 | 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 |  | | 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 (article/letter/editorial) | | the historic Deer Hill locality in southwestern Maine. Downloaded by [NUS National University of Singapore]...Amethyst Discovery on Stow, Oxford County, Maine WOODROW B. THOMPSON Maine Geological Survey State House...House Station 22 Augusta, Maine 04333 In the summer of 1993, a trio of Maine mineral collectors worked...reviewing three of the major amethyst localities in Maine and the history of amethyst finds on Deer Hill,this... Ovewiew of Maine Amethyst Localities THE DEER HILL amethyst deposits in Stow, Maine, have been known |  | | 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) | | Maine Articles Published in Rocks and Minerals AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY DANIEL BEHNKE 2981 Landwehr...Gentleman of Oxford County. Rocks and Minerals 35:28-29. A tribute to "the dean of Maine minerals," Charles...of Buckfield, Maine. Bailey, E . M. 1929. A catalog of minerals found at Rumford, Maine. Rocks and Minerals...Barker, D. S. 1955. The Union Limestone quarry, Union, Maine. Rocks and Minerals 30:365-66. Short description...several locations includ ing: Berry quarry, Poland; Bennett quarry, Buckfield; Hebron; Paris; and Litchfield |  | | 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) | | called that, from people who do not wish to visit a quarry more than once. N o wonder that many Clubs "have...again. A Club of which I am a member located a quarry. W e were warned that it was "dead." W e went anyway...Strick land Quarry at Portland where more than 100 minerals are reported; quartz, beryl, tourmaline etc...courses in basic lapidary, directed by member B u d Cole. Herb D u k e offers professional classes in casting...Mineral Society has gone to jail—literally—the County gave them the old jail to remodel into a museum |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Pick—Philip Corley, Editor Junior Division of Rockland County Mineral & Gem Society Newlapso—Dr. Philip E. Eisman...Rockland Nuggets—Marvin Klibonoff, Editor Rockland County Mineral & Gem Society, Inc. Unaka Rock & Mineral...the Convention (Federation Meeting). The Coastal Maine Mineral Club is still talking of the Palermo trip...Members of the Sandy River Mineral Club, Farmington, Maine, put on a nice show. Everyone had lovely displays...there. The Gem and Lapidary Society of Montgomery County, Wheaton, Maryland, is making it easy for members |  | | Journal (issue) | | July 1943 PUBLISHED MONTH LY CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY .................................................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...Black Hills of South Dakota ; the huge beryl crystals at Albany, Maine ; a black tourmaline crystal 3x3x8...3x3x8 feet in the Luella Mine near Avon, Latah County, Idaho ; and etc. Origin The crystals have reached |  | | 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...potassic pegmatite pods hosting rare tourmaline, beryl and columbite–tantalite. Over 100 granitic pegmatite...muscovite (K/Rb ≈ 6.6, K/Cs ≈ 14.8, Rb/Tl ≈ 127), beryl (Na/Li ≈ 1.77, Cs2O ≈ 3.15 wt. %), garnet [Mn/(Mn...chemistry, petrology, geochemistry, Sebago, southern Maine Received: 1 October 2009; accepted: 30 March 2010; |  | | Book (volume) | | occur in pegmatite exposures, such as Aquamarine, Beryl, some Ruby-red Corundum, Spodumene and Topaz. Georgia...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...Co. lineBeryl. MAYSVILLE, area gravels along adjoining Co. linerock crystal. BARROW COUNTY WINDER,...inside the Co. line in a Hornblendegneiss exposureBeryl, black Tourmaline. 146 A Location Guide for Rock |  | | 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;... gold, etc.) from sand in Rock Run, Montgomery County, Maryland. The Maryland cubic garnets are similar |  | | Journal (issue) | | Alves Mineralogy of the Bennett pegmatite, Oxford County, Maine ............................................................... 222 by M . Calvo COVER: BERYL, a spectacular, 9-cm fan-shaped group of crystals.../# 6 C alifornia Issue B enitoite, G old, L .A . County M useum , H im alaya m ine $7 Circulation Manager...quartz and adularia crystals. Beryl Be3Al2Si60 18 Anhedral industrial-grade beryl crystals occur embedded in...in quartz and feldspar. Small “eyes” in the beryl crystals turn blue when heated. Biotite K (M g,Fe2+)3(Al |  | | 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...improved clarity and color. Beautiful, intense red beryl crystals, many of facet-grade, found in the Wah...crushed and treated to release the crystals. Red beryl gems, resembling the finest red spinels in color |  | | 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 |  | | Book | | has been privileged to travel extensively from Maine to Southern California, and from Washington’s Pacific...Co. Hematite CALERA, Shelby Co. Wavkllite CLAY COUNTY, Sec. 24. T. 19 S R., 7 E. STATUARY, Coosa Co...Co., (W. border of* Marble Crystalline TALLADEGA COUNTY Marble, (crystalline) VALLEY HEAD, DeKalb Co. Hematite...(near) Feldspar HISSOP, Coosa Co., (near) Beryl JACKSON COUNTY Hematite KENNEDYS, Clay Co., (near) Magnetite...JACKSONVILLE, Calhoun Co. Bauxite ROCKFORD, Coosa Co. Beryl ROUND MOUNTAIN, Cherokee Co. Hematite SPRINGVILLE |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Portia 386 Caverns, Lost River 472 Chips from the Quarry 2, 114, 226, 338, 450, 562 Clair, Richard 226,...Club 8c Society Notes 54, 161, 275 393, 506, 616 Cole, G. Thurston 571 Collectors' Kinks (Clair) 355 Collectors...Tales (Warren) 349 Colorado, Sand-Caldte xls from Stoneham (Campbell & Mitchell) 18 Colo. College add3 gold...Cecile 576 Lampert, Ron 597 Lieber, Dr. Werner 117 Maine, Pseudo-cubic quartz xls (Perham) .... 240 Marcin...167, 279, 395, 508, 617 Quartz xls. Pseudo-cubic, Maine (Perham) 240 Gianf xls. Hurricane Mt., N.H. (Armstrong) |  | | 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 (volume) | | cut purplish pink elbaite tourmaline (30.89 et), Maine; round brilliant red-orange spessartine garnet (...Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from Sai, Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...improved clarity and color. Beautiful, intense red beryl c1ystals, many of facet-grade, found in the Wah...crushed and treated to release the crystals. Red beryl gems, rese1nbling the finest red spinels in color...Cantlin, Ellis, ID; Jeannette B. Carillo, Gen1 Center USA, El Paso, TX; Gary Christopher, The Prospectors Cache |  | | 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 (edition) | | from the Tourmaline Q ueen .1ine, Pala, San Diego County, California. From a pen-and-ink drawing by W. E...1-X I I PRINCIPAL GEMSTONES Diamond, Corundum, Beryl, Topaz, Opal. II 68 IMPORT ANT GEMSTONES The...emeralds, Hiddenite, North Carolina 13 . Drawing of beryl crystal forms 14. San Pedro mine, Pala, California...California 17. Mack mine, Rincon, California 18. Beryl-bearing pegmatite, Baja California 19. Sequist Ranch...Pocket in pegmatite, Newry, Maine 34. Loading pocket contents, Newry, Maine 35. Large tourmaline crystal |  | | Book (edition) | | describes sites under of the nearest town and county. and the many maps included book contain such...Malachite, Chrysocolla, Turquoise LJ Emerald, Beryl ^"^ Agate ** Jade Amethyst nq -* % Gem...from Alaska to the Mexican border and eastward to Maine and Florida. Still others are to be found in Canada... TYPICAL CRYSTAL FORMS <^ bi ^P CHIASTOLITE BERYL EMERALD FELDSPAR EPIDOTE ^?^ (& \ ^^ GARNET...with their six-faced flat-terminated prism of beryl belong here, as well as the variations that calcite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Center R d . , R F D # 2 L i t c h f i e l d , Maine 0 4 3 5 0 Editor— Mrs. David (Alison) W a t k i...trip was made to the Bayer and Mingolla Traprock Quarry, Ashland, Mass. for chalcopyrite, hornblende crys...Sites include Fayler-Middle Creek Quarry and the Lime Bluff Quarry at Muncy. These are limestone quarries...at Lincoln, Nebraska, was shown by the Tompkins County Gem and Mineral Club, Ithaca. James Warren, Sr...to have a mineral and jewelry exhibit in the the Oxford Orphanage to purchase books Josephine Louise Public |
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Cole Quarry, Stoneham, Oxford County, Maine, USA