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Biotite from
Porcupine Hill Quarry, Topsham, Sagadahoc County, Maine, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:'Biotite' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:K(Fe2+/Mg)2(Al/Fe3+/Mg/Ti)([Si/Al/Fe]2Si2O10)(OH/F)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Biotite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Porcupine Hill Quarry, Topsham, Sagadahoc County, Maine, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:29691
Long-form Identifier:1:3:29691:7
GUID (UUID V4):c5f712db-8321-4239-8ad3-b180b0cff2a1
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Massachusetts 02138 MAINE Minerals of the Topsham, Maine, Pegmatite District TopshamTopsham, Maine's underappreciated...Brunswick in Sagadahoc County. A mile-wide belt of granitic pegmatites runs from Standpipe Hill, overlooking...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...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 (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........................................Elbaite from Newry, Maine (by P. J. Dunn) [1975, vol. 6, no. 1, p. 22-25.] Newry, Maine, a pegmatite phosphate...] 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 (article/letter/editorial)
ConneMaine Topsham district, Maine Grafton district, New Hampshire Greenfield...the courtyard of the old Brainerd house on Walkely Hill Road (Schooner, 1961) and passed beneath it. Silliman...black tourmaline, garnet (almandine?), muscovite, biotite, and columbite (Navias and Ostrom, 1951). Kunz...Chrysoberyl, Topsham, Maine. The crystal similarity to the chrysoberyl from Porcupine Hill, Topsham, suggests...#2992) in 1884. .i • Chrysoberyl, Porcupine Hill, Topsham, Maine. Specimen is an untwinned crystal 3
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)
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
Report (volume)
A:roostook .County, Maine :;eology of the Bridgewater Quadrangle ~roostook County, Maine 'y LOUIS PAVLIDES...hornfels ________________________ - ____ - - _ _ Biotite-garnet hornfels_ _ ___________ _____ _______ _____...quad- rangle, Maine. 2. Sketch map of major glacial features, Bridgewater quadrangle, Maine. 3. Aeromagnetic...Bouguer gravit.y map of the Bridgewater quadrangle, Maine. Page FIGURE 1. Index map showing the Aroostook...map of the road-metal quarry along U.S. Highway 1, Monticello Township, Maine ______________ -_---Small
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
Book
ADULARIA Adu Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...Iron-manganese phosphates of the Williams pegmatites, Coosa County, Alabama (by P. B. Leavens & T. A. Simpson) 6:66-73...14:157168 ALBITE Davis Hill near Bancroft, Ontario: an occurrence of large nepheline, biotite and albite-antiperthite...ALICE GLORY HOLE The Alice glory hole, Clear Creek County, Colorado (by T. A. Hanson & W. B. Craft) 18:185187...18:185187 ALLACTITE AJlactite from Franklin and Sterling Hill, New Jersey (by P. J. Dunn) 14:251-252 ALLCHAR Famous
Report (issue)
International, LLC P.O. Box 263, East Hampton, CT 06424, USA Phone 1.860.267.1512; fax 1.860.267.7225 www.lapisint...CHRISTIAN WEISE VERLAG, GERMANY AND LAPIS INTERNATIONAL, USA Tourmaline ♦ History ♦ Mineralogy • Tourmaline...spelling of the old word turamalin to tourmalin. Hill coined the term tourmaline garnet in 1771 in reference...gem tourmaline was made at Mount Mica in Paris, Maine, though only small quantities were uncovered there...the north side of the Himalaya Mine in San Diego County, CA. D. Sterrett photo provided by Jesse Fisher
Journal (issue)
R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur...localities: the mineralogy of Graves Mountain, Lincoln County, G eorgia........................................Simmons & F. J. Wicks Calcioferrite from the Moculta quarry, near Angaston, South Australia ................. from the Sweetwater mine, Ellington, Reynolds County, Missouri. Collection of Maudine and Bob Sullivan;...October 28, 1886, by Augustus C. Hamlin of Mt. Mica, Maine, on the cele­ brated Mt. Mica tourmaline locality
Report (volume)
Journal, vol. 28, no. 4, vol. 29, nos. 1-2. Chapel Hill, N. C. Engineering and Mining Journal, vols. 95...Geological Survey, vol. 5 (A.) ; Map (coal, etc.) ; County reports Marion-Monongalia-Taylor counties; Cabell-Wayne-Lincolu...1913. Babb, Cyrus C. 21. Bibliography of Maine geology: Maine, State Water Storage Cornm., 3d Ann. Rept...postglacial Mollusca; I, Emmet County, Michigan; II, Waukesha County, Wisconsin: Nautilus, vol. 27, pp...Henry S. 56. Geology of the Eastport quadrangle: Maine, State Water Storage Oomm., 3d Ann. Eept, pp. 166-169
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
Report (volume)
, 4th ser., Bull. 31, p. 170, footnote). Putnam Hill ls. of central Ohio is correlative with McArthur... and in this (Vinton Co.) rept is called Putnam Hill Is. W. Stout, 1930 (Letter dated Feb. 25). McArthur...McArthur is. is only a shaly phase of the Putnam Hill of central Ohio, being very dissimilar, however, in...dropped, and the fossils should be credited to Putnam Hill. Macastey black shale. Macasty black shales. A...referred to Makasti Cliff, Makasti Bay, and Makasti Hill. McBean formation. Eocene (Claiborne) : Eastern
Book
MONTEREY FORMATION 204 Long Beach Oil Field and Signal Hill 205 Baldwin Hills and Inglewood Oil Field 207 Huntington...and appropriate. Post miles give mileage on a per-county basis. Some counties place post mile signs only...given county. Mileage increases eastward or northward and then restarts at 0 at the next county line....is Santa Barbara County; 29.00 is highway mileage from the south boundary of the county. Post miles are...their names, as, for example, a quartzmuscovite-biotite-andalusite schist or a hornblende granite. IGNEOUS
Report (volume)
glaciation 2 Itkillik glaciation 2 Johnston Hill glaciation 2 Mak Hill glaciation 2 Mount Osborn glaciation...clay) 2 Shubuta member (of Yazoo clay) 2 Shubuta Hill clay « Eocene, middle fChoctaw buhrstone l Claiborne...formation l fNaheola marl l fOak Hill-Pine Barren group l Oak Hill member (of Naheola formation)2 Pine...sandstone J Nenana gravel l jMontevallo formation 1 Porcupine beds J Weisner quartzite or formation l Sand Bay...Continued Burls Creek shale member ' (of Sentinel Hill member (of SchraKatalla formation) der Bluff formation)
Report (volume)
Geology California Div. Mines and Geology County Rept. Geology County Report. San Francisco, Calif. California...Scientific Society. University of North Carolina. Chapel Hill, N. C. Empire State Geogram - The Empire State Geogram...Engineering and Mining Journal. Co. New York, N.Y. McGraw-Hill Publishing Eng. and Sci.- Engineering and Science...Ky. Kentucky .Geol. Survey County Rept. - Kentucky Geological Survey County Report. University of Kentucky...Los Angeles County Mus. Contr. Sci. in Science. Los Angeles, Calif. Los Angeles County Museum Contributions
Report (issue)
prevented recognition of divisions. In northwestern Maine it is rather the drift covering and the monotony...especially acknowledged as follows: Mr. Robert T. Hill prepared an original map of Sonora and Chihuahua...Luis Obispo County, Santa Monica and Pasadena quadrangles, and part of San Diego County, Cal. Ashley...Bancroft, Howland. Geologic map of part of Yuma County, western Arizona: Dull. U. S. Geol. Survey No....on details of lava of Snake River Plains, Elko County, Nev. Barlow, A. E. Data on Haliburton district
Report (issue)
Tantalus Butte Mine Five Finger Rapids Galena Hill-Keno Hill mines Mayo area placer deposits The Klondike...copper belt properties Rainy Hollow area Galena Hill-Keno Hill area mines Klondike gold fields (in pocket)...Rapids, Yukon River Treadwell-Yukon mining camp, Keno Hill The Royal North-West Mounted Police, 1911 Arrival...Whitehorse copper deposits, and in the Keno Hill-Galena Hill area. The recently discovered producers are...etaient aussi entrepris dans la region de Keno Hill-Galena Hill. Parmi Les exploitants d' aujourd' hui, on
Report (issue)
... . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . Galena Hill-Keno Hill mines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Galena Hill-Keno Hill area mines........................ 92 Klondike...Whitehorse copper deposits, and in the Keno Hill-Galena Hill area. The recently discovered producers are...aussi entrepris clans la region de Keno Hill et de Galena Hill. Parmi les exploitants d 1 aujourd 1hui...conglomerate of Cretaceous age. 144. 1 Sandstone quarry on right; the rock was used in the construction
Book
Ottawa Typographie: Jay Tee Graphics Ltd., Richmond Hill, Ontario Ecrit, traduit et rédacté au Canada Imprimé...labradorite de Naïn, Labrador Vue de Nain prise de Ship Hill Spécimen de labradorite 133 132 Les laves anciennes:...la falaise abrupte de la côte du Diable (Devil’s Hill) pouvait faire plonger un homme ou une bête dans...Parsemée de grosses pierres, la côte du Porcépic (Porcupine Hill) mettait les hommes au défi de conquérir le...tortueux et épuisant menant à la côte du Sommet (Summit Hill), une ascension de trois cents mètres sur une piste
Conference Proceedings
GSA~®U® Denver, ANNUAL MEETING Colorado, & USA EXPOSITION PROGRAM '1 '1 '1 '1 Expert technical...Park, Colorado, 25-28 September • Denver, Colorado USA 3 INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIFFRACTION DATA...by Kea Giles. 25-28 September • Denver, Colorado USA 5 TOOLS INFLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY (011(0 01 0. MATHIAS...GeologicalSociety of America 25-28 September • Denver, Colorado USA 7 What are the benefits of becoming an AAPG Member...your room. -25-28 September • Denver, Colorado USA --------------------------4 9 GSW JOURNALS GSW
 
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