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Actinolite from
Pitts-Tenney Quarry, Minot, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Actinolite
Formula:◻Ca2(Mg4.5-2.5Fe0.5-2.5)Si8O22(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Actinolite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Pitts-Tenney Quarry, Minot, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:28733
Long-form Identifier:1:3:28733:5
GUID (UUID V4):c4a7ecb2-46f2-4124-ba00-ccfd83444c9f
Nearest other occurrences of Actinolite
9.9km (6.1 miles) City quarry, Lewiston, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
16.0km (9.9 miles) Heath Quarry, Casco, Cumberland County, Maine, USA
16.4km (10.2 miles) Robinson Mountain, Lewiston, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
58.1km (36.1 miles) Kinglet Prospect, Newry, Oxford County, Maine, USA
58.1km (36.1 miles) Dunton Gem Quarry, Newry, Oxford County, Maine, USA
58.1km (36.1 miles) Bell pit, Newry, Oxford County, Maine, USA
58.2km (36.2 miles) Crooker Gem Pegmatite Quarries, Newry, Oxford County, Maine, USA
58.2km (36.2 miles) Nevel Quarry (Twin tunnels; United Feldspar Quarry), Newry, Oxford County, Maine, USA
58.3km (36.2 miles) Scotty Quarry, Newry, Oxford County, Maine, USA
59.3km (36.9 miles) Hurricane Mountain localities, North Conway, Conway, Carroll County, New Hampshire, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
examples come from the Jeffrey mine (also noted as quarry on some labels), Asbestos, Les Sources Municipalité...been collected at Dungannon Township, Hastings County, Ontario. The crystals in the collection are associated...is also found in a skarn at Bancroft, Hastings County, Ontario, as brown-red dodecahedra to approximately...Lowell quarry (also labeled as Eden Mills quarries), 428 ROCKS & MINERALS Lowell, Orleans County, Vermont...acquiring it. Grossular from Amherst, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, occurs as greenish-red dodecahedra
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Garnet Locality of Minot, Maine By B. M . 3 H A U B 1 59 Elm Street, N o r t h a m p t o n , Massachusetts...locality of Minot, Maine are to be found in many museums and private collections. The quarry which produces...in the town of Minot, Maine which is within the belt, along the western boundary of Maine, that is famous...case of the Minot garnet deposit. The nresent owner of the property is Mr. Fra"hk A. Pitts, Fig. 2. Mr...Section from the Poland, Maine quadrangle showing the location of the Minot garnet quarry. ROCKS A N D MINERALS
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Hicksville, N. Y . 1 1801 Recently Harold Tenney of Livermore Falls, Maine donated a specimen of essonite garnet...garnet in quartz from the Pitts Ten­ ney Mine in Minor, Maine. The specimen measures 9-%" x 1 0 " — the...is the best one that came from the mine". The Pitts Tenney Mine was only worked for its mineral specimens...diopside, calcite, axinite, clinozoisite, titanite, actinolite and chlorite. Essonite garnet was the most im­...first worked in the late 1890's. Mr. Pitts and Mr. Harold Tenney started working the mine around 1935
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)
Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and  the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59...along adjoining Co. linerock crystal. BARROW COUNTY WINDER, along rd. to Jefferson and 1½ mi. inside...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States BARTOW COUNTY AREA, Saltpeter Cave, as floatjasper. CARTERSVILLE:...(banded, various colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY MACON:  at Holton Quarry, 7½ mi. NWagate;  N of Calloway
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 (volume)
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...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason
Book (volume)
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...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason
Report (issue)
Connecticut, USA © 2008 by Lithographie, LLC P.O. Box 263 • East Hampton, CT 06424 • USA Phone 1.860...diopside; 7.1 cm tall Jeffrey Mine, Asbestos, Richmond County, Quebec, Canada Paul Stahl specimen Jeff Scovil...a/bite from the Little Three Mine in San Diego County, California; 6. 6 cm tall; Bryant Harris specimen...from the deposits around Emerald Creek in Latah County, Idaho, is brought about by inclusions of microscopic...by oriented inclusions, possibly chrysotile or actinolite (Douman & Dirlam, 2004). Structure and Crystals
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
” the gem considered October, Carolina, and Maine, In summary, beryl family, passage of was even...and weighs 235.5 carats, morganite rough Diego County, California, weigh Lea Collection), and from...green than blue” gem There carats. blue gem from Maine of 66.3 carats (Isaac pale are a 1,000 style...History contains the largest aquaa 137-carat it Maine; said to square brilliant of is sketched in...Properties be the largest a was story Angeles County and photographs prepared from a 6,021- International
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...Litchfield County. Ilmenite masses and crystals from somewhere near Washington, Litchfield County, were described
Book (edition)
Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi...an accessory mineral in serpentinite. Cedar Hill quarry, Lancaster Co., PA; Josephine Co., OR; White Creek...in meteorites and lunar rocks. Howard Montgomery quarry, Howard Co., MD; Mackinaw mine, Snohomish Co.,...localities for fine specimens can be cited. Thomasville quarry, York Co., PA; Franklin, NJ; Elmwood mine, Carthage...Sterling Hill mine, Sussex Co., NJ; Union Bridge quarry, Frederick, MD; Witmer(*), Allegheny Co., PA; Joplin
 
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