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Rhodochrosite from
Bennett Quarry, Buckfield, Oxford County, Maine, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Rhodochrosite
Formula:MnCO3
Comments:Possibly world's largest crystals from a granite pegmatite.
Quality for species:Excellent - world class for species or very significant. (!!)
Abundance at site:Rare
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Smoky Quartz5 photos of Rhodochrosite associated with Smoky Quartz at this locality.
Eosphorite1 photo of Rhodochrosite associated with Eosphorite at this locality.
Quartz1 photo of Rhodochrosite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Rhodochrosite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Bennett Quarry, Buckfield, Oxford County, Maine, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (11 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:9513
Long-form Identifier:1:3:9513:6
GUID (UUID V4):ebd3793b-390a-4ea5-863a-609c67509cf3
Nearest other occurrences of Rhodochrosite
3.2km (2.0 miles) Ryerson Hill Quarries, Paris, Oxford County, Maine, USA
4.5km (2.8 miles) Mount Mica Quarry, Paris, Oxford County, Maine, USA
7.9km (4.9 miles) Mount Marie Quarries, Paris, Oxford County, Maine, USA
9.4km (5.8 miles) Mount Rubellite Quarries, Mount Rubellite, Hebron, Oxford County, Maine, USA
21.6km (13.4 miles) Emmons Quarry, Uncle Tom Mountain, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine, USA
24.7km (15.4 miles) Keith Quarry (Towne Quarry), West Mount Apatite Mining District, Auburn, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
25.2km (15.7 miles) Maine Feldspar Quarry, East Mount Apatite Mining District, Auburn, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
26.6km (16.6 miles) Berry-Havey Quarry (Havey Quarry; Berry Quarry), Poland, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
36.4km (22.6 miles) Dunton Gem Quarry, Newry, Oxford County, Maine, USA
36.5km (22.7 miles) Bell pit, Newry, Oxford County, Maine, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Book (volume)
Mineralogy by Vandall T. King and Eugene E. Foord Maine Geological Survey DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION Walter...Resources Information, Maine Geological Survey Walter A. Anderson, State Geologist Maine Geological Survey...DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION 1994 Copyright ©1994 by the Maine Geological Survey, Department of Conservation. All...Cover photograph: Fluorapatite, Pulsifer quarry, Auburn, Maine (2.2 cm specimen), Harvard Mineralogical...Wendell E. Wilson, ©1985. The laws and policies of Maine and the United States prohibit discrimination in
Report (edition)
BULLETIN 41 Third Edition A Collector's Guide to Maine Mineral Localities by Woodrow B. 7KaSVRQ Donald...Vandall T. King Robert G. Marvinney, State Geologist Maine Geological Survey Natural Resources Information...OF CONSERVATION 1998 Copyright © 1998 by the Maine Geological Survey, Department of Conservation. All...5 cm tall; gem weighs 2 carats. From the Havey Quarry, Poland, MaifJ. e. Photo copyright 1995 by Wendell...quartz crystals, 24 x JO mm;Jrom the Bennett Quarry, Buckfield, Maine. Mined in 1996 by Holden !Jrothers
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
DISCOVERIES AT THE BENNEll QUARRY, BUCKFIELD, MAINE. W B. Thompson, Maine Geological Survey, State House... The Bennett quarry is located in a complex granite pegmatite in the town of Buckfield, Oxford County...County, Maine. This locality received much publicity in 1989, when it produced a 3 k m crystal of gemmy morganite...morganite beryl known as the Rose of Maine. In 1990, Ronald and Dennis Holden opened a chain of pockets...cleavelandite unit along the north side of the quarry, producing additional morganite and large quartz
Report (issue)
160 β = 108◦ 400 X-ray Powder Pattern: Buckfield, Maine, USA. 3.23 (10), 6.40 (9), 3.03 (8), 3.20 (7)...100.00 (1) Branchville, Connecticut, USA. (2) Buckfield, Maine, USA. (3) Ca2 (Mn, Fe)(PO4 )2 • 2H2 O with...phosphates, jahnsite, rhodochrosite, quartz, muscovite. Distribution: In the USA, from Branchville, Fairfield...in Maine, in Oxford Co., as large crystals at the Bennett quarry, Buckfield, in the Nevel quarry and...around Newry, from the Emmons quarry, Greenwood, and from the Berry quarry, Poland, Androscoggin Co.; fine
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Manasquan, New Jersey, visited Calamity Wash, Yavapai County, and collected several exciting and Figure 7: Arizona...groupings and distortions found in the specimens. Maine New Mining Activity Ever since the feldspar mill...mill burned in West Paris in the early 196Os, Maine pegmatite mining has been conducted only for the recovery...Mica quarry, Paris; and the find of what might be the world's largest morganite at the Bennett quarry...quarry, Buckfield, in the late 1980s convinced the regional collectors that good minerals come out during
Journal (issue)
Finger) and LKA Emeralds, Hiddenite, Alexander County, NC Go On Public Exhibit in New York City. Emeralds.................................... 3 Hewitt Gem Quarry................................................................................... 3 Walden Gem Quarry ........................................................................................ 4 Maine .......................................................................................... 4 Greenlaw Quarry ..............................................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Dale, N. C. 1924. The box-vein of Lyomdale, Lewk County, New York. New York State Museum Bulletin 251:134-48...Quebec. The sill is well exposed in the Varennes quarry, which has been operated continuously for crushed...pectolite, pyrite, pyrrhotite, rhabdophane, rhodochrosite, quartz, serandite, siderite, those in the smectite... just off Route 109, there is an old pegmatite quarry known locally chiefly for its occasional production...documented, if at all. Most of the material from the quarry was evidently used in the construction of an adjacent
Book (volume)
0 n101ercai o of Maine j f·~ ....__ :,,. . - .._"' ..;. .. ~ L-- -~ \. • .J_..::.; I Volume...History, Gems, and Geology edited by Vandall T. King Maine Geological Survey DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION Robert...Robert G. Marvinney, State Geologist of Maine Volume 2: Mining History, Gems, and Geology Edited by...Resources Information, Maine Geologi,cal Survey Robert G Marvinney, State Geologist Maine Geological Survey...DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION 2000 Copyright ©2000 by the Maine Geological Survey, Department of Conservation. All
Report (issue)
Total 100.41 100.00 (1) Branchville, Connecticut, USA; average of two analyses, after deduction of SiO2...fairfieldite, eosphorite, huréaulite, rhodochrosite. Distribution: In the USA, from Branchville, Fairfield Co...Connecticut; in Maine, at the Bennett quarry, Buckfield, and the Emmons quarry, Greenwood, Oxford Co., and the...the Berry quarry, Poland, Androscoggin Co. At Hagendorf, Bavaria, Germany. Large crystals from near Galiléia...Brazil. Name: For Redding Township, Connecticut, USA, within which the first specimens were collected
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of Natural History, 1957. PEGMATITE MINERALS OF MAINE phosphate, has been located as a rare, secondary...beryllonite at Newry; also found at Paris, Rumford, and Buckfield. It occurs as crystal aggre­ (continued from May...Newry. Quarry at Poland; also at the Bennett RUTILE, one of the trimorphs of Quarry at Buckfield. titanium...noted many years RHODOCHROSITE, manganese car­ ago at the Consolidated No. 1 Quarry bonate, has been...at Topsham, but none has been found at Auburn, Buckfield, Poland, and Rum­ in recent years. ford, but not
Journal (issue)
J. N. Alves Mineralogy of the Bennett pegmatite, Oxford County, Maine ................................./# 6 C alifornia Issue B enitoite, G old, L .A . County M useum , H im alaya m ine $7 Circulation Manager...Tucson, Arizona 85740 m v .9 /# 3 K alahari rhodochrosite, Paterson (N J), Brum ado dis­ trict (B razil)...specimens were collected in the northern margin j f the quarry, inside the entrance to the main adit, on the left...Boyle $7 Jacupiranga m ine (B ra­ zil), Jensen quarry (CA), Cunha Baixa m ine, Paulkerrite $7 v ,1 5
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in 1996. THE EMMONS PEGMATITE Greenwood Oxford County, Maine The Emmons pegmatite, noted for its many...WEBBER MP2 Research Group Maine Mineral & Gem Museum 99 Main Street Bethel, Maine 04217 alexander.falster@gmail...Hebron, Maine 04238 phosphate@gmail.com RAYMOND A. SPRAGUE* 33 Roger Street Lewiston, Maine 04240 *...Deceased 16 April 2019. HE MINERALOGY AND ORIGIN OF MAINE PEGMATITES have been a principal focus of our research...in 2014 from New Orleans, Louisiana, to Bethel, Maine, greatly facilitated resumption of our study of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in pegmatites. It has been found at the Andrews quarry, Portland, Connecticut; with monazite crystals...New York City, N.Y. ; at the Dake mine, Mitchell County, North Carolina; with tysonite in Cheyenne Canyon...Springs, Colorado; and with rutile in Alexander County, North Carolina. MONAZITE, is essentially a phosphate...half inches in size at the Dake mine in Mitchell County. It occurs also in crystals at the Ray mine near...Burnsville and the Ramsey mine near Toledo in Yancy County, North Carolina. Large masses of Monazite occurred
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Minerals in Keweenawan Basalt, South Range Quarry, Douglas County, Wisconsin, W. S. Cordua, 412-415 Anatase...wulfenite, 58-61 Columbite: New Hampshire, 346; Maine, 503 Coming Events, 79, 169, 363, 466, 549 Cook...Minerals in Ke­ weenawan Basalt, South Range Quarry, Douglas County, Wisconsin, 412-415 Covellite, Colorado...California, J. A. Bartsch, 42-48 Camp Bird Mine, Ouray County, Colorado, T. Rosemeyer, 114-149 Cares, J . W....the Prospector and Collector, 258 Chips from the Quarry, 5, 109, 197, 397, 493 Classified Advertisements
Journal (issue)
Largest Reddingite Crystals Found at Bennett Quarry, Buckfield, Maine Van King PO Box 90888, Rochester,...(newryqs@rochester.rr.com) Jim Mann 57 Main Street, Bethel, Maine 04217 (m tm ann@megamlink.net) Reddingitc is a late-stage...locality for reddingite is the Abidja N. Fillow Quarry, Branchville village, Redding, Fairfield Co., Connecticut...1925) reported the first rcddingite from the Bennett Quarry and provided a bulk, wet-chemical analysis:...Leaseman, an optometrist formerly of Portland, Maine. In the collection was a specimen which at first
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Cerussite and fluorite, Blanchard mine, Socorro County, New Mexico. Peter J. Modreski photo. MarchlApril:...September/October: Rhodochrosite with tetrahedrite, chalcopyrite, and quartz, Sweet Home mine, Alma, Park County, Colorado...NovemberDecember: Silver, Bulldog mine, Mineral County, Colorado. F. John Barlow specimen, Malcomb Hjerstedt...Catherine No. 1 Mine, Casper Mountain, Natrona County, Wyoming, N. Tilander, M. I. Jacobson, 3 3 9 4...Early Vermont Mining, 267-74 Carlton Quarry, Chester, Windsor County, Vermont, R. Clements, D. Robinson
Book (edition)
HANDBOOK for A WEEK WITH MAINE MINERALS by NEIL A. WINTRINGHAM 1_� Cv1,_1'--A� __, SECOND EDITION...a week collecting in the pegme.tite area ot Oxford county, !!Bine, Neil Wintr:lnghal'!l, a pa.st-president...field trial of the hambook during our ''Week with Maine Minerals" furnished additional information end resulted...characterized the evenings spent with members of the Oxford County Mineral & Gem Association. N. A. W. Mountainside...minerals. The geology of pegmatites, in general, and Maine pegmatites, in particular, is summarized briefly
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of Natural History, 1957. PEGMATITE MINERALS OF MAINE phosphate, has been located as a rare, secondary...beryllonite at Newry; also found at Paris, Rumford, and Buckfield. It occurs as crystal aggre­ (continued from May...Newry. Quarry at Poland; also at the Bennett RUTILE, one of the trimorphs of Quarry at Buckfield. titanium...noted many years RHODOCHROSITE, manganese car­ ago at the Consolidated No. 1 Quarry bonate, has been...at Topsham, but none has been found at Auburn, Buckfield, Poland, and Rum­ in recent years. ford, but not
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MINERALS FROM THE HYATT MINE, TALCVILLE, ST. LAWRENCE COUNTY, NEW YORK. S. C. Chamberlain, Department of Bioengineering...Talcville in the Town of Edwards, St. Lawrence County, New York. The orebody consists of massive iron-rich...FROM THE BROWN DERBY NO. 1 PEGMATITE, GUNNlSON COUNTY, COLORADO. R. A. Elder; W B. Simmons, and A . U...crystals in the Brown Derby No. 1 pegmatite, Gunnison County, Colorado. The crystals are found up to several...ACCESSORY MINERALS FROM THE HAVEY #2 QUARRY, TOPSHAM, SAGADAHOC COUNTY, MAINE. A. U. Falster’, E. E. Foord2
Book (edition)
from Oregon to the Mexican border and eastward to Maine and Florida. What you cannot collect in person...beryl, topaz and spodumene. crystals, Areas in Maine, Connecticut and California, and Madagascar, are...between The mountain regions in the east from Maine down through Georgia and westward to Tennessee...summer; neither is it wise to prospect in Montana or Maine in the as the winter. An scope, and automobile...mine, Racooche Valley, White Co. 1866 Vs White County Daniel Light form, % mi. NE Less than 1887
Journal (volume)
Braithwaite, Manchester, U.K. M.T. Price, OUMNH, Oxford, U.K T.E. Bridges, Ovington, U.K. R.E. Starkey...Bridges 6-12 Unusual fluorite from Old Towns Quarry, Newton Aycliffe, Co. Durham Trevor F. Bridges... His article on “The Boltsburn mine, Weardale, County Durham, England” won the award for “best article...massive cuprite at the type locality, New Cliffe Hill Quarry, Stanton-under-Bardon, Leicestershire, first described...Cu2+5Cl2(OH)8(H2O)2, a new mineral from New Cliffe Hill Quarry, Stantonunder-Bardon, Leicestershire, UK. Mineralogical
Book (volume)
Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and  the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59...along adjoining Co. linerock crystal. BARROW COUNTY WINDER, along rd. to Jefferson and 1½ mi. inside...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States BARTOW COUNTY AREA, Saltpeter Cave, as floatjasper. CARTERSVILLE:...(banded, various colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY MACON:  at Holton Quarry, 7½ mi. NWagate;  N of Calloway
Catalog/List
golden-yellow nodule, A/20. ANALCIME. Enderby Quarry. Leicestershire. This specimen is more interesting...2.5x2x1.25", £4.00 1. ANALCIME/NATROLITE. Dean Quarry, St. Keverne, Lizard, Cornwall. Pearly white to...75x1", £7.50. 2. ANALCIME/NATROLITE/CALCITE. Dean Quarry, St Keverne, Lizard, Cornwall. Pearly white, large...25x1", £10.00. 32^) APATITE/GILBERTITE. Colcerrow Quarry, Luxulyan, 19th.C. Cornwall. A thin, coarse ‘Granitic...2.5x2x1.5", £12.00 56. AURICHALCITE. Greystones Quarry, Nr Launceston, Cornwall. Rich silky sky-blue radiate
Book (edition)
Camping $1 *00/day, trailers $2*00/day. **Mariposite Quarry (Mariposa), CoulterM ZUie. CA 95311- Fee: 5f/Xb~...psilomelane, Pyrolusite, barite, myrickite Rhodonite, rhodochrosite Gold, jade Jadeite, serpentine, plasma agate...CONNECTICUT Cinque Quarry. Mrs* Cinque, Laurel St., East Haven, CT* $2*00 fee. ♦♦Gillette Quarry, Haddon Neck...IL 60450. Fossils MAINE Bennett Quarry. See Mrs. Bennett on Lincoln St., Buckfield» ME (down the road...gar¬ net, rose quartz, smoky quartz Perham's Maine Mineral Store, June. fits. 26 and 219. West Paris
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
The other associated minerals are tephroite, rhodochrosite, barite, pyrochroite, ganophyllite and psilomelane...Thermatrproperties. The paper describes andalusite from Inyo County, California, of unusual habit in being crystals...northwesterly direction from the Franklin Mine in Houghton County, Michigan. They were discovered while plowing....Per,ecnr: The Chrysoberyl.Pegmatite of Hartford, Maine. Chrpoberyl in well-formed crystals occurs in a...Paracun: The Granite Pegmatite at Bmnzlt's Quarry,West Buckf.eld., Maine. During the past summer operations on
 
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