 | | 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 |  | | Report (issue) | | 877(7) Z=6 X-ray Powder Pattern: Mt. Mica, Maine, USA. 4.329 (100), 3.806 (90), 2.928 (90), 6.41 (50)...9.30 Total 99.97 100.57 100.00 (1) Mt. Mica, Maine, USA; by electron microprobe, total Fe as FeO, total...[P1.02 (O3.98 F0.02 )Σ=4.00 ]3 . (2) Black Mountain, Maine, USA; by electron microprobe, total Fe as...moraesite, siderite, zircon, quartz (Mt. Mica, Maine, USA); siderite, albite, quartz (Black Mountain quarry...quarry, Maine, USA); wycheproofite, eosphorite, selwynite, cyrilovite, schorl (Wycheproof, Australia). Distribution: |  | Brownfield, Michael E., Foord, Eugene E., Sutley, Stephen J., Botinelly, Theodore (1993) Kosnarite, KZr2(PO4)3 a new mineral from Mount Mica and Black Mountain, Oxford County, Maine. American Mineralogist, 78 (5-6) 653-656 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | new mineral from Mount Mica and Black Mountain, Oxford County, Maine Mrcnlnr- E. BnowNprnr,o M.S. 972...at Paris, and from the Black Mountain pegmatite, Rumford, Oxford County, Maine. Kosnarite from Mount Mica...O ' , r r F o o r ) r r rfor o m .Kosnarite Black Mountain is almost pure KZrr(POo), with only trace amounts...analogueofgainesite. The name is for Richard A. Kosnar of Black Hawk, Colorado. INrnooucrroN In 1991,Vandall T...pegmatite in 1989 by Gene T. Bearssof Sanford, Maine. At about the same time, King sent to E.E.F. a micromount |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | to four inches in diameter occur in the Palermo quarry, North Groton, New Hampshire and to an inch in...Custer, South Dakota with quartz, albite, muscovite, black tourmaline and triphylite. DICKINSO^ITE, a complex...Branchville and Portland, Connecticut; and at Poland, Maine in lithium pegmatite. F1LLOWITE, with the same composition...dickinsonite occurs sparingly at Branchville, Fairfield county, Connecticut. FAIRFIELDITE, a hydrous phosphate...Fairfield county, Connecticut from which it was named; and also from Poland and Buckfield, Maine; and from |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | minerals were found in a quarry on the east side of Highway 101 in Mendocino County, 5.4 miles south of Laytonville...recognize. It occurs in radiating clusters of bladed, black crystals that range up to about half an inch in...yields a dark greenish-brown powder. "Deerite is a black mineral that characteristically occurs in somewhat...of an inch long. This mineral yields a brownish-black streak, which helps to distinguish it from howieite...disseminated in quartz and stilpnomelane. At the quarry all three of these minerals occur in quartz-rich |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | PEGMATITE MINERALS OF MAINE By D A V I D M. S E A M A N 36 Winter St., Norway, Maine 0 4 2 6 8 INTRODUCTION...of minerals have been found in the pegmatites of Maine since the discovery of Mt. Mica near Paris H i l...amblygonite crystals over a foot in size, large black (schorl) tourmaline crystals to four inches in diameter...tourmaline find at the Dunton Gem Mine at Newry, Maine of watermelon and green, elbaite tourmaline, has...further description here. The Bennett Quarry at Buckfield, Maine, was also worked by Mr. Robert Eastman |  | | Report (issue) | | Powder Pattern: G.E. Smith mine, New Hampshire, USA. 3.67 (10), 3.03 (9), 2.78 (9), 2.21 (9), 3.50 (7)...09 100.00 (1) G.E. Smith mine, New Hampshire, USA; corresponds to Ca0.98 Be2.13 (PO4 )1.98 . (2) CaBe2...Association: Triphylite, siderite, muscovite, albite, quartz (G.E. Smith mine, New Hampshire, USA); montebrasite...montgomeryite (Tip Top mine, South Dakota, USA). Distribution: In the USA, large crystals from the G.E. Smith...Co., New Hampshire; in the Black Mountain quarry, Rumford, Oxford Co., Maine; at the Tip Top mine, 8.5 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | pohwatp@si.edu Muscovite Shannon Canyon, Inyo County, California R ocks are made up of minerals. Some...exciting (read colorful) brethren. When I wrote about siderite a few columns back (Pohwat 2012), I compared that...the littleknown locality of Shannon Canyon, Inyo County, California. The specimen is 3 × 4 cm and was collected...the pegmatites of the New England region. From Maine, King and Foord (1994, p. 246) note that “Muscovite...2.8 cm high, from the Strickland quarry, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut. This is typical of |  | | Report (issue) | | Powder Pattern: Palermo #1 mine, New Hampshire, USA. 3.05 (10), 2.73 (9), 3.22 (8), 3.48 (7), 2.23 (6)...0] 100.00 (1) Palermo #1 mine, New Hampshire, USA; corresponds to (Ca3.28 Mn0.47 Mg0.17 )Σ=3.92 Fe2...stewartite, mitridatite, amblygonite, siderite. Distribution: In the USA, from the Palermo #1 mine, near North...the Dunton quarry, Newry, and on Black Mountain and Red Hill, Rumford, Oxford Co., Maine. From Hühnerkobel...Material: Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 119745 [xanthoxenite redefined]. The name was originally |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | crystal of a different species, probably . . . siderite . . . calcite or dolomite, but possibly some other...Manasquan, New Jersey, visited Calamity Wash, Yavapai County, and collected several exciting and Figure 7: Arizona...groupings and distortions found in the specimens. Maine New Mining Activity Ever since the feldspar mill...mill burned in West Paris in the early 196Os, Maine pegmatite mining has been conducted only for the recovery...Sweden; the resumption of activity at Mount Mica quarry, Paris; and the find of what might be the world's |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | AND CHEMICAL EVOLUTION OF THE BLACK MOUNTAIN GRANITIC PEGMATITE, MAINE CATHLEEN D. BROWN§ AND MICHAEL...crystallization history of the Black Mountain granitic pegmatite, near Rumford, western Maine, is evaluated using...granitic pegmatite, internal zonation, Black Mountain, Maine, tourmaline, spodumene, lepidolite, columbite...pegmatite granitique de Black Mountain, près de Rumford, dans l’ouest du Maine, fait l’objet d’une évaluation...pegmatite granitique, zonation interne, Black Mountain, Maine, tourmaline, spodumène, lépidolite, columbite |  | | 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) | | following places in the State of Maine: Mt. Apatite, Auburn, Androscoggin County; the Nevel Mine, Hall's Ridge... Mica, Paris, Black Mountain, Rumford and Harndon HiIl, Stoneham, all in Oxford County; and at Topsham...Topsham in Sagadahoc County. This brief note is to point out a new locality for autunite at the Hooper's Ledge...Ledge feldspar quarry' now Iong since abandoned, which is one and a half miles north-east oI South Paris...occurs are found partially filling vugs in the black shales of the coal measures. Specimensfound on the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | following places in the State of Maine: Mt. Apatite, Auburn, Androscoggin County; the Nevel Mine, Hall's Ridge... Mica, Paris, Black Mountain, Rumford and Harndon HiIl, Stoneham, all in Oxford County; and at Topsham...Topsham in Sagadahoc County. This brief note is to point out a new locality for autunite at the Hooper's Ledge...Ledge feldspar quarry' now Iong since abandoned, which is one and a half miles north-east oI South Paris...occurs are found partially filling vugs in the black shales of the coal measures. Specimensfound on the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Parker a rusty streak it may be the intermediary Mountain, Center Strafford, New Hamp- alteration species...exciting. Mr. and Mrs. Jack dal group of nearly black crystals of Dyer of Boston, Mrs. Bjareby and I had...to remain an undescribed enigmatic and had our quarry tools along. Since problem to mineral collectors...way home we soon parked under the collector in Maine now living in Dover, big old pine at the entrance...body I was looking for was had found at Newry, Maine. Since we completely hidden. Fortunately there was |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | can stain the pyrophyllite red to orange. Maine Bennett Quarry Ron and Dennis Holden, Leonard Beliveau...brothers—Gary, Brian, and Mark—opened up the Bennett quarry in Buckfield, as reported in the November/ December...1990 issue (65:498-504). During August 1990, the quarry was reopened and almost immediately more quartz...Wodginite This has been the year of wodginite in Maine. It was dis covered in the Effe and Clifford Gray...collected about 1963 at Black Mountain, Rumford. The 2-3-mm crystals are jet black and embedded in a granu |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Washington, Connecticut 06793. The area of Litchfield County immediately north of the Litchfield town center...length. At the dump of the most northerly quartz quarry, large ilmenite crystals over two inches in diameter...chalcopyrite in feldspar. A second large quartz quarry just to the north of the staurolite area proved...series. Hematite occurs as lenticular splendent black crystals up to 2 cm in diameter in cavities of granular...Campbell Road, 2.5 km N W of its intersection with County R t . 87, 4 km N N E of the village of Edwards |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | July, 1965) THE MICA WORKINGS OF BLACK MOUNTAIN, RUMFORD, MAINE. One fine summer day in 1939 Mr. Bartsch...road which led straight up to the workings on Black Mountain. It was a continuous stretch of mud and only...sled hitched to the tractor. The Grand Old Man of Maine, Mr. Charlie Marble of Buckfield, told me long ago...Shavey. Noyes Mountain in Greenwood, Maine is named after him. The first impression of the quarry was tremendously...his neighbor Mr. Leggett had been up to the Black Mountain locality and had found some extraordinary specimens |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | (Taughannock Creek) and harzburgitic (Portland Point quarry) affinities. The yellow garnet is grossular. Phlogopite...Roscherite 0 Palerrno, NH V Dunton Quarry, ME Black Mountain, ME Estes Quarry, ME v Martin Prospect, ME 1...the samples. Specimens from the Estes quarry, West Baldwin, Maine, exhibit a considerable range in composition...muscovite. Samples from the Martin prospect, Newry, Maine, are confirmed as zanazziite. Martin prospect zanazziite...hydroxylherderite and fluorapatite. The Black Mountain, Rumford, Maine, samples yield compositions ranging |  | | Journal (issue) | | R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur... 353 by P. Orlandi and P. B. Scortecci M aine Maine tourmaline........................................Elbaite from Newry, Maine (by P. J. Dunn) [1975, vol. 6, no. 1, p. 22-25.] Newry, Maine, a pegmatite phosphate...] 328 Famous mineral localities: the Pulsifer quarry (by W. E. Wilson) [1977, vol. 8, no. 2, p. 72-77...vol. 8, no. 6, p. 475.]* The best of San Diego County (by W. Larson) [1977, vol. 8, no. 6, p. 507-515 |  | | Journal (issue) | | .................184 by Paul Brian Moore Newry Maine - A Pegmatite Phosphate Locality... 189 by Vandall...motel rooms usually provide this. For example, the Maine elbaite tourmalines which were thor oughly discussed...for the crystal specimen quality of the San Diego County materials - both old and new. As usual, the exhibits...both the county (pro vince) and its capital; there are thirty-one separate mines in the county. The mines...another new borate mineral at Borax Lake, Lake County, California, and in 1939 was co-author with W. |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | California; 550 ppm-Maple Lode mine, Aguanga Mountain, California; and 400 ppm-Satao (viseu), Portugal]...microcrystalline beraunite, crandallite, cacoxenite, siderite, and wavellite. The typical geology of the area...crystals but changes to translucent dark blue or black in less well-crystallized specimens. The second...GRAPHITE FROM CRESTMORE AND JENSEN QUARRIES, RIVERSIDE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA. J. A . Jmczak, 9 0 0 S. Cass Ave....at the Crestmore and Jensen quarries, Riverside County, California. While the typical tabular habit of |  | | Personal Communication | | Alan R. Plante 8 Hamlin Ave. Gorham, NH 03581 USA Jolyon Ralph c/o Mysterious Ways Unit 15 Wing Yip Centre...lepidolite and albite matrix from the Black Mountain Mine in Rumford, Maine, are "throw away" material. I just...habit lepidolite from the M0tmt Mica Mine in Paris, Maine, is definitely :wt typical of the species. Finds...as the place gem elbaite was first found .in the USA; and it has been producing it on and off ever since...of thin tabular xls stacked face-to-face. The siderite xls from the Mascot range from tan micro-rhombs |
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