 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | review panel consisted of Dr. Steven Chamberlain, New York State Museum; Dr. Carl Francis, Harvard University;...Lupulescu, New York State Museum; and Dr. George Robinson, Michigan Technological University. neW DATA On... of Geology and Geophysics, University of new Orleans, new Orleans, LA 70148. Recent work on material...chalcocite-bearing vein material from the Baltic mine exposing the sulfides. Several samples carried small...these phases. Additional samples from the Baltic mine dump revealed crude wires of native silver associated |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | New Hampshire Mineral Locality Index Downloaded by [University of Newcastle, Australia] at 15:01 05...entrance and arch of the Palermo mine, North Groton, Grafton County. Rob Lawrence photo, courtesy Bob...Bob Whitmore. 242 ROCKS & MINERALS lthough New Hampshire, the Granite State, is one of our smaller states...reading Jackson (1844) on the mineralogy of New Hampshire that even at this early date there was already...activity produced new localities, renewed some old localities, and resulted in new minerals being discovered |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | COMPOSITION FROM THE RUGGLES MINE, NEAR OF THE URANINITE GRAFTON CENTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE B. M. Snaun, Smith...1935 the Whitehalt Company of New York opened a new pit in the old Ruggles pegmatite, at the top of the...from Grafton Center (7 I"59'33.6" W. Long., 43"35'22.3" N. Lat., Cardigan quadrangle, New Hampshire). The...points where they 334 ARANINITE FROM GRAFTON CEN ,ER, NEW HAMPSEIRE JJJ were originally attached...quartz and amethyst: Am' Mi'neral'-' vol. 10, pp. 22l-222, 1925. URANINITE FROM GKAFTON CENTER. NEW HAMPSHIRE |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | T H E RUGGLES FELDSPAR - M I C A MINE, — G R A F T O N , N E W HAMPSHIRE By G A R D I N E R E. GREGORY...commercial production of mica in New Hampshire started at the Ruggles Mine in 1803. In recent years it has...of minerals have been removed from the mine. In 1962 the mine was opened for pub lic inspection. Each...Each year thousands of people visit the mine to view the scenery from the top of Isinglass Mountain and...and to explore the giant tunnels of the mine. Very few of the visitors are bonaficd mineral collectors |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | one member. Cedar Bluff is in central Cherokee County in N / E Alabama. ARKANSAS—From a gravel pit located...of sawing are present. Wynne, in southern Cross County, is in eastern Arkansas. Rome, Georgia Mineral...Ferry Building, San Francisco, Calif., 9411, four new minerals are reported and described as being found...sanbornite deposits of eastern Fresno County in central California. The four new minerals are: Fresnoite (barium...occurs as tiny yellow grains—name is for Fresno County. Verplanckite (barium manganese silicate with chlorine) |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | PATRICIA BERRY BARKER P. 0. Box 810 Campton, New Hampshire 03223 In Memoriam JOHN REINER Downloaded by...Reiner of Long Island in Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire, passed away last year on Labor Day; he was...eighty-six. John was born and lived most of his life in New Jersey, first in Jersey City and later in Glen Rock...School of Modern Photography on 136 East 57th Street, New York City. He was an instructor in hand-coloring...titled “Wedding at the Palermo No. 1 Mine, North Groton, New Hampshire.” 128 ROCKS & MINERALS Martha and |  | | Book | | ( C. 4 ( MINERAL & GEM TRAILS of NEW ENGLAND .� ';� M � [- ' 1f,.,,1 " VE M NlN[W �IUWPS�l-...MINERAL & GEM TRAILS OF NEW ENGLAND by Ed & Bert Sloan Maine Vermont New Hampshire Massachusetts Rhode...Company Mine Hyde Park, Lamoille Co. , Vermont Copper Mine Locality Milton, Vermont Parrot Jasper Mine Reading...Talc Mine Saxtons River, Vermont Davis Soapstone Quarry South Newfane, Vermont Adams Hill Site NEW HAMPSHIRE...Strafford, New Hampshire Parker Mt. Mine Conway, New Hampshire Hurricane Mt. Grafton, New Hampshire Ruggles |  | | Book (edition) | | CARNELIAN TOURMALINE OPALS • AOATI • • AMETHYST URINE • • BERYL MOONSTONE CITRINE GEM...arrange- ment of these surfaces. Quartz and amethyst, for example, are frequently crystallized in...where they found many of stones, such as quartz amethyst, tourmaline, beryl, topaz and spodumene. crystals...feldspar quarries in pegmatite deposits, mines and mine dumps, and from "float" deposits, minerals loose...which can be traced through have been retained. New gem locations are found every season, and to this |  | | Book (volume) | | Where & How to Djg, Pan and Mine Your Own Gen1s & Minerals Where & I-low to 1-Iunt for Treasure From...vacation stops at a roadside "dig your own" gem mine. Junior finds a sapphire the size of a p ach and...) Many an unsuspecting tourist has stopped at a mine to try his or her luck and become a rockhound for...Arizona California Colorado Hawaii Kansas Nevada New Mexico Oklahoma Texas Utah Alaska Idaho Iowa Minnesota...Indiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan New Hampshire New Jersey Nev,, York Ohio Pennsylvania Rhode |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | - - ^ ^ ^ r ^ Mineral Occurrences ' ITEMS ON NEW FINOS ARE DESIRED '&„. Abbreviations: xl— crystal...specimens from the Red Devil Mine, copper nuggets from the Kennecott mine, etc. and I can assure you that...the numerous tungsten mines in the Darwin, Inyo County, California, area."—note from James H. Richardson...MINERALS and know the locality. This is where the new 4 lane Route 8 begins."—letter dated March 17, 1959...on the south bank of the Etowah River, in Dawson County, Ga. Chatoyant masses of olive-gray tourmaline |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | exhibit at the American Museum of Natural Histo ry in New York City. Complementing the Desautels article is..."Minerals of the Socorro Peak District, Socorro County, New Mex ico." Perhaps the most enlightening of all...graphic is a drawing of a cerussite from the Kombat mine in Namibia that appears on an album cover for the...article on the one-hundredth anniversary of the New York Mineralogical Club ( N Y M C ) . The membership...02:24 05 August 2017 features the Ruggles mine at Grafton, New Hampshire; it is followed by an arti cle |  | | Journal (issue) | | Mineral New Vol. 18 No. 8 August 2002 The Mineral Collector's Newsletter Bloomington Show 2002 Alan...people have minerals, like many s hows, the amount of new materia l is usually " under-whe lming." One reason...to report. This find also involves a fossil and a mine ral. However, the principals in this story are a...NO\·ember 2000, "Marcasite from Austin. Travis County, Texas.") Eutrephoceras campbelli Meek is an Upper...feet in the forereef environment in Fiji, Vanuaru, New Caledonia, PapuaNew Guinea, Australia, Palau, and |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Princess Helene from Digby, N . S. to St. Johns, New Brunswick and a place to stay at North Conway, N...collect and take pictures at the famous Ruggles Mine at Grafton Center, N . H. One other big and heavy...of Atomic Bomb Blast fused sand from Alamogordo, New Mexico. Also got a bit of shell sand from the beach...good one, we were both pleased with our new treasures. One of mine was a nice group of glassclear analcites...of ours, having been here two years ago. Agate, amethyst, beautiful pebbles and great fun were collected |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | DAVID M. SEAMAN American Museum of Natural History, New York City Article 8, Silica and Silicates (part three)...length at the quarries near Bedford and Overlook, New York; near Golden, Colorado and elsewhere. A fine...found at Fort Washington Avenue and 171st Street in New York City and is now in the American Museum of Natural...tourmaline crystal was noted in the Luella mine near Avon, Latah county, Idaho, which measured 3x3x8 feet. Other...Dakota. A black crystal from Micaville, Randolph county, Alabama, was 10 inches in diameter and from 3 |  | | Report (issue) | | Sherbrooke-Lewiston I°x2° Quadrangles; Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont by Walter J. Bawiec^ Open-File...Lewiston 2° quadrangles which occur in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont and the Charlotte 2° quadrangle...Commodity name and code, year of production, producing county, production amount, and production value. I. Commodity...circled, production of this commodity comes from county which intersects the Sherbrooke-Lewiston 1° x 2°...production that commodity. Producing county - Each record was collected on a county basis when possible. Otherwise |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 21206 Treasurer: CARL KROTKI, 140 West End Ave., New York, N. Y. 10023 Assistant Treasurer: JACK T. BURRUS...College. In the recepsaw a film on Mineral Hunting in New tion room, allocated to the society, there is a large...large exhibition case. It was de- Hampshire ... The New Haven Mineral termined that this could be made...exhibit mineral specimens. There the Ruggles Mine, Grafton, New Hampis now provided, a rotating exhibit...to Palermo, North Groton, New proper identification so that students Hampshire. This is a world famous |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | THE NEW HAMPSHIRE GEM MINES Philip Morrill In the 1860's Marcus Kelton, a Forty-Niner, returned east... He continued to cruise in the country around Grafton, N. H. Among his prospects was Isinglass Hill,... now well known as the location of the Ruggles Mine. In the 1870's he located an outcrop of aquamarine...bare ninety. Mr. Demott is known for his Demott Mine and Demott Prospect. Due to Mr. Lovering's remarkable...together the picture of these early workings. The mine that Kelton and Lovering worked was on the property |  | | Book (edition) | | describes sites under of the nearest town and county. and the many maps included book contain such...Turquoise LJ Emerald, Beryl ^"^ Agate ** Jade Amethyst nq -* % Gem Hunter's Guide Gem Hunter...collector of gem minerals RUSSELL P. Thomas NEW YORK MACFALL Y. Crowell Company / ESTABLISHED...Shop and Herbert Grand Girard, both of Santa Fe, New Mexico, Ken Kyte of Covington, Louisiana, Merton...Indiana, George E. Lambert of Wappingers Falls. New York, and D. L. Hathaway of Cosmopolis, Washington |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | MINERALS WORLD NEWS ON MINERAL OCCURRENCES Items on new finds wanted. Please send them in. Abbreviations:...ARIZONA—Nice specimens of turquoise come from the Indian Mine, Chloride, Mohave Co., Ariz. ARKANSAS—In the last...specimens at the famous Magnet Cove, Hot Spring County, Arkansas. I have just received a report from the...platy crystals. So far as I can find this variety is new for the Cove, and also for the State. However, I...nice jasper. "The green chalcedony is from Marin County, north of San Francisco. It was picked up on a |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | TREASURER Carl K r o t k i 140 West End A v e . New Y o r k , N . Y. 10023 ASSISTANT TREASURER Mrs. R...or just plain "Brag Night" with members showing new materials acquired during the summer, either by the...Junior High School, showed slides of a Cinnebar Mine he visited We have heard that the Huntsville Gem...not received a copy. CONNECTICUT The Middlesex County Mineral Club, Moodus, plan a field trip to the...devoted to fossils, and gems made from fossils The New Haven Mineral Club asked members to exhibit (a) the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Md. 21206 TREASURER Carl Krotki 140 West End Ave. New York, N. Y. 10023 ASSISTANT TREASURER Mrs. R. G....than simply reading the "Newsletter". You can make new friends that share the same hobby and you can help...Valley Bulletin, Mrs. Charles H. Weber, Jr., Editor. New Haven Mineral Club. 3rd Place—White Ribbon Aurora...Boykin, Editor, Rock and Mineral Club of Lower Bucks County. Chips and Facets, Mrs. Wanda K. Wasilkowski, Editor...Miss Leota R. Whitcomb, Editors. Southeastern New Hampshire Mineral Club. Newsletter, Mrs. B. C. Collins |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | World News on Mineral Occurrences Items on new finds are desired. Please send them in. Abbreviations:...mostly in small amounts. A bed near Pyriton, Clay County, Ala., was worked for copper. One was mined near...of Cleburne County at what was called Wood's copper mine and also at Smith's copper mine about a mile...one little mine I obtained a few specimens of pyrite xls. The small xl enclosed is from a mine about 4 miles...following item, dated Aug. 28, 1954. "In the Brooklyn Mine, San Juan Co., Colo., I found a strikingly beautiful |  | | Field Trip Notes | | //' . GUIDEBOOK FOR FIELD IN ''fy,.'t:J TRIPS NEW ENGLAND NOVEMBER 10-12, 1952 Organized by the...Before visiting any of the sites described in the New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference guidebooks...Highlands of East-Central New York, Southern Vermont, and Southern New Hampshire Field Trip No. 2, Outstanding...Outstanding pegmatites of Maine and New Hampshire 73 Geology of the "Chelmsford Granite" 103 Field Trip...OF EAST-CENTRAL NEW YORK, SOUTHER Leaders: VERJ-IONT, AND SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE Marland P, Billings |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Mineral Occurrences ITEMS ON NEW FINOS ARE DESIRED $ _ . PLEASE SEND THEM I N . ALABAMA—"For as many...Riddle's Mill Dist. (gold deposits) of Talladega County, Ala. It is 8l/ 2 x 11 and sells for Si, we believe...several recent trips to Clear Creek, San Benito County, Calif., have shown that the jadeite boulders in...Diablo Meridian, Calif., in southeastern San Benito County. The town of Hollister is 80 miles northwest of...the Yellow Jacket mine on Bear Creek in northern San Juan County, Colorado. The mine was in a rather remote |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | accosted me from his antique Chevrolet. Thus I met the new friend who first introduced me to the hobby of collecting...equipment, we followed a course mapped from the New Hampshire State Geologist's Report on mines and quarr...Westmoreland fluorite workings, the Colony spar mine, the fabulous Palermo pegmatite, the Dodge Gold...reflected summer-light of an open feldspar and mica mine. This combination is near ly intoxicating, especially...and equipment proved a desirable link Gore Mt. Mine - North Village, N. Y. ROCKS AND MINERALS 451 |
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