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Magnetite from
Little Deer Isle, Hancock County, Maine, USA


Locality type:Island
Classification
Species:Magnetite
Formula:Fe2+Fe23+O4
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Magnetite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Little Deer Isle, Hancock County, Maine, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:346161
Long-form Identifier:1:3:346161:7
GUID (UUID V4):a93c2b1f-d4b9-4923-952b-dd4a2645083f
Nearest other occurrences of Magnetite
8.0km (4.9 miles) ā“˜Deer Isle Mine, Deer Isle, Hancock County, Maine, USA
9.8km (6.1 miles) ā“˜Tapley Mine, Brooksville, Blue Hill - Castine Mining District, Hancock County, Maine, USA
12.6km (7.8 miles) ā“˜Owen Lead Prospect, Blue Hill, Blue Hill - Castine Mining District, Hancock County, Maine, USA
12.9km (8.0 miles) ā“˜Owen Mine, Blue Hill, Blue Hill - Castine Mining District, Hancock County, Maine, USA
13.3km (8.3 miles) ā“˜Douglass Copper Mine, Blue Hill, Blue Hill - Castine Mining District, Hancock County, Maine, USA
13.8km (8.6 miles) ā“˜Stewart Mine, Blue Hill, Blue Hill - Castine Mining District, Hancock County, Maine, USA
14.5km (9.0 miles) ā“˜Twin Lead Mine, Blue Hill, Blue Hill - Castine Mining District, Hancock County, Maine, USA
15.0km (9.3 miles) ā“˜Emerson Mine, Castine, Blue Hill - Castine Mining District, Hancock County, Maine, USA
29.6km (18.4 miles) ā“˜Grenci-Ellis Granite quarry, Mount Desert Township, Hancock County, Maine, USA
35.3km (21.9 miles) ā“˜Mosquito Mountain Granite Quarry, Frankfort, Waldo County, Maine, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
'heavy" mineral sands in certain areas of this county. This has turned out to be a fascinating and intriguing...plus a tiny amount of black magnetite. The quartz, feldspar and magnetite are all heavily coated by the...from Little Deer Isle, M e . From Sergeantville, on the north shore of Little Deer Isle, Hancock Co....and gray granite. "Sand. Little Deer Isle in Penobscot Bay, Sergeantville, Maine;" ā€” on label. Lake sand...brownish to reddish chalcedony), with a little lustrous black magnetite, black lustrous ilmenite, plus a tiny
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MAINE1 EDSON S. BASTIN I. PROWERSOSE FROM KNOX COUNTY This unusual rock was collected by the writerin...1905 near Burkettville post-office in Knox County, Maine. It outcrops over a nearly circular area about...Washington,and north into the town of Liberty (Waldo County). It intrudes pelite schists and gneisses, and...of orthoclase FIG. I.-Prowersose from Knox County, Maine. Natural size. and albite, in grainsaveragingabout1/10...arrangedend to end; these SOME UNUSUAL ROCKS FROM MAINE 175 becomemore and more elongate until we have
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 Ā© 1998 by the Maine Geological Survey, Department of Conservation. All...24 x JO mm;Jrom the Bennett Quarry, Buckfield, Maine. Mined in 1996 by Holden !Jrothers Mining and currently...Photo by John B. Poisson. The laws and policies of Maine and the United States prohibit discrimination in
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 Ā©1994 by the Maine Geological Survey, Department of Conservation. All...photograph: Fluorapatite, Pulsifer quarry, Auburn, Maine (2.2 cm specimen), Harvard Mineralogical Museum...Wendell E. Wilson, Ā©1985. The laws and policies of Maine and the United States prohibit discrimination in
Book (volume)
Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and ļ‚‚ the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmļ‚¾jasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59...along adjoining Co. lineļ‚¾rock crystal. BARROW COUNTY WINDER, along rd. to Jefferson and 1Ā½ mi. inside...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States BARTOW COUNTY AREA, Saltpeter Cave, as floatļ‚¾jasper. CARTERSVILLE:...ļ‚¾agate, (banded, various colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY MACON: ļ‚ at Holton Quarry, 7Ā½ mi. NWļ‚¾agate; ļ‚‚ N
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
tourmaline in quartzite, lound in an old roadbed in Lee County, Alabama, about 10 miles north of Auburn, on Highway...at the barite mines at Magnet Cove, Hot Spring County, Arkansas. "A sample was sent to the Smithsonian...111. Though small, the specimen is a colorless little cleavage showing double refraction. A calcite which...for testing the color of the streak of metals. MAINEā€”Gem quality dark green serpentine, on common green...green serpentine, have been found on Little Deer Isle, Hancock Co., Me. 555 MARYLAND-Near C 1 a r k s
Report (volume)
.............................................. Maine...................................................Compendium of the mineral resources of Arkansas, Little Rock Board of Trade Bulletin, 1912. Eakle, A. S...See Bauxite and Halloysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;...following localities : Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20 S., R. 7 E.;
Book (volume)
Though well endowed with fossils, Illinois has little to offer gem and mineral collectors, even though...600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravelsāŽÆagate, jasper, rare...āŽÆagate, jasper; d RR siding of ClayāŽÆagate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area depositsāŽÆSiderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...E, regional depositsāŽÆSiderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip
Book (volume)
Though well endowed with fossils, Illinois has little to offer gem and mineral collectors, even though...600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravelsāŽÆagate, jasper, rare...āŽÆagate, jasper; d RR siding of ClayāŽÆagate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area depositsāŽÆSiderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...E, regional depositsāŽÆSiderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip
Book (volume)
0 n101ercai o of Maine j fĀ·~ ....__ :,,. . - .._"' ..;. .. ~ L-- -~ \. ā€¢ .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 Ā©2000 by the Maine Geological Survey, Department of Conservation. All
Book
Fort Kent ā™¦ ā™¦ ā™¦ I I ā€¢ I I Caribou Presque Isle Ā·1 ā€¢ Iā€¢ Iā€¢ 1 Iā€¢ ~ā€¢ I ā™¦ I N 0 I 0 40 Miles...Geology of Maine. Conte11ts Preface vii Geology of Maine 7 Coastal Maine 25 Interstate 95 (Maine-furnpike)...tli S / Down East Maine: Bangor ;:incl Elli;worll1 to ( ,.i l:tic.; 1/S Maine 3, Maine 102, ancl rh(.;... Bangor (,a ln,s JOI Central Maine 707 M aine 5: Saco-Bethel / 14 Maine 26: Pegmatite Alley, Portland...ton / 49 Maine 7: Belfast-Dover-Foxcrofl I 57 Maine 15: Bangor-Abhot Village.: / 6 / Maine 11: Milo-Millinocket
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Enlargements of ā€¢ in a Peridotite from Little Deer Isle, Maine," and, like Mr. Van Hise, distinctly asserts...containing microlites of felspar, augite, and magnetite ; olivine is usually so rare in the rock that...there are also a few individuals of augite and magnetite. :Between these crystals, glass is frequently...lime-felspar towards an acid alkali-felspar. At last little else than the silica may be left, and, as we shall...mechanical stresses, the felspar, augite, and magnetite had separated from the glassy mass in distinct
Report (issue)
...........................................122 Maine ..................................................dark talc very low in Fe. A talc district west of Little Rock, Arkansas is in Ordovician rocks of the Ouachita...marble containing much serpentine and phlogopite but little talc are located near the east border of the state...analogue, pyrophyllite, with diagrams, are provided in Deer and others (1962, p. 115-116 and 121-124) and in...described as having a greasy feel and pearly luster (Deer and others, 1962, p. 126). The chemical formula
Report (issue)
Silurian stratigraphy of northeastern Aroostook County, Maine 1 . David C. Roy and Ely Mencher Discussion:...Silurian stratigraphy of northeastern Aroostook County, Maine... Louis Pavlides Lower Devonian Seboomook Formation...Formation and Matagamon Sandstone, northern Maine: A flysch basin-margin delta complex.Bradford A. Hall...central Maine . Allan Ludman Pre-Silurian stratigraphic succession in central western Maine . Eugene... Boone Stratigraphy of the Belfast quadrangle, Maine .Charles E. Bickel Geochronologic contributions
Book (volume)
fabulous tourmalines and kunzites of California and Maine, the sparkling sapphires of Montana, and the...are primarily cut as gemological curiosities with little or no regular place in commerce. Coarser gemstones...Superintendent, while similar services in respect to Isle Royale National Park were rendered by Superintendent...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
Report (volume)
Geological Survey, Report for 1888, vols. 1-3. Little Rock. Boston Society of Natural History, Memoirs...Baltimore. Massachusetts, Gazetteer of Hampshire County, 1854-'87, by W. B. Gay. Syracuse, New York. Meriden...Arkansas crystallines, BRANĀ­ NER. Peridotites of Pike County, Arkansas, BRANNER and BRACKETT. Granites of Northwest...chert of the Upper Coal MeasĀ­ ures in Montgomery County, Iowa. Am. Geologist, vol. 1, pp. 116-117. 1888...nature and origin. ā€” Black marl from Cheyenne County, Nebraska. Am. Geologist, vol. 1, p. 137,3 lines
Report (volume)
NORTH AMERICAN GEOLOGY. [BULL. 127. Louisiana. Maine. Maryland (including District of Columbia). Massachusetts... Transactions, 1887-1889. Utica, N. Y. Orleans County Society of Natural History, Transactions and Archives... 270-273,1882. The pyrites deposits of Louisa County, Va. Am. lust. Mining Eng., Trans., vol. 12, pp...Akerly, Samuel. A geological account of Dutchess County in New York. Discussed by Foster, Hall, Hough...[Observations on a set of bowlders in Berkshire County, Massachusetts.] Am. Mineralogical Jour. (Bruce)
Report (volume)
Clay County. Macon County. Jackson County. Transylvania County. Swain County. Haywood County. Buncombe...Buncombe County . Madison County. Yancey County. Mitchell County . Watauga County . Wilkes County. Ashe County...County . Alleghany County . Physiography and ecology of the peridotites. 28 28 29 32 34 35 36 38 42 46...magĀ¬ nesian rocks. Shooting Creek region, Clay County, North Carolina. Elf dunite. Elf amphibole-peridotite...amphibolite near Marshall. Peridosteatite at the Madison County Home. Peridotites on Ivy River. Carter mine dunite
Report (issue)
topography and illustrating the development of the Deer Kiver IX. Sketch of the Mansfield mine as it was...end of Lower Huronian time there may have been little variation in the elevation of the upper surface...of the drainage is illustrated in the ease of the Deer River. The timber are everywhere present. topography...used for building or ornamental purposes. arc little likely, They offer, owing to their somber...to the sedimentary. The metabasalt dikes are of little interest. The ultrabasic picrite-porphyries are
Journal (volume)
ā€œL'Homme,ā€ is")5 ierr aA n z Lizards were Once Little Men, 477ā€”Fraudulent Spears or Arrowheads, 555ā€”...current, although his purely negative testimony is of little weight. Still the question might be pertinently...sinking into the same surface; and, though we take little note of it, this amounts to a vast quantity, in...treacherous, was so named because it carried very little silver, though generally associated with argentiferous...Coast of California. here the dredge has been but little used, and the revelations of the Miillerā€™s net
 
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