 | | 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 |  | | 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 |  | | 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 (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...world ·was found in pegmatite. It was a perthitic microcline crystal measuring 7xl2x30 feet. It was mined...Albany, Maine ; a black tourmaline crystal 3x3x8 feet in the Luella Mine near Avon, Latah County, Idaho |  | | 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...richer in giant crystals of rose-colored microcline, green microcline (commonly surrounded by an albite rim)...present have not been determined. Microcline KAlSi30 8 Microcline, as the green variety “ am azonite...cleavage-plane replacement zones. Large blocks of pink microcline displaying an aesthetic granitic texture are |  | | 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), genthelvite* (microcrystals), microcline, quartz* (smoky, crystals), siderite, siderophyllite...(microcrystals), manganocolumbite (microcrystals), microcline (crystals), microlite (microcrystals), milarite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 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...see KASHKAI(M.-A.), 128. BABU (V. R. R. M.), Microcline perthites, I35; Muscovite from Nellore, I4O;...Gourishankar mine, Tummalatalupur, Nellore, India, microcline perthite, 135 BALDANZA(B.), LEvI-DONATI(G. R...Australia, alkali feldspar, anal., d2oi, 489. Bosahan quarry, Falmouth, Cornwall, biotite, 2IO. BOWDEN (P.) |  | | 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 |  | | 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) | | 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 (article/letter/editorial) | | Quartz Crystal Pocket Discovered on Deer Hill, Maine, in 1956 By B. M. SHAUB 159 Elm Street, Northampton...the F-ryeburg, Maine quadrangle. It is in the town of Stow, a section of Oxford County. The pegmatite...1956 Phillips Cole of Dayton, Maine obtained a lease from Harry Eastman of Fryeburg, Maine, the owner of...excavating within the ledge for feldspar and mica, Mr. Cole worked into a pocket filled with kaolinite and quartz...ledge. Other minerals in the ledge are chiefly microcline, muscovite, cleavelandite and beryl. The pocket |  | | Report (issue) | | FRONTISPIECE PLATE I STONE MOUNTAIN, DEKALB COUNTY, GEOHGIA, I6 MILES NORTHEA T O F ATLANTA , 0 TilE...of the United States 32-39 Connecticut Delaware Maine . . . Muy~nd Massachusetts New Hampshire New Jersey...Heard County . . . . . . . 65-68 The Flat Rock Quarry . 66 The Wynn Quarry . . . . 6S Troup County . .... . . . . • 69-70 The Mountville Quarry • 70 Meriwether County . . . • • 70-SJ Granite • o • • • • • •...• 7I The Tigner Quarry. . . . . . . . • . 73 The Greenville Granite Company's Quarry 74 Flat Shoals |  | | Report (volume) | | ................................ 49 Individual quarry areas.................................................. 51 Baltimore County .................................... 51 Howard County.......................................................... Individual quarry areas. ................................................ Chesterfield County (south of James River)................ Henrico County (north of James River)......................................... Fairfax County area ......................................... |  | | Journal (issue) | | ............. 554 MISCELLANEOUS CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY .................................................505 511 514 532 533 551 551 553 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY GEOLOGIC HAZARDS COMMITTEES NAMED Clarence Allen...and August 1st, 1965, in Pierrepont, St. Lawrence County, N. Y., to swap or dig your own tourmaline plus...Coastal Maine Mineral Club presents its 3rd Annual Rock Swap at Jo Scholl's Place, North Gorham, Maine. July...and Mineral Fair will be held at the Jefferson County Fair Grounds west of Denver, Colo., on U. S. 6 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Fluorapatite, 3.3-cm crystal, from the Pulsifer quarry, Maine. Collected by Terry Szenics; Jeff Scovil photo...rosette, with prehnite, 14 cm, from the Centreville quarry, Fairfax, Virginia. Smithsonian Institution collection...C6649; Lee Boltin photo. Fairfax Quarry, Virginia, 1967 The Fairfax quarry in Virginia is a classic locality...northeastern corner of the Fairfax quarry in Centreville, Virginia. I visited the quarry the next weekend. Nothing...15 feet to the left, parallel to the wall of the quarry. This tube varied from 6 inches to 2 feet wide |  | | Journal (issue) | | large pegmatite boulder from the famous Gillette quarry in Connecticut yielded some nice beryl samples;... Also, I once owned a tabular green beryl from Maine. Perhaps exceptions help support rules; many examples...beryl from the variety known as red beryl, which Maine really an aqua? Are the zoned was called bixbite...chromophore and various colors and the chemical causes County, Utah. Source: Photographic Guide to Mineral the...currently the primary mineralogical publication in the USA. was always meant to be kept. We know this for at |  | | Journal (issue) | | Bethesda, Maryland Joseph Urban Tucson, Arizona Ruth Cole Wertz Silver Spring, Maryland PHOTOGRAPHIC EDITOR...September 2 7, 1974 4 fr marble bl ocks 25 fr marble quarry May 7, 1976 25 fr aragonite 50 fr petrified wood...HiJI community is located in northeastern Kershaw County, South Carolina. [n the past few years dark, gemmy...encompasses south central Lancaster County as well as northeastern Kershaw County {Fig. I). These areas are sparingly...monzonite is composed of pink phenocrysts of microcline up to 3 cm long, subequal amounts of white albite |  | | Journal (issue) | | Bethesda, Maryland Joseph Urban Tucson, Arizona Ruth Cole Wertz Silver Spring, Maryland PHOTOGRAPHIC EDITOR...September 2 7, 1974 4 fr marble bl ocks 25 fr marble quarry May 7, 1976 25 fr aragonite 50 fr petrified wood...HiJI community is located in northeastern Kershaw County, South Carolina. [n the past few years dark, gemmy...encompasses south central Lancaster County as well as northeastern Kershaw County {Fig. I). These areas are sparingly...monzonite is composed of pink phenocrysts of microcline up to 3 cm long, subequal amounts of white albite |  | | 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 (article/letter/editorial) | | Pegmatites of the Crystal Mountain District LARIMER COUNTY, COLORADO MARK I. JACOBSON 1350 E . Easter Avenue...Index map of the Crystal Mountain district, Larimer County, Colorado. Location The Crystal Mountain district...the end of this metamorphic event (Braddock and Cole, 1979). The Mount Olympus Granite and Longs Peak-St...approximately 1.4 billion years ago (Braddock and Cole, 1979) during the Silver Plume thermal event. Traditional...containing quartz, pla gioclase, muscovite, and microcline are found adjacent to the Longs Peak-St. Vrain |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | concerning the Uniform Rules should be addressed: Ruth Cole Wertz, Chairman Eastern Federation Uniform Rules...pyrophyllite, quartz, sulphur, andalusite and autunite. MAINE A nice trip to the Mt. Apatite area and a chance...blasted mine resulted in members of the Coastal Maine Mineral Club, Cape Elizabeth, in members having...Gem, Lapidary and Mineral Society of Montgomery County, Wheaton, as a part of its Safety Education Program...of a Field Trip to the Niagara Frontier Dolomite Quarry. Several memCollecting — A Family Fun Hobby". bers |
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Cole Quarry, Stoneham, Oxford County, Maine, USA