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Quartz from
Kingfield, Franklin County, Maine, USA


Classification
Species:Quartz
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Quartz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Kingfield, Franklin County, Maine, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:347744
Long-form Identifier:1:3:347744:1
GUID (UUID V4):d572759a-34bd-450c-8af8-5d0b65609741
Localities for Quartz in this Region
Jim Pond Formation on Sugarloaf Mountain, Kingfield, Franklin County, Maine, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
cooperation with the Maine Geological Survey GEOLOGIC MAP OF WESTERN INTERIOR MAINE • - Chen-f0e. wit...Augusta, Maine, and University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii --Maine Geological Survey, Augusta, Maine, and...University, Syracuse, New York 4/ --Maine Geological Survey, Augusta, Maine, and Queens College, Flushing,...unsystematically from dark granodiorite to lighter colored quartz monzonite and biotite granite; commonly has phenocrysts...thick. Most are mineralogically simple bodies of quartz, albite, microcline, micas, scattered black tourmaline
Field Trip Notes
West-Central Maine DISCLAIMER Before visiting any of the sites described in the New England Intercollegiate...GEOLOGICAL CONFERENCE FIELD TRIPS IN WEST- CENTRAL MAINE Andrew Griscom Daniel J. Milton, s U. So Geological...Survey U. S. Geological Survey Editors Rumford, Maine October 8-9, I960 I ! CONTENTS Page Introduction...Quadrangle, Maine Leader: Trip B. Stratigraphy and General Geology to Phillips, Maine. Leader: Trip...Mineralogy of Pegmatites of the Newry Hill Area, Newry, Maine Leader: 19 Calwell Geology of the Old Speck Mountain
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
sillimanite-forming reaction for many pelitic schists in Maine does not involve chlorite. (2) Garnet zoning patterns...isograd crystallized at 3.8 kbar. The muscovite-quartz dehydration boundary shows excellent agreementwith...reduced graphitic pelites are assumed.The staurolite-quartz dehydration boundary predicts temperaturesabout...: METAMORPHISM IN WEST-CENTRAL MAINE INrnooucuoN West-central Maine provides a unique opportunity to...cities of Augusta, kwiston, Norway, Rangeley,Kingfield, and Madison (Fig. l), havebeensummarizedby Holdawayet
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Boykin, Editor, Rock and Mineral Club of Lower Bucks County. Chips and Facets, Mrs. Wanda K. Wasilkowski, Editor...Pennsylvania. Bulletin, Evelyn Wolfe, Editor. Cayuga County Gem and Mineral Club. Rockhound Newsletter, Howard...dedicated to micro mounting. CONNECTICUT The Middlesex County Gem and Mineral Club, Moodus, reported: "The program...held a camping trip to Mikesville, Florida for quartz, chalcedony, agate and limestone. ROCKS AND MINERALS...Indian arrowheads!) MAINE The Coastal Maine Mineral Club, Sebago Lake, dug for quartz and amethyst crystals
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...tourmaline (elbaite) on quartz crystals, 24 x JO mm;Jrom the Bennett Quarry, Buckfield, Maine. Mined in 1996 by...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 ©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, ©1985. The laws and policies of Maine and the United States prohibit discrimination in
Report (volume)
147 N., R. 84 W., 4 km N of Riverdale, McLean County, N. Oak. Named for Aggie Brown Coulee, which flows...NW1/4NW1/4SW1/4SW1/4 sec. 17, T. 85 N., R. 7 W., Linn County, Iowa. A-L Peak Rhyolite Oligocene 1. New Mexico...structures in the San Mateo Mountains, Socorro County, New Mexico: New Mexico Geol. Soc. Spec. Pub. 5...Mountains, 10. sees. 33-35, T. 4 S., R. 6 W., Socorro County, N.Mex. Anapra Sandstone 1. Early Cretaceous 2...6. 7. 9. 10. at Cerro de Cristo Rey, Dofta Ana County, New Mexico, Appendix 2 in Lovejoy, E. M. P., Geology
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
principally No. 3 i s agate imbedded ill quartz. Nc.4 is quartz. No.5 is hematite. blende and mica. ...Bowers ............. IG5,703 4 ,!)9L-G. Collins, Kingfield, Me., U. S. Saw buck. Pocket book. C. Arms ..
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
principally No. 3 i s agate imbedded ill quartz. Nc.4 is quartz. No.5 is hematite. blende and mica. ...Bowers ............. IG5,703 4 ,!)9L-G. Collins, Kingfield, Me., U. S. Saw buck. Pocket book. C. Arms ..
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
principally No. 3 i s agate imbedded ill quartz. Nc.4 is quartz. No.5 is hematite. blende and mica. ...Bowers ............. IG5,703 4 ,!)9L-G. Collins, Kingfield, Me., U. S. Saw buck. Pocket book. C. Arms ..
Book
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...ountains of Maine 17 3 U.S. 2: Skowhegan-Bcthc: I 179 M aine 4 : Farmington-Rangcley / 91 Maine 27: Farmington-C~oburn
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
OF THE KENNEBEC AND CARRABASSETT RIVER VALLEYS, MAINE By H. W. Borns and D. f. Hagar, 1964 BORNS AND HAGAR...Dept. Geological Sciences, University of Maine, Orono, Maine DAVID JON HAGAR Dept. Geology, University...Northern Part of the Kennebec River Valley, Western Maine Abstract: The late-glacial stratigraphy of the...northern part of I he Kennebec River valley of Maine indicates the following sequence of events. (1)...(1) As the last extensive ice sheet dissipated in Maine, the sea inundated parts of the deglaciated and
Report (issue)
SURFACE-WATER DATA FOR CITY OF PENSACOLA AND ESCAMBIA COUNTY, FLORIDA By John E. Coffin Open-File Report 82-361...cooperation with the CITY OF PENSACOLA and ESCAMBIA COUNTY Tallahassee, Florida 1982 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT...showing locations of ground-water sites in Escambia County with extensive chemical analyses 122 Map showing...showing locations of ground-water sites in Escambia County with partial chemical analyses (odd-numbered wells)...showing locations of ground-water sites in Escambia County with partial chemical analyses (even-numbered wells)
Book
Granby, Massachusetts Mica mine, North Waterford, Maine Boulder-strewn pasture, Princeton, Massachusetts...Massachusetts Banking of glacial till, Otter Creek, Maine Till on bedrock, Arlington, Massachusetts Crawford Notch...Hampshire Glacial scratches, Mt. Desert Island, Maine Tuckerman’s Ravine, Mt. Washington, New Hampshire...77 79 80 88-89 90 92 Knife Edge, Mt. Katahdin, Maine Cradle Rock, Barre, Massachusetts Drumlin, Westmoreland...New Hampshire Varved clay Marine clay, Portland, Maine Cathedral Pines, Cornwall, Connecticut Old growth
Book
New Hampshire to the deep woods along the roof of Maine. Some of them, including the region's better-known...through Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. Why were they abandoned? How did the stone walls...covers three quarters of the New Hampshire and Maine, never as widely farmed, the trees have reclaimed...Navy, who explored the coast and river mouths of Maine as early as 1605: he quickly saw the potential in...above the legend "Appeal to /29 Heaven." And Maine, when it later broke away from Massachusetts
Report (issue)
as the pioneer in the geology of west-central Maine, for his expertise on the mineralogy of pegmatites...paleontology: two on the Merrimack Synclinorium in Maine and three on the so-called Pennsylvanian basins...(prehnite-pumpellyite) metamorphism in Massachusetts and Maine, respectively, are the subjects of two of the...nickeliferous pyrrhotite deposits of southeastern Maine, gravity studies of the New Hampshire Plutonic Series...polymetamorphism in the Merrimack synclinorium of western Maine ....... Robert H. Moench and Robert E. Zartman
Book (edition)
very old origin, often without lrnown source. e.g. quartz or cinnabar. Current practice most often names...polished mineral surface, expressed in clase. 7 - quartz. 8 - topaz, 9 - corundum, 10 - dia- percentage...abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture), dept...always included in text, except in the cases of the USA, UK, and the provinces Ontario and Quebec in Canada...purine-porphyrine group). a nickel porphyrine. With quartz. rutile, piemontite, sursassite, ardennite, Triclinic
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
Report (volume)
Highway 49 (Skyway Road) near town of Abel, Cleburne County. Absaroka Supergroup/Volcanic Supergroup U ABRK03...volcanic field, Yellowstone National Park, Park County, Wyo. Academy Church Shale Member (Springer Formation)...W1/2NW1/4NE1/4SE1/4 sec. 1, T. 3 s., R. 2 E., Carter County. Adams Formation ADMS01 1. Holocene 2. Alaska (SE)...Adamstown Granite ADMS02 1. Upper Ordovician 2. Maine (WC) 3. Green, J. c., and Guidotti, C. V., 1968...Quadrangle, lat 45° N., long 70°50'-55' W., Oxford County. Adamstown Member (Frederick Limestone) U ADMS06
Journal (issue)
project into cavities as is the case with topaz and quartz. They will be discussed further in this article...the emerald-bearing veins, containing calci te, quartz, dolomite, and pyrites, run through a black carbonaceous...this now. T h e Poona emeralds are associated with quartz, albite, oligoclase, topaz, tourmaline and fluorite...one found by H . Mandelstam embedded in a small quartz leader in the dark biotite schist. Batchelor reports...Associated with the emeralds are such minerals as quartz, apatite, schorl, molybdenite, pyrite and feldspar
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
principally magnetite. No. 3 is agate imbedded ill quartz. No. 5 is hematite. No. 6 is horn­ blende and...sandstone, a crystal of carbonate A. Nc. 4 is quartz. Carriage poles. bending. A . G . Snyder ................. IG5 ,703 4 , !) 9L - G . Collins, Kingfield, M e . , U. S. Saw buck . Pocket book. C. Arms
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
Report (volume)
and Geology Bull. Idaho Bur. Mines and Geology County Rept.Idaho Bur. Mines and Geology Mineral Resources...Idaho Bureau of Mines and Geology Bulletin and County Report and Mineral Resources Report. Moscow, Idaho...Journal. Lapidary Journal, Inc. San Diego, Calif. Maine Geol. Survey Quad. Mapping Ser.Maine Geol. Survey...Series and Special Economic Studies Series. Augusta, Maine. Maryland Dept. Geology, Mines and Water Resources...near-surface tuff on the Pajarito Plateau, Los Alamos County, New Mexico, Art. 339: .U.S. Geol. Survey Prof
Report (volume)
74, Ph miles east of Dutchtown, Cape Girardeau County, Mo. Type section cut by northtrending fault with...stream in NEIA sec. 33, T. 16 N., R. 14 E, Wayne County. Named after village of Abington, about 3 miles...Named for Adam Peak in Osgood Mountains, Humboldt County. Occupies belt about 21f2 miles long on western...Portlandian) age. Mapped around Adobe Flat in Stanislaus County. Well exposed west of Wilcox Ridge in sec. 23,...Airport, sec. 30, T. 19 N., R. 103 W., Sweetwater County. Akah Substage Pennsylvanian (Desmoinesian): Utah
Report (volume)
different parts of the district Sketch-map showing a quartz-dolerite dyke off-set at Short Oeugh Sketch of...Beds. For full explanation seep. 170 Secondary quartz growths and algal pellets, Main Algal Beds. For...• The district lies at the northern tip of the county of Cumberland and includes a part of western Northumberland...of Mya1400 Iina type .. INTRUSIVE IGNEOUS ROCKS Quartz-dolerite and allied tholeiite dykes of Tertiary...common association of fossil algae with authigenic quartz and their affinity to vulcanism has been noted
 
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