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Amblygonite from
Mount Rubellite Quarries, Mount Rubellite, Hebron, Oxford County, Maine, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Amblygonite
Formula:LiAl(PO4)F
Comments:This is one of the few places in Maine that has instrumentally verified amblygonite. Amblygonite is comparatively rare worldwide. Many Maine localities were wrongly thought to have amblygonite.
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Albite1 photo of Amblygonite associated with Albite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Amblygonite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Mount Rubellite Quarries, Mount Rubellite, Hebron, Oxford County, Maine, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (2 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:658243
Long-form Identifier:1:3:658243:2
GUID (UUID V4):34cceeac-3378-4f8f-9b9a-658e3ea547f9
Nearest other occurrences of Amblygonite
9.3km (5.8 miles) Mount Mica Quarry, Paris, Oxford County, Maine, USA
9.4km (5.8 miles) Bennett Quarry, Buckfield, Oxford County, Maine, USA
15.4km (9.5 miles) Pulsifer Quarry & Dionne extension, West Mount Apatite Mining District, Auburn, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
17.3km (10.7 miles) Berry-Havey Quarry (Havey Quarry; Berry Quarry), Poland, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
21.7km (13.5 miles) Tamminen Quarry, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine, USA
22.1km (13.8 miles) Noyes Mountain Quarry (Harvard Quarry), Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine, USA
27.4km (17.1 miles) Emmons Quarry, Uncle Tom Mountain, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine, USA
45.3km (28.2 miles) Dunton Gem Quarry, Newry, Oxford County, Maine, USA
46.2km (28.7 miles) Black Mountain Quarry, Rumford, Oxford County, Maine, USA
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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
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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
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cut purplish pink elbaite tourmaline (30.89 ct), Maine; round brilliant red-orange spessartine garnet (16...Colorado; colorless scheelite (19.66 ct), Kern County, California; octagonal step cut violetish pink...Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from San Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...Cantlin, Ellis, [D; Jeannette B. Carillo, Gem Center USA, EI Paso, TX; Gary Christopher, The Prospectors Cache...Resources, Vancouver, BC; Barbara L. Muntyan, Ouray County Historical Society, Ouray, CO; Merrill O. Murphy
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cut purplish pink elbaite tourmaline (30.89 et), Maine; round brilliant red-orange spessartine garnet (...Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from Sai, Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...Cantlin, Ellis, ID; Jeannette B. Carillo, Gen1 Center USA, El Paso, TX; Gary Christopher, The Prospectors Cache...Resources, Vancouver, BC; Barbara L. Muntyan, Ouray County Historical Society, Ouray, CO; Merrill 0. Murphy... 15 Figure 6. Dallas Gem Mine in San Benito County, CA...........................................
 
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