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Almandine from
LaFlamme Quarry, Minot, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Almandine
Formula:Fe32+Al2(SiO4)3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Almandine data
Locality Data:Click here to view LaFlamme Quarry, Minot, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:35763
Long-form Identifier:1:3:35763:4
GUID (UUID V4):9d2c9de5-a0a7-4a01-b8d0-5a68bd653d5b
Nearest other occurrences of Almandine
0.2km (0.1 miles) Phillips Quarry, Minot, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
3.8km (2.4 miles) Kennedy Quarry, Auburn, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
4.7km (2.9 miles) Wade Quarry (Androscoggin Tourmaline prospect), West Mount Apatite Mining District, Auburn, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
4.7km (2.9 miles) Groves Quarry (Hole in the Ground Quarry), West Mount Apatite Mining District, Auburn, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
4.7km (2.9 miles) Pulsifer Quarry & Dionne extension, West Mount Apatite Mining District, Auburn, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
4.8km (3.0 miles) Keith Quarry (Towne Quarry), West Mount Apatite Mining District, Auburn, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
5.0km (3.1 miles) Greenlaw Quarry, East Mount Apatite Mining District, Auburn, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
5.0km (3.1 miles) Maine Feldspar Quarry, East Mount Apatite Mining District, Auburn, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
5.2km (3.3 miles) Turner Quarries, East Mount Apatite Mining District, Auburn, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
5.9km (3.7 miles) Conroy Quarry, Minot, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
References
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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
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 (article/letter/editorial)
WIECHOWSKI, A., titanomaghemite in basalt, 299 Almandine-grossular and -pyrope garnet solid solutions,...505 Amphibole, ferri-ferrohornblende, kirwanite, County Down, Northern Ireland, 253; fibres, flexibility...and WILLIAMS,P. A., lanthanite group, Sweden and USA, 639 Auger electron spectroscopy (AES), arsenopyrite...Roughton Gill, scotlandite, 653; DEVON, Merrivale Quarry, phurcalite, 583; NORTHPENNINES,cinnabar, 388 Equivalent...Equivalent site behaviour of synthetic almandine-grossular and almandine-pyrope garnet solid solutions, 231
Journal (issue)
R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur... 353 by P. Orlandi and P. B. Scortecci M aine Maine tourmaline........................................Elbaite from Newry, Maine (by P. J. Dunn) [1975, vol. 6, no. 1, p. 22-25.] Newry, Maine, a pegmatite phosphate...] 328 Famous mineral localities: the Pulsifer quarry (by W. E. Wilson) [1977, vol. 8, no. 2, p. 72-77...vol. 8, no. 6, p. 475.]* The best of San Diego County (by W. Larson) [1977, vol. 8, no. 6, p. 507-515
Book
ADULARIA Adu Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...Iron-manganese phosphates of the Williams pegmatites, Coosa County, Alabama (by P. B. Leavens & T. A. Simpson) 6:66-73...ALICE GLORY HOLE The Alice glory hole, Clear Creek County, Colorado (by T. A. Hanson & W. B. Craft) 18:185187...--and W. Hunt: The Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County, Arizona 19:139-144 ALLGOOD, GENNE MYERS --and...Allgood, J. Pradenas: Gold occurrences in Tuolumne County, California 18:41-45, 18:62-64 --with W. H. Wilkinson
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and highly aluminous secondary minerals, e.g., almandine, Cl-rich ferropargasite, microcrystalline staurolite...in their Pd:Ag ratio. The telargpalite may cut almandine, and thus seems to have formed at a temperature...Sudbury, Ontario, as unnamed Ag4Pd3Te4 (Cabri & Laflamme 1976), and was named after the Sopcha Pd–Pt deposit...secondary minerals, including Al–(Cl)-rich amphibole, almandine and microcrystalline staurolite, is present in...see below). Interestingly, telargpalite may cut almandine (Fig. 4f). Telargpalite: composition and formula
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(shallow alluvial placer along the Swift River): almandine, chromite, staurolite, pyrite, diopside, scheelite...terrace placer on Government Creek): hematite, almandine, epidote, staurolite, chromite, kyanite, scheelite...(low terrace placer along the Quesnel River): almandine, hematite, pyrite, barite, chromite, olivine,...(low terrace placer on Rosella Creek): ilmenite, almandine, goethite, hematite, diopside, pyrite, barite...typically have As-excess compositions (e.g., Cabri and Laflamme, 1981). The excess of As in hollingworthite grains
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
magmatic (e.g., Cabri et al., 1973; Cabri and Laflamme, 1976; Hudson, 1986; Garuti and Rinaldi, 1986;...many authors (e.g., Rucklidge, 1969; Cabri and Laflamme, 1976; Cabri, 1981; Garuti and Rinaldi, 1986;...suggested: (1) from a Te-enriched melt (Cabri and Laflamme, 1976), where bismuthotelluride phases are hosted...and consists of porphyroblastic plagioclase and almandine-rich garnet. Sulfides and platinum group minerals...Alm72Prp11Grs9Sps7Adr1, cores are relatively depleted in almandine content, with average composition of: Alm67Prp9Grs15
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Sebago granite–pegmatite system, southern Maine, USA Michael A. Wise*, Cathleen D. Brown Department...situated in the Oxford pegmatite field, southwestern Maine. Surrounding the pluton is an area designated as...chemistry, petrology, geochemistry, Sebago, southern Maine Received: 1 October 2009; accepted: 30 March 2010;...Introduction The granitic pegmatites of southern Maine represent one of several major pegmatite regions...Unfortunately, very little geochemical data exist for the Maine pegmatites despite their popularity among mineral
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
,~ J / pl~pJ~I I [] ,f "-[~ ..i__l ONT" USA -- ~ Fig. 1. Geological setting of the Thompson...and cobaltite, cubanite, and galena (Cabri and Laflamme, 1981). Thompson Ni Sulphide Mine The Thompson...Metapelite examined in this study consists mainly of almandine, biotite, oligoclase, and quartz with accessory...on a mm-cm scale. The dark bands are mainly of almandine-rich garnet and Fe-rich biotite, with minor ferrosilite...stoichiometries. Sudburyite (PdSb). Sudburyite (Cabri and Laflamme, 1974; 1976) is observed most frequently within
Report (issue)
Stewart, J.H.G. Laflamme and J. T. Szymanski L.J. Cabri, Platarsite (1 977) J.H.G. Laflamme and J.M. Stewart...1960) and in the Barringer Hill pegmatite, Llano County, Texas, U.S.A (Marble, 1940). Manganoan varieties...1972); also from pegmatites at Ragged Peak, Tuolumne County, California, U.S.A (Hutton, 1951 a) and at Chari...(Hentschel, 1964); lnishcrone, County Sligo, Eire; from Scawt Hill and Carneal, County Antrim, Northern Ireland...(Grunhagen and Mergoil, 1963); Commercial Quarry, Crestmore, Riverside County, 6 Himmelleitenbruch, near Rossbach
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
e) Subhedral garnet s.s.s. strongly corroded (almandine > grossularite > spessartite) (SEM-EDX) 107 ...placer mineral assemblage are made up of garnet (almandine > grossularite > spessartite), monazite-(CeTh)...such as the Kubli Ranch Placer near Jackson Oregon, USA, the Horokanai placer on Hokkaido Island, Japan,...Metallurgy and Petroleum 54: 13–129. Cabri, L. J. & Laflamme, J. H. G. (1997): Platinum-group minerals from
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA Natural Resources Canada, Geological Survey of Canada...SciAps Inc., 7 Constitution Way, Woburn, MA 01801, USA; asomers@sciaps.com Institute for the Preservation...Heritage, Yale University, West Haven, CT 06516, USA; richard.hark@yale.edu Correspondence: rsharmon@ncsu...for the surrogate samples that were prepared from quarry sands of similar chemical composition to the ore...CA, USA), or one of the Z-series handheld analyzers manufactured by SciAps Inc. (Woburn, MA, USA). One
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
At Lukkulaisvaara, telargpalite, which cuts almandine, presumably formed at a temperature lower than...– Can. Mineral. 43: 1687–1710. baRkov, a. y., LaFLamme, J. H. G., CabRi, L. J. & maRTin, R. F. (2002):... 66: 673 – 675. CabRi, L. J., HuLbeRT, L. J., LaFLamme, J. H. G., LasTRa, R., sie, s. H., Ryan, C. G...Geol. 2: 105 –119. CabRi, L. J., owens, d. R. & LaFLamme, J. H. G. (1973): Tulameenite, a new platinum-iron
Book (edition)
from the Tourmaline Q ueen .1ine, Pala, San Diego County, California. From a pen-and-ink drawing by W. E...Pocket in pegmatite, Newry, Maine 34. Loading pocket contents, Newry, Maine 35. Large tourmaline crystal...of tourmaline crystal forms 38. Map of San Diego County, California gem sources 3 9. Stewart Lithia· and...View of Clear Creek, San Benito County, California 55. Monterey County jade-producing shoreline, California...California 56. Rhodonite quarry, Salt Spring Island, Vancouver Island 57. Drawing of garnet crystal forms
Journal (issue)
chemistry in solutioncollapse breccia pipes, Arizona, USA-its impact on environmental remediation. Proc. International...inclusion, 3mm across, in quartz from Montgomery County,Arkansas.SteveBlyskal photo. June 2004 We traveled...from many other Montgomery County locations and also from some Garland County mines. We made our selections...flat of quartz from the Good Vibes mine in Garland County. Although the quartz tends to be mostly milky,...other locations such as Collier Creek in Montgomery County and rarely some crystals on quartz in places Il
Book
Turquoise Adelaide Ruby = Pyrope Adelaide-lrubin = Almandine Acrebite = Sulfur Adelfolite = a) Samarskite...Chester) Almandine Alabandite-Ferrifere (Ferroolabondite) Alabandyma = Alabandite = Almandine Alabaster...Alvanite Alabandia, Alabandicus, Alabandina • Almandine = Calcite Alabastrite = Gypsum [Albotre Gypseux]...(Marble) AI-Nontronite = aluminian Nontronite s Almandine Alabandine Ruby = Spinel aluminian Li:z:ardite...Alalite = Diopside Alamandina, Alamandine = Almandine Alambar = fossilized tree resin (Amber) A l
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
greenschist facies in its western and central parts to almandine-amphibolite facies eastward (Pires, 1995; and...887–893. Kwitko, R., Cabral, A.R., Lehmann, B., Laflamme, J.H.G., Cabri, L.J., Criddle, A.J., Galbiatti
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
British Columbia, Canada; North Carlin Trend, Nevada, USA) originated from the mobilization of primary Au enriched...fractures in coarse-grained, subhedral to euhedral almandine garnet porphyroblasts, and/or in pressureshadows...fractures in porphyroblasts of coarse-grained, almandine garnet. d Subhedral grains of metamorphic pyrrhotite...veinlets and/or filling fractures in coarse-grained, almandine garnet porphyroblasts (Fig. 4c). The relationship...Proterozoic iron-formation-hosted gold deposit, Lawrence County, South Dakota. United States Geol Survey 1857-J:
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
TABLE 1. Phase Mineral Abbreviations Symbol Almandine Andradite Berndite Biotite Alm Ad Bt Bi Cassiterite...evenwhenit occursnextto cassiterite (Fig.3A). Almandine garnet is widespreadin the cordieritegedritegneisses... and usefulref- Cabri, L. J., Campbell,J. L., Laflamme,J. H. G., Leigh, R. G., Maxwell,J. A., andScott
Book
MineralogicalRecord.com I IIMORIITE-(Y) EUROPE FRANCE Trimouns quarry, Luzenac, Ariege. Operated for talc since the beginning...beginning of the 20th century, the Trimouns quarry became well known to collectors around 1990 for the...long (Marty, 2004 ). AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins...region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites between the towns...Litchfield County. Ilmenite masses and crystals from somewhere near Washington, Litchfield County, were described
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Rhodonite Sphalerite Pentlandite Native vanadium Almandine LIF/Fe Kc~ PET/Ti Ko~ TAP/Si Kc~, TAP/Mg Ko~...4 p Cabri LJ, Chryssoulis SL, DeVilliers JPR, Laflamme JHG, Buseck PR (1989) The nature of "invisible"
Book (edition)
VIII/A.01-20 Olivine VIII/A.04-00 VIII/A.08-20 Almandine VIII/A.08-160 Henritermierite VIII/A.09-40 Coffinite...Blatter (1997), Boström et al. (1979), Cabri and Laflamme (1997), Cairncross (2004), Cook (1979), Dobrovolskaya...(dark grey); New Bullfrog mine, Nye Co., Nevada, USA [h]; Nic. // Anhedral electrum (yellowish white)...(dark grey); New Bullfrog mine, Nye Co., Nevada, USA [h]; Nic. // Anhedral electrum (yellowish white)...(dark grey); New Bullfrog mine, Nye Co., Nevada, USA [h]; Nic. // 8 Gold A 60 μ C B 125 μ 20 μ
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
S Kα series), synthetic CdS (Cd Lα series), almandine (Fe Kα series), metal Mn (Mn Kα series), metal...German) Cabri LJ, Chryssoulis SL, DeVilliers JPR, LaFlamme JHG, Busek PR (1989) The nature of “invisible”
Journal (issue)
Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Bishop copper prospect near Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...Cd-bearing phosphate mineral from the Gold Quarry mine, Eureka County, Nevada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...BISHOP COPPER PROSPECT near Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia Henry Barwood Route 3, Box 144 Auburn...about 1 mile west of Lynch Station in Campbell County, Virginia, on the southern bank of Bishop Creek
 
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