 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | New Hampshire Mineral Locality Index Downloaded by [University of Newcastle, Australia] at 15:01 05...entrance and arch of the Palermo mine, North Groton, Grafton County. Rob Lawrence photo, courtesy Bob Whitmore...Whitmore. 242 ROCKS & MINERALS lthough New Hampshire, the Granite State, is one of our smaller states...reading Jackson (1844) on the mineralogy of New Hampshire that even at this early date there was already...activity produced new localities, renewed some old localities, and resulted in new minerals being discovered |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | in pegmatites. It has been found at the Andrews quarry, Portland, Connecticut; with monazite crystals...and the Harlem River, New York City, N.Y. ; at the Dake mine, Mitchell County, North Carolina; with tysonite...Springs, Colorado; and with rutile in Alexander County, North Carolina. MONAZITE, is essentially a phosphate...half inches in size at the Dake mine in Mitchell County. It occurs also in crystals at the Ray mine near...Burnsville and the Ramsey mine near Toledo in Yancy County, North Carolina. Large masses of Monazite occurred |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | cm long), Beebe Hall, McCain Valley, San Diego County, California. Cal and Kerith Graeber specimen; Jeffrey...suFounded by graphic granite.) Typically, smoky quartz, albite, muscovite, and microcline line the cavity walls...Aquamarine (6.7 cm long), Mount Antero, Chaffee County, Colorado. Martin Zinn specimen; Jeffrey Scovil...Aquamarine (8.8 cm long), Black Panther mine, Riverside County, California. Bill Larsen specimen; Jeffrey Scovil...Aquamarine, 50.32-carat cushion, Keyesmine, Orange, New Hampshire. Harvard specimen; Tino Hammid photo; courtesy |  | | Report (issue) | | 17–6.24 X-ray Powder Pattern: Greenwood, Maine, USA. 2.867 (10), 3.50 (9), 2.715 (7), 3.01 (4), 4.30...100.18 99.68 (1) Grafton, New Hampshire, USA. (2) Nickel Plate mine, South Dakota, USA; corresponds to...huréaulite, almandine, zircon, albite, muscovite, biotite. Distribution: In the USA, on Melvin Mountain, about...eight km west of Grafton, at the Palermo #1 and Rice mines, near North Groton, Grafton Co., at the Parker...Parker Mountain quarry, Center Strafford, Strafford Co., and many other places in New Hampshire; from the Waisenen |  | | Report (issue) | | Pegmatite Investigations 1942-45 New England By EUGENE N. CAMERON and OTHERS GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL..._______ _ Geology of the pegmatite districts of New Hampshire_ Rock units ________________________________...pegmatites ___________________ _ Pegmatites of the Grafton and Keene districts __ _ Sources of pegmatites...quality __ AnalyHis of the wartime mica industry of New England ________________________________________...Androscoggin County ______________________ _ Berry feldspar quarry __________________ _ Cumberland County ___ |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | be the intermediary Mountain, Center Strafford, New Hamp- alteration species ferri-sicklerite or if you...been up near the southern end of Lake accicular new mineral. When I broke this Winnipesaukee for a week...1938 and a found more and larger crystals of this new persistent drizzle made the snow too species which...to remain an undescribed enigmatic and had our quarry tools along. Since problem to mineral collectors...Dover, big old pine at the entrance. W e were New Hampshire. He too was collecting surprised to see the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | desirable as brazilianite. Unlike many relatively new minerals, brazilianite made its debut in unusually...montebrasite, scorzalite, wylleite, eosphorite, siderite, albite, muscovite, quartz, and microcline. It also occurs...nearby Dunton quarry,Maine. Other unconfirmed Maine occurrences include the Harvard quarry at Greenwood...the Nevel quarry, the rose quartz crystal locality of Mount Plumbago, and the Mount Mica quarry at Paris...Brazilianite has been reported from several New Hampshire localities, including aggregates of spear-shaped |  | | 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 |  | | Report (volume) | | Bulletin 931-P MICA-BEARING PEGMATITES OF NEW HAMPSHIRE A PRELIMINARY REPORT BY J. C. OLSON Strategic................................................ Grafton district.........................................Geologic map of the Alstead area, Keene district , New Hampshire........................ 62. Map showing locations...of mica and feldspar mines of the Grafton district, New Hampshire .....................................district, New Hampshire.. Figure 38. Index map of New Hampshire showing locations of the Grafton and Keene |  | | Report (volume) | | General features____________________________ Coosa County _________ ____________________ Randolph County...Cherokee County_____________________________ 72 Elbert County _____________________________ 75 Hall County__...County_______________________________ 76 Hart County. ___ __ __________________ 77, Lumpkin and Union counti...___________ S3 Pickens County _______-______________________ 83 Rabun County-_____________________________...____________ 86 Troup County ________________________________ 86 Upson County _______________________________ |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | WILL FIT WITHIN A ONE INCH CUBE COLLECTING IN NEW HAMPSHIRE As we are nearing the period of fall and the...the northeast, many like to plan a trip to New Hampshire. There are a num ber of key mineral localities...Palermo Mine in North Groton. Several other good mines are in the same area—Rice, Fletcher and Valencia—all...whitmoreite, and geodkenite 438 Ruggles Mine in Grafton, New Hamp shire is a very popular area for collectors...and cut very well and are plentiful in all of New Hampshire localities. During the month of June I made |  | | Field Trip Notes | | //' . GUIDEBOOK FOR FIELD IN ''fy,.'t:J TRIPS NEW ENGLAND NOVEMBER 10-12, 1952 Organized by the...Before visiting any of the sites described in the New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference guidebooks...Highlands of East-Central New York, Southern Vermont, and Southern New Hampshire Field Trip No. 2, Outstanding...Outstanding pegmatites of Maine and New Hampshire 73 Geology of the "Chelmsford Granite" 103 Field Trip...OF EAST-CENTRAL NEW YORK, SOUTHER Leaders: VERJ-IONT, AND SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE Marland P, Billings |  | | Journal (issue) | | July 1943 PUBLISHED MONTH LY CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY .................................................favorably received by our readers as a number of new subscriptions - from unexpected quarters - have been...interest to avoid the danger of being replaced by new members from the waiting list. Exhibition at the...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 |  | | Report (issue) | | rocks of New Hampshire ....... 44 Table 9 Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of New Jersey ...Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of New York ........... 56 Table 11 Uranium occurrences...Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of New Hampshire.......................^..^.i....48 Figure 12...Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of New Jersey....................................55 Figure...occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of northeastern New York.........................64 Figure 14. Uranium |  | | Report (volume) | | __________________ Voorhis quarry _________________________ Ritch quarry _____________________ _____...__________ Norwalk ____________________________. __ Hall quarry __________________________ Hartford County____...Bristol_______ i ________________.__ __ ___________ Dunn quarry _ - _________________________ _ Seymour Street...Glastonbury___..________________________..__ Corbin quarry.______________ _________ Carline quarry____________________:____...Dauielson quarry________________________ Belden quarry _______:______________: ____ 51 51 52 52 52 52 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Cheshire County New Hampshire 410 ROCKS & MINERALS 79 Meadow Lane Campton, New Hampshire 03223 rwilken@roadrunner...Merrimack, New Hampshire 03054 janules@att.net THOMAS MORTIMER 3 Roberts Road Amherst, New Hampshire 03031...Chickering mine area: Pierre Hoge Reservation of the New Hampshire Daniel Webster Council of the Boy Scouts of...the Program Assistant Camping Services of the New Hampshire Daniel Webster Council of the Boy Scouts of...Chickering mine in Walpole, New Hampshire. We all share a common interest in New Hampshire mineral species, have |  | | Book (edition) | | FOREWORD Le.ta in the fall of 1953, members ot the New Jersey Mineralogical Society expressed an interest...week collecting in the pegme.tite area ot Oxford county, !!Bine, Neil Wintr:lnghal'!l, a pa.st-president...Stewart C. Fulton Westfield, New Jersey June ll, 1955 Director & Past-President New Jersey Mineralogical Society...for the many courtesies extended to members of the New Jeraey Mineral.ogical Sooiety (Inc.) during their...members of the Oxford County Mineral & Gem Association. N. A. W. Mountainside, New Jersey June 1, 1955 |  | | Book (volume) | | chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville Quarry chalcedony, jasper...jasper, fossils. CHERRY COUNTY VALENTINE, in the Sandhills county along the Niobrara R. and Minnechaduza...gem qualityagatized and opalized wood. DAWES COUNTY CHADRON, in N part of Co. and as far W as Crawford...woods, etc. DAWSON COUNTY GOTHENBURG, in sand pitspetrified palm wood. DEUEL COUNTY CHAPPELL, all regional |  | | Journal (issue) | | abou nd . The show provided relati vely little " new" material and its • pro!ile s hi fted a bit further... T hi s year's show stopper was definite ly the new mineral pez.zottaite fro m Madagascar. I saw it labelecl...nes rarely seem clean. Several dealers hacl the new microcline (var. a mazonite) from Konzo. Siclamo...2003). The material is very interesting clue to The new mineral pezzottaile as 4 cm raspberry crystal on...had also produced some dioptase specimens from a "new" d e posit in the Kaokoveld. That deposit is supposedly |  | | Report (volume) | | Director Bulletin 738 THE COMMERCIAL GRANITES OF NEW ENGLAND BY T. NELSON DALE WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT...expansion____^_________________ Geographic distribution of New England granite quarries____ Descriptions of the...___ Groton____________________________ Oriinge County __________________________ Topsham___________________________..._ Randolph ___________________________ Orleans County- _______________________ Derby Barton _ _________...granite and finished product Continued. Washington County _____________________ 121 Barre and Williamstown________________ |  | | Report (issue) | | William "Skip" Simmons and Alexander Falster Page 28 New England Gem Beryl Bruce Jarnot Page 16 Bazzite of...specialists from the University of New Orleans in Louisiana (USA), with the lowdown on beryl mineralogy...crystal has been recorded from the Alger quarry in New Hampshire (USA). The crystal weighed 455 kilograms... 8.4m: The largest beryl crystal at the Bumpus quarry in Maine was 8.4 meters long, 1.9 meters in diameter...pegmatites, beryl is associated with quartz, microcline, albite, muscovite, biotite, ferrocolumbite, and phosphates |  | | Book | | 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...deposits in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah were opened centuries ago by the...the mines in the Cerrilos Hills, near Santa Fe, New Mexico (Encyclopedia Britannica 968, p 415). Turquois...historical pattern in the subsequent introduction of new phosphate minerals (still valid) into the scientific |  | | 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) | | _, $2.00 ----~~--~--------~-----'· I What's New at Denver in 1998? ·The Fall Mineral Shows We've...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...Colorado Springs, CO. Palermo Mines, North Groton,New Hampshire Summer 1997 Art Smith 9118 Concho Street |
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