 | | 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) | | North Groton, New Hampshire and to an inch in diameter at the Smith Mine, Newport, New Hampshire. It also...Scorzalite occurs at the Victory mine near Custer, South Dakota with quartz, albite, muscovite, black tourmaline...dickinsonite occurs sparingly at Branchville, Fairfield county, Connecticut. FAIRFIELDITE, a hydrous phosphate...noted as a rare mineral at Branchville, Fairfield county, Connecticut from which it was named; and also...Buckfield, Maine; and from Center Strafford, New Hampshire. REDDINGITE, a hydrous manganese phosphate occurred |  | | 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...the massivesmoky quartz dikes rn'hichcut the feldspar, or with the large blebs of smoky quattz in the massive |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | and will stop in for a chat. Should you be up in New England hunt me up.' I live on Long Island in Lake...you at the July meeting of the Micromounters of New England to be held at my home. Many of us Thumbnail...favorite places to hunt are the Ruggles Mine and Palermo. New Hampshire has many fine areas to hunt which...which produce some excellent specimens. Fletcher Mine, Valencia, Charles Davis, Nancy 1 and 2 are all good...good producers and all are in Groton, Grafton Co. along with the Palermo and Rice and all near together |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | cm long), Beebe Hall, McCain Valley, San Diego County, California. Cal and Kerith Graeber specimen; Jeffrey...crystals that are rooted in the microcline-plagioclase-quartz wall zone Downloaded by [] at 04:12 15 May 2015...project into the white quartz core. The portion of beryl enclosed by the quartz core is often sharply...cavity suFounded by graphic granite.) Typically, smoky quartz, albite, muscovite, and microcline line the...May 2015 Figure 3. Aquamarine (4.1 cm long), Mack mine, Rincon, California. Bill Larsen specimen; Jeffrey |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | large stock of choice minerals. This specimen is a quartz-piedmontite schist which is found in a ravine entering...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...to you—an the process of milky quartz production at our "Big Beryl" mine, on # 2 1 9 , south of La Grange...40 lb. terminated rose quartz crystal. It is in the matrix of the milky quartz— the entire piece weighs |  | | 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) | | David M. Seaman American Museum of Natural History, New York City Article 7, Silica and Silicates (part two)...almandite was recovered at 35th Street and Broadway in New York City and is in the American Museum of Natural...166th St. and Knowlton Place in New York City. Both are a part of the New York Mineralogical Club's collection...West Bethel, Maine, and at the Ruggles quarry, Grafton Center, New Hampshire. Notable excellently formed...Russell and Westfield, Massachusetts ; from Bedford, New York ; and many other places. The crystals occur |  | | 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...1 Stromatolite full of cavities lined with red quartz from Minnesota, photo by the author. Continued...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 |  | | Report (issue) | | given in New Hampshire by Samuel Cordick, superintendent of the General Electric Co.'s mine; Andrew T...Mica Products Co.; C. W. Bryant, of the Standard mine; L. R. Brown, of Canaan; G. N. Bicker, of Canaan...number of mines in Grafton County and extended other kindnesses; M. M. Kilton, of Grafton Center; L. L. Howard...large sheet mica. The average price paid for run of mine mica, not split or sorted, ranges from $50 to $200...more normal phases is com'posed of feldspar and quartz, with or without mica and other minerals. It is |  | | Show/Event (guide) | | Bob Morgan, Ed Smith, Lee Tutt, Ken Wolff What’s New In Minerals' Joria Staebler Auction Solicitors Gene.......... 32 U.S. Mica Industry Pioneers: The Ruggles and Bowers Families by Fred E. Davis.............program designed to provide excellent speakers, new information, camaraderie, displays of extraordinary...familiar faces. Most of their topics will be quite new to our collective experience. This year’s Technical...Technical Session is again robust! We welcome numerous new attendees and hope you enjoy our meeting. We appreciate |  | | Book (edition) | | gem stones mon dull are as hard or harder than quartz, a com- mineral everywhere present as dust which...Hardness Scale 6. Orthoclase 1. Talc 2. Gypsum 7. Quartz Topaz Corundum 10. Diamond 3. Colcite 8. 4...Your will scratch orthoclase feldspar but not quartz. In making hardness appears to be a scratch paper...the general arrange- ment of these surfaces. Quartz and amethyst, for example, are frequently crystallized...SPODUMENE DANBURITE DATOLITE GARNET FLUORITE QUARTZ CRYSTALS SPINEL STAUROLITE •^^ VESUVIANITE |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | WILL FIT WITHIN A ONE INCH CUBE COLLECTING IN NEW HAMPSHIRE As we are nearing the period of fall and the...the northeast, many like to plan a trip to New Hampshire. There are a num ber of key mineral localities...cuttable material will all be interested in Palermo Mine in North Groton. Several other good mines are in...as—foggite, whitmoreite, and geodkenite 438 Ruggles Mine in Grafton, New Hamp shire is a very popular area for...speci mens of the uranium mineral family from this mine. Pods which are composed of gummite, uraninite, |  | | 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) | | Natural History, New York, N. Y. Photographs by Julius Weber, Mamaroneck, N. Y. Quartz in soda-lithium...core margin zones or in the core itself, euhedral quartz crystals are likely to be deposited along with...finally the deposition of the last generation of quartz filling in all of the interstitial spaces left...crystals on smoky quartz crystals in vugs in cleavelandite. At the Ruggles Quarry, Grafton Center, New Hampshire...and quartz; and also in the lithium replacement body with lepidolite, deavelandite, smoky quartz, uranophane |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Andros coggin River from Brunswick in Sagadahoc County. A mile-wide belt of granitic pegmatites runs from...a Mr. Carr of Grafton, West Virginia, and then sold to Golding Brothers of Trenton, New Jersey. How ...of Bath who was superintendent for the Trenton (New Jersey) Flint and Spar Company. In 1869 that firm...was described by Shainin (1948) as follows: The mine-run feldspar was first run through the jaw crusher...transferred to Bath by scow and then shipped to Trenton, New Jersey, potteries, but by the early 1880s shipment |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | - - ^ ^ ^ r ^ Mineral Occurrences ' ITEMS ON NEW FINOS ARE DESIRED '&„. Abbreviations: xl— crystal... Clay Co., Ala., native gold has been found in quartz. ALASKA-Jack Moffitt, 1475 E. University, Springfield...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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Woàlâ Menti 04t Minelal ÔccWiïenc&i Items on new finds are desired. Please send them in. Abbreviations:...At present am employed at Magma Copper Company's mine here in Superior. No doubt you are familiar with..."For the collector of lead minerals, the Red Cloud Mine in Yuma Co., Ariz., is of considerable interest...the scarce, vital metals it contained. "Today the mine is reached by a barely possable road from Martinez...Rubarite, Inc., a newly formed company which produces a new synthetic rubber product for use in rubberized asphalt |  | | 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) | | THE W E E K S PEGMATITE MINE faults Wakefield, Carroll County New Hampshire S o m e u n u s u a l a...minerals in a location not noted for specimens. New Hampshire has many pegmatites in districts in the northern...Moun- Figure 1: Excavations in the dump, Weeks mine, June 1980. tain pegmatite at Center Strafford...line in the town of Wakefield, Car roll County, New Hampshire. The property is named after the 1942 owner...MAINE NEW HAMPSHIRE not miles 1153 to Wakefield Figure 2: Location map for the Weeks mine, Wakefield |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Maine Topsham district, Maine Grafton district, New Hampshire Greenfield, New York Middletown district, Connecticut...mailed (Hauy, 1811; Seybert, 1824). Dr. Bruce, a New York City physician, should be remembered as an avid...both sides of the road (Schooner, 1961). New York Another New York collector, Dr. J . H. Steel, discovered...twins are rare. Associated pegmatite minerals are quartz, plagioclase, orthoclase(?), black tourmaline,...occurred almost a century ago. A new, one time only, find was made in a New York City excavation at 88th |  | | 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...stained-glass re-creation of an amazonite with smoky quartz from Lake George, Colorado. Where is this piece...graphic is a drawing of a cerussite from the Kombat mine in Namibia that appears on an album cover for the...force in the world of faceting, the 7,000-carat quartz egg faceted by John Sinkankas and now part of the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | grained, dark gray sand consisting of quartz (colorless, smoky), feldspar (gray, pink), dull black magnetite...for the report on the rock found with the sand. Quartz sand from Collier Springs, Ark. This sample was...grained, gray sand consisting entirely of pale smoky rounded quartz grains. The rounded forms (little globules—resemble...interesting. "Sand from Collier Springs, Montgomery County, Ark. (west of Hot Springs)". — on label. Beach...grained, gray sand consisting chiefly of colorless quartz and sea shells (chiefly white, some reddish). A |  | | 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 |
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Ruggles Mine, Grafton, Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA