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Microcline from
Chandler Mine, Raymond, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Microcline
Formula:K(AlSi3O8)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Muscovite1 photo of Microcline associated with Muscovite at this locality.
Quartz1 photo of Microcline associated with Quartz at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Microcline data
Locality Data:Click here to view Chandler Mine, Raymond, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:554207
Long-form Identifier:1:3:554207:9
GUID (UUID V4):1b8a7c17-a8af-4b0d-9f2e-be38592930c4
Nearest other occurrences of Microcline
3.2km (2.0 miles) Aggregate Industries Quarry, Raymond, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, USA
21.1km (13.1 miles) Route 28 area, Windham, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, USA
21.4km (13.3 miles) Belisle Granite Quarry, Hooksett, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, USA
22.0km (13.7 miles) Hooksett Crushed Stone Quarry, Hooksett, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, USA
24.0km (14.9 miles) Windham, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, USA
24.4km (15.2 miles) Bedford, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA
29.8km (18.5 miles) Route 101 magnetite locality, Bedford, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA
30.3km (18.8 miles) Uncanoonuc Mountains, Goffstown, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA
30.3km (18.9 miles) Pulpit Road locality, Bedford, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA
31.6km (19.6 miles) Pelham, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Figure I : Map of the (handler mine, Raymond. Rockingham County, New Hampshire (after Page and Larrabee, 1962)...assemblage of manganese phosphates. Minerals of the CHANDLER MINE A ZONED, LITHIUM-RICH dump* PEGMATITE C A...mond district. The reopening of the mine in 1979 by the Chandler Mining Company, described in the preceding...M I N E IN R A Y M O N D , Rocking­ ham County, New Hampshire, is an open pit in a granite pegmatite that...With its abundant lithium mineralization, the Chandler pegmatite is perhaps the most interesting of the
Report (issue)
Beryl Resources of New Hampshire GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 353 Prepared on behalf of the...with the New Hampshire State Planning and Development Commission Beryl Resources of New Hampshire By JAMES...Commission^ and in part in cooperation with the New Hampshire State Planning and Development Commission UNITED...Page, James Jeffers, 192ftBeryl resources of New Hampshire, by James J. Page and David M. Larrabee. Washington...Commission, and in part in cooperation with the New Hampshire State Planning and Development Commission. Bibliography:
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mineral Occurrences ITEMS ON NEW FINDS ARE. DESIRED PLEASE SEND THEM I N . Abbreviations: x l - -crystal...and I took out some chunks of fluorite from a microcline and smoky quartz pegmatite we were working. These...nor even under an argon lamp. "Fluorite. Teller County, Colorado." —on label. CONNECTICUT—"Perhaps you...found in Dodge County near Empire, Plainfield and Jay Bird Springs, and in Irwin County near Osierfield...Lovilla (Monroe Co.), Iowa. No. 2 was found at a strip mine west of Bussey (Marion Co.),Iowa. Would you please
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
found at the Palermo Quarry, North Groton, New Hampshire. Crystals to 150 pounds in weight have been...Maine; Alstead, Gilsum, and Springfield, New Hampshire; Bedford, New York; the Scott and other quarries near...been found at Red Hill, Maine; North Groton, New Hampshire, and from Pala, Rincón, and Mesa Grande, California...crystal localities are near Milan and Berlin, New Hampshire; Deer Hill, Maine; near Statesville, North Carolina;...Carolina; at Amelia, Virginia, near Clayton, Rabun county, Georgia; etc. The old localities near West Chester
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Aragonite, 236 Bald Knob Manganese Deposit, Allegheny County, North Carolina, W. B . Sim­ mons, Jr., 130 Barite...Columbia, Yukon Territory, 9; rutile, Hastings County, 284 Canfield, F . A . , 232 Canfieldite, 233 Caryopilite...Chamberlain, S. C , New Occurrences of Twinned Crystals in St. Lawrence and Lewis Counties, New York, 285; Mineralogy...of the Titanite Occurrence Near Natural Bridge, New York, 288 Charlesite, 238 Chips from the Quarry,...Cummings, W., Mineralization at the Millington Quarry, New Jersey, 213 Currier, R. H . , book review, Hardrock's
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2017 Topaz W in New Hampshire’s DONALD DALLAIRE 829 Candia Road Chester, New Hampshire 03036 dadallaire@hotmail...Edgar D. Andrews’ grave in Chandler cemetery on Route 113 in Chatham, New Hampshire. Don Dallaire photo. ...several other localities throughout the world. New Hampshire, however, has produced topaz crystals for more...minerals since 1971 and specializes in apatite and New Hampshire minerals. He is on the board of trustees of...master’s degree in geology from the University of New Orleans and specializes in pegmatite mineralogy.
Journal (issue)
last issue of ROCKS AND MIN• ERALS, Mr. Wm. C. Chandler, of San Jose, Calif., offered a suggestion for...favorably received by our readers as a number of new subscriptions - from unexpected quarters - have been...senders must surely have been inltuenced by Mr. Chandler. In this issue another suggestion i3 given-one...interest to avoid the danger of being replaced by new members from the waiting list. Exhibition at the...J. S. Forbes SPECIAL TRAY AWARDS Cabochons I- Raymond Yale 2-L. B. Howell 3-D. H. Kirkpatrick Faceting
Report (volume)
Bulletin 931-P MICA-BEARING PEGMATITES OF NEW HAMPSHIRE A PRELIMINARY REPORT BY J. C. OLSON Strategic...Geologic map of the Alstead area, Keene district , New Hampshire........................ 62. Map showing locations...and feldspar mines of the Grafton district, New Hampshire ....................................... 63o...of the Keene district, New Hampshire.. Figure 38. Index map of New Hampshire showing locations of the...Valencia minob.............. 40. Plan of the Palermo mine...................... Ill 370 390 390 365 389 391
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
page 568, Nov.-Dec, 1962) There is an old mica mine on Blue- powder. If a specimen shows nothing but...Strafford, New Hamp- alteration species ferri-sicklerite or if you shire. It is known as the Buzzo's Mine, are...we were in the vicinity. My second visit to the mine was both had a small vug in which was a botryoiunusual...been up near the southern end of Lake accicular new mineral. When I broke this Winnipesaukee for a week...1938 and a found more and larger crystals of this new persistent drizzle made the snow too species which
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of the Conway and Mount Osceola Granites of New Hampshire Some of the best collecting in the Granite State...State has been in central and northcentral New Hampshire in the Conway and Osceola granites. P E T E...the central and north-central re­ gions of New Hampshire, are part of the Mesozoic White Mountain plutonic-volcanic...MINERALS and Minnesota. General Grant's tomb in New York City was one of many structures utilizing it...(Home, 1963). In the Conway Granite of northern New Hampshire, quarrying was done on a sporadic basis, mainly
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pohwatp@si.edu Muscovite Shannon Canyon, Inyo County, California R ocks are made up of minerals. Some...the littleknown locality of Shannon Canyon, Inyo County, California. The specimen is 3 × 4 cm and was collected...in tin-tungsten deposits (such as the Panasquiera mine) and is a constituent of granite, aplite, gneiss...literature are those from the pegmatites of the New England region. From Maine, King and Foord (1994...from the Strickland quarry, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut. This is typical of the specimens
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
locality known as the Ruggles' Mine in Grafton Center, New Hampshire. Already then it had been in more...one another and separated by narrow masses of microcline. The stringers were usually more or less perpendicular...striking color groupings on the whitish microcline. My New Hampshire friends, Mr. Leggett and Mr. Weeks of...Meredith, mentioned having seen workmen repairing the mine road with some of the colorful stuff! Good specimens...Stockholm. The specimen in my collection is a 4"x6" microcline matrix with four diagonally parallel masses of
Report (volume)
in Bronx and Westchester Counties, southeastern New York, by Charles A. Baskervi1le....................3. Buddenhagen...........................Hi 1 3. New Paleozoic formations in the northern Kuskokwim Mountains..., and Wi 1 1 iam W. Patton, 3r...........H13 ^. New stratigraphic unit in the Wilcox Group (upper Paleocene-lower...Shride.....................H57 8. Mauzy Formation, a new stratigraphic unit of Permian age in western Kentucky...formations in the Hamilton Group (Middle Devonian) of New York, by William A. Oliver, 3r..................H91
Field Trip Notes
//' . GUIDEBOOK FOR FIELD IN ''fy,.'t:J TRIPS NEW ENGLAND NOVEMBER 10-12, 1952 Organized by the...Before visiting any of the sites described in the New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference guidebooks...Highlands of East-Central New York, Southern Vermont, and Southern New Hampshire Field Trip No. 2, Outstanding...Outstanding pegmatites of Maine and New Hampshire 73 Geology of the "Chelmsford Granite" 103 Field Trip...OF EAST-CENTRAL NEW YORK, SOUTHER Leaders: VERJ-IONT, AND SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE Marland P, Billings
Journal (issue)
quartz, SiO2, 3.5cm, Graves Mountain, Lincoln County, Georgia, USA. Chris Whitney-Smith Collection and Photo...Message Officers/Committees 2-3 2019 Programs, New Members 4 Meeting Minutes 5 Refreshment Volunteers...with story about a legrandite TN from the Ojuela Mine, mounted in perky box and sold by the late mineral...November 14th program will be presented by Dr. Raymond Grant on "Collecting Around the World In 80 Years...Mike Williams Carlie Murphy Past President Dr. Raymond Grant John Seitz Dr. Nathan Scholten Term Expires
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Minerals of New Hampshire A Checklist JANET W. C A R E S 18 S i n g l e t a r y L a n e Sudbury. Massachusetts...ities. As other articles in this issue will attest, New Hamp­ shire has rightfully earned its nickname, the...Janules, 1990), and the fumed "gummite" of the Ruggles mine accounts foi the many alteration products of uraninke...lead-bearing minerals are found at the Madison lead mine, and barite occurs in the well-known fluorite mines... while copper minerals—which are scarce in New Hampshire—are found mainly in a few small depos­ its.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
STRUCTURE AND PETROLOGY OF THE SUNAPEE QUADRANGLE, NEW HAMPSHIRE BY CARLETON A. CHAPMAN ABSTRACT The rocks of...of the Sunapee quadrangle, in southwestern New Hampshire, are chiefly metamorphic in origin and range...schist but consist predominately of mica and microcline gneiss. East of the Littleton formation is the...and nearly all muscovite was converted to huge microcline porphyroblasts. Also contributing to the formation...introduced to develop the phases very rich in microcline. The history of these metamorphic-metasomatic
Book (volume)
instance, a single Spodumene crystal from the Etta Mine near Keystone on the east side of the Mount Rushmore...beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm...gray Barite rosette up to 5 or 6 inches. CAMPBELL COUNTY MOUND CITY, W to the Missouri R., regional hillsides...gravels, etc.petrified wood, wood opal. CORSON COUNTY LITTLE EAGLE:  area ridges, slopes, stream beds...Hounds in the United States CUSTER COUNTY AREA: The November Mine, 1.2 mi. SE of the Needles Eye Tunnel
Book (volume)
Descriptive Mineralogy Vandall T. King Rochester, New York 14609 , Eugene E. Foord U S. Geological Survey...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...mineralogical community. Through his efforts, the Sterling mine has been declared a national historic landmark.
Report (issue)
EPA REGION 1 Connecticut Maine Massachusetts New Hampshire Rhode Island Vermont OPEN-FILE REPORT 93-292-A...REGION 1 Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont R. Randall Schumann...Preliminary Geologic Radon Potential Assessment of New Hampshire Linda C.S. Gundersen andR. Randall Schumann...directed to develop model standards and techniques for new building construction that would provide adequate...aerial radioactivity, and indoor radon data by county. Because of constraints on the scales of maps presented
Report (issue)
the current-year issues of the monthly catalog "New Publications of the U.S. Geological Survey." Prices...S. Geological Survey offices: FAIRBANKS, Alaska-New Federal Bldg, 101 Twelfth Ave. ROLLA, Missouri-1400...holes in Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, and Kansas. New data from surface samples collected as part of this...volcanic rock fragments, high content of altered microcline, lack of micas, and the occurrence of zeolites...percent) consists of slightly to intensely altered microcline and associated minor plagioclase (albite), orthoclase
Report (issue)
understanding of the geologic history of southeastern New England, particularly as it is revealed in the Lawrence...Massachusetts and about 2 square miles of southeastern New Hampshire. The northeastern half of the Massachusetts...Essex County, and the remainder is in Middlesex County. The small, mapped section of New Hampshire is split...split between Rockingham and Hillsboro Counties. Major concentrations of population are found in and...northeastern Massachusetts, particularly those of Essex County, have been studied by several geologists beginning
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...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;
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...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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