B.B. No. 7 Quarry, Norway, Oxford County, Maine, USA

Bright purple cleavages; 2x3 cm

© Diederik Visser Minerals

Floater spodumene crystal, double terminated.

© Paul Gilmore specimen and photo

Large green elbaite crystal termination on display in the mineral museum at Perham's of West Paris, Maine. Collected by Stanley Perham in 1954. Photo by Peter Cristofono.

© 2007 Peter Cristofono

A marvelous little pale greenish blue Fluorapatite twin. Ex. University of Illinois collection with old label. Thumbnail size. Crystal is 1.6 cm. In the Fluorapatite collection of J. Wingard.

© J.N. Wingard

2 cm long piece of massive pollucite. Ex- Stan Perham collection. P. Cristofono specimen and photo.

© 2009 Peter Cristofono

5 x 12mm. This crystal was collected by Stanley Perham and was found is his private desk after his death, it was not part of the B B #7 crystals on display in his mineral store. Many times I passed by the entrance to this closed quarry and wanted a crystal from this location. To be able to get a crystal that Stanley Perham had put aside for his ...

16cm wide plate of bladed light pink spodumene, collected Oct 2010

Size: 7.9 x 6.6x 4.6 cm. Location: BB# 7 Quarry, Norway, Oxfrod County, Maine USA There was a zone above the pegmatite that was loaded with Purpurite and other phosphates. Collected Oct 26, 1996, in the collection of and picture by: Tom Klineter

Field of view 1.2 cm.

© Leon Hupperichs

This is a terminated spodumene crystal. Photo by and in the collection of Tom Klinepeter.

This is a large section of a spodumene crystal that is partially coated with montmorrilinite. The pale ale is for scale, a little hoppy for me! Photo by and in the collection of Tom Klinepeter.

Mica schist containing several diamond-shaped crystals of muscovite, most of which have an inclusion of a black mineral (probably tourmaline) at the center (see second and third photos). Collected 10/2017 on a Maine Mineralogical & Geological Society field trip.

© 2017 E. L. Clopton

Spodumene crystal collected by Gene Bearss in 1996.

© 2016 Peter Cristofono

Spodumene crystals to 30 cm exposed in weathered boulder on mine dump. Hammer 30 cm long for scale.

© 2017 E. L. Clopton

Piece of montmorillonite in fine grained material. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.

Photo taken October 29, 2017, on a Maine Mineralogical & Geological Society field trip.

© 2017 Peter Cristofono

View to east-southeast from same point as photo 852111 (i.e., in opposite direction), 10/29/2017.

© 2017 E. L. Clopton