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Cordierite from
Black Hawk Mine, Blue Hill, Blue Hill - Castine Mining District, Hancock County, Maine, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Cordierite
Formula:(Mg,Fe)2Al3(AlSi5O18)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Cordierite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Black Hawk Mine, Blue Hill, Blue Hill - Castine Mining District, Hancock County, Maine, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:219362
Long-form Identifier:1:3:219362:5
GUID (UUID V4):1789d8ef-85c1-40cf-83f9-a02e43b94fed
Nearest other occurrences of Cordierite
5.5km (3.4 miles) Douglass Copper Mine, Blue Hill, Blue Hill - Castine Mining District, Hancock County, Maine, USA
6.4km (4.0 miles) Blue Hill mine, Blue Hill, Blue Hill - Castine Mining District, Hancock County, Maine, USA
28.1km (17.5 miles) Mount Desert Township, Hancock County, Maine, USA
References
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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...photograph: Fluorapatite, Pulsifer quarry, Auburn, Maine (2.2 cm specimen), Harvard Mineralogical Museum...Wendell E. Wilson, ©1985. The laws and policies of Maine and the United States prohibit discrimination in
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...Bennett Quarry, Buckfield, Maine. Mined in 1996 by Holden !Jrothers Mining and currently in the Jim Mann...Photo by John B. Poisson. The laws and policies of Maine and the United States prohibit discrimination in
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0 n101ercai o of Maine j f·~ ....__ :,,. . - .._"' ..;. .. ~ L-- -~ \. • .J_..::.; I Volume...Volume 2: Mining History, Gems, and Geology edited by Vandall T. King Maine Geological Survey DEPARTMENT...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
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Cambridge, MA 02139, USA z US Geological Survey, National Center, MS 954, Reston, VA 22092, USA Abstract. Boron...Creek and Sullivan (Canada), Broken Hill (Australia), and Ducktown (USA). Overall, the tourmalines display...particular, two analyses of a sample from the Ore Knob mine, North Carolina (no. 11119/29), yield 6liB values...Creek, Ontario; Ducktown, Tennessee; a n d Broken Hill, New South Wales), as well as tourmalinites from...Elizabeth mine, Vermont Devonian(?) Amphibolite 1, 2 Cu, Zn, Ag Cu, Zn Elizabeth mine, Vermont Pike
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Collector's Newsletter $2.00 Pseudomorphs from Brazos County, Texas Art Smith 9118 Concho Houston, Texas 77036...Creek in the BryanCol!~ge Stallon area of Brazos County, Texas. Thin, elongate cav111esparallel to the...setting fire to he shaft and filling the entire mine with smoke. They also incurred the wrath of the...from petrified wood, Turkey Creek, Bryan, Brazos County, Texas, photograph by Art Smith. Mexico While...West Camp, the mining company operating the East Camp (San Antonio Mine) managed to mine into a water-filled
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microprobe, etc.) Because New Mexico is a mining state, mining districts are given whenever possible in...2015 Bernalillo County Cerro Colorado, W. of Albuquerque: carnotite. Placitas district (Sandia Mountains)...schorl. Tijeras Canyon district (Manzano Mountains), E. of Albuquerque. Galena King mine: barite, fluorite...subdistrict (Seiiora de 10s Milagros mine): copper, cuprite, malachite. Catron County Apache Creek, N. of Reserve:...Reserve: quartz (chalcedony). Mogollon district, NE of Glenwood: acanthite, bornite, chalcocite, fluorite
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Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift...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
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Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift...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 (issue)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chapter I. Mining Districts of Counties and the State of Utah. .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 County Listings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chapter II. Mining Districts of Utah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . 4 Mineral Localities Listed by County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Beaver County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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it helpful to refer to Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant, it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals of wide distribution...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products but because they furnish...Louisiana........Prof. Gilbert D. Harris, Baton Rouge. Maine............Mr. C. Vey Holman, Bangor. Maryland....North Carolina.. .Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, Chapel Hill. North Dakota... .Dr. A. G. Leonard, Grand Forks
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location and means of access to all the metallic mining districts in the State, as well as a large number...documented summary of the beginning of Colorado mining history. Part of his summary is given here in the...in place in 1859 in the Gregory diggings near Black Hawk the miners, as well as the assayers and others...had been recently found in the Tenmile district, Summit County. In his booklet, which today would be classed...mineral deposits and notes a few minerals, such as "black sulphurets of silver," "ruby silver," "sulphates
Report (issue)
MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY Mineral Deposits of Western Grant County, New Mexico by Elliot...Elliot Gillerman NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY KENNETH W. FoRD, President NEW MEXICO BUREAU...PATRICIA E. CANDELARIA, Secretary JAMES M. ROBERTSON, Mining Geologist RoNALD J. RoMAN, Chief Research Metallurgist... . . 7 Climate and vegetation 8 HISTORY OF MINING 9 Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Tyrone district . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Report (issue)
Geology of Precambrian Rocks Central City District Colorado GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 474-C...Commission Geology of Precambrian Rocks Central City District Colorado By P. K. SIMS and D. J. GABLE SHORTER...1918Geology of Precambrian rocks, Central City district, Colorado, by P. K. Sims and D. J. Gable. Washington...1918Geology of Precambrian rocks, Central City district, Colorado. 1964. (Card2) 1. Geology, Stratigraphic...________________ Amphibolite__ _ -__---__-______________. Cordierite-amphibole gneiss_______________ Calc-silicate
Journal (issue)
Mine~ Vol 17 No. 6 June 2001 Marcasite Inclusions in Calcite from St. Johnsville, New York Paul M. Adams...outcrops from Poland in eastern Onieda County to Fonda in Montgomery County, and laterally equivalent formations...Rock Products quarry in St. Johnsville, Montgomery County the quartz crystals tend to be less clear than...class chalcocite specimens from the Telfer Gold Mine. Carnarvon, Western Australia, Australia available...information tha t the specimens were stolen from the mine and efforts are being made to recover them. Details
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to civilization. . . it is clear that 1825 mining opened the West- . —Charles W. Henderson, 1933...Highlights in the history of New Mexico mineralogy and mining 3 5 Prehistoric utilization of minerals New...SUBDISTRICTS, CAMPS, ETC. 569 BIBLIOGRAPHY 597 MAP: Mining Districts of New Mexico in pocket II. PREFACE...highlights in the his- New Mexico mineralogy and mining— including a section on the prehistoric utilization...edition, 1892. A. H. Fay (1920) A glossary of the mining and mineral industry. R. E. Grim (1953) Clay
Report (volume)
....................................... 102 District of Columbia .................................................................................. Maine...................................................to refer to Geological Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals that are widely...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products, but because they furnish
Book (volume)
Plains state varies from nearly level farmland to hill ridges, increasing steadily in elev. From 1,000’...the land rises abruptly into the 6,000 sq. mi. Black Hills region enclosed by the Belle Fourche and Cheyenne...series of pegmatite dikes ranking with those in Maine and Southern California for their production of...instance, a single Spodumene crystal from the Etta Mine near Keystone on the east side of the Mount Rushmore...tons. Also huge crystals of sparkling blue Beryl from the Black Hills pegmatites have measured from 18’
Book
On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298...Iron-manganese phosphates of the Williams pegmatites, Coosa County, Alabama (by P. B. Leavens & T. A. Simpson) 6:66-73...localities: Baveno, Italy 14:157168 ALBITE Davis Hill near Bancroft, Ontario: an occurrence of large nepheline
Journal (issue)
Vochten & G. Brizzi The Alice Glory Hole, Clear Creek County, Colorado ................................185 by...de Grys, M. Kohler & L. Minnaar Garnet Hill, White Pine County, Nevada .................................Harris Monazite and caldoancylite from the Foote mine, North Carolina by J. S. White & J. E. Nelen 203...(1 inch) on antlerite crystals from the Southwest mine, Bisbee, Arizona. For more information on this recent...in green zoisite from Tanzania; petrified wood; “blue john” fluorite from England; and perhaps even a
Report (issue)
Economic Geology of the ·central City District .Gilpin County, Colorado By PAUL K. SIMS, A. A. DRAKE... Economic geology of the Central City district, Gilpin County, Colorado, by Paul K. Sims, A.A. Drake...1918Economic geology of the Central City district, Gilpin County, Colorado. 1963. (Card 2) 1. Geology,...Economic-Colorado-Central City district. 2. Ore-deposits-Colorado-Central City district. 3. Mines and mineral...mineral re. sources-Colorado-Central City district. I. Drake, Avery Ala, 1927joint author. II. Tooker, Edwin
Book (edition)
MARIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY 3 1111 00289 4184 \ I s Fifth Revised Edition A complete, state-by-state...4. How 5. Characteristics of important 6. Black light for your minerals 7. Judging quality and...the Smokies, the Sierra Nevada, the Rockies and Black Hills, the Cascades and the Grand Canyon, the Oregon...on the gem resources of our land. "Do you, Mr. Maine," he continued, "know that some of the finest tourmalines...from Alaska to the Mexican border and eastward to Maine and Florida. Still others are found in Canada and
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with its representation of mining tools clearly proclaim Montana’s mining origins. Montana’s production...published describing the occurrence, collecting, mining, and cutting of the two state gemstones. Figure...2. Granville Stuart established Montana’s first mining camp at Gold Creek in 1860. Geologic Provinces...view showing the Indian Queen mine ca. 1905 at Farlin, Beaverhead County. 208 ROCKS & MINERALS Downloaded...mines at Butte in Silver Bow County and the Black Pine mine in Granite County have produced many fine crystal
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stumble over a valuable nugget and stake your own mining claim? Indeed it to is, and author book Jay...prospecting, he points out, is in abandoned mining districts, where valuable mineral ores are present...commercial ores and secondary minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification...RANSOM 1875-1948 An to the Eastern '‘Schoolmarm” Mining Camps of the Old West I I a s I \ h K... CONTENTS Preface ix PART I 1 Introduction to Mining and Mineralogy 2 Preparation for Mineral Collecting
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presentations and special reports|GIT Lab Updates|USA lifts ban on Burmese ruby and jadeite|Margaritologia...Antigorite serpentine from northwestern Pakistan|‘Black’ axinite| Beryl from Tanzania with phenakite in...inclusions|Clinohumite from Vietnam|Lace opal from Utah, USA|Pollucite from Pakistan with polylithionite inclusions|Large...Taijin Lu, Jun Zhang and Jun Zhou 330 Violet-to-Blue ‘Nuummite’ from Simiuttat, Greenland: Origin of...Edward Boehm, RareSource, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA; Maggie Campbell Pedersen, Organic Gems, London;
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fluorite (121.39 ct), Westmoreland, New Hampshire; blue fluorite (132.12 ct), Illinois; square cut particolor...amethsyt (78.70 ct), Hallelujah Junction, Nevada; blue, cushion cut topaz (25.30 ct), Ramona, California;...cut purplish pink elbaite tourmaline (30.89 ct), Maine; round brilliant red-orange spessartine garnet (16...(25.56 ct), Sweet Home Mine, Colorado; colorless scheelite (19.66 ct), Kern County, California; octagonal...California. NECKLACE. Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from San Benito County, California, consisting of
 
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