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Pollucite from
Dunton Gem Quarry, Newry, Oxford County, Maine, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Pollucite
Formula:(Cs,Na)2(Al2Si4O12) · 2H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Lepidoliteโ“˜1 photo of Pollucite associated with Lepidolite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pollucite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Dunton Gem Quarry, Newry, Oxford County, Maine, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (6 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:28305
Long-form Identifier:1:3:28305:6
GUID (UUID V4):57b2d619-800c-4638-8dc2-ec29f596e018
Nearest other occurrences of Pollucite
0.2km (0.1 miles) โ“˜Crooker Gem Pegmatite Quarries, Newry, Oxford County, Maine, USA
1.6km (1.0 miles) โ“˜Plumbago North pegmatite, Newry, Oxford County, Maine, USA
7.7km (4.8 miles) โ“˜Black Mountain Quarry, Rumford, Oxford County, Maine, USA
24.5km (15.2 miles) โ“˜Emmons Quarry, Uncle Tom Mountain, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine, USA
28.8km (17.9 miles) โ“˜Noyes Mountain Quarry (Harvard Quarry), Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine, USA
29.6km (18.4 miles) โ“˜Tamminen Quarry, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine, USA
31.3km (19.5 miles) โ“˜B.B. No. 7 Quarry, Norway, Oxford County, Maine, USA
31.4km (19.5 miles) โ“˜Cobble Hill Quarry (George Howe prospect), West Paris, Oxford County, Maine, USA
34.2km (21.2 miles) โ“˜Ryerson Hill Quarries, Paris, Oxford County, Maine, USA
36.3km (22.6 miles) โ“˜Mount Mica Quarry, Paris, Oxford County, Maine, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (issue)
Profession...................184 by Paul Brian Moore Newry Maine - A Pegmatite Phosphate Locality... 189 by Vandall...by an energetic and articulate group, The Tucson Gem & Mineral Society, Inc. Tucยญ son is an attractive...motel rooms usually provide this. For example, the Maine elbaite tourmalines which were thorยญ oughly discussed...for the crystal specimen quality of the San Diego County materials - both old and new. As usual, the exhibits...recent is the McDole Trophyโ€”โ€œBest Minerals at Tucson Gem & Mineral Showโ€”1974โ€. I am travelling around the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
PEGMATITE MINERALS OF MAINE B y D A V I D M. SEAMAN 36 Winter St., Norway, Maine 04268 (Continued from... It is found frequently in the gem pockets in the pegmatites of Maine, formed by the weathering or hydrothermal...Berry Quarry in Poland; also as one of the rare secondary phosphates found at the Dunยญ ton Gem Mine at...at Newry. LA UEITE, another hydrous, mangaยญ nese, and iron phosphate, has been found as a rare mineral...Bennett Quarry at Buckfield, the Dunยญ ton Gem Mine at Newry, and at Black Mt. at Rumford in Maine. Its crystals
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
PEGMATITE MINERALS OF MAINE By D A V I D M. S E A M A N 36 Winter St., Norway, Maine 0 4 2 6 8 INTRODUCTION...of minerals have been found in the pegmatites of Maine since the discovery of Mt. Mica near Paris H i l...for gem tourmalines and some new pockets have been found there which have produced not only gem tourmalines...collector many excellent specimens of minerals: gem and colorful tourmalines in various colors including...triphylite masses or as veins and masses within them. Pollucite has been found in close association with 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 ยฉ1994 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, ยฉ1985. The laws and policies of Maine and the United States prohibit discrimination in
Journal (issue)
Gardena Blvd., Gardena Coltf. 90247 The Leading GEM and MINERAL HOBBY Magazine P.O. Box 687, Mentone...ยทยทยท-ยทยทยทยทยทยท-ยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยท-ยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยท 14 OUR COVER, A Gem Of A Horse ยทยทยทยทยทยทยท-ยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยท-ยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยท...ยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยท 30 Al>c,ut Gem Cutter's Handbook ยทยทยท-ยทยท-ยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยท...ยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยท-ยทยทยทยทยท-ยทยทยทยทยทยทยท 30 Gem Cutter's Handbook - The Core ond Feeding of Grinding Wheels...NORTHWEST FEDERATION The fomous Pegmatites of Newry, Moine by Gordiner Gregory ยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยท-ยทยทยท
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
CRYSTALS FROM THE PLUMBAGO NORTH PEGMATITE, OXFORD COUNTY, MAINE WILLIAM B. SIMMONSยง AND ALEXANDER U. FALSTER...FALSTER 2 MP Research Group, Maine Mineral and Gem Museum, Bethel, Maine, USA JAMES W. NIZAMOFF 64 Mineral...Hebron, Maine, USA GARY FREEMAN Freeman Resources, LLC, 48 Lovejoy Road, South Paris, Maine, USA Keywords:...crystals, spodumene, montebrasite, Plumbago North, Maine. INTRODUCTION A new spodumene-bearing pegmatite...on the north side of Plumbago Mountain, Oxford County, Maine. The pegmatite is spodumenerich and is potentially
Journal (issue)
R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur...Five Tourrmline-1 the first special issue in the Gem Minerals Series Introduction Notes from the Editor... 353 by P. Orlandi and P. B. Scortecci M aine Maine tourmaline.........................................................365 by C. A. Francis Pakistan Gem pegmatites of the Shingus-Dusso area, Gilgit, Pakistan...issue (double-size!) in our projected series on the gem minerals. In this issue the focus is on tourmaline
Book (volume)
0 n101ercai o of Maine j fยท~ ....__ :,,. . - .._"' ..;. .. ~ L-- -~ \. โ€ข .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 ยฉ2000 by the Maine Geological Survey, Department of Conservation. All
Journal (volume)
Paul F. Bechberger Their invisible world 20 Dunton Gem Mine and Its Tourmalines by Benjamin M. Shaub...that they organize indeยญ pendent metal, mineral and gem industries to attain a position that would enable...command to help I t.a-::z. ๏ฟฝ ๏ฟฝ COME TO THE GEM AND MINER.AL FAIR_! Invitation to the Mineral Kingdom...Benjamin M. Shaub, M.E.. M. Sc., Ph.D. ("The Dunton Gem Mine and its Tourmalines") hos hod on amazing...special ultraviolet installation. 9 Dunton Gem Mine and Its Remarkable Tourmalines Article and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Those of us who have worked the dumps of Maine's Newry Quarries and Plumbago mountain for many years and...area and gate that serves as the entrance to the Newry collecting area. It was either he or Miss Florence...Abbott told me of the early years at the Dunton gem quarry. His first recollection of any activity at...working where in later years some very valuable gem tourmalines were found. He also told of being present...asking as the operators were only interested in pollucite. Once, he told me that Mr. Nevel hired a neighbor's
Journal (issue)
Elbaite ........... p. 2 Program: Tourmalines of Maine ........ p. 14 Presidentโ€™s collected thoughts ....hues of green from Maineโ€”Poland, Androscoggin County (left) and Greenwood, Oxford County (top). Photos: Bob...conditions required to create elbaite (or other gem or top-quality minerals) in pegmatite pockets makes...economic viability of production from deposits of gem and specimen-bearing pegmatites is usually intermittent...fractured crystals. These may be usable as lesser valued gem material. This is one mineral with U.S. localities
Journal (issue)
........................ 7 by Arthur Montgomery Gem Tourmaline Rediscovered at N e w ry .....................14 by Dean A. McCrillis Elbaite From Newry, M a in e ............................................makes quarry managers nervous. Colยญ lectors abuse privileges, insurance companies worry, quarry managers...frequent? How much longer before there are no more quarry doors to be closed? What can we do NOW to reverse...recent is the McDole Trophyโ€” โ€œBest Minerals at Tucson Gem & Mineral Showโ€”1974โ€. I am travelling around the
Report (volume)
PEGMATITES AND ASSOCIATED ROCKS OF MAINE INCLUDING FELDSPAR, QUARTZ, MICA, AND GEM DEPOSITS BY EDSON S. BASTIN........... Gem-bearing pegmatites....................................... Origin of the Maine pegmatites...Larsen............................. Application to Maine pegmatites............................... Eutectics.............................. 1.... Androscoggin County.................................................................................... Maine Feldspar Company quarry and mill................... Turner feldspar
Catalog/List
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Book (volume)
cut purplish pink elbaite tourmaline (30.89 ct), Maine; round brilliant red-orange spessartine garnet (16...Colorado; colorless scheelite (19.66 ct), Kern County, California; octagonal step cut violetish pink...Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from San Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75... His works are known to almost every collector, gem cutter, gemologist, and mineralogist. His writings...newer events to bring the history of North American gem mining up to date. Here, then, is the latest, most
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cut purplish pink elbaite tourmaline (30.89 et), Maine; round brilliant red-orange spessartine garnet (...Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from Sai, Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75... His works are known to almost every collector, gem cutter, gemologist, and mineralogist. His writings...newer events to bring the history of North American gem 1nining up to date. Here, then, is the latest, most...of turquoise and peridot, although for the latter gem, much larger facetable rough crystals appear with
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calcite, and fluorite. Jewelers, lapidaries, and gem collectors will find the information on gemstone...fluorescing minerals. The fieldโ€”mine, mine dump, or quarryโ€”can be richly rewarding in its production of...benefit by a review of the fluorescence of natural gem materials, brought together in one place as it is...lampโ€”the fluorescent blue of benitoite from San Benito County, California; the lemon yellow of esperite from... or the intense green of autunite from Spokane County, Washington. The color and beauty of minerals under
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calcite, and fluorite. Jewelers, lapidaries, and gem collectors will find the information on gemstone...fluorescing minerals. The fieldโ€”mine, mine dump, or quarryโ€”can be richly rewarding in its production of...benefit by a review of the fluorescence of natural gem materials, brought together in one place as it is...lampโ€”the fluorescent blue of benitoite from San Benito County, California; the lemon yellow of esperite from...or the intense green of autunite from Spokane County, Washington. The color and beauty of minerals under
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rhodonite, crocoite, or crystal specimens of the gem minerals. It is thus interesting to realize that...for field use. Since a vast expanse of rock in a quarry, mine dump, or mine itself will usually need to...on active collecting in the field. Collecting in quarry, mine dump, or mine itself is an essential, indispensable...rocks blaze forth in their full luminous glory. The quarry heap or mine dump, if it is of the right kind,...interesting visit to the benitoite mine in San Benito County, California. It is located on a ridge on the coastal
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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...Litchfield County. Ilmenite masses and crystals from somewhere near Washington, Litchfield County, were described
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rhodonite, crocoite, or crystal specimens of the gem minerals. It is thus interesting to realize that...for field use. Since a vast expanse of rock in a quarry, mine dump, or mine itself will usually need to...on active collecting in the field. Collecting in quarry, mine dump, or mine itself is an essential, indispensable...rocks blaze forth in their full luminous glory. The quarry heap or mine dump, if it is of the right kind,...interesting visit to the benitoite mine in San Benito County, California. It is located on a ridge on the coastal
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Lincoln. Encyclopedia of minerals Sagiiache County Pu blic Library Saguache , Colorado DEMCO For...Photo Editor: Wendell E. Wilson Library Saguache County Public Saguache, Colorado VAN NOSTRAND REINHOLD...Names, 1892-1978, by P. G. Embrey and J. P. Fuller (Oxford University Press, 1980). Acta Crystallographica...portion of an ore that is not economically valuable. gem A mineral that possesses intrinsic value because...oil shale of the Green River Formation, Uintah County, Utah, associated with authigenic orthoclase, pyrite;
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Willard Lincoln. Encyclopedia of minerals ~~cbe County Public Library Saguache, Colorado OEMCO For Refere...nes, 1892-1978, by P. G. Embrey and J. P. Fuller (Oxford University P ress, 1980). Acta Crystallographica...portion of an ore that is not economically valuable. gem A mineral that possesses intrinsic value because...the Fuemrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely disseminated in uraniferous...in the Cave Hills and Slim Buttes areas, Harding County, South Dakota. SELECTED REFERENCES: Thompson, M
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M. Hughes: Dept. of Geology, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. W. Barclay Kamb: Division of Geol. and Planetary... W. (1961), Chemical Crystallography, 2nd ed., Oxford Clarendon Press. (GL) Glusker, J. P., & M. Lewis...Trueblood (1985); Crystal Structure Analysis: A Primer, Oxford University Press. (ITXC) International Tables for..., Introduction to Optical Mineralogy, 2nd ed., Oxford University Press, New York, 1991; Hartshorn, N...Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi
 
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