 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Michigan Mineralogy: A LOCALITY INDEX TOM MORRIS, JR. 4553 Shenandoah Allen Park, Michigan 48101 Tom...occurrences. These localities have been listed by county; and, strictly for convenience, the list has been...compiling this information was The Mineralogy of Michigan (Heinrich, 1976), which should be consulted by...locality labeling of Michigan specimens. It should be pointed out that the list of Michigan mineral localities...None theless, with the aid of a good state or county map, plus local inquiries, the list could be helpful |  | | Report (edition) | | much information on collecting sites in Oxford County. Numerous other collectors of Maine minerals also...visiting those which are still open. The words "mine" and "quarry" are often used interchangeably in...localities. We have followed the convention of using "mine" only for sites that are chiefly underground workings...Railroad : multiple track .. State. Bridge ...... county, parish, municipio .... Power transmission line...matrix. These include microcline feldspar, beryl, schorl (black tourmaline), almandine (garnet), and elbaite |  | | Journal (issue) | | Gold Quarry Mine, Eureka County, Nevada. from the Radersburg District, Broadwater County, Montana Mike...small wulfcnite crystals found at the Broadwater County, Montana (Sec. 28, T 5 N, R 1 W), some interesting...for this article. Type I is an acicular Jo Dandy Mine, Radersburg District, •? Continued on page 4 ...(Type 2 curved in center) 1/ 8 inch long, Jo Dandy Mine, Montana, photo by Al Leber. 2 Mincrnl Nc"·s...F. Kunz Competition Papers, four articles on NE USA mineral occurrences. 73 pages, 55 illu tra1ions, |  | Falster, Alexander U., Simmons, William B., Webber, Karen L., Dallaire, Donald A., Nizamoff, James W., Sprague, Raymond A. (2019) The Emmons Pegmatite, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine. Rocks & Minerals, 94 (6) 498-519 doi:10.1080/00357529.2019.1641021 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | pegmatite in 1996. THE EMMONS PEGMATITE Greenwood Oxford County, Maine The Emmons pegmatite, noted for...eastern slope of Uncle Tom Mountain in Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine. At times, the Emmons pegmatite...Raymond A. Sprague operated the Emmons quarry in Greenwood, Maine, for twenty-three seasons with his mining...Naples, Maine. He reported that the trail to the mine was obscure and difficult to find. Once they arrived...“handshake deal” with Penley Corporation of West Paris to mine the property. They worked the Emmons for twenty |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Manasquan, New Jersey, visited Calamity Wash, Yavapai County, and collected several exciting and Figure 7: Arizona...quartz-and-muscovite crystal pocket under a thin veneer of mine dump. The nearly horizontal ledge was apparently...aquamarine crystals (to 2 by 8 cm). Emmons Quarry, Greenwood Ray Sprague and Tony Wielkewicz of Andover, Massachusetts...miners in the Greenwood area. For several years, they worked the Tamminen quarry, Greenwood, on shares with...University] at 05:37 14 May 2015 Gross Prospect, Greenwood Dennis Gross of Sumner and Duane Leavitt of Buckfield |  | | Journal (issue) | | brown jarosite crystals on matrix from the McLean Mine, Esmeralda Co., Nevada. The Martian material was...manufacturer’s standards. NIST Price: $556.00 Hard Rock Mine Waste (SRM 2780a) This Standard Reference Material...analysis used to determine elements in hard rock mine waste and materials of a similar matrix. SRM 2780a...material collected from waste piles of abandoned mine sites in the mountains of central Colorado. A unit...Figure 6 (Right) - Sheet Copper – Flambeau Mine (Rusk County, WI) Figure 2—Dr. Weis’s Personal Memorabilia |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Granite, near Red Stone quarry, Conway, Carroll County, New Hampshire. Henry Minot specimen and photo...Teller and Park counties, CO, USA Crystal Park–Bear Creek, El Paso County, CO, USA Pikes Peak Granite NYF... 3 Mount Antero and Mount White, Chaffee County, CO, USA Mount Antero Granite NYF Miarolitic beryl...Mountains, Boise, Custer and Elsmore counties, ID, USA Sawtooth Granite in the Idaho batholith NYF Miarolitic... Moat Mountain and related areas, Carroll County, NH, USA Conway Granite in White Mountain intrusive |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | element compositions of these three samples vary from schorl-elbaite solid solution to nearly pure elbaite reflecting...extended into the pocket center. Yet the dark blue schorl-elbaite, green elbaite, and red-pink elbaite boron...green elbaite. A schorl-dravite sample is from the Harvard Quarry pegmatite, Greenwood, Maine. Both this... ME (pink) II '?;?:I I, " Harvard Q., Greenwood, ME Foote Mine, Kings Mtn., NC .-.--, metapelite I...rocks in the Grenville Complex of St. Lawrence County, New York. U.S. Geol. Survey Bull. 1626-C, 33~ |  | | Journal (issue) | | stibnites from a new Nevada locality, the Murray Mine, not the old Manhattan, but he had only three specimens...clear calcites from a small pocket in the Meikle Mine, the new locality for the superb yellow barites...specimens of azurite and malachite from the Flambau Mine in Wisconsin, now completely gone, of the chalcocite...News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 E-mail: lream@comtch.iea.com...find of calcite in complete "balls" from the Herja Mine near Baia Mare. Evidently a large vug, or series |  | | 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:...agate, (banded, various colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY MACON: at Holton Quarry, 7½ mi. NWagate; N |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | University] at 07:55 02 December 2014 Figure 1. County map of New York State, prepared by William Besse...listed. L O CA L I T I E S B Y C O U N T Y Albany County Indian Ladder: brookite; F. Old Callanan quarry:...11 August 1859: olivinebronzite chondrite. Bronx County Various excavations: chabazite, harmotome, quartz...quartz (amethyst), stilbite; F. Clinton County Au Sable Forks, iron mines north of: microcline (sunstone)...stilbite, titanite, zircon, others; F, C. Columbia County Ancram lead mines: barite, galena, sphalerite, |  | | Book (volume) | | Dick's deep concern for the fate of the Sterling mine in Ogdensburg, New Jersey, and his intense interest...interest in mining history led him to purchase the mine in order to form a living museum so that it would...mineralogical community. Through his efforts, the Sterling mine has been declared a national historic landmark....greater variety of minerals are found in Oxford County, alone, than anywhere else on Earth of comparable...probably a greater variety of minerals in a single mine in Franklin, New Jersey, or Mont Saint-Hilaire, |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Leavitt has sent in a remarkable intergrowth of schorl and fluorapatite. The specimen is from Hoopers...appearance of the specimen suggests rhythmic periods of schorl and fluorapatite growth, followed by only fluorapa...the graphic inter growth was originally between schorl and some other species, such as quartz, and the...amphiboles of Leake's nomenclatureunknown analcime—((Greenwood)), Mapleton, Perry, South Berwick anatase—Bridgeton...bertrandite—many locations, 2.5 x 1 cm crystal Greenwood beryl—many locations beryllonite—Hebron(?), Newry |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | rare, secondary phosphate at the Berry at the gem mine at Newry. Quarry at Poland; also at the Bennett...manganese phosphate, has been noted at the Dunton Gem Mine at Newry Maine. SCHEELITE, calcium tungstate, has...other phosphates. It has also been noted at the gem mine, and also at the Bell Pit at Newry, as well as at...also a com mon mineral at Auburn, Buckfield, Greenwood, Norway, and Paris. A little of the purple gem...located as a secondary phosphate at the Dunton Gem Mine at Newry with landesite, laueite, strengite, rockbridgeite |  | | Book (edition) | | week collecting in the pegme.tite area ot Oxford county, !!Bine, Neil Wintr:lnghal'!l, a pa.st-president...been replaced in the locality seotion by the Scotty Mine, an active operation of considerable interest. The...characterized the evenings spent with members of the Oxford County Mineral & Gem Association. N. A. W. Mountainside... James L. Faulkner {Ridlonville) of the Oxford County Mineral & Gem Association, Mr. John E. Duffy and...and help received during past visits to Oxford county. Special thanks must be given above all to those |  | | Book (volume) | | Extracts from a Diary Concerning Mining at the Dunton Mine, Newry, Maine ....................................Duane L. Leavitt The Bennett Pegmatite, Oxford County, Maine . ........................................permanent photographic exhibits in the northeastern USA. The Shaubs have been active in ornithological research...tourmalinebearing Himalaya pegmatite at Mesa Grande, San Diego County, California. Most recently, Gene was gratified...have provided esoteric knowledge, while many are mine operators who generously allowed access to their |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | REGION, COLORADO* Jeuos E. Bnven, []niversity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigon IwrnooucrroN Most of these...dissertation in mineralogy for the University of Michigan. The Guffey region is an area of about 125 square...square miles in north-central Fremont County and southeast Park County in the Front Range of central Colorado...Tantalite also is * Contribution from the Department Michigan, No. 178. of Mineralogy and Petrography, University...addition to the common pegmatite minerals are beryl, schorl, tantalite, and smoky qtartz. Magnetite-guartz |  | | Journal (issue) | | Menlo Park, CA Donald R. Peacor University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ml George W. Robinson Natl. Museums...R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur...albite and lepidolite, mined recently at the Himalaya mine, Pala, California. William Larson collection; photo...the Himalaya mine (by D. Eidahl) [1977, vol. 8, no. 6, p. 475.]* The best of San Diego County (by W. Larson)...298-299.] * More on rubellite from the Itatiaia mine, Brazil (by P. C. Keller) [1979, vol. 10, no. 1 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | apatites such as those found at the Harvard mine in Greenwood and at the quarries on Mt. Apatite in Auburn...pale gray-green, tabular crystals at the Harvard mine, often up to A of an inch in length. Because of...stained albite (cleavelandite) and schorl. At the Ward well mine in Albany, apatite (fluorapatite) occurs...excellent specimens in association with almandine and schorl. This material is most common in the dumps direcdy...Photo by Fred Graves. Manganapatites from Harvard Mine, Green wood, Maine. Collected in May, 1977. Photo |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | at 14:35 04 June 2016 New York City, New York County, New York State T he minerals of the garnet group...representative of a garnet from Deshong’s quarry, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, that can barely be considered almandine...found at several mines near Topsham, Sagadahoc County, Maine, particularly the Standpipe Hill quarry...collected at Mount Apatite near Auburn, Androscoggin County; and the Bumpus quarry, ROCKS & MINERALS 244-253...Betts photo. Albany, the Hayes Ledge quarries, Greenwood, the Hedgehog Hill quarry, Peru, and the Melrose |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | accepted abstracts follow. THE GARNET LINE IN OXFORD COUNTY, MAINE, PEGMATITES. M. M. Felch, W. B. Simmons...intermediate and core zones in many of the Oxford County, Maine, pegmatites. This study primarily focuses...similar to the model proposed for the San Diego County pegmatites (Webber et al. 1997, 1999). The garnet...shallow level pegmatite-aplite dikes, San Diego County, California. American Mineralogist 84:708–17. ...IN MIAROLITIC CAVITIES IN ALKALI DIKES, AUGUSTA COUNTY, VIRGINIA. L. E. Kearns1, R. Rothenberg2, T. Tucker3 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | (November-December 1986). Anonymous. 1960. Gentleman of Oxford County. Rocks and Minerals 35:28-29. A tribute to "the...periences beginning with early-day collecting in Oxford County. . 1965. Fifty years of mineral collecting (Part...scriptions of the species. Bjareby, K. 1937. A " P a r mine" in Maine. Rocks and Minerals 12:244-45. A visit...Finnish couple who handworked a feldspar mine near Greenwood. Brown, E . 1927. Mount Apatite, Maine. Rocks...material in mine fluo resces in different colors at the Mt. Rubellite mine near Heb ron, Oxford County. Buckley |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Newfoundland to study its geology. While at the Tilt Cove mine in Tilt Cove, she found a peculiar unknown. It consists...prehnite, pyrite, pyroaurite, pyrrhotite, quartz, schorl, shandite, sphalerite, thompsonite, vesuvianite...for its composition. It v/as found at the Trinity County magadiite deposit in 1969. It is white or stained..."Silhydrite, 3 S i 0 . H 0 , a new Mineral from Trinity County, California," American Mineralogist, 1972, Vol...several samples from an unnamed pegmatite feldspar mine in Middleton. Two of the specimens were described |  | | 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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