| | 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) | 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 (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...characterized the evenings spent with members of the Oxford County Mineral & Gem Association. N. A. W. Mountainside...minerals. The geology of pegmatites, in general, and Maine pegmatites, in particular, is summarized briefly | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | at 04:13 19 December 2014 Mount Antero, Chaffee County, Colorado A s virtually every collector knows...and some districts, such as those in San Diego County, California, and many of those in Minas Gerais...premier aquamarine localities, Mount Antero, Chaffee County, Colorado, was highlighted by Jacobson and Lees...and is reported from the Orchard quarry at Buckfield, the Noyes quarry at Greenwood, and the Burnell Hill... at Waterford, Oxford County; and the Square pit at Topsham, Sagadahoc County, Maine. Good crystals are | | 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) | 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...New Orleans, Louisiana. Gary Freeman, of South Paris, Maine, is the owner of Mount Mica and Coromoto Minerals...Figure 1. Elbaite, 3.1 cm high, Mount Mica, Oxford County, Maine. Jeff Scovil photo. Figure 2. Elbaite...located in the town of Paris (Oxford County), 1.5 kilometers east of the village of Paris (fig. 4). Gem-quality | | | 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 | | | Report (issue) | quadrangle. It can be best seen in an abandoned quarry on the south slope of South Mountain near the west...phlogopite-talc schist can be seen in an abandoned quarry on the north slope of South Mountain about 1700...fault and constitute the cover sequence of the Irish Mountain nappe (MacLachlan, 1979, 1983; Drake, 1993...Martinsburg Formation can be seen in an abandoned quarry about 3500 feet west-southwest of Lanark. Here...outcrops along the railroad near the Lehigh-Bucks County line. An analyses of diabase is given in table | | | Report (volume) | CHARLES D. WALCOTT, DIRECTOR THE GEAOTTES OF MAINE BY T. NELSON DALE WITH AN INTKObUCTTOtf BY GEORGE...GEORGE OTIS SMITH PREPARED IN COOPERATION WITH THE MAINE STATE SURVEY COMMISSION WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT ... CONTENTS. INTRODUCTION THE OCCUKHENCE OK GRANITE IN MAINE, BY GEORGE OTIS SMITH. Page. Geographic distribution............................ 12 THE GRANITES OF MAINE, BY T. NELSON DALE. Introduction..................classification ................................... Maine granites....................................... | | | Journal (issue) | Wilson Associate Editors Pierre Bariand Sorbonne Paris, France Bill Birch Museum of Victoria Melbourne...Associate Photographers Nelly Bariand Sorbonne Paris, France Dan Behnke Northbrook, IL Werner Lieber...Alves Mineralogy of the Bennett pegmatite, Oxford County, Maine ........................................../# 6 C alifornia Issue B enitoite, G old, L .A . County M useum , H im alaya m ine $7 Circulation Manager...richer in giant crystals of rose-colored microcline, green microcline (commonly surrounded by an albite rim) | | | Report (volume) | .............................. Tin deposits of Irish Creek, -Va., by A. H. Koschmann, J. J. Glass, and........ The Three Kids manganese district, Clark County, Nev., by C. B. Hunt, V. E. McKelvey, and J. H......<...... The Coso quicksilver district, Inyo County, Calif., by C. P. Ross and R. G. Yates...........deposits in the Artillery Mountains region,' Mohave County, Ariz., by S. G. Lasky and B. N. Webber..........vicinity.......... 256 Map of the No. 1 workings, Irish Creek, Va., showing location of samples and list | | | Book (volume) | series of pegmatite dikes ranking with those in Maine and Southern California for their production of...beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm...gray Barite rosette up to 5 or 6 inches. CAMPBELL COUNTY MOUND CITY, W to the Missouri R., regional hillsides...gravels, etc.petrified wood, wood opal. CORSON COUNTY LITTLE EAGLE: area ridges, slopes, stream beds...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States CUSTER COUNTY AREA: The November Mine, 1.2 mi. SE of the Needles | | | Report (issue) | slope of the Kohlberg along the Northampton-Bucks County line. Modes and chemical analyses of Byram rocks...fault and constitute the cover sequence of the Irish Mountain nappe (MacLachlan, 1979, 1983; Drake, 1993...they are the Lebanon Valley, the Applebutter, the Irish Mountain, the Musconetcong, and the Lyons Station...(Drake, 1991, in press b). Rocks of the Applebutter, Irish Mountain, and Musconetcong nappes crop out in the...is separated from the Irish Mountain by the Applebutter thrust fault and the Irish Mountain from the Musconetcong | | | Journal (issue) | Neal Yedlin Mineralogist photography Nelly Bariand Paris, France Werner Lieber Heidelberg, West Germany Olaf...New York Famous Mineral Localities —The Pulsifer Quarry....................... 72 by Wende|| E Wi|son ...Creek Pegmatite: A Rare Earth Pegmatite in Burnet County, Texas...........................................by Anthony Robert Kampf The Harding Mine, Taos County, New Mexico......................... 115 by Richard...(actually fluorapatite), from the Pulsifer quarry near Auburn, Maine; H 3 x 3.8 x 4.3 cm, on display in the | | | 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) | Thomssen Reno, Nevada photography Nelly Bariand Paris, France Werner Lieber Heidelberg, West Germany...(Rio de Janeiro) Pierre Bariand, University o f Paris (Paris) F. John Barlow (Appleton, WI) Leonard and Pat...Franklin, New Jersey Pulsifer quarry, Auburn, Maine Dunton mine, Newry, Maine Las Vigas mine, Vera Cruz...Goschenen clefts, Goschenen, Switzerland Lengenbach quarry, Bina Valley, Switzerland Knappenwand, Salzburg...Greece Mont St-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada Jeffrey quarry, Asbestos, Quebec, Canada Arsukfjord, Ivigtut, | | | Journal (issue) | clearly revealed in the stratigraphic column for the County (Figure 6). Figure 5. Geological map of Shropshire...© Copyright 2011 Peter Toghill. Figure 19. Old quarry in the Onny Valley where the basal Ordovician Hoar...Here a deep Neptunean dyke cuts the corner of the quarry, comprising a fissure within Precambrian Uriconian...(centre right) in the shadow of the corner of an old quarry at Hazler Hill. This is infilled with Caradoc siltstone...basalt, which forms the bulk of the quarry. The top of the quarry corresponds to the pre-Caradoc landscape | | | Catalog/List | - - · . 767 AJOITE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona USA 17 ANAL CITE Talisker Bay, Skye, Scotland...------------6 ALBITE Kragero Norway 933 ANATASE Hingston Quarry,Comwall Black micro crystals in crystalline feldspar...ANCYLITE Ce Dark Star Mine.Ravalli County. Montana U.S.A 963 ALBITE Maine USA Rich pinkish line grained mass...Wyoming ,U .S.A 50 ANDRADITE Franklin New Jersey USA white nodule. Unusual location Quite rich orange...rich variety) ½ x ½ £5 Ni AsO H/20 7 ANNITE Saga Quarry, Tvedalen near Larvik, Norway Pure black mica plate | | | Catalog/List | SiO F 7fJ 7 ■ AJOITE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona USA Blue veinlets in matrix some with micro botryoidal...lx2 £12 7.x2 £24 Hydrocarbon 963 6 ✓ ALBITE Maine USA variety CLEAVELANDITE, pure white sheafy, masses...£5 -------------------------933 ANATASE Hingston Quarry,Comwall Black micro crystals in crystalline feldspar...feldspar 37 ANCYLITE Ce Dark Star Mine,Ravalli County, Montana U.S.A Rich pinkish fine grained mass in...------------- PbAgSbS 50 ANDRADITE Franklin New Jersey USA Quite rich orange mass in matrix. Minor willemite | | 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...that delimit the Connecticut Valley-Gaspe, Central Maine, and Merrimack basins, which were deformed and metamorphosed...Bronson Hill anticlinorium in New Hampshire and Maine (Moench & Aleinikoff 2003, Dorais et al. 2008) and...syntectonic Acadian magmatic pulse in north-central Maine and western New Hampshire. Middle Devonian to Early | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | world-wide locality index. The localities are listed by county, followed by a listing of the most prominent minerals...Alleghany County. Howard Freeland specimen and photo. Rutherford pegmatite in Amelia County and the Lynch...Station locality (turquoise crystals) in Campbell County, are now closed to collectors. However, landowners...currently closed to collecting Albemarle County Alberene soapstone quarry—Alberene amphiboie asbestos, apatite...goethite pseudomorphs after pyrite Esmont slate quarry—Esmont dolomite, limonite pseudomorphs after pyrite | | | Catalog/List | Al SO/4 767 ■ AJOITE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona USA 14 ALUMINITE Railway cutting near Creston...lx2 £3 2x2 £4.50 2x3 £6.50 Feldspar 963 ALBITE Maine USA 811 ANATASE Tysse, Hardanger,Norway variety CLEA...ALLOPHANE Hawkswood Mine, Cornwall 933 ANATASE Hingston Quarry,Cornwall Black micro crystals in crystalline feldspar...2x2£10 2x3£15 Gamet 50 ANDRADITE Franklin New Jersey USA Quite rich orange mass in matrix.. Minor willemitc...with minor calcite or matrix ½" £4 7 ANNITE Saga Quarry, Tvcdalcn near Larvik, Norway Pure black mica plate | | | Journal (issue) | FEBRUARYJMAY 1994 NO. 1 & 2 MINERALS OF ROCKBRIDGE COUNTY, VIRGINIA D. Allen Penick, Jr. INTRODUCTION RockbridgeCountyhas...LocationmapofRockbridgeCounty,Virginia. reported from the county. Rockbridgecounty is one of the more prolific ...~mberliteisa~kigneousintrusiverockfoundin for Rockbridge County. It wasrecognizedasadistinctmineral species in...the sampleshmtheMidvaleironminesouthofVesuvius. county. Kimberliteisconsideredthechiefsourcerock Inadditionto...quartz crystals at Barger's Quarry near Lexington. A barite crystal from the quarry can be seen in the Washingtonand | | | Journal (issue) | Complex, Wausau Syenite Compley, Marathon County, Wisconsin, USA……………………………………………..21 DOLGOPOLOVA, A.,...assemblage in the Emmons pegmatite, Greenwood, Oxford Co., Maine, USA: implication for the origin of this unusual...evolution of the Emmons rare-element pegmatite (Maine, USA)…………………………………………37 GUASTONI, A., GENTILE, P...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…………………………………………………………… | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | January/February: Gold and quartz, Eagle's est mine, Placer County, California. Tana Daugharthy specimen, Harold and...and Erica Van Pelt photo. March/April: Gold, Irish Gulch, Eldorado Creek, near Dawson City, Yukon Territory...ovember/Decernber: Fluorite, Blue Circle Cement quarry, Weardale, England. Jesse Fisher and Joan Kureczka...quartz. 118-23; Yaogangxian mine, 258 Chips from the Quarry, M. E. Huizing, 5, 85-87,149-51,213-14,293-95,373-75...49 Collecting the KellerLakePegmatite, Waupaca County. Wisconsin: A New Site for Gadolinite-(Y), T. W | | | Book | ADULARIA Adu Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...Iron-manganese phosphates of the Williams pegmatites, Coosa County, Alabama (by P. B. Leavens & T. A. Simpson) 6:66-73...ALICE GLORY HOLE The Alice glory hole, Clear Creek County, Colorado (by T. A. Hanson & W. B. Craft) 18:185187...--and W. Hunt: The Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County, Arizona 19:139-144 ALLGOOD, GENNE MYERS --and...Allgood, J. Pradenas: Gold occurrences in Tuolumne County, California 18:41-45, 18:62-64 --with W. H. Wilkinson |
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