 | | 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) | | Aquamarine in the United States The Search Continues MARK I. JACOBSON Amoseas Indonesia, Mulia Tower...collectors seeking aquamarine are information about the geologic environment where aquamarine is found and...PROSPECTORS have spent countless time searching for aquamarine, the blue to bluegreen gemstone of beryl. The...The glassy blue appearance of natural aquamarine has an intoxicating effect, making it a favorite among...gemstone. This article reviews the best-known aquamarine localities of the United States and notes a few |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Bernardino County. Piedmontite is reddish-brown banded with smoky quartz. San Bernardino County is in S/E...1965, comes from Ed Schwab, Rt. 2, c/o Big Beryl Mine, La Grange, Ga.: "Just received "Old Faithful" R&M...process of milky quartz production at our "Big Beryl" mine, on # 2 1 9 , south of La Grange, this week we recovered...Most of our beryl crystals have inclusions of aquamarine sky blue to dark green. Tumbling size and larger...quartz is scattered all over the quarry. "The old mine spoil dumps are still open to rockhounds and free |  | | 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,...the location of the Ruggles Mine. In the 1870's he located an outcrop of aquamarine on the far south end...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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | mica locality known as the Ruggles' Mine in Grafton Center, New Hampshire. Already then it had been in...color groupings on the whitish microcline. My New Hampshire friends, Mr. Leggett and Mr. Weeks of Meredith...Meredith, mentioned having seen workmen repairing the mine road with some of the colorful stuff! Good specimens...met the Walls a few months earlier at the Nevel Mine, Newry, Maine. At the time Bill was still in the...are so typical of this locality as well as other New England localities. Bill's rucksack was already loaded |  | | 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) | | ON ^--^ "^%C^ Minerai Occurrences ' ITEMS ON NEW FINDS ARE DESIRED & _ . PLEASE SEND THEM I N . Abbreviations:...255) of the "Big Beryl" Mine Imperial County in southern Calif. (old Hogg Mine), gem hunters from COLORADO—F...Denver 20, Colo., sent in the visited Georgia and the mine. All have following item: been well pleased with...of "A boulder of hornblende schist with beryl, aquamarine, star rose quartz, mica, peculiar nodules was...some rutile plus fish from of an abandoned lead mine above the the 22 acre pond, wild duck and beaver |  | | Book (edition) | | 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...material can be found at that locality; and that new while of dubious merit have been dropped. Appearance...Museum, the American Museum of Natural History, New York, or Tom Robert's Rock the caption. All photographs...in color. Turquoise from Los Cerillos mines, New Mexico. Note turquoise vein cutting diagonally |  | | Book (volume) | | Where & How to Djg, Pan and Mine Your Own Gen1s & Minerals Where & I-low to 1-Iunt for Treasure From...rubies, opals and gold to emeralds, diamonds and aquamarine, each regional volume in the four-book Treasure...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 |  | | 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...and to top it off met an old college professor of mine, Prof. Jay Reed Gould 3rd, hadn't seen him in over |  | | 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 |  | | Book | | THE PEGMATITE MINES KNOWN AS NORTH GROTON, NEW HAMPSHIRE eral I ederi Acknowledi:ments Dedicated...experience. As a kid growing up in Manchester, New Hampshire, I was always fascinated by minerals and tried...premier sandbox, but I could also make sure the mine would remain open to mineral enthusiasts for years...maintained the notoriety acquired by the Palermo No. I mine. Its impact on the nation, and in some respects...different species - several of them unique to the mine - Palermo has earned a reputation that makes it |  | | 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) | | l d News on Mineral Occurrences Please note the new address for WNMO. After graduation, 1 have found...Establishment 3000 E . Ridge Road, Box 1712 Rochester, New York 14603 and topaz have lower dispersion and so...Bergdirektion, Austria, published an account o f "Some New Occurrences of Gonnardite" in Mineralogical Magazine...specimen material was found in abundance at the County Gravel Pit at Mauldin Mountain. Mauldin Moun tain...flank. The wavellite is typical of other Montgomery County Locations which differs from the more common Dug |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | micro mounts? T h e long winter nights w i l l find new pleasures for you i f you start look ing over all...important mines here in New Hampshire — the Ruggles Mine in Grafton. T h i s mine is world famous for it's...crystals, one very fine quarter inch crystal of aquamarine beryl and quartz crystals. W h i l e looking...Have you ever been disappointed after visiting a mine or quarry which was listed in one of the many guides...purchase speci mens one can add untold numbers of new and interesting crystal specimens to your collection |  | | Book (edition) | | describes sites under of the nearest town and county. and the many maps included book contain such...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...misleading. A blue crystal may be dia- mond, aquamarine, topaz, tourmaline, cyanite, or apatite. Conversely |  | | Report (volume) | | General features____________________________ Coosa County _________ ____________________ Randolph County...Cherokee County_____________________________ 72 Elbert County _____________________________ 75 Hall County__...County_______________________________ 76 Hart County. ___ __ __________________ 77, Lumpkin and Union counti...___________ S3 Pickens County _______-______________________ 83 Rabun County-_____________________________...____________ 86 Troup County ________________________________ 86 Upson County _______________________________ |  | | Book (volume) | | chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...townagate, chalcedony, jasper, petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville...chalcedony, jasper, fossils. CHERRY COUNTY VALENTINE, in the Sandhills county along the Niobrara R. and Minnechaduza...gem qualityagatized and opalized wood. DAWES COUNTY CHADRON, in N part of Co. and as far W as Crawford...woods, etc. DAWSON COUNTY GOTHENBURG, in sand pitspetrified palm wood. DEUEL COUNTY CHAPPELL, all regional |  | | Journal (issue) | | Antelope Basin Mine; Burro Basin Mine; Horseshoe Basin Mine; and the Tunnel Hill Mine. Diatomite beds...1977, Geology and Mineral Deposits of Pershing County, Nevada, Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, Bulletin...Miocene Diatomite, Trinity Pass Area, Pershing County, Nevada, U.S. Geological Survey, Open-File Report...Reconnaissance of Mining Districts in Pershing County, Nevada, U.S. Bureau ofMines Lnformation Circular...1879, Albert had filed a homestead claim in Bent County, Colorado. His activities between 1879 and 1882 |  | | Report (issue) | | Pegmatite Investigations 1942-45 New England By EUGENE N. CAMERON and OTHERS GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL..._______ _ Geology of the pegmatite districts of New Hampshire_ Rock units ________________________________...pegmatites ___________________ _ Pegmatites of the Grafton and Keene districts __ _ Sources of pegmatites...quality __ AnalyHis of the wartime mica industry of New England ________________________________________...Androscoggin County ______________________ _ Berry feldspar quarry __________________ _ Cumberland County ___ |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | came to New Hampshire to slow down and live. Mineral collecting as fun returned and to me a new mineral...have encouraged me to get going again. Here in New Hampshire I have done a great deal of work on several...excellent and famous areas of New Hampshire— Ruggles Mine and Palermo—my pets. Ruggles this month and next month...month a visit to Palermo. Ruggles is perhaps one of the most spectacular mines to see in the North East...a few years ago were collectors allowed into the mine and dumps during the summer months. It is perhaps |  | | Book (edition) | | MARIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY 3 1111 00289 4184 \ I s Fifth Revised Edition A complete, state-by-state...Edition Russell P. MacFall Thomas Y. Crowell New York / Company Established 1834 Copyright ©...West, the broad plains and the verdant hills of New England hold inestimable treasures of living things...doorstep in the vicinity of Paris? Have you heard, Mr. New Jersey, of your famous pearls?" citing other notable...the developer's bulldozer obliterates other sites, new ones are discovered. Books and thetic and scientific |  | | 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...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods...gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason Cr.⎯fossils; |  | | 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...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods...gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason Cr.⎯fossils; |
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