| 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) | The Emmons pegmatite in 1996. THE EMMONS PEGMATITE Greenwood Oxford County, Maine The Emmons pegmatite...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...Louisiana, to Bethel, Maine, greatly facilitated resumption of our study of the Emmons pegmatite. For the | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | RHODOCHROSITE MINERALIZATION AT THE EMMONS PEGMATITE, OXFORD CO., MAINE ALEXANDER U. FALSTER§ AND WILLIAM...Group, Maine Mineral & Gem Museum, 99 Main Street, Bethel, Maine 04217, USA Keywords: Emmons pegmatite...The Emmons pegmatite is located on the eastern slope of Uncle Tom Mountain in Greenwood, Oxford County...County, Maine. At times, the Emmons pegmatite has been referred to as the Uncle Tom Mountain quarry. The...The Emmons pegmatite is the species-richest pegmatite in Maine with currently 112 species. LITHIOPHILITE | | | 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 | | | Report (issue) | = 108◦ 400 X-ray Powder Pattern: Buckfield, Maine, USA. 3.23 (10), 6.40 (9), 3.03 (8), 3.20 (7), 2.86...100.00 (1) Branchville, Connecticut, USA. (2) Buckfield, Maine, USA. (3) Ca2 (Mn, Fe)(PO4 )2 • 2H2 O with...diadochite, dickinsonite, stewartite, rockbridgeite, mitridatite, eosphorite, a host of other Fe–Mn phosphates...Distribution: In the USA, from Branchville, Fairfield Co., Connecticut; in Maine, in Oxford Co., as large crystals...Bennett quarry, Buckfield, in the Nevel quarry and elsewhere around Newry, from the Emmons quarry, Greenwood | | | Report (issue) | X-ray Powder Pattern: Foote mine, North Carolina, USA. 9.8 (100), 6.9 (80), 2.789 (70), 4.18 (60), 3.45...[100.0] [100.0] (1) Foote mine, North Carolina, USA; by electron microprobe, Fe confirmed as dominantly...(Foote mine, North Carolina, USA). Association: Jahnsite, laueite, mitridatite, rockbridgeite, manganese...North Carolina, USA); rockbridgeite–frondelite (Hagendorf, Germany). Distribution: In the USA, from the Foote...Foote mine, Kings Mountain, Cleveland Co., and at the LCA pegmatite, Bessemer City, Gaston Co., North | | | Report (issue) | X-ray Powder Pattern: Tip Top mine, South Dakota, USA. 8.63(10), 2.749 (6), 5.61 (5), 1.623 (5), 3.27 (4)...Total 100.6 100.00 (1) Tip Top mine, South Dakota, USA; by electron microprobe, total Fe as Fe2 O3 , total...collinsite, huréaulite (Tip Top mine, South Dakota, USA); carbonate-fluorapatite, calcite, dolomite, quartz...(Khoa Rang Kai, Thailand). Distribution: In the USA, from the Tip Top mine, 8.5 km southwest of Custer...Diego Co., California; in the Emmons quarry, Greenwood, Oxford Co., Maine. At Hagendorf, Bavaria, Germany | | | Journal (issue) | open-pit Gold Quarry Mine, Eureka County, Nevada. from the Radersburg District, Broadwater County, Montana...small wulfcnite crystals found at the Broadwater County, Montana (Sec. 28, T 5 N, R 1 W), some interesting...the Allegheny Plateau (from Georgia to central Maine). The NYMC membership is primarily amateur, and...F. Kunz Competition Papers, four articles on NE USA mineral occurrences. 73 pages, 55 illu tra1ions,...George F. Kunz Competition Papers, six articles on NE USA mineral occurrences, 84 pages, $ I 0.00 Add $3.00 | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Mineralization at the Crooker Gem Pegmatite, Newry, Maine. V. King1, L. Jonaitis2, and R. Brown2. 1PO Box...04237. The Crooker gem pegmatite, Newry, Oxford County, Maine, has been mined sporadically since 1930...a small knoll downslope from Plumbago Mountain–Puzzle Mountain. The pegmatite was core-drilled and mapped...earthy to waxy, botryoidal, medium olive-brown mitridatite. Autunite formed thin films on many fractures...The mitridatite-coated fractures are rich in phosphate species. Paragenetically, the mitridatite is the | | | Journal (issue) | News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 E-mail: lream@comtch.iea.com...feldspar. The locality, I believe, is a granite quarry. I have been told that, at the site, the large...category that, if passed up, one rues it forever. ... Tom Wolfe was one of the dealers who had the entire front...Fifties, i.e. chiastolite crystals from Madera County, CA. They used to be very common, almost ubiquitous...attention to them. They they disappeared completely. Tom told me that hey are still there, but the owner doesn't | | | 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 | | | Book (volume) | Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59...along adjoining Co. linerock 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 floatjasper. CARTERSVILLE:...(banded, various colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY MACON: at Holton Quarry, 7½ mi. NWagate; N of Calloway | | | Journal (issue) | R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur...Carl A. Francis Harvard Mineralogical Museum 24 Oxford Street Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 be done...Smith, Jr. 9118 Concho Street Houston, Texas 77036 Tom Rosemeyer P.O. Box 586 Ouray, Colorado 81427 he...final tortuous assault on the mountains. Here the mountain sides are spotted with abandoned mines, the faded...red and yellow iron oxide paint the looming Red Mountain peaks. In the warm sun the acrid smell of disintegrating | | | Journal (issue) | Complex, Wausau Syenite Compley, Marathon County, Wisconsin, USA……………………………………………..21 DOLGOPOLOVA, A.,...uartz assemblage in the Emmons pegmatite, Greenwood, Oxford Co., Maine, USA: implication for the origin...the internal evolution of the Emmons rare-element pegmatite (Maine, USA)…………………………………………37 GUASTONI,...characterization of an unknown metamict phase from Tuften quarry, Larvik area, S Norway…………………………………………………………………………………………………………...evolution of the Berry-Havey rare-element pegmatite (Maine, USA): preliminary results…………………………………………………………… | | | Book (volume) | 600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason | | | Book (volume) | 600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason | | | Report (issue) | Ferri-sicklerite Crandallite ·Ludlamite Griphite Mitridatite Sicklerite Alluaudite Beraunite Triplite Triploidite...prospects in the lower Ludlow lignites. Harding County: 1. Abemathyite has been identified as a component...Soluble In hydrochloric acid, yielding Custer County: 1. Allanite has been reported to occur as small...the Needles area. Runner (7) p 453. Pennington County: 1. Allanite occurs as microscopic inclusions in...H2O0.05 Insol. 1.12 Total 100.34± Occur. Custer County: 1. A greenish-black nodule of alluaudite 1 foot | | | Journal (issue) | hiddenite specimens in his collection from Alexander County, North Carolina, and those superb quartz crystal...Directors of the Foundation of the Los Angeles County Natural History Museum. It was my pleasure, and...interpenetrating twin cubes of thorianite from Hud dersfield County, Quebec. Their addresses: Vickery — 4 Brendon Road...the pegmatite, as at the Foote mine near Kings Mountain, North Carolina. Granitic pegmatites known for...certain pegmatite regions. Several pegma tites in Maine were made famous in mineralogical litera ture for | | | Report (issue) | 31 University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright © 2004 by University of Nevada Press Photographs... Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope district, Pershing County. N. Prenn collection. Photograph by J. Scovil....Goodsprings (Yellow Pine) Mining District, Clark County John C. Kepper 91 References 467 Contributors...Pyromorphite after Galena with Conichalcite Gold, Round Mountain Mine Quartz, Lovelock area Acanthite Grossular...Almandine-Spessartine Annabergite Gypsum Quartz, Petersen Mountain Heterogenite Quartz (amethyst), faceted Arsenolite | | | Book (edition) | abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture), dept...always included in text, except in the cases of the USA, UK, and the provinces Ontario and Quebec in Canada...abbreviations used are as follows: Mt. (mount or mountain), Mts. (mountains), R. (river), Is. (island),...Uintah County. Utah. and m (2.B. acanthite group). Monoclinic, C2/m, a,b,c Rio Blanco County. Colorado...Menzenschwand Scbwarzwald Mts., in the Sailauf quarry, Spessart Mts., Bavaria. both Germany, and from | | | Report (issue) | beauty are found in Cowee Valley in the Franklin County area of western North Carolina. Many of these...Alamance County ........................................................... 24 24 Alexander County ......Alleghany County ....................................................... 25 Ashe County ............Avery County ............................................................... 25 Buncombe County ......Burke County ............................................................... 26 Cabarrus County ... | | | Report (issue) | beauty are found in Cowee Valley in the Franklin County area of western North Carolina. Many of these...COUNTIES Alamance County • .' 22 24 24 Alexander County 24 Alleghany County 25 Ashe County • 25 Avery...Avery County 25 Buncombe County 26 Burke County 26 Cabarrus County 27 Caldwell County 27 Caswell...Caswell County 27 Catawba County 28 Chatham County 28 Cherokee County 28 Clay County • • 29 Cleveland...Cleveland County 29 Davidson County • 30 vi Davie County Durham County 31 Franklin County 31 31 | | | Report (issue) | 3i University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright© 2004 by Uni versity of Nevada Press Photographs... Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope district, Pershing County. N. Prenn coJlection. Photograph by J. Scovil....Goodsprings (Yellow Pine) Mining District, Clark County John C. Kepper MINERAL CATALOG 91 121 Gregory...Gold, Humboldt Mountain Gold, Mexican Mine Gold, Majuba Placer Gold, Round Mountain Mine Grossular,...Millerite Mi1netite Naumannite Ncvadaite, Gold Quarry Mine ()pal after wood Opal, faceted Orpin1ent, | | | Journal (issue) | . Ley The Sm okey Bear quartz claim s, Lincoln County, N ew M exico ...................................be used to establish a precise location within a quarry or general field collecting area. The collector...the points chosen are too often ephemeral (the quarry wall which changes tomorrow or next week), or subject...the county zoning offices. The accurate property boundaries provide good starting points. Quarry or property...but it’s probably unwise in this instance. Small quarry owners and mine operators are, for the most part | | | Report (issue) | ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Anna Burack Wilson, A.L. Lisenbee, Tom Johnson, Pat Drouillard, and the staff of the U.S...Ackerman, Walter, 1953, Louis Beryl Pegmatite, Custer County, South Dakota: Rapid City, South Dakota School...1952, Peerless Pegmatite, Keystone, Pennington County, South Dakota: Rapid City, South Dakota School...map and sections, Burnt [Burt?] Mica Mine, Custer County, South Dakota: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File...seasons 1974-1977: Guidebook and roadlogs for Rocky Mountain-Plains Field Conference, Friends of the Pleistocene |
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Emmons Quarry, Uncle Tom Mountain, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine, USA