 | | 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 |  | | 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) | | 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 |  | | 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) | | 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 |  | | 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) | | cm long), Beebe Hall, McCain Valley, San Diego County, California. Cal and Kerith Graeber specimen; Jeffrey...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) | | 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) | | 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) | | rocks of New Hampshire ....... 44 Table 9 Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of New Jersey ...Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of New York ........... 56 Table 11 Uranium occurrences...Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of New Hampshire.......................^..^.i....48 Figure 12...Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of New Jersey....................................55 Figure...occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of northeastern New York.........................64 Figure 14. Uranium |  | | 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 |  | | 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) | | 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...black tourmaline, garnet (almandine?), muscovite, biotite, and columbite (Navias and Ostrom, 1951). Kunz...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) | | 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) | | DAVID M~ SEAMAN American Museum of Natural History, New York, N. Y. Photographs by Julius Weber, Mamaroneck...vugs in cleavelandite. At the Ruggles Quarry, Grafton Center, New Hampshire autunite is closely associated...Newry and Auburn, Maine; the Chandler Mine, Raymond, New Hampshire; and elsewhere in lithium pegmatites...(lithiophilite); and the Buzzo Quarry, Center Strafford, New Hampshire (triphylite). At times, triphylite or lithiaphilite...North Groton, New Hampshire (triphylite); the 597 Smith Mine, Newport, New Hampshire (triphylite); |  | | 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 _______________________________ |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Science in the elementary schools of Keene, New Hampshire is being supplemented this year by Mineral Collections...learning the identity and nature of minerals found in New England so they might better teach the subject of...Most of the specimens come from areas within the New England States and were donated from the private...from Arizona and fossils from New York State. The minerals of the New England region are representative...and quartz (white), feldspar, tourmaline, mica (biotite), muscovite mica, garnets, soapstone, pyrite, and |  | | 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 |  | Defnet, Peter A., Wise, Michael A., Harmon, Russell S., Hark, Richard R., Hilferding, Keith (2021) Analysis of Garnet by Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy—Two Practical Applications. Minerals, 11 (7) 705 doi:10.3390/min11070705 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 98195, USA; defnep@uw.edu Department of Chemistry, Juniata College, Huntingdon, PA 16652, USA; richard... Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560, USA; wisem@si.edu Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric...North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage...Heritage, Yale University, West Haven, CT 06516, USA Correspondence: rsharmon@ncsu.edu; Tel.: +1-919-588-0613...systems to handheld analyzers for field use. This new capability offers the possibility for using LIBS |  | | 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 |  | | Book | | are always looking for people to write books on new and related subjects. If you have an idea for a book...Laboratory; William "Skip" Simmons, - University of New Orleans; Reinhard Wegner, Universidade Federal da...mineralogist M. H. Klaprot h showed that it contained a new chemica l element. Klaproth produced "uranium" powder...uranium if higher prices justify reprocessing the mine tailings to recover some of the uranium that was...wastewater during environmental reclamation at a mine that has ceased production. The following statistical |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | metals are, to many, equally as important. Did a new “metallic”age dawn a few decades ago that will be...specimen is from the Number 20 mine near Spruce Pine, Mitchell County, North Carolina. Author’s specimen...Figure 5. A 2-cm uraninite cube from the Cardiff mine, Wdberforce, Ontario, Canada;Canadian Museum of...found at the famous Palermo and Ruggles mines in Grafton County, New Hampshire; dendritic uraninite intergrowths... WestChester County, and from a locality at Richville Station, St. Lawrence County, New York. Uraninite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 09:35 10 October 2014 Helen Hunt Falls, El Paso County, Colorado O wing to its diverse paragenesis and...zircon crystals from Helen Hunt Falls, El Paso County, Colorado. Dave Bunk specimen, Jeff Scovil photo...quartz specimen from Helen Hunt Falls, El Paso County, Colorado. Dave Bunk specimen, John Smolski photo...syenite in the Litchfield-Gardiner area, Kennebec County (King and Foord 1994). Zircon crystals to 2.5 cm...Mineville, Essex County, and crystallized specimens have been collected at Deer Hill, Orange County, and at Fine |  | | Report (volume) | | volcanic rocks, in Faul, Henry, ed., Nuclear geology: New York, John Wiley & Sons Inc., p. 89-98. On the basis...given and is compared with the percentages of biotite, potash, and ferrous oxide in these granites. In...the total amount of radium increases with the biotite content. No correlation was found between radium...for the following observation. At the W. Wilson mine, "a few secondary minerals, mainly metatorbernite...radioactivity of four Paleozoic magma series in New Hampshire: Geol. Soc. America Bull., v. 57, p. 797-828 |  | | 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 |
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Ruggles Mine, Grafton, Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA