 | | 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 min 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 |  | | 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...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 |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | OXFORD COUNT Y, MAINE—1952 Downloaded by [Stockholm University Library] at 11:15 02 September 2017 ...hobbyist active. They are Perham's shop, the Bumpus quarry and Nestor Tammi nen's. June and July were too...pleasure. Perham's Perham's store at Trap Corner, Maine, on # 2 6 , was the mecca for all collectors, as...brought in lovers of Maine minerals. Bumpus The Bumpus quarry in Albany, Maine, on # 5 , was being worked...Nestor Tamminen, across the road from his house and near the base of Noyse Mountain, in Greenwood, Me. |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | headed north for a week's collecting mostly in Oxford Co., Maine. Included in the group were Mr. and Mrs. Philip...our way to the Snow Falls Cabins in West Paris, Maine, which was to be our headquarters. On arriving there...Talamini. Tuesday morning we visited Mt. Newry, Maine, and spent the entire day there. I had heard reports...Muscovite, Spodumene, Amblygonite. M t . Marie, Paris, Maine. 1—Albert S. W h i t e ; 2 — 4 — A r t h u r Morison;...MINERALS Wednesday was spent at the Wardwell Quarry in Albany, Maine. I believe we found our most interesting |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | we cherished. There were a few quarries in the county, but not until we got bicycles was it possible...Fame JANET CARES Harvard Mineralogical Museum 24 Oxford Street Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 E A C H Y...babingtonite specimens in the Blueberry Mountain quarry, Woburn, Massachusetts. It was the first time any...were long rides in cars, buses, and trains up to Maine, New Hampshire, and Connecticut. The following spring...it is necessary to dig down several feet in the quarry dumps. near his place. Here we found more fluorapatite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | we cherished. There were a few quarries in the county, but not until we got bicycles was it possible...babingtonite specimens in the Blueberry Mountain quarry, Woburn, Mass. It was the first time anyone ever...were long rides in cars, busses and trains up to Maine, New Hampshire and Connecticut. The following spring...it is necessary to dig down several feet in the quarry dumps. 203 At this point it might be well to...question whether the locality is a mine or a quarry. A quarry is an open digging regardless of what is taken |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | MINERALS Wednesday was spent at the Wardwell Quarry in Albany, Maine. I believe we found our most interesting...specimens had both minerals. Near the Wardwell quarry is a Garnet pit where Garnets, some as large as...as a hen's egg, were found. W e visited the quarry at night with a portable Mineralight and collected...Noyes Mt. in Greenwood, Maine, where we met Mr. Nestor Tamminen and his family. Mr. Tamminen inviteded us...the summer at Buckfield, Maine. Friday we made short stops at the Bennett Quarry in Buckfield, Mt. Mica |  | | 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...tourmaline find at the Dunton Gem Mine at Newry, Maine of watermelon and green, elbaite tourmaline, has...further description here. The Bennett Quarry at Buckfield, Maine, was also worked by Mr. Robert Eastman...cleavelandite and often as sociated with pink montmorillonite. Go shenite and aquamarine beryl crystals |  | | 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 |  | | Book | | Ed & Bert Sloan Maine Vermont New Hampshire Massachusetts Rhode Island PERHAM'S MAINE MINERAL S'toRE...S'toRE INC. JUNCTION RTE8. '1LJ &_ 219 WEST PARIS, MAINE 04289 Copyright 0 1976 by Edward Sloan. All rights...Talc Mine Saxtons River, Vermont Davis Soapstone Quarry South Newfane, Vermont Adams Hill Site NEW HAMPSHIRE... Massachusetts Pfitzer Quarry Ashland, Massachusetts Bayer - Mingolla Quarry Blandford, Massachusetts...Brook Site Bolton, Massachusetts Bolton Lime Quarry Granby, Massachusetts Granby Dinosaur Museum Hardwick |  | | Book (edition) | | HANDBOOK for A WEEK WITH MAINE MINERALS by NEIL A. WINTRINGHAM 1_� Cv1,_1'--A� __, 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...characterized the evenings spent with members of the Oxford County Mineral & Gem Association. N. A. W. Mountainside...minerals. The geology of pegmatites, in general, and Maine pegmatites, in particular, is summarized briefly |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | arrived at the quarry at about 11 A.M. By this time it was very sunny and hot. This quarry is in active...canteens were soon drained and fortunately for us, the quarry had an automatic canteen and we soon filled ourselves...Field Trip a n d Outdoor Meeting, Strickland Quarry, Portland, Conn. June 23, 1 9 5 7 We picked an...local youngsters swimming in the upper abandoned quarry. It was said that at one point, the water was more...fluoresced nicely. None of our group collected any montmorillonite. cookeite or uraninite altho we were on the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Extracts from the logs of mineral col leering in Maine and New Hampshire. (Several trips are omitted for...tremolite crystals. May 23-24 Went to Augusta (Maine) to prepare tiie family lots for Memorial Day. I...morning. We went to the Tamrninen Quarry where we met Nestor 4 Tamminen. Later, Charlie Marble showed up...Here we found torbernite and lepidolite and montmorillonite in pocket indications. The beryl there is very...very coarse. We crossed the dip to the old Tamminen Quarry. Found a nice vesuvianite crystal in the woods |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | locality in the State is Russell Gulch in Gilpen County. A small but very fine crystal group from Russell...mind. We have only one small rock outcrop in my county (Orange) at Rock Springs near Apopka. "The beaches...specimens in the world are found in the limestone quarry in Legrand, Marshall Co., Iowa. The most noted...well worth a visit to see and look at and marvel." MAINE — A letter, dated July 27, 1952, was sent by Wallace...some of the specimens collected: "Bumpus Quarry, Albany, Maine—Rose quartz, beryl xls (and massive), musco- |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Locality Hebron, Maine Ward's Natural Science Establishment, unknown locality Buckfield, Maine Northwest U... The latter includes cookeite from the Jeffrey quarry, which is part o f the Source Clays Repository...rosettes on elbaite from a pegmatite at Norway, Maine (University o f Wisconsin Museum #6001 / 1). The...1.303 1.299 Specimen from Waisanen-Tamminen pit, Greenwood, Maine, has an imperfect "s" structure. Cell...10;338;33,12 8 1.319 1.317 Specimen from Norway, Maine. Cell dimensions: a = 5.161, b = 8.938, c = 28.41 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Articles History and minerals of The Geysers, Sonoma County, California .....................................1852 to the 1920’s, is located in northern Sonoma County about 145 km north of San Fran cisco, California...(1970). The Mayacmas Mountains of northern Sonoma County are underlain by rocks of the Jurassic-Cretaceous...deposits of the western Mayacmas district, Sonoma County, California. California Journal o f Mines and Geology...geologic map of western Son oma County and northernmost Marin County, California. U.S. Geo logical Survey |  | | Journal (issue) | | for Sept:e m ber - October, 1950 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY ...... .. .. ............. ......................'-' ,._ - .., - - - - - - '-' CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY --- - ....... ..,...,.,.._ .... ....... .......Boulder Bec!ch on Lake Mead. Nevad~ The Clark County Gem Collectors, Inc. (Paul 0 . Drury, Publicity...northern outskirts of Asheboro, the county seat of Randolph County, N . C. It may be reached by goi ng...headed north for a week's collecting mostly in Oxford Co., Maine. Included in the group were Mr. and Mrs. Philip |  | | Book | | 500 meters thick) containing fresh glass, montmorillonite clay, and opal; a transition zone (up to 20...thick) that contains fresh glass, opal, and montmorillonite; a middle zone (up to 10 meters thick) containing...Chabazite, phillipsite, pyrite, siderite, and montmorillonite are found on sandstone breccia and in the vesicular...Lower Miocene columnar basalt in the Narre Warren Quarry, near Melbourne, Australia. The minerals are believed...assemblages have been mapped in exposed basaltic rock in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, and eastern Iceland. | | | Book | | 500 meters thick) containing fresh glass, montmorillonite clay, and opal; a transition zone (up to 20...thick) that contains fresh glass, opal, and montmorillonite; a middle zone (up to 10 meters thick) containing...Chabazite, phillipsite, pyrite, siderite, and montmorillonite are found on sandstone breccia and in the vesicular...Lower Miocene columnar basalt in the Narre Warren Quarry, near Melbourne, Australia. The minerals are believed...assemblages have been mapped in exposed basaltic rock in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, and eastern Iceland. |  | | Journal (issue) | | KRISTALLE Est.1971 Laguna Beach, California, USA • Tel: +1 949 494 5155 • Email: info@kristalle.com...only): $139/one year (Canada) $231/one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $325 for one year Subscription...the different collecting locations in San Benito County. After graduating from high school, Steve went...field collecting and a specific love for San Benito County and the minerals of the Clear Creek Management...mined commercially for pegmatite minerals in the Oxford Hills area while also working as a drilling and |  | | Book (edition) | | abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture), dept...always included in text, except in the cases of the USA, UK, and the provinces Ontario and Quebec in Canada...Uintah County. Utah. and m (2.B. acanthite group). Monoclinic, C2/m, a,b,c Rio Blanco County. Colorado...Menzenschwand Scbwarzwald Mts., in the Sailauf quarry, Spessart Mts., Bavaria. both Germany, and from...to Hot Springco., Arkansas, in the Point of Rock quarry, pearly. Clea,·age {001} perfect. {100} and {010} |  | | Book | | commercial ores and secondary minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification...cities, and many of today’s prosperous western county seats began as mining-boom camps. trating sand...Whether you such as those listed alphabetically by county, township, and range in Part II of this book. Where...granite which was pushed up from great depths. Maine), New California The gem Jersey, show pegmatites...will help you prospect and explore any state and county. etc., for mineral deposits in Finding Suitable |  | | Book | | ADULARIA Adu Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...Iron-manganese phosphates of the Williams pegmatites, Coosa County, Alabama (by P. B. Leavens & T. A. Simpson) 6:66-73...ALICE GLORY HOLE The Alice glory hole, Clear Creek County, Colorado (by T. A. Hanson & W. B. Craft) 18:185187...--and W. Hunt: The Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County, Arizona 19:139-144 ALLGOOD, GENNE MYERS --and...Allgood, J. Pradenas: Gold occurrences in Tuolumne County, California 18:41-45, 18:62-64 --with W. H. Wilkinson |  | | Journal (issue) | | .................. 594 NATIVE COPPER IN AN. J. QUARRY. BY T . ORCHARD LISLE ................ 597 MOUNT........................ 607 SOME RECENT FINDS IN MAINE AND NEW HAMPSHIRE. BY D . M. SEAMAN .............. 562 ROCKS AND MlN ERALS - CHIPS ~-,ROM THE QUARRY (!I~risintas Oireetings ! - Again it is the happy...an- pleasant. Soon an officer of the Westchester County Police informs us that this portion of Croton Point...Point Park is reserved for groups of Westchester County boys for whom definite camping times have been |
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Tamminen Quarry, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine, USA