 | | 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 |  | Francis, Carl A., Felch, Myles, Falster, Alexander U., Bailey, Douglas A. (2016) Aquamarine from Stoneham and Vicinity, Oxford County, Maine. Rocks & Minerals, 91 (1) 28-35 doi:10.1080/00357529.2016.1099131 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | from Stoneham and Vicinity Oxford County, Maine Downloaded by [Penn State University] at 01:41 12 December...fALSTeR DoUGLAS A. BAILeY Maine Mineral and Gem Museum Po Box 500 Bethel, Maine 04217 cfrancis@mainemineralmuseum...gemstones came from Stoneham, Maine—a century apart. Figure 1. Aldrich quarry beryl. Maine Mineral and Gem...P T I ONAL AQUAMARINE CRYSTAL was found in a Stoneham pasture by Gilman McKeen while driving cattle...crystal found by another farmer elsewhere in the Stoneham area. He wrote, “In color and material, this is |  | | 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) | | SCEPTERS FROM FALL HILL, LITTLE FALLS, HERKIMER COUNTY, NEW YORK. S. C. ChmizDerlainand W J. Hladysz,...bank of the Mohawk River at Little Falls, Herkimer County, New York. Cavities mineralized with quartz, dolomite...OCTAHEDRAL GARNETS: MARYLAND, USA, BRAZIL, AND ITALY. E. E. Foord and V i? King, 906 Cole Street, Golden, CO 80225...usually found on grossular: Vesper Peak, Snohomish County, Washington; Jeffrey mine, Asbestos, QuCbec, Canada;...Minas Gerais, Brazil has proven to be manganoan almandine (RI, XRD, EDS, this study). Dominant cubes also |  | | 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 (article/letter/editorial) | | arch of the Palermo mine, North Groton, Grafton County. Rob Lawrence photo, courtesy Bob Whitmore. 242...at 15:01 05 January 2015 LOCATIONS BY COUNTY Belknap County Alton area: arsenopyrite, galena, quartz...occurrence is particularly noteworthy for Carroll County Albany, Blackberry Crossing (includes the Moose...tall, Government Gravel pit, North Conway, Carroll County. Jeff Scovil specimen and photo. Downloaded by...tall, Middle Moat Mountain, North Conway, Carroll County. Canadian Museum of Nature specimen, Jeff Scovil |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Alves Mineralogy of the Bennett pegmatite, Oxford County, Maine ........................................../# 6 C alifornia Issue B enitoite, G old, L .A . County M useum , H im alaya m ine $7 Circulation Manager...color. Almandine-Spessartine (Fe,M n)2+Al2(S i0 4)3 A few rounded, weathered crystals of almandine-spessartine...specimens were collected in the northern margin j f the quarry, inside the entrance to the main adit, on the left...ad” Uraninite Carbonates Cerussite Silicates Almandine-Spessartine Beryl Clays Kaolinite Montmorillonite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | homogenized natural, 489. ALLEN (J. A.), anal. by, 638. Almandine, Norway, anal., 693. Alum Bay, Isle of Wight,...quartz or dickite or both, i28. Amblygonite, France, Maine, New South Wales, Saxony, anal., cell-dimensions...mine, Caceres, Spain, montebrasite, 414. Amelia County, Virginia, albite, I56; - - , anal., d2o i, 489...Australia, alkali feldspar, anal., d2oi, 489. Bosahan quarry, Falmouth, Cornwall, biotite, 2IO. BOWDEN (P.)...orderdisorder in, 26. Cochabamba, Bolivia, gersdorffite, 26. COLE (J. F.) and VILLIGER(H.), Computer programme for |  | | 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...ALICE GLORY HOLE The Alice glory hole, Clear Creek County, Colorado (by T. A. Hanson & W. B. Craft) 18:185187...--and W. Hunt: The Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County, Arizona 19:139-144 ALLGOOD, GENNE MYERS --and...Allgood, J. Pradenas: Gold occurrences in Tuolumne County, California 18:41-45, 18:62-64 --with W. H. Wilkinson |  | | 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) | | Geology, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY 13346, USA (wpeck@mail.colgate.edu) 2 Department of Geology...Geophysics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA ABSTRACT Quartz–garnet oxygen isotope thermometry...Whitehall were collected at an abandoned quarry behind the Washington County garage (Whitney, 1985) and one (00AK15)...(see text). been empirically constrained in almandine–pyrope garnet by Valley et al. (2003). By this...were 200 s (at c. 4000 cps), and analyses used almandine and diopside standards for major elements. Three |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | if it isn't an "ite" if s an "ine": calamine, almandine, adventurine, irodosmine, and such matters. These...the Rice's Fossil Pit at Hampton. . . . Aubrey E. Cole spoke on "Carrying Gemstones" for the Northern Virginia...was interesting reading. . . . The St. Lawrence County Rock and Mineral Club) Massena, heard a talk by...Lapidary and Mineral Club, Marietta. MAINE 'fhe Coastal Maine Mineral Club, Portland, installed its...Field Trip to the Brewer The Mine in Chesterfield County. . WeJtern South Carolina Gem and Minerai Society |  | | Journal (issue) | | Bethesda, Maryland Joseph Urban Tucson, Arizona Ruth Cole Wertz Silver Spring, Maryland PHOTOGRAPHIC EDITOR... ~ COVER STORY: BIGGS JASPER from Jack Beer's Quarry in Biggs Junction, Oregon. This picture jasper...Prairie Creek j ust 10uth of Murfree• boro, Pike County, Arkansas. The near-oval shaped area is an enclosed...diatreme (volcanic pipe) near Murfreesboro, Pike County, Arkansas (The Crater of Diamonds State Park)....chrome diopside, enstatite, chrome pyrope and almandine garnets, omphacite, kyanite , zircon, rutile, |  | | Book (volume) | | cut purplish pink elbaite tourmaline (30.89 ct), Maine; round brilliant red-orange spessartine garnet (16...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 (article/letter/editorial) | | report intra-crystalline δ18O heterogeneities in almandine-pyrope garnets (Kohn et al. 1993; Young and Rumble...between zones I and II. (b to e) Spessartine, almandine, pyrope, and grossular zoning profiles (in mol%)...zoning Intra-crystalline δ18O heterogeneities in almandine-pyrope garnets reported in the literature (e.g...intracrystalline heterogeneities reported so far in almandine metamorphic-magmatic garnets by in situ measurements...contrasted δ18O signatures. In their study of almandine garnets in calc-alkaline volcanic rocks from Hungary |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | GRANITIC PEGMATITES OF THE BRUNSWICK AND OXFORD FIELDS, MAINE: DIFFERENTIAL TRENDS IN F-POOR AND F-RICH...FRANCIS Mineralogical Museum, Harvard University, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, U.S.A....field and the Central Maine Synclinorium of the Oxford pegmatite field, in Maine, are intruded by numerous...(Nb,Ta)-bearing phases. Generally, the CGM from Maine are hosted by pegmatites characterized by a LCT...observed between the CGM from the Brunswick and Oxford pegmatite fields. Columbite-group minerals from |  | | Book (edition) | | from the Tourmaline Q ueen .1ine, Pala, San Diego County, California. From a pen-and-ink drawing by W. E...Pocket in pegmatite, Newry, Maine 34. Loading pocket contents, Newry, Maine 35. Large tourmaline crystal...of tourmaline crystal forms 38. Map of San Diego County, California gem sources 3 9. Stewart Lithia· and...View of Clear Creek, San Benito County, California 55. Monterey County jade-producing shoreline, California...California 56. Rhodonite quarry, Salt Spring Island, Vancouver Island 57. Drawing of garnet crystal forms |  | | Book (volume) | | fabulous tourmalines and kunzites of California and Maine, the sparkling sapphires of Montana, and the...Kobuk jade locality. Descriptions of San Diego County, California, gemstones and the mines in which they...the generous assistance of many residents of that county. My special thanks are extended to Elbert H. McMacken...Mt. Mica Largest crystal from Mt. Mica Eh Towne Quarry 180 Tourmaline Queen Mountain IgI Tourmaline crystal...Illustrations . . . . . . . . . . . . . Garnet crystals Almandine from Wrangell Spessartite matrix specimen Spessartite |  | | Journal (issue) | | from page I) History Born in Waterville, Oneida County, New York, on January 16, 1863, William Phelps...and found the town fascinating. At this time the Cole, Dallas, and Junction underground mines were in...tourmaline crystals from the Himalaya mine in San Diego County, California. He also had one small flat of slightly...was Stan Werwara and was a miner who worked in the Cole mine. He also had ties to the Michigan Copper Country...Tourmaline crystals from the Himalaya mine, San Diego County, California. The specimen on the left is 5 x 8 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 1017/S0016756808005293 Printed in the United Kingdom Almandine garnet phenocrysts in a ∼ 1 Ga rhyolitic tuff...Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA (Received 23 October 2007; accepted 17 January 2008;...Abstract – We report on the newly discovered almandine garnet phenocrysts in rhyolitic ignimbrites (Sukhda...indicative xenoliths or xenocrysts, that these almandine garnets (Al78.7 Py12.3 Gr7.4 Sp1.6 ) are phenocrysts...Sukhda Tuff. Almandine of such composition is stable under high pressure. We infer that almandine crystallized |  | | Journal (issue) | | ............. 554 MISCELLANEOUS CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY .................................................505 511 514 532 533 551 551 553 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY GEOLOGIC HAZARDS COMMITTEES NAMED Clarence Allen...and August 1st, 1965, in Pierrepont, St. Lawrence County, N. Y., to swap or dig your own tourmaline plus...Coastal Maine Mineral Club presents its 3rd Annual Rock Swap at Jo Scholl's Place, North Gorham, Maine. July...and Mineral Fair will be held at the Jefferson County Fair Grounds west of Denver, Colo., on U. S. 6 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Fluorapatite, 3.3-cm crystal, from the Pulsifer quarry, Maine. Collected by Terry Szenics; Jeff Scovil photo...rosette, with prehnite, 14 cm, from the Centreville quarry, Fairfax, Virginia. Smithsonian Institution collection...C6649; Lee Boltin photo. Fairfax Quarry, Virginia, 1967 The Fairfax quarry in Virginia is a classic locality...northeastern corner of the Fairfax quarry in Centreville, Virginia. I visited the quarry the next weekend. Nothing...15 feet to the left, parallel to the wall of the quarry. This tube varied from 6 inches to 2 feet wide |  | | Book | | studied (Cole and Chakraborty, 2001) and comprises processes such as dissolutioneprecipitation (Cole, 2000)...2000) and grain boundary diffusion (Cole et al., 2004). In the experiments in this study, The Si-O(bridging)-Si...metastable intermediate phase to formation of almandine) in the staurolite breakdown assemblage and confirmation...side of photo). Although disrupted by glass, almandine-rich garnet (Grt) is unaltered. The web-like pattern...it is most likely metastable. Cordierite and almandine were not products of staurolite breakdown in the |  | | Journal (issue) | | Largest Reddingite Crystals Found at Bennett Quarry, Buckfield, Maine Van King PO Box 90888, Rochester, NY 14609...(newryqs@rochester.rr.com) Jim Mann 57 Main Street, Bethel, Maine 04217 (m tm ann@megamlink.net) Reddingitc is a late-stage...locality for reddingite is the Abidja N. Fillow Quarry, Branchville village, Redding, Fairfield Co., Connecticut...reported the first rcddingite from the Bennett Quarry and provided a bulk, wet-chemical analysis: MnO...Leaseman, an optometrist formerly of Portland, Maine. In the collection was a specimen which at first |
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