 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | symbol to promote outstanding aspects of their county or state. Approval is usually not difficult because...explored for copper in the Cerbat Mountains, Mohave County. They acquired mineral rights to two sections of...Cochise County, and earned the nicksurrounding Mineral name of “Turquoise Park, Mohave County, King” (Arizona...Johnston Turquoise company man district, Mohave County, Arizona. John Betts photo. 1964). reputedly was...with Mercator Mineral around Mineral Park, Mohave County. Turquoise has been Park Holdings Ltd. acquiring |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | OXFORD COUNTY, MAINE: THE PLACE TO GO By F R A N K W A R D 2 Mildred A v e n u e , Rye, N . Y . 1 0 5...bring to light numerous specimens labeled Oxford County, Maine. M y own collection boasts quite a few that...collected from the numerous mines and quarries of Oxford County over the past five summers. A scattering of...come to Oxford County. T h e pegmatites that comprise the min eralized zone of Oxford County are in many...these minerals being the semi-precious gemstone tourmaline which occurs in almost every conceivable color |  | | 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 |  | | 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) | | extraLapis English No. 3: Tourmaline Publisher Lapis International, LLC; East Hampton, CT Concept &...International, LLC P.O. Box 263, East Hampton, CT 06424, USA Phone 1.860.267.1512; fax 1.860.267.7225 www.lapisint...Eberhard Equit, 1993 extraLapis English No. 3 Tourmaline A Gemstone Spectrum Contributions by Brian C...AND LAPIS INTERNATIONAL, USA Tourmaline ♦ History ♦ Mineralogy • Tourmaline - History in Brief .......Mineralogy of the Tourmaline Group . . . 10 Species by Species - The Minerals of the Tourmaline Group ..... |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | exhibition, Romancing the Stone: The Many Facets of Tourmaline, that will run through 20 January 2002. It focuses...New England tourmaline deposits: the Mount Mica and Dunton mines of southwestern Maine. Rich in both...fine jewelry pieces, including Harvard’s Hamlin Tourmaline Necklace, which is made up of seventy stones...of 228.12 carats, and the Maine Tourmaline Necklace, on loan from the Maine State Museum. Among the other...exhibits are a model of a tourmaline cavity, a large map showing locations of tourmaline mines worldwide, jewelry |  | | 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...Pink tourmaline (elbaite) on quartz crystals, 24 x JO mm;Jrom the Bennett Quarry, Buckfield, Maine. Mined |  | Simmons, William, Falster, Alexander, Webber, Karen, Roda-Robles, Encarnación, Boudreaux, Andrew P., Grassi, Leah Rae, Freeman, Gary (2016) Bulk Composition of Mt. Mica Pegmatite, Maine, USA: Implications For the Origin of An Lct Type Pegmatite By Anatexis. The Canadian Mineralogist, 54 (4) 1053-1070 doi:10.3749/canmin.1600017 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 3749/canmin.1600017 BULK COMPOSITION OF MT. MICA PEGMATITE, MAINE, USA: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE ORIGIN OF AN LCT...FALSTER, AND KAREN WEBBER Maine Mineral and Gem Museum, 99 Main St, Bethel, Maine 04217, U.S.A. ENCARNACIÓN...LLC, 48 Lovejoy Road, South Paris, Maine 04281, U.S.A. ABSTRACT The Mt. Mica pegmatite is famous for producing...producing gem tourmaline for nearly 200 years. The dike, ranging in thickness from 1 to 8 m and dipping...was representative of the bulk composition of Mt. Mica. The sample was then analyzed by fusion ICP spectroscopy |  | | Report (volume) | | all red stones: spinel, ruby, garnet, and rose tourmaline; the term "sapphire," to lapis lazuli and other...beauty of irregularly colored stones, such as tourmaline. UNIT OF WEIGHT The carat, meaning one-fifth...dikes contain a variety of gem stones, such as tourmaline, beryl (emerald, aquamarine), spodumene (kunzite...Del Norte County; Trinity River, Trinity County; Spanish Creek and Gopher Hill, Plumas County; Placerville...Dorado County; Cherokee Flats, Yankee Hill,and Oroville, Butte County; French Corral, Nevada County; Indian |  | | Journal (issue) | | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.00 T..,..IIH. Maine. Bleck well terminated xi. 2 x 1 ½ . . . . . . ...1946 CONTENTS FOR SEPTEMBER, 1946 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY .................................................···································575 WINDSOR QUARRY, RUDEVILLE, N . J. By Peler Z odac ..............usually not easily distinguishable ly in Tooele County, Utah, at approxi - from the more plentiful Pleistocene...Among these is Prof. Ellen Gleditsch, who worked in Paris with Madame Curie for five years. She has been the |  | | Journal (issue) | | 60 Gems and Minerals of Post Mine Closures The Maine (Part I) Popularity of Bisbee Community Outlook...transparent blue single crystal with a bit of green tourmaline on one side. It is one of the best topaz crystals...| SAN FRANCISCO | CHICAGO | PALM BEACH LONDON | PARIS | GENEVA | AMSTERDAM | HONG KONG Always Accepting...near the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, which has a fantastic collection of minerals and...BD10 Power Feed Trim Saw Scan for Video MADE IN USA Features include: • All cast aluminum tank, table |  | | 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...minerals to the section on mineral descriptions. Mount Rubellite, long inactive, bas been replaced in the...characterized the evenings spent with members of the Oxford County Mineral & Gem Association. N. A. W. Mountainside |  | | Journal (volume) | | Cross-bedding pattern toward castle Sorbonne Collection, Paris. summit rock al Zion National Park, Utah. Photo:...World travelers who have visited great galleries in Paris, Rome, London, Berlin, Vienna, Athens and other...hos hod exhibitions in his native Barcelona, in Paris and in New York. Although only lorry, he hos earned...history of Maine tourmalines began in 1820 with the discovery of gem tourmalines at Mount Mica by two students...and Ezekiel Holmes• of the nearby town of Paris in Oxford Coun ty. Today, mineralogists everywhere are |  | Bradley, Dwight, Shea, Erin, Buchwaldt, Robert, Bowring, Sam, Benowitz, Jeff, O'Sullivan, Paul, McCauley, Andrew (2016) Geochronology and Tectonic Context of Lithium-Cesium-Tantalum Pegmatites In the Appalachians. The Canadian Mineralogist, 54 (4) 945-969 doi:10.3749/canmin.1600035 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | New Hampshire, at ca. 326– 294 Ma; and (4) Mount Mica, Maine, at ca. 264–260 Ma. The NYF pegmatites in...Appalachians must be of at least three ages: Topsham, Maine, dated at ca. 273 Ma (U-Pb monazite) by Tomascak...industrial minerals, including ceramic-grade feldspars, mica, and high-purity silica (Glover et al. 2012). The...aureoles are sources of gemstones such as watermelon tourmaline, the spodumene variety kunzite, and the...that delimit the Connecticut Valley-Gaspe, Central Maine, and Merrimack basins, which were deformed and metamorphosed |  | | Journal (issue) | | 140 Years Steve Voynick 30 GEMS AND MINERALS OF MAINE (PART II) An Annual Conference and a New Museum......6 Bench Tips ........................16 36 Maine Mineral Attraction Earth Science In News............47 Rock Science .....................48 37 Maine Mineral Attraction What to Cut ....................70 On the Rocks......................78 Dig Maine Gems 38 Antoinette Rahn SUBSCRIPTION QUESTIONS...BD10 Power Feed Trim Saw Scan for Video MADE IN USA Features include: • All cast aluminum tank, table |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | California, San Diego] at 03:56 02 March 2016 What TOURMALINE Says T HIS IS THE SECOND OF SEVERAL ARTICLES...in which they form. The series continues with tourmaline, the most common of the boron-rich minerals....(facing page). Species, varieties, and habits of tourmaline: (a) left: schorl, 20 cm, Minas Gerais, Brazil...Ledge dike, Little Three mine, Ramona, San Diego County, California. Varieties of elbaite: (c) rubellite...International; (d) green (verdelite) and yellow tourmaline, doubly terminated, 6 cm, 1991 London Pocket |  | | Journal (issue) | | Robert B. Cook Auburn University, Al Carl A. Francis Maine Mineral & Gem Museum, ME John Rakovan New Mexico...I. Jacobson, Denver, CO Anthony R. Kampf, l.A. County Museum of Natural History, CA Virgil W. Lueth,...across a local area net\,vork. Subscription offices: USA/North America: Taylor & Francis Group, LLC, 530 Walnut...Copyright Clearance Center (www.copyright.com) in the USA or the Copyright Licensing Agency (www. cla.co.uk)...Southwood Melbourne, Australia Woodrow B. Thompson, Maine Geological Survey, Augusta, ME John S. White, Stewartstown |  | | Journal (issue) | | .................184 by Paul Brian Moore Newry Maine - A Pegmatite Phosphate Locality... 189 by Vandall...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...both the county (pro vince) and its capital; there are thirty-one separate mines in the county. The mines...another new borate mineral at Borax Lake, Lake County, California, and in 1939 was co-author with W. |  | | Book | | Natural HistOrys.c:0 eehacencec scence 97 97 MAINE OR tee 1 eS inset igs cose casera ae ene g Adame...ier : eE An 101-106 Site 1 Perham’s of West Paris—Tourmaline, Beryl, Garnet and Quartz ............ccccceeeeeeee...Mining Camps Tourmaline Tourmaline and Garnets...seseeeeeeces 103 Site-4. Bumpus Quarry—Beryl; Quartz and Tourmaline ic.scecc.dccccceecedesaceavaneeecetdecee-ccels...Museum Mineral & Lapidary Museum of Henderson County........cccccscceseecesseceseeeseeeseeeeens 172 |  | | | | example the building of a mountain chain that produces mica schist from previous sedimentary rocks. The formation...garnet, epidote, vesuvianite, rhodonite, beryl, tourmaline, mica, feldspar, nepheline, zeolite, sodalite, ...may change the colour drastically, for example, tourmaline, garnet, topaz, quartz. Streak: Colour of Powder...several planes. For example there is one plane in mica, chlorite, topaz; there are two planes in amphibole...(blue), p. 170 pyroxene (green to black), p. 192 mica (white, brown, black), p. 204 quartz (colourless |  | | Book | | this comes when one learns that such minerals as mica, apatite, sphene, zircon, fluroite and corundum...Sapphires (Corundum) which combine with Biotite Mica to form R°ck ■ 1 ^ Igneous Dike Rock on the...in such minerals as quartz, feldspar, mica, garnet, tourmaline, magnetite, zircon, gold, platinum, topaz...gneiss rocks. Schists often contain feldspar, garnet, mica and quartz. With sapphires are often found associated...its principal com¬ ponents feldspar, quartz and mica it is known as pegmatite. Most of our metals and |  | | Journal (issue) | | gave way to fine hematite, fluorite, and limestone quarry collecting sites. Within the Mesabi range of Minnesota...knew that the road crossed the epicenter of Lake County diamond country. The specimen I found was a xenolith...high-temperature environment within the magma chamber of Mount Konocti, 1,112 degrees at a minimum, gave it a 7...brightness reminded me of the high-priced Lake County diamonds set in jewelry online. These stones shine... killed the chieftain and the moon hurled Lake County “diamonds” at the sun in anguish, some of them |  | | Book (edition) | | crystals and quanz, from the Tourmaline Q ueen .1ine, Pala, San Diego County, California. From a pen-and-ink...ANT GEMSTONES The Feldspar Group, Spodumene, Tourmaline, Sodalite, Olivine (Peridot), Turquois, Prosopite... List of Illustrations Frontispiece. Drawing of tourmaline and morganite group 1. Crater of Diamonds, Arkansas...pegmatite, Newry, Maine 34. Loading pocket contents, Newry, Maine 35. Large tourmaline crystal from Dunton... Newry 36. Tourmaline crystal termination, Dunton mine, Newry 3 7. Drawing of tourmaline crystal forms |  | | Book | | the bui lding of a n1ountain chain that produces mica schist fro1n previous sedi1nentary rocks. The fcnn1ation...several planes. For exan1ple there is one plane in mica, chlorite, topaz; there are two planes in arnphibole...(colourless, blue, green), p. 106 kyanite (blue), p. 170 mica {white, brown, black), p. 204 rhodochrosite (red...black), p. 176 topaz (blue, whiteye!low), p. 172 tourmaline (black, brown, variable), p. 188 vesuvianite...nugget recorded is fro1n Carson Hill, California, USA, weighing 72.78 kg. Transylvania, Ron1ania; Rorai |  | | Book (volume) | | fabulous tourmalines and kunzites of California and Maine, the sparkling sapphires of Montana, and the...Kobuk jade locality. Descriptions of San Diego County, California, gemstones and the mines in which they...the generous assistance of many residents of that county. My special thanks are extended to Elbert H. McMacken...IMPORTANT GEMSTONES The Feldspar Group, Spodumene, Tourmaline, Sodalite and Cancrinite, Olivine, Turquois,...Orbicular Gabbro-Diorite, Lepidolite and Muscovite Mica, Obsidian, Banded Rhyolite, Pectolite, Datolite |
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Mount Mica Quarry, Paris, Oxford County, Maine, USA