 | | Book | | THE PEGMATITE MINES KNOWN AS NORTH GROTON, NEW HAMPSHIRE eral I ederi Acknowledi:ments Dedicated...Alexander U. Falster Carl Francis James W. Grandy Groton Historical Society Jonathan Herndon Various contributions...Steven Wilda Copyright © 2004 by Palermo Mines Ltd. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may...to: Palermo Mines Ltd., 934 Stark Highway, Weare, NH 03281. Published by the Friends of Palermo Mines................................... 9 History of Palermo .............................................. |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Minerals of North Groton, New Hampshire The historical background of the famous North Groton mines is as fascinating...Candia Road Chester, New Hampshire 03036 R O B E R T W. WHITMORE Weare, New Hampshire 03281 N O R T H G...from local residents and collectors. History North Groton is unknown to many people outside the mineral fraternity... a large percentage of the popula tion of New Hampshire would not recognize the name, let alone be able...Forest. 350 ROCKS & MINERALS In the early 1800s, Groton was a thriving farming com munity with a population |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | New Hampshire Mineral Locality Index Downloaded by [University of Newcastle, Australia] at 15:01 05...artsmithite@msn.com Figure 1. The entrance and arch of the Palermo mine, North Groton, Grafton County. Rob Lawrence...Bob Whitmore. 242 ROCKS & MINERALS lthough New Hampshire, the Granite State, is one of our smaller states...partially blanketed by glacial deposits and outwash that no doubt cover other potential localities and prevent...reading Jackson (1844) on the mineralogy of New Hampshire that even at this early date there was already |  | | Report (issue) | | Samuelsonite c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data: Monoclinic. Point Group: 2/m. Prismatic...14.000(5) X-ray Powder Pattern: Palermo #1 mine, New Hampshire, USA. 3.058 (10), 2.657 (7b), 3.032 (6)...Chemistry: P2 O5 Al2 O3 Fe2 O3 FeO MnO MgO CaO (1) 43.10 4.80 11.30 7.20 0.12 28.30 (2) 43.79 6.18...O+ (1) 0.44 2.04 0.21 0.02 3.00 (2) 2.31 0.43 0.35 1.85 Total 100.53 100.29 (1) Palermo #1 mine, New...New Hampshire, USA; by electron microprobe, total Fe as FeO, total Mn as MnO; corresponds to (Ba0.21 Ca0 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Street Brooklyn, New York 11226 WILLIAM ULRICH 404 McNulty Place New Hyde Park, New York 11040 ANTHONY...W H I T M O R E Mineralogy Section Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History 900 Exposition Boulevard...Boulevard Los Angeles, California 90007 Weare, New Hampshire 03281 Photographs by Violet Anderson, except... This classic locale in the White Mountains Hampshire yields nearly 100 mineral species, phosphates...collectors and professional mineralogists the name Palermo does not evoke visions of the picturesque and historic |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | desirable as brazilianite. Unlike many relatively new minerals, brazilianite made its debut in unusually...40 ROCKS & MINERALS including montebrasite, scorzalite, wylleite, eosphorite, siderite, albite, muscovite...Brazilianite has been reported from several New Hampshire localities, including aggregates of spear-shaped...crystals in cavities at the Palermo No. 1 mine near North Groton, Grafton County; the Charles Davis (Morrill...1956) and Nancy No. 1 mines, also in Grafton County; and the pegmatite at the G. E. Smith mine near Newport |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | ON 29 DECEMBER 2000, mineral collectors across New England lost a much-loved friend, Forrest Franklin...age of eighty. Forrest was employed by the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department as a game biologist...I1 as an airplane mechanic, he returned home to New England and studied for his B.S. in wildlife management...purchase the mineral rights to the Palermo mine in North Groton, New Hampshire. Their aim was to preserve this...mineral species have been identified from the Palermo No. 1 mine. Forrest Fogg and Bob Whitmore became famous |  | | Journal (issue) | | Mineral News VoL14 No.10 October, 1998 The Mineral Collector 1s Newsletter •• _,._, $2.00 ----~~--~--------~-----'·...----~~--~--------~-----'· I What's New at Denver in 1998? ·The Fall Mineral Shows We've Waited for all Summer...a fabulous job of filling my need to see what's new and overdose on minerals and mineral-collecting friends...visiting most of the dealers and finding out what's new. Unfortunately, this year, due to back trouble, I...quite as intense and thorough in my search for the new discoveries in the mineral rid. There are a lot of |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | CaAI(P0 )(OH) «H 0, from the Palermo No. 1 mine, near North Groton, New Hampshire, is orthorhombic. It occurs...name this new mineral after Mr. Forrest F. Fogg of Penacook, [he now lives in Dunbarton, N.H.] New Hampshire...advanced our knowledge of the practically unique Palermo paragenesis. His collection provided the first...micromounter. Fogg's career began with the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department with which he was affiliated...moving to New Hampshire, he met his wife Vera (nee Fitt), whom he married in 1951 in Concord, New Hampshire |  | Moore, Paul B., Lund, Dennis H., Keester, Kenneth L. (1973) Bjarebyite, (Ba,Sr)(Mn,Fe,Mg)2Al2(OH)3(PO4)3, a New Species. The Mineralogical Record, 4 (6) 282-285 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | (80, Sf) (Mn,Fe,Mg) 2 AI2 (OH) 3 (PO II ) 3 , A New Species by Paul B. Moore and Dennis H. Lund Department...California INTRODUCTION The Palermo No.1 pegmatite, near North Groton, New Hampshire, is famous for an extraordinarily...extraordinarily long list of mineral species, of which no less than 50 phosphate species have been reported...adjacent amblygonite produced compounds such as scorzalite and childrenite. Introduction of Ba2+ and Sr2...exotica as palermoite and bjarebyite, the latter a new species and the subject of this paper. PARAGENESIS |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | HUHNERKOBELITE CRYSTALS F-ROM THE PALERMO NO. 1 PEGMATITE, NORTH GROTON, NEW HAMPSHIRE Peur B. Moonn, Dept. of...moderate abundance at the Palermo No 1 Pegmatite, North Groton, New Hampshire, associatedwith numerous...i t ei s b i a r i a l ( f ) , . : 1 7 2 7 + . 0 0 5 a n d 7 : 1 . 7 3 8 + . 0 0 3 , m a r k e d l y...527. The structure cell gives a : b : c : 0.868: 1 : 0 5 15, o : 10 89, b : 12 54, r : 6.46 A and p :...north-west corner of the Palermo No. 1 Pegmatite, North Groton, New Hampshire, exposed,near its lip, a |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 5 ( 1 9 9 0 ) Pages Issues 1-104 105-192 193-280 281-392 393-488 489-568 Jan./Feb. (No. 1) Mar./Apr.../Apr. (No. 2) May/June (No. 3) July/Aug. (No. 4) Sept./Oct. (No. 5) Nov./Dec. (No. 6) Cover Photographs...Wulfenite, Empire mine, Tombstone, Arizona; Wendell E . Wilson photo and specimen. March/April: Mine engineers...engineers, Camp Bird mine, Colorado; Tom Rosemeyer histori cal photo. May/June: Barite on calcite, Stoneham...July/August: Fluorite, William Wise mine, Westmoreland, New Hampshire; Resur rection Mining Co. specimen |  | | Journal (issue) | | you wish to receive a copy. Please request our new arrivals list Dealers in: • rare minerals • fine... Paul Brian Moore Wyllieite, Na2Fe2AI(P04)3, A New Species........ Paul B. Moore Jun Ito Richard V...Record Post Office Box 783 Bowie, M aryland 2 0 7 1 5 Telephone: 2 6 2 -8 5 8 3 Editorial..............accompanied by a stamped, selfaddressed envelope No responsi bility can be assumed for unsoli cited...Scarsdale, New York, measures 8-1/2 by 10 inches. Photograph by HenriJansen, Ardsley,New York. Editorial |  | | Book | | Chapter 1 Phosphate Minerals: Their Properties and General Modes of Occurrence JEROME O. NRIAGU Introduction...recent findings. For the new minerals described since 1973, I have used the New Minerals section of the...the American Mineralogist, Lists of New Mineral Names of Mineralogical Magazine and the recent compilation...certainly abound in the scientific literature. Also, no attempt has been made to present an exhaustive reference...deposits in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah were opened centuries ago by the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Minerals of New Hampshire A Checklist JANET W. C A R E S 18 S i n g l e t a r y L a n e Sudbury. Massachusetts...ities. As other articles in this issue will attest, New Hamp shire has rightfully earned its nickname, the...minerals arc phosphates, most of which are from the Palermo pegmatite. A number of rare-earth minerals are...Janules, 1990), and the fumed "gummite" of the Ruggles mine accounts foi the many alteration products of uraninke...lead-bearing minerals are found at the Madison lead mine, and barite occurs in the well-known fluorite mines |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | palermoite, scorzalite, and other phosphates in the Palermo No. 1 pegmatite, near North Groton, New Hampshire...the New England pegmatites. He amassed a micromount collec tion of over 1,000 exquisite Palermo specimens...Mineralogical Museum at Harvard and the now defunct New England Museum of Natural History. He also visited...ested in allanite. I n 1926 he learned about the new Rocks and Minerals magazine through an advertisement...activities continued, especially in Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Maine. I n the spring of 1934, Gunnar Bjareby |  | | Journal (issue) | | Vol 14 No.12 December, 1998 The Mineral Collector 1s Newsletter $2.00 Minerals 1998: What's New Dan Weinrich...Weinrich www.danweinrich.com China One of the exciting new finds from China during 1998 would have to be the...inesite, apophyllite, etc. A Continued on page 4 Fig. 1. Apophyllite, Jianghshan, Guangdong Province, China...photo by Dan Weinrich. neat piece. To my knowledge no work has been done to determine which member of the...specimens belong. A more recent find involves a new locality for spessartine 1998 California Show at |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Wyllieite J Na2Fe~~1 [P04 ]31 A New Species by Paul B. Moore, Department of the Geophysical Sciences...1971 and 1972, it became clear that the Victory mine pegmatite was chemically unique, so peculiar in...to petrologists as well. Our account concerns a new species which evidently occurred in considerable...Victory mine pegmatite is located two miles northeast of the center of Custer, Custer County, South Dakota...on the Custer Quadrangle, Section 18, SE 114, SW 1/4, T.3S, R.5E. It is one of the hundreds of pegmatites |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | reprint part of the report on the naming of the new mineral species FOGGITE. My co-workers of the Capital...work together very hard on the phosphates of Palermo Mine. Our Micro Group of some 15 or so members gather...month. I asked Forest Fogg, my friend for whom the new mineral FOGGITE was named, to tell a little of his...phosphates. He said, " I first became interested in the Palermo phosphates about 1969 and particularly after I...the Palermo minerals. " I will be quite frank in saying that the more we looked into the Palermo phos |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Contributed Papers in Specimen Mineralogy: Part 1 31st, 32nd & 33rd THE 31st RMS . n Robinson Downloaded...Chamberlain, Syracuse University; Dr. Marian Lupulescu, New York State Museum; Dr. Robert King, Tewksbury, Great...FERBERITE-HÜBNERITE FROM THE NINE MILE PLUTON, MARATHON COUNTY, WISCONSIN. T. W. Buchholz1, A. U. Falster2, and... of Geology and Geophysics, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA 70148. rd The 33 ineralogical...excavation, exploration, and opportunity may allow. THE NEW ORLEANS METEORITE. A. U. Falster, W. B. Simmons, |  | Uher, Pavel, Mikuš, Tomáš, Milovský, Rastislav, Biroň, Adrian, Spišiak, Ján, Lipka, Jozef, Jahn, Ján (2009) Lazulite and Ba, Sr, Ca, K-rich phosphates–sulphates in quartz veins from metaquartzites of Tribeč Mountains, Western Carpathians, Slovakia: Compositional variations and evolution. Lithos, 112 (3) 447-460 doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2009.03.046 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Constantine Philosopher University, tr. A. Hlinku 1, 949 74 Nitra, Slovakia b a r t i c l e i n f o...0.73–0.99, Ba/(Ba + Ca) = 0.78–0.99 and (P − 1)/[(P − 1) + S] = 0.84–0.99. On the contrary, the secondary...woodhouseite with Sr/(Sr + Ca) = 0.16 to 0.99 and (P − 1)/[(P − 1) + S] = 0.07 to 0.97. The K, Ba-dominant phosphates–sulphates...minerals. © 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. 1. Introduction Lazulite and other aluminium-rich phosphate...Tatric sedimentary cover in Tribeč Mountains (Fig. 1). The formation usually immediately overlies the granitic |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | University; Dr. Robert 1. Gait. Royal Ontario Museum: Dr. William Kelly, New York State Geological Survey:...'Dept. of Geolog-y arid Geophysics, University of New Orleans. LA 70148. Cary Mound is a low hill that...& MINERALS RHODlZlTE FROM MADAGASCAR: NEW LOCALITIES AND NEW CHEMICAL DATA.A. U.Falster', E Pezzota2... of Geology and Geophysics, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA 70148; 2Museo di Storiu Naturale...in rhodizite crystals occur in four main types: (1) as primary growth zoning, (2) as irregular patchy |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Mineral Occurrences ITEMS ON NEW FINOS ARE DESIRED PLEASE SEND THEM I N . ^ . Abbreviations: x l — c...the information about cinnabar from the Red Devil Mine of Sleetmute, Alaska, and thought you might like...siderite have been found in the Junction copper mine, Bisbee, Cochise Co., Ariz. ARKANSAS — A black mass...sphalerite (gem quality) from the famous Big Four zinc mine near Heeney, Summit Co., Colo. Some small specimens...us — very nice material. "From the Big Four zinc mine near Heeney, Summit Co., Colo., by the Green Mountain |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | pegmatite, Germany I. E. GREY1,*, C. M. MACRAE1, E. KECK2 1 2 3 AND W. D. BIRCH3 CSIRO Process Science and... paravauxite, fluellite, morinite, variscite, scorzalite, kastningite, nordgauite, whiteite and wavellite...) between the 45 and 84 m levels in the Cornelia mine open cut. It is particularly common between 60 and...from the Hagendorf pegmatite province, but provided no details of its composition or occurrence. A few occurrences...of secondary phosphate minerals from the Cornelia mine open cut (Grey et al., I. E. GREY ET AL. 2010; |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | occurrence of alluaudite sensu stricto in the Buranga mine, Rwanda (Fransolet 1977, Héreng 1989). More recently...development deposited at the M.R.A.C., there is virtually no doubt that the following names, Kibingo or Kibinga...corresponds to the information in the archives. There is no comprehensive geological description of this body...of the pegmatitic field of Gatumba, in the Mwaka mine concessions. According to Monteyne-Poulaert et al...alluaudite s.l. have a rather complex coloring (Fig. 1), as they systematically exhibit a core strongly pleochroic |
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