 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | mounting done all over again. SOME MINES OF OXFORD COUNTY, MAINE By NEIL JORGENSEN 247 W. Summit Ave., Haddonfield...the pegmatite region of Oxford County, Maine, near the villages of Buckfield and Paris, are the Mt. Mica...larger, but has been filled in with the dumping of quarry waste in the abandoned parts. Probably the mine...cucumber is green with a white center. In addition, albite, cleavelandite, orthoclase, muscovite, biotite...been found here. A few miles up the road toward Buckfield on the hillside behind the Bennett homestead, |  | | Journal (issue) | | Finger) and LKA Emeralds, Hiddenite, Alexander County, NC Go On Public Exhibit in New York City. Emeralds.................................... 3 Hewitt Gem Quarry................................................................................... 3 Walden Gem Quarry ........................................................................................ 4 Maine .......................................................................................... 4 Greenlaw Quarry .............................................. |  | | 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 (article/letter/editorial) | | ConneMaine Topsham district, Maine Grafton district, New Hampshire Greenfield...spessartine) crystals up to six inches in diameter, albite, green beryl, columbite, muscovite, and black tourmaline...here as individual twinned Chrysoberyl, Topsham, Maine. The crystal similarity to the chrysoberyl from...1884. .i • Chrysoberyl, Porcupine Hill, Topsham, Maine. Specimen is an untwinned crystal 3 inches long...chrysoberyl in quartz, Wisdom Ranch prospect, Larimer County, Colorado. Crystal is VA by VA by 1/8 inches. |  | | Book (edition) | | HANDBOOK for A WEEK WITH MAINE MINERALS by NEIL A. WINTRINGHAM 1_� Cv1,_1'--A� __, SECOND EDITION...a week collecting in the pegme.tite area ot Oxford county, !!Bine, Neil Wintr:lnghal'!l, a pa.st-president...field trial of the hambook during our ''Week with Maine Minerals" furnished additional information end resulted...characterized the evenings spent with members of the Oxford County Mineral & Gem Association. N. A. W. Mountainside...minerals. The geology of pegmatites, in general, and Maine pegmatites, in particular, is summarized briefly |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Apatite, Pulsifer quarry, Auburn, Maine; photo by Victor E . Kranz. Aegirine-augite, 188 Albite, 154, 188, 409...114 Baumann, H . , 330 Bavenite, 189 Behnke, D., Maine Articles Published in Rocks and Minerals: An Annotated... , book review, The Tourma line, 453 Berkeley Quarry, Cross, South Carolina, J . J . Howe, 240 Bertrandite...Burbank, B . B . , Topaz and Herderite at Topsham, Maine, 434 Calaverite, 190 Calcite, 81, 112, 155, 190...Wollastonite and Titanite Near Natural Bridge, Lewis County, New York, 78; 13th Rochester Academy of Science |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | f o r d , Maine 0 4 0 7 3 THE W E E K S PEGMATITE MINE faults Wakefield, Carroll County New Hampshire...R - B L U E B E R Y L from the Weeks pegmatite quarry in Wakefield has been sought by mineral collectors...distance west of the Maine state line in the town of Wakefield, Car roll County, New Hampshire. The property...location is on private land and is now posted. The Maine Mineralogical and Geological Society has a five-year...1991 129 South Effingham 28 Granite 116 1 MAINE NEW HAMPSHIRE not miles 1153 to Wakefield Figure |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Museum 24 Oxford Street Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 MAINE Minerals of the Topsham, Maine, Pegmatite...Andros coggin River from Brunswick in Sagadahoc County. A mile-wide belt of granitic pegmatites runs from...synonomy has arisen due to changes of leasee or owner. Quarry locations are described and plotted on top ographic...Mineral Resources Index No. I (Rand, 1957) and Maine Mines and Minerals, a field guide by Phillip Morrill...(1958). Mining History Feldspar mining began in Maine at Topsham in the mid dle of the nineteenth century |  | | Report (issue) | | from the University of New Orleans in Louisiana (USA), with the lowdown on beryl mineralogy An ancient...crystal has been recorded from the Alger quarry in New Hampshire (USA). The crystal weighed 455 kilograms...4m: The largest beryl crystal at the Bumpus quarry in Maine was 8.4 meters long, 1.9 meters in diameter...pegmatites, beryl is associated with quartz, microcline, albite, muscovite, biotite, ferrocolumbite, and phosphates...number of Brazilian states (page 84); San Diego County, California (page 32) in the United States; Canada |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Fanwood & Summit Quarries, New Jersey WARREN CUMMINGS 225 Beechwood Avenue Trenton, New Jersey 08618...road cut, located in Springfield Township, Union County, New Jersey, formed a major mineral collecting...Construction Materials, the last operator of the quarry, ceased operation in 1977, and since 1983 the pit...Company quarry in the Borough of Watchung, Somerset County—sometimes known as the Scotch Plains quarry, or...or the Weldon quarry —is about AVi miles southwest of the Summit quarry and exposes the same stratigraphic |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | , The Weeks Pegmatite Mine, Wakefield, Carroll County, New Hamp441-512 Nov./Dec. (No. 6) shire, 129-135...Golden Horn Cover Photographs Batholith, Okanogan County, Washington, 450-459 January/February: Azurite... R. M., see Who’s Who in Mineral Names Spokane County, Washington; Dr. Stephen Neely specimen, Harold...smoky Bravoite, Washington, 318 quartz, Teller County, Colorado; Rock H. Currier specimen, Harold and...Calciohilairite, Washington, 457 Bald Hornet claim, King County, Wash- Calcite: morphology, 43; New York, 41; Washington |  | | Report (issue) | | Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of Maine ............... 16 Table 5 Uranium occurrences in...occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of eastern Maine................^..............i.29 Figure 6. Uranium...occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of western Maine.................................30 Figure 7. Uranium...deposit occurs as a thin seam in graphitic Cleburne County. The property is, about 11.2 SINE phyllite which...Location No. Source of information Fairfield County. Short distance northeast of East Village, on a |  | | Journal (issue) | | Contents for March - April, 1950 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY ...................................................................... 135 POUND OF TEA ISLAND, MAINE. By Peter Zodac ·······················-·············...····················· 155 SOME MINES OF OXFORD COUNTY, MAINE. By N eil Jorgensen ............ 158 NEWARK............ 1 78 }ADE AND CHRYSOPRASE IN T ULARE COUNTY, CALIF . ........................................Aueciatien i14 ROCKS AND MINEMU CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY COMING EVENTS NATIONAL SPELEOLOGICAL SOCIETY CONVENTION |  | | Journal (volume) | | Sell William J. Trost Edward H. Wilk, Warren Cummings (assistant) John L. Baum John Cianciulli Richard...Ferroaxinite and Heulandite from the Lime Crest Quarry Warren Cummings 30 Monazite-(Ce) from the Buckwheat Dolomite...9:00 A.M.- Noon ~ F.O.M.S. Field Trip --^Franklin Quarry, Cork Hill Rd., Franklin 1:30 P. Ml- 3:00 P;K—...to 3:00 P.M. — F.O.M.S. Field Trip — Lime Crest quarry, Limecrest Rpa||||l Sparta, N.J. This is an invitational...9:00 A.M.tp Noon — F.O.M.S. Field Tri|P Franklin Quarry, Cork Hill Ri, Franklin, -'* 1:30 P.M. - 3:00 P |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Mineralization at the MILLINGTON QUARRY, NEW JERSEY W A R R E N CUMMINGS 225 Beech wood Avenue Trenton,...O N Q U A R R Y in Bernards Township, Somerset County, New Jersey, resumed operation in 1979 after several...the new operators, the Millington Quarry Company, have made this quarry an important producer of mineral...its way into circulation. Geology The Millington quarry exposes the two lava flows (Figure 3) of the Third...Rift Basin (Figure 4). The general geology of the quarry is similar to that of the famous zeolite localities |  | | 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...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason |  | | 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...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason |  | | Report (issue) | | MOUNTAIN MASSIVE SULFIDE DEPOSIT, AROOSTOOK COUNTY, MAINE By John F. Slack, Marta J.K. Flohr* U.S. Geological...sulfide (VMS) body located in Aroostook County, northern Maine (Fig. 1). Bald Mountain is one of several...discovered in 1977 by J.S. Cummings during a regional geochemical survey (Cummings, 1988). Exploration work...structures have not been described in central Aroostook County, but could be important locally. Steeply dipping...Bald Mountain are characterized by assemblages of albite + chlorite ± calcite ± prehnite ± pumpellyite ± |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | permission to run a society trip to the famous Leiper's quarry at Avondale, Delaware Co., Penn. Filling in the...According to club geologist, Julie Reed, the Morrow quarry, presently in operation, is in granite gneiss,...autunite, uraninite, torbernite and gummite, in this quarry long known for the radioactive minerals it produced...Gault brothers, owners of the Keystone Trappe rock quarry, at Cornog, Penn. The Honeybrook report of the...grained, but not aphinitic. Where exposed in the quarry it is light gray green, irregularly jointed and |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Vulcan Materials quarry in Racine (Scovil 1994), the pegmatites of Florence County (Koehier 1989) and...zircon), particularly in the Wausau area of Marathon County (Falster 1987). Middle Proterozoic quartzites (1...Wisconsin mineralogy. The index is arranged county by county (fig. 1). Where possible, township and range...for any I may have omitted. Adams County Hamilton Mound. A quarry is located in the NE 1/4 sec. 36 T*20N*R...Geological and Natural History Survey. Ashland County Ballou Creek. Outcrops of iron formation occur |  | | 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:...(banded, various colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY MACON: at Holton Quarry, 7½ mi. NWagate; N of Calloway |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Wilson photogra pher Agate, 115 Alabandite, 135 Albite, 220, 285 Alleghanyite, 132 Almandine, 266 Amblygonite...Aragonite, 236 Bald Knob Manganese Deposit, Allegheny County, North Carolina, W. B . Sim mons, Jr., 130 Barite...Columbia, Yukon Territory, 9; rutile, Hastings County, 284 Canfield, F . A . , 232 Canfieldite, 233 Caryopilite...Bridge, New York, 288 Charlesite, 238 Chips from the Quarry, 4, 108, 156, 212, 261 Chlorite, 159 Chondrodite...Coquimbite, 180 Corundum, 238 Cummings, W., Mineralization at the Millington Quarry, New Jersey, 213 Currier |  | | Report (issue) | | International, LLC P.O. Box 263, East Hampton, CT 06424, USA Phone 1.860.267.1512; fax 1.860.267.7225 www.lapisint...CHRISTIAN WEISE VERLAG, GERMANY AND LAPIS INTERNATIONAL, USA Tourmaline ♦ History ♦ Mineralogy • Tourmaline...gem tourmaline was made at Mount Mica in Paris, Maine, though only small quantities were uncovered there...the north side of the Himalaya Mine in San Diego County, CA. D. Sterrett photo provided by Jesse Fisher...tourmaline was found in the pegmatites of San Diego County, California. The Advent of Chemical Analysis |  | | Journal (issue) | | Corp. of America, Franklin Plant, (former Farber Quarry), Cork Hill Rd., Franklin, N.J. - 9:00 a.m. to...Valley, Pa. 19006 TRUSTEES John L. Baum '80 Warren Cummings '80 John Kolic '79 Alice L. Kraissl '80 Wilfred...been found at Sterling Hill, Ogdensburg, Sussex County, New Jersey. It is colorless but alters to a dark...and was not present on a specimen from San Benito County, California, which was examined by this author...minerals of Franklin and Sterling Hill, Sussex County, New Jersey. U.S. Geological Survey Professional |
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