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Albite from
Slattery Quarry, Paris, Oxford County, Maine, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Albite
Formula:Na(AlSi3O8)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Albite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Slattery Quarry, Paris, Oxford County, Maine, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:29071
Long-form Identifier:1:3:29071:9
GUID (UUID V4):e7300f6e-1aa9-49cf-bc1b-a12f62c7a3e1
Nearest other occurrences of Albite
1.2km (0.7 miles) Mount Mica Quarry, Paris, Oxford County, Maine, USA
2.5km (1.5 miles) Whispering Pines Quarry, Paris, Oxford County, Maine, USA
4.1km (2.5 miles) Ryerson Hill Quarries, Paris, Oxford County, Maine, USA
4.2km (2.6 miles) Cummings Quarry, Buckfield, Oxford County, Maine, USA
5.4km (3.3 miles) Bessey Quarry, Buckfield, Oxford County, Maine, USA
5.7km (3.5 miles) Orchard Quarry, Buckfield, Oxford County, Maine, USA
5.7km (3.5 miles) Bennett Quarry, Buckfield, Oxford County, Maine, USA
5.9km (3.7 miles) Streaked Mountain, Buckfield, Oxford County, Maine, USA
6.2km (3.9 miles) Mount Marie Quarries, Paris, Oxford County, Maine, USA
6.3km (3.9 miles) GE-SE Mine, Buckfield, Oxford County, Maine, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
small hand in forming a mineral club in Nassau County, New York now called the Nassau Mineralogists....very deformed quartz xls, from the wall of a small quarry above the main cut. I did not spend much time on...issue of 1956. While there we made three plaster of paris prints: a pair of small prints, another of the same...print. The rest of the day we spent at Gillette Quarry in Haddam Neck, Connecticut. Did not find anything...I returned to Gillette Quarry. I spent the morning looking through the quarry not finding anything. Then
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)
the Sebago granite–pegmatite system, southern Maine, USA Michael A. Wise*, Cathleen D. Brown Department...two-mica granite situated in the Oxford pegmatite field, southwestern Maine. Surrounding the pluton is an...chemistry, petrology, geochemistry, Sebago, southern Maine Received: 1 October 2009; accepted: 30 March 2010;...Introduction The granitic pegmatites of southern Maine represent one of several major pegmatite regions...Unfortunately, very little geochemical data exist for the Maine pegmatites despite their popularity among mineral
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 (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
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)
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
103 ppm of Ta and is mainly composed of quartz, albite, microcline, muscovite, and kaolinite. Nb, Ta-rich...(ThMα), UO2 (UMβ), Sn (SnLα), W (WLα), Sc (ScKα), albite (NaKα), apatite (FKα), and wollastonite (CaKα)... These are constituted by albite, quartz, K-feldspar (microcline), albite, and muscovite, with minor...diffraction (XRD). Minerals 2018, 8, 151 8 of 16 Albite is the most abundant mineral in all fractions of...concentration of Nb-Ta minerals is presented in Table 2. Albite is the most abundant mineral in the tailing products
Field Trip Notes
Hampshire Field Trip No. 2, Outstanding pegmatites of Maine and New Hampshire 73 Geology of the "Chelmsford...inplace theory for the southern part, as in Dutchess County, New York. Whether such a combination of theories...(1914) Geology of the North Creek quadrangle, Warren County, New York, New York State Mus., Bull. 170. (1919)...Geology of the Schroon Lake quadrangle, Warren County, New York, New York State Mus., Bull. 213-214....(1936) Structural and petrologic studies in Duchess County, N. Y., Part I. Geologic structure of sedimentary
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
L. Ciobanu 1, *, Max R. Verdugo-Ihl 1 , Ashley Slattery 2 , Nigel J. Cook 1 , Kathy Ehrig 3 , Liam Courtney-Davies...include the presence of newly-formed, hydrothermal albite, Ba-rich K-feldspar, as well as calc-silicates...scanning electron microscope (SEM) (FEI, Hillsboro, OR, USA) with energy dispersive X-ray spectrometry and back-scatter...(distributed by Probe Software Inc. (Eugene, OR, USA). X-ray lines and standards for measurement of Fe...Si and Ca were Fe-Kα (almandine garnet), Si-Kα (albite), and Ca-Kα (apatite), respectively. Foils for
Book (edition)
MARIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY 3 1111 00289 4184 \ I s Fifth Revised Edition A complete, state-by-state...on the gem resources of our land. "Do you, Mr. Maine," he continued, "know that some of the finest tourmalines...hundred yards from your doorstep in the vicinity of Paris? Have you heard, Mr. New Jersey, of your famous...from Alaska to the Mexican border and eastward to Maine and Florida. Still others are found in Canada and...strike gem tourmaline by the bushel basketful in Maine and California; emerald in North Carolina, a big
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Copyright © 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd Printed in the USA. All rights reserved 0016-7037/01 $20.00 ⫹ .00 Pergamon...DUTROW2 1 2 School of Thought, Stanley, ID 83278, USA Department of Geology and Geophysics, Louisiana State...State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA (Received December 7, 2000; accepted in revised form June...hydrothermal activity based on Euler’s transport theorem (Slattery, 1972) reveals equations analogous to those known...idealized mineral assemblage, K-feldspar, quartz, albite, tourmaline, muscovite, and phlogopite noted in
Book (edition)
describes sites under of the nearest town and county. and the many maps included book contain such...from Alaska to the Mexican border and eastward to Maine and Florida. Still others are to be found in Canada...in cavities in the dike. Such pegmatite dikes in Maine, Connecticut, New Hampshire, North Carolina, South...affording a challenge to the collector, especially in Maine, New Hampshire, Connecticut, New Jersey, Virginia...to visit in the summer. winter comfortable in Maine or Montana. In hot is more comfortable morning
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Ciobanu 1 , Nigel J. Cook 1 1 2 3 * and Ashley Slattery 3 School of Chemical Engineering, The University...scanning electron microscope (SEM) (FEI, Hillsboro, OR, USA) with energy-dispersive X-ray spectrometry and back-scatter...(Gatan Inc., Pleasanton, CA, USA) on a FEI Quanta 600 SEM (FEI, Hillsboro, OR, USA). Images were acquired at...Mg Kα, Si Kα, Fe Kα (almandine garnet), Al Kα (albite), Ti Kα (rutile), Cr Kα (chromite), P Kα (apatite)...ablation system (Applied Spectra Inc., Fremont, SA, USA) coupled to an Agilent 7700x ICP-MS. Analyses for
Journal (issue)
By M. Vonsen. HUGE BE11YL C RYSTALS AT ALBANY, MAINE. By E. K Gedney and Harry Berman. CAVERNS dP PENNS............... 77 Huge Beryl Crystals at Albany, Maine. By E. K. Gedney and Harry Berman ...... 78 Caverns...which is devoted to quarry management, written by quarry managers, edited by a quarry manager, and controlled...everything directly and indirectly relating to quarry management, and its readers are consequently kept...why it has subscribers in every continent. The Quarry !tfanagers Journal comes out monthly and is published
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Park, PA 16802, USA Department of Earth Sciences, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA 17013, USA c Department...Paso, TX 79968, MA b Abstract AC CE P TE D USA For the first time, we show that rind thicknesses...formed NU weathered material (transformation of albite to kaolinite) (See Appendix). The model bedrock...Sak et al. (2010) we investigate the reaction of albite alteration. Although we considered this reaction...reactive albite + inert quartz as it weathered to quartz 7 ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT + albite + kaolinite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
elements). The following standards were used: NaKα —albite A; CaKα —wollastonite; SrLα —SrSO4 ; BaLα —baryte;...investigated carbocernaite from Bear Lodge, Wyoming, USA, and demonstrated that the mineral can be described...[CrossRef] Ciobanu, C.L.; Kontonikas-Charos, A.; Slattery, A.; Cook, N.J.; Wade, B.P.; Ehrig, K. Short-Range...APEX2, Version 2014.11-0; Bruker-AXS: Madison, WI, USA, 2014. Sheldrick, G.M. SADABS; University of Goettingen:...Coordination Chemistry; Wilkinson, G., Ed.; Pergamon: Oxford, UK, 1987; Volume 5, pp. 533–774. Bulakh, A.G.;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Cristiana L. Ciobanu 1 , Kathy Ehrig 2 , Ashley Slattery 3 , Max R. Verdugo-Ihl 1 , Liam Courtney-Davies...of hyalophane-albite the core of awe magmatic (mm-sized), association of hyalophane-albite within the core...(Democratic Republic of Congo), and Franklin (NJ, USA) all feature in a listing of the top 10 localities...English translation of the 3rd ed.; Pergamon Press: Oxford, UK, 1969; p. 1174. Picot, P.; Johan, Z.; Watkinson...Petrography, 2nd ed.; Wiley-Interscience: New York, NY, USA, 1994; p. 368 Vaughan, D.J.; Corkhill, C.L. Mineralogy
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(Table 2). The deep melting region produces an albite– olivine–clinopyroxene rich crustal rock, perhaps...northern lowlands: a single glancing blow. Benz, W., Slattery, W.L., Cameron, A.G.W., 1988. Collisional stripping...Icarus 49, 298–312. Cameron, A.G.W., Benz, W., Slattery, W.L., 1987. Planetary collision calculations:...B., 1998. The Planetary Scientist's Companion. Oxford University Press, New York. Longhi, J., 2003. A
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
Journal (issue)
Glasgow DrJ.EShigley Santa Monica Cambridge London Paris E. Stern Milan Tokyo Dr M. Superchi London Any...Korzhinsky, 1970. Theory of metasomatic zoning. Oxford University Press, London, pp. 1-159 Kuznetsov,...Abstract The quarries at Mont Saint-Hilaire, Rouville County, Quebec, have been visited by mineral collectors...Saint-Hilaire lies about 40 km east of Montreal in Rouville County; it is one of J. Gemm., 1996, 25,1 the ten Monteregian...(Figures 3 and 4). Access for collecting in the quarry is strictly controlled, with regularly scheduled
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
AmColl (American Colloid Company, Hoffman Estate, IL, USA) (95% smectite, 5% quartz and feldspars) contains...smectite, <5% albite, cristobalite, quartz) and MMt-Chile (>95% smectite, <5% pyrophillite, albite, heulandite...µS·cm Colloid Company, Hoffman IL, conductivity USA) (95% smectite, quartz and feldspars) contains Mnt...smectite, <5% albite, cristobalite, quartz) and MMt-Chile (>95% smectite, <5% pyrophillite, albite, heulandite...((L/mg)Windows ®; Statgraphics technologies, The Plains, VA, USA. Thus, sorbent materials, initial TC −1) and tested
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the volume average of Euler's transport theorem (Slattery 1972, Bear 1972) at a point P with a representative...rock-forming minerals and for "exchange" of 180 with albite and plagioclase An5o, For discussion of data and...ed. R. G. J. Strens. New York: Wiley. 695 pp. Slattery, 1. C. 1972. Momentum, Energy, and Mass Transfer
Book
HfiRIN COUNTY FREE LIBRfiRY 311110G386652Q I V Russell P MacFal A COLOR TREASUF FOR COLLECTORS...are 100 maps geared to leading the "hunter to his quarry" and more than eighty photographs of minerals in...to Hunting Locations ? i 9 GIVEN TO THE MARIN COUNTY LIBRARY BY MARI N L MTNF.RAT. SOCTETY DAVID...knapsack you can use a mountaineering bag or a mili- quarry or mine where a permit tary bag; make it it...may be able to buy specimens. map of Keweenaw County. Mich- Part of the U.S. Geological Survey topographic
 
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