 | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | RHODOCHROSITE MINERALIZATION AT THE EMMONS PEGMATITE, OXFORD CO., MAINE ALEXANDER U. FALSTER§ AND WILLIAM...Group, Maine Mineral & Gem Museum, 99 Main Street, Bethel, Maine 04217, USA Keywords: Emmons pegmatite...The Emmons pegmatite is located on the eastern slope of Uncle Tom Mountain in Greenwood, Oxford County...County, Maine. At times, the Emmons pegmatite has been referred to as the Uncle Tom Mountain quarry. The...The Emmons pegmatite is the species-richest pegmatite in Maine with currently 112 species. LITHIOPHILITE |  | | | | White Canyon mining district, San Juan Co., Utah, USA (37°340 37.1000 N, 0 00 110°17 52.80 W); Markey mine...White Canyon mining district, San Juan Co., Utah, USA (37°320 5700 N, 110°180 0800 W) Anthony R. Kampf*...Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90007, USA, catalogue numbers 67264...Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90007, USA, catalogue numbers 66691...□)TaTa2O8 Emmons pegmatite dike, exposed on Uncle Tom Mountain, Greenwood, Oxford Co., Maine, USA (44°190 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | White Canyon mining district, San Juan Co., Utah, USA (37° 34’37.10”N, 110°17’52.80”W); Markey mine, White...White Canyon mining district, San Juan Co., Utah, USA (37°32’57”N, 110°18’08”W) Anthony R. Kampf*, Jakub...Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90007, USA, catalogue numbers 67264...Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90007, USA, catalogue numbers 66691...□)TaTa2O8 Emmons pegmatite dyke, exposed on Uncle Tom Mountain, Greenwood, Oxford Co., Maine, USA (44°19’24”N |  | | 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 |  | | Report (issue) | | X-ray Powder Pattern: Foote mine, North Carolina, USA. 9.8 (100), 6.9 (80), 2.789 (70), 4.18 (60), 3.45...[100.0] [100.0] (1) Foote mine, North Carolina, USA; by electron microprobe, Fe confirmed as dominantly...mine, North Carolina, USA). Association: Jahnsite, laueite, mitridatite, rockbridgeite, manganese oxide,...North Carolina, USA); rockbridgeite–frondelite (Hagendorf, Germany). Distribution: In the USA, from the Foote...Foote mine, Kings Mountain, Cleveland Co., and at the LCA pegmatite, Bessemer City, Gaston Co., North |  | | Report (issue) | | pegmatites. Association: Rockbridgeite (Hagendorf, Germany); rockbridgeite, strunzite, stewartite, pseudolaueite...siderite, ludlamite (Palermo #1 mine, New Hampshire, USA). Distribution: Well-crystallized from Hagendorf... Voron’i massif, Kola Peninsula, Russia. In the USA, at the Palermo #1 and Fletcher mines, near North...Cheshire Co., New Hampshire; in the Emmons quarry, Greenwood, Oxford Co., Maine; in South Dakota, from the White...near Custer, Custer Co.; at the Foote mine, Kings Mountain, Cleveland Co., North Carolina. From the Énio |  | | Report (issue) | | = 108◦ 400 X-ray Powder Pattern: Buckfield, Maine, USA. 3.23 (10), 6.40 (9), 3.03 (8), 3.20 (7), 2.86...100.00 (1) Branchville, Connecticut, USA. (2) Buckfield, Maine, USA. (3) Ca2 (Mn, Fe)(PO4 )2 • 2H2 O with...strunzite, diadochite, dickinsonite, stewartite, rockbridgeite, mitridatite, eosphorite, a host of other Fe–Mn...Distribution: In the USA, from Branchville, Fairfield Co., Connecticut; in Maine, in Oxford Co., as large crystals...Bennett quarry, Buckfield, in the Nevel quarry and elsewhere around Newry, from the Emmons quarry, Greenwood |  | | Report (issue) | | X-ray Powder Pattern: Foote mine, North Carolina, USA. 11.12 (100), 3.37 (90), 8.47 (50), 2.137 (50), 2...d. Total 83.27 (1) Foote mine, North Carolina, USA; by electron microprobe, total Fe as FeO, total Mn...(Foote mine, North Carolina, USA) huréaulite (Tip Top mine, South Dakota, USA); triplite, bermanite, phosphosiderite...(7U7 Ranch, Arizona, USA); scholzite, parahopeite, phosphophyllite rockbridgeite; (Reaphook Hill, Australia)...Australia). Distribution: In the USA, from the Foote mine, Kings Mountain, Cleveland Co., North Carolina; |  | | 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...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...attention to them. They they disappeared completely. Tom told me that hey are still there, but the owner doesn't |  | | Report (issue) | | Powder Pattern: Stewart mine, Pala, California, USA. (ICDD 34-146). 3.152 (100), 8.09 (70), 2.992 (65)...Association: Lithiophilite, triphylite, heterosite, rockbridgeite, cacoxenite, vivianite, fairfieldite, dickinsonite...from Huréaux, St. Sylvestre, and in the La Vilate quarry, near Chanteloube, Haute-Vienne. At the Mangualde... near Eräjärvi, Finland. In the USA, from the Strickland quarry, Portland, Middlesex Co., and at Branchville...Hampshire; from the Emmons quarry, Greenwood, Oxford Co., and many other places in Maine; in the Bull Moose |  | | Report (issue) | | X-ray Powder Pattern: Tip Top mine, South Dakota, USA. 8.63(10), 2.749 (6), 5.61 (5), 1.623 (5), 3.27 (4)...Total 100.6 100.00 (1) Tip Top mine, South Dakota, USA; by electron microprobe, total Fe as Fe2 O3 , total...limestone, derived from bat guano. Association: Rockbridgeite, ferrisicklerite, leucophosphite, jahnsite,...collinsite, huréaulite (Tip Top mine, South Dakota, USA); carbonate-fluorapatite, calcite, dolomite, quartz...(Khoa Rang Kai, Thailand). Distribution: In the USA, from the Tip Top mine, 8.5 km southwest of Custer |  | | 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 (article/letter/editorial) | | Silver, Wolverine mine, Kearsarge lode, Keweenaw County, Michigan. William Severance specimen, Jeff Scovil...claim (Hallelujah Junction), Petersen Mountain, Washoe County, Nevada. Paul Geffner specimen, Jeff Scovil...November/December: Millerite, Sterling mine, Antwerp, Jefferson County, New York. National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian...Pogson, 29–38 Albini, A., see In Memoriam Albite, Maine, 11; Michigan, 288 Allanite-Ce, New York, 497 Almandine...Minerals from the Huron River Uranium Prospect, Baraga County, Michigan, 298–308 Bornite, Michigan, 302 Brachiopods |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Mineralization at the Crooker Gem Pegmatite, Newry, Maine. V. King1, L. Jonaitis2, and R. Brown2. 1PO Box...04237. The Crooker gem pegmatite, Newry, Oxford County, Maine, has been mined sporadically since 1930...a small knoll downslope from Plumbago Mountain–Puzzle Mountain. The pegmatite was core-drilled and mapped...jahnsite, laueite, phosphosiderite, pseudolaueite, rockbridgeite, stewartite, strunzite, whitmoreite, and xanthoxenite... Mineralogy of Maine. Vol. 1. Maine Geological Survey. ———. 2000. Mineralogy of Maine—Addenda to volume |  | | Journal (issue) | | R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur...Carl A. Francis Harvard Mineralogical Museum 24 Oxford Street Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 be done...Smith, Jr. 9118 Concho Street Houston, Texas 77036 Tom Rosemeyer P.O. Box 586 Ouray, Colorado 81427 he...final tortuous assault on the mountains. Here the mountain sides are spotted with abandoned mines, the faded...red and yellow iron oxide paint the looming Red Mountain peaks. In the warm sun the acrid smell of disintegrating |  | | Journal (issue) | | hiddenite specimens in his collection from Alexander County, North Carolina, and those superb quartz crystal...Directors of the Foundation of the Los Angeles County Natural History Museum. It was my pleasure, and...interpenetrating twin cubes of thorianite from Hud dersfield County, Quebec. Their addresses: Vickery — 4 Brendon Road...the pegmatite, as at the Foote mine near Kings Mountain, North Carolina. Granitic pegmatites known for...certain pegmatite regions. Several pegma tites in Maine were made famous in mineralogical litera ture for |  | | Report (issue) | | Arrojadite Frondelite Strunzite Graftonite Rockbridgeite Xanthoxenite Augelite Montgomeryite Xenotime...prospects in the lower Ludlow lignites. Harding County: 1. Abemathyite has been identified as a component...Soluble In hydrochloric acid, yielding Custer County: 1. Allanite has been reported to occur as small...the Needles area. Runner (7) p 453. Pennington County: 1. Allanite occurs as microscopic inclusions in...H2O0.05 Insol. 1.12 Total 100.34± Occur. Custer County: 1. A greenish-black nodule of alluaudite 1 foot |  | | 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) | | acting caretaker of the San Pedro Mine in Santa Fe County, and along with his son Phillip is actively exploring...during the last year: a presidential election in the USA, more lands closed to public use, mineral localities...News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 Email: lanny @mineralnews.com...grow to around J t/4 inches (3 cm). The Chavan Quarry (W agho li. 12 miles (20 km) east of Pune (Poona)...and less green than s pecime ns from the Dhoot Quarry, producing the first Indi a n specimens. The crystal |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | time: frondelite, laubmannite, retgersite, rockbridgeite, scorzalite, sengierite, souzalite, torreyite...occur in otero county, New Mexico, in small irregular dikes associated wit}l the Wind Mountain laccolith,...sample of eudialyte from the west side of Wind Mountain has the following indices of refraction: o:1.588... ORBICULAR TINGUAITE DTKES NEAR BRYANT, SAIINE COUNTY, ARI(ANSAS FREDA. EIIDEBRAND University of Chicago...and enclosure of flow lines. BERYL AT MT. MICA, MAINE Ilarvard CORNELII'SS. HIIRLBUT, IR. University |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | time: frondelite, laubmannite, retgersite, rockbridgeite, scorzalite, sengierite, souzalite, torreyite...occur in otero county, New Mexico, in small irregular dikes associated wit}l the Wind Mountain laccolith,...sample of eudialyte from the west side of Wind Mountain has the following indices of refraction: o:1.588... ORBICULAR TINGUAITE DTKES NEAR BRYANT, SAIINE COUNTY, ARI(ANSAS FREDA. EIIDEBRAND University of Chicago...and enclosure of flow lines. BERYL AT MT. MICA, MAINE Ilarvard CORNELII'SS. HIIRLBUT, IR. University |  | | 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 |
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Emmons Quarry, Uncle Tom Mountain, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine, USA