 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Mining at HE BENNETT QUARRY BUCKFIELD, MAINE RONALD E . HOLDEN, J R . Sugar Hill Minerals P.O. Box 565...565 Norway, Maine 04268 I T W A S T H E S P R I N G of 1989, and the snow had begun to melt. A s outcrops...of my early experience was at the Mount Mica quarry in Paris, Maine, where I found my first tourmaline...an interest in the Ben nett quarry in Buckfield, Oxford County, Maine, an old feldspar mine famous for...lieved that similar ones still existed. The Bennett quarry was opened by Loren B . Merrill in 1917 (Blanche |  | | 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 (issue) | | Carson City, NV photography: Nelly Bariand Sorbonne Paris, France Werner Lieber Heidelberg, W. Germany Olaf...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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Robert B. Cook Auburn University, Al Carl A. Francis Maine Mineral & Gem Museum, ME John Rakovan New Mexico...I. Jacobson, Denver, CO Anthony R. Kampf, l.A. County Museum of Natural History, CA Virgil W. Lueth,...across a local area net\,vork. Subscription offices: USA/North America: Taylor & Francis Group, LLC, 530 Walnut...Copyright Clearance Center (www.copyright.com) in the USA or the Copyright Licensing Agency (www. cla.co.uk)...Southwood Melbourne, Australia Woodrow B. Thompson, Maine Geological Survey, Augusta, ME John S. White, Stewartstown |  | Falster, Alexander U., Simmons, William B., Webber, Karen L., Dallaire, Donald A., Nizamoff, James W., Sprague, Raymond A. (2019) The Emmons Pegmatite, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine. Rocks & Minerals, 94 (6) 498-519 doi:10.1080/00357529.2019.1641021 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | in 1996. THE EMMONS PEGMATITE Greenwood Oxford County, Maine The Emmons pegmatite, noted for its many...WEBBER MP2 Research Group Maine Mineral & Gem Museum 99 Main Street Bethel, Maine 04217 alexander.falster@gmail...Hebron, Maine 04238 phosphate@gmail.com RAYMOND A. SPRAGUE* 33 Roger Street Lewiston, Maine 04240 *...Deceased 16 April 2019. HE MINERALOGY AND ORIGIN OF MAINE PEGMATITES have been a principal focus of our research...in 2014 from New Orleans, Louisiana, to Bethel, Maine, greatly facilitated resumption of our study of |  | Simmons, William B., Freeman, Gary, Falster, Alexander, Laurs, Brendan, Webber, Karen (2005) New tourmaline production: From Mount Mica, Maine America's First gem pegmatite. Rocks & Minerals, 80 (6) 396-408 doi:10.3200/rmin.80.6.396-408 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | El Paso] at 08:49 30 December 2014 from Mount Mica, Maine AmericaÕs First Gem Pegmatite WILLIAM B. “SKIP”...Coromoto Minerals, LLC 48 Lovejoy Road South Paris, Maine 04281 ALEXANDER FALSTER Department of Geology...Louisiana. Gary Freeman, of South Paris, Maine, is the owner of Mount Mica and Coromoto Minerals, LLC. Alexander...MINERALS Figure 1. Elbaite, 3.1 cm high, Mount Mica, Oxford County, Maine. Jeff Scovil photo. Figure 2. Elbaite...Elbaite, 6.5 cm high, Mount Mica; Jeff Scovil photo. Downloaded by [The University of Texas at El Paso] |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | IN THE GARNET LINE IN THE MT. MICA AND HAVEY PEGMATITES, WESTERN MAINE MYLES FELCH§, ALEXANDER U. FALSTER...SIMMONS Maine Mineral and Gem Museum, PO Box 500, 99 Main Street, Bethel, Maine 04217 USA ABSTRACT...just beneath the core zone in many of the western Maine pegmatites. This study focuses on the mineralogical...of the garnet line within the Mt. Mica pegmatite, Oxford Co., Maine and a similar, but less pronounced...feature at the Havey pegmatite, Androscoggin Co., Maine. Within garnet lines of both pegmatites there is |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | destroyed during blasting at a pegmatite near Paris. Maine (Perham 1987). Chrysoberyl is a beryllium aluininuin...several pegmatites in the northeastern United States. Maine has been the historical source of good chrysoberyl...number of localities, most of which are in Oxford County (King and Foord 1994). These include pegmatites...Mountain near Hartford and the Hoopers Ledge quarry vicinity at Paris, where a single twinned crystal 17 cm...more recently in a pegmatite at Gillette quarry, Middlesex County, Connecticut. It is reported from a pegmatite |  | | 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) | | mineralogy and paragenesis of pegmatites from San Diego County, California. He will also be remembered for his...friend George Ashley at Hiriart Mountain, San Diego County, California, 1986. 3. Gene in Jackson, Wyoming...bucket at the San Diego Tourmaline Mine, San Diego County, California in 1974. 5. Boris Schmakin, Skip Simmons...Lake Keoka in Maine. The family would take trips to collect at the pegmatites in Maine and visit Perham’s...Gene to the gem-bearing pegmatites of San Diego County, California, which resulted in Gene’s dissertation |  | | Report (volume) | | PEGMATITES AND ASSOCIATED ROCKS OF MAINE INCLUDING FELDSPAR, QUARTZ, MICA, AND GEM DEPOSITS BY EDSON S...minor constituents............................. Mica................................................................................... Origin of the Maine pegmatites........................................Larsen............................. Application to Maine pegmatites............................... Eutectics.............................. 1.... Androscoggin County............................................... |  | | 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) | | Case Study of Pegmatites from the Oxford Pegmatite Field (Maine, USA) Lorena Hernández-Filiberto 1, *...Case Study of Pegmatites from the Oxford Pegmatite Field (Maine, USA). Minerals 2021, 11, 802. https://...roda@ehu.es Maine Mineral & Gem Museum, P.O. Box 500, 99 Main Street, Bethel, ME 04217, USA; wsimmons@uno...Abstract: Almandine-spessartine garnets, from the Oxford County pegmatites and the Palermo No. 1 pegmatite,...Garnets from the most fractionated pegmatites (Mt. Mica, Berry-Havey, and Emmons) show the highest Mn, Nb |  | Marchal, Karen L., Simmons, William B., Falster, Alexander U., Webber, Karen L., Roda-Robles, Encarnación (2014) GEOCHEMISTRY, MINERALOGY, AND EVOLUTION OF Li-Al MICAS AND FELDSPARS FROM THE MOUNT MICA PEGMATITE, MAINE, USA. The Canadian Mineralogist, 52 (2) 221-233 doi:10.3749/canmin.52.2.221 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Li-Al MICAS AND FELDSPARS FROM THE MOUNT MICA PEGMATITE, MAINE, USA Karen L. MARCHAL§, William B. SIMMONS...P.O. Box 644, E–48080 Bilbao, Spain Abstract Mount Mica is a poorly zoned, sodic LCT-type pegmatite consisting...in incompatible elements. Keywords: pegmatite, Mount Mica, muscovite, Li-rich muscovite, lepidolite, feldspar...pegmatite melt. Mica minerals are abundant throughout the Mount Mica pegmatite. The wide range of mica stability...of the Mount Mica pegmatite. 222 the canadian mineralogist Geology of Mount Mica Mount Mica rose to |  | | 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...minerals to the section on mineral descriptions. Mount Rubellite, long inactive, bas been replaced in the...characterized the evenings spent with members of the Oxford County Mineral & Gem Association. N. A. W. Mountainside |  | | Journal (issue) | | Complex, Wausau Syenite Compley, Marathon County, Wisconsin, USA……………………………………………..21 DOLGOPOLOVA, A.,...assemblage in the Emmons pegmatite, Greenwood, Oxford Co., Maine, USA: implication for the origin of this unusual...evolution of the Emmons rare-element pegmatite (Maine, USA)…………………………………………37 GUASTONI, A., GENTILE, P...characterization of an unknown metamict phase from Tuften quarry, Larvik area, S Norway…………………………………………………………………………………………………………...highly evolved pegmatites: the case study of the Li-aplite-pegmatites from the Central Iberian Zone (Spain |  | Simmons, William, Falster, Alexander, Webber, Karen, Roda-Robles, Encarnación, Boudreaux, Andrew P., Grassi, Leah Rae, Freeman, Gary (2016) Bulk Composition of Mt. Mica Pegmatite, Maine, USA: Implications For the Origin of An Lct Type Pegmatite By Anatexis. The Canadian Mineralogist, 54 (4) 1053-1070 doi:10.3749/canmin.1600017 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 3749/canmin.1600017 BULK COMPOSITION OF MT. MICA PEGMATITE, MAINE, USA: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE ORIGIN OF AN LCT...FALSTER, AND KAREN WEBBER Maine Mineral and Gem Museum, 99 Main St, Bethel, Maine 04217, U.S.A. ENCARNACIÓN...LLC, 48 Lovejoy Road, South Paris, Maine 04281, U.S.A. ABSTRACT The Mt. Mica pegmatite is famous for producing...was representative of the bulk composition of Mt. Mica. The sample was then analyzed by fusion ICP spectroscopy...similar patterns. These results suggest that the Mt. Mica pegmatitic melt did not form by fractional crystallization |  | Bradley, Dwight, Shea, Erin, Buchwaldt, Robert, Bowring, Sam, Benowitz, Jeff, O'Sullivan, Paul, McCauley, Andrew (2016) Geochronology and Tectonic Context of Lithium-Cesium-Tantalum Pegmatites In the Appalachians. The Canadian Mineralogist, 54 (4) 945-969 doi:10.3749/canmin.1600035 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | New Hampshire, at ca. 326– 294 Ma; and (4) Mount Mica, Maine, at ca. 264–260 Ma. The NYF pegmatites in...Appalachians must be of at least three ages: Topsham, Maine, dated at ca. 273 Ma (U-Pb monazite) by Tomascak...industrial minerals, including ceramic-grade feldspars, mica, and high-purity silica (Glover et al. 2012). The...that delimit the Connecticut Valley-Gaspe, Central Maine, and Merrimack basins, which were deformed and metamorphosed...Bronson Hill anticlinorium in New Hampshire and Maine (Moench & Aleinikoff 2003, Dorais et al. 2008) and |  | | Report (issue) | | History of pegmatite mining inN ew England _______ _ Mica mining ______________________________ _ Feldspar..._______________________ _ Geology of the pegmatite districts of Maine __ :. . _____ _ Metamorphic rocks _________________________..._____________ _ Mica deposits ____ ·_________________________________ _ Kinds and characteristics of mica _________________...classification of mica ____________________ _ Strategic mica _____________________________ _ Sheet mica _______...________________________________ _ Punch mica _______________________________ _ Quality of mica ____________________________ |  | | Report (issue) | | Page 11 Pezzottaite Federico Pezzatta Page 26 Mount Antero: The Peak of Colorado Beryl Collecting Mark...from the University of New Orleans in Louisiana (USA), with the lowdown on beryl mineralogy An ancient...crystal has been recorded from the Alger quarry in New Hampshire (USA). The crystal weighed 455 kilograms...4m: The largest beryl crystal at the Bumpus quarry in Maine was 8.4 meters long, 1.9 meters in diameter...number of Brazilian states (page 84); San Diego County, California (page 32) in the United States; Canada |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | freezing of the melt, leading to the formation of aplite in portions of the system, interpreted by Richard...the numerous bodies of NYF pegmatite and coeval aplite emplaced after the cessation of Pan-African collisionrelated...gem-tourmaline deposit is composed of a series of aplite–pegmatite dikes variable in their size, attitude...pegmatites of central Maine and New Hampshire The miarolitic granitic pegmatites of central Maine have long been...pegmatite, of the Sebago group of pegmatites in Oxford County, Maine, is rich in miarolitic cavities. Among the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | sufficiently large to be exploitable for feldspar or mica or other minerals. Complex pegmatites were also...North America; the rare earth pegmatitesb of Llano County (Texas), Minas Geraes(BraziI), Ytterby (Sweden)...southwest. According to Bastin,6 the granites of Maine were intruded in Late Silurian or Devonian time...Geology of the pegmatites and associated rocks of Maine: U . S . G e o l .S t r l e y , B u l l . 4 4 5...Paleozoic alkaline syenite pegmatites occur on Mount Royal, Montreal. Intrusions of pegmatite accompanied |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73019 USA * Corresponding author. ABSTRACT of Crystallization...(OH)8 ) in an assemblage including kaolinite, lP mica, and quartz was calculated at 205-240C at 200-220...follow the LCT trend (including the pegmatites from Maine, California, Afghanistan, and Brazil that were part...the filter-peel method to create the mount. Each clay fraction mount was analyzed three lP times, once...which (ML-1, Mountain Lily pegmatite, San Diego County, California) would be characterized as lP belonging |  | Garate-Olave, I., Müller, A., Roda-Robles, E., Gil-Crespo, P.P., Pesquera, A. (2017) Extreme fractionation in a granite–pegmatite system documented by quartz chemistry: The case study of Tres Arroyos (Central Iberian Zone, Spain) Lithos, 286. 162-174 doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2017.06.009 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | marginal leucogranite), and three types of AC aplite-pegmatite dykes (barren, intermediate and highly...in the quartz from the most fractionated Li-rich aplite-pegmatites. This suggests the influence of different...from the monzogranite up to the most fractionated aplite-pegmatites is inferred from geochemical modelling...needed to obtain the marginal granite and the barren aplite-pegmatites compositions, and over 99% for the most...in quartz from different layers in the layered aplite-pegmatites has been found, suggesting the lack |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Norman, OK 73019, USA 2 Drillinginfo, 440 Louisiana St., Suite 400, Houston, TX 77002, USA characteristic...compositions of liquids generated by the anatexis of mica-rich sediments (London et al. 2012). A few other...pollucite (London et al. 1998) from pegmatite at Mt. Mica, Maine (~ 3–5 m thick) as reported by Simmons et al... 350 300 graphic lower wall zone 250 layered aplite lower intermediate 20 30 upper intermediate...dike 250 upper wall zone 200 0 layered aplite massive aplite 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 |
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