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Microcline from
Ruggles Mine, Grafton, Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Microcline
Formula:K(AlSi3O8)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Uraninite10 photos of Microcline associated with Uraninite at this locality.
Uranophane7 photos of Microcline associated with Uranophane at this locality.
Gummite6 photos of Microcline associated with Gummite at this locality.
Vandendriesscheite5 photos of Microcline associated with Vandendriesscheite at this locality.
Zircon5 photos of Microcline associated with Zircon at this locality.
Soddyite4 photos of Microcline associated with Soddyite at this locality.
Parauranophane4 photos of Microcline associated with Parauranophane at this locality.
Phosphuranylite4 photos of Microcline associated with Phosphuranylite at this locality.
Meta-autunite3 photos of Microcline associated with Meta-autunite at this locality.
Albite1 photo of Microcline associated with Albite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Microcline data
Locality Data:Click here to view Ruggles Mine, Grafton, Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:750721
Long-form Identifier:1:3:750721:2
GUID (UUID V4):434dc929-6bc5-4edb-86c0-55e1fabf6e5f
Nearest other occurrences of Microcline
6.0km (3.8 miles) Hoyt Hill Quarry, Orange, Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA
11.9km (7.4 miles) New Haven Mica Quarry, Alexandria, Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA
12.0km (7.4 miles) Keyes Mica Quarries, Orange, Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA
12.2km (7.6 miles) Pattuck Quarry, Alexandria, Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA
12.5km (7.8 miles) Mud Mica Mine, Alexandria, Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA
12.9km (8.0 miles) Truman Patten Quarry, Alexandria, Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA
14.0km (8.7 miles) Wadhams-Tucker Quarry, Alexandria, Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA
14.2km (8.8 miles) Monarch Quarry, Alexandria, Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA
15.0km (9.3 miles) Morgan Mica prospect, Alexandria, Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA
18.8km (11.7 miles) Rice Quarry, Groton, Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
review panel consisted of Dr. Steven Chamberlain, New York State Museum; Dr. Carl Francis, Harvard University;...Lupulescu, New York State Museum; and Dr. George Robinson, Michigan Technological University. neW DATA On... of Geology and Geophysics, University of new Orleans, new Orleans, LA 70148. Recent work on material...chalcocite-bearing vein material from the Baltic mine exposing the sulfides. Several samples carried small...these phases. Additional samples from the Baltic mine dump revealed crude wires of native silver associated
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
Report (volume)
Bulletin 931-P MICA-BEARING PEGMATITES OF NEW HAMPSHIRE A PRELIMINARY REPORT BY J. C. OLSON Strategic................................................ Grafton district.........................................Geologic map of the Alstead area, Keene district , New Hampshire........................ 62. Map showing locations...of mica and feldspar mines of the Grafton district, New Hampshire .....................................district, New Hampshire.. Figure 38. Index map of New Hampshire showing locations of the Grafton and Keene
Show/Event (guide)
Bob Morgan, Ed Smith, Lee Tutt, Ken Wolff What’s New In Minerals' Joria Staebler Auction Solicitors Gene.......... 32 U.S. Mica Industry Pioneers: The Ruggles and Bowers Families by Fred E. Davis.............program designed to provide excellent speakers, new information, camaraderie, displays of extraordinary...familiar faces. Most of their topics will be quite new to our collective experience. This year’s Technical...Technical Session is again robust! We welcome numerous new attendees and hope you enjoy our meeting. We appreciate
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
cm long), Beebe Hall, McCain Valley, San Diego County, California. Cal and Kerith Graeber specimen; Jeffrey...as elongated crystals that are rooted in the microcline-plagioclase-quartz wall zone Downloaded by...Typically, smoky quartz, albite, muscovite, and microcline line the cavity walls, and aquamarine occurs...May 2015 Figure 3. Aquamarine (4.1 cm long), Mack mine, Rincon, California. Bill Larsen specimen; Jeffrey...Aquamarine (6.7 cm long), Mount Antero, Chaffee County, Colorado. Martin Zinn specimen; Jeffrey Scovil
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mica locality known as the Ruggles' Mine in Grafton Center, New Hampshire. Already then it had been in...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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
David M. Seaman American Museum of Natural History, New York City Article 7, Silica and Silicates (part two)...almandite was recovered at 35th Street and Broadway in New York City and is in the American Museum of Natural...166th St. and Knowlton Place in New York City. Both are a part of the New York Mineralogical Club's collection...West Bethel, Maine, and at the Ruggles quarry, Grafton Center, New Hampshire. Notable excellently formed...Russell and Westfield, Massachusetts ; from Bedford, New York ; and many other places. The crystals occur
Report (issue)
given in New Hampshire by Samuel Cordick, superintendent of the General Electric Co.'s mine; Andrew T...Mica Products Co.; C. W. Bryant, of the Standard mine; L. R. Brown, of Canaan; G. N. Bicker, of Canaan...number of mines in Grafton County and extended other kindnesses; M. M. Kilton, of Grafton Center; L. L. Howard...large sheet mica. The average price paid for run of mine mica, not split or sorted, ranges from $50 to $200...be found in the same deposit. Orthoclase and microcline are the most common varieties of feldspar found
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
an economic byproduct from a few pegma­ tites in New Mexico and Colorado; also from Brazil, Australia...and Cooper in Maine; and from the berylmolybdenite mine near Mr. Antero, Colo­ rado. It is an economic mineral...pegmatite at the Ben Nevis Mine on San Augustin Peak in the Organ Mountains, New Mexico. ARGENTITE, a silver...mines on San Augustin Peak in the Organ Mountains, New Mexico. CHALCOCITE, a copper sulfide, has been noted...MINERALS at the Deep Park No. 2 Mine near Penland, and also at the McKinney Mine near Little Switzerland, North
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Maine Topsham district, Maine Grafton district, New Hampshire Greenfield, New York Middletown district, Connecticut...mailed (Hauy, 1811; Seybert, 1824). Dr. Bruce, a New York City physician, should be remembered as an avid...both sides of the road (Schooner, 1961). New York Another New York collector, Dr. J . H. Steel, discovered...occurred almost a century ago. A new, one time only, find was made in a New York City excavation at 88th...chrysoberyl in quartz, Wisdom Ranch prospect, Larimer County, Colorado. Crystal is VA by VA by 1/8 inches.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
DAVID M. SEAMAN American Museum of Natural History, New York City Article 8, Silica and Silicates (part three)...length at the quarries near Bedford and Overlook, New York; near Golden, Colorado and elsewhere. A fine...found at Fort Washington Avenue and 171st Street in New York City and is now in the American Museum of Natural...tourmaline crystal was noted in the Luella mine near Avon, Latah county, Idaho, which measured 3x3x8 feet. Other...Dakota. A black crystal from Micaville, Randolph county, Alabama, was 10 inches in diameter and from 3
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Andros­ coggin River from Brunswick in Sagadahoc County. A mile-wide belt of granitic pegmatites runs from...a Mr. Carr of Grafton, West Virginia, and then sold to Golding Brothers of Trenton, New Jersey. How­ ...of Bath who was superintendent for the Trenton (New Jersey) Flint and Spar Company. In 1869 that firm...was described by Shainin (1948) as follows: The mine-run feldspar was first run through the jaw crusher...transferred to Bath by scow and then shipped to Trenton, New Jersey, potteries, but by the early 1880s shipment
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the past from a few pegmatites near Ticonderoga, New York in the United States, but not in recent times...in Queensland, and at Kingsgate in the New England Range in New South Wales. Gold In 1911, native gold...Union County, Georgia. It was also formerly mined from a pegmatite at Pinetuckey, Randolph County, Alabama;...in a weathered pegmatite on the dump of the King Mine in the Shelby-Hickory District of North Carolina...Fremont County, Colorado. Elsewhere native gold has been re­ ported from pegmatite at the Natas Mine in southwestern
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
THE W E E K S PEGMATITE MINE faults Wakefield, Carroll County New Hampshire S o m e u n u s u a l a...minerals in a location not noted for specimens. New Hampshire has many pegmatites in districts in the northern...Moun- Figure 1: Excavations in the dump, Weeks mine, June 1980. tain pegmatite at Center Strafford...line in the town of Wakefield, Car­ roll County, New Hampshire. The property is named after the 1942 owner...MAINE NEW HAMPSHIRE not miles 1153 to Wakefield Figure 2: Location map for the Weeks mine, Wakefield
Report (issue)
Pegmatite Investigations 1942-45 New England By EUGENE N. CAMERON and OTHERS GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL..._______ _ Geology of the pegmatite districts of New Hampshire_ Rock units ________________________________...pegmatites ___________________ _ Pegmatites of the Grafton and Keene districts __ _ Sources of pegmatites...quality __ AnalyHis of the wartime mica industry of New England ________________________________________...Androscoggin County ______________________ _ Berry feldspar quarry __________________ _ Cumberland County ___
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ON ^--^ "^%C^ Minerai Occurrences ' ITEMS ON NEW FINDS ARE DESIRED & _ . PLEASE SEND THEM I N . Abbreviations:...255) of the "Big Beryl" Mine Imperial County in southern Calif. (old Hogg Mine), gem hunters from COLORADO—F...Denver 20, Colo., sent in the visited Georgia and the mine. All have following item: been well pleased with...some rutile plus fish from of an abandoned lead mine above the the 22 acre pond, wild duck and beaver...1st—Georgia had a record low the Mt. Zirkel area, Routt County, Colo- of 10 4-° degrees in this area and about
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)
l d News on Mineral Occurrences Please note the new address for WNMO. After graduation, 1 have found...Establishment 3000 E . Ridge Road, Box 1712 Rochester, New York 14603 and topaz have lower dispersion and so...Bergdirektion, Austria, published an account o f "Some New Occurrences of Gonnardite" in Mineralogical Magazine...hypersthene-bearing granitic rocks (chamockites), and pink microcline granites and pegmatites. Although mica is associated...specimen material was found in abundance at the County Gravel Pit at Mauldin Mountain. Mauldin Moun­ tain
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Leadhillite has been reported from the Beer Cellar Mine, Granby, Mo. but this writer has never had an opportuntiy...collected some years ago at the fabulous Mammoth Mine, Tiger. I have examined a number of leadhillites...Arizona. The Ruggles mine, in Grafton, N . H. is the oldest mica, feldspar, beryl, and uranium mine in the...enthusiastic rock and mineral collectors. The famous Ruggles mine deserves and has received a better fate. It...many rare and beautiful minerals. I mention the Ruggles mine for several reasons. First, it yields magnificent
Report (issue)
rocks of New Hampshire ....... 44 Table 9 Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of New Jersey ...Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of New York ........... 56 Table 11 Uranium occurrences...Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of New Hampshire.......................^..^.i....48 Figure 12...Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of New Jersey....................................55 Figure...occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of northeastern New York.........................64 Figure 14. Uranium
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 (article/letter/editorial)
Woàlâ Menti 04t Minelal ÔccWiïenc&i Items on new finds are desired. Please send them in. Abbreviations:...At present am employed at Magma Copper Company's mine here in Superior. No doubt you are familiar with..."For the collector of lead minerals, the Red Cloud Mine in Yuma Co., Ariz., is of considerable interest...the scarce, vital metals it contained. "Today the mine is reached by a barely possable road from Martinez...Rubarite, Inc., a newly formed company which produces a new synthetic rubber product for use in rubberized asphalt
Report (volume)
General features____________________________ Coosa County _________ ____________________ Randolph County...Cherokee County_____________________________ 72 Elbert County _____________________________ 75 Hall County__...County_______________________________ 76 Hart County. ___ __ __________________ 77, Lumpkin and Union counti...___________ S3 Pickens County _______-______________________ 83 Rabun County-_____________________________...____________ 86 Troup County ________________________________ 86 Upson County _______________________________
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
9 3 7 GEOLOGY OF THE CARDIGAN QUADRANGLE, NEW HAMPSHIRE BY KATHABINE FOWLER-LUNN AND LOUISE KINGSLEY............................................. New Hampshire magma series..................................Cardigan quadrangle lies in the west-central part of New Hamp­ shire, between latitude 43°30' and 43°45' north...wooded. Danbury, Alexandria, Hebron, Orange, and Grafton are small farming centers within the quadrangle...the results would fit in with other quadrangles in New Hamp­ shire, which were being mapped at the same
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are always looking for people to write books on new and related subjects. If you have an idea for a book...Laboratory; William "Skip" Simmons, - University of New Orleans; Reinhard Wegner, Universidade Federal da...mineralogist M. H. Klaprot h showed that it contained a new chemica l element. Klaproth produced "uranium" powder...uranium if higher prices justify reprocessing the mine tailings to recover some of the uranium that was...wastewater during environmental reclamation at a mine that has ceased production. The following statistical
 
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