Log InRegister
Quick Links : The Mindat ManualThe Rock H. Currier Digital LibraryMindat Newsletter [Free Download]
Home PageAbout MindatThe Mindat ManualHistory of MindatCopyright StatusWho We AreContact UsAdvertise on Mindat
Donate to MindatCorporate SponsorshipSponsor a PageSponsored PagesMindat AdvertisersAdvertise on Mindat
Learning CenterWhat is a mineral?The most common minerals on earthInformation for EducatorsMindat ArticlesThe ElementsThe Rock H. Currier Digital LibraryGeologic Time
Minerals by PropertiesMinerals by ChemistryAdvanced Locality SearchRandom MineralRandom LocalitySearch by minIDLocalities Near MeSearch ArticlesSearch GlossaryMore Search Options
Search For:
Mineral Name:
Locality Name:
Keyword(s):
 
The Mindat ManualAdd a New PhotoRate PhotosLocality Edit ReportCoordinate Completion ReportAdd Glossary Item
Mining CompaniesStatisticsUsersMineral MuseumsClubs & OrganizationsMineral Shows & EventsThe Mindat DirectoryDevice SettingsThe Mineral Quiz
Photo SearchPhoto GalleriesSearch by ColorNew Photos TodayNew Photos YesterdayMembers' Photo GalleriesPast Photo of the Day GalleryPhotography

Quartz from
Wentworth Quarry, Albany, Oxford County, Maine, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Quartz
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Quartz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Wentworth Quarry, Albany, Oxford County, Maine, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:613262
Long-form Identifier:1:3:613262:0
GUID (UUID V4):32a981fe-0743-4fc1-af22-c206bb48c585
Nearest other occurrences of Quartz
1.0km (0.6 miles) Wardwell Quarry (Pechnic Quarry), Albany, Oxford County, Maine, USA
1.7km (1.1 miles) Stearns Quarry, Albany, Oxford County, Maine, USA
1.8km (1.1 miles) Chester Holt prospect, Albany, Oxford County, Maine, USA
5.2km (3.2 miles) Douglass Road Metal Quarry, Albany, Oxford County, Maine, USA
5.3km (3.3 miles) Bumpus Quarry, Albany, Oxford County, Maine, USA
6.0km (3.7 miles) Verrill locality, Stoneham, Oxford County, Maine, USA
6.5km (4.0 miles) Knight #1 and #2 Quarries, Waterford, Oxford County, Maine, USA
6.8km (4.2 miles) Emmons Quarry, Uncle Tom Mountain, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine, USA
7.6km (4.7 miles) Saunders-Wheeler Prospect, Albany, Oxford County, Maine, USA
8.2km (5.1 miles) Noyes Mountain outcrops, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
arch of the Palermo mine, North Groton, Grafton County. Rob Lawrence photo, courtesy Bob Whitmore. 242...2015 LOCATIONS BY COUNTY Belknap County Alton area: arsenopyrite, galena, quartz (crystals), sillimanite...(lodestone), nepheline, quartz (amethyst). Laconia area: psilomelane, quartz (crystals), sphalerite,...occurrence is particularly noteworthy for Carroll County Albany, Blackberry Crossing (includes the Moose Pocket...(microcrystals), genthelvite* (microcrystals), microcline, quartz* (smoky, crystals), siderite, siderophyllite, zinnwaldite
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)
brownish peridotite with a tew grains of whitish quartz. Peridotite is the rock in which diamonds occur...black magnetite, with minor amounts of colorless quartz, greenish epidote, colorless zircon (fluoresces...This is a fine grained gray sand consisting of quartz (colorless, smoky, brownish) with some black magnetite...Louisville 7, Ky. This sand was found inside of some quartz géodes collected along the shore of Lake Cumberland...is a coarse sand, brownish in color, and is all quartz— many lustrous terminated (some doubly Magnetite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
bloodstone (quartz). Bloodstone is green quartz (plasma) dotted or spotted with red quartz (jasper). It...eastern minerals. "Am sending you a sample of two quartz xls coated with siderite and calcite xls. Small...specimens! One was a slender, 3 inch dark smoky quartz xl encrusted with lustrous, brown drusy siderite...siderite xls. The other was a 21/, inch smoky quartz xl, two faces of which were coated by dark gray drusy...'Arizona Gem Fields'. Near Indian Pass, Imperial County, Calif., and then deep in the Muggins Mountains
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
community of Talucah near Vahlermoso Springs, in Morgan County, north Alabama. A large portion of this cave had...of Mines, I heard of an active uranium mine or quarry a couple of miles from town. Following the highway...pollucite which I discovered at the Strickland Quarry, in Portland, during 1954. "Several institutions...proved to be fairly abundant in one section of the quarry wall, intergrown with lepidolite, spodumene, pink...known from the Bolton Schist at the Strickland quarry, should also have appeared in the .list In my map
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
on the Post territory which covers most of Yuma County, Arizona, and a small area in California."—letter...Liggett military reserjade deposits in (Monterey County) Cali- vation are some of the very few found on...Middlesex signed to conserve the stone for removal County, Conn., was sent in by Richard by legitimate collectors...Gillette thorization and have utilized methods of Quarry. They were found in a mixture excavation which...value of the remaining jade. The firms have been of quartz, diopside and actinolite, associblasting the deposits
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
are interesting specimens. Centreville is in Bibb County, in the central part of Alabama. Near Odenville...community of about 1,200 in southeastern Pinal County which probably will become a ghost town when the...MINERALS. Bulletin number is 973-E. The title is "Quartz crystal deposits of western Arkansas," by A. E... Washington 25, D. C. It deals mostly with the quartz crystal deposits of western Arkansas throughout...out and report later." The Strickland feldspar quarry (or mine) on Collins Hill, near Portland, is one
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)
Stone Quarry by John O. Griesbach 3957 Wendy Court, Wheaton, Silver Spring, Md. Introduction: quarry about...dendritic, white, pink, Hunting Hill, Montgomery County, Md., green, brown, red, and nearly black. Some...of deposited in joints and fractures as a silica quarry. Country-rock a moderately fine gel. It had nearly...of the taken, showed large euhedral and subhe- quarry and is no longer available. Being dral crystallized...presence Some early examiners of this mineral in the quarry in so small a percentage thought it to be a serpentine
Report (issue)
_______________________ _ Geology of the pegmatite districts of Maine __ :. . _____ _ Metamorphic rocks _________________________...__________________ _ Maine ________________________________________ _ Androscoggin County ______________________...______________________ _ Berry feldspar quarry __________________ _ Cumberland County _______________________ _ LaChance...LaChance mines _______________________ _ Oxford County ____________________________ _ Barrett beryl prospect...prospect __________________ _ Bennett feldspar quarry ________________ _ Black Mountain area ___________________
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of vanadinite and wulfenite, is located in Pima County, Ariz., about 15 miles N . W . of Tucson. Although...Lithium-bearing pegmatites of the Pala district, San Diego County, California" has just been released by the Division...specimen comes from near Glenwood Springs, Garfield County, Colorado. "We find this pectolite high on a cliff...several houses, a general store, and a STONE QUARRY. This quarry is operated by the Morris Stone Company and...produce a high quality of agricultural lime. "The quarry is in the upper members of the Ordovician series
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)
of American Geographers: Annals, vols. 15, 16. Albany, N. Y. Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum: Bulletin,...Maryland Geological Survey: Kent County; Queen Anne's County; Talbot County. Baltimore, Md. Mazama, vol....Museum: Bulletin, nos. 258-263, 265, 267, 269-272. Albany, N. Y. North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey:...6. Carbonic flora of Butler's Landing [Johnson County, Iowa] (abstract):.' Pan-Am. Geologist, vol. 46...the Illinoian drift margin in southeastern Owen County, Indiana: Indiana Acad. Sci.. Proc.,. vol. 35,
Report (issue)
and slabby quartz granofels Ochf Finely laminated, hornblende-biotite-plagioclase-quartz granofels (felsic...hornblende-biotite-plagioclase-quartz rock and hornblendebiotite-quartz-plagioclase gneiss Obf Gray...Gray to white, medium-grained, biotite-quartz-plagioclase gneiss possible felsic volcanic rock ORDOVICIAN...chlorite-muscovite-quartz granofels ORDOVICIAN MORETOWN FORMATION n Oml Pinstriped muscovite-biotite-quartz-plagioclase...and quartzite Ombs Black, slabby, rusty biotite-quartz schist, locally carbonaceous Omgs Greenish-gray
Report (issue)
mines Lawrencetown gold mines Natural Blue Stone quarry Lake Catcha gold mines Dunbrack mine Lake Charlotte...Port Hastings to Sydney and Cabot Trail Big Brook quarry Finlay Point Lake Ainslie barite mines Iona gypsum...Belle Marche quarry Pleasant Bay lead deposit Dingwall gypsum quarry Ingonish gypsum quarry Point Aconi...Scotch Lake quarry Ironville (Ingraham) iron mine Coxheath mine Frenchvale dolomite quarry Steele Crossing...occurrences Limestone Point limestone quarry Point Edward limestone quarry 5 6 7 7 9 9 11 II 13 15 16 16
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Investigation of Gilley Fluorspar Deposits in Cherokee County, Alabama, by James F. O'Neill. It is interesting... 50 miles northeast of Birmingham, in Cherokee County, located in West 1/2, West V2 of Section 16, Township...fluoresces blue (through the quartz) under the Mineralight; in addition the quartz crystal has a colorless...pegmatite district lies across the Park-Fremont County line in south-central Co'crado, a few miles northwest... N . J., donated to R & M two quartz specimens—groups of milky quartz and rock crystals—both coming from
Book (volume)
gold-bearing areas. Lode deposits usually consist of Quartz veins in solid rock, while placer deposits occur...Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and  the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59...along adjoining Co. linerock 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 floatjasper. CARTERSVILLE:
Report (issue)
• . • • . . . . • • . . . . Natural Blue Stone quarry . . . . . . • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • ...Sydney (via Cabot Trail) Bestwall Gypsum .Company quarry •.•• ; ....•.....•.• ·• ••••.•••••• Finlay Point...•••••• .••.•. · •••••. ·..••••••••••• Belle Marche quarry......................................... Pleasant...• . • . • • • • • • • • • . • • Dingwall gypsum quarry • • • • • . • • • • • • • • • . • • • . • • • •...• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Ingonish gypsum quarry ••.•.• : . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • . . . . •
Report (issue)
belt and those used by Butts (1915) in Jefferson County, Ky ___ ____________ Photographs of the Brassfield...several lithologic sec­ tions. Fossils in Jefferson County were listed by Butts (1915). Fossils from Jefferson...the fine, medium, and coarse sand sizes of the Wentworth (1922) scale. "Very fine," when used to refer...corresponding to the silt or very fine sand sizes of the Wentworth scale, which the writer finds difficult to distinguish...upper part of quarry stone, 24 ft below top of formation. Dolomite, typical bed of quarry stone, 7.4 ft
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
fairly nice specimens in an old road bed in Lee County, Alabama, about 10 miles north of Auburn, Ala....near the old HaleWalker Quarry —perhaps a third of a mile from the Strickland Quarry. Chalcopyrite is disseminated...malachite is usually present as an alteration. Quartz veins, traversing the Glastonbury gneiss, are liable...green coating on pegmatite, at the Hale-Walker Quarry itself, was seen a few years ago. It was probably...of Milledgeville who discovered them in Baldwin County, Ga., between the State Sanitarium and Oconee River
Field Trip Notes
Hampshire Field Trip No. 2, Outstanding pegmatites of Maine and New Hampshire 73 Geology of the "Chelmsford...the present trip lies mainly in this belt from Albany to Stop 9 lying on one or the other side of the...inplace theory for the southern part, as in Dutchess County, New York. Whether such a combination of theories...State Museum, Albany. Miller, W. J. (1914) Geology of the North Creek quadrangle, Warren County, New York...Geology of the Schroon Lake quadrangle, Warren County, New York, New York State Mus., Bull. 213-214.
Book
ceived ssmam sits)s Gold-bearing rocks, other than quartz, also auriferous arsenopyrite and stibnite .. 2...es eicresea ame,sey vo he RN ‘eae 139 162 Quartz, quartz sand, and sandstone, suitable for glassjase...Graphite.—Lot 3, range II. of Grenville, Argenteuil county, Q.—Coll., R. Bell, 1856. (1228.) — columnar.——Lot...Ottawa county, Q.— Coll., H. G. Monae 1877. (1249.) — Walker’s property, Buckingham, Ottawa county, Q.—Coll...Ottawa county, Q.—Coll., Table-case 49, E. D. Ingall, 1891. (5186.) — Lochaber, Ottawa county, Q. (1254
Book (volume)
crystals of Fig- Section from the Androscoggin Maine line south of — 5 tin ore line of Umbagog ...Map field, Fig. Section from Bronson's lime quarry to Smith's brook, Fig. Section in Dalton and....... ..... .... Lyman through Burnham's lime quarry, 72 275 278 3^7 320 326 Fig. Section from...Fig. Section from quarry road to L. A. Parker's, Fig. Section from slate quarry to the Fig. Section...Colebrook, and 119 Champney falls, 146 .... Albany, (47) 150 Mt. Chocorua, 152, (232) The Basin
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Barite crystals from East Tenn. (Pratt) 502 Barite-quartz, Morse Brook, Me. (Shaub) 387 Bjareby, Gunnar 202...Local collector in Bancroft a r e a Chips from the quarry .... 2, 98, 194, 290, 386, Club and Society Notes...Department 322, 423, 508 Fossils of Yarmouth, Me. (Wentworth) 26 Permian of N.W. Washington (Danner) .... 99...419 Maine, Fossils of Yarmouth (Wentworth) 26 Club cooperates with property owners .. 223 Quartz-barite...recently received .. 50, 146, 241, 334, 439, 521 Quartz-barite, Morse Brook, Me. (Shaub) 387 R & M helps
Report (issue)
Geological Survey Alacarte menu-driven nterface (Wentworth and Fitzgibbon, 1991) for ARC/INFO, a commercial...Kgr Granitic rocks (Cretaceous)-granodigrite to quartz diorite; calculated K/Ar age of biotite from sample...stratigraphy of the Santa Monica Mountains, Los Angeles County, California: Pac. Sec. SEPM, vol. 58, p. 59-72...part of the Santa Monica Mountains, Los Angeles County, California: U. S. Geol. Survey Prof. Paper 165C...stability and geology of the Baldwin Hills, Los Angeles County, California: Calif. Div. Mines and Geol. Sp. Rpt
 
and/or  
Mindat Discussions Facebook Logo Instagram Logo Discord Logo
Mindat.org is an outreach project of the Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization.
Copyright © mindat.org and the Hudson Institute of Mineralogy 1993-2024, except where stated. Most political location boundaries are © OpenStreetMap contributors. Mindat.org relies on the contributions of thousands of members and supporters. Founded in 2000 by Jolyon Ralph.
Privacy Policy - Terms & Conditions - Contact Us / DMCA issues - Report a bug/vulnerability Current server date and time: May 6, 2024 04:13:14
Go to top of page