| | 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) | 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 | | | 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...occurrence is particularly noteworthy for Carroll County Albany, Blackberry Crossing (includes the Moose...1987 with only limited collecting possible since: albite* (cleavelandite), allanite-(Ce) (microcrystals)...tall, Government Gravel pit, North Conway, Carroll County. Jeff Scovil specimen and photo. Downloaded by | | | 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 (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 (issue) | Ji. Plt.duplace. Yt. Apatite, lilaine SPECIAL MAINE NUMBER Important Announcement on Page 2 and on back...t OUR SPECIAL MAINE NUMBER It is a pleasure to put out thls issue as a Special Maine Nu111ber and we...and co-operation manifested by the Members of the Maine Mineralogical and Geological Society in making this...riod in llaine. B y Dr . Edward H . P erkin R. Colby College ............. , 44 The Lava Flows of Northern...Smith, Union College ...... .. 46 .An Interesting Quarry. B y E\'er ett C. Smith ........ . ........... | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Netherlands 141 LITHIUM DIFFUSION IN SILICATE GLASSES OF ALBITE, ORTHOCLASE, AND OBSIDIAN COMPOSITION: AN ION-MICROPROBE...R.S. 196), Universit~s P. et M. Curie et Paris 7, 75005 Paris Cedex (France) Received June 29, 1977 Revised...Tracer diffusion coefficients for Li in glasses of albite, orthoclase, and obsidian composition have been...kcal mol-1;Dois 0.2, 0.003, and 0.03 cm 2 s-1 for albite and orthoclase glasses, and obsidian respectively...2 - 4 ] on alkali metal diffusion in glasses of albite, orthoclase, and obsidian composition. The data | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Abstract-Self-diffusion of oxygen in adularia, anorthite, albite, oligoclase and labradorite has been measured by...plots were obtained: D, (cm2jsec) Adularla (Or,,) Albite (Ab9,, Ab& Anorthlte (An,,) Q (kcal/g-atom 0)...oxygen exchange behavior. Diffusion coefficients for albite at 800°C measured normal to the (OOl), (OlO), (Ill)...Institut de Physique du Globe, 4 Place Jussieu, 75230 Paris Cedex 05. France. ANDERSONand KASPER, 1975). All...chemical composition were used in this study: two albite specimens, oligoclase, labradorite, anorthite and | | | Journal (issue) | Diorite: evidence from an Ordovician pluton at Croft Quarry 166 Tim Colman Gold in Britain: past , present...503617 Front cover: Croft Quarry, Charnwood Forest, seen from the air. The quarry produces strong aggregate...designs. It is difficult to identify the car at the quarry because any distinctive radiator is obscured, and...now largely American; it is mostly active in the USA with twothirds of its 32,000 workforce American,...of natural gas, with ‘tight gas’ resources in the USA equivalent to 17% of total recoverable natural gas | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | ciety found beryl and tourmaline at the Slocum Quarry in East Hampton. . . . "Drifting of the Continents"...minerals which it is indicated may be found. MAINE The Coastal Maine Mineral Club, Port land, prepared for... The May meeting was held at the University of Maine, at Gorham, in the office of Dr. Miller, who gave...display of minerals in the Geolofry Building of Colby Col lege. DELAWARE The Delaware Mineralogical...Mrs. Lee Willman, members 459 of the Calhoun County Rock and Min eral Club, Jacksonville, opened their | | | 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 ___________________ | | | 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) | of the union pit, coreraine Township, Megantic County, euebec. S. G. G. ABSTRACTS OF MINERALOGIC LITERATURE...1917. The radioactivityof allanitefrom Topsham,Maine,wasmeasuredwith an S. G. G. electroscope. W. L....L917. Note of fall of an achondritic aerolite in Colby, Wis., July 4, 1917, about S. G. G. 6.20 P. NI....writers describing the occurrence of orthoclase and albite in automorphic crystals in non-metamorphosed limestones | | | Journal (issue) | Tufa Shale Slate Chert Flint Apllte Gneiss Dunlto Albite Nepheline Syenite Hornblende Sohlst Anthophylllte...Mineral and G m Show (5th Annual) of the Rockland County Min eral & Gem Society, Inc., to be held at Rosary’...Norwich, N. Y. 13815 (Off of Route 12 or 23 on County Road 32) Chairman: Mrs. John A. Coleman, R. #3...official State Highway Map as well as individual county road maps, both of which are available from the...pit is located 1.1 miles west of Yorktown, York County, about 0.1 mile off the northwest side of State | | | 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 (article/letter/editorial) | Infiltration-Driven Metamorphism in Northern New England, USA by JOHN M. FERRY (Received 30 November 1987; revised...studies of the biotite isograd in south-central Maine (Ferry, 1984, 1986a, 1988) demonstrate that low-grade...ofParoiogf, Vol 29, Put 6, pp. 1121 1159, I98S] Oxford Univerety Prtu 19*8 Downloaded from http://petrology...reactions in pelitic schists from south-central Maine were driven by infiltration of rock by chemically...2014 Ammonoosuc 1126 JOHN M. FERRY scheme (Colby, 1971). Chemical analyses of whole-rock samples | | | Journal (issue) | Michela Associate Editors Pierre Bariand Sorbonne Paris, France Joel A. Bartsch Houston Museum of Nat. Sci...Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Associate Photographers Nelly Bariand Sorbonne Paris, France Dan Behnke Northbrook, IL Werner Lieber...Amblygonite + Quartz Topaz + Lepidolite + Quartz Albite + Spodumene + Muscovite + Quartz 2The arrow (—>)...Tourmaline + Quartz Beryl + Gadolinite + Quartz Albite + Lepidolite + Muscovite + Quartz Ferrotantalite-Ferrocolumbite | | | Field Trip Notes | Hampshire Field Trip No. 2, Outstanding pegmatites of Maine and New Hampshire 73 Geology of the "Chelmsford...inplace theory for the southern part, as in Dutchess County, New York. Whether such a combination of theories...(1914) Geology of the North Creek quadrangle, Warren County, New York, New York State Mus., Bull. 170. (1919)...Geology of the Schroon Lake quadrangle, Warren County, New York, New York State Mus., Bull. 213-214....(1936) Structural and petrologic studies in Duchess County, N. Y., Part I. Geologic structure of sedimentary | | Foord, E. E., Černý, P., Jackson, L. L., Sherman, D. M., Eby, R. K. (1995) Mineralogical and geochemical evolution of micas from miarolitic pegmatites of the anorogenic pikes peak batholith, Colorado. Mineralogy and Petrology, 55 (1) 1-26 doi:10.1007/bf01162576 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Mineral Resources, U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, USA Department of Geological Sciences, University of...Denver, USA Branch of Geophysics, U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, USA Topometric, Bedminister, USA With...quartz, microcline perthite (mostly amazonite), and albite, with local topaz or fluorite, and rarely tourmaline...Wigwam Creek. Associated with medium blue amazonite, albite, fluorite and smoky quartz. dark brown rim portion...Peak, LGR. Associated with quartz, K-feldspar, albite. tapered dark brown phlogopite from graphic pegmatite | | | Journal (issue) | Wilson Associate Editors Pierre Bariand Sorbonne Paris, France Bill Birch Museum of Victoria Melbourne...Associate Photographers Nelly Bariand Sorbonne Paris, France Dan Behnke Northbrook, IL Werner Lieber...Articles History and minerals of The Geysers, Sonoma County, California .....................................1852 to the 1920’s, is located in northern Sonoma County about 145 km north of San Fran cisco, California...(1970). The Mayacmas Mountains of northern Sonoma County are underlain by rocks of the Jurassic-Cretaceous | | Černý, P., Roberts, W. L., Ercit, T. S., Chapman, R. (1985) Wodginite and associated oxide minerals from the Peerless pegmatite, Pennington County, South Dakota. American Mineralogist, 70 (9-10) 1044-1049 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | the Peerlesspegmatite,near Keystone, Pennington County, South Dakota. It is associatedwith cassiteritecontaining...anhydrous Li-aluminosilicates(cf. Burt and Londonn County, South Dakota is one of the more fractionatedand...rEvE ( software utilizing the program MAcrc v (Colby, 1980).Peak overlap problems encountered during...pale gray microlite along wodginitecontactswith albite. In general, the wodginite composition is close...southeasternManitoba. Canadian Mineralogist, lO, 755-772. Colby, J. W. (1980)MAGIC V-a computer program for quantitative | | | Report (volume) | the Keene district, and l.mica mine in Strafford County. Six of the feldspar mines and two of the mica...northwestward from Cheshire County through Sullivan and Merrimack Counties into Grafton County. Mica has also been...and covered with fallen timber. The Boston and Maine Railroad, which serves the MICA-BEARING PEGMATITES...Sillimanite present b. Quartzite abundant Pegmatite Quarry X Mine X Prospect Strike and dip of foliation...pegmatites. Cleavelandite, the platy variety of albite, is present in minor quantities at more than a | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | volcano, near the town of PoUena Trocchia, is a quarry presently mining pozzolanic ash and sands. Some...was based on the program M A G I C IV (Colby, 1968). Natural albite (Si) and fluorite (Ca and F) were used...Taylor, H. F. W. (1958) Mineral. Mag. 31, 726-35. Colby, J. W. (1968) Adv. X-ray Anal. 11,287-305. See also: | | | Journal (issue) | Ferroaxinite from New Melones Lake, Calaveras County, California, a remarkable new locality...........Shigley and G. Dunning Nelly Bariand Sorbonne, Paris Wemer Lieber Heidelberg, W.G. Olaf Medenbach Ruhr...s m im _ j by A. Brousse 61 Rue Buffon 75005 Paris, France n lessthana decade the name *Les 9 has...Clermont-Ferrand to the northwest, and 400 km from Paris to the North (Fig. 1). In terms of regional cartography...was discovered (Sullivan, 1977, 1980). 261 • PARIS GEOLOGICAL and MINERALOGICAL SETTING The geological |
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