 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | New Hampshire Mineral Locality Index Downloaded by [University of Newcastle, Australia] at 15:01 05...entrance and arch of the Palermo mine, North Groton, Grafton County. Rob Lawrence photo, courtesy Bob...Bob Whitmore. 242 ROCKS & MINERALS lthough New Hampshire, the Granite State, is one of our smaller states...reading Jackson (1844) on the mineralogy of New Hampshire that even at this early date there was already...activity produced new localities, renewed some old localities, and resulted in new minerals being discovered |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | a I The history of chrysoberyl discoveries helps document the growth of mineralogy as a science and...a hobby in the United States. United States chrysoberyl localities appear to number a handful and have...only minute quantities of gem-quality material. Chrysoberyl is probably not as rare as believed, since its...observed crystal forms. Mineral Varieties The name chrysoberyl comes from the transliterated Greek words xpuods...described and named by Werner in 1789 as krisoberil. Chrysoberyl as a gemstone is known for its two varietiesalexandrite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | T H E RUGGLES FELDSPAR - M I C A MINE, — G R A F T O N , N E W HAMPSHIRE By G A R D I N E R E. GREGORY...commercial production of mica in New Hampshire started at the Ruggles Mine in 1803. In recent years it has...of minerals have been removed from the mine. In 1962 the mine was opened for pub lic inspection. Each...Each year thousands of people visit the mine to view the scenery from the top of Isinglass Mountain and...and to explore the giant tunnels of the mine. Very few of the visitors are bonaficd mineral collectors |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | South Africa U.S. Mica Industry Pioneers: The Ruggles and Bowers Families by Fred E. Davis. Published...documenting the beginnings of mica mining in New Hampshire in the late eighteenth century, well before...but mica mining was a family affair both in New Hampshire and later in North Carolina, which came to dominate...begins with a genealogy of the Ruggles family that focuses on Sam Ruggles, who purchased property on Isinglass...Mountain in Grafton, New Hampshire, in 1805, and follows his descendants who continued to mine and market |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | begins with a genealogy of the Ruggles family that focuses on Sam Ruggles, who purchased property on Isinglass...Mountain in Grafton, New Hampshire, in 1805, and follows his descendants who continued to mine and market...Chapter 2 is a history of the famous Ruggles mine and the Ruggles’ mica business. After describing early...Bowers family who began in the mica business in New Hampshire but moved to North Carolina. This book is more...London, England, 1851 George Ruggles exhibited a 91-kg (200-pound) [New Hampshire] mica book at the Great |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | mica locality known as the Ruggles' Mine in Grafton Center, New Hampshire. Already then it had been in...color groupings on the whitish microcline. My New Hampshire friends, Mr. Leggett and Mr. Weeks of Meredith...Meredith, mentioned having seen workmen repairing the mine road with some of the colorful stuff! Good specimens...met the Walls a few months earlier at the Nevel Mine, Newry, Maine. At the time Bill was still in the...are so typical of this locality as well as other New England localities. Bill's rucksack was already loaded |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | THE W E E K S PEGMATITE MINE faults Wakefield, Carroll County New Hampshire S o m e u n u s u a l a...minerals in a location not noted for specimens. New Hampshire has many pegmatites in districts in the northern...Moun- Figure 1: Excavations in the dump, Weeks mine, June 1980. tain pegmatite at Center Strafford...line in the town of Wakefield, Car roll County, New Hampshire. The property is named after the 1942 owner...MAINE NEW HAMPSHIRE not miles 1153 to Wakefield Figure 2: Location map for the Weeks mine, Wakefield |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | an economic byproduct from a few pegma tites in New Mexico and Colorado; also from Brazil, Australia...and Cooper in Maine; and from the berylmolybdenite mine near Mr. Antero, Colo rado. It is an economic mineral...pegmatite at the Ben Nevis Mine on San Augustin Peak in the Organ Mountains, New Mexico. ARGENTITE, a silver...mines on San Augustin Peak in the Organ Mountains, New Mexico. CHALCOCITE, a copper sulfide, has been noted...MINERALS at the Deep Park No. 2 Mine near Penland, and also at the McKinney Mine near Little Switzerland, North |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Andros coggin River from Brunswick in Sagadahoc County. A mile-wide belt of granitic pegmatites runs from...a Mr. Carr of Grafton, West Virginia, and then sold to Golding Brothers of Trenton, New Jersey. How ...of Bath who was superintendent for the Trenton (New Jersey) Flint and Spar Company. In 1869 that firm...was described by Shainin (1948) as follows: The mine-run feldspar was first run through the jaw crusher...transferred to Bath by scow and then shipped to Trenton, New Jersey, potteries, but by the early 1880s shipment |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | CERUSSITE CERUSSITE CERUSSITE CHALCOSIDERITE CHRYSOBERYL (Alexandrite) CLINOZOISITE C O B A L T ITE 25...Items Dax Landes, France Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico A t a...Copper Queen Mine, Bisbee, Arizona Copper Queen Mine, Bisbee, Arizona Copper Queen Mine, Bisbee, Arizona...Copper Queen Mine, Bisbee, Arizona Copper Queen Mine, Bisbee, Arizona Copper Queen Mine, Bisbee, Arizona...Queen Mine, Bisbee, Arizona Chessy, France with Uranophane and Mangan-Apatite, Ruggles Mine, Grafton Ctr |  | | Book (edition) | | GEM hunter's GUIDE (Cross-seaion at right) CHRYSOBERYL EPIDOTE PERIDOT SPHALERITE CORUNDUM FELDSPAR...and a value-fixing is star sapphire and the chrysoberyl cats-eye are valued chiefly for pattern, and...feldspar quarries in pegmatite deposits, mines and mine dumps, and from "float" deposits, minerals loose...which can be traced through have been retained. New gem locations are found every season, and to this...material can be found at that locality; and that new while of dubious merit have been dropped. Appearance |  | | Field Trip Notes | | //' . GUIDEBOOK FOR FIELD IN ''fy,.'t:J TRIPS NEW ENGLAND NOVEMBER 10-12, 1952 Organized by the...Before visiting any of the sites described in the New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference guidebooks...Highlands of East-Central New York, Southern Vermont, and Southern New Hampshire Field Trip No. 2, Outstanding...Outstanding pegmatites of Maine and New Hampshire 73 Geology of the "Chelmsford Granite" 103 Field Trip...OF EAST-CENTRAL NEW YORK, SOUTHER Leaders: VERJ-IONT, AND SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE Marland P, Billings |  | | Report (issue) | | Pegmatite Investigations 1942-45 New England By EUGENE N. CAMERON and OTHERS GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL..._______ _ Geology of the pegmatite districts of New Hampshire_ Rock units ________________________________...pegmatites ___________________ _ Pegmatites of the Grafton and Keene districts __ _ Sources of pegmatites...quality __ AnalyHis of the wartime mica industry of New England ________________________________________...Androscoggin County ______________________ _ Berry feldspar quarry __________________ _ Cumberland County ___ |  | | Book (volume) | | Where & How to Djg, Pan and Mine Your Own Gen1s & Minerals Where & I-low to 1-Iunt for Treasure From...vacation stops at a roadside "dig your own" gem mine. Junior finds a sapphire the size of a p ach and...) Many an unsuspecting tourist has stopped at a mine to try his or her luck and become a rockhound for...Arizona California Colorado Hawaii Kansas Nevada New Mexico Oklahoma Texas Utah Alaska Idaho Iowa Minnesota...Indiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan New Hampshire New Jersey Nev,, York Ohio Pennsylvania Rhode |  | | Journal (issue) | | keer metavarisciet aangeboden afkomstig van Utah, USA (zie artikel elders in dit nummer). 20.15 h Paul...van 9.30 tot 12 h. Gem and mineral shows in the USA Paul Tambuyser De mineralenshows van Tucson en Denver...verenigingen in Zuid-Afrika, één in Frankrijk en 3 in de USA, en actief betrokken bij de oprichting van mineralogische...diamonds from metamorphic rocks 188-196 Vorlanite, a new mineral from the upper Chegem caldera, Kabardino-Balkaria...Präparation spektakulärer Smaragdstufen aus der Kagem Mine, Kafubu, Sambia 24-26 Die Lithothek der Münchner |  | | Book (edition) | | describes sites under of the nearest town and county. and the many maps included book contain such...collector of gem minerals RUSSELL P. Thomas NEW YORK MACFALL Y. Crowell Company / ESTABLISHED...Shop and Herbert Grand Girard, both of Santa Fe, New Mexico, Ken Kyte of Covington, Louisiana, Merton...Indiana, George E. Lambert of Wappingers Falls. New York, and D. L. Hathaway of Cosmopolis, Washington...TOURMALINE CRYSTALS (Cro»$-$«ction ot righl) ^ \b7 CHRYSOBERYL CORUNDUM DIAMOND CRYSTALS ffl 1 \ Carlsbad |  | | Journal (issue) | | favorably received by our readers as a number of new subscriptions - from unexpected quarters - have been...interest to avoid the danger of being replaced by new members from the waiting list. Exhibition at the...White Horse Ranch to the Blitzen Valley, (Harney County, Oregon} and on the way I picked up some pieces...looked like slag from a furnace. This was in Grant County, Oregon, about 5 miles from Seneca. I was on a...tourmaline crystal 3x3x8 feet in the Luella Mine near Avon, Latah County, Idaho ; and etc. Origin The crystals |  | | Journal (issue) | | are listed on our General List #20 and our latest New Arrivals Lists. Send for your copies today. Both.................................... SILVER CRATER MINE—Ilia Kerr ....................................................................................... NEW GEOLOGIC MAP OF WINDSOR LOCKS AREA................................................... NEW CHILDREN’S MUSEUM FOR NEW MEXICO ...............................and August 1st, 1965, in Pierrepont, St. Lawrence County, N. Y., to swap or dig your own tourmaline plus |  | | 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...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods...gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason Cr.⎯fossils; |  | | 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...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods...gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason Cr.⎯fossils; |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Minerals of New Hampshire A Checklist JANET W. C A R E S 18 S i n g l e t a r y L a n e Sudbury. Massachusetts...ities. As other articles in this issue will attest, New Hamp shire has rightfully earned its nickname, the...Janules, 1990), and the fumed "gummite" of the Ruggles mine accounts foi the many alteration products of...lead-bearing minerals are found at the Madison lead mine, and barite occurs in the well-known fluorite mines... while copper minerals—which are scarce in New Hampshire—are found mainly in a few small depos its. |  | | Book (edition) | | MARIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY 3 1111 00289 4184 \ I s Fifth Revised Edition A complete, state-by-state...Edition Russell P. MacFall Thomas Y. Crowell New York / Company Established 1834 Copyright ©...West, the broad plains and the verdant hills of New England hold inestimable treasures of living things...doorstep in the vicinity of Paris? Have you heard, Mr. New Jersey, of your famous pearls?" citing other notable...the developer's bulldozer obliterates other sites, new ones are discovered. Books and thetic and scientific |  | | Book (edition) | | Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...The current progress in mineralog), with countless new data in books and scientific as well as amateur journals...submitted to, and accepted by, the Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names (CNMMN) of the International...pure freibergite is very rare. The decision that a new mineral species is established when one of the cations...eudialyte, and several other groups: The number of new mineral species may grow as an avalanche, flooding |  | | Book (volume) | | Descriptive Mineralogy Vandall T. King Rochester, New York 14609 , Eugene E. Foord U S. Geological Survey...Philip Hauck Richard P. Hauck was born in Bloomfield, New Jersey on June 30, 1935. He has been actively involved...deep concern for the fate of the Sterling mine in Ogdensburg, New Jersey, and his intense interest in mining...mining history led him to purchase the mine in order to form a living museum so that it would remain accessible...mineralogical community. Through his efforts, the Sterling mine has been declared a national historic landmark. |  | | Journal (issue) | | same for distribution; to encourage the search for new minerals that have not yet been discovered; and to...Association by nominat ing them for membership? Each new member helps to extend the Association's activities---helps......................... 122 123 FRANCONIA IRON MINE, LISBON, N . H . By Harold / . V errow 136 SOUTH...SOCIETY NOTES: NEW YORK MINERALOGICAL CLUB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NEW JERSEY MINERALOGICAL...the advertisements in the magazine will now have a new and an important meaning to me." For many years dealers |
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