 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | arch of the Palermo mine, North Groton, Grafton County. Rob Lawrence photo, courtesy Bob Whitmore. 242...at 15:01 05 January 2015 LOCATIONS BY COUNTY Belknap County Alton area: arsenopyrite, galena, quartz...occurrence is particularly noteworthy for Carroll County Albany, Blackberry Crossing (includes the Moose Pocket...(microcrystals) (Bob Janules, pers. com., 2000). Albany, Government pit, 3 miles NW of junction of U.S...(microcrystals), bertrandite (microcrystals), biotite/annite (crystals), calcite, cassiterite (microcrystals) |  | | 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...several locations includ ing: Berry quarry, Poland; Bennett quarry, Buckfield; Hebron; Paris; and Litchfield |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | sand had been kept. Gold bearing sand from Byron, Maine "I am sending you a little sand concentrates from...from crevice mining at the East Branch, Byron, Maine. Probably garnet, ilmenite and magnetite, staurolite...Buckfield, Maine. Maine has a gold mining area and it is located at Byron in Oxford County. From the stream...dolomite rock, dolomite crystals, and Herkimer County "diamonds." "Your magazine is still tops. Best...the little community of Howes Cave in Schoharie County. This is a commercial cave and one is not allowed |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | on the Post territory which covers most of Yuma County, Arizona, and a small area in California."—letter...Liggett military reserjade deposits in (Monterey County) Cali- vation are some of the very few found on...as the the Hunter Liggett military reservation biotite. Apparently the pegmatite is the has necessitated...Middlesex signed to conserve the stone for removal County, Conn., was sent in by Richard by legitimate collectors...Gillette thorization and have utilized methods of Quarry. They were found in a mixture excavation which |  | | Report (issue) | | _______________________ _ Geology of the pegmatite districts of Maine __ :. . _____ _ Metamorphic rocks _________________________...__________________ _ Maine ________________________________________ _ Androscoggin County ______________________...______________________ _ Berry feldspar quarry __________________ _ Cumberland County _______________________ _ LaChance...LaChance mines _______________________ _ Oxford County ____________________________ _ Barrett beryl prospect...prospect __________________ _ Bennett feldspar quarry ________________ _ Black Mountain area ___________________ |  | | 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 (issue) | | of increasing abundance) DEVONIAN DIKES DQ Biotite-muscovite granite DEVONIAN AND SILURIAN WAITS RIVER... Black biotite scNst and slabby quartz granofels Ochf Finely laminated, hornblende-biotite-plagioclase-quartz...minor felsic layers Obm Mixed white, hornblende-biotite-plagioclase-quartz rock and hornblendebiotite-quartz-plagioclase...e gneiss Obf Gray to white, medium-grained, biotite-quartz-plagioclase gneiss possible felsic volcanic...muscovite-biotite-quartz-plagioclase granofels and quartzite Ombs Black, slabby, rusty biotite-quartz |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | are interesting specimens. Centreville is in Bibb County, in the central part of Alabama. Near Odenville...community of about 1,200 in southeastern Pinal County which probably will become a ghost town when the...out and report later." The Strickland feldspar quarry (or mine) on Collins Hill, near Portland, is one...Strickland Quarry, Conn." pp. 131-144). Long idle, the announcement that the Strickland quarry is being...M found, I understand, by a rockhound and the quarry is holding off operations in that part of the pit |  | | Report (issue) | | OF THE RIVERSIDE EAST 7.5’ QUADRANGLE, RIVERSIDE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA By Douglas M. Morton1 and Brett F....of the Riverside East 7.5’ quadrangle, Riverside County, California that includes: 1. 2. 3. ARC/INFO (Environmental...ALACARTE (Fitzgibbon, 1991, Fitzgibbon and Wentworth, 1991, Wentworth and Fitzgibbon, 1991). Digitization and...Open-File Report 91-587B Fitzgibbon, T.T., and Wentworth, C.M., 1991, ALACARTE user interface – AML code... Geological Survey, Open-File Report 91-587A Wentworth, C.M., and Fitzgibbon, T.T., 1991, ALACARTE user | | | Report (issue) | | ALACARTE (Fitzgibbon, 1991, Fitzgibbon and Wentworth, 1991, Wentworth and Fitzgibbon, 1991). Digitization and...Open-File Report 91-587B Fitzgibbon, T.T., and Wentworth, C.M., 1991, ALACARTE user interface – AML code... Geological Survey, Open-File Report 91-587A Wentworth, C.M., and Fitzgibbon, T.T., 1991, ALACARTE user...metamorphic rocks consisting of predominantly biotite-quartz schist and lesser amounts of quartzite,...Jensen quarry at the eastern end of the Jurupa Mountains; smaller quarries are the Henshaw quarry located |  | | 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 |  | | Field Trip Notes | | Hampshire Field Trip No. 2, Outstanding pegmatites of Maine and New Hampshire 73 Geology of the "Chelmsford...slate; (2) phyllite with biotite porphyroblasts; (3) phyllite with biotite and garnet "5- » bJ —...Q- porphyroblastsj (4) biotite-garnet-staurolite schist^ and (5) biotite-garnetsillimanite schist....assigned to five metamorphic zones - the chlorite, biotite, garnet, staurolite, and sillimanite zones. For...the green schist facies| the biotite zone is the same as the chlorite-biotite subfacies of the green schist |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Investigation of Gilley Fluorspar Deposits in Cherokee County, Alabama, by James F. O'Neill. It is interesting... 50 miles northeast of Birmingham, in Cherokee County, located in West 1/2, West V2 of Section 16, Township...pegmatite district lies across the Park-Fremont County line in south-central Co'crado, a few miles northwest...consisting chiefly of muscovite, chlorite, and biotite, and traces of garnet, zoisite, and tourmaline...to us. Will some Colorado reader tell us in what county is Hans Peak and, if possible, send us a few notes |  | | Report (issue) | | Geological Survey Alacarte menu-driven nterface (Wentworth and Fitzgibbon, 1991) for ARC/INFO, a commercial...ite to quartz diorite; calculated K/Ar age of biotite from sample on east wall of Nichols Canyon about...stratigraphy of the Santa Monica Mountains, Los Angeles County, California: Pac. Sec. SEPM, vol. 58, p. 59-72...part of the Santa Monica Mountains, Los Angeles County, California: U. S. Geol. Survey Prof. Paper 165C...stability and geology of the Baldwin Hills, Los Angeles County, California: Calif. Div. Mines and Geol. Sp. Rpt |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | of vanadinite and wulfenite, is located in Pima County, Ariz., about 15 miles N . W . of Tucson. Although...managed, however, to get specimens of calcite, biotite, protovermiculite, perovskite, aegirite and some...Lithium-bearing pegmatites of the Pala district, San Diego County, California" has just been released by the Division...specimen comes from near Glenwood Springs, Garfield County, Colorado. "We find this pectolite high on a cliff...several houses, a general store, and a STONE QUARRY. This quarry is operated by the Morris Stone Company and |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Please Send Them In. calcite from the West End quarry, Inyo Co., Calif., and the other is a bluishwhite...albite, oligoclase, anorthite), quartz, mica (biotite, muscovite) obsidian and gold??? Who would suppose...in Georgia at the fo'lowing localities: Cherokee County —2V2 miles northeast of Ball Ground, 1 mi'e northwest...of Cherry Grove School; Fayette County—near Fayetteville; Fulton County—near College Park. (Georgia Mineral...Iowa. Among the minerals noted in the lot were: biotite (black flakes in granite), epidote (green, in granite) |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Pangea [6]. These fault systems continued into the USA in the southwest and into Europe in the east. Deformation...are notably absent, for example, east of the Wentworth pluton or between the Cape Chignecto and Hanna...Devonian to earliest for example, east of the Wentworth pluton or between the Cape Chignecto and Hanna...predomchlorite growths, and muscovite and minor biotite growths in interstitial openings. Many pyinant...deformation of mass. Sample 8015 contains common late biotite (Figure 5C) that fills porosity between veins (red |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | fairly nice specimens in an old road bed in Lee County, Alabama, about 10 miles north of Auburn, Ala....near the old HaleWalker Quarry —perhaps a third of a mile from the Strickland Quarry. Chalcopyrite is disseminated...green coating on pegmatite, at the Hale-Walker Quarry itself, was seen a few years ago. It was probably...of Milledgeville who discovered them in Baldwin County, Ga., between the State Sanitarium and Oconee River...mixture of chlorite, biotite, and muscovite. The porphyroblasts are in biotite-muscovite-quartz schist |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | instrument is somewhat better than that of the Wentworth-Hunt and Hurlbut integrators. Average operating...operating speed is about four times that of the Wentworth-Hunt and twice that of the Hurlbut machine. . INTRoDUcrroN...abandonment of this condition is apparentlv due to Wentworth (f ow. Geol.. 1923). F. CHAYES sharp distinction...the Shand stage is carried over intact in the Wentworth-Hunt, Dollar, Leitz, and Hurlbut instruments,...instrument as the latter has over the Wentworth; an hour's work on the Wentworth will usually take about a half-hour |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | as an indicator of complex magmatic systems: Wentworth pluton, Nova Scotia, Canada Angeliki Papoutsa...Coeval magmas Geochemistry a b s t r a c t The Wentworth pluton is the most complex intrusion among a series...Paleozoic plutons in the Cobequid Highlands, only the Wentworth granites contain both primary calcic (edenite...two coeval but distinct granitic systems in the Wentworth pluton. The granites with the calcic amphiboles...(Han et al., 1996; Gualda and Vlach, 2007). The Wentworth pluton in the Cobequid Highlands, in mainland |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | crosses the Middle Fork of Yuba River in Sierra County, Calif., we have a sand sample from the river that...Sand from Byron, Maine From Maine's famous gold locality, Swift River at Bvron, Oxford Co., we have a...collected for us by Mrs. Ruth Wentworth, 135 Maine Ave., Portland, Maine. The sample is a coarse grained...xl faces) with colorless to smoky quartz, black biotite, black magnetite, pale silvery muscovite, black...chiefly of quartz (white and colorless) with black biotite brownish feldspar, white muscovite, and greenish-blue |  | | Report (issue) | | 16 and 17, Con. XI, Faraday Township, Hastings County, Ontario. ROM:M31141 This specimen was collected.... . . . . . . . Beta-uranophane . . . . . . . Biotite. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bismuth. . . . . . ...localities under each species are broken down by county (or district), township, con cession, and lot,...would begin like this: ZIRCON ZrSiO 4 HASTINGS COUNTY FARADAY TOWNSHIP Concession XI, Lot 16, 17 Faraday...cases, what he thought was the nearest place. Some county and township names are misleading, as the actual |
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