 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | I993 discovery at the historic Deer Hill locality in southwestern Maine. Downloaded by [NUS National...2015 Amethyst Discovery on Stow, Oxford County, Maine WOODROW B. THOMPSON Maine Geological Survey State...House Station 22 Augusta, Maine 04333 In the summer of 1993, a trio of Maine mineral collectors worked...prospect-called the Intergalactic pit-in an area of Deer Hill that has lured prospectors for many years. They...concentration of amethyst crystals ever found on Deer Hill. During July and August, clay-filled pockets yielded |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | on Deer Hill, Maine, in 1956 By B. M. SHAUB 159 Elm Street, Northampton, Massachusetts Deer Hill is...F-ryeburg, Maine quadrangle. It is in the town of Stow, a section of Oxford County. The pegmatite on Deer Hill...Hill is often referred to as the Eastman ledge and has been known as a source of an occasional fine colored...top of the hill. In 1956 Phillips Cole of Dayton, Maine obtained a lease from Harry Eastman of Fryeburg...Fryeburg, Maine, the owner of the property, to mine feldspar and mica from a relatively large pegmatite which |  | | 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) | | 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...world's largest morganite at the Bennett quarry, Buckfield, in the late 1980s convinced the regional collectors |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | arch of the Palermo mine, North Groton, Grafton County. Rob Lawrence photo, courtesy Bob Whitmore. 242...at 15:01 05 January 2015 LOCATIONS BY COUNTY Belknap County Alton area: arsenopyrite, galena, quartz...quartz (crystals), sillimanite (Avery Hill, crystals). Belmont area: fluorapatite (blue-green), and orthoclase...occurrence is particularly noteworthy for Carroll County Albany, Blackberry Crossing (includes the Moose...limited collecting possible since: albite* (cleavelandite), allanite-(Ce) (microcrystals), bastnäsite(Ce) |  | | 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) | | quartz. Clora May Mine, Trout Creek Pass, Chaffee County, Colo." The locality is described in Prof. Richard... 109 as follows: "The Clora May quarry stands at the top of the hill. It consists of an opencut over...white quartz float lies on the steep slope of the hill. The country rock is a dark quartz-mica schist....localities swell this book to 223 pages). Chaffee County is in the central part of Colorado. CONNECTICUT—"I...astringent metallic taste. Thompson, in N / E Windham County, is in N / E Connecticut. FLORIDA—"I am mailing |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the Sebago granite–pegmatite system, southern Maine, USA Michael A. Wise*, Cathleen D. Brown Department...two-mica granite situated in the Oxford pegmatite field, southwestern Maine. Surrounding the pluton is an...associated pegmatites. A few pegmatites (e.g., the Lord Hill pegmatite and amethyst-bearing pegmatites) show...chemistry, petrology, geochemistry, Sebago, southern Maine Received: 1 October 2009; accepted: 30 March 2010;...Introduction The granitic pegmatites of southern Maine represent one of several major pegmatite regions |  | | 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...em bedded in the platy variety of albite, cleavelandite. Microscopic zircon crystals of the va riety...tourmaline find at the Dunton Gem Mine at Newry, Maine of watermelon and green, elbaite tourmaline, has...here. The Bennett Quarry at Buckfield, Maine, was also worked by Mr. Robert Eastman of Center Ossipee |  | | Journal (issue) | | Crystals from the Flambeau Mine Near Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wisconsin Perry M. Ponshock and William S. Cordua...The Flambeau Mine, located near Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wisconsin, produced nearly 1.8 million tons of...Rodewaldphoto. The 15th Maine Mineral Symposium May 2004 in Augusta, Maine Douglas E. Rambo P.O. Box...126 Claymont, DE 19703 Driving up to Augusta, Maine on the second weekend in May has become a ritual...each year at this time we make plans to attend the Maine Mineral Symposium which is an annual gathering of |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | collecting sphalerite north of Wiarton, at the Ebel Quarry, and at Cragleith. There are collecting areas at...Line Pitts at Oakwood, Maryland, and the Cedar Hill Quarry in the same general area in nearby Pennsylvania...is clear enough to facet. The Keystone Trap Rock Quarry at Cornog, Pennsylvania, offers collecting of pyrite...the Summit Quarry of the Houdaille Construction Materials Company, Inc., an active quarry, Summit. New...chalcedony, ouartz and banded agate; to the Lime Crest Quarry, Lime <~r?st, Newton, New Jersey, for spinel, fluorite |  | | 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 (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. |  | | Report (issue) | | _______________________ _ Geology of the pegmatite districts of Maine __ :. . _____ _ Metamorphic rocks _________________________...__________________ _ Maine ________________________________________ _ Androscoggin County ______________________...______________________ _ Berry feldspar quarry __________________ _ Cumberland County _______________________ _ LaChance...LaChance mines _______________________ _ Oxford County ____________________________ _ Barrett beryl prospect...prospect __________________ _ Bennett feldspar quarry ________________ _ Black Mountain area ___________________ |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Brown Derby pegmatites no. 2 and no. 3 of Gunnison County, Colo., show a consistent variation in color, refractive...of the Quartz Creek pegmatite district, Gunnison County, Colo., during field work on behalf of the Division...area, analyses of tourmalinefrom the Newry-Rumford Maine. VARIATION OF COMPOSITION AND PROPERTIES OF:TOURMALINE...adjacent to quartz, perthite, albite (ordinary and cleavelandite varieties), muscovite, beryl, garnet, biotite...in contact with lepidolite but occurs in the cleavelandite-quartz pafts of the zone. Only pale-green and |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | this fluorite and dolomite specimen from Penfield quarry, near Rochester, New York, have been self-collected...(5.3 cm). Figure 13: Silver, Calumet, Houghton County, Michigan (11 cm). A photograph of this specimen...Rochester, accepting a laboratory position with Eastman Kodak using X-ray diffraction to identify crystals... Mt. Bonney mine, Price's Spring Station, Grove Hill, North ern Territory, Australia (4 cm). Figure...W. Pinch, 1974. Photography of minerals I n : Eastman Kodak The Ninth Here's How. W. W. Pinch. 1977. |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | barium strontium m ember of the pyro- • P an d a Hill, T a n za n ia • ref: • Chinkuashih mine, Keelung...Museum (Natural History) Cornetite From Saginaw Hill, A rizo n a.......................................in a g eo d e from Hall's G ap, Lincoln County, Kentucky. Photom icrograph by Ben K inkead. The...Valadares though actually found at the Urupuca quarry. May I ask if you can provide full locality labelling...labelling information for kunzite from the Urupuca quarry? On p. 74 of the same issue, in the excellent department |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | vertical shaft. The other opening is at the foot of the hill, where the deepest workings are reported to have...on the occurrence of certain minerals in Arnelia County, Virginia: Am. Jour. Sci.,3d ser, vol.25, pp.330-339...Rutherford mine. The most abundant is the well known cleavelandite variety, in distinct platy crystals which were...This chatoyant albite, in distinction from the cleavelandite variety, is not in distinct crystals and is...wedge-shapedor triangular massesin the interspacesof the cleavelandite albite. Some of the ivory colored calcite forms |  | | Journal (issue) | | hiddenite specimens in his collection from Alexander County, North Carolina, and those superb quartz crystal...Directors of the Foundation of the Los Angeles County Natural History Museum. It was my pleasure, and...interpenetrating twin cubes of thorianite from Hud dersfield County, Quebec. Their addresses: Vickery — 4 Brendon Road...in parallel growth with sodic plagioclase or cleavelandite, tourmaline and quartz. Perhaps many of these...certain pegmatite regions. Several pegma tites in Maine were made famous in mineralogical litera ture for |  | | Book (edition) | | from the Tourmaline Q ueen .1ine, Pala, San Diego County, California. From a pen-and-ink drawing by W. E...Ruby mine, Cowee Creek, North Carolina 6. Corundum Hill, North Carolina 7. Eldorado Bar, Montana 8. W. D...Pocket in pegmatite, Newry, Maine 34. Loading pocket contents, Newry, Maine 35. Large tourmaline crystal...of tourmaline crystal forms 38. Map of San Diego County, California gem sources 3 9. Stewart Lithia· and...View of Clear Creek, San Benito County, California 55. Monterey County jade-producing shoreline, California |  | | Journal (issue) | | MONTHLY Oa,,t.,,/4 Jo,i M4#/, 191/-3 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY ................................................. ... . ............ .. .. .......... THE PEKIN QUARRY AT LOCKPORT, N . Y. By Pa11l E. Killinger AN INTERESTING...thing we know we will be barred in the same way that deer hunters are barred all over the country. "Whenever...extreme resolution of detai l are assured. The Eastman Kodak Company has established laboratories for...fine-grained micaceous material which also includes cleavelandite, tourmaline, and lepidolite. The whole specimen |  | | Report (volume) | | .................................... Worcester County, Mass....................................... Westboro...Younger Carboniferous formations Continued. ° Oxford schist...........................................Whitmores Ferry, in Sunderland.......... Gneiss of hill west of Montague.............................. ................................... 150 Berkshire County........................................................................................ 191 Blue Hill granite porphyry............................... |  | | Journal (issue) | | R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Arthur Roe Tucson, AZ Abraham Rosenzweig University...Iron and Washington Counties) and Arizona (Mojave County). This region is one of the last American frontiers...supervisor in the Synthetic Chemical Division of Eastman Kodak Company in Rochester, while also engaging...collection. J. Schlepp 139 MINERALS OF BROKEN HILL 1983 is Broken Hill’s Centenary Year celebrated...the trail ascends the precipitous sides of Gold Hill, and as our sure-footed mountain horses followed |
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