 | | 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...24 x JO mm;Jrom the Bennett Quarry, Buckfield, Maine. Mined in 1996 by Holden !Jrothers Mining and currently...Photo by John B. Poisson. The laws and policies of Maine and the United States prohibit discrimination in |  | | 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...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 |  | | Book (edition) | | mmed at Broken Arrow aud Trout creek, in Sc. Clair county. The strata in this field are more faulted und...prong of Canoe creek, in St. Clair county, to Ha\sop creek, in Bibb county, a distance of 60 miles. Down to...to Helena, in Shelby county, the field has an average width of 5 or 6 miles. Below that point the width...miles being in the latitud" of Blocton, in Bibb county. The south ern end of this field has a greater...Jefferson county; Helena, Montevallo, and Brierfield, Shelby county; and at Blocion. Bibb county. The Warrior |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | group, khondalites: garnet-sillimanite-graphite gneisses, graphite schists, quartzites, calc-granulites...phillipsite up to 4 cm across. The mineralization of graphite in khondalites, and four types of herschelite...undistinguished. The mineral is white and is 2. Lenses in graphite veins composed of unterminated, radiating aggregates...aggregates of needles. 3. Disseminations in graphite veins Clusters of gonnardite up to 15 mm are not rare...Occurrences of Gonnardite" by Dr. H. in bedded graphite Meixner, which appeared in Mineralogical Magazine |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | was collected but most of us took away calcite, graphite and bits of phlogopite mica. Altho we were on...Mineral Society, Richmond Hill, N.Y. 592 Fulton County Mineral Club At the meeting held July 29 '57,...which were much enjoyed by the group. Samples of graphite were distributed to members as an introduction...Schuylerville. There the group were to visit a graphite mine; Lester Park, and Stark's Knob. Lester Park...Plan To Organize Litchfield County Mineral Club A meeting to organize a Litchfield County Mineral Club and |  | | Report (volume) | | Louisiana........Prof. Gilbert D. Harris, Baton Rouge. Maine............Mr. C. Vey Holman, Bangor. Maryland....See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;...following localities: Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20, Pv. 7 E.; Jefferson...Jefferson County, at Elyton; Lee County, at Chewacla lime works; St. Clair County, at Gfeensport; Shelby |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | California; in the Petaca district of Rio Arriba County, New Mexico; from the Harney Peak region of South...Reagan mining district, Kern range, White Pine County, Nevada. SULFUR, S, occurs very rarely in pegmatites...grains also at Shaft 7 near Fishkill, New York. GRAPHITE. C, is rather uncommon in pegmatite. In the eastern...pegmatites. At Lewiston. Yarmouth, and Madrid, Maine. Also at Portland and Haddam Neck, Connecticut,...sulfide, has been found in the Ben Nevis ville, Union County, Georgia. It has been mine on San Augustin Peak |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | r a l o g i c a1 C h e m i s t ry. Metamorphic Graphite : Strata containing Garnet from the Ural Mountains...Mountains, a peculiar instance occurs of strata of graphite in limestone, thus indicating a remarkable nonconformability...The presence of small specimens of garnet in the graphite containing strata of limestone is peculiar, An...CHEMICAL PAPERS. 2. Lepidomelane from Baltimore and Maine.-These on analysis the following results :H20. ...Baltimore ; formula Râ,&â3RââpSi5022.IV. Litchfield, Maine ; formula Râ6Rââââ6Si5024. These two micas |  | | Report (volume) | | .............................................. Maine...................................................See Bauxite and Halloysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;...following localities : Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20 S., R. 7 E.;...; Jefferson County, at Ely ton; Lee County, at Chewacla lime works"; St. Clair County, at Greensport; |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | B r o o k district, Danbury: barite, calcite, graphite, microcline. Marcelle Weber, a mineral collector...n site (mall), Danbury: allanite, chondrodite, graphite, phlogopite, spinel, thorite. O l d M i n e P...of view 10.2 cm across, 1-84, Newtown, Fairfield County; collected 1960. Weber specimen, Marcelle Weber...Calcite, 2.6 cm long, Route 7, Brookfield, Fairfield County. Jeffrey Scovil specimen and photo. * « i Road...tonbury: dickite, dravite, sillimanite, strengite. Litchfield C o u n t y Hartford C o u n t y B r a c k gem |  | | Catalog/List | | Jasper, 2. Sulphur, Sicily. 15. Pyrite, 3. Graphite, Ceylon. 16. 4. Limonite, Edge Hill, Pa. ...by scratching different from that of the 1. Graphite knife the and âBlack Lead,â or in such ...used or the color of the nearly hematite graphite (1), as hammer a ground glass, or that of...very soft minerals have a greasy feel as 1 graphite, 47 talc and 48 soapstone. TENACITY. When...selenite (47) or the flexed wire native (22). graphite same but is spring into are position again |  | | Journal (issue) | | Shaub 63 Heterosite-Purpurite Locality in Litchfield, Connecticut William Brunet FEATURES 64 Collections...Prairie Creek j ust 10uth of Murfreeâą boro, Pike County, Arkansas. The near-oval shaped area is an enclosed...diatreme (volcanic pipe) near Murfreesboro, Pike County, Arkansas (The Crater of Diamonds State Park)....identified as inclusions in diamond are: diamond, graphite, high-chrome high-magnesium olivine, chrome diopside...of pressure (depth) and temperature under which graphite and diamond are respective stable forms of carbon |  | | Book | | contains no quartz. Basic dike in limestone Rockland, Maine (Cource;y U. S. Geological Survey) PEGMATITE...Intrusion of granite into gneiss, E. Stoneham, Maine (C.ounesv U. S. Geological Survey) 12 Collectors...Boulder split by roots of tree near Penobscot, Maine (Courte::y U. S. Geological Survey) "WEATHERING"...known polymorphous substances are: Diamond and Graphite (C) Pyrite and Marcasite (FeS,) Calcite and Aragonite...the same, no matter where the mineral is found. Graphite is always black, pyrite always brassy yellow, |  | | Journal (issue) | | Fluorapatite, 3.3-cm crystal, from the Pulsifer quarry, Maine. Collected by Terry Szenics; Jeff Scovil photo....Kovalev Paul LaBonte Erich R. Laskowski Jeff Lines Litchfield Family David M. Lowe John C. Lucking Johan Maertens...in Wilson and Bideaux, 1983) Dunton Mine, Newry, Maine 1972 In August of 1972, the beginnings of an extraordinary...were encountered at the Dunton gem pit in Newry, Maine. Dean McCrillis joined the dig, at first as an advisor...McCrillis and others at the Dunton mine, Newry, Maine. Harvard Mineralogical Museum collection; Wendell |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | determinations made with Ceylon graphite using kerosene as the liquid. The graphite was mostly in the form of...0.5" during the experiments. Ten grams of the graphite were added each time. READINGSO N PIPETTE. Before... 5.67 5.67 5.64 5.66 Volume of ten grams of graphite. 1.42 1.44 1.43 -. 1.43 . . .. T h e apparatus............. Lepidolite, Maine. ............ .. Elzeolite, Litchfield, Maine.. Heulandite, Nova Scotia |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | rarely has kyanite been cut as a gem stone. 2 Litchfield County, Connecticut Kyanite, also known as cyanite...available in Connecti cut, particularly in Litchfield County. W I L L I A M M. B R U N E T Roxbury Road...towns and generally is quite common throughout Litchfield and Middlesex Counties. However, the outstandÂ...outstand ing localities are to be found in Litchfield County in the Washington-Roxbury, R o x b u r y , and...known reference to the mineral in Litch field County was by Brace ( 1 8 1 9 ) . He stated: "Cyanite |  | | Book (edition) | | from the Principal Localities in the Middlesex County Region in Connecticut Unclassified Material Page...Directions to the Mineral Localities in the Middlesex County Region in Connecticut .... Additional Locality...booklet devoted to the mineralogy of the Middlesex County region. Invaluable assistance in preparing the...GOLD-Native element GOSLARITE-Hydrous zinc sulfate GRAPHITE-Carbon GREENOCKITE-Cadmium sulfide GROSSULARITE-Calcium...Connecticut. At the Strickland Quarry in Middlesex County, ambly gonite occurs as white cleavages and crude |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Bross Ave., Longmont, Colo. Globe, in southern Gila County, is in S/'E Arizona. FLORIDAâ"I am sending some...chalcedonyâalmost an agate ! Lakeland, in N / W Polk County, is in central Florida. GEORGIA â "The enclosed...Summerville is in centra! Chattooga County in N / W Georgia. MAINE â A few months ago David Dethier, 341...341 West Ave., Wayne, Penn. 19087, was in Maine, where he visited the area around Blue Hill. Here is...several clippings from Mr. Vaughan in Belfast, Maine, concerning the new mining strike in Blue Hill. |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | METAMORPHISM AND TECTONICS OF THE EARLY PROTEROZOIC LITCHFIELD PROVINCE AND WESTERN PINE CREEK GEOSYNCLINE,...metamorphism and tectonics of the Early Proterozoic Litchfield Province and western Pine Creek Geosyncline,...Territory. Precambrian Res., 40/41: 565-558. The Litchfield Province is a 9000 km 2 area of Early Proterozoic...essentially hydrothermal event (1780 Ma). The Litchfield Province and Pine Creek Geosyncline are overlain... and metamorphic and tectonic history of the Litchfield Province and the western Pine Creek Geosyncline |  | | Book (volume) | | 0 n101ercai o of Maine j f·~ ....__ :,,. . - .._"' ..;. .. ~ L-- -~ \. âą .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 |  | | | | element. Gold, copper, silver, platinum, bismuth and graphite fall in this subdivision. Sulphides and arsenides:...description is not clear, e.g., submetallic, for graphite. Adamantine: brilliant, hard, durable, e.g., diamond...yellow), p. 50 chalcocite (dark grey), p. 34 | graphite (steel grey, black), p. 30 | stibnite (lead grey)...âSoft(Mohs 1-2) âBlack Hard (Mohs more than 51) graphite (black),p. 30 pyrolusite (grey to black), p. 82...nugget recorded is from Carson Hill, California, USA, weighing 72.78 kg. Transylvania, Romania; Roraima |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Co., where turquoise is found as thin veins in graphite schists (Carboniferous). The Erin occurrence is...ConnecticutâAt the limestone quarries of Canaan, Litchfield Co., Conn., tremolite is found in large snowy-white...in Georgia at the fo'lowing localities: Cherokee County â2V2 miles northeast of Ball Ground, 1 mi'e northwest...of Cherry Grove School; Fayette Countyânear Fayetteville; Fulton Countyânear College Park. (Georgia Mineral..."flowers of gold," according to assay reports." MaineâMr. I. S. Skillin, Freeport, Me. donated to R & |  | | Report (volume) | | PLATE I. FIG. 1. 2. 3. Map of a portion of western Maine................................. Border of lepidolite...of the Tuscaloosa formation, near Havana, Hale County, Ala ............................................phosphate beds .............. Section at Olympia, Bath County, Ky.............................. Apatite in the...the Bonanza pit, Union mine, Portland, Ottawa County, Quebec, Canada....................................on north side of Rheaumo Lake, Templeton, Ottawa County, Quebec, Canada .................. ......... 4 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | wonderful > job they did. "Rockland Nuggets", Rockland County Mineral and Gem Society, Inc., Editor, Marvin Klibonoff;...collected rocks! The words Division of the Rockland County Mineral "Founded 1886" following the name of and..."Triassic Valley Bulletin", for corundum, chondrodite, graphite,, New Haven Mineral Club, Editors, Mr. spinel...showed slides on the Jamesville Quarry. The Rockland County Mineral and Gem Society. Inc., SufFern, heard Tim...MacCarry speak on "The Palisades Formation of Rockland County". Miss Jessie Weinberger spoke on "The Geology |  | | Report (issue) | | Bedrock geology of the Niantic quadrangle, New London County,^Connecticut: U.S. Geol. Survey Geol. Quad. Map...map of the Norwalk South quadrangle, Fairfield County, Conn.: U.S. Geol. Survey Geol. Quad. Map GQ-718...geology of the Uncasville quadrangle, New London County, Conn.: U.S. Geol. Survey Geol. Quad. Map GQ-576...geologic map of the Montville quadrangle, New London County, Conn.: U.S. Geol. Survey Geol. Quad. Map GQ-609...geologic map of the Fitchville quadrangle, New London County, Conn.: U.S. Geol. Survey Geol. Quad. Map GQ-485 |
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Litchfield, Kennebec County, Maine, USA