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Microlite Group from
Mount Mica Quarry, Paris, Oxford County, Maine, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:'Microlite Group' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:A2-mTa2X6-wZ-n
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Pollucite1 photo of Microlite Group associated with Pollucite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Microlite Group data
Locality Data:Click here to view Mount Mica Quarry, Paris, Oxford County, Maine, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:28215
Long-form Identifier:1:3:28215:4
GUID (UUID V4):c3494d6e-6b64-4dde-ac5b-0c79788b3e63
Nearest other occurrences of Microlite Group
4.5km (2.8 miles) Bennett Quarry, Buckfield, Oxford County, Maine, USA
6.6km (4.1 miles) Mount Marie Quarries, Paris, Oxford County, Maine, USA
13.7km (8.5 miles) Noyes Mountain Quarry (Harvard Quarry), Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine, USA
24.2km (15.0 miles) Pulsifer Quarry & Dionne extension, West Mount Apatite Mining District, Auburn, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
24.8km (15.4 miles) Greenlaw Quarry, East Mount Apatite Mining District, Auburn, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
24.9km (15.4 miles) Maine Feldspar Quarry, East Mount Apatite Mining District, Auburn, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
26.0km (16.2 miles) Berry-Havey Quarry (Havey Quarry; Berry Quarry), Poland, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
36.3km (22.6 miles) Dunton Gem Quarry, Newry, Oxford County, Maine, USA
36.5km (22.7 miles) Nevel Quarry (Twin tunnels; United Feldspar Quarry), Newry, Oxford County, Maine, USA
37.7km (23.4 miles) Black Mountain Quarry, Rumford, Oxford County, Maine, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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
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 (issue)
Michela Associate Editors Pierre Bariand Sorbonne Paris, France Bill Birch Museum of Victoria Melbourne...Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Associate Photographers Nelly Bariand Sorbonne Paris, France Dan Behnke Northbrook, IL Werner Lieber... P. Cooper Tuperssuatsiaite from the Bortolan quarry, Poços de Caldas, Minas Gerais, Brazil . . . ....probably the finest specimen known of any microlite-group species; 1.7-cm crystal in lepidolite, from
Report (issue)
mineral are represented, they are listed under the group name. The chemical composition and location or source...413. ACMITE - - Se e Pyroxene Group ACTINOLITE -- Se e Amphibole Group ADAMI TE Zn2(As 04 ) (OH) Loe...1956, p. 223. ALBITE - - See Plagioclase Feldspar Group ALGODONITE Cu3 As Loe.: Ref.: Ahmeek Mine, Michigan...(1) Pieds des Monts, Quebec, Canada. (2) Amherst County, Virginia, U.S. A. Ref.: Kauffman, A.J. Jr., and...1 3 3 3b 2b 2b 1 1 3 ALMANDITE - - See Garnet Group ALTAI TE Pb Te Loe.: Ref.: Long Lake, Yale, British
Book
MineralogicalRecord.com I IIMORIITE-(Y) EUROPE FRANCE Trimouns quarry, Luzenac, Ariege. Operated for talc since the beginning...beginning of the 20th century, the Trimouns quarry became well known to collectors around 1990 for the...long (Marty, 2004 ). AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins...region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites between the towns...Amity (Chamberlain and Robinson, 2013). MALAWI Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district
Thesis/Dissertation
5 Tourmaline from the Little Three pegmatites, USA (Maner & London, 2017). 6 Seawater (Foster et al...Beurlen et al., 2011) and the Oxford County pegmatite field in Maine, USA (e.g., Simmons et al., 2005a)...sodic plagioclase, and Kfeldspar. In certain cases, mica can also be a major mineral. Some elements can become...(Chappell & White, 2001), derived by melting of mica-rich metapelite protoliths (Černý et al., 2012)...mainly rhombohedral, isostructural in the space group R3m. Although, some studies report tourmalines,
Book
Emeralds and Beryls as 157 Beryl Structure, Space Group and Symmetry Elements, Talismans, 95 159 Emeralds...G. Denver, CO; Prof. B. Carroll Embrey, Dr. Paris, Museum (Natural Chatham, British France; San...green of other recorded gem recognized the mica as a even a ore is distinct to mineral...first was to decorative which scarcely fail mica in women of use. If reason- attention, beryl...from paler varieties of beryl that accompany the mica well. home of mankind is India, deposits or
Book
are defined by chemical composition, structural group, and crystal system, with one or two references...fayalite (Fe 2 Si0 4 ) (see Olivine Group), group names, such as mica for all the minerals with the muscovite...pyrite) and also to a group of minerals having the same structure pyrite group). kind of mineralogic...sense that does not refer to a mineral species or group proper, no special designating valid mineral species...2 4 ), a mineral species assigned to the spinel group because of its spinel structure; quartz syenite
Book
minerals 294 Tantalum and niobium oxides 296 Microlite 298 Rare oxides 301 The carbonate class 302 Calcite...The magical all ure of the cuclase 407 The exotic group of the garnets 408 Garnets of the pyralspite series...diversified mica group 602 The clay mineral groufa 604 The tectosilicate subc ass 605 The feldspar group 608...Helvite 611 Scapolite 612 The surprising zeolite group 619 The large quartz family 624 Rock crystal 630... garnet, ap:1tite and other phosphates, quartz, mica, feldspar, chrysoberyl, euclase, phenakite, scapolite
 
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