 | | 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 |  | Francis, Carl A., Felch, Myles, Falster, Alexander U., Bailey, Douglas A. (2016) Aquamarine from Stoneham and Vicinity, Oxford County, Maine. Rocks & Minerals, 91 (1) 28-35 doi:10.1080/00357529.2016.1099131 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | from Stoneham and Vicinity Oxford County, Maine Downloaded by [Penn State University] at 01:41 12 December...fALSTeR DoUGLAS A. BAILeY Maine Mineral and Gem Museum Po Box 500 Bethel, Maine 04217 cfrancis@mainemineralmuseum...gemstones came from Stoneham, Maine—a century apart. Figure 1. Aldrich quarry beryl. Maine Mineral and Gem...P T I ONAL AQUAMARINE CRYSTAL was found in a Stoneham pasture by Gilman McKeen while driving cattle...crystal found by another farmer elsewhere in the Stoneham area. He wrote, “In color and material, this is |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the historic Deer Hill locality in southwestern Maine. Downloaded by [NUS National University of Singapore]...Amethyst Discovery on Stow, Oxford County, Maine WOODROW B. THOMPSON Maine Geological Survey State House...House Station 22 Augusta, Maine 04333 In the summer of 1993, a trio of Maine mineral collectors worked...reviewing three of the major amethyst localities in Maine and the history of amethyst finds on Deer Hill,this... Ovewiew of Maine Amethyst Localities THE DEER HILL amethyst deposits in Stow, Maine, have been known |  | | 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...several locations includ ing: Berry quarry, Poland; Bennett quarry, Buckfield; Hebron; Paris; and Litchfield |  | | 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...deposit occurs as a thin seam in graphitic Cleburne County. The property is, about 11.2 SINE phyllite which...Location No. Source of information Fairfield County. Short distance northeast of East Village, on a |  | | 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 |  | | Book (edition) | | HANDBOOK for A WEEK WITH MAINE MINERALS by NEIL A. WINTRINGHAM 1_� Cv1,_1'--A� __, SECOND EDITION...a 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...characterized the evenings spent with members of the Oxford County Mineral & Gem Association. N. A. W. Mountainside...minerals. The geology of pegmatites, in general, and Maine pegmatites, in particular, is summarized briefly |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | called that, from people who do not wish to visit a quarry more than once. N o wonder that many Clubs "have...again. A Club of which I am a member located a quarry. W e were warned that it was "dead." W e went anyway...New Haven Mineral Club went to the Strick land Quarry at Portland where more than 100 minerals are reported;...courses in basic lapidary, directed by member B u d Cole. Herb D u k e offers professional classes in casting...Mineral Society has gone to jail—literally—the County gave them the old jail to remodel into a museum |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the Sebago granite–pegmatite system, southern Maine, USA Michael A. Wise*, Cathleen D. Brown Department...two-mica granite situated in the Oxford pegmatite field, southwestern Maine. Surrounding the pluton is an...subordinate intrusions of heterogeneous, two-mica and biotite granites, pegmatitic leucogranites and granitic...chemistry, petrology, geochemistry, Sebago, southern Maine Received: 1 October 2009; accepted: 30 March 2010;...Introduction The granitic pegmatites of southern Maine represent one of several major pegmatite regions |  | | Journal (issue) | | Alves Mineralogy of the Bennett pegmatite, Oxford County, Maine ........................................../# 6 C alifornia Issue B enitoite, G old, L .A . County M useum , H im alaya m ine $7 Circulation Manager...Pink potassium feldspar, gray to milky quartz, biotite, hematite, magnetite and sec ondary iron oxides...turn blue when heated. Biotite K (M g,Fe2+)3(Al,Fe3+)Si3O 10(O H ,F)2 Biotite occurs as small flakes...tourmaline crystals coats the biotite crystals. This peculiar habit of biotite is 168 common in beryl-bearing |  | | 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) | | July 1943 PUBLISHED MONTH LY CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY .................................................White Horse Ranch to the Blitzen Valley, (Harney County, Oregon} and on the way I picked up some pieces...looked like slag from a furnace. This was in Grant County, Oregon, about 5 miles from Seneca. I was on a...District north of Kristiansand, Norway. A book of biotite mica 6x9x2 feet was also found near Arendal, Norway...Albany, Maine ; a black tourmaline crystal 3x3x8 feet in the Luella Mine near Avon, Latah County, Idaho |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 954) are not included in this index. Aberdeen, biotite, 606. Acmite, synthesis, solid solution with diopside...quartz or dickite or both, i28. Amblygonite, France, Maine, New South Wales, Saxony, anal., cell-dimensions...mine, Caceres, Spain, montebrasite, 414. Amelia County, Virginia, albite, I56; - - , anal., d2o i, 489...Microcline perthites, I35; Muscovite from Nellore, I4O; Biotite from Nellore, 39 I. 974 ALPHABETICAL Baia Mare...apatites, 527 and xi. BHATTACHARYVA(C.), Pyroxene and biotite in charnockites from India, 682. BHATTY (M. S. |  | | 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...Bancroft, Ontario: an occurrence of large nepheline, biotite and albite-antiperthite crystals in calcite-cored...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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | arch of the Palermo mine, North Groton, Grafton County. Rob Lawrence photo, courtesy Bob Whitmore. 242...at 15:01 05 January 2015 LOCATIONS BY COUNTY Belknap County Alton area: arsenopyrite, galena, quartz...occurrence is particularly noteworthy for Carroll County Albany, Blackberry Crossing (includes the Moose...(microcrystals), bertrandite (microcrystals), biotite/annite (crystals), calcite, cassiterite (microcrystals)...tall, Government Gravel pit, North Conway, Carroll County. Jeff Scovil specimen and photo. Downloaded by |  | | Report (volume) | | Louisiana........Prof. Gilbert D. Harris, Baton Rouge. Maine............Mr. C. Vey Holman, Bangor. Maryland....See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;...following localities: Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20, Pv. 7 E.; Jefferson...Jefferson County, at Elyton; Lee County, at Chewacla lime works; St. Clair County, at Gfeensport; Shelby |  | | Journal (issue) | | Bethesda, Maryland Joseph Urban Tucson, Arizona Ruth Cole Wertz Silver Spring, Maryland PHOTOGRAPHIC EDITOR... ~ COVER STORY: BIGGS JASPER from Jack Beer's Quarry in Biggs Junction, Oregon. This picture jasper...Prairie Creek j ust 10uth of Murfree• boro, Pike County, Arkansas. The near-oval shaped area is an enclosed...diatreme (volcanic pipe) near Murfreesboro, Pike County, Arkansas (The Crater of Diamonds State Park)....chromite, chrome spinet, magnetite, phlogopite, biotite, chlorite, coesite, quartz , barite, magnesite |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Arizona William Maloney Bethesda, Maryland Ruth Cole Wertz Silver Spring, Maryland ROCKS U MINERALS...JANUARY/FEBRUARY 1978 S BIOTITE, K(Mg, Fe)3 {Al, Fe) Si 30 1 o (OH,F)2 : Biotite is usually black or very...very dark brown in color. Biotite is a mica in which a large part of the alumina {which is normally present...is really a whole series of mineral compounds. Biotite and muscovite crystals sometimes grow in parallel...colorless muscovite surrounding a black biotite crystal. Biotite occurs with muscovite as a more-or-less |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | GRANITIC PEGMATITES OF THE BRUNSWICK AND OXFORD FIELDS, MAINE: DIFFERENTIAL TRENDS IN F-POOR AND F-RICH...FRANCIS Mineralogical Museum, Harvard University, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, U.S.A....field and the Central Maine Synclinorium of the Oxford pegmatite field, in Maine, are intruded by numerous...(Nb,Ta)-bearing phases. Generally, the CGM from Maine are hosted by pegmatites characterized by a LCT...observed between the CGM from the Brunswick and Oxford pegmatite fields. Columbite-group minerals from |  | | Book | | studied (Cole and Chakraborty, 2001) and comprises processes such as dissolutioneprecipitation (Cole, 2000)...2000) and grain boundary diffusion (Cole et al., 2004). In the experiments in this study, The Si-O(bridging)-Si...Most of the Zn, Mn and Co that was present in biotite in granite was also lost during alteration, whereas...more rapidly than the alkali feldspars. Massive biotite grains have altered to exfoliated flakes composed...Myr BP). after sulfate minerals, are replaced by biotite, bi, and The first type of pseudomorph was most |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Society members and guests. - - - - The Middlesex County Mineral Club, Inc. Moodus, had a special program...subject of a recent meeting. GEORGIA The Cobb County Gem and Mineral Club, Marietta with 23 members...Gem Lapidary and Mineral Society of Montgomery County, Wheaton, a recent program consisted of movies...Society, Baltimore, made a trip to the Cedar Hill Quarry in Pennsylvania. The minerals found are those associated...to speak before various groups. 923 MAINE The Coastal Maine Mineral Club, journeyed to Moat Mountain |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | assemblage Claudia I. Mora Æ Lee R. Riciputi Æ David R. Cole Æ Karen D. Walker Received: 1 April 2008 / Accepted:...Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 84545, USA e-mail: cmora@lanl.gov L. R. Riciputi Chemistry Division...National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA D. R. Cole Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National...National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6110, USA K. D. Walker Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences...University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996-1410, USA anorthosite complex, helped to accommodated influx |
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