 | 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...feLCH ALeXANDeR U. fALSTeR DoUGLAS A. BAILeY Maine Mineral and Gem Museum Po Box 500 Bethel, Maine 04217...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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | cm long), Beebe Hall, McCain Valley, San Diego County, California. Cal and Kerith Graeber specimen; Jeffrey...crystals that are rooted in the microcline-plagioclase-quartz wall zone Downloaded by [] at 04:12 15 May 2015...project into the white quartz core. The portion of beryl enclosed by the quartz core is often sharply...suFounded by graphic granite.) Typically, smoky quartz, albite, muscovite, and microcline line the cavity...Aquamarine (6.7 cm long), Mount Antero, Chaffee County, Colorado. Martin Zinn specimen; Jeffrey Scovil |  | | 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...tourmaline (elbaite) on quartz crystals, 24 x JO mm;Jrom the Bennett Quarry, Buckfield, Maine. Mined in 1996 by |  | | 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) | | in pegmatites. It has been found at the Andrews quarry, Portland, Connecticut; with monazite crystals...New York City, N.Y. ; at the Dake mine, Mitchell County, North Carolina; with tysonite in Cheyenne Canyon...Colorado Springs, Colorado; and with rutile in Alexander County, North Carolina. MONAZITE, is essentially...half inches in size at the Dake mine in Mitchell County. It occurs also in crystals at the Ray mine near...Burnsville and the Ramsey mine near Toledo in Yancy County, North Carolina. Large masses of Monazite occurred |  | | Report (volume) | | the ruby, sapphire, spinel, emerald, rutile, and quartz of gem quality have been synthesized. The best...Fluorite Apatite . 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Orthoclase Quartz Topaz Corundum Diamond The numbers preceding each...of silica (quartz, 7 on Moh's scale) particles, a gem stone should be harder than quartz. Some minerals...react to heat are: violet quartz (amethyst) changing to orange brown, smoky quartz to yellow, pale-green...sapphire, star sapphire, star ruby, rutile, and quartz are gem stones that have been successfully synthesized |  | | Book (edition) | | from Oregon to the Mexican border and eastward to Maine and Florida. What you cannot collect in person...gem stones mon dull are as hard or harder than quartz, a com- mineral everywhere present as dust which...Hardness Scale 6. Orthoclase 1. Talc 2. Gypsum 7. Quartz Topaz Corundum 10. Diamond 3. Colcite 8. 4...Your will scratch orthoclase feldspar but not quartz. In making hardness appears to be a scratch paper...the general arrange- ment of these surfaces. Quartz and amethyst, for example, are frequently crystallized |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | crystal was noted in the Luella mine near Avon, Latah county, Idaho, which measured 3x3x8 feet. Other large...Dakota. A black crystal from Micaville, Randolph county, Alabama, was 10 inches in diameter and from 3...Section pegmatite of Fremont county, Colorado. ROCKS AND MINERALS Maine, Connecticut, and California...gem tourmalines. The most noted occurrences in Maine are Mt. Mica at Paris, Mt. Apatite at Auburn, also...Rumford, Newry, Buckfield, and Topsham. The Gillette quarry at Haddam Neck, Connecticut, was famous when in |  | | Report (issue) | | and the Beryl Group William "Skip" Simmons and Alexander Falster Page 24 The Best of the Rockies Tony...Beryl and Pezzottaite William "Skip" Simmons and Alexander Falster Page 28 New England Gem Beryl Bruce Jarnot...Beryl Color Varieties William "Skip" Simmons and Alexander Falster Page 49 Gem Beryl from Russia and Ukraine...Beryl Red and Green William "Skip" Simmons and Alexander Falster Page 100 Grading and Pricing Gem Beryl...and Alexander Falster, pegmatite specialists from the University of New Orleans in Louisiana (USA), with |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Silica and Silicates ( 107 ) from the pegmatites at QUARTZ, silica, Si02, is an essential mineral in the granite...pegmatites. Massive, white, or smoky colored crystalline quartz often makes up the greater bulk of the mass of...are of pink or the rose quartz variety. Rock crystals, or the colorless quartz crystals, are often found...found as well as are smoky quartz crystals in the cavities of druses which occur in many pegmatites. Amethyst...Amethyst, the purple colored variety of crystalline quartz, usually is found in crystals in cavities or pockets |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Washington, Connecticut 06793. The area of Litchfield County immediately north of the Litchfield town center...more complex. This area includes at least three quartz intrusions of sufficient size to have been quarried...typical of the area—a coarse-grained muscovite-quartz schist with sizeable masses of garnet, staurolite...in length. At the dump of the most northerly quartz quarry, large ilmenite crystals over two inches in...of chalcopyrite in feldspar. A second large quartz quarry just to the north of the staurolite area proved |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | destroyed during blasting at a pegmatite near Paris. Maine (Perham 1987). Chrysoberyl is a beryllium aluininuin...several pegmatites in the northeastern United States. Maine has been the historical source of good chrysoberyl...are in Oxford County (King and Foord 1994). These include pegmatites near Hartford. Stoneham, Norway...Jack Mountain near Hartford and the Hoopers Ledge quarry vicinity at Paris, where a single twinned crystal...more recently in a pegmatite at Gillette quarry, Middlesex County, Connecticut. It is reported from a pegmatite |  | | Journal (issue) | | William Besse; wwbesse@gmail.com VICE PRESIDENT: Alexander Schauss; alex@aibmr.com SECRETARY: Linda Smith;...Brice W. Bridenbecker; bbridenbecker@cmccd.edu Alexander Schauss; alex@aibmr.com Chris Whitney-Smith; ask...(Michael Finger) and LKA Emeralds, Hiddenite, Alexander County, NC Go On Public Exhibit in New York City.................................... 3 Hewitt Gem Quarry................................................................................... 3 Walden Gem Quarry .............................................. |  | Falster, Alexander U., Simmons, William B., Webber, Karen L., Dallaire, Donald A., Nizamoff, James W., Sprague, Raymond A. (2019) The Emmons Pegmatite, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine. Rocks & Minerals, 94 (6) 498-519 doi:10.1080/00357529.2019.1641021 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Unless otherwise noted, all specimens from the Alexander U. Falster collection Figure 1. The Emmons pegmatite...in 1996. THE EMMONS PEGMATITE Greenwood Oxford County, Maine The Emmons pegmatite, noted for its many...pegmatite. T ALEXANDER U. FALSTER WILLIAM B. SIMMONS KAREN L. WEBBER MP2 Research Group Maine Mineral &...& Gem Museum 99 Main Street Bethel, Maine 04217 alexander.falster@gmail.com wsimmons@uno.edu kwebber@uno...Hebron, Maine 04238 phosphate@gmail.com RAYMOND A. SPRAGUE* 33 Roger Street Lewiston, Maine 04240 * |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | named by Nordenskiold in 1842 for Russian Czar Alexander II (1818-1881) on his birthday. Alexandrite is...ConneMaine Topsham district, Maine Grafton district, New Hampshire Greenfield...twins are rare. Associated pegmatite minerals are quartz, plagioclase, orthoclase(?), black tourmaline,...here as individual twinned Chrysoberyl, Topsham, Maine. The crystal similarity to the chrysoberyl from...1884. .i • Chrysoberyl, Porcupine Hill, Topsham, Maine. Specimen is an untwinned crystal 3 inches long |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | alike, and its price is definitely affordable. Alexander U. Falster University of New Orleans to a point...transparent crystals resembling the tounnalinated quartz from Minas Gerais, Brazil. Of approximately one...XRD methods and found to be composed largely of quartz, stained brown by iron oxide. A few grains of apatite...DISCOVERIES AT THE BENNEll QUARRY, BUCKFIELD, MAINE. W B. Thompson, Maine Geological Survey, State House...Bennett quarry is located in a complex granite pegmatite in the town of Buckfield, Oxford County, Maine |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | California; in the Petaca district of Rio Arriba County, New Mexico; from the Harney Peak region of South...Reagan mining district, Kern range, White Pine County, Nevada. SULFUR, S, occurs very rarely in pegmatites...quartzites, in small quartz veins, and in pegmatites. At Lewiston. Yarmouth, and Madrid, Maine. Also at Portland...sulfide, has been found in the Ben Nevis ville, Union County, Georgia. It has been mine on San Augustin Peak...tains, New Mexico, with argentite in a Randolph County, Alabama; and from a sulfide zone near the center |  | | 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...the Strick land Quarry at Portland where more than 100 minerals are reported; quartz, beryl, tourmaline...trip took them to Loudville, Mass., for galena, quartz, malachite, pyromorphite, cerrusite, pyrite and...and at least that long. The wood is black with quartz crystals scattered through the material. T h e |  | | Report (issue) | | Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of Maine ............... 16 Table 5 Uranium occurrences in...occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of eastern Maine................^..............i.29 Figure 6. Uranium...occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of western Maine.................................30 Figure 7. Uranium...deposit occurs as a thin seam in graphitic Cleburne County. The property is, about 11.2 SINE phyllite which...Location No. Source of information Fairfield County. Short distance northeast of East Village, on a |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | unusual boxlike cavities lined with comb-structured quartz. Although Dale (1924) named the vein after the...the outer walls of the quartz-lined cavities, at the boundary between quartz and calcite, pyrolusite...along the cleavage directions of calcite. Euhedral quartz characterized the interior of the cavities, Volume69...University Library] at 17:06 10 August 2015 Calcite and quartz mineralization typical of the box-vein of Lyonsdale...with Herkimer quartz) locally occurs on the surfaces and within the outer margins of quartz. Textural evidence |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | program was on How to Photograph Minerals Mr. G . Alexander Robertson, nature pho tographer, spoke to the...Johnsville and Fon da, N . Y . , for "Double terminated quartz crystals known as 'Herkimer Diamonds' " MISSISSIPPI...Club's exhibit to the Jackson Boys' Club Camp. MAINE The Water-Oak Gem and Mineral So ciety. North...and Gay Blomquist who found topaz crystals at Stoneham. The Kershners and Buzzells found labradorite...secured a program, Granite by the Sea, from the Maine Arts and Humanities Commission. This Club and the |  | | Journal (volume) | | Kensington Gardens, S. Australia. M.T. Price, OUMNH, Oxford, U.K. M.S. Rumsey, NHM, London, U.K. R.E. Starkey...section of massive iron ore showing drusy, jasper-red quartz forming veinlets parallel to the banding, overgrown...Herderite-hydroxylherderite series minerals from Chywoon Quarry, Cornwall Tom F. Cotterell, Neil Hubbard and David...Mike S. Rumsey 35–38 Segnitite from Weardale, County Durham Brian Young and Adam Pacey 39–42 Exhalative...herderite-hydroxylherderite series minerals, from Chywoon Quarry, in Cornwall. There are, however, four other Cornish |  | | Journal (issue) | | Robert B. Cook Auburn University, Al Carl A. Francis Maine Mineral & Gem Museum, ME John Rakovan New Mexico...I. Jacobson, Denver, CO Anthony R. Kampf, l.A. County Museum of Natural History, CA Virgil W. Lueth,...across a local area net\,vork. Subscription offices: USA/North America: Taylor & Francis Group, LLC, 530 Walnut...Copyright Clearance Center (www.copyright.com) in the USA or the Copyright Licensing Agency (www. cla.co.uk)...Southwood Melbourne, Australia Woodrow B. Thompson, Maine Geological Survey, Augusta, ME John S. White, Stewartstown |  | | Journal (issue) | | SEPTEMBER, 1934 PAOI! T opaz and Herderite at Topsham, Maine. By Benjamin B. Burbank .......................... ...... .. .... ........ ..... ... Lake Street Quarry near White Plains, N . Y . By Peter Zodac Collector's... WHOLE No. 89 Topaz and Herderite at Topsham, Maine By BENJAMIN B. BURBANK There exists n long, low...zone of the entire region is the Fisher Feldspar Quarry 2 which cousists of a deep cut rnnniug nearly north...Survey. Bath, Maine Sheet (topO• graphical). : Bastin, E. S.. Geology of the Pegmatitea of Maine. Bui. 445 |  | | Journal (issue) | | SEPTEMBER, 1934 PAOI! T opaz and Herderite at Topsham, Maine. By Benjamin B. Burbank .......................... ...... .. .... ........ ..... ... Lake Street Quarry near White Plains, N . Y . By Peter Zodac Collector's... WHOLE No. 89 Topaz and Herderite at Topsham, Maine By BENJAMIN B. BURBANK There exists n long, low...zone of the entire region is the Fisher Feldspar Quarry 2 which cousists of a deep cut rnnniug nearly north...Survey. Bath, Maine Sheet (topO• graphical). : Bastin, E. S.. Geology of the Pegmatitea of Maine. Bui. 445 |
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