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Topaz from
Fisher Quarry, Topsham, Sagadahoc County, Maine, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Topaz
Formula:Al2(SiO4)(F,OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Elbaite2 photos of Topaz associated with Elbaite at this locality.
Lepidolite1 photo of Topaz associated with Lepidolite at this locality.
Quartz1 photo of Topaz associated with Quartz at this locality.
Cleavelandite1 photo of Topaz associated with Cleavelandite at this locality.
Albite1 photo of Topaz associated with Albite at this locality.
Muscovite1 photo of Topaz associated with Muscovite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Topaz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Fisher Quarry, Topsham, Sagadahoc County, Maine, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (8 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:36209
Long-form Identifier:1:3:36209:8
GUID (UUID V4):01f3a780-a762-495c-92a5-3f6b02c2bbff
Nearest other occurrences of Topaz
30.9km (19.2 miles) Maine Feldspar Quarry, East Mount Apatite Mining District, Auburn, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
31.7km (19.7 miles) Keith Quarry (Towne Quarry), West Mount Apatite Mining District, Auburn, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
31.8km (19.7 miles) Pulsifer Quarry & Dionne extension, West Mount Apatite Mining District, Auburn, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
53.2km (33.0 miles) Bennett Quarry, Buckfield, Oxford County, Maine, USA
65.8km (40.9 miles) Waisanen Quarry (Tamminen-Waisanen Quarry), Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine, USA
65.9km (40.9 miles) Tamminen Quarry, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine, USA
66.4km (41.3 miles) Noyes Mountain Quarry (Harvard Quarry), Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine, USA
85.4km (53.1 miles) Lord Hill Quarry (Lord Hill Mine), Stoneham, Oxford County, Maine, USA
95.1km (59.1 miles) South Baldface Mountain localities, Chatham, Carroll County, New Hampshire, USA
96.0km (59.6 miles) Lovejoy Gravel pits, Conway, Carroll County, New Hampshire, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (issue)
6 (Right) - Sheet Copper – Flambeau Mine (Rusk County, WI) Figure 2—Dr. Weis’s Personal Memorabilia... If you have ever had the desire to detonate a quarry blast or create an earthquake you will be able...Figure 7—Manganoan Calcite – Montreal Mine (Iron County, WI). Figure 3 (left) - “Wonderful World of Agates”...mineral specimens from the Montreal Mine (Iron County, Wisconsin). Most of the specimens came from the...An unusual specimen from the Flambeau Mine (Rusk County, Wisconsin) is a sheet copper (figure 6). One of
Journal (issue)
held to the Wolverine #2 mine, Kearsarge, Houghton County, Michigan. The collecting guides for the 2022 field...13 July 2022. Kyanite from Balsam Gap, Buncombe County, North Carolina Tony Nikischer tony@excaliburmineral...Tristan Jordan Feldspar Mining Topsham pegmatite field, Sagadahoc County, Maine Mark Ivan Jacobson 1714 S...objects, is in pegmatites. The Topsham pegmatite field in Sagadahoc county, Maine provided these raw materials...sources ended the mining of feldspar in southern Maine. The original mines, prior to 1910 supplied crude
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Massachusetts 02138 MAINE Minerals of the Topsham, Maine, Pegmatite District TopshamTopsham, Maine's underappreciated...particularly noted for fine specimens of beryl, topaz, and uraninite. T O P S H A M I S L O C A T E D...the Andros­ coggin River from Brunswick in Sagadahoc County. A mile-wide belt of granitic pegmatites runs...Androscoggin River, north-northeast through the town of Topsham. The belt extends southward into Brunswick and...but only the pegmatites actually in the town of Topsham are covered in this review. There are thirty or
Report (volume)
GEOLOGY OF THE PEGMATITES AND ASSOCIATED ROCKS OF MAINE INCLUDING FELDSPAR, QUARTZ, MICA, AND GEM DEPOSITS................................... Origin of the Maine pegmatites........................................Larsen............................. Application to Maine pegmatites............................... Eutectics.............................. 1.... Androscoggin County.................................................................................... Maine Feldspar Company quarry and mill................... Turner feldspar
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Second Edition Topaz and Herderite at Topsham, Maine "Second Edition" is a feature that reruns pertinent...the Carl A. Francis article, "Minerals of the Topsham, Maine, Pegmatite District, "found on pp. 407-16 in...southwest entirely across the town of Top­ sham, Maine. This ridge is cut by a great many pegmatite dikes...chief interest lies wholly within the town of Topsham. The territory has been surveyed by the U . S ...mineralized zone of the entire region is the Fisher Feldspar quarry, which consists of a deep cut running nearly
Book (edition)
from Oregon to the Mexican border and eastward to Maine and Florida. What you cannot collect in person...6. Orthoclase 1. Talc 2. Gypsum 7. Quartz Topaz Corundum 10. Diamond 3. Colcite 8. 4. Fluorite.../^^ RUTILE SAPPHIRE 1^ TOURMALINE CRYSTALS TOPAZ CRYSTALS 4 GEM hunter's GUIDE (Cross-seaion at...weakness in the molecular structure of the mineral. Topaz, for instance, cleaves readily along the short direction...cation (moss-like), will be frequently misled All topaz crystal And is such a chameleon color, or jasper)
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 (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)
Maine Articles Published in Rocks and Minerals AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY DANIEL BEHNKE 2981 Landwehr...Gentleman of Oxford County. Rocks and Minerals 35:28-29. A tribute to "the dean of Maine minerals," Charles...of Buckfield, Maine. Bailey, E . M. 1929. A catalog of minerals found at Rumford, Maine. Rocks and Minerals...Barker, D. S. 1955. The Union Limestone quarry, Union, Maine. Rocks and Minerals 30:365-66. Short description...several locations includ­ ing: Berry quarry, Poland; Bennett quarry, Buckfield; Hebron; Paris; and Litchfield
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
CHOICE CARL A. FRANCIS Maine Mineral and Gem Museum PO Box 500 Bethel, Maine 04217 carlfrancis62@gmail...Minerals, is curator at the Maine Mineral and Gem Museum in Bethel, Maine. Dr. Robert B. Cook, an executive...deposits in the Badger Flats–Lake George area, Park County, Colorado. In the COLOR SPONSORS for the Connoisseur’s...reported from Mount Antero pegmatites in Chaffee County. Other reported American euclase occurrences, some...Seward Peninsula, Alaska; the Fisher prospect in Topsham, Sagadahoc County, Maine; the Chandler mine at Raymond
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 (article/letter/editorial)
of Natural History, 1957. PEGMATITE MINERALS OF MAINE phosphate, has been located as a rare, secondary...mine at Newry. Quarry at Poland; also at the Bennett RUTILE, one of the trimorphs of Quarry at Buckfield...the Consolidated No. 1 Quarry bonate, has been noted as a rare mineral at Topsham, but none has been found...ago Rumford many years ago. at Standpipe Hill in Topsham along with ROCKBRIDGEITE, a hydrous, iron, monazite...has been noted at the Dunton Gem Mine at Newry Maine. SCHEELITE, calcium tungstate, has together with
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
lepidolite, colored tourmaline, beryl, apatite, topaz, fluorite, phenakite, bertrandite, etc. Paragenetic...inter-grown with c/eavelandite Irom the Walden Quarry, Poriland, Conn"ecticut. ROCKS AND MINERALS 595...very late cleavelandite; a very minor phase of topaz mineralization; and finally the deposition of the...accessory mineral. At the Lord's Hill, Stoneham, Maine locality; autunite occurs as excellent haloes surrounding...crystals in vugs in cleavelandite. At the Ruggles Quarry, Grafton Center, New Hampshire autunite is closely
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
you will find the mine (quarry). Please close all gates after you. This quarry is the newest of the lithium...minerals only present in this type of pegmatite. The quarry was opened up early in 1962 by two young miners...generally considered to be of Paleozoic age. The Walden quarry is located in a lenticular body of pegmatite. It...at the Brown Derby Mine near Ohio City, Gunnison County, Colorado; the pegmatites are quite similar in...microlite. The Pidlite dike of Mora County, New Mexico contains both topaz and spodumene, rare montebrasite
Journal (issue)
July 1943 PUBLISHED MONTH LY CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY .................................................White Horse Ranch to the Blitzen Valley, (Harney County, Oregon} and on the way I picked up some pieces...looked like slag from a furnace. This was in Grant County, Oregon, about 5 miles from Seneca. I was on a...Albany, Maine ; a black tourmaline crystal 3x3x8 feet in the Luella Mine near Avon, Latah County, Idaho...million years to completely form the large 250 pound topaz crystal from Brazil in the Harvard University Museum
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
PEGMATITE MINERALS OF MAINE B y D A V I D M. SEAMAN 36 Winter St., Norway, Maine 04268 (Continued from...frequently in the gem pockets in the pegmatites of Maine, formed by the weathering or hydrothermal alteration...reddingite as octahedral-like crystals at the Berry Quarry in Poland; also as one of the rare secondary phosphates...Bennett Quarry at Buckfield, the Dun­ ton Gem Mine at Newry, and at Black Mt. at Rumford in Maine. Its crystals...and aluminum phosphate, is a very rare mineral in Maine, but has been noted at the Dunton Gem Mine, and
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
PEGMATITES OF THE BRUNSWICK AND OXFORD FIELDS, MAINE: DIFFERENTIAL TRENDS IN F-POOR AND F-RICH ENVIRONMENTS...field and the Central Maine Synclinorium of the Oxford pegmatite field, in Maine, are intruded by numerous...(Nb,Ta)-bearing phases. Generally, the CGM from Maine are hosted by pegmatites characterized by a LCT...pegmatites with NYF (Nb–Y–F) characteristics (e.g., Topsham area of the Brunswick pegmatite field). Significant...pegmatites with high mHF/malkF (stability field of topaz). However, the extensive Fe–Mn fractionation preceding
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
PEGMATITE MINERALS OF MAINE By D A V I D M. S E A M A N 36 Winter St., Norway, Maine 0 4 2 6 8 INTRODUCTION...of minerals have been found in the pegmatites of Maine since the discovery of Mt. Mica near Paris H i l...tourmaline find at the Dunton Gem Mine at Newry, Maine of watermelon and green, elbaite tourmaline, has...further description here. The Bennett Quarry at Buckfield, Maine, was also worked by Mr. Robert Eastman...noted but rarely and then as cleavages. The Orchard Quarry, also located on the Bennett Farm at Buckfield
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Sehist 15-20 feet (not repl aced by eleayelanditel Quarry Exeavation 523 dosed them, indicating that the...Mountain, Rumford, Maine; in cleavelandite with watermelon colored tourmaline at Newry, Maine; and with deeply...rubellite tourmaline crystal sections from the Walden Quarry, POrlland, Connecticut. ROCKS AND MINERALS 525...Rumford, Maine where it occurs chiefly in association with very late cleavelandite. At Newry, Maine; and...surrounding manganfanfalife crysfals' from ih« Walden Quarry, Portland, Connecficut. 526 ROCKS AND MINERALS
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Pulsifer quarry at Auburn, Maine. Six inch crystals have been found at West Bethel, Maine, and at the...the Ruggles quarry, Grafton Center, New Hampshire. Notable excellently formed almandite garnets have been...Lode pegmatite near the Royal Gorge in Fremont County, Colorado. Common in the pegmatites of Yavapai...Mountain in the Crested Butte region of Gunnison County, Colorado, in good gem crystals. ANDRADITE, calcium-iron...Andradite has been found at Middletown, Delaware County, Pennsylvania and at other localities in Delaware
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
reactionsof beryl, BeaA12Si0Oa8, to phenakiteplus topaz in the fluoritestability field, or to herderiteplustopaz...fluid inclusions in minerals such as quartz or topaz in fluorite and phenakite-bearing cavities in pegmatites...pegmatites with corroded beryl, albite, quartz, topaz, phenakite, triplite, fluorapatite, fluorite, under...herderiteand apatite, likewiseare neglected siterite, topaz, apatite, and montebrasite,is of possible interestas...Caa(PO4)•-Bea(PO4)•,containing muscovite, microcline, albite, topaz, beryl, her- hurlbutite, CaBe•(PO4)•, apparently
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
three feet in length have been found at the Palermo Quarry, North Groton, New Hampshire. Crystals to 150 pounds...pounds was found about 1925 at the Bennett quarry, Buckfield, Maine, together with others over three feet...found at a number of places: Paris and Rumford, Maine; Alstead, Gilsum, and Springfield, New Hampshire;...cleavelandite at Newry, Maine. Rose quartz crystals have also been found at Red Hill, Maine; North Groton, New...Hill, Maine; near Statesville, North Carolina; at Amelia, Virginia, near Clayton, Rabun county, Georgia;
 
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