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


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Muscovite
Formula:KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Muscovite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Slattery Quarry, Paris, Oxford County, Maine, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:29073
Long-form Identifier:1:3:29073:7
GUID (UUID V4):35ced50e-f716-400c-adb4-f4904550a47a
Nearest other occurrences of Muscovite
1.2km (0.7 miles) Mount Mica Quarry, Paris, Oxford County, Maine, USA
1.3km (0.8 miles) Irish Quarry, Paris, Oxford County, Maine, USA
2.0km (1.2 miles) Crocker Hill mines, 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
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...K-feldspar (K/Rb ≈ 17, K/Cs ≈ 90, Rb/Tl ≈ 75), muscovite (K/Rb ≈ 6.6, K/Cs ≈ 14.8, Rb/Tl ≈ 127), beryl...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
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)
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 (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)
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
Field Trip Notes
Hampshire Field Trip No. 2, Outstanding pegmatites of Maine and New Hampshire 73 Geology of the "Chelmsford...the chlorite zone is the same as the chlorite-muscovite subfacies of the green schist facies| the biotite...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.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Nigel J. Cook, Cristiana L. Ciobanu, Ashley D. Slattery, Benjamin P. Wade, Sarah Gilbert, Kathy Ehrig... Bindeman 1489 The Plumbago North pegmatite, Maine, USA: A new potential lithium resource—William B....Tianshan, NW China: Constraints from zircon U-Pb, muscovite 40Ar-39Ar, and molybdenite Re-Os system—Ning Li
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mainly composed of quartz, albite, microcline, muscovite, and kaolinite. Nb, Ta-rich minerals are columbite-(Mn)...quartz, K-feldspar (microcline), albite, and muscovite, with minor amounts of kaolinite, garnet (spessartine)...from HPGR processing, which has a lower content. Muscovite content is considerably different in concentrates...obtained from TIMA-X and XRD is the amount of muscovite. The sheet structure of this mineral makes quantification...analysis of sections and also in XRD estimations. Muscovite is usually overestimated in XRD analyses due to
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...assemblage, K-feldspar, quartz, albite, tourmaline, muscovite, and phlogopite noted in at least two modern geothermal
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
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 (article/letter/editorial)
Gao, Cristiana L. Ciobanu, Nigel J. Cook, Ashley Slattery, Fei Huang, and Dan Song article 513 Experimental...Chub Lake-type hematite deposits in St. Lawrence County, NY—Steven C. Chamberlain, Marian V. Lupulescu...Levett, and C.A. Rosière 935 959 983 Coarse muscovite veins and alteration in porphyry systems— Simone
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
obtained with a at Pananalytical 3X with EDXRF Oxford Linkusing EDS and an Olympusmethod. Tengra 2.3k...following composition (wt%): quartz 79.4(1)%, muscovite 9.5(4)%, K-feldspar 6.9(3)%, chalcopyrite 1.4(1)%...keeping with the optical observations, although muscovite, possibly as an alteration of K-feldspar, is probably...chalcedony and unrelated to fluorcarbonates. Muscovite (9.5%), possibly overestimated by Rietveld refinement...The stacking is analogous of 2:1 mica,ofsuch muscovite, if the translation of b/3.sequence Because of
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
Book
Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi...listed by county and community, range and distance. Whenever the collector crosses a county line, he will...of the county he is entering posted alongside the highway. By looking up the state and county, the user...guide can determine the collecting sites in that county by range and distance from the major cities and...information to reach a specific spot within a particular county. Many old localities listed here have, literally
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
composed of quartz, K-feldspar, plagioclase, and muscovite (partial chlorite alteration was observed), with...overprints of altered hydrous minerals such as muscovite, biotite, and amphibole [3,15,28]. The primary...minerals, with minor apatite, calcite, fluorite, and muscovite. Quartz veins appear more frequently at the quartz–mica...BSE detector was model 51-ADD0021 INCA x-act from Oxford instrument. The CL detector was the Mini CL from...the veins. Secondary minerals such as biotite, muscovite, K-feldspar, and Ca-plagioclase surround the quartz–scheelite
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
OD as discussed in the text. Abbreviations: Ms-muscovite Miner Deposita ages at ~ 1589 Ma, inferring...oregeorev.2016.08.015 Ciobanu CL, Verdugo-Ihl MR, Slattery A, Cook NJ, Ehrig KJ, CourtneyDavies L (2018)...August 2018. pp 185–186 Ciobanu CL, Verdugo-Ihl MR, Slattery A, Cook NJ, Ehrig K, CourtneyDavies L, Wade BP...3390/min6040111 Cook NJ, Ciobanu CL, Ehrig K, Slattery A, Verdugo-Ihl MR, CourtneyDavies L, Gao W (2017)
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
Book
100 maps geared to leading the " hunter to his quarry" and more than eighty photographs of minerals in...easier for you If you plan to vIsIt an operating quarry or mine where a permll Is required make the necessary...topographic map of the Delaware q uadrangle o f Keweenaw County, Michigan This ,s an example o f the more picturesque...be discovered by locating the porous layers In a quarry or other exposure and following them along the...been washed into the stream ,tselt. Southwestern Maine around the town of Pans. and the rugged area north
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Complex, South Africa and Stillwater Complex, Montana, USA. Inasmuch as these examples serve to highlight the...attributed to minerals biotite, amphibole, garnet, muscovite, quartz and feldspar. (b) XCT image slice of silicate...white dots. (c) Thin biotite, amphibole, garnet, muscovite, quartz and feldspar. (b) XCT image slice of silicate...2018; S&P Global Market Intelligence: New York, NY, USA, 2019. Phillips, G. Australian and global setting...South Africa) and the J-M Reef (Stillwater Complex, USA) and their Relationship to Microstructures Using
Report (issue)
INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MINERAL RESOURCES OF ELKO COUNTY, NEVADA By Roscoe M. Smith Prepared in cooperation...Illustrations . Plate 1. Mineral resources map of Elko County. Figure 1. Index-map of mining districts 2. Exploratory...petroleum, through 1973 9 Temperatures of some Elko County hot springs- -- 12 Distribution of mineral deposits...ELKO COUNTY, NEVADA By Roscoe M. Smith ABSTRACT Of the 66 named mining districts in Elko County, 56 have...Elko areas. INTRODUCTION Mineral deposits in Elko County were described in Nevada Bureau of Mines Bulletin
 
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