 | | Journal (issue) | | Profession...................184 by Paul Brian Moore Newry Maine - A Pegmatite Phosphate Locality... 189 by Vandall...by an energetic and articulate group, The Tucson Gem & Mineral Society, Inc. Tuc son is an attractive...motel rooms usually provide this. For example, the Maine elbaite tourmalines which were thor oughly discussed...for the crystal specimen quality of the San Diego County materials - both old and new. As usual, the exhibits...recent is the McDole Trophy—“Best Minerals at Tucson Gem & Mineral Show—1974”. I am travelling around the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | PEGMATITE MINERALS OF MAINE By D A V I D M. S E A M A N 36 Winter St., Norway, Maine 0 4 2 6 8 INTRODUCTION...of minerals have been found in the pegmatites of Maine since the discovery of Mt. Mica near Paris H i l...for gem tourmalines and some new pockets have been found there which have produced not only gem tourmalines...collector many excellent specimens of minerals: gem and colorful tourmalines in various colors including...The fabulous, recent gem tourmaline find at the Dunton Gem Mine at Newry, Maine of watermelon and green |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | cavities in sulfide ore also contain ing zincian siderite from the "germanite section" of the mines at Tsumeb...would frequently collect; these included Weldon's quarry, as well as the Summit, Bound Brook, and Millington...he had special free access to the Prospect Park quarry near Paterson where he attended nearly every blast...Key opened Crystal Gems Company, his first retail gem and mineral business. This business, located in Little...consequence in New Jersey. It had a good inventory of gem and mineral specimens, lapidary equip ment, and |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | MINERALS OF MAINE phosphate, has been located as a rare, secondary phosphate with beryllonite at Newry; also...secondary phosphate at the Berry at the gem mine at Newry. Quarry at Poland; also at the Bennett RUTILE...RUTILE, one of the trimorphs of Quarry at Buckfield. titanium dioxide, was noted many years RHODOCHROSITE,... manganese car ago at the Consolidated No. 1 Quarry bonate, has been noted as a rare mineral at Topsham...manganese phosphate, has been noted at the Dunton Gem Mine at Newry Maine. SCHEELITE, calcium tungstate, has |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | PEGMATITE MINERALS OF MAINE B y D A V I D M. SEAMAN 36 Winter St., Norway, Maine 04268 (Continued from... It is found frequently in the gem pockets in the pegmatites of Maine, formed by the weathering or hydrothermal...Berry Quarry in Poland; also as one of the rare secondary phosphates found at the Dun ton Gem Mine at...at Newry. LA UEITE, another hydrous, manga nese, and iron phosphate, has been found as a rare mineral...Bennett Quarry at Buckfield, the Dun ton Gem Mine at Newry, and at Black Mt. at Rumford in Maine. Its crystals |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Gardena Blvd., Gardena Coltf. 90247 The Leading GEM and MINERAL HOBBY Magazine P.O. Box 687, Mentone...···-······-··············-··················· 14 OUR COVER, A Gem Of A Horse ·······-··················-·········...··································· 30 Al>c,ut Gem Cutter's Handbook ···-··-·······················...·························-·····-······· 30 Gem Cutter's Handbook - The Core ond Feeding of Grinding Wheels...NORTHWEST FEDERATION The fomous Pegmatites of Newry, Moine by Gordiner Gregory ···················-··· |  | Simmons, William B., Falster, Alexander U., Nizamoff, James W., Freeman, Gary (2019) Giant spodumene and montebrasite crystals from the Plumbago North pegmatite, Oxford County, Maine. The Canadian Mineralogist, 57 (5) 795-797 doi:10.3749/canmin.ab00024 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | CRYSTALS FROM THE PLUMBAGO NORTH PEGMATITE, OXFORD COUNTY, MAINE WILLIAM B. SIMMONS§ AND ALEXANDER U. FALSTER...FALSTER 2 MP Research Group, Maine Mineral and Gem Museum, Bethel, Maine, USA JAMES W. NIZAMOFF 64 Mineral...Hebron, Maine, USA GARY FREEMAN Freeman Resources, LLC, 48 Lovejoy Road, South Paris, Maine, USA Keywords:...crystals, spodumene, montebrasite, Plumbago North, Maine. INTRODUCTION A new spodumene-bearing pegmatite...on the north side of Plumbago Mountain, Oxford County, Maine. The pegmatite is spodumenerich and is potentially |  | | Catalog/List | | surface. overall about 2x2 Mission Mine, Pima County, Arizona USA £20 10. NATIVE SILVER thin sheet about...cerussite is about 40% of the piece. Flux Mine, Arizona USA £20 23. STRONTIANITE fairly rich green masses with...attractive clean piece of colourless mass with brown siderite cleavages. 2.5 x4 inches. Ivigtut Greenland. (mine...CRONSTEDTITE black crystalline area about 8mm on siderite & pyrite , small 2x2 inch Wheal Jane Cornwall...matrix, with previous collectors label. Hingston Quarry Cornwall £7 .50 40. CASSITERITE rich brown masses |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | MINERALS OF MAINE phosphate, has been located as a rare, secondary phosphate with beryllonite at Newry; also...secondary phosphate at the Berry at the gem mine at Newry. Quarry at Poland; also at the Bennett RUTILE...RUTILE, one of the trimorphs of Quarry at Buckfield. titanium dioxide, was noted many years RHODOCHROSITE,... manganese car ago at the Consolidated No. 1 Quarry bonate, has been noted as a rare mineral at Topsham...manganese phosphate, has been noted at the Dunton Gem Mine at Newry Maine. SCHEELITE, calcium tungstate, has |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | mineral has been found at two locations on Newry Hill, Newry, Maine, U.S.A. Its composition closely approximates...miner and geologist, Frank C. Perham of West Paris, Maine, U.S.A. The most similar species is viseite. A re-examination...mineral has been discovered at the Bell Pit, Newry Hill, Newry, Maine. The mineral occurs as rare, isolated...mm across) of platy crystals, associated with siderite, colourless wardite, amblygonite, eosphorite,...provided by Mr. Vandall King of Darling Center, Maine. This second occurrence is a very soft delicate |  | | Journal (issue) | | R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur...Five Tourrmline-1 the first special issue in the Gem Minerals Series Introduction Notes from the Editor... 353 by P. Orlandi and P. B. Scortecci M aine Maine tourmaline.........................................................365 by C. A. Francis Pakistan Gem pegmatites of the Shingus-Dusso area, Gilgit, Pakistan...issue (double-size!) in our projected series on the gem minerals. In this issue the focus is on tourmaline |  | | Journal (issue) | | ........................ 7 by Arthur Montgomery Gem Tourmaline Rediscovered at N e w ry .....................14 by Dean A. McCrillis Elbaite From Newry, M a in e ............................................makes quarry managers nervous. Col lectors abuse privileges, insurance companies worry, quarry managers...frequent? How much longer before there are no more quarry doors to be closed? What can we do NOW to reverse...recent is the McDole Trophy— “Best Minerals at Tucson Gem & Mineral Show—1974”. I am travelling around the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | white micaceous mineral was found at the Dresser quarry in Walton. Associated material includes tennantite...tennantite, chalcopyrite, and pseudo-hexagonal siderite, all in crys tals. X-ray and optical properties sug...cation. The piece, from the Canada Crushed Stone quarry in Dundas, con sists of a dark brown dolomitic...syenite in an outcrop not far from the Goulding-Keene quarry in Bancroft. T h e crystals are usually tabular...tabular (up to 1 cm) and are occasionally elogated. Maine-Roger Clapp of Orono sent in two unusual-habit albite |  | | Journal (volume) | | Paul F. Bechberger Their invisible world 20 Dunton Gem Mine and Its Tourmalines by Benjamin M. Shaub...that they organize inde pendent metal, mineral and gem industries to attain a position that would enable...command to help I t.a-::z. � � COME TO THE GEM AND MINER.AL FAIR_! Invitation to the Mineral Kingdom...calcites, rhodochrosites, galena, lapis lazuli, siderite, garnets, chrysocolla, ruby-in-zoisite-each in...Benjamin M. Shaub, M.E.. M. Sc., Ph.D. ("The Dunton Gem Mine and its Tourmalines") hos hod on amazing |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | seen in the matrix. The specimen is from Boron. Maine-Ned Yedlin of New Haven, Con necticut, wanted to...specimen identified. The specimen, from Newry's Dunton Gem quarry con sisted of delicately arborescent, snowwhite... crystal clusters associated with amber-brown siderite and blue elbaite. The mineral was identified as..."exhausted" road cut in Mexico, Maine according to Ray Woodman of Auburn, Maine. Continued digging had uncovered...at the White Elephant quarry dump in Pringle, in late spring 1973. This quarry as well as many other |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Virginia. Willis Mt. is in Buckingham County, not Prince Wil liam County. of the Pyrochlore Group" by D....Sonoma names—pyrochlore, microlite, and betafite- County and Peoples said that he found it which are modified...material sound familiar to anyone? corner of Crawford county (a generalized map is published). From these pegmatites...than 54 inch in largest di mension" are found. MAINE-Skip Szenics of Westwood, N.J. has sent in several...several specimens from the Havey pegmatite quarry in Poland, Maine. A capsule of small brown grains was examined |  | | Journal (issue) | | KRISTALLE Est.1971 Laguna Beach, California, USA • Tel: +1 949 494 5155 • Email: info@kristalle.com...only): $139/one year (Canada) $231/one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $325 for one year Subscription...large benitoite specimen. (owner of the Benitoite Gem Mine in 1952–1967) and worked for Clarence in exchange...the different collecting locations in San Benito County. After graduating from high school, Steve went...2001, and Adam, born in 2003. Steve established a gem and mineral business (Steve Perry Gems) in 1987, |  | | Catalog/List | | Very nice! ••• $75.00 81B02 URANINITE, Kinkel Quarry, Bedford, N.Y. (a) Excellent micro (to 3 mm) octahedral...x 6 cm) 81B03 MACDONALDITE, Rush Creek, Fresno County, California. (a) Micro acicular white macdonaldite...masses(3 x 4 cm),.$5.00 81B04 RUTILE, Lengenbach Quarry, Binn, Switzerland.m/m single, black, bipyramid...many m/m's (a) .•• $22.50 81B08 ELBAITE, Dunton Gem Q, Newry, Maine. Classic "watermelon" crystal section...(Western Russell Brothers Quarry), near Standpipe Hill, Topsham, Sagadahoc County, Maine. These are from the |  | Gatta, G. Diego, Comboni, Davide, Lotti, Paolo, Guastoni, Alessandro, Rotiroti, Nicola, Hanfland, Michael (2020) Wardite (NaAl3(PO4)2(OH)4·2H2O) at high pressure: compressional behavior and structure evolution. Minerals, 10 (10) 877 doi:10.3390/min10100877 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | was reported by Robertson [8], with deposits of siderite and phosphatic ironstone embedded in shales and...The phosphatic iron formation contains phosphate-siderite grains, quartz and skeletal fragments in a matrix...in this study) is associated with gormanite and siderite. No geological evidence of igneous activity, in...Patrimônio) and USA (Maine, Dunton Gem Quarry; Utah, Little Green Monster Variscite Mine) are not gem-quality...Press. Res. 2013, 33, 511–522. [CrossRef] Rigaku Oxford Diffraction CrysAlisPro Software System, version |  | | Catalog/List | | aupplied. Usually; the ■ine ~e ■ountain range, county and state will be furnished with speci■ens. PRIES:...Crystal Peak,CO Four Peaks Horseshoe Dam Spain Maine Carter Mine,NC Champion Mine Grants, New Hex Workman...traction Oregon Makey #3, Utah Pitcher, OK Ray Hine Maine Hyoninq Massachusetts r.ripple rk, v! Vekol Mince...Mine Haid of Sunshine Chile Ray Mine Ra; Mine . Dunton Gem lh ,Hl Anderson Mine Italy Hajuba Hill, NV Old...Robertson Hi California C.S.S.R. lJH Claims Pugh Quarry, OH -----------------~ ----r---....-----,-- |  | | Journal (issue) | | M. Pryce and J. Chester The Amity Area, Orange County, New Y o rk ............................... 85...Geological Survey Uralolite from the Dunton Gem Mine, Newry, Maine: A Second O c c u rre n ce ...........115-year-old Oriental mine in Alleghany, Sierra County, California. In August, about five months after...1 BANCROFT AREA I BANCROFT TOURMALINES Loose gem m y xls and matrix specimens M aine to California...Blount Little Rock, Arkansas 72209 The Jeffrey quarry, near North Little Rock, Arkansas, has produced |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | l mm across)of platy crystals,associated with siderite,colorless wardite,amblygonite,eosphorite,and sphaleritein...blygonite-richpegmatitezoneat the Bell Pit, Newry Hill, Newry, Maine. Microprobe analyses lead to the formula...Color black,lusterdull, streakbrownish Dunton Gem mine, atop Newry Hill, perhamiteis in a very soft blackto...Tixtural relations matite miner of West Paris, Maine, in honor of his dedicated indicate that it was...calc-silicateassemblage at the Christmasmine,Gila County, Arizona, with kinoite, apophyllite, smectite,andjunitoite |  | | Journal (issue) | | recent is the McDole Trophy—"Best Minerals at Tucson Gem & Mineral Show — 1974". (Private shows by appointment...goal of lo c a lity preserva a state. The Dunton quarry is an example of a lo ca lity tion. Thus, if...fo r co lle ctin g priviledges at an operating quarry. The PRESERVING THE OPPORTUNITY FOR FIELD COLLECTING...Park, Murfreesboro, Arkansas 101 (4) Dunton Quarry, Newry, M aine covered occasionally, but by the...Chester, Massachusetts (8) Sunstone Locality, Lake County, Oregon he leased the mineral rights to the United |
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