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Quartz from
Augusta, Kennebec 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 Augusta, Kennebec County, Maine, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (2 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:462960
Long-form Identifier:1:3:462960:3
GUID (UUID V4):8f4e087f-2e12-40ab-a7a7-980e2f010a98
Nearest other occurrences of Quartz
30.2km (18.8 miles) Sabbatus Mountain, Wales Township, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
34.5km (21.4 miles) Wallace Trufant Prospect, Bowdoinham, Sagadahoc County, Maine, USA
36.3km (22.6 miles) Route 105 road cut, Appleton, Knox County, Maine, USA
36.7km (22.8 miles) Adderton Prospect, Bowdoinham, Sagadahoc County, Maine, USA
38.0km (23.6 miles) State Route 4 road cut, Livermore, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
38.6km (24.0 miles) Havey #1 & #2 Quarries, Topsham, Sagadahoc County, Maine, USA
39.5km (24.6 miles) Trenton Quarry, Topsham, Sagadahoc County, Maine, USA
39.6km (24.6 miles) Given #2 Quarry, Topsham, Sagadahoc County, Maine, USA
40.0km (24.9 miles) Poole Quarry, Edgecomb, Lincoln County, Maine, USA
40.5km (25.2 miles) Square Pit (Consolidated #4 Quarry), Topsham, Sagadahoc County, Maine, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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
Report (chapter)
02543, USA 2 Department of Earth and Environment, Boston University, Boston, MA, 02215, USA 3 Department...Science, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, 19122, USA 4 TNO – Geological Survey of the Netherlands, NL-3508...and Climate Sciences, University of Maine, Orono, 04469, ME, USA 6 Present address: Department of Physical...College of William & Mary, Gloucester Point, VA 23062, USA *Corresponding author (e-mail: hein@vims.edu) Abstract:...redistribution along the paraglacial Gulf of Maine coast (USA and Canada). Coastal accumulation forms are
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
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...Feldspar Mining Topsham pegmatite field, Sagadahoc County, Maine Mark Ivan Jacobson 1714 S. Clarkson St. Denver...pegmatites. The Topsham pegmatite field in Sagadahoc county, Maine provided these raw materials to the developing...sources ended the mining of feldspar in southern Maine. The original mines, prior to 1910 supplied crude
Report (issue)
cooperation with the Maine Geological Survey GEOLOGIC MAP OF WESTERN INTERIOR MAINE • - Chen-f0e. wit...Survey, Augusta, Maine, and University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii --Maine Geological Survey, Augusta, Maine...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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
SKARNS OF SOUTHWESTERN MAINE DUANE L . L E A V I T T Route 1, Box 140 Buckfield, Maine 04220 Photographs by...discusses some of the smaller, lesser-known skarns of Maine in terms of their paragenesis and mineral­ ogy....found in vugs (rarely) or embedded in calcite and quartz, from which they can often be removed intact. This...Minot: This deposit is a discontinu­ ous series of quartz lenses and blebs interspersed between gently dipping...floaters in the enclosing quartz or as in­ tergrown crystal groups at the quartz-skarn contact. Fleshcolored
Report (issue)
eleaentc in (Card 2) Colorado Mineral rcaourcet, County reffJon. I. Bayaond, III. Title IV. Series: Open-file...heading Title COLORADO MINERAL RESOURCES MINERAL COUNTY REGION. Crock, J. G. (200)R29ono.83-405D,KP GISS...Services, Inc. 1985. 203 (220) M198f AQUIFERS MAINE YORK COUNTY MAPS. Hydrogeology of significant sand and...York and Southern Cumberland Counties, Maine. [Augusta] : Maine Geological Survey, 1983. M (211)49 Y82t...only 1984. ARIZONA--MINERAL RESOURCES--COCHISE COUNTY. Zelten, Jeanne E. Mineral resources of a part
Report (volume)
Moosehead Lake,Jo-Mary Mountain Area, Piscataquis County, Maine lJy G. H. ESPENSHADE 1 '1 E 0 L 0 G I c ...rocks (troctolite, f~orite, gabbro, diorite, and quartz t~iorite) and structure of the northeastern tart...gtonite ---------------------------------------Quartz -----------------------------------------------Biotite...Moosehead Lake-Jo-Mary Mountain area, Piscataquis County, Maine. 2. Map and sections showing aeromagnetic and...Moxie pluton, Piscataquis and Somerset Counties, Maine. III 20 21 24 28 29 31 31 32 33 34 37 IV CONTENTS
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Ute Mountain Gem & Mineral Society. Montezuma County Annex Bldg., 103 N. Chestnut. Info.—John Ferrin...7—Oxford, Maine. 30th Annual Western Maine Mineral & Jewelry Festival sponsored by the Oxford County Mineral...28—Waterville, Maine. 21st Annual MidState Gem and Mineral Show sponsored by the Maine Water-Oak Gem and...Pinebridge Inn (wholesale). Info.—Jim Burgess, Mitchell County Chamber of Commerce, Rte. 1, Box 7%, Spruce Pine...be on Display. THE "AZTEC SUN" returns to the USA for the first time in ten years. SHOW INFO: P.O
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02215, USA Department of Environmental Studies, Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, VA 23005, USA Received...accepted 12 November 1999 Abstract The lowermost Kennebec River is a relatively narrow, deep, bedrock-cut...situated along the highly indented, central coast of Maine. A large tidal prism and strong tidal currents control...nearshore zone, Fox and Wood Island tombolos, Kennebec River channel, and offshore region. The effects...a distribution of sand bodies at the mouth of Kennebec River that differ markedly from accepted estuarine
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
28,45-67 (1993) Terrane sutures in the Maine Appalachians, USA and adjacent areas STEPHEN G. POLLOCK Department...University of Southern Maine, Gorharn, ME 04038, USA Terrane sutures in the Maine Appalachians and adjacent...Devonian plutons. Not all faults in south-westem Maine are related to the suture. Younger dip and/or strike-slip...modified by younger deformational events. Within the Maine Appalachians three large composite suspect terranes...discontinuously crop out for substantial distances within the Maine and Canadian Appalachians in approximately the same
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)
Stratigraphy of the Moose River Synclinorium, Maine GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1111-E Stratigraphy... Stratigraphy of the Moose River Synclinorium, Maine By ARTHUR J. BOUCOT CONTRIBUTIONS GEOLOGICAL TO GENERAL...Description of the early Paleozoic rocks in west-central Maine, with emphasis on those of Silurian and Devonian...Silurian or Ordovician age______________________ Kennebec formation ___________________________________________...SYNCLINORIUM, MAINE By ARTHUR J. Boucor ABSTRACT The Moose River synclinorium of west-central Maine contains
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
OXFORD COUNTY, MAINE, PEGMATITES. M. M. Felch, W. B. Simmons, A. U. Falster, and K. L. Webber. Maine Mineral...intermediate and core zones in many of the Oxford County, Maine, pegmatites. This study primarily focuses on...of the two best-known garnet-line examples from Maine: Mt. Mica and western Mt. Apatite pegmatites. Both...garnet lines host a range of primary inclusions: quartz, mica, tourmaline, zircon, as well as xeno368 ...and neighboring mineral phases (e.g., albite and quartz). A similar occurrence of tourmaline-rimmed garnet
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
SURFICIAL GEOLOGY OF PARTS OF THE KENNEBEC AND CARRABASSETT RIVER VALLEYS, MAINE By H. W. Borns and D. f. Hagar...Dept. Geological Sciences, University of Maine, Orono, Maine DAVID JON HAGAR Dept. Geology, University...Stratigraphy of a Northern Part of the Kennebec River Valley, Western Maine Abstract: The late-glacial stratigraphy...stratigraphy of the northern part of I he Kennebec River valley of Maine indicates the following sequence of...(1) As the last extensive ice sheet dissipated in Maine, the sea inundated parts of the deglaciated and
mineral from the Dunton Quarry, Newry, Oxford County, Maine, USA F. C. HAWTHORNE1,*, N. A. BALL1, J. W. NIZAMOFF2...University of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana 70148, USA 2 [Received 8 April 2009; Accepted 6 July 2009]...pocket at the Dunton Quarry, Newry, Oxford County, Maine, USA. It occurs as subhedral blocky grains sometimes...Zigrasite is associated with tourmaline, microcline, quartz, albite, beryl, amblygonite-montebrasite, childreniteeosphorite...properties, X-ray powderdiffraction data, Newry, Maine, USA. Introduction MAHLMOODITE, Fe2+Zr(PO4)2(H2O)4
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informative mineral features". The authors describe quartz, feldspar, mica and others in terms of what the...Huizing, 534 I Thrasher Dr, Cincinnati OH 45247 USA Please, make checks payable to Mineralogical Almanac...discoYered amazon stone in Custer County, aquamarine and rose quartz at the Wild Rose claim (later known...known as the Devils Hole pegmatite), Fremont County and facetable almandine garnets near Canon City. Charles...the Wild Rose claim from Endicott for its rose quartz in I 907. For the next 13 years, Endicott remained
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the buffer reaction among phengite, rutile and quartz or coesite, but the experimental P–T conditions...buffer reaction (1) among muscovite, rutile and quartz 2 KðAl2 ÞðAlSi3 ÞO10 ðOHÞ2 þ TiO2 ¼ KðAlTiÞðAl2...reaction among muscovite, ilmenite, Al2SiO5 and quartz. The validity of this thermometer has been demonstrated...mineral assemblage muscovite + Al2SiO5 + ilmenite + quartz + garnet + biotite + plagioclase for every sample...Ilm Gr Pl Kfs The Snow Peak prograde sequence, USA (Lang and Rice, 1985) Chl-Bt × × × × × × × × Grt
Journal (issue)
geologic and precious-metal study in Rockbridge County contains new analytical data to guide detailed...occurrences in Virginia: 1 - Pimmet Run occurrence; 2 - Augusta Springs silver mine; 3 - Woods Mill Occurrence;...occurrence. AUGUSTA SPRINGS SILVER MINE The Augusta Springs Silver mine (Figure 2) is located in Augusta County...County, on the Augusta Springs 7.5-minute quadrangle, 2.2 miles southwest of Augusta Springs on the northwest...well as a mother lode of silver were worked in Augusta County. The mine was reportedly a tunnel back in the
Journal (issue)
Finger) and LKA Emeralds, Hiddenite, Alexander County, NC Go On Public Exhibit in New York City. Emeralds............................................... 4 Maine .............................................................................................. 4 Maine Feldspar Quarry ......................................................................... 5 Rose quartz locality pegmatite ..............................Himalaya pegmatite, Mesa Grande District, San Diego County, California. Within a narrow pegmatite small anhe-
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STETTIN COMPLEX, WAUSAU SYENITE COMPLEX, MARATHON COUNTY, WISCONSIN. T. W. Buchholz1, A. U. Falster2, and...PEGMATITE, POLAND, ANDROSCOGGIN COUNTY, MAINE. A. U. Falster and W. B. Simmons. Maine Mineral and Gem Museum,...tourmaline-producing pegmatite in Poland, Androscoggin County, Maine. The pegmatite is part of the Oxford pegmatite...Montebrasite shows only little interaction, and quartz was essentially unaffected, not surprising because...expansion coefficient is near zero. The presence of odd quartz crystals in a nearby miarolitic cavity may be related
Report (issue)
Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, USA, phone (978) 750-8400, http://www.copyright.com...index. ISBN 0-8137-2331-0 1. Geology, Structural--Maine--Norumbega Fault Zone. 2. Geology, Structural--Appalachian...within the Norumbega fault system in south-central Maine. The thin section is cut parallel to the stretching...Norumbega fault system inte, Casco: Bay are: Coastal Maine xc ie 8 fogs bate Oe eS SL Mark T. Swanson | 2...microstructures along the central Norumbega fault zone, Maine .......... 0060 ccc Mary S. Hubbard and Hui Wang
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sponsored by the "500" Earth Sciences Club. Hancock County Fairgrounds. Info.—Don Mahoney, 317/ 255-5872.... Sept. 6-8—Muskegon, Michigan. Muskegon County Rock & Mineral Association Show. Wilma Hall, 2950 McCracken...NJ 07080. Sept. 7, 8—Roseburg, Oregon. Douglas County Gem & Mineral Show sponsored by the Umpqua Gem...Fossil & Crafts Show spon­ sored by the Licking County Rock and Mineral Society, Indian Mound Mall, 771...sponsored by the Rock & Mineral Club of Lower Bucks County. Northminster Presbyterian Church, 140 Trenton
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calcite, 11/2 inches across, Knippa Quarry, Uvalde County, Texas, photo by the author. Tucson 1999 - mouthwash...Posey Mine (San Juan Co., Utah, USA) and Planet Mine (La Paz Co., Arizona, USA). That from Posey Mine is composed...on page 4 i\lincrnl News 2 10th Anniversary Maine Mineral Symposium May 7, 8, 9. 1999 Mineral and...the I0th Maine Mineral Symposium at the Senator Inn and Conference Center in Augusta, Maine. This annual...and collecting sites. There arc always talks on Maine, and the 1999 program features four well-known authorities
 
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