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Fluorapatite from
Big Mine, Alstead, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Fluorapatite
Formula:Ca5(PO4)3F
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Fluorapatite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Big Mine, Alstead, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:50877
Long-form Identifier:1:3:50877:9
GUID (UUID V4):5869303f-e8d6-47aa-8cfa-3a5be2908030
Nearest other occurrences of Fluorapatite
1.0km (0.6 miles) ⓘIsland Mine, Alstead, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
1.2km (0.7 miles) ⓘBurroughs beryl prospect, Alstead, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
1.3km (0.8 miles) ⓘBlister Mine, Alstead, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
1.5km (0.9 miles) ⓘFrench Mine, Alstead, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
1.9km (1.2 miles) ⓘBeauregard Mine, Alstead, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
2.4km (1.5 miles) ⓘNichols Quarry, Gilsum, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
3.7km (2.3 miles) ⓘKirk No. 2 Quarry, Gilsum, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
5.8km (3.6 miles) ⓘWhite Quarry, Gilsum, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
6.4km (4.0 miles) ⓘKirk No. 1 Quarry, Gilsum, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
6.5km (4.0 miles) ⓘFitzgibbons Mine, Alstead, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
New Hampshire Mineral Locality Index Downloaded by [University of Newcastle, Australia] at 15:01 05...entrance and arch of the Palermo mine, North Groton, Grafton County. Rob Lawrence photo, courtesy Bob...Bob Whitmore. 242 ROCKS & MINERALS lthough New Hampshire, the Granite State, is one of our smaller states...reading Jackson (1844) on the mineralogy of New Hampshire that even at this early date there was already...activity produced new localities, renewed some old localities, and resulted in new minerals being discovered
Report (issue)
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. A sbestos ore Lead ore, Balmat mine, N . Y. Chromite-chromium ore, Washington Zinc ore...not yet discovered or not currently profitable to mine. The mining of mineral deposits, once they are discovered...depleted, new deposits are found, new extractive technology and uses are developed, and new geologic knowledge...knowledge and theories indicate new areas favorable for exploration. This Professional Paper discusses.................... Fluorine in phosphate and fluorapatite deposits..................... Fluorine in other
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600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods...gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason Cr.⎯fossils;
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600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods...gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason Cr.⎯fossils;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Francis, Harvard University; Dr. Marian Lupulescu, New York State Museum; Dr. George Robinson, Michigan... Adrian College; and Dr. Steven C. Chamberlain, New York State Museum. Twenty-one abstracts were submitted... thE ColoRs oF suoluNitE FRoM thE laC d’aMiaNtE MiNE, QuEBEC. B. C. Hyde and K. T. Tait. Royal ontario...originated from the Lac d’Amiante mine, Quebec, Canada. Well known as an asbestos mine, the locality is also home... Auguste, and G. Bonin. 2009. The Lac d’Amiante mine. Mineralogical Record 40:297–304. Fracture-hosted
Book
THE PEGMATITE MINES KNOWN AS NORTH GROTON, NEW HAMPSHIRE eral I ederi Acknowledi:ments Dedicated...experience. As a kid growing up in Manchester, New Hampshire, I was always fascinated by minerals and tried...premier sandbox, but I could also make sure the mine would remain open to mineral enthusiasts for years...maintained the notoriety acquired by the Palermo No. I mine. Its impact on the nation, and in some respects...different species - several of them unique to the mine - Palermo has earned a reputation that makes it
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
01:09 24 December 2014 Graves Mountain, Lincoln County, Georgia B lue minerals are a traditional favorite...Sagadahoc County, Maine. Gemmy lazulite masses are found in Chittenden Township, Rutland County, Vermont...Vermont. It is reported from Stoddard, Cheshire County, and from the Palermo and Charles Davis pegmatites (possibly...(possibly scorzalite) at North Groton, Grafton County, New Hampshire. Lazulite is best known in the southeastern...“quartzite” matrix from Graves Mountain, Lincoln County, Georgia. The 4.6-cm-high specimen is in the Kevin
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Photographs JanuaryFebruary: Rhodochrosite, N’Chwaning mine, Hotazel, South Africa. Martin Zinn specimens, Erica...Cryo-Genie mine, San Diego County, California. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County specimen,...Ground Hog mine, Gilman, Eagle County, Colorado. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County specimen...Andradite, Michigan, 345 Anglesite, Colorado, 308; New Hampshire, 415 Ankerite, Colorado, 308 Anthony Robert...Colorado, 308; New Hampshire, 416 Barbosa, C., see In Memoriam Barite, Colorado, 308; New Mexico, 385;
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is nevertheless known as " a small state that is big on mineralization." MARCELLE H. WEBER 1172 West...localities in Connecticut, a small state that is big on mineralization. During its colonial days, Connecticut...not impor­ tant specimen producers: Newgate copper mine, which was used for a prison; the Allyndale quarry...supplied the rock for the "brownstone" fronts in New York City and elsewhere; and the Hoadley Neck quarry...columbite, traditionally reported to have been found at New London, where it has not been found since. It is
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
view showing the Indian Queen mine ca. 1905 at Farlin, Beaverhead County. 208 ROCKS & MINERALS Downloaded...more people), there is a vast territory to explore. New discoveries continue to be made. Snow cover obscures...mines at Butte in Silver Bow County and the Black Pine mine in Granite County have produced many fine crystal...Beaverhead County, the pegmatites of Jefferson County, and the Snowbird mine in Mineral County continue...Highlands Centennial Nugget in 1989 in Silver Bow County. The seventh largest gold nugget found in Montana;
Journal (issue)
........................ 293 President What's new in minerals?.......................................R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur...American Mineralogist for descriptions and abstracts of new species. The point is, however, that a person’s personal...rockhounding has nevertheless failed to attract new recruits, and that this failure has persisted for...flogging a dead horse. If this phenomenon of few new recruits took hold 30 or 40 years ago, the hobby
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recent findings. For the new minerals described since 1973, I have used the New Minerals section of the...the American Mineralogist, Lists of New Mineral Names of Mineralogical Magazine and the recent compilation...deposits in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah were opened centuries ago by the...the mines in the Cerrilos Hills, near Santa Fe, New Mexico (Encyclopedia Britannica 968, p 415). Turquois...historical pattern in the subsequent introduction of new phosphate minerals (still valid) into the scientific
Report (issue)
Publisher Lithographie, Ltd. Denver, Colorado, USA Design and Layout Gloria A. Staebler Managing Editor...Lithographie, Ltd. PO Box 11613 • Denver, CO 80211 • USA Phone: 1.303.495.5521 • Fax: 1.303.482.1238 www.lithographie...Ehrenfriedersdorf, Saxony S. Gouverneur, St. Lawrence Co., New York, U.S.A.; 6. Renfrew, Ontario, Canada; 7. Canada;...Pound Crystals and Eighty Carat Gemstones-Canada is BIG! BY KIMBERLY TAIT AND MICHAEL BAINBRIDGE PAGE 48...The Panasqueira Mines: One Hundred Years of Fluorapatite BY CARLES CURTO MILA AND JORDI FABRE I FORNAGUERA
Book (volume)
Descriptive Mineralogy Vandall T. King Rochester, New York 14609 , Eugene E. Foord U S. Geological Survey...permission of the publisher. Cover photograph: Fluorapatite, Pulsifer quarry, Auburn, Maine (2.2 cm specimen)...Philip Hauck Richard P. Hauck was born in Bloomfield, New Jersey on June 30, 1935. He has been actively involved...deep concern for the fate of the Sterling mine in Ogdensburg, New Jersey, and his intense interest in mining...mining history led him to purchase the mine in order to form a living museum so that it would remain accessible
Show/Event (guide)
Bob Morgan, Ed Smith, Lee Tutt, Ken Wolff What’s New In Minerals' Joria Staebler Auction Solicitors Gene...program designed to provide excellent speakers, new information, camaraderie, displays of extraordinary...familiar faces. Most of their topics will be quite new to our collective experience. This year’s Technical...Technical Session is again robust! We welcome numerous new attendees and hope you enjoy our meeting. We appreciate...Eye Candy Clockwise from top left: Silver, ZCA #3 mine, Balmat, NY; Fluor-dravite, road cut near Gouvemeur
Journal (issue)
................... 508 By W. E. Wilson What’s New in Minerals Rochester Mineralogical Symposium 2019...AUTUNITE on TOURMALINE, 11.9 cm, from the Golconda I mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil Brice Gobin (Mineral Art)...$324/three years, (Canada) $186/one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $265 for one year Subscription...as well, and they started picking over the local mine deposits together. They were married in 1970, and...Mardani Fine Minerals, our retail galleries located in New York City and Vail, Colorado. www.MardaniFineMinerals
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
20513 pohwatp@si.edu FLUORITE Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee R egular readers of this...sphalerite, 8.8 cm high, from the Elmwood mine, Smith County, Tennessee. Note the gemmy corners of the...pieces are all from the fluorspar district, Hardin County, Illinois. Cincinnati Museum Center specimens,...cubes from Trestia, Transylvania region, Maramures County, Romania, appears to be a complete replacement...large (3,965.3-carat) faceted blue fluorite, called “Big Blue,” donated by Harold and Doris Dibble. Green
Journal (issue)
a soft spot, and I was not disappointed in this new locality. Several trips over the last three years...1Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana 70148. 2Rua Ribeiro de...d'Ossola, Italy; Lyangara, Uzbekistan; and the Emma Mine, Little Cottonwood District, Salt Lake Co., Utah...Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of New Orleans, organized a three week fieldtrip to Brazil...News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 • 3 E-mail: lream@comtch.iea
Journal (issue)
E-mail: Wydar8®aol.com May 2001 Mine ral News The Mineral Database • New version - 4 .0 - now available...News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-6 64-2448 Email: lanny@mineralnews.com...the authors and not necessarily the opinions of Mine ral News. Locality descriptions published in the...genuinely happy with this stone he brought from the mine near the village where he lives, and knowing how...spangolite and brochantite from the Tex Mex Mine in New Mexico, but having paid $50, together, it will
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
including gold. However. except for the Homestake mine, which has operated for more than 120 years, most...exploration, and mineral collecting continues. and new finds will likely continue to be made. The most complete...FiridofGt~rnSphultirite ut IIIP Bulinut Zinc Mine, St. Luwrence County, tditor of NPW b r k ” unrl iipptwwl...project of Friends of Mineralogy; corrections and new or additional data are welcome and should be sent...and additions. Mlneral Index by Counties Brule County Elm Creek, IS mi. S. of Chamberlain, near junction
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
APATITE: A COMMON MINERAL, UNCOMMONLY VERSATILE Fluorapatite-monazite-allanite relations in the Grängesberg...Domkyrkotorget 1, FI-20500 Åbo, Finland 2 Abstract Fluorapatite-monazite-xenotime-allanite mineralogy, petrology...Bergslagen ore province, south central Sweden. Fluorapatite occurs in three main lithological assemblages...with the ore bodies, which contain fragmented fluorapatite crystals, and (3) the variably altered host...host rocks, which contain sporadic, isolated fluorapatite grains or aggregates that are occasionally associated
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Sciences State University of New York 4240 Ridge Lea Road Amherst, New York 14226 Definitions Some interest...micromounters. Mr. George Schwartzott of Hamburg, New York, has dis­ covered what appears to be a first...Syracuse, New York, recently visited Newfoundland to study its geology. While at the Tilt Cove mine in Tilt...comes from D r . Steve Chamberlain of Syracuse, New Y o r k : "Although this occurrence may be most famous...Misidentifications Mr. Curt Segeler of B r o o k l y n , New Y o r k , sends the following note. " A few days
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l d News on Mineral Occurrences Please note the new address for WNMO. After graduation, 1 have found...Establishment 3000 E . Ridge Road, Box 1712 Rochester, New York 14603 and topaz have lower dispersion and so...Bergdirektion, Austria, published an account o f "Some New Occurrences of Gonnardite" in Mineralogical Magazine...specimen material was found in abundance at the County Gravel Pit at Mauldin Mountain. Mauldin Moun­ tain...USGS geological map shows it to be composed of the Big Fork Chert Formation which is of Ordovician age.
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paleontology, and mineral resources of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island (Dawson 1855)...Dawson arrived at McGill in 1855 to take up his new position, he asked to see the teaching collection...Redpath stepped in to finance the construction of a new museum in recognition of Dawson’s twenty-five years...museum (Sheets-Pyenson 1988). Construction of the new museum began in 1880, and Dawson immediately set...his personal collections to McGill and acquired new material to augment the collections in the old college
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(top left). Calcite, 5.5 cm high, Elmwood mine, Smith County. Terry Huizing specimen, Jeff Scovil photo...(above). Fluorite, 13.1 cm wide, Elmwood mine, Smith County. Francis Benjamin specimen, Jeff Scovil photo...(left). Fluorite, 2.5 cm on edge, Elmwood mine, Carthage, Smith County. Terry Huizing specimen and photo. Figure...Figure 4 (right). Cumberland mine, Smith County. Travis Paris photo (2004). Figure 5 (far right page)...barite specimens at the Elmwood zinc mine in middle Tennessee. This mine, opened in 1975, and other nearby
 
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