 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | New Hampshire Mineral Locality Index Downloaded by [University of Newcastle, Australia] at 15:01 05...Groton, Grafton County. Rob Lawrence photo, courtesy Bob Whitmore. 242 ROCKS & MINERALS lthough New Hampshire...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...at 15:01 05 January 2015 LOCATIONS BY COUNTY Belknap County Alton area: arsenopyrite, galena, quartz |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Pegmatites from the Oxford Pegmatite Field (Maine, USA) Lorena Hernández-Filiberto 1, *, Encarnación Roda-Robles...Pegmatites from the Oxford Pegmatite Field (Maine, USA). Minerals 2021, 11, 802. https:// doi.org/10.3390/min11080802...P.O. Box 500, 99 Main Street, Bethel, ME 04217, USA; wsimmons@uno.edu (W.B.S.); kwebber@uno.edu (K.L...Almandine-spessartine garnets, from the Oxford County pegmatites and the Palermo No. 1 pegmatite, record...host certain chemical elements, such as biotite, schorl, plagioclase, apatite, Fe-Mn phosphates, Nb-Ta |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Andros coggin River from Brunswick in Sagadahoc County. A mile-wide belt of granitic pegmatites runs from...synonomy has arisen due to changes of leasee or owner. Quarry locations are described and plotted on top ographic...1860. This quarry was worked for a single season during the 1860s by a Mr. Carr of Grafton, West Virginia...Virginia, and then sold to Golding Brothers of Trenton, New Jersey. How ever, credit for establishing the feldspar...of Bath who was superintendent for the Trenton (New Jersey) Flint and Spar Company. In 1869 that firm |  | | Report (edition) | | 5 cm tall; gem weighs 2 carats. From the Havey Quarry, Poland, MaifJ. e. Photo copyright 1995 by Wendell...on quartz crystals, 24 x JO mm;Jrom the Bennett Quarry, Buckfield, Maine. Mined in 1996 by Holden !Jrothers...much information on collecting sites in Oxford County. Numerous other collectors of Maine minerals also...llecting equipment and techniques for those who are new to the ·hobby. Several previous guidebooks have been...Supplemental labels were added where necessary to show quarry sites, road names, and other useful landmarks. |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | DAVID M. SEAMAN American Museum of Natural History, New York City Article 8, Silica and Silicates (part three)...The common, black, iron rich variety is known as schorl. The colored tourmalines or lithium tourmalines...length at the quarries near Bedford and Overlook, New York; near Golden, Colorado and elsewhere. A fine...found at Fort Washington Avenue and 171st Street in New York City and is now in the American Museum of Natural...crystal was noted in the Luella mine near Avon, Latah county, Idaho, which measured 3x3x8 feet. Other large |  | Roda-Robles, E., Simmons, W., Pesquera, A., Gil-Crespo, P. P., Nizamoff, J., Torres-Ruiz, J. (2015) Tourmaline as a petrogenetic monitor of the origin and evolution of the Berry-Havey pegmatite (Maine, U.S.A.) American Mineralogist, 100 (1) 95-109 doi:10.2138/am-2015-4829 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Earth and Environmental Science, University of New Orleans, New Orleans 70148, Lousiana, U.S.A. 3 Departamento...pegmatite (Oxford pegmatite field, Androscoggin County, Maine, U.S.A.), enriched in Li, F, B, Be, and...pockets. A complete chemical evolution from Mg-rich schorl in the wall zone to elbaite with an important deprotonation...core margin, tourmaline composition evolves from schorl toward Li-rich species through the substitution...region. The Berry-Havey pegmatite (Androscoggin County, Maine, U.S.A.), is a highly evolved, rareelement |  | | 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 (volume) | | a diamond for the first time and is still the standard cut for the diamond. Modifications of the brilliant...Del Norte County; Trinity River, Trinity County; Spanish Creek and Gopher Hill, Plumas County; Placerville...Dorado County; Cherokee Flats, Yankee Hill,and Oroville, Butte County; French Corral, Nevada County; Indian...Indian Gulch and Volcano, Amador County; and Alpine Creek, Tulare County. Other western localities are:...Diamond Basin, Ada County, Idaho; Curry County, Oreg.; and Nelson Hill, near Glacier County, Mont. The Great |  | | 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...microcline from Pakistan's world famous Gilgit area. The schorl is 4. 7 cm high. Photo Jeff Scovil; private collection...CHRISTIAN WEISE VERLAG, GERMANY AND LAPIS INTERNATIONAL, USA Tourmaline ♦ History ♦ Mineralogy • Tourmaline...History in Brief .......... 4 Vandall T. King • New from Sludyanka .......... ...... . 9 • Mineralogy...Author and historian, Vandall King of Rochester, New York recounts 400 years of tourmaline history The |  | Rotiroti, Nicola, Vignola, Pietro, Bersani, Danilo, Simmons, William B., Falster, Alexander U., Whitmore, Robert W., Nizamoff, James W., Lotti, Paolo, Risplendente, Andrea, Pavese, Alessandro (2016) On the Crystal-Chemistry of Bjarebyite, BaMn2+2Al2(PO4)3(OH)3, From the Palermo #1 Pegmatite, Grafton County, New Hampshire, Usa. The Canadian Mineralogist, 54 (4) 1033-1041 doi:10.3749/canmin.1500112 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | , FROM THE PALERMO #1 PEGMATITE, GRAFTON COUNTY, NEW HAMPSHIRE, USA NICOLA ROTIROTI Università degli...Palermo #1 pegmatite, North Groton, Grafton County, New Hampshire, U.S.A. (Moore et al. 1973). As pointed...feldspars, muscovite, phosphates, beryl, and a little schorl. The phosphate pods are mainly triphylite and reach...Palermo #1 pegmatite, North Groton, Grafton County, New Hampshire, U.S.A. The crystal structure of bjarebyite...chemistry of this secondary phosphate mineral using new electron microprobe, single-crystal X-ray diffraction |  | Thompson, Woodrow B., Bearss, Gene T., Falster, Alexander U., Simmons, William B., Nizamoff, Jams W. (2000) The Estes Quarry, Cumberland County, Maine: A New Pegmatite Mineral Locality. Rocks & Minerals, 75 (6) 408-418 doi:10.1080/00357520009605667 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Cumberland Countv. Mahe A New Pegmatite M ineral Locality T he Estes quarry in southwestern Maine exposes...highly mineralized pegmatites in Maine and New Hampshire. The quarry has yielded fine specimens of eosphorite...Hlstory The Estes quarry is located on Route 5 in West Baldwin, Cumberland County, Maine (fig. 1). It...Contractors of West Baldwin. This is a working quarry with high rock walls and unstable boulder piles...for permission. Prior to the opening of the Estes quarry, a gravel pit was being worked at the base of the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | exploration, and mineral collecting continues. and new finds will likely continue to be made. The most complete...FiridofGt~rnSphultirite ut IIIP Bulinut Zinc Mine, St. Luwrence County, tditor of NPW b r k ” unrl iipptwwl in the No~~er...project of Friends of Mineralogy; corrections and new or additional data are welcome and should be sent...and additions. Mlneral Index by Counties Brule County Elm Creek, IS mi. S. of Chamberlain, near junction...of Pierre Formation: barite (gray roses). Butte County Belle Fourche, 6 mi. W., secs. 23, 24, 25. and |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | PO Box 500, 99 Main Street, Bethel, Maine 04217 USA ABSTRACT The garnet line is a planar fabric occurring...al. 1999) occur. A similar sub-parallel line of schorl (black tourmaline) crystals sometimes occurs below...NE–SW trending synclinorium (Fig. 1) extending from New Brunswick, Canada into Connecticut. The CMB is primarily... The portion of the CMB surrounding the Oxford county pegmatites in western Maine has recently been referred...quartz, plagioclase, and muscovite with accessory schorl. The core is composed primarily of quartz, albite |  | Bosi, Ferdinando, Skogby, Henrik, Hålenius, Ulf, Ciriotti, Marco E., Mills, Stuart J. (2022) Lowering R3m Symmetry in Mg-Fe-Tourmalines: The Crystal Structures of Triclinic Schorl and Oxy-Dravite, and the Mineral luinaite-(OH) Discredited. Minerals, 12 (4) 430 doi:10.3390/min12040430 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Structures of Triclinic S Structures of Triclinic Schorl and Oxy-Dravite, and theluinaite-(OH) Mineral Mineral...Mg-Fe-Tourmalines: The Crystal Article Structures of Triclinic Schorl and 1 Dipartimento d 2 Department of Dipartimento...Claim), ied samples we North Bend, King County, Washington, DC, USA. Biaxial (−) crystals representative...(Australia) can be considered as the triclinic dimorph of schorl, as its chemical chemical compo Lowering R3m Symmetry...Mg-Fecomposition corresponds to schorl, and thus it should be referred as schorl-1A. Similarly, the triclinic |  | | Report (issue) | | William "Skip" Simmons and Alexander Falster Page 28 New England Gem Beryl Bruce Jarnot Page 16 Bazzite of...specialists from the University of New Orleans in Louisiana (USA), with the lowdown on beryl mineralogy...crystal has been recorded from the Alger quarry in New Hampshire (USA). The crystal weighed 455 kilograms... 8.4m: The largest beryl crystal at the Bumpus quarry in Maine was 8.4 meters long, 1.9 meters in diameter...number of Brazilian states (page 84); San Diego County, California (page 32) in the United States; Canada |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | NEW # CHIPS a n d BITS EFMLSTLUBS EFMLS OFFICERS: 1974-1975 President—Frank Mayo 3340 Wood Valley...Valley Gem and Mineral Society, Fishkill, added 13 new members to its roster as a result of the Club show...Eastchester, found excellent rhodonite in the Berts Quarry, Plainfield, Mass. Robert Middleton, Earth Science...entitled Glacial Geomorphology, and is a member of the New York Southern Tier Geology Club, John son City....on silversmithing Member Bob Culver of the Wayne County Gem and Mineral Club, Marion, found a "fair sized" |  | | Journal (issue) | | Minerals 1998: What's New Dan Weinrich www.danweinrich.com China One of the exciting new finds from China...specimens belong. A more recent find involves a new locality for spessartine 1998 California Show at...more than the kids, and hopefully may have started new "collecting families." 2 Mineral News I found...years ago in Denver; the other, about tin size, were new. They were water clear with deep reddish/purplish...Casey Jones (Geoprime Minerals) had stibnites from a new Nevada locality, the Murray Mine, not the old Manhattan |  | | Book (volume) | | Descriptive Mineralogy Vandall T. King Rochester, New York 14609 , Eugene E. Foord U S. Geological Survey...publisher. Cover photograph: Fluorapatite, Pulsifer quarry, Auburn, Maine (2.2 cm specimen), Harvard Mineralogical...Philip Hauck Richard P. Hauck was born in Bloomfield, New Jersey on June 30, 1935. He has been actively involved...for the fate of the Sterling mine in Ogdensburg, New Jersey, and his intense interest in mining history...States Geological Survey in Reston, Virginia; the New York City Public Library; the Library of Congress; |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | radius). One standard deviation of the “B/‘“B ratio for five separate analyses of the standard (NBS SRM 95...mass spectrometer. The standard deviation for seven separate analyses of the standard on this instrument...to be comparable to that for the NBS SRM 95 I standard solution. The boron isotope ratios for NBS SRM...and P. B. Moore 912 DISCUSSION The results The new tourmaline data are displayed, by occurrence type...to -5 per mil. The overall range of the eighteen new tourmaline results includes the range of seven published |  | | Book | | frequently necessary to search through each of the standard books on Mineralogy, page by page. It is true...of some of the principal localities in the same county, was given by Messrs . Greg and Lettsom in their...locality by some independent authority, such as maps, county directories, local guide books, &c. The geological...Introduction to Mineralogy, by the late WILLIAM PHILLIPS. New Edition, by H. J. BROOKE, F.R.S., F.G.S., and W.H...APJOHN, F.R.S. 1850. A Descriptive Catalogue of a New Collection of Minerals in the Museum of the Royal |  | | 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 ___ |  | | Show/Event (guide) | | Paul Dudlcv, Chuck l liter, Bill Freundlich What's New in Minerals - Jeff Scovil Auction Solicitors General...The Four Cs of Calcite by Terry E. Huizing 1 3 New York State Field Collecting: A Review of the Powers...Mauthner, Mike Walter, and Jason Smith) completely new to the Symposium and four speakers (John Jaszczak...transparencies. We have a large number of speakers new to the RMSas well as some familiar faces and we warmly...ever. I hope you have another great RMS, form some new friendships, renew some old ones, and buy lots of |  | | Journal (issue) | | open-pit Gold Quarry Mine, Eureka County, Nevada. from the Radersburg District, Broadwater County, Montana...small wulfcnite crystals found at the Broadwater County, Montana (Sec. 28, T 5 N, R 1 W), some interesting...Papers for the 1999 George F. Kunz Competition The New York Mineralogical Club (NYMC), founded in 1886 is...include (but arc not restricted to): description of new mineral or gem localities, mineralogy of active or...to the New York Mineralogical Club, Kunz Prize Coordinator, PO Box 77, Planetarium Station, New York, |  | | Book | | THE PEGMATITE MINES KNOWN AS NORTH GROTON, NEW HAMPSHIRE eral I ederi Acknowledi:ments Dedicated...experience. As a kid growing up in Manchester, New Hampshire, I was always fascinated by minerals and tried...Mountains in the tiny borough of North Groton, New Hampshire, the mine, although now privately owned and...an intriguing and enlightening perspective into New Hampshire's significant contribution to a growing...would slowly begin to diminish. Regardless of these new sci�ntific advancements, few synthetic substances |
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