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Quartz from
Aroostook County, Maine, USA


Locality type:County
Classification
Species:Quartz
Formula:SiO2
Comments:Found as a pebble in the St. John River by Jackson (1838). Probably misidentified quartz pebble.
Quality for species:Poor for species, only of interest for locality collectors. (#)
Abundance at site:Extremely Rare
Confirmation
Validity:Erroneously Reported
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Quartz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Aroostook County, Maine, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:990435
Long-form Identifier:1:3:990435:4
GUID (UUID V4):3afa0835-2053-4bd6-a0a9-f7e2ce885da4
Localities for Quartz in this Region
Dudley Mine (Dudley manganese prospect), Castle Hill, Aroostook County, Maine, USA
Haines Mountain Micromount Locality, Mapleton, Aroostook County, Maine, USA
REE-Nb-Zr occurrence, Pennington Mountain, Aroostook County, Maine, USA
Bald Mountain Mine, T12 R8 WELS, Aroostook County, Maine, USA
Hovey Mountain Manganese Prospect, T3 R9 WELS, Aroostook County, Maine, USA
Collins Ridge Locality, TD R2 WELS, Aroostook County, Maine, USA
Lower Maple Mountain Manganese Prospect, TD R2 WELS, Aroostook County, Maine, USA
Meduxnekeag River North Branch Garnet Locality, TD R2 WELS, Aroostook County, Maine, USA
Porcupine Hill, TD R2 WELS, Aroostook County, Maine, USA
Upper Maple Mountain manganese prospect, TD R2 WELS, Aroostook County, Maine, USA
Washburn Ferry Locality, Washburn, Aroostook County, Maine, USA
Nearest other occurrences of Quartz
31.2km (19.4 miles) Dudley Mine (Dudley manganese prospect), Castle Hill, Aroostook County, Maine, USA
38.6km (24.0 miles) REE-Nb-Zr occurrence, Pennington Mountain, Aroostook County, Maine, USA
39.4km (24.5 miles) Haines Mountain Micromount Locality, Mapleton, Aroostook County, Maine, USA
51.5km (32.0 miles) Hovey Mountain Manganese Prospect, T3 R9 WELS, Aroostook County, Maine, USA
51.7km (32.1 miles) Lower Maple Mountain Manganese Prospect, TD R2 WELS, Aroostook County, Maine, USA
52.2km (32.4 miles) Porcupine Hill, TD R2 WELS, Aroostook County, Maine, USA
52.4km (32.5 miles) Upper Maple Mountain manganese prospect, TD R2 WELS, Aroostook County, Maine, USA
53.7km (33.4 miles) Collins Ridge Locality, TD R2 WELS, Aroostook County, Maine, USA
57.2km (35.6 miles) Meduxnekeag River North Branch Garnet Locality, TD R2 WELS, Aroostook County, Maine, USA
89.7km (55.8 miles) Woodstock Iron-Manganese mine, Wakefield Parish, Carleton Co., New Brunswick, Canada
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (volume)
INTERIOR OCCURRENCE OF MANGANESE IN EASTERN AROOSTOOK COUNTY MAINE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 940-E -c UNITED...940-E OCCURRENCE OF MANGANESE IN EASTERN AROOSTOOK COUNTY, MAINE BY WALTER S. WHITE Strategic Minerals...and sections of the Presque Isle area, Aroostook County, Maine...................................... Geologic...in the southern half of the Houlton quadrangle, Maine......................... Outcrop map of an area...Hill area, Hodgdon, 'Maine.................................. 1.. Index map of Maine showing location of
Report (issue)
BALD MOUNTAIN MASSIVE SULFIDE DEPOSIT, AROOSTOOK COUNTY, MAINE By John F. Slack, Marta J.K. Flohr* U...massive sulfide (VMS) body located in Aroostook County, northern Maine (Fig. 1). Bald Mountain is one of...structures have not been described in central Aroostook County, but could be important locally. Steeply dipping...with quartz ± calcite ± pyrite. Small bodies of gabbro occur locally, some of which contain quartz ± epidote...Ordovician age, on the basis of contained epidote-rich quartz veins that are considered deep facies of the Bald
Report (issue)
of the Maple and Hovey Mountains Area Aroostook County, Maine GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 362...of the Maple and Hovey Mountains Area Aroostook County, Maine By LOUIS PAVLIDES With a section on Lithology...a part of the Paleozoic terrane of northeastern Maine UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON...the investigation____________ Geography of the Aroostook manganese belt- ______ History of discovery and...breccia______________________ Age and correlation of the Aroostook manganese beds ___-_--____-__--_---_----------_
Report (volume)
Af Age of ThpleHtJo and Maiic·Aik4II Dikes in AroostooK Go~nf¥, Northeastern Mcl~ine @ Geochemical...Tholeiitic and Mafic-Alkalic Dikes in Aroostook County, Northeastern Maine By DAVID GOTTFRIED, RAYMOND MACDONALD...tholeiitic and mafic-alkalic dikes in Aroostook County, northeastern Maine. (U.S. Geological Survey bulletin...Basalt-Maine-Aroostook County. 2. Dikes (Geology)-Maine-Aroostook County. 3. Geochemistry-Maine-Aroostook...northeastern Maine 2 2. Spectrum diagrams for 40 Ar f3 9 Ar age of dikes in northeastern Maine 6 3. Major
Report (volume)
WALCOTT, DIBECTOIt CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE GEOLOGY OF MAINE BY HENRY S. Wir/LIAMS AND HERBERT E. GKREOORY................. Part J. The Paleozoic faunas of Maine: a preliminary report upon the Paleozoic faunas...from Aroostook County, by Henry S. Williams ................... Part 31. Geology of the Aroostook volcanic...volcanic area of Maine, including an account of the clastic rocks of Aroostook County, by Herbert E. Gregory.................................... IV. Map of Aroostook volcanic area................................
Report (volume)
A:roostook .County, Maine :;eology of the Bridgewater Quadrangle ~roostook County, Maine 'y LOUIS PAVLIDES...quad- rangle, Maine. 2. Sketch map of major glacial features, Bridgewater quadrangle, Maine. 3. Aeromagnetic...Bridgewater quadrangle, Maine. Page FIGURE 1. Index map showing the Aroostook rna nganese belt and the...quarry along U.S. Highway 1, Monticello Township, Maine ______________ -_---Small shear fold formed by differential...______________ 15. Photomicrograph of feathery quartz growths at the ends of pyrite crystals in calcareous
Report (volume)
Cambrian formations in the Desert Range, Clark County, Nevada, by John H. Stewart and Harley Barnes_____________...Group and Spragueville Formation of Aroostook County, northeast Maine, by Louis Pavlides__-_________--_____-_-____--____...in the vicinity of the Aldrich Mountains, Grant County, Oreg______-____________ ________ 4. Summary of...superposition, chronology, and nomenclature in the Aroostook Limestone in northern Maine_-____ A54 56 CONTRIBUTIONS...central Arizona, by P. M. Blacet. Aroostook County, northeast Maine, by Louis Pavlides. Washington, by
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Northeast Maine and western New Brunswick Southern extension of the Central Clastic Belt Aroostook-Matapedia.... 467 3. Generalized geologic map of northeast Maine and western New Brunswick 471 4. Schematic local...Formations in the Houlton-Smyrna Mills area of Maine . . . 473 Plate 1. Generalized geologic map of the...INTRODUCTION the Central Clastic Belt in Aroostook County, Maine, and adjacent New Brunswick, and found...age in both the Aroostook-Matapedia and Central Clastic Belts of Aroostook County, Maine, and adjacent
Report (issue)
in the Island Falls Quadrangle, Aroostook and Penobscot Counties, Maine GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL...in the Island Falls Quadrangle, Aroostook and Penobscot Counties, Maine By E. B. EKREN and F. C. FRISCHKNECHT...J{eratophyre __________________________ _ Quartz diabase and quartz-hornblende diabase-------------------...__________________________________ _ Rockabema Quartz Diorite__________________ _ Petrography ___ ---------...__________ _ Undifferentiated sedimentary rocks and quartz porphyry _______________________________ _ Devonian
Report (volume)
Formation of Ordovician and Silurian Age Northeast Maine By LOUIS PAVLIDES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN...Ordovician and Silurian sedimentary rocks in northeast Maine UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON...formations__________________________________________ Aroostook Limestone (abandoned name)______________________...PLATE 1. Bedrock geologic map of northeastern Maine and north- western New Brunswick ____________________________...____________________________ In pocket FIGURE 1. Index map of Maine and adjoining Canada_________________ 5 2. Section
Report (volume)
publicationl (A) The Rose Creek Tungsten Mine, Pershing County, Nev., by R. J. Roberta (.published in June 1943)...magnetite-ilmenite deposits, near Lake Sanford, Essex County, N. Y., by J. R. Balsley, Jr. (published in January...(E) Occurrence of manganese in eastern Aroostook County, Maine, by W. S. White (published in December...Borlana district and the Aquarius Range, Mohave County, Arlz., by S. W. Hobbs (published in April 1944)...map and section of the Rose. Creek area, Pershing County, Nev................................... Preliminary
Report (issue)
.. 301-S35 1. Map of volcanic area in Aroostook County, Maine..........................................investigation of the Paleozoic rocks and fossils of Maine, in the hope of gaining through their study a better...and the new facts obtained by field work in Aroostook County, was published in 1900. 1 In that report I...I gathered lists of fossil faunas of Maine at that time published and discussed their bearing on the...collections were made from the typical localities in Aroostook County by Olaf 0. Nylander for the United States
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
analcime-calcite. All the assemblages also include quartz, sphene, calcite, K-mica, and albite. Analysis...middle Paleozoic volcanic rocks of Aroostook County in northern Maine. Helmstaedt (1971) reported preh...1973) reported prehnite-bearing rocks from northern Maine, between the areas of Helmstaedt and Coombs et al...3. The Howe Brook area, Aroostook County (Pavlides, 1973). 4. Northern Maine (Coombs et al., 1970). 5...amygdules or vacuolesfilledwith pumpellyite, calcite, quartz, albite, chlorite. In (b) dark patches are pseudomorphs
Book
Geology of Maine. Conte11ts Preface vii Geology of Maine 7 Coastal Maine 25 Interstate 95 (Maine-furnpike)...tli S / Down East Maine: Bangor ;:incl Elli;worll1 to ( ,.i l:tic.; 1/S Maine 3, Maine 102, ancl rh(.;... Bangor (,a ln,s JOI Central Maine 707 M aine 5: Saco-Bethel / 14 Maine 26: Pegmatite Alley, Portland...ton / 49 Maine 7: Belfast-Dover-Foxcrofl I 57 Maine 15: Bangor-Abhot Village.: / 6 / Maine 11: Milo-Millinocket...ountains of Maine 17 3 U.S. 2: Skowhegan-Bcthc: I 179 M aine 4 : Farmington-Rangcley / 91 Maine 27: Farmington-C~oburn
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
belt 900 Sequence of climatic fluctuations 914 Maine-New Brunswick sector 901 Sequence of crustal uplifts...England, and adjacent parts Pollen profiles from Aroostook County 908 of Canada 904 Suggested correlation 908...reflects the great relief, steep slopes, resistant, quartz-rich bedrocks, and thin glacial drift that characterize...region; the younger postdates it. MAINE-NEW BRUNSWICK SECTOR In coastal Maine the Pleistocene section is closely...two represents the latest glaciation of coastal Maine, inasmuch as the marine deposits overlying it have
Report (issue)
Silurian stratigraphy of northeastern Aroostook County, Maine 1 . David C. Roy and Ely Mencher Discussion:...Silurian stratigraphy of northeastern Aroostook County, Maine... Louis Pavlides Lower Devonian Seboomook...Seboomook Formation and Matagamon Sandstone, northern Maine: A flysch basin-margin delta complex.Bradford A...central Maine . Allan Ludman Pre-Silurian stratigraphic succession in central western Maine . Eugene... Boone Stratigraphy of the Belfast quadrangle, Maine .Charles E. Bickel Geochronologic contributions
Report (issue)
Shin Pond and Stacyville Quadrangles Penobscot County, Maine GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 524-1...Shin Pond and Stacyville Quadrangles Penobscot County, Maine By ROBERT B. NEUMAN SHORTER CONTRIBUTIONS TO...Silurian System ___________________ _ Rockabema Quartz Diorite __________________ _ Silurian System _...~atagamon Sandstone _____________________ _ Katahdin Quartz ~onzonite ________________ Granophyre and diabase...SHIN POND AND STACYVILLE QUADRANGLES PENOBSCOT COUNTY, MAINE By RoBERT B. ABSTRACT The bedrock of the Shin
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pisalitesof hematitein a matrix of hematite,calcite,and quartz. The laminatedore is toughand compactand formsresistantoutcrops...in placeswhere it has recrystallizedto very fine quartz. The silt layersare thin wispsa few millimetersthick...composedof variable proportions of hematite,calcite,quartz, and clay (Fig. 5). The hematiteis a dull red color...very finely crystallineunder the nficroscope. The quartz of the pisolitesforms thin concentriclayers and...and probably representsrecrystallized chert. The quartz of the matrix appearsas fine, slightlyroundedgrains
Report (volume)
Qiiimby and Greenvale Cove Formations in Western Maine By ROBERT H. MOENCH CONTRIBUTIONS TO STRATIGRAPHY... 16 ILLUSTKATIONS . FIGURE 1. Index map of Maine showing location of report area_________ 2. Generalized...QUIMBY AND GREENVALE COVE FORMATIONS IN WESTERN MAINE By ROBERT H. MOENCH ABSTRACT The newly named formations...Quimby and the Greenvale Cove, in Franklin County, Maine, are composed of clastic metasedimentary rocks...Silurian Carys Mills Formation, exposed in northern Maine about 180-200 miles northeast of Rangeley. INTRODUCTION
Report (issue)
as the pioneer in the geology of west-central Maine, for his expertise on the mineralogy of pegmatites...paleontology: two on the Merrimack Synclinorium in Maine and three on the so-called Pennsylvanian basins...(prehnite-pumpellyite) metamorphism in Massachusetts and Maine, respectively, are the subjects of two of the...nickeliferous pyrrhotite deposits of southeastern Maine, gravity studies of the New Hampshire Plutonic Series...polymetamorphism in the Merrimack synclinorium of western Maine ....... Robert H. Moench and Robert E. Zartman
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...tourmaline (elbaite) on quartz crystals, 24 x JO mm;Jrom the Bennett Quarry, Buckfield, Maine. Mined in 1996 by...Photo by John B. Poisson. The laws and policies of Maine and the United States prohibit discrimination in
Report (volume)
147 N., R. 84 W., 4 km N of Riverdale, McLean County, N. Oak. Named for Aggie Brown Coulee, which flows...NW1/4NW1/4SW1/4SW1/4 sec. 17, T. 85 N., R. 7 W., Linn County, Iowa. A-L Peak Rhyolite Oligocene 1. New Mexico...structures in the San Mateo Mountains, Socorro County, New Mexico: New Mexico Geol. Soc. Spec. Pub. 5...Mountains, 10. sees. 33-35, T. 4 S., R. 6 W., Socorro County, N.Mex. Anapra Sandstone 1. Early Cretaceous 2...6. 7. 9. 10. at Cerro de Cristo Rey, Dofta Ana County, New Mexico, Appendix 2 in Lovejoy, E. M. P., Geology
Report (volume)
fossils in Ordovician Tuffs Northeastern Maine ROBERT B. NEUMAN 7ith a section on TRILOBITA HARRY B....^Description of a sequence of volcanic 'ocks in Maine and the brachiopods, ilobites, and other fossils...NORTHEASTERN MAINE By ROBERT B. NEUMAN ABSTRACT An Ordovician volcanic sequence in northeastern Maine consists...continent. The harpid and odontopleurid in the Maine rocks are rarities and are not helpful in correlation...Island Falls quadrangles, Penobscot and Aroostook Counties, Maine; it is here named the Shin Brook Formation
Report (issue)
eleaentc in (Card 2) Colorado Mineral rcaourcet, County reffJon. I. Bayaond, III. Title IV. Series: Open-file...heading Title COLORADO MINERAL RESOURCES MINERAL COUNTY REGION. Crock, J. G. (200)R29ono.83-405D,KP GISS...Services, Inc. 1985. 203 (220) M198f AQUIFERS MAINE YORK COUNTY MAPS. Hydrogeology of significant sand and...York and Southern Cumberland Counties, Maine. [Augusta] : Maine Geological Survey, 1983. M (211)49 Y82t...only 1984. ARIZONA--MINERAL RESOURCES--COCHISE COUNTY. Zelten, Jeanne E. Mineral resources of a part
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Beitbridge, enstatite-sillimanite-corundum-cordierite-quartz rock, 1052. Benson, montebrasite, tantalite, microlite...samarskite, 50. Malawi Laytonville, Mendocino County~ zussmanite, 292. Tanzania Magnesioriebeekite...New Jersey, hyalophane, 914. Horse Creek, Baca County, Colorado, meteorite, 850. Iron Hill, Colorado... diaboleite, 933. County, Kansas, pyrope, 459. Nelson Creek, Skamania County, Washington, heulandite...743. Newport, Jackson County, Arkansas, meteorite, 717. Oakley, Logan County, Kansas, meteorite, 101
 
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