| | 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 (issue) | Ridge and Pluntbago-Puzzle Mountain Newry, Oxford Count , Maine Van King PO Box 90888 Rochester, NY 14609...14609 newryqs@ rochester .rr .corn Halls Ridge, Newry, Maine was named for Henry C. Hall who first found...named until 1910). The number of minerals at the Newry quarries is about 116 and an additional 7 species...to be present in specimens actually dug from a quarry or prospect. Of course, the list includes whatever...species have actually been observed from the specific quarry and, therefore, the various minerals came from | | | Journal (issue) | Profession...................184 by Paul Brian Moore Newry Maine - A Pegmatite Phosphate Locality... 189 by Vandall...motel rooms usually provide this. For example, the Maine elbaite tourmalines which were thor oughly discussed...for the crystal specimen quality of the San Diego County materials - both old and new. As usual, the exhibits...both the county (pro vince) and its capital; there are thirty-one separate mines in the county. The mines...another new borate mineral at Borax Lake, Lake County, California, and in 1939 was co-author with W. | | | 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...Milton Mineralogy of Pegmatites of the Newry Hill Area, Newry, Maine Leader: 19 Calwell Geology of the | | | 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 | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | within the quartz (ranging from macroscopic, e.g., actinolite, to submicroscopic, e.g., hematite); and (5)...3.0 cm, from Plumbago Mountain, Newry Township, Oxford County, Maine. Kevin Brown specimen, Joe Budd...quartz, 2.3 × 2.0 × 1.5 cm, from Mount Mica, Oxford County, Maine. It is difficult to find distinct single...high-quality rose quartz crystals, namely Oxford County, Maine; Minas Gerais, Brazil; and Nuristan Province...localities. The very first discoveries were made in Maine, but some of the details have been overshadowed | | | Book (edition) | HANDBOOK for A WEEK WITH MAINE MINERALS by NEIL A. WINTRINGHAM 1_� Cv1,_1'--A� __, SECOND EDITION...a week collecting in the pegme.tite area ot Oxford county, !!Bine, Neil Wintr:lnghal'!l, a pa.st-president...field trial of the hambook during our ''Week with Maine Minerals" furnished additional information end resulted...bas been replaced in the locality seotion by the Scotty Mine, an active operation of considerable interest...characterized the evenings spent with members of the Oxford County Mineral & Gem Association. N. A. W. Mountainside | | | 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 | | | Book (volume) | Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59...along adjoining Co. linerock crystal. BARROW COUNTY WINDER, along rd. to Jefferson and 1½ mi. inside...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States BARTOW COUNTY AREA, Saltpeter Cave, as floatjasper. CARTERSVILLE:...(banded, various colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY MACON: at Holton Quarry, 7½ mi. NWagate; N of Calloway | | | Book (volume) | 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...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason | | | Book (volume) | 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...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason | | Thébaud, Nicolas, Sugiono, Dennis, LaFlamme, Crystal, Miller, John, Fisher, Louise, Voute, François, Tessalina, Svetlana, Sonntag, Iris, Fiorentini, Marco (2018) Protracted and polyphased gold mineralisation in the Agnew District (Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia) Precambrian Research, 310. 291-304 doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2018.02.013 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | sequence are two sedimentary basins, named the Scotty Creek and the Vivien formations (Duuring et al... 2012; Perriam, 1996; Platt et al., 1978). The Scotty Creek Formation, also referred to as the Jones...separated by the Emu Shear Zone (Figure 1). The Scotty Creek Formation consists of a basal conglomerate...mafic pebbly sandstone (Ackroyd et al., 2001). The Scotty Creek Formation has yield a maximum deposition...the west, the Waroonga gneiss, separated from the Scotty Creek Formation by the Waroonga Shear Zone, is | | LaFlamme, Crystal, Sugiono, Dennis, Thébaud, Nicolas, Caruso, Stefano, Fiorentini, Marco, Selvaraja, Vikraman, Jeon, Heejin, Voute, François, Martin, Laure (2018) Multiple sulfur isotopes monitor fluid evolution of an Archean orogenic gold deposit. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 222. 436-446 doi:10.1016/j.gca.2017.11.003 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Archean sedimentary basin known locally as the Scotty Creek Formation - overlies the Lawlers greenstone...contact is not well defined because of shearing. The Scotty Creek Formation comprises mafic-ultramafic conglomerate...Antiform. Gold is hosted by the Emu Shear Zone in the Scotty Creek Formation. 3. MINE-SCALE GEOLOGY At the...Lawlers Antiform. The Emu Shear Zone cuts across the Scotty Creek Formation, which locally grades from a polymictic...are surrounded by a pervasive and superimposed actinolite-biotite+chalcopyrite+pyrrhotite±chlorite alteration | | | 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 (issue) | geothermal lease sale held in January. . . .. Josephine County mineral study completed. . . . . .. 23 36 36...There are three important assemblages in the actinolite-chlorite "greenschists": (2a) quartz-albitea...recrystallized metavolcanic rocks also contain actinolite, biotite, c1inozoisite-epidote, and sphene, in...ic matter with chlorite and local albite and actinolite; at higher grade, biotite replaces chlorite (Hotz...Geology of the Hamburg-McGuffy Creek area, Siskiyou County, California, and petrology of the Tom Martin ultramafic | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | overlain by quartzo-feldspathic sandstones of the Scotty Creek Formation (Perriam 1996). U–Pb SHRIMP dating...mineralisation (Ackroyd et al. 2001). The deposition of the Scotty Creek Formation, structural evolution and associated...zones and faults along the Lawlers Greenstone–Scotty Creek Formation unconformity (Aoukar et al. 1990)...Leinster anticline 6910000 6910000 Leucogranite Scotty Creek syncline Redeemer Basalt Lawlers Basalt...characterised by quartz+calcite+ Miner Deposita actinolite+biotite, with arsenopyrite>>chalcopyrite+galena | | | Book (edition) | MARIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY 3 1111 00289 4184 \ I s Fifth Revised Edition A complete, state-by-state...on the gem resources of our land. "Do you, Mr. Maine," he continued, "know that some of the finest tourmalines...from Alaska to the Mexican border and eastward to Maine and Florida. Still others are found in Canada and...strike gem tourmaline by the bushel basketful in Maine and California; emerald in North Carolina, a big...but both may be found as needles. Tremolite and actinolite are found as needles or stout monoclinic prisms | | | Book | commercial ores and secondary minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification...cities, and many of today’s prosperous western county seats began as mining-boom camps. trating sand...Whether you such as those listed alphabetically by county, township, and range in Part II of this book. Where...granite which was pushed up from great depths. Maine), New California The gem Jersey, show pegmatites...will help you prospect and explore any state and county. etc., for mineral deposits in Finding Suitable | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | amphibole, orthopyroxene, and Fe-Ti oxides. Tremolite-actinolite replacement of clinopyroxene is common. In most...possibly subvolcanic to the similarly contaminated Scotty Lake block felsic extrusive rocks (Stern et al...relationships with host mafic schists derived from the Scotty Lake block volcanic rocks. These features suggest...Airport tonalites and Schist Creek gabbro samples, Scotty Lake block volcanic rocks; Stern et al., 1995a;...crust was proximal to and provided input to the Scotty Lake block volcanic rocks during their formation | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | mafic and ultramafic clasts, and finally by the Scotty Creek sequence of sandstones and shales (Beresford...amphibolite facies assemblages dominated by tremolite–actinolite, chlorite and serpentine. The area is host to...basalts are composed dominantly of tremolite–actinolite, chlorite, albite and carbonate, with accessory...sedimentary units in the area (Mine Conglomerate and Scotty Creek units), by means of logging codes, and on | | Hayman, Patrick C., Cas, Ray A.F., Squire, Richard J., Campbell, Ian A., Chen, Mimi, Doutch, David (2019) Emplacement origins of coarsely-crystalline mafic rocks hosted in greenstone belts: Examples from the 2.7 Ga Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia. Precambrian Research, 324. 236-252 doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2019.01.023 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | LJĚĞĨinition, a fine grained mafic lava (e.g., Oxford Dictionary of Earth Sciences; Allaby and Allaby...sericite. Green minerals are equant to prismatic actinolite with acicular splintery margins, and is some...some cases, chlorite is associated with the actinolite. These green minerals are interpreted as replacement...clinopyroxene. In some examples the replacing actinolite forms an overlapping network with interstitial...plagioclase forms laths with interstitial replacement actinolite. Other secondary replacement minerals include | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Rh, and 75 g/t Au). It is hosted in chlorite-actinolite and chlorite schists of the Bear Lake magmatic...as isolated disseminated zones within chlorite-actinolite and chlorite schists. Platinum group minerals...disseminated zones, these phases replace the metamorphic actinolite-chlorite assemblage in both types of host rocks...Manistikwan Lake Block one 1 Blo ay urd Wh 2 km Scotty Lake Block So 0 ite McBratney McBratney Occurrence...that 1471 1472 BURSZTYN AND OLIVO Chlorite-actinolite schist Chlorite schist Glacial debris Massive | | | Report (issue) | ______________________________________________ Scotty Wash quartzite--_____--_-___-____________---__...west of the UtahNevada line. It is the county seat of Lincoln County and is at the end of a branch line 33...L., Petrography of the Pioche district, Lincoln County, Nev.: U. S. Geol. Survey Prof. Paper 158, pp....and completed by 1873. was voted the county seat of Lincoln County, and in This line went within a mile...found 6 miles to the north, on the west side of Scotty Wash at Silverhorn, where 400 feet of limestone | | Ordóñez-Calderón, J. C., Lafrance, B., Gibson, H. L., Schwartz, T., Pehrsson, S. J., Rayner, N. M. (2016) Petrogenesis and Geodynamic Evolution of the Paleoproterozoic (~1878 Ma) Trout Lake Volcanogenic Massive Sulfide Deposit, Flin Flon, Manitoba, Canada. Economic Geology, 111 (4) 817-847 doi:10.2113/econgeo.111.4.817 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Lake Block Sourdough Bay arc Fault, inferred Scotty Lake arc-rift Trout Lake mine orebody Grassy...Narrows Zone Tartan Lake gold mine Bluenose Lake Scotty Lake Block TARTAN LAKE BLOCK Saskatchewan Manitoba...vesicular and contain up to 3% blue, metamorphic, actinolite needles. The andesitic flows are intercalated...structural repetition of the Argillite unit (Fig. 3). Actinolite-bearing gabbros and pyroxene gabbros commonly...peperitic margins suggest a postvolcanic origin. The actinolite-bearing gabbro is black to metallic blue and | | | Journal (issue) | active in social and civic affairs in Riverside County and own valuable property in and around Palm Springs...story on the Pinacate mining district in Riverside County deals with a longgone town and the history revolving...yards north of Highway 74 in California's Riverside County. PINACATE, COLOR by Mike Engle lo N THE valley...the boulder studded Gavilan Hills of Riverside County are the vestiges of an exciting past. Today's motorist...being in the Kelso area of eastern San Bernardino County and the other in the Panamint Mountains of Inyo |
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