 | | Report (volume) | | PEGMATITES AND ASSOCIATED ROCKS OF MAINE INCLUDING FELDSPAR, QUARTZ, MICA, AND GEM DEPOSITS BY EDSON S................................. Definition of pegmatite.................................................minor constituents............................. Mica................................................................................... Origin of the Maine pegmatites.................................................................... Temperatures of pegmatite crystallization .......................... Experiments |  | | 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 |  | | 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........................................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 |  | Brownfield, Michael E., Foord, Eugene E., Sutley, Stephen J., Botinelly, Theodore (1993) Kosnarite, KZr2(PO4)3 a new mineral from Mount Mica and Black Mountain, Oxford County, Maine. American Mineralogist, 78 (5-6) 653-656 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | l(Zrr(PO)r, a new mineral from Mount Mica and Black Mountain, Oxford County, Maine Mrcnlnr- E. BnowNprnr,o M...the Mount Mica pegmatite at Paris, and from the Black Mountain pegmatite, Rumford, Oxford County, Maine...Maine. Kosnarite from Mount Mica occurs as pseudocubicrhombohedral crystals, as much as 0.9 mm in maximum...strongestdiffraction lines [d(A), hkl, I/ I"l from the Mount Mica occurrence are 6.41,012,50;4.679,104,50; 4.329...werecollectedat the Mount Mica granite pegmatite in 1989 by Gene T. Bearssof Sanford, Maine. At about the same |  | | 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) | | Gems and Minerals of Maine Pegmatites Carl A. Fran cis Granitic pegmatites in Maine have been collected...other pegmatite district in North America with significant gem production is in San Diego County of southern...element" pegmatites and grouped them into two pegmatite "fields". The Brunswick field is located along...along the seacoast northeast of Portland. The Oxford field is inland northwest of Portland. A fault of regional...district in Maine. The Oxford field is much larger and comprises nine series. Cerny's model of pegmatite petrogenesis |  | | 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) | | symbol to promote outstanding aspects of their county or state. Approval is usually not difficult because...explored for copper in the Cerbat Mountains, Mohave County. They acquired mineral rights to two sections of...Cochise County, and earned the nicksurrounding Mineral name of “Turquoise Park, Mohave County, King” (Arizona...Johnston Turquoise company man district, Mohave County, Arizona. John Betts photo. 1964). reputedly was...with Mercator Mineral around Mineral Park, Mohave County. Turquoise has been Park Holdings Ltd. acquiring |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | and Environmental Earth Science Miami University Oxford, Ohio 45056 rakovajf@muohio.edu T he 6th International...Granitic Pegmatites was held in New Hampshire and Maine from 26 May to 2 June of this year. The meeting...There were also special exhibits of New England pegmatite minerals on display by local collectors, miners...Jackson, Jeff Morrison, Bob and Edna Whitmore, the Maine Mineral and Dr. John Rakovan, an executive editor...mineralogy and geochemistry at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Figure 1. Attendees of the 6th International |  | | 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...garnet line feature at the Havey pegmatite, Androscoggin Co., Maine. Within garnet lines of both pegmatites |  | | 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 |  | | | | phosphate mineral from the Dunton Quarry, Newry, Oxford County, Maine, USA F. C. HAWTHORNE1,*, N. A. BALL1...University of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana 70148, USA 2 [Received 8 April 2009; Accepted 6 July 2009]...tourmaline-bearing pocket at the Dunton Quarry, Newry, Oxford County, Maine, USA. It occurs as subhedral blocky...properties, X-ray powderdiffraction data, Newry, Maine, USA. Introduction MAHLMOODITE, Fe2+Zr(PO4)2(H2O)4...ore deposit at Wilson Springs, Garland County, Arkansas, USA, was described by Milton et al. (1993) as |  | 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) | | 08:49 30 December 2014 from Mount Mica, Maine AmericaÕs First Gem Pegmatite WILLIAM B. “SKIP” SIMMONS Department...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) | | 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) | | Emmons pegmatite in 1996. THE EMMONS PEGMATITE Greenwood Oxford County, Maine The Emmons pegmatite, noted...many phosphates, is Maine’s most species-rich pegmatite. T ALEXANDER U. FALSTER WILLIAM B. SIMMONS KAREN...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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Dakota and a 6.1-meter (20-foot) microcline from Maine—tourmaline (now considered a supergroup of minerals...particularly common in the Kinkel quarry near Bedford, Westchester County, New York. One fragmented group...5 and 4.0 feet) in length were described for Mount Mica pegmatites by Bastin (1911) and Hamlin (1895)...inches) in diameter, was found in a mica mine near Micaville, Randolph County, Alabama (Van Horn 1926). Even...crystals were found in the Cochran mica mine near Ball Ground, Cherokee County, Georgia. Many of these crystals |  | | Report (issue) | | QUARTZ AND FELDSPAR. FELDSPAR AND QUARTZ DEPOSITS OF MAINE, By EDSON S. BASTIN. INTRODUCTION. The commercially...commercially important feldspar and quartz deposits, of Maine all belong to a single type of rocks known to the...quartz, and mica, usually with subordinate amounts of other minerals. The pegmatites of Maine were studied... Cumberland, Androscoggin, and Oxford counties, in southwestern Maine, though occurring to some extent...in many open pits, from which feldspar, quartz, mica, or gem minerals have been mined, and in the cliffs |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | cm long), Beebe Hall, McCain Valley, San Diego County, California. Cal and Kerith Graeber specimen; Jeffrey...distinction because of the spectacular gemstones found on Mount Antero in central Colorado. and project into the...doubly terminated crystals. In the United States, Mount Figure 2. Index map of aquamarine occurrences in...States (from Thurston 1955). Essentially all pegmatite districts contain some aquamarine. Volume 68,...Figure 4. Aquamarine (6.7 cm long), Mount Antero, Chaffee County, Colorado. Martin Zinn specimen; Jeffrey |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | CRYSTALS FROM THE BALMAT DISTRICT, ST. LAWRENCE COUNTY, NEW YORK. S . C. Chamberlain, Department of Bioengineering...locality. FIBROUS MUSCOVITE FROM MOUNT MICA PEGMATITE, PARIS, MAINE. V. T. King, P.O. Box 90888, Rochester...Rochester, NY 14609. The Mount Mica granitic pegmatite is a thin (3-7 meter), moderately dipping (20”-30”s)...exposed on a small knoll near Paris Hill village, Paris, Oxford County, Maine. It intrudes the Silurian-age...batholith was probably the source of the Mount Mica pegmatite fluids and the thermal source for the prograde |  | | Report (issue) | | 23.877(7) Z=6 X-ray Powder Pattern: Mt. Mica, Maine, USA. 4.329 (100), 3.806 (90), 2.928 (90), 6.41...66 9.30 Total 99.97 100.57 100.00 (1) Mt. Mica, Maine, USA; by electron microprobe, total Fe as FeO,...(O3.98 F0.02 )Σ=4.00 ]3 . (2) Black Mountain, Maine, USA; by electron microprobe, total Fe as FeO, total...quartz (Mt. Mica, Maine, USA); siderite, albite, quartz (Black Mountain quarry, Maine, USA); wycheproofite...Distribution: In the USA, at Mt. Mica, near Paris, and in the Black Mountain quarry, near Rumford, Oxford Co., Maine |  | | 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...fibrous material likely having exsolved out as the pegmatite cooled. It can still be argued that this kind...namely Oxford County, Maine; Minas Gerais, Brazil; and Nuristan Province, Afghanistan. The pegmatite pockets...predict where they might occur within a particular pegmatite district. Often, many additional prospecting pits |  | | Report (issue) | | Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of Maine ............... 16 Table 5 Uranium occurrences in...occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of eastern Maine................^..............i.29 Figure 6. Uranium...occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of western Maine.................................30 Figure 7. Uranium...graphitic Cleburne County. The property is, about 11.2 SINE phyllite which overlies a mica schist. One sample...occurrences 1n non-sedimentary rocks of Alabama^ Pegmatite Columbite, cyrtolite, Devonian Country rock is |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | pegmatiticliquors during the time of emplacementof the pegmatite bodies. At least part of the added chemical elements...an origin dependentupon the introductionof the pegmatite.'The compositionof a contact-metamorphic mineral...visited,and samplesof mica schistor mica gneisswere taken at ten localitiesin Maine, five in southern New...listed in Table 1. TABLE 1. LIST OF NEW ENGLAND PEGMATITE LOCALITIES SAMPLED, WITH REFERENCES TO DESCRIPTIVE...Golding's Feldspar Quarry, near Bay Point Landing, Georgetown, Sagadahoc County, Maine ................ |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | of Pegmatite Evolution: The Case Study of Pegmatites from the Oxford Pegmatite Field (Maine, USA) Lorena...of Pegmatite Evolution: The Case Study of Pegmatites from the Oxford Pegmatite Field (Maine, USA). Minerals...roda@ehu.es Maine Mineral & Gem Museum, P.O. Box 500, 99 Main Street, Bethel, ME 04217, USA; wsimmons@uno...Almandine-spessartine garnets, from the Oxford County pegmatites and the Palermo No. 1 pegmatite, record significant compositional...Garnets from the most fractionated pegmatites (Mt. Mica, Berry-Havey, and Emmons) show the highest Mn, Nb |
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