 | | 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...mm;Jrom the Bennett Quarry, Buckfield, Maine. Mined in 1996 by Holden !Jrothers Mining and currently in |  | | 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 (volume) | | THE PEGMATITES AND ASSOCIATED ROCKS OF MAINE INCLUDING FELDSPAR, QUARTZ, MICA, AND GEM DEPOSITS BY EDSON................................................ Feldspar brushes......................................................................... Origin of the Maine pegmatites........................................Larsen............................. Application to Maine pegmatites............................... Eutectics........ 1.... Androscoggin County.................................................. Auburn............ |  | | Book (volume) | | 0 n101ercai o of Maine j f·~ ....__ :,,. . - .._"' ..;. .. ~ L-- -~ \. • .J_..::.; I Volume...Volume 2: Mining History, Gems, and Geology edited by Vandall T. King Maine Geological Survey DEPARTMENT...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) | | lie some of the oldest crystalline rocks in the East, both igneous and metamorphic, strongly mineralized...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: |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Renewed Mining at the Western Quarries of Mount Apatite, Maine Downloaded by [University of Arizona]...The western quarries of Mount Apatite. A fter decades of inactivity, mining has been resumed on the...the western slopes of Mount Apatite in the town of Auburn, Maine (see fig. 1). This is the location of the...Pulsifer quarry, which has produced fine gem tourmaline but is best known for deep purple apatite, including...including the remarkable Roebling apatite, now in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution. In addition |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | who collected it from a river near the base of Mount McKinley, an area since encompassed by Denali National...Manasquan, New Jersey, visited Calamity Wash, Yavapai County, and collected several exciting and Figure 7: Arizona...found in the specimens. Maine New Mining Activity Ever since the feldspar mill burned in West Paris...Paris in the early 196Os, Maine pegmatite mining has been conducted only for the recovery of gems or collector...in Sweden; the resumption of activity at Mount Mica quarry, Paris; and the find of what might be the |  | | Book (volume) | | Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift...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 |  | | Book (volume) | | Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift...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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | 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...localities: the Himalaya dike system, Mesa Grande district, California (by E. E. Foord) [1977, vol. 8, no |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | PARAGENESIS OF THE GRANITE PEGMATITES OF CENTRAL MAINE Knr.txprn K. Laxons.* Haraard Uni.aersif'y SUMMARY...the paragenesis of certain pegmatites in central Maine has caused the writer to advance the following ideas... The typical minerals of this classare potash feldspar (usually microcline), qnartz, muscovite, biotite...Buckfield, and to a very minor degree at Mount Mica and Auburn, an intermediate phase followed during which...developed at Buckfield, Greenwood and parts of Auburn resulted in the deposition of large amounts of |  | | Book (edition) | | HANDBOOK for A WEEK WITH MAINE MINERALS by NEIL A. WINTRINGHAM 1_� Cv1,_1'--A� __, SECOND EDITION...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...minerals to the section on mineral descriptions. Mount Rubellite, long inactive, bas been replaced in the...wishes to thank Mt-. Dana c. Douglass (Douglass Mining Co., Bethel), Mr. Stanley Feitler ( Beryllium DeveloIJDent |  | | Report (issue) | | 3: Tourmaline Publisher Lapis International, LLC; East Hampton, CT Concept & Design Maximilian Glas, Stamberg...Lapis International, LLC P.O. Box 263, East Hampton, CT 06424, USA Phone 1.860.267.1512; fax 1.860.267.7225...CHRISTIAN WEISE VERLAG, GERMANY AND LAPIS INTERNATIONAL, USA Tourmaline ♦ History ♦ Mineralogy • Tourmaline...78 Australia ......................... 82 Europe (east) ...................... 83 Europe (west) .........important find of gem tourmaline was made at Mount Mica in Paris, Maine, though only small quantities were uncovered |  | | 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 |  | | Book | | the 18th Antiquity in Beryl the Ancient 4 East, 9 Analysis, 11 Physical 50 Haiiy and His... semi-precious in beryl history of gemstone mining the on papers in of knowledge the many ...showing opinion of Lucas, upon the stones early feldspar whose dates that the mines less were which...considerable deemed to possess, that encouraged mining despite meager yields and the appalling conditions...chambers, There modem they recovered only extremely mining. were posits be equally made to pay in ancient |  | | Book | | stumble over a valuable nugget and stake your own mining claim? Indeed it to is, and author book Jay...prospecting, he points out, is in abandoned mining districts, where valuable mineral ores are present...commercial ores and secondary minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification...address Harper 6 Row, Publishers, Incorporated, 49 East 33rd Street, New York 16, N. Y. * FIRST EDITION...RANSOM 1875-1948 An to the Eastern '‘Schoolmarm” Mining Camps of the Old West I I a s I \ h K |  | | Journal (issue) | | This Issue Osmiridium Mining in Tasmania. By P. Ormsby Lennon Beryllium in Maine. By Prof. Freeman F...By David Modell A NON-TECHNICAL MAGAZINE - -ON- MINING · PROSPECTING • GEOLOGY - MINERALOGY • . THE... ROCI\S and MINERALS A NON-TECH NICAL MAGAZINE ---ON-MINING-PROSPECTING-GEOLOGY-MINERALOGY Published Quarterly...19. 1926 Contents for March, 1931 Osmiridium Mining in 'l'asmania. Bu P. Orm11bu Lennon . . . . . ...Postage Extra CRYSTALLIZED VANADINITE From Pinal County, Arizona Flame red crystals on a dnrk yellow matrix |  | | Report (issue) | | pegmatite mining inN ew England _______ _ Mica mining ______________________________ _ Feldspar mining ___...___________________________ _ Mining methods ___________________________ _ Geologic setting of the deposits..._______________________ _ Geology of the pegmatite districts of Maine __ :. . _____ _ Metamorphic rocks _________________________...of Connecticut ___ _ Geology of the Middletown district ___________ _ Rock units ____________________________...structural analysis of mica deposits to prospecting and mining _______________________ _ Recognition of the type |  | | Book (volume) | | Cultural Art Santa Ana, California + GEMSTONES OF EAST AFRICA by Peter C. Keller + GEMSTONES OF AFGHANISTAN...calcite (21.30 ct), Montana; light yellow orthoclase feldspar (25.03 ct), Idaho; rectangular step cut purplish...purplish pink elbaite tourmaline (30.89 ct), Maine; round brilliant red-orange spessartine garnet (16.62 ct)...Colorado; colorless scheelite (19.66 ct), Kern County, California; octagonal step cut violetish pink...Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from San Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Articles History and minerals of The Geysers, Sonoma County, California .....................................1852 to the 1920’s, is located in northern Sonoma County about 145 km north of San Fran cisco, California...View of The Geysers steam field in 1963, looking east. Photo courtesy of Pacific Gas and Electric Company...temperature of this ocherous clay is 175° F. A little east of this is located “Alkali Lake” and the “ Lava...fumaroles or openings and outlets in a volcanic district. As the first visitors at this California Hecla | | | Book (volume) | | Cultural Art Santa Ana, California GEMSTONES OF EAST AFRICA by Peter C. Keller GEMSTONES OF AFGHANISTAN...(21 .30 et), 1\1ontana; light yellow orthoclase feldspar (25.03 et), Idaho; rectangular step cut purplish...purplish pink elbaite tourmaline (30.89 et), Maine; round brilliant red-orange spessartine garnet ( 16.62...Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from Sai, Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...long. BOTTOM GROUP. Deep, spine! red oligoclase feldspar (5.04 et), Oregon; and three Montana sapphires |  | | Book | | MineralogicalRecord.com I IIMORIITE-(Y) EUROPE FRANCE Trimouns quarry, Luzenac, Ariege. Operated for talc since the beginning...beginning of the 20th century, the Trimouns quarry became well known to collectors around 1990 for the...long (Marty, 2004 ). AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins...region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites between the towns...Robinson, 2013). MALAWI Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of |  | | Book (edition) | | composition ainl properties of the minerals, methods of mining and preparation, market values, extent and nature...methoils. For example, the Fraseh [>rocess for llie mining of sulfur had not been tlevelopi'd. .James A. ...Alunite (Alum Stone). Anhydrite. 38 39 57 07 82 Apatite. Asbestos.. Asphalts, liitumoiis, Waxes, and ....Diatomaceous I'.artlj .. Dolomite. Epsoinitc. Feldspar. Fluorspar-Flvioritc. Fuller’s Earth. Garnet...processes. The milling of grain or the grinding of feldspar, talc, and similar minerals to com[>arable size |
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