 | 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 |  | Hanson, Sarah L., Falster, Alexander U., Simmons, William B “Skip”, Sprague, Raymond, Vignola, Pietro, Rotiroti, Nicola, Andó, Sergio, Hatert, Frédéric (2018) Tantalowodginite, (Mn0.5□0.5)TaTa2O8, a New Mineral Species from the Emmons Pegmatite, Uncle Tom Mountain, Maine, U.S.A. The Canadian Mineralogist, 56 (4) 543-553 doi:10.3749/canmin.1800009 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | NEW MINERAL SPECIES FROM THE EMMONS PEGMATITE, UNCLE TOM MOUNTAIN, MAINE, U.S.A. SARAH L. HANSON§ Geology...Research Group, Maine Mineral and Gem Museum, PO Box 500, 99 Main St., Bethel, 04217 Maine, U.S.A. RAYMOND...SPRAGUE 10 Yates Street, Mechanic Falls, 04256 Maine, U.S.A. PIETRO VIGNOLA CNR-Istituto per la dinamica...new mineral found in the Emmons granite pegmatite dike in Oxford County, Maine, U.S.A. It occurs as anhedral...mineralogical collection of the Maine Mineral and Gem Museum, 99 Main Street, Bethel, Maine, U.S.A. Keywords: tantalowodginite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 36849 cookrob@auburn.edu Beryl, Variety Morganite San Diego County, California O ne of the most popular...aquamarine, and to a lesser extent heliodor, morganite, bixbite (red beryl), and goshenite, are particularly...Show, morganite, the pink variety of beryl, so well known from the pegmatites of San Diego County, has...column, the first being emerald (Cook 1993). Morganite is, of course, typically described as pink in...often taken with respect to what is considered morganite so that even orange-colored (apricot or salmon) |  | | 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...at Mount Mica quarry, Paris; and the find of what might be the world's largest morganite at the Bennett...Bennett quarry, Buckfield, in the late 1980s convinced the regional collectors that good minerals come out |  | | 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 (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) | | the Simpson quarry on the south, the Hollister quarry on the east, and the Howe No. 4 quarry on the north...summer of 1996, the author mapped the trails and quarry locations using an altimeter, a Global Positioning...included: the Simpson quarry, known for gem beryl (aquamarine); and the Hollister quarry, known for lithium...famous nearby localities as the Andrews quarry, the Strickland quarry, and the Walden Gem mine. There is every...CRYSTALS FROM THE DOLOMITE PRODUCTS QUARRY, WALWORTH, MONROE COUNTY, NEW YORK. V. H. Collins and J. S. |  | | 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,...fractionated pegmatites (Mt. Mica, Berry-Havey, and Emmons) show the highest Mn, Nb, Ta, Zr, and Hf values |  | | 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...specimens yet, only a lot of rough pale pink morganite, black tourmaline, etc. I hear the area is quite...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 |  | | 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 |  | | Report (issue) | | from the University of New Orleans in Louisiana (USA), with the lowdown on beryl mineralogy An ancient...page 22). These include aquamarine, red beryl, morganite, emerald, goshenite, and heliodor. Known for millennia...Euhedral beryl, including goshenite, aquamarine and morganite, can be found adjacent to the core margin of the...crystal has been recorded from the Alger quarry in New Hampshire (USA). The crystal weighed 455 kilograms...crystals to lengths of 3 meters, as have those at Tin Mountain, South Dakota. 4m: Beryl crystals have reached |  | 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) | | 1600017 BULK COMPOSITION OF MT. MICA PEGMATITE, MAINE, USA: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE ORIGIN OF AN LCT TYPE PEGMATITE...FALSTER, AND KAREN WEBBER Maine Mineral and Gem Museum, 99 Main St, Bethel, Maine 04217, U.S.A. ENCARNACIÓN...Coromoto Minerals, LLC, 48 Lovejoy Road, South Paris, Maine 04281, U.S.A. ABSTRACT The Mt. Mica pegmatite is...composition, anatexis, Sebago Migmatite Domain, Maine. § Corresponding author e-mail address: wsimmons@uno...gem-quality tourmaline and lesser quantities of morganite. Pocket density averages about one every 3 m with |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | new member of the welinite group from Granite Mountain, Arkansas. Canadian Mineralogist, 56(5), 799–809...Big Rock quarry (also known as the 3M quarry), Granite Mountain, Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas...collections of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, California, U.S.A. F.C. Bodieite* A.R. Kampf...District, Utah, and the Masonic District, California, USA. Canadian Mineralogist, 56 (5), 763–772. 4+ Bodieite...deposited in the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. Yu.U. Ciriottiite* |  | | Journal (issue) | | R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur...the western slope of the Mosquito Range, in Lake County, Colorado, about 128 km (80 miles) southwest of...to 4000 meters (10,000 to 13,000 feet), and the mountain scenery in that area of Colorado is spec tacular...begun. Those who found themselves left out at Mountain City and other Gilpin mines continued to push...briefly that fall of 1859 told S. S. Slater in Mountain City (near what is now Central City) of a rich |  | | Journal (issue) | | 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...vol. 8, no. 6, p. 475.]* The best of San Diego County (by W. Larson) [1977, vol. 8, no. 6, p. 507-515 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Three Articles The Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County, A rizona by G. B. Allen & W. Hunt 139 James...Burbank Zeolites and related minerals from the Table Mountain lava flows near Golden, Colorado ...............aerially extensive Osborn Ag-Au district of Maricopa County in west-central Arizona. The primary property in...along a poorly maintained dirt road until Belmont Mountain, the host for the Tonopah-Belmont mine is in view...of the discovery of mineralization at Belmont Mountain. Ramsing (1957) reports the occurrence was discovered |  | 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) | | Hampshire, at ca. 326– 294 Ma; and (4) Mount Mica, Maine, at ca. 264–260 Ma. The NYF pegmatites in the Appalachians...Appalachians must be of at least three ages: Topsham, Maine, dated at ca. 273 Ma (U-Pb monazite) by Tomascak...Morefield, Virginia, at ca. 253 Ma; and Hurricane Mountain, New Hampshire, which cross-cutting relations...spodumene variety kunzite, and the beryl varieties morganite and aquamarine. They are also the only known sources...that delimit the Connecticut Valley-Gaspe, Central Maine, and Merrimack basins, which were deformed and metamorphosed |  | | 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 |  | | Book (edition) | | MARIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY 3 1111 00289 4184 \ I s Fifth Revised Edition A complete, state-by-state...included contain such specific details as farm roads, mountain paths, stretches of stream beds, and easily identifiable...on the gem resources of our land. "Do you, Mr. Maine," he continued, "know that some of the finest tourmalines...from Alaska to the Mexican border and eastward to Maine and Florida. Still others are found in Canada and...strike gem tourmaline by the bushel basketful in Maine and California; emerald in North Carolina, a big |  | | Book (edition) | | crystals, with morganite crystals and quanz, from the Tourmaline Q ueen .1ine, Pala, San Diego County, California...Ingersoll, Dr. E. A. King, Jeffrey J. Kunzeman, Tom Kurupas, M. G. Laberge, Dr.J. H. Langenh~im, Haydon...Illustrations Frontispiece. Drawing of tourmaline and morganite group 1. Crater of Diamonds, Arkansas 2. Star...forms 14. San Pedro mine, Pala, California 15. Morganite crystal from Pala, California 16. Hazel W. pegmatite...Pocket in pegmatite, Newry, Maine 34. Loading pocket contents, Newry, Maine 35. Large tourmaline crystal |  | | Book (volume) | | cut purplish pink elbaite tourmaline (30.89 ct), Maine; round brilliant red-orange spessartine garnet (16...Colorado; colorless scheelite (19.66 ct), Kern County, California; octagonal step cut violetish pink...Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from San Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...Dosen ONN/ QBI96-40247 Trade Distribution by Mountain Press Publishing Company P.O. Box 2399, Missoula...Cantlin, Ellis, [D; Jeannette B. Carillo, Gem Center USA, EI Paso, TX; Gary Christopher, The Prospectors Cache |  | | 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 |  | | 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...Antero aquamarine matrix specimen . Mesa Grande morganite crystal . Four topaz crystals . Drawing of New...Largest crystal from Mt. Mica Eh Towne Quarry 180 Tourmaline Queen Mountain IgI Tourmaline crystal (color) following |
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Emmons Quarry, Uncle Tom Mountain, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine, USA