenite. Bismuthinite has been an economic byproduct from a few pegma­ tites in New Mexico...Colorado; also from Brazil, Australia, etc. Molybdenite has been a byproduct from pegmatite at Blue Hill...and Cooper in Maine; and from the berylmolybdenite mine near Mr. Antero, Colo­ rado. It is an economic mineral
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
cm long), Beebe Hall, McCain Valley, San Diego County, California. Cal and Kerith Graeber specimen; Jeffrey...May 2015 Figure 3. Aquamarine (4.1 cm long), Mack mine, Rincon, California. Bill Larsen specimen; Jeffrey...Aquamarine (6.7 cm long), Mount Antero, Chaffee County, Colorado. Martin Zinn specimen; Jeffrey Scovil...Aquamarine (8.8 cm long), Black Panther mine, Riverside County, California. Bill Larsen specimen; Jeffrey...Aquamarine, 50.32-carat cushion, Keyesmine, Orange, New Hampshire. Harvard specimen; Tino Hammid photo; courtesy
Report (volume)
Bulletin 931-P MICA-BEARING PEGMATITES OF NEW HAMPSHIRE A PRELIMINARY REPORT BY J. C. OLSON Strategic................................................ Grafton district.........................................Geologic map of the Alstead area, Keene district , New Hampshire........................ 62. Map showing locations...of mica and feldspar mines of the Grafton district, New Hampshire .....................................district, New Hampshire.. Figure 38. Index map of New Hampshire showing locations of the Grafton and Keene
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
T H E RUGGLES FELDSPAR - M I C A MINE, — G R A F T O N , N E W HAMPSHIRE By G A R D I N E R E. GREGORY...commercial production of mica in New Hampshire started at the Ruggles Mine in 1803. In recent years it has...of minerals have been removed from the mine. In 1962 the mine was opened for pub­ lic inspection. Each...Each year thousands of people visit the mine to view the scenery from the top of Isinglass Mountain and...and to explore the giant tunnels of the mine. Very few of the visitors are bonaficd mineral collectors
Report (issue)
rocks of New Hampshire ....... 44 Table 9 Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of New Jersey ...Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of New York ........... 56 Table 11 Uranium occurrences...Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of New Hampshire.......................^..^.i....48 Figure 12...Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of New Jersey....................................55 Figure...occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of northeastern New York.........................64 Figure 14. Uranium
Show/Event (guide)
Bob Morgan, Ed Smith, Lee Tutt, Ken Wolff What’s New In Minerals' Joria Staebler Auction Solicitors Gene.......... 32 U.S. Mica Industry Pioneers: The Ruggles and Bowers Families by Fred E. Davis.............program designed to provide excellent speakers, new information, camaraderie, displays of extraordinary...familiar faces. Most of their topics will be quite new to our collective experience. This year’s Technical...Technical Session is again robust! We welcome numerous new attendees and hope you enjoy our meeting. We appreciate
Book (volume)
& MINERAL GUIDE Where & How to Dig, Pan and Mine Gems & Your Own | Minerals KATHY J. RYGLE & STEPHEN...vacation stops at a roadside “dig your own” gem mine. Junior finds a sapphire the size of a peach and...) Many an unsuspecting tourist has stopped at a mine to try his or her luck and become a rockhound for...Southeast States Alabama Arkansas Florida Kansas New Mexico Oklahoma Texas Utah VOLUME 4 Northeast...West Virginia Massachusetts Michigan New Hampshire New Jersey New York Ohio Pennsylvania Rhode Island
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Andros­ coggin River from Brunswick in Sagadahoc County. A mile-wide belt of granitic pegmatites runs from...a Mr. Carr of Grafton, West Virginia, and then sold to Golding Brothers of Trenton, New Jersey. How­ ...of Bath who was superintendent for the Trenton (New Jersey) Flint and Spar Company. In 1869 that firm...was described by Shainin (1948) as follows: The mine-run feldspar was first run through the jaw crusher...transferred to Bath by scow and then shipped to Trenton, New Jersey, potteries, but by the early 1880s shipment
Book (volume)
vacation stops at a roadside “dig your own” gem mine. Junior finds a sapphire the size of a peach and...) Many an unsuspecting tourist has stopped at a mine to try his or her luck and become a rockhound for...Arizona California Colorado Hawaii Kansas Nevada New Mexico Oklahoma ‘Texas Utah lowa Minnesota Montana...Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan New Hampshire New Jersey New York Ohio Pennsylvania Rhode Island...GUIDES TO THE U.S.A. Where & How to Dig, Pan, and Mine Your Own Gems & Minerals VOLUME 4: NORTHEAST STATES
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mineral Occurrences ITEMS ON NEW FINOS ARE DESIRED $ _ . PLEASE SEND THEM I N . ALABAMA—"For as many...Riddle's Mill Dist. (gold deposits) of Talladega County, Ala. It is 8l/ 2 x 11 and sells for Si, we believe...several recent trips to Clear Creek, San Benito County, Calif., have shown that the jadeite boulders in...Diablo Meridian, Calif., in southeastern San Benito County. The town of Hollister is 80 miles northwest of...the Yellow Jacket mine on Bear Creek in northern San Juan County, Colorado. The mine was in a rather remote
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
CONDUCTED BY PETER. ZODAC PEEKSKILL, [M. Y . Molybdenite sand from Walker, Arix. "In a separate box I...Some tiny lead-gray flakes of molybdenite also present — the first molybdenite we ever saw in sand. No gold...interesting. "Sand from Collier Springs, Montgomery County, Ark. (west of Hot Springs)". — on label. Beach..."Ilmenite sand. Station 3, DelawareChesapeake Canal, New Castle Co., Delaware." — on label. River sand from...River, Wabasha County, near West Albany, Minn." — on label. Quartz sand from Bingham, New Mexico Last
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
DAVID M. SEAMAN American Museum of Natural History, New York City Article 8, Silica and Silicates (part three)...length at the quarries near Bedford and Overlook, New York; near Golden, Colorado and elsewhere. A fine...found at Fort Washington Avenue and 171st Street in New York City and is now in the American Museum of Natural...tourmaline crystal was noted in the Luella mine near Avon, Latah county, Idaho, which measured 3x3x8 feet. Other...Dakota. A black crystal from Micaville, Randolph county, Alabama, was 10 inches in diameter and from 3
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Science in the elementary schools of Keene, New Hampshire is being supplemented this year by Mineral Collections...learning the identity and nature of minerals found in New England so they might better teach the subject of...Most of the specimens come from areas within the New England States and were donated from the private...from Arizona and fossils from New York State. The minerals of the New England region are representative...octahedrons, molybdenite, chalcopyrite, galena, graphite, autunite from the famous Ruggles Mine in Grafton, N.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ON ^--^ "^%C^ Minerai Occurrences ' ITEMS ON NEW FINDS ARE DESIRED & _ . PLEASE SEND THEM I N . Abbreviations:...255) of the "Big Beryl" Mine Imperial County in southern Calif. (old Hogg Mine), gem hunters from COLORADO—F...Denver 20, Colo., sent in the visited Georgia and the mine. All have following item: been well pleased with...some rutile plus fish from of an abandoned lead mine above the the 22 acre pond, wild duck and beaver...1st—Georgia had a record low the Mt. Zirkel area, Routt County, Colo- of 10 4-° degrees in this area and about
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
World News on Mineral Occurrences Items on new finds are desired. Please send them in. Abbreviations:...mostly in small amounts. A bed near Pyriton, Clay County, Ala., was worked for copper. One was mined near...of Cleburne County at what was called Wood's copper mine and also at Smith's copper mine about a mile...one little mine I obtained a few specimens of pyrite xls. The small xl enclosed is from a mine about 4 miles...following item, dated Aug. 28, 1954. "In the Brooklyn Mine, San Juan Co., Colo., I found a strikingly beautiful
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
THE W E E K S PEGMATITE MINE faults Wakefield, Carroll County New Hampshire S o m e u n u s u a l a...minerals in a location not noted for specimens. New Hampshire has many pegmatites in districts in the northern...Moun- Figure 1: Excavations in the dump, Weeks mine, June 1980. tain pegmatite at Center Strafford...line in the town of Wakefield, Car­ roll County, New Hampshire. The property is named after the 1942 owner...MAINE NEW HAMPSHIRE not miles 1153 to Wakefield Figure 2: Location map for the Weeks mine, Wakefield
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Woàlñ Menti 04t Minelal ÔccWiïenc&i Items on new finds are desired. Please send them in. Abbreviations:...At present am employed at Magma Copper Company's mine here in Superior. No doubt you are familiar with..."For the collector of lead minerals, the Red Cloud Mine in Yuma Co., Ariz., is of considerable interest...the scarce, vital metals it contained. "Today the mine is reached by a barely possable road from Martinez...Rubarite, Inc., a newly formed company which produces a new synthetic rubber product for use in rubberized asphalt
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
metals are, to many, equally as important. Did a new “metallic”age dawn a few decades ago that will be...specimen is from the Number 20 mine near Spruce Pine, Mitchell County, North Carolina. Author’s specimen...Figure 5. A 2-cm uraninite cube from the Cardiff mine, Wdberforce, Ontario, Canada;Canadian Museum of...found at the famous Palermo and Ruggles mines in Grafton County, New Hampshire; dendritic uraninite intergrowths... WestChester County, and from a locality at Richville Station, St. Lawrence County, New York. Uraninite
Book
are always looking for people to write books on new and related subjects. If you have an idea for a book...Laboratory; William "Skip" Simmons, - University of New Orleans; Reinhard Wegner, Universidade Federal da...mineralogist M. H. Klaprot h showed that it contained a new chemica l element. Klaproth produced "uranium" powder...uranium if higher prices justify reprocessing the mine tailings to recover some of the uranium that was...wastewater during environmental reclamation at a mine that has ceased production. The following statistical
Report (issue)
Pegmatite Investigations 1942-45 New England By EUGENE N. CAMERON and OTHERS GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL..._______ _ Geology of the pegmatite districts of New Hampshire_ Rock units ________________________________...pegmatites ___________________ _ Pegmatites of the Grafton and Keene districts __ _ Sources of pegmatites...quality __ AnalyHis of the wartime mica industry of New England ________________________________________...Androscoggin County ______________________ _ Berry feldspar quarry __________________ _ Cumberland County ___
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mineral Occurrences ITEMS ON NEW FINDS ARE DESIRED -#..., PLEASE SEND THEM I N . ALABAMA—Galena occurs...on the Post territory which covers most of Yuma County, Arizona, and a small area in California."—letter...of Diamonds is an abandoned diamond mine (the only diamond mine in the U. S.) that has been opened up...Liggett military reserjade deposits in (Monterey County) Cali- vation are some of the very few found on...Middlesex signed to conserve the stone for removal County, Conn., was sent in by Richard by legitimate collectors
Book (edition)
Where & How to Djg, Pan and Mine Your Own Gen1s & Minerals Where & I-low to 1-Iunt for Treasure From...vacation stops at a roadside "dig your own" gem mine. Junior finds a sapphire the size of a p ach and...) Many an unsuspecting tourist has stopped at a mine to try his or her luck and become a rockhound for...Arizona California Colorado Hawaii Kansas Nevada New Mexico Oklahoma Texas Utah Alaska Idaho Iowa Minnesota...Indiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan New Hampshire New Jersey Nev,, York Ohio Pennsylvania Rhode
Book (volume)
found. This newly revised fourth edition contains new rockhounding opportunities, updated contact infor-...vacation stops at a roadside “dig your own” gem mine. Junior finds a sapphire the size of a peach and...) Many an unsuspecting tourist has stopped at a mine to try his or her luck and become a rockhound for...Florida Georgia Kentucky Southwest States Nevada New Mexico Oklahoma ‘Texas Utah VOLUME 4 Northeast...Mississippi Maryland Massachusetts Michigan New Hampshire New Jersey New York Ohio Pennsylvania Rhode Island
Report (volume)
volcanic rocks, in Faul, Henry, ed., Nuclear geology: New York, John Wiley & Sons Inc., p. 89-98. On the basis...for the following observation. At the W. Wilson mine, "a few secondary minerals, mainly metatorbernite...radioactivity of four Paleozoic magma series in New Hampshire: Geol. Soc. America Bull., v. 57, p. 797-828...series are recognized in western and central New Hampshire. This paper describes the rocks of these series...increase in the amount of zircon. The rocks of the New Hampshire magma series of Late Devonian (?) age range
 
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