 | 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 |  | | 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) | | Manasquan, New Jersey, visited Calamity Wash, Yavapai County, and collected several exciting and Figure 7: Arizona...groupings and distortions found in the specimens. Maine New Mining Activity Ever since the feldspar mill...mill burned in West Paris in the early 196Os, Maine pegmatite mining has been conducted only for the recovery...Sweden; the resumption of activity at Mount Mica quarry, Paris; and the find of what might be the world's...world's largest morganite at the Bennett quarry, Buckfield, in the late 1980s convinced the regional collectors |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Pegmatite Mineral Localities in Oxford County, Maine Oxford County The four pegmatites described in...peg matites in the Maine pegmatite belt. The famous pegmatite quarries of western Maine—Mt. Mica, Mt. Apatite...Apatite, Har vard quarry, and Bennett quarry, to name a few—have been heavily picked over for desirable...In 1963 the property was owned by Aldrich Realty of Norway, Maine, and was under lease to T . C . Mining...Mining Company of West Paris, Maine. There has been no known mining of these pegmatite dikes since the |  | | 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) | | 2014 meeting  Summer Field Trip July 19-20 with Maine GS  What your Board is doing  Great Lakes Ice-Out...This year our friends in the Geological Society of Maine Treasurer – Bill Abrahams-Dematte are welcoming...field trip to AECOM, Wakefield, MA the Bethel, Maine area on July 19 and 20. Look for more Bill.Abrahams-Dematte@aecom...near the Member-at-Large - Doug Allen Haley & Aldrich, Inc., Bedford, NH Massachusetts Military Reservation...mass of Jamesonite) and Chris Griffin Haley and Aldrich, Bedford, NH (Beryl Crystal shaft in Rhyolite Matrix) |  | Lupulescu, Marian, Chiarenzelli, Jeffrey, Pecha, Mark, Singer, Jared, Regan, Sean (2018) Columbite-Group Minerals from New York Pegmatites: Insights from Isotopic and Geochemical Analyses. Geosciences, 8 (5) 169 doi:10.3390/geosciences8050169 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Albany, NY 12230, USA Department of Geology, St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY 13617, USA; jchiarenzelli@stlawu...Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA; mpecha@email.arizona.edu Department of Earth and...Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180, USA; singej2@rpi.edu Eastern Geology and Paleoclimate...Geological Survey, P.O. Box 628, Montpelier, VT 05602, USA; sregan@usgs.gov Correspondence: marian.lupulescu@nysed...372.2 ± 8.2 Ma (Baylis Quarry), 371.3 ± 7.3 and 383.4 ± 8.9 Ma (Kinkel Quarry); 383 ± 15 Ma (185th St |  | | Report (volume) | | Group, by T. P. Thayer and C. Ervin Brown ______ Aldrich Mountains Group, by C. Ervin Brown and T. P. Thayer________...Cambrian formations in the Desert Range, Clark County, Nevada, by John H. Stewart and Harley Barnes_____________...and Spragueville Formation of Aroostook County, northeast Maine, by Louis Pavlides__-_________--_____-_-____--____...localities in the vicinity of the Aldrich Mountains, Grant County, Oreg______-____________ ________ ...Jurassic and Upper Triassic rock units in the Aldrich Mountains, Oreg___________________________ 5. Correlation |  | | 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 |  | | Report (volume) | | metamorphosed to the staurolite-kyanite and sillimanite-almandine subfacies of the amphibolite facies. Bordering...1965), we reviewed the report and soil map of each county and made an overlay to show the major rock types...believe gave rise to the various soil series. In each county the rock type that underlies a particular soil...included. Each county soil map was interpreted in terms of rock type, combined with other county maps into...( 1931), an unpublished geologic map of Pickens County by C. Q. Brown, and hitherto unpublished work of |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Vulcan Materials quarry in Racine (Scovil 1994), the pegmatites of Florence County (Koehier 1989) and...zircon), particularly in the Wausau area of Marathon County (Falster 1987). Middle Proterozoic quartzites (1...River Falls from 1969 to 1986. Coarse crystalline almandine, talc, magnetite, and various amphiboles came...Wisconsin mineralogy. The index is arranged county by county (fig. 1). Where possible, township and range...for any I may have omitted. Adams County Hamilton Mound. A quarry is located in the NE 1/4 sec. 36 T*20N*R |  | | 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 (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...number of Brazilian states (page 84); San Diego County, California (page 32) in the United States; Canada...adjacent to the famous Bennett quarry in Oxford County near Buckfield, Maine. In 1998, they opened a football-sized |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | was studied in detail because of its excellent quarry and road-cut exposures, its documentation in the...age of 1050 million years on magnetite from Llano County. More recent geochronologic work on the Precambrian...Rb-Sr, K-Ar, U-Pb, and Th-Pb isotopic ages by Aldrich, et al. (1958), Goldich, et al. (1961), Wasserburg...lower than the sillimanite-almandine-muscovite subfacies of the almandine amphibolite facies . . .'.... Sillimanite, almandine, cordierite, andalusite, and wollastonite are widespread while staurolite and |  | HARANGI, SZ., DOWNES, H., KÓSA, L., SZABÓ, CS., THIRLWALL, M. F., MASON, P. R. D., MATTEY, D. (2001) Almandine Garnet in Calc-alkaline Volcanic Rocks of the Northern Pannonian Basin (Eastern–Central Europe): Geochemistry, Petrogenesis and Geodynamic Implications. Journal of Petrology, 42 (10) 1813-1843 doi:10.1093/petrology/42.10.1813 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | VOLUME 42 NUMBER 10 PAGES 1813–1843 2001 Almandine Garnet in Calc-alkaline Volcanic Rocks of the...allowing preservation of early-formed almandine phenocrysts. Almandine garnet-bearing andesites and dacites...silicic magmas were erupted during extension Almandine garnet is a relatively rare mineral phase in calc-alkaline...melts. Green & Ringwood (1968) demonstrated that almandine-rich garnet could be a liquidus or nearliquidus...harangi@iris.geobio.elte.hu  Oxford University Press 2001 almandine; garnet; calc-alkaline volcanism; | | | 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...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........................................... |  | | Journal (issue) | | Vice President –Society - Doug Allen Haley & Aldrich, Manchester, NH dallen@HaleyAldrich.com Secretary...wives@nh.des.gov Membership Doug Allen Haley & Aldrich, Inc. Manchester, New Hampshire dallen@HaleyAldrich...in April with 74 attendees. Tim White won an Almandine Garnet collected from Ruggles Mine in Grafton...pink Conway Granite was picked up at the Conway Quarry during the Summer 2010 GSNH Geology Field Trip...Lee Wilder collected previously from the Swenson Quarry on North State Street in Concord. The photo above |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | PSEUDOBROOKITE FROM THE NINE MILE PLUTON, MARATHON COUNTY, WISCONSIN. T. W. Buchholz1, A. U. Falster2, and...Ladick Trucking and Excavating weathered granite quarry is located approximately 1 mile east of State Highway...to overlook Eastern scientific literature! Ma (Aldrich 1959, cited in Brown 1986). The highly evolved...BISMUTH, AND ASSOCIATED MINERALS FROM THE WATERLOO QUARRY, SOUTHERN WISCONSIN. T. W. Buchholz1, A. U. Falster2...Orleans, LA 70148. The Michels Materials Waterloo quarry exposes Baraboo Interval quartzites and metapelites |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Phyllonit.es, Gneisses or with biotite with almandine with oligoclase Fault Zone N\I* of Fault, Sediments...Franz Josef Glacier, Westland. muscouite-biotite-almandine schist,, with accessory opaque material. About...per cent pure; t,he impurity almost entirely almandine. Elevation 700 ft. Locality, south bank of Wanganui...quartzoligoclase-muscovite-biotite schist, with accessory almandine, clinozoisite, tourmaline, and opaque material...quartzoligoclase-museovite-biotite schist, with aocessory almandine, clinozoisite, tourmaline and opaque material |  | | Journal (issue) | | identity service for gemstones is that devised by Aldrich and Davey of California, U.S.A.( 4 ) T h e scheme...that he, assisted by Mrs. E. Miles, tried out the Aldrich & Davey system a n d found it far too complicated...Silversmith and Optician), pp. 101-103, January, 1935. Aldrich, J. A. : Davey, G. T. The permanent record of gemstone...is often confused with almandine. T h e true pyrope when compared with almandine, is seen to be quite a...really resemble the more subdued crimson or purple almandine. Other collectors have told me that they had some |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | frondelite, hendricksite, whitlockite, and an almandine from Gore Mountain, New York, were selected from...and described, and a Russell, Massachusetts, almandine (to represent Carl Francis, a former colleague...pins included. nix Art Museum, Arizona, and the Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut. Numerous other |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Geology, Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA (Received July 15, 1983; accepred in revised Jbrtn...ages fall within the range 1240-t 280 Ma (e.g. ALDRICH ei ai’., 1969) showing that uplift in the area...pyroxene granulites contain a secondary garnet (almandine). a mineral which is absent from Locality S. Samples...suggested by KIEFFER (1982). (We have taken our almandine samples to be equivalent to Kieffer’s pyrope,...is not the pyrope-rich almandine of normal granulites, but rather an almandine of a type more applicable |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | rocks over most of the Front Range belong to the almandine-amphibolite facies, but lower grade facies are...ages, Hutchinson, 1960; Giffin and Kulp, 1960; Aldrich and others, 1957; and whole-rock, isochron age...composition from granite to diorite. References Cited Aldrich, L. T., Wetherill, G. W., and Davis, G. L., 1957...deposits of the Chicago Creek area, Clear Creek County, Colorado: U. S. Geol. Survey Prof. Paper 319, |  | | Report (issue) | | plutonism in the northern Shield. Brown and others (in Aldrich and others, 1978, part 2) report Rb/Sr whole rock...(1980) report a zircon-Pb age of 570 Ma. Aldrich (in Aldrich and others, 1978; part 1) reports a Rb/Sr...emplacement, about 580 Ma ago (Stacey and others, 1980; Aldrich and others, 1978), of the large alkalic to peralkalic...occasionally contain conspicuous red garnets (almandine?). Syenogranite Syenogranite (sgr) is generally...others, in Aldrich and others, 1978, part 2; Stacey and others, 1980; Aldrich, in Aldrich and others |
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