 | | 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 |  | | Report (volume) | | Bulletin 931-P MICA-BEARING PEGMATITES OF NEW HAMPSHIRE A PRELIMINARY REPORT BY J. C. OLSON Strategic................................................ Grafton district.........................................Geologic map of the Alstead area, Keene district , New Hampshire........................ 62. Map showing locations...of mica and feldspar mines of the Grafton district, New Hampshire .....................................district, New Hampshire.. Figure 38. Index map of New Hampshire showing locations of the Grafton and Keene |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | North Groton, New Hampshire and to an inch in diameter at the Smith Mine, Newport, New Hampshire. It also...the Victory mine near Custer, South Dakota with quartz, albite, muscovite, black tourmaline and triphylite...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) | | AMERICA'S FIRST MICA MINE? Paul M. Tilden, Warner, N. H. How many thin sheets of muscovite mica do you...inclusions—magnetite, flattened garnets and beryls, and tourmaline, to mention the commonest; but this mattered...following paragraphs from one of the letters of New Hampshire's John Sullivan, Major-General in the Continental...Army, makes one wonder if the famous Ruggles pegmatite at Grafton Center, N . H., was not America's first...producers. It was not the Ruggles Mine in Sullivan's day—the "Messrs. Ruggles from Boston" acquired the |  | | 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 |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | South Africa U.S. Mica Industry Pioneers: The Ruggles and Bowers Families by Fred E. Davis. Published...documenting the beginnings of mica mining in New Hampshire in the late eighteenth century, well before...but mica mining was a family affair both in New Hampshire and later in North Carolina, which came to dominate...begins with a genealogy of the Ruggles family that focuses on Sam Ruggles, who purchased property on Isinglass...Mountain in Grafton, New Hampshire, in 1805, and follows his descendants who continued to mine and market |  | | 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...quartz is scattered all over the quarry. "The old mine spoil dumps are still open to rockhounds and free...overnite parking." La Grange, in central Troup County, is in western Georgia. I D A H O — " I am sending |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | begins with a genealogy of the Ruggles family that focuses on Sam Ruggles, who purchased property on Isinglass...Mountain in Grafton, New Hampshire, in 1805, and follows his descendants who continued to mine and market...Chapter 2 is a history of the famous Ruggles mine and the Ruggles’ mica business. After describing early...Bowers family who began in the mica business in New Hampshire but moved to North Carolina. This book is more...London, England, 1851 George Ruggles exhibited a 91-kg (200-pound) [New Hampshire] mica book at the Great |  | | 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... SOME DEPOSITS OF MICA IN THE UNITED STATES. 69 NEW HAMPSHIKE. HISTORY OF MICA MINING. Mica mining in |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | an economic byproduct from a few pegma tites in New Mexico and Colorado; also from Brazil, Australia...and Cooper in Maine; and from the berylmolybdenite mine near Mr. Antero, Colo rado. It is an economic mineral...pegmatite at the Ben Nevis Mine on San Augustin Peak in the Organ Mountains, New Mexico. ARGENTITE, a silver...mines on San Augustin Peak in the Organ Mountains, New Mexico. CHALCOCITE, a copper sulfide, has been noted...MINERALS at the Deep Park No. 2 Mine near Penland, and also at the McKinney Mine near Little Switzerland, North |  | | 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 |  | | 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) | | History, New York City Article 8, Silica and Silicates (part three) (concluded) TOURMALINE is a complex...large amounts in granite and is then called a tourmaline granite. The common, black, iron rich variety...in height and width. Black tourmaline is the most common kind of tourmaline and has been found in all...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 |  | | 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...green beryl, columbite, muscovite, and black tourmaline (Seybert, 1824; Webster, 1820). This was not...both sides of the road (Schooner, 1961). New York Another New York collector, Dr. J . H. Steel, discovered...are quartz, plagioclase, orthoclase(?), black tourmaline, garnet (almandine?), muscovite, biotite, and |  | | 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 (article/letter/editorial) | | DAVID M~ SEAMAN American Museum of Natural History, New York, N. Y. Photographs by Julius Weber, Mamaroneck...euhedral crystals of albite, lepidolite, colored tourmaline, beryl, apatite, topaz, fluorite, phenakite,...then black, green, or blue tourmaline; montebrasite; rubellite tourmaline; spodurnene; rnangantantalite...with sometimes a little lepidolite, rubellite tourmaline, or microlite enclosed in it (a strong and very...vugs in cleavelandite. At the Ruggles Quarry, Grafton Center, New Hampshire autunite is closely associated |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the past from a few pegmatites near Ticonderoga, New York in the United States, but not in recent times...in Queensland, and at Kingsgate in the New England Range in New South Wales. Gold In 1911, native gold...Union County, Georgia. It was also formerly mined from a pegmatite at Pinetuckey, Randolph County, Alabama;...in a weathered pegmatite on the dump of the King Mine in the Shelby-Hickory District of North Carolina...Fremont County, Colorado. Elsewhere native gold has been re ported from pegmatite at the Natas Mine in southwestern |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | H. I went to the Palermo Mine at North Groton and the famous Mine in Grafton. Much has happened or is...is still going on in both places. Palermo's old mine on the hill known for it's phosphates has been blasted...here. The main purpose for working this Palermo mine has been for the white quartz. The quartz crushed...loellingite, heterosite, lazulite, purpurite, tourmaline (black, green, blue), and triplite plus micro...micro. I will talk about this at a later date. Ruggles has also been very active in the past two years |  | | 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 |  | | 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) | | cm long), Beebe Hall, McCain Valley, San Diego County, California. Cal and Kerith Graeber specimen; Jeffrey...that contain iron-rich minerals, such as black tourmaline, biotite, pyrite, magnetite, triplite, and triphyllite...May 2015 Figure 3. Aquamarine (4.1 cm long), Mack mine, Rincon, California. Bill Larsen specimen; Jeffrey...Aquamarine (6.7 cm long), Mount Antero, Chaffee County, Colorado. Martin Zinn specimen; Jeffrey Scovil...Aquamarine (8.8 cm long), Black Panther mine, Riverside County, California. Bill Larsen specimen; Jeffrey |  | | 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...Etowah River, in Dawson County, Ga. Chatoyant masses of olive-gray tourmaline are found in oligoclase-quartz |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Mr. A. G. BETTS of the West Cummington Manganese Mine. Now there's as fine an o'd gentleman as one would...confab. He's a real talker and loves every word. The mine is just down the road. The road to it was prown...this one isn't. The dumps in this open faced pit mine is full of choice Rhodonite. You should have seen...feet deep and under any pile you can find it. The mine is just crammed with a lot of other minerals I can't...book says, "about a half mile north of Hwy 9 on a mine road . . . ." they should have added 'straight up' |  | | Book (edition) | | ONYX • PERIDOT* • ZIRCON • CARNELIAN TOURMALINE OPALS • AOATI • • AMETHYST URINE • •... lOLITE k:^ RUBY /^^ RUTILE SAPPHIRE 1^ TOURMALINE CRYSTALS TOPAZ CRYSTALS 4 GEM hunter's GUIDE...six or eight different gem as color, its tourmaline may B are, in fact, A blue gem minerals...found many of stones, such as quartz amethyst, tourmaline, beryl, topaz and spodumene. crystals, Areas...feldspar quarries in pegmatite deposits, mines and mine dumps, and from "float" deposits, minerals loose |
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