| | 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...crystals, 24 x JO mm;Jrom the Bennett Quarry, Buckfield, Maine. Mined in 1996 by Holden !Jrothers Mining | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | PARAGENESIS OF THE GRANITE PEGMATITES OF CENTRAL MAINE Knr.txprn K. Laxons.* Haraard Uni.aersif'y SUMMARY...the paragenesis of certain pegmatites in central Maine has caused the writer to advance the following ideas... At Buckfield, and to a very minor degree at Mount Mica and Auburn, an intermediate phase followed during...resulted in the deposition of large amounts of cookeite and quartz. At Greenwood and Auburn purple apatite...formed in abundance. Typical minerals are quartz, cookeite, and apatite. V. Ground water alteration of material | | | Journal (issue) | Carson City, NV photography: Nelly Bariand Sorbonne Paris, France Werner Lieber Heidelberg, W. Germany Olaf...R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur... 353 by P. Orlandi and P. B. Scortecci M aine Maine tourmaline........................................Elbaite from Newry, Maine (by P. J. Dunn) [1975, vol. 6, no. 1, p. 22-25.] Newry, Maine, a pegmatite phosphate...] 328 Famous mineral localities: the Pulsifer quarry (by W. E. Wilson) [1977, vol. 8, no. 2, p. 72-77 | | | 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 (volume) | PEGMATITES AND ASSOCIATED ROCKS OF MAINE INCLUDING FELDSPAR, QUARTZ, MICA, AND GEM DEPOSITS BY EDSON S...minor constituents............................. Mica................................................................................... Origin of the Maine pegmatites........................................Larsen............................. Application to Maine pegmatites............................... Eutectics.............................. 1.... Androscoggin County............................................... | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Some Notable MAINE GEMSTONES J A N E C. P E R H A M Route 1, Box 1890 West Paris, Maine 04289 Mining...southwestern Maine. The pegmatite deposits in Oxford County and northern Androscoggin County have yielded...Whispering-Pines in South Paris, the Slattery quarry in Paris, and the Hibbs quarry in Hebron. Fine tourmaline...Dunton quarry in Newry, the B . B . #7 quarry in North Norway, Mount Mica at Paris Hill, and Mount Rubellite...These are all Oxford County locales. Producers of gem tourmaline in nearby Androscoggin County are the Pulsifer | | Falster, Alexander U., Simmons, William B., Webber, Karen L., Dallaire, Donald A., Nizamoff, James W., Sprague, Raymond A. (2019) The Emmons Pegmatite, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine. Rocks & Minerals, 94 (6) 498-519 doi:10.1080/00357529.2019.1641021 | 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) | Mining at HE BENNETT QUARRY BUCKFIELD, MAINE RONALD E . HOLDEN, J R . Sugar Hill Minerals P.O. Box 565...565 Norway, Maine 04268 I T W A S T H E S P R I N G of 1989, and the snow had begun to melt. A s outcrops...of my early experience was at the Mount Mica quarry in Paris, Maine, where I found my first tourmaline...an interest in the Ben nett quarry in Buckfield, Oxford County, Maine, an old feldspar mine famous for...lieved that similar ones still existed. The Bennett quarry was opened by Loren B . Merrill in 1917 (Blanche | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Maine Articles Published in Rocks and Minerals AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY DANIEL BEHNKE 2981 Landwehr...Gentleman of Oxford County. Rocks and Minerals 35:28-29. A tribute to "the dean of Maine minerals," Charles...of Buckfield, Maine. Bailey, E . M. 1929. A catalog of minerals found at Rumford, Maine. Rocks and Minerals...Barker, D. S. 1955. The Union Limestone quarry, Union, Maine. Rocks and Minerals 30:365-66. Short description...locations includ ing: Berry quarry, Poland; Bennett quarry, Buckfield; Hebron; Paris; and Litchfield. . 1942 | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Renewed Mining at the Western Quarries of Mount Apatite, Maine Downloaded by [University of Arizona] at... D.C. 20560 Figure 1. The western quarries of Mount Apatite. A fter decades of inactivity, mining...resumed on the western slopes of Mount Apatite in the town of Auburn, Maine (see fig. 1). This is the location...location of the world-famous Pulsifer quarry, which has produced fine gem tourmaline but is best known...addition to the resumption of mining in the Pulsifer quarry, two new cuts have been made into the pegmatite | | | 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...however, some minerals that are unique to O x f o r d County alone and these aren't as rare as the collector | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | November-December: Roebling Apatite, Pulsifer quarry, Auburn, Maine; photo by Victor E . Kranz. Aegirine-augite...Argellite, 188 Arkansas, Stand on Your Head #2 mine cookeite, 318; Magnet Cove eggonite, 114 Arsenopyrite,...114 Baumann, H . , 330 Bavenite, 189 Behnke, D., Maine Articles Published in Rocks and Minerals: An Annotated... , book review, The Tourma line, 453 Berkeley Quarry, Cross, South Carolina, J . J . Howe, 240 Bertrandite...Burbank, B . B . , Topaz and Herderite at Topsham, Maine, 434 Calaverite, 190 Calcite, 81, 112, 155, 190 | | | Book | PLATE XV. THE HISTORY OF MOUNT MICA OF U. MAINE, S. A. AND Its Wonderful of Deposits...Among Advancement of of Russia, Northern etc. MAINE Augustus 1895 Choate the Hamlin Gems of Science... the States to the mineral To a Mica Elijah of Mount have, and some the United and proper...proper by time, its Livermore Mica, Frederick in whose of the past twenty by his early...terminated S. A., dedicated Memoriam. Augustus Maine, Hamlin, — in Bangor, known deserving who | | | 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 | | Simmons, William B., Freeman, Gary, Falster, Alexander, Laurs, Brendan, Webber, Karen (2005) New tourmaline production: From Mount Mica, Maine America's First gem pegmatite. Rocks & Minerals, 80 (6) 396-408 doi:10.3200/rmin.80.6.396-408 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | El Paso] at 08:49 30 December 2014 from Mount Mica, Maine AmericaÕs First Gem Pegmatite WILLIAM B. “SKIP”...Coromoto Minerals, LLC 48 Lovejoy Road South Paris, Maine 04281 ALEXANDER FALSTER Department of Geology...Louisiana. Gary Freeman, of South Paris, Maine, is the owner of Mount Mica and Coromoto Minerals, LLC. Alexander...MINERALS Figure 1. Elbaite, 3.1 cm high, Mount Mica, Oxford County, Maine. Jeff Scovil photo. Figure 2. Elbaite...Elbaite, 6.5 cm high, Mount Mica; Jeff Scovil photo. Downloaded by [The University of Texas at El Paso] | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | we cherished. There were a few quarries in the county, but not until we got bicycles was it possible...color, although gold-like, was just iron-stained mica, locally known as Crow's gold. One of our neighbors...Fame JANET CARES Harvard Mineralogical Museum 24 Oxford Street Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 E A C H Y...babingtonite specimens in the Blueberry Mountain quarry, Woburn, Massachusetts. It was the first time any...were long rides in cars, buses, and trains up to Maine, New Hampshire, and Connecticut. The following spring | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | IN THE GARNET LINE IN THE MT. MICA AND HAVEY PEGMATITES, WESTERN MAINE MYLES FELCH§, ALEXANDER U. FALSTER...SIMMONS Maine Mineral and Gem Museum, PO Box 500, 99 Main Street, Bethel, Maine 04217 USA ABSTRACT...just beneath the core zone in many of the western Maine pegmatites. This study focuses on the mineralogical...of the garnet line within the Mt. Mica pegmatite, Oxford Co., Maine and a similar, but less pronounced...feature at the Havey pegmatite, Androscoggin Co., Maine. Within garnet lines of both pegmatites there is | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | from Plumbago Mountain, Newry Township, Oxford County, Maine. Kevin Brown specimen, Joe Budd photo. ...Rose quartz, 2.3 × 2.0 × 1.5 cm, from Mount Mica, Oxford County, Maine. It is difficult to find distinct...high-quality rose quartz crystals, namely Oxford County, Maine; Minas Gerais, Brazil; and Nuristan Province...localities. The very first discoveries were made in Maine, but some of the details have been overshadowed...found on Mount Mica, a 305-meter-high knob about 2.4 kilometers east of the town of Paris in Oxford County | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Humboldt County, Nevada, as well as some new area east of their Mosquite mine in Im perial County, California...Arkansas Cookeite Jim and Hisami McNeil of Memphis, Tennessee, located a new occurrence for cookeite at the...the Stand on Your Head #1 mine in Saline County. The cookeite occurs as nearly featureless botryoids,...largest groupings have probably come from Mount Mica, Paris, Maine.) Individ ual crystals suitable for crystal...crystal structure analysis have yet to be found. Cookeite is a frequently twinned mineral. Phosphates Art | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | FRANK A. PITTS: A 91-YEAR-OLD MICRO-MOUNT ENTHUSIAST Downloaded by [University of Florida] at 13:13...Minot, Maine, is a real "downeast" native for he was born in the town of Buckfield, Oxford County, Maine...Boston and Maine Railroad. After four years of work with this railroad, he returned to Maine and purchased...With some of the specimens from his mine and other Maine mineral localities Frank was able to exchange specimens...specimens. During the years he collected at Mount Apatite, Mount Mica, Noyes Mountain and other localities, | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73019 USA * Corresponding author. ABSTRACT of Crystallization...435-355C based on the feldspar solvus temperatures. Cookeite, kaolinite, montmorillonite, and illite enclose...Clays coat and encase all else (Figs . 2a-c). Cookeite -p or other fine-grained micas (e.g., boromuscovite:...clays in miarolitic cavities are montmorillonite, cookeite, kaolinite, and illite. Zeolites occur in the...limit of cookeite (Al2 Li)Al2 [Si3 Al]O10 (OH)8 ) in an assemblage including kaolinite, lP mica, and quartz | | | Journal (issue) | mined by Loren Merrill a century ago at Mt. Mica in Paris, Maine. This specimen was donated by Robert Whitmore...White Mountains” has just rolled off the press. Maine co-authors are Dyk Eusden, Woody Thompson, and John...years, having originally been proposed at a 1993 Mount Washington Observatory symposium on the glacial...mines operated until the 1940s and yielded feldspar, mica and beryl. Most are now abandoned, although one...Merrill sometime around 1890 to 1913 at Mt. Mica in Paris, Maine. Since Merrill is a family name, I did some | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Case Study of Pegmatites from the Oxford Pegmatite Field (Maine, USA) Lorena Hernández-Filiberto 1, *...Case Study of Pegmatites from the Oxford Pegmatite Field (Maine, USA). Minerals 2021, 11, 802. https://...roda@ehu.es Maine Mineral & Gem Museum, P.O. Box 500, 99 Main Street, Bethel, ME 04217, USA; wsimmons@uno...Abstract: Almandine-spessartine garnets, from the Oxford County pegmatites and the Palermo No. 1 pegmatite,...Garnets from the most fractionated pegmatites (Mt. Mica, Berry-Havey, and Emmons) show the highest Mn, Nb | | 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...was representative of the bulk composition of Mt. Mica. The sample was then analyzed by fusion ICP spectroscopy...similar patterns. These results suggest that the Mt. Mica pegmatitic melt did not form by fractional crystallization |
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Mount Mica Quarry, Paris, Oxford County, Maine, USA