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Cryptomelane from
Tamminen Quarry, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Cryptomelane
Formula:K(Mn74+Mn3+)O16
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Purpurite1 photo of Cryptomelane associated with Purpurite at this locality.
Lithiophilite1 photo of Cryptomelane associated with Lithiophilite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Cryptomelane data
Locality Data:Click here to view Tamminen Quarry, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:715672
Long-form Identifier:1:3:715672:4
GUID (UUID V4):95a82ffa-c4df-4f2b-94bc-479d0c734613
Nearest other occurrences of Cryptomelane
11.6km (7.2 miles) Bumpus Quarry, Albany, Oxford County, Maine, USA
13.6km (8.4 miles) Songo Pond Quarry (Kimball Ledge Quarry), Albany, Oxford County, Maine, USA
21.7km (13.5 miles) Mount Rubellite Quarries, Mount Rubellite, Hebron, Oxford County, Maine, USA
25.7km (16.0 miles) Lord Hill Quarry (Lord Hill Mine), Stoneham, Oxford County, Maine, USA
29.6km (18.4 miles) Dunton Gem Quarry, Newry, Oxford County, Maine, USA
29.8km (18.5 miles) Bell pit, Newry, Oxford County, Maine, USA
29.8km (18.5 miles) Crooker Gem Pegmatite Quarries, Newry, Oxford County, Maine, USA
29.8km (18.5 miles) Nevel Quarry (Twin tunnels; United Feldspar Quarry), Newry, Oxford County, Maine, USA
36.0km (22.4 miles) Berry-Havey Quarry (Havey Quarry; Berry Quarry), Poland, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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
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)
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)
hiddenite specimens in his collection from Alexander County, North Carolina, and those superb quartz crystal...Directors of the Foundation of the Los Angeles County Natural History Museum. It was my pleasure, and...interpenetrating twin cubes of thorianite from Hud­ dersfield County, Quebec. Their addresses: Vickery — 4 Brendon Road...certain pegmatite regions. Several pegma­ tites in Maine were made famous in mineralogical litera­ ture for...Portland (Strickland quarry) in Connecticut; Buckfield, Poland and Newry in Maine; the Custer Mountain
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...all challenge to the collector, especially in Maine, New Hampshire, Connecticut, New Jersey, Virginia
Book
HfiRIN COUNTY FREE LIBRfiRY 311110G386652Q I V Russell P MacFal A COLOR TREASUF FOR COLLECTORS...are 100 maps geared to leading the "hunter to his quarry" and more than eighty photographs of minerals in...to Hunting Locations ? i 9 GIVEN TO THE MARIN COUNTY LIBRARY BY MARI N L MTNF.RAT. SOCTETY DAVID...knapsack you can use a mountaineering bag or a mili- quarry or mine where a permit tary bag; make it it...may be able to buy specimens. map of Keweenaw County. Mich- Part of the U.S. Geological Survey topographic
Book
100 maps geared to leading the " hunter to his quarry" and more than eighty photographs of minerals in...easier for you If you plan to vIsIt an operating quarry or mine where a permll Is required make the necessary...topographic map of the Delaware q uadrangle o f Keweenaw County, Michigan This ,s an example o f the more picturesque...be discovered by locating the porous layers In a quarry or other exposure and following them along the...been washed into the stream ,tselt. Southwestern Maine around the town of Pans. and the rugged area north
Catalog/List
name,.chemical formula, mine name, Mb,-=llange county, state, country. Often other det'ailed information...Deepazureblue xln specimens, 2.50 1.25 AFWILLITE:Crestijore Quarry,CA· Glassyto white fibrous xls on matrix. $90,00...radiating xln specimens, 2.20 1.00 ANTIGORITE:Delig~t Quarry,HD;VAR: Picrolite. Darkgreense1ifibrouscolumnar...Brounfibrous x1nspecimens. 1.20 DATOLITE:Roncari Quarry,CT;4-IOmm clear xls on ■ atrix. 2.50 DAVIDITE:Radi~m...Matrix. $8.50 $5.75 $3.25 $1,50 DEERITE:Longvale Quarry,CA;Richblue grey prismaticxln in matrix. 2.00 DELVAUXITE:Belgium
Book (edition)
abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture), dept...always included in text, except in the cases of the USA, UK, and the provinces Ontario and Quebec in Canada...Uintah County. Utah. and m (2.B. acanthite group). Monoclinic, C2/m, a,b,c Rio Blanco County. Colorado...Menzenschwand Scbwarzwald Mts., in the Sailauf quarry, Spessart Mts., Bavaria. both Germany, and from...to Hot Springco., Arkansas, in the Point of Rock quarry, pearly. Clea,·age {001} perfect. {100} and {010}
Catalog/List
specimens label. Usuallythe minename,mountainrange, county, state or countrywill be given on the specimenlabel...li1onite matrix. . 2.50 4.50 1.25 AFWILLITE:Crestmore Quarry,CAi Glassyto white fiberousxls on matrix, •22.00...specimens. 6.00 3.75 2.20 1.00 ANTIGORITE:Del1ght Quarry,HD;VAR: Picrolite. Darkgreensemifiberouscolumnar...needlesfrozenin matrix. 1.25 BERTRANDITE:Biermann Quarry,CT;Hicrosingle~ twinnedxls filling beryl casts...DAT0LITE:Roncari Quarry,CT;4-l0N@ clear xis on matrix. 5.50 1.50 DAWSONITE:Francon Quarry,CANi Smallclear/white
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
Book
Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi...listed by county and community, range and distance. Whenever the collector crosses a county line, he will...of the county he is entering posted alongside the highway. By looking up the state and county, the user...guide can determine the collecting sites in that county by range and distance from the major cities and...information to reach a specific spot within a particular county. Many old localities listed here have, literally
Journal (issue)
anglesite and native sulphur occurs in the Dene quarry at Cromford (Braithwaite, 1983). The association...siderable amount of blasting on the face of the quarry. This was difficult owing to the fact that previous...Eagle’s Nest mine, Michigan Bluff area, Placer County, California. Smale collection and photo. F igure...10 cm across, from the Himalaya mine, San Diego County, California. Smale collection and photo. REFERENCES...PUBLISHING P.O. Box 37072, Tucson, Arizona 85740 USA Richard A. Bideaux, General Partner (602) 297-4862
Book
MineralogicalRecord.com I IIMORIITE-(Y) EUROPE FRANCE Trimouns quarry, Luzenac, Ariege. Operated for talc since the beginning...beginning of the 20th century, the Trimouns quarry became well known to collectors around 1990 for the...long (Marty, 2004 ). AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins...region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites between the towns...Litchfield County. Ilmenite masses and crystals from somewhere near Washington, Litchfield County, were described
Book (edition)
M. Hughes: Dept. of Geology, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. W. Barclay Kamb: Division of Geol. and Planetary... W. (1961), Chemical Crystallography, 2nd ed., Oxford Clarendon Press. (GL) Glusker, J. P., & M. Lewis...Trueblood (1985); Crystal Structure Analysis: A Primer, Oxford University Press. (ITXC) International Tables for..., Introduction to Optical Mineralogy, 2nd ed., Oxford University Press, New York, 1991; Hartshorn, N...Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Covellite Crandallite Crocidolite Crocoite Cryolite Cryptomelane Cubanite Cummingtonite Cuprite Cylindrite Danburite...places. Aggregates, sand and gravel are followed by quarry and dimension stones (Prentice, 1990; Lorenz, 1991)...types may be subdivided into layered (Stillwater, USA, Kemi , Finland, Fiskenaesset, Greenland, and funnel-shaped...deposits such as Guseva-Gora, Russia, Duke Island, and USA, bridge the gap between the chromium deposit originating...Ostermann and Deutsch, 1997). The Stillwater Complex, USA, is akin to this group of mineralization — see PGE
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Covellite Crandallite Crocidolite Crocoite Cryolite Cryptomelane Cubanite Cummingtonite Cuprite Cylindrite Danburite...places. Aggregates, sand and gravel are followed by quarry and dimension stones (Prentice, 1990; Lorenz, 1991)...types may be subdivided into layered (Stillwater, USA, Kemi , Finland, Fiskenaesset, Greenland, and funnel-shaped...deposits such as Guseva-Gora, Russia, Duke Island, and USA, bridge the gap between the chromium deposit originating...Ostermann and Deutsch, 1997). The Stillwater Complex, USA, is akin to this group of mineralization — see PGE
Report (issue)
deposits Occurrences east of Sudbury Falcon Mine Wanup quarry Elizabeth Mine Wahnapitei occurrences MacDonald...Page occurrence Warren quarry Occurrences along Highway 86 Wanapitei Lake quarry Vermilion River placer...occurrence McMillan Mine Wallace Mine Sheguiandah quarry Shakespeare Mine Massey Mine Hermina Mine Elliot...Mine Dzuba Thunder Bay occurrence Pass Lake Road quarry Silver Islet Mine Edward and Porphyry islands,...(west side) Silver Harbour (Beck) Mine McNamara quarry Mount Baldy occurrence Thunder Bay Mine Shuniah
Report (issue)
analyses (8) from graphitic sulfide-rich schists, Maine. BIOTITE. Fiala et al., Rozpr. Cesk. Akad. Ved....(1981). Probe analyses (12), metamorphic rocks, Maine. BIOTITE. Ohta et al., Am. Mineral. 67, 298-310...132-136 (1982). New mineral, Na Cr S2, from Norton County achondrite. Analyses, x-ray data, optics, CATAPLEIITE...analyses (1) from graphitic sulfide-rich schists, Maine. CHLORITE. Fodor et a I., (Southeast. Geol. 22,...(1981). Probe analyses (3) , metamorphic rocks, Maine. CHLORITE., Obata and Thompson, (Contrib. Mineral
 
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