 | | Journal (issue) | | Wilson Editorial Board written content: Pete J. Dunn Washington, DC Peter G. Embrey British Museum (N...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........................................just as well have been included in the eventual Beryl Issue. Although discussion of the aquamarines may...Elbaite from Newry, Maine (by P. J. Dunn) [1975, vol. 6, no. 1, p. 22-25.] Newry, Maine, a pegmatite phosphate |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | would frequently collect; these included Weldon's quarry, as well as the Summit, Bound Brook, and Millington...he had special free access to the Prospect Park quarry near Paterson where he attended nearly every blast...Corporation and the Mt. Mica Land Corporation in Maine. The major tourmaline deposits here may be de veloped...Although Charles Key is now located in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, he has lived, and has had businesses in, New Jersey...Dunton Gem mine (Nevell mine), Newry Hill, Newry, Maine. 7 Figure 1: Frank C. Perham. 442 ROCKS A M ) |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Earth and Climate Sciences, University of Maine, Orono, Maine 04469, U.S.A. Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie...latecomers in the geologic record: the oldest known is beryl in pegmatites associated with the Sinceni pluton...Urals, Russia) and the Larvik alkalic complex, Norway, but nonetheless related to continental collision;...appearance of the most abundant Be minerals, such as beryl and phenakite, early in the history of Be mineralization...complexes, supercontinent cycle, crystal structure, beryl Introduction Minerals are conventionally thought |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | SystemCaO-BeO-SiO2-P.O-F.O_ and the Breakdownof Beryl D. M. BURT Abstract Mineral incompatibilities...resultingdiagramsshow the break- down reactionsof beryl, BeaA12Si0Oa8, to phenakiteplus topaz in the fluoritestability...Both are useful for other Be-minerals, including beryl, as anhydrous "Lewis acids" (cf. Lewis, 1938). The...been found with quartz, apatite, beryllonite, and beryl. In two occurrencesit appearsto be altered by later...miarolitic cavities in granitic pegmatites with corroded beryl, albite, quartz, topaz, phenakite, triplite, fluorapatite |  | | Book | | reference value. In 1980, at the urging of Pete J. Dunn, we initiated a feasibility study for a 10-year...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...Franklin and Sterling Hill, New Jersey (by P. J. Dunn) 14:251-252 ALLCHAR Famous mineral localities: Allchar |  | | 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) | | MINERALOGY OF THE HASKE QUARRY, CARY MOUND GRANITE/GRANOPHYRE COMPLEX, WOOD COUNTY, WISCONSIN T. W. Buchholz1...rhyolite outcrop on Cary Mound in western Wood County, Wisconsin, and are exploited in a number of quarries...2015 MINERALOGY OF THE EMMONS PEGMATITE, OXFORD COUNTY, MAINE: AN EXAMPLE OF A HIGHLY EVOLVED LCT-TYPE...Emmons pegmatite on Uncle Tom Mountain, Oxford County, Maine, is an example of a highly evolved LCTtype...include pollucite, spodumene, cesian-rich beryl, common beryl, lepidolite and lithian muscovite, fluorapatite |  | | 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 (issue) | | International, LLC P.O. Box 263, East Hampton, CT 06424, USA Phone 1.860.267.1512; fax 1.860.267.7225 www.lapisint...CHRISTIAN WEISE VERLAG, GERMANY AND LAPIS INTERNATIONAL, USA Tourmaline ♦ History ♦ Mineralogy • Tourmaline...gem tourmaline was made at Mount Mica in Paris, Maine, though only small quantities were uncovered there...the north side of the Himalaya Mine in San Diego County, CA. D. Sterrett photo provided by Jesse Fisher...tourmaline was found in the pegmatites of San Diego County, California. The Advent of Chemical Analysis |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Museum 24 Oxford Street Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 MAINE Minerals of the Topsham, Maine, Pegmatite...district, is particularly noted for fine specimens of beryl, topaz, and uraninite. T O P S H A M I S L O C A...Andros coggin River from Brunswick in Sagadahoc County. A mile-wide belt of granitic pegmatites runs from...synonomy has arisen due to changes of leasee or owner. Quarry locations are described and plotted on top ographic...Mineral Resources Index No. I (Rand, 1957) and Maine Mines and Minerals, a field guide by Phillip Morrill |  | | Journal (issue) | | New York Famous Mineral Localities —The Pulsifer Quarry....................... 72 by Wende|| E Wi|son ...clature............................78 by Pete J. Dunn The snowbird Mine, Montana’s Parisite Loca lity...Creek Pegmatite: A Rare Earth Pegmatite in Burnet County, Texas.............................................................................92 by Pete J. Dunn LithiophMte Crystals From the Foote M ine.........cto rs ............................100 by Pete J. Dunn and Daniel Appleman The Dravite Crystal Bonanza |  | 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) | | mineral from Mount Mica and Black Mountain, Oxford County, Maine Mrcnlnr- E. BnowNprnr,o M.S. 972, U.S. GeologicalSurvey...from the Black Mountain pegmatite, Rumford, Oxford County, Maine. Kosnarite from Mount Mica occurs as ps...pegmatite in 1989 by Gene T. Bearssof Sanford, Maine. At about the same time, King sent to E.E.F. a micromount...by Bearssfrom the same boulder in the Mount Mica quarry. Detailed studies have shown the blue mineral to...0003-o04x/93l050646 53$02.00 group minerals from Maine pegmatites were arralyzed, quantitatively. One of |  | | Book (volume) | | occur in pegmatite exposures, such as Aquamarine, Beryl, some Ruby-red Corundum, Spodumene and Topaz. Georgia...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...Co. lineBeryl. MAYSVILLE, area gravels along adjoining Co. linerock crystal. BARROW COUNTY WINDER,...inside the Co. line in a Hornblendegneiss exposureBeryl, black Tourmaline. 146 A Location Guide for Rock |  | | Journal (issue) | | finds from China, helvite from Tongbei (Yunxiao County, Fujiao, China) and gibbsite from "Hunan". The...article in Rocks and Minerals on the Great Notch Quarry where he states that his specimens were collected...Brad mentioned earlier. matrix, the underside of Quarry,Paterson,NewJersey.Brad Plotkin Plotkin drawing...label reads "Apophyllite after Pectolite, Burgers Quarry, West Paterson New Jersey" ( Burgers one would...likely cracked tectonically prior to Quarry= Upper New Street Quarry). This specimen is made up of replacement |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Nb, U, Y, AND REE MINERALS OF THE KOSS QUARRY, MARATHON COUNTY, WISCONSIN. T. N Buchholz,‘ A. U.Falster...recently opened Koss (weathered granite. grus) quarry is located in the central portion of the Proterozoic...complex. Pegmatites are locally abundant in the Koss quarry and have furnished a large number of minerals from...from pockets and associated vuggy zones. The quarry was tirst 170 ROCKS & MINERALS opened in early...virtually absent. The recent discoveries in the Koss quarry include the following species. Ferrocolumbite and |  | | 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 |  | | Report (issue) | | (PO4 )3.00 (OH)2.94 • 5.69H2 O. (2) Dunton quarry, Maine, USA; corresponding to Ca2.00 Be4.07 (PO4 )3.00...pegmatites (Boevskoye deposit, Russia; Dunton quarry, Maine, USA); in a spodumene-rich pegmatite in high-grade...beryllonite, apatite, carbonate-apatite, crandallite, beryl, fluorite (Boevskoye deposit, Russia); roscherite... beryllonite, lepidolite, albite (Dunton quarry, Maine, USA). Distribution: In the Boevskoye beryllium...Mountains, Russia. At the Dunton quarry, Newry, Oxford Co., Maine, USA. From near Taquaral, Minas Gerais |  | | Journal (issue) | | content Paul E. Desautels Washington, DC Pete J. Dunn Washington, DC Peter G. Embrey British Museum (N...35 by P. J. Dunn Taeniolite, an uncommon lithium-mica from Coyote Peak, Humboldt County, California ...tour of the mineral facilities at the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History (where Tony is curator)...40502 he Hoosier Stone and Concrete Corporation quarry near Salem, Indiana, has yielded extremely well-formed...Hoosier Stone and Concrete Corporation, ran the quarry opera tion. Though minor production in the area |  | | Journal (issue) | | Dam gold prospect is located in central Dickinson County, Michigan, approximately ten kilometers north of...the dominant exposed bedrock in this part of the county. Excavated near the tum of the 20th century, the...obvious even when visiting some of the Garland County mines. I also planned to do some Magnet Cove collecting...incomplete locality information, like just the county, is better than erroneous detailed location data...door and under the shed tables. I usually find county where they are associated with chlorite and cookeite |  | | Journal (issue) | | Wilson Editorial Board written content: Pete J. Dunn Washington, DC Peter G. Embrey British Museum (N...R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur... AZ 85741 Departments Guest Editorial by P. ]. Dunn & C.A. Francis....................................Dangers to Science from Species Dealers Pete J. Dunn Department of Mineral Sciences Smithsonian Institution...Carl A. Francis Harvard Mineralogical Museum 24 Oxford Street Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 be done |  | | Journal (issue) | | Mineral Collector's Newsletter ss.oo Color in Beryl Bill Shelton laeliason@msn.com ,!. .~ ': -.,....boulder from the famous Gillette quarry in Connecticut yielded some nice beryl samples; among them one crystal...Initially, it seemed to me that color and habit in beryl were linked. Morganite and goshenite were usually...tabular green beryl from Maine. Perhaps exceptions help support rules; many examples of beryl do in fact...:i .,)':.~ . y/ ~ ' ~- ..-. ~-.•• 1.0cm Beryl,yar. Heliodor,ConselheiroPena;MinasGerais,Brazii |  | | Book (volume) | | cut purplish pink elbaite tourmaline (30.89 ct), Maine; round brilliant red-orange spessartine garnet (16...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...improved clarity and color. Beautiful, intense red beryl crystals, many of facet-grade, found in the Wah...crushed and treated to release the crystals. Red beryl gems, resembling the finest red spinels in color |  | | 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... Mineralogy of Maine. Vol. 1. Maine Geological Survey. ———. 2000. Mineralogy of Maine—Addenda to volume...volume 1. In Mineralogy of Maine. Vol. 2, 427–32. Maine Geological Survey. Rare-Earth-Element (REE) and...occurrence in the United States at Mineville (Essex County). The mineral was identified in a sample collected |  | | Show/Event (guide) | | Moderator 1:30 Beryl, eosphorite and secondary beryllium phosphates from the Collins Quarry, Georgetown...Georgetown, Maine - J. W. Nizamoff, A. U. Falster, D. Leavitt, & W. B. Simmons. 1:45 The world’s largest reddingite...reddingite crystal from the Bennett Quarry, Oxford Co., Maine? - M. Felch, A. U. Falster. & W. B. Simmons...historic Spinelli Prospect, Glastonbury, Hartford County, Connecticut - A. J. Albini & H. Moritz. 2:30...warwickite, and dissakisite-(Ce) from New York State, USA - M. V. Luoulescu. R. Rowe, D. G. Bailey, & M. Hawkins |  | | Journal (issue) | | Aquamarine from Pakistan; Wire Silver from Kongsberg, Norway; Powellite from Nasik, India; Blue Topaz from the...Nuristan, Afghanistan; Neptunite from San Benito County, California; Spinel from Mogok, Burma; and Emerald...the Coscuez mine, Colombia. OUTSIDE BACK COVER: Beryl crystals: heliodor (left), 5.4 inches, from Joerania...world. The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County was particularly interesting among the museums...minerals at the Tourmaline Queen mine in Sz Diego County, California. By 1978 he had accumulated a hu£ Tourmaline |
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Dunn Quarry, Norway, Oxford County, Maine, USA