 | | 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 Ā©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, Ā©1985. The laws and policies of Maine and the United States prohibit discrimination in |  | | Journal (issue) | | Carson City, NV photography: Nelly Bariand Sorbonne Paris, France Werner Lieber Heidelberg, W. Germany Olaf...R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur... 353 by P. Orlandi and P. B. Scortecci M aine Maine tourmaline........................................Tourmaline crystal group 9 cm long, with albite and lepidolite, mined recently at the Himalaya mine, Pala, California...Elbaite from Newry, Maine (by P. J. Dunn) [1975, vol. 6, no. 1, p. 22-25.] Newry, Maine, a pegmatite phosphate |  | | Report (volume) | | PEGMATITES AND ASSOCIATED ROCKS OF MAINE INCLUDING FELDSPAR, QUARTZ, MICA, AND GEM DEPOSITS BY EDSON S...minor constituents............................. Mica................................................................................... Origin of the Maine pegmatites........................................Larsen............................. Application to Maine pegmatites............................... Eutectics.............................. 1.... Androscoggin County............................................... |  | | Book (volume) | | 0 n101ercai o of Maine j fĀ·~ ....__ :,,. . - .._"' ..;. .. ~ L-- -~ \. ā¢ .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 Ā©2000 by the Maine Geological Survey, Department of Conservation. All |  | | 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 Ā© 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Mining at HE BENNETT QUARRY BUCKFIELD, MAINE RONALD E . HOLDEN, J R . Sugar Hill Minerals P.O. Box 565...565 Norway, Maine 04268 I T W A S T H E S P R I N G of 1989, and the snow had begun to melt. A s outcrops...of my early experience was at the Mount Mica quarry in Paris, Maine, where I found my first tourmaline...an interest in the BenĀ nett quarry in Buckfield, Oxford County, Maine, an old feldspar mine famous for...lieved that similar ones still existed. The Bennett quarry was opened by Loren B . Merrill in 1917 (Blanche |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | IN THE GARNET LINE IN THE MT. MICA AND HAVEY PEGMATITES, WESTERN MAINE MYLES FELCHĀ§, ALEXANDER U. FALSTER...SIMMONS Maine Mineral and Gem Museum, PO Box 500, 99 Main Street, Bethel, Maine 04217 USA ABSTRACT...just beneath the core zone in many of the western Maine pegmatites. This study focuses on the mineralogical...of the garnet line within the Mt. Mica pegmatite, Oxford Co., Maine and a similar, but less pronounced...feature at the Havey pegmatite, Androscoggin Co., Maine. Within garnet lines of both pegmatites there is |  | | 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...locations includĀ ing: Berry quarry, Poland; Bennett quarry, Buckfield; Hebron; Paris; and Litchfield. . 1942 |  | Simmons, William B., Freeman, Gary, Falster, Alexander, Laurs, Brendan, Webber, Karen (2005) New tourmaline production: From Mount Mica, Maine America's First gem pegmatite. Rocks & Minerals, 80 (6) 396-408 doi:10.3200/rmin.80.6.396-408 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | El Paso] at 08:49 30 December 2014 from Mount Mica, Maine AmericaĆs First Gem Pegmatite WILLIAM B. āSKIPā...Coromoto Minerals, LLC 48 Lovejoy Road South Paris, Maine 04281 ALEXANDER FALSTER Department of Geology...Louisiana. Gary Freeman, of South Paris, Maine, is the owner of Mount Mica and Coromoto Minerals, LLC. Alexander...MINERALS Figure 1. Elbaite, 3.1 cm high, Mount Mica, Oxford County, Maine. Jeff Scovil photo. Figure 2. Elbaite...Elbaite, 6.5 cm high, Mount Mica; Jeff Scovil photo. Downloaded by [The University of Texas at El Paso] |  | 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) | | in 1996. THE EMMONS PEGMATITE Greenwood Oxford County, Maine The Emmons pegmatite, noted for its many...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...in 2014 from New Orleans, Louisiana, to Bethel, Maine, greatly facilitated resumption of our study of |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Some Notable MAINE GEMSTONES J A N E C. P E R H A M Route 1, Box 1890 West Paris, Maine 04289 Mining...southwestern Maine. The pegmatite deposits in Oxford County and northern Androscoggin County have yielded...Whispering-Pines in South Paris, the Slattery quarry in Paris, and the Hibbs quarry in Hebron. Fine tourmaline...Dunton quarry in Newry, the B . B . #7 quarry in North Norway, Mount Mica at Paris Hill, and Mount Rubellite...These are all Oxford County locales. Producers of gem tourmaline in nearby Androscoggin County are the Pulsifer |  | Marchal, Karen L., Simmons, William B., Falster, Alexander U., Webber, Karen L., Roda-Robles, EncarnaciĆ³n (2014) GEOCHEMISTRY, MINERALOGY, AND EVOLUTION OF Li-Al MICAS AND FELDSPARS FROM THE MOUNT MICA PEGMATITE, MAINE, USA. The Canadian Mineralogist, 52 (2) 221-233 doi:10.3749/canmin.52.2.221 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Li-Al MICAS AND FELDSPARS FROM THE MOUNT MICA PEGMATITE, MAINE, USA Karen L. MARCHALĀ§, William B. SIMMONS...P.O. Box 644, Eā48080 Bilbao, Spain Abstract Mount Mica is a poorly zoned, sodic LCT-type pegmatite consisting...Potassium feldspar and rare-element minerals such as lepidolite, elbaite, Cs-rich beryl, fluorapatite, and pollucite...higher Cs + Rb bearing Li-rich muscovite and lepidolite in the core zone. An abrupt change in grain size...the core zone. Pods of fine- to coarsegrained lepidolite occur sporadically throughout the core zone. |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | PARAGENESIS OF THE GRANITE PEGMATITES OF CENTRAL MAINE Knr.txprn K. Laxons.* Haraard Uni.aersif'y SUMMARY...the paragenesis of certain pegmatites in central Maine has caused the writer to advance the following ideas...q'oartz (usually in crystals), cleavelandite, lepidolite, lithia tourmaline, columbite, cassiterite, spodumene... At Buckfield, and to a very minor degree at Mount Mica and Auburn, an intermediate phase followed during...and francolite were formed. B. The pockets of the Maine pegrnatites are largely secondary, produced by dissolving |  | Simmons, William, Falster, Alexander, Webber, Karen, Roda-Robles, EncarnaciĆ³n, 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) | | 3749/canmin.1600017 BULK COMPOSITION OF MT. MICA PEGMATITE, MAINE, USA: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE ORIGIN OF AN LCT...FALSTER, AND KAREN WEBBER Maine Mineral and Gem Museum, 99 Main St, Bethel, Maine 04217, U.S.A. ENCARNACIOĢN...LLC, 48 Lovejoy Road, South Paris, Maine 04281, U.S.A. ABSTRACT The Mt. Mica pegmatite is famous for producing...distribution and aerial extent of pockets, massive lepidolite (compositions near trilithionite) pods, microcline...calculate the total volumes of pegmatite mined, lepidolite pods, and all pockets found. Forty-five drill |  | Brownfield, Michael E., Foord, Eugene E., Sutley, Stephen J., Botinelly, Theodore (1993) Kosnarite, KZr2(PO4)3 a new mineral from Mount Mica and Black Mountain, Oxford County, Maine. American Mineralogist, 78 (5-6) 653-656 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | l(Zrr(PO)r, a new mineral from Mount Mica and Black Mountain, Oxford County, Maine Mrcnlnr- E. BnowNprnr,o M...the Mount Mica pegmatite at Paris, and from the Black Mountain pegmatite, Rumford, Oxford County, Maine...Maine. Kosnarite from Mount Mica occurs as pseudocubicrhombohedral crystals, as much as 0.9 mm in maximum...strongestdiffraction lines [d(A), hkl, I/ I"l from the Mount Mica occurrence are 6.41,012,50;4.679,104,50; 4.329...werecollectedat the Mount Mica granite pegmatite in 1989 by Gene T. Bearssof Sanford, Maine. At about the same |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | OXFORD COUNTY, MAINE: THE PLACE TO GO By F R A N K W A R D 2 Mildred A v e n u e , Rye, N . Y . 1 0 5...bring to light numerous specimens labeled Oxford County, Maine. M y own collection boasts quite a few that...collected from the numerous mines and quarries of Oxford County over the past five summers. A scattering of...come to Oxford County. T h e pegmatites that comprise the minĀ eralized zone of Oxford County are in many...however, some minerals that are unique to O x f o r d County alone and these aren't as rare as the collector |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | who collected it from a river near the base of Mount McKinley, an area since encompassed by Denali National...Manasquan, New Jersey, visited Calamity Wash, Yavapai County, and collected several exciting and Figure 7: Arizona...specimens. Maine New Mining Activity Ever since the feldspar mill burned in West Paris in the early...early 196Os, Maine pegmatite mining has been conducted only for the recovery of gems or collector specimens...Sweden; the resumption of activity at Mount Mica quarry, Paris; and the find of what might be the world's |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | from Plumbago Mountain, Newry Township, Oxford County, Maine. Kevin Brown specimen, Joe Budd photo. ...Rose quartz, 2.3 Ć 2.0 Ć 1.5 cm, from Mount Mica, Oxford County, Maine. It is difficult to find distinct...high-quality rose quartz crystals, namely Oxford County, Maine; Minas Gerais, Brazil; and Nuristan Province...localities. The very first discoveries were made in Maine, but some of the details have been overshadowed...found on Mount Mica, a 305-meter-high knob about 2.4 kilometers east of the town of Paris in Oxford County |  | | Report (issue) | | = 17.28(2) Z=2 X-ray Powder Pattern: Mt. Mica, Maine, USA; close to gainesite. 3.060 (100), 6.159 (90)...< 0.1 15.3 0.5 3.0 0.2 Total 99.9 (1) Mt. Mica, Maine, USA; by electron and ion microprobe, average of... muscovite, siderite, fluorapatite, elbaite, lepidolite, beryl, montebrasite, rhodochrosite, cassiterite...manganocolumbite. Distribution: From Mt. Mica, near Paris, Oxford Co., Maine, USA. Name: Honors the McCrillis family...his son, Phillip, pegmatite miners from Oxford Co., Maine, USA. Type Material: National Museum of Natural |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Renewed Mining at the Western Quarries of Mount Apatite, Maine Downloaded by [University of Arizona] at... D.C. 20560 Figure 1. The western quarries of Mount Apatite. A fter decades of inactivity, mining...resumed on the western slopes of Mount Apatite in the town of Auburn, Maine (see fig. 1). This is the location...location of the world-famous Pulsifer quarry, which has produced fine gem tourmaline but is best known...addition to the resumption of mining in the Pulsifer quarry, two new cuts have been made into the pegmatite |  | | Book | | PLATE XV. THE HISTORY OF MOUNT MICA OF U. MAINE, S. A. AND Its Wonderful of Deposits...Among Advancement of of Russia, Northern etc. MAINE Augustus 1895 Choate the Hamlin Gems of Science... the States to the mineral To a Mica Elijah of Mount have, and some the United and proper...proper by time, its Livermore Mica, Frederick in whose of the past twenty by his early...terminated S. A., dedicated Memoriam. Augustus Maine, Hamlin, ā in Bangor, known deserving who |  | | Journal (issue) | | Robert B. Cook Auburn University, Al Carl A. Francis Maine Mineral & Gem Museum, ME John Rakovan New Mexico...I. Jacobson, Denver, CO Anthony R. Kampf, l.A. County Museum of Natural History, CA Virgil W. Lueth,...across a local area net\,vork. Subscription offices: USA/North America: Taylor & Francis Group, LLC, 530 Walnut...Copyright Clearance Center (www.copyright.com) in the USA or the Copyright Licensing Agency (www. cla.co.uk)...Southwood Melbourne, Australia Woodrow B. Thompson, Maine Geological Survey, Augusta, ME John S. White, Stewartstown |  | | Journal (issue) | | Ives won the lepidolite sample mined by Loren Merrill a century ago at Mt. Mica in Paris, Maine. This specimen...White Mountainsā has just rolled off the press. Maine co-authors are Dyk Eusden, Woody Thompson, and John...years, having originally been proposed at a 1993 Mount Washington Observatory symposium on the glacial...mines operated until the 1940s and yielded feldspar, mica and beryl. Most are now abandoned, although one...the lepidolite sample as mined by Loren Merrill sometime around 1890 to 1913 at Mt. Mica in Paris, Maine |  | | Book (edition) | | HANDBOOK for A WEEK WITH MAINE MINERALS by NEIL A. WINTRINGHAM 1_ļæ½ Cv1,_1'--Aļæ½ __, SECOND EDITION...a week collecting in the pegme.tite area ot Oxford county, !!Bine, Neil Wintr:lnghal'!l, a pa.st-president...field trial of the hambook during our ''Week with Maine Minerals" furnished additional information end resulted...minerals to the section on mineral descriptions. Mount Rubellite, long inactive, bas been replaced in the...characterized the evenings spent with members of the Oxford County Mineral & Gem Association. N. A. W. Mountainside |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Case Study of Pegmatites from the Oxford Pegmatite Field (Maine, USA) Lorena HernĆ”ndez-Filiberto 1, *...Case Study of Pegmatites from the Oxford Pegmatite Field (Maine, USA). Minerals 2021, 11, 802. https://...roda@ehu.es Maine Mineral & Gem Museum, P.O. Box 500, 99 Main Street, Bethel, ME 04217, USA; wsimmons@uno...Abstract: Almandine-spessartine garnets, from the Oxford County pegmatites and the Palermo No. 1 pegmatite,...Garnets from the most fractionated pegmatites (Mt. Mica, Berry-Havey, and Emmons) show the highest Mn, Nb |
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Mount Mica Quarry, Paris, Oxford County, Maine, USA