 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Massachusetts 02138 MAINE Minerals of the Topsham, Maine, Pegmatite District Topsham • Topsham, Maine's underappreciated...the Andros coggin River from Brunswick in Sagadahoc County. A mile-wide belt of granitic pegmatites runs...Androscoggin River, north-northeast through the town of Topsham. The belt extends southward into Brunswick and...but only the pegmatites actually in the town of Topsham are covered in this review. There are thirty or...named quarries and numerous unnamed prospects in Topsham. The quarries, all inactive, are usually named |  | | 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...permission of the publisher. Front cov5r photograph: Elbaite crystals. Crystal at left is 4. 5 cm tall; crystal...5 cm tall; gem weighs 2 carats. From the Havey Quarry, Poland, MaifJ. e. Photo copyright 1995 by Wendell |  | | 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) | | 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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur... 353 by P. Orlandi and P. B. Scortecci M aine Maine tourmaline........................................14-21.] Elbaite from Newry, Maine (by P. J. Dunn) [1975, vol. 6, no. 1, p. 22-25.] Newry, Maine, a pegmatite...] 328 Famous mineral localities: the Pulsifer quarry (by W. E. Wilson) [1977, vol. 8, no. 2, p. 72-77...vol. 8, no. 6, p. 475.]* The best of San Diego County (by W. Larson) [1977, vol. 8, no. 6, p. 507-515 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Sapphires Benito County, California; the group of sapGems Found in the U.S. State of Maine phires is from...Daniel Bronfen, Brazil Evan Caplan, USA Rocco Gay, Italy Sushil Goyal, USA Shahina Hatta, Hong Kong Dwarka...Thailand Immediate Past President Benjamin Hackman, USA Chief Executive Officer Gary Roskin ICA General Manager...31 W. 47th Street, Suite 1103 New York, NY 10036 USA ica@gemstone.org T: 1.212.620.0900 F: 1.212.352.9054...century with the discovery of the Mica Mine in Maine. While gold was its primary focus, miners found |  | | Book (volume) | | Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59...along adjoining Co. linerock 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 floatjasper. CARTERSVILLE:...(banded, various colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY MACON: at Holton Quarry, 7½ mi. NWagate; 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 |  | | Report (issue) | | from the University of New Orleans in Louisiana (USA), with the lowdown on beryl mineralogy An ancient...crystal has been recorded from the Alger quarry in New Hampshire (USA). The crystal weighed 455 kilograms...4m: The largest beryl crystal at the Bumpus quarry in Maine was 8.4 meters long, 1.9 meters in diameter...as the complex type (lepidolite, amblygonite, elbaite and danburite subtypes) beryl can be associated...number of Brazilian states (page 84); San Diego County, California (page 32) in the United States; Canada |  | | Journal (issue) | | Conklin Famous mineral localities: the Gillette quarry, Had dam Neck, Connecticut . . . . . . . . . ....Tuolumne County; 3.18 cm (36) Tuolumne County; 2.54 cm, 1.9 cm (39) Seaton mine, Amador County; 12.07 cm...Dorado County; 1.5 cm (55) Grit mine, El Dorado County; 8.26 cm (60) Grit mine, El Dorado County; 4.76...Dorado County; 4.29 cm (62) Grit mine, El Dorado County; 2.22 cm (63) Grit mine, El Dorado County; 2.54...WEW Figure 3. Gold from the Grit mine, El Dorado County, California: shown on the facing page as no. 60 |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | crystal, finest specimen known, with albite and elbaite, from Virgem da Lapa, Minas Gerais, Brazil. The...hydroxyl-herderite was first described from Paris, Maine, as hydroherderite by Penfield (1894). Members of...Carolina, and from the Dunton Gem mine, Newry, Maine, were also studied and are probably also hydroxylherderite...by Genth (1884), both on material from Stoneham, Maine. In light of the above observation that, of 36 specimens... San Diego County, 57-59% California (2) 67-80% Poland, Maine (3) 61-72% Stoneham, Maine (6) 76-97% Fletcher |  | | Book (volume) | | the western counties, especially the Clay Center Quarry 12 miles southeast of Toledo but in Ottawa Co....ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay |  | | Book (volume) | | the western counties, especially the Clay Center Quarry 12 miles southeast of Toledo but in Ottawa Co....ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Articles Famous mineral localities: The Francon Quarry, Montréal, Québec, Canada . . . . . . . . . . ...WELOGANITE crystal, 4 cm, on matrix, from the Francon quarry, Montréal, Québec, Canada. (See the article in...WEW 3 Famous mineral localities: The Francon Quarry, `ÉÇàÜ°tÄ? dâ°uxv Peter Tarassoff 91 Lakeshore...Road Hudson, Québec, Canada J0P 1H0 The Francon quarry ranks as the second most prolific type locality |  | | Journal (issue) | | STAINLESS STEEL CABBING UNIT This machine is made in the USA for Kingsley North. Features an all stainless steel...Wholesale and retail show; Gem Faire Inc.; Washington County Fairgrounds; 873 NE 34th Ave.; Fri. 12-6, Sat....Jefferson County Fairgrounds; 4907 Landers St.; Fri. 10-9, Sat. 10-9, Sun. 10-6; Jefferson County Fair admission:...Northwest Wisconsin Gem & Mineral Society; Barron County Fairgrounds; Highway 48 N.; Sat. 10-5, Sun. 10-4;...more spectacular species. Check your specimens of elbaite, kunzite, and other pegmatite gem minerals, and |  | | Book (volume) | | series of pegmatite dikes ranking with those in Maine and Southern California for their production of...beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm...gray Barite rosette up to 5 or 6 inches. CAMPBELL COUNTY MOUND CITY, W to the Missouri R., regional hillsides...gravels, etc.petrified wood, wood opal. CORSON COUNTY LITTLE EAGLE: area ridges, slopes, stream beds...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States CUSTER COUNTY AREA: The November Mine, 1.2 mi. SE of the Needles |  | | Book (volume) | | rectangular step cut purplish pink elbaite tourmaline (30.89 ct), Maine; round brilliant red-orange spessartine...Colorado; colorless scheelite (19.66 ct), Kern County, California; octagonal step cut violetish pink...Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from San Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...Cantlin, Ellis, [D; Jeannette B. Carillo, Gem Center USA, EI Paso, TX; Gary Christopher, The Prospectors Cache...Resources, Vancouver, BC; Barbara L. Muntyan, Ouray County Historical Society, Ouray, CO; Merrill O. Murphy |  | | Journal (issue) | | uncommon lithium-mica from Coyote Peak, Humboldt County, California .....................................tour of the mineral facilities at the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History (where Tony is curator)...40502 he Hoosier Stone and Concrete Corporation quarry near Salem, Indiana, has yielded extremely well-formed...Hoosier Stone and Concrete Corporation, ran the quarry opera tion. Though minor production in the area...done in the Hoosier Stone and Concrete Corporation quarry, located 1 km west of Salem, in the northeast corner |  | | Journal (issue) | | Articles The Bunker Hill mine, Kellogg, Shoshone County, Id a h o 339 by N. Radford and J. A. Crowley...Gagnon Minerals of the Yates uranium mine, Pontiac County, Quebec . 359 by D. L. Leavitt Shavano Peak ....16-bus 1 B-2120 Schoten COVER: ROSE QUARTZ with elbaite from Lavra da llha, Minas Gerais Brazil. The specimen...1981 Bunker Hill the mine kellogg, shoshone county, idaho by Norman Radford P. O. Box N Osbum, Idaho...of the Coeur d’Alene mining district, Shoshone County, Idaho. The district is roughly 24 kilometers wide |  | | Journal (issue) | | octahedrons on matrix, from the Round Mountain mine, Nye County, Nevada KEITH & MAUNA PROCTOR ~~fgold~~ Please...Franklin-Ogdensburg mining district is located in rural Sussex County, New Jersey, about 45 miles northwest of New York...from the tract, and spent 511 WHITE - L1M£STON£ QUARRY Figure 5. A 1905 sketch map of the Franklin area...collection ultimately went to Bowdoin College in Maine. Figure 6. Col. Samuel Fowler (1818-1865), son...of"o',,rl, 11no' h°8ht l,r,rs, th11 /,t- Mine or- quarry X 'ter nv,njy intru•,-.,.J Prospect Known· mineral |  | | Journal (issue) | | classical scholar. The gardens surrounding his Trenton, New Jersey, home contained many rare trees and...Roebling was bom on May 5, 1837, in Saxonburg, Butler County, Pennsylvania, the eldest of three sons of the...(1837-1926). Washington died in his eighty-ninth year in Trenton, New Jersey, on July 21, 1926. John Roebling moved...moved his family from Saxonburg to Trenton, New Jersey, in 1849, and established there a small wire rope...building of suspension bridges. Washington attended Trenton Academy, then enrolled in Rensselaer Polytechnic |  | | Journal (issue) | | It proved t. all parlles involved, USFS, King County police, WSMC, an probably the other claimants,...News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 E-mail: lream@comtch.iea.com...IL) had some unusual sand concretions from Green County, WI. These were from a small find recently made...crystal on copper from Ahmeek,MI. The Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History was a few large specimens...lepidolite with elbaite (rubellite variety) in the Rozna lepidolite-subtype pegmatite, Hradisko Quarry, near Rozna | | | Book (volume) | | rectangular step cut purplish pink elbaite tourmaline (30.89 et), Maine; round brilliant red-orange spessartine...Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from Sai, Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...Cantlin, Ellis, ID; Jeannette B. Carillo, Gen1 Center USA, El Paso, TX; Gary Christopher, The Prospectors Cache...Resources, Vancouver, BC; Barbara L. Muntyan, Ouray County Historical Society, Ouray, CO; Merrill 0. Murphy... 15 Figure 6. Dallas Gem Mine in San Benito County, CA........................................... |
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