 | 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 |  | | 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...tourmaline (elbaite) on quartz crystals, 24 x JO mm;Jrom the Bennett Quarry, Buckfield, Maine. Mined in 1996 by |  | | 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) | | 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 |  | | 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 |  | | 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...the Strick land Quarry at Portland where more than 100 minerals are reported; quartz, beryl, tourmaline...trip took them to Loudville, Mass., for galena, quartz, malachite, pyromorphite, cerrusite, pyrite and...courses in basic lapidary, directed by member B u d Cole. Herb D u k e offers professional classes in casting |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | hydrothermal breccias that have been cemented by quartz, barite, and alunite. Rodalquilarite, a rare iron...cavities in the dolostone. The crystallization of the quartz and calcite was probably contemporaneous. In most...weathered away, releasing the scepters. Skeletal quartz crystals, often slightly smoky, are also commonly...crystals are more than 12 cm in maximum dimension. Quartz also occurs as single colorless, transparent crystals;...SCEPTERS FROM FALL HILL, LITTLE FALLS, HERKIMER COUNTY, NEW YORK. S. C. ChmizDerlainand W J. Hladysz, |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Department of Geolo Blackbird Mine, Cobalt, Lemhi County, Idaho Downloaded by [University of New Mexico]...small green-to-gray aggregates, from a number of Maine occur- Dr. Robert B. Cook, an executive editor...ROCKS & MINERALS rences that include the Emmons quarry at Greenwood, the Bell pit and Dunton and Scotty...Red Hill quarries at Rumford, and the Cole quarry at Stoneham. Ludlamite is an accessory mineral in the...Here, it occurred in the Bull Moose mine, Custer County, as beautiful apple-green to pale green crystals |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Pick—Philip Corley, Editor Junior Division of Rockland County Mineral & Gem Society Newlapso—Dr. Philip E. Eisman...Rockland Nuggets—Marvin Klibonoff, Editor Rockland County Mineral & Gem Society, Inc. Unaka Rock & Mineral...the Convention (Federation Meeting). The Coastal Maine Mineral Club is still talking of the Palermo trip...Members of the Sandy River Mineral Club, Farmington, Maine, put on a nice show. Everyone had lovely displays...there. The Gem and Lapidary Society of Montgomery County, Wheaton, Maryland, is making it easy for members |  | | 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) | | Portia 386 Caverns, Lost River 472 Chips from the Quarry 2, 114, 226, 338, 450, 562 Clair, Richard 226,...Club 8c Society Notes 54, 161, 275 393, 506, 616 Cole, G. Thurston 571 Collectors' Kinks (Clair) 355 Collectors...Tales (Warren) 349 Colorado, Sand-Caldte xls from Stoneham (Campbell & Mitchell) 18 Colo. College add3 gold...Lampert, Ron 597 Lieber, Dr. Werner 117 Maine, Pseudo-cubic quartz xls (Perham) .... 240 Marcin, E. J 27...New Hampshire-Mineral Production 1959 21 Giant quartz xls. Hurricane Mt. (Armstrong) 467 Quortz xls in |  | | Journal (issue) | | July 1943 PUBLISHED MONTH LY CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY .................................................a large collecti?n of iris agate and asteriated quartz. Pictures of the two exhibits mentioned above are...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...pegmatites the crystals and grains of these minerals ; quartz, feldspar, mica, etc. ha,·e gro,vn to much larger |  | | 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...search of mineral specimens, primarily tourmalinated quartz crystals and “ cleavelandite” albite groups. By...length and di] Figure 3. A large tourmalinated quartz crys tal on the dumps, 1981. Cassedanne photo...the east. Pink potassium feldspar, gray to milky quartz, biotite, hematite, magnetite and sec ondary iron |  | | 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...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...Unfortunately, very little geochemical data exist for the Maine pegmatites despite their popularity among mineral |  | | 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...Cantlin, Ellis, [D; Jeannette B. Carillo, Gem Center USA, EI Paso, TX; Gary Christopher, The Prospectors Cache...Resources, Vancouver, BC; Barbara L. Muntyan, Ouray County Historical Society, Ouray, CO; Merrill O. Murphy |  | | Book (volume) | | gold-bearing areas. Lode deposits usually consist of Quartz veins in solid rock, while placer deposits occur...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) | | Pine, North Carolina; Maine Mineralogical and Geological Society, Fryeburg, Maine, October 3-9; North Carolina...16 and 17; and the Oxford County Mineral and Gem Association, Rumford Center, Maine, July 10 and 11. This...the definition of silicate by displaying simple quartz and its varieties and showing by actual demonstration...or anniversary edition, to be sent to Mrs. Ruth Cole Werte, whose address appears at the head of this...Bulletins coming and be sure and enter the contest. Ruth Cole Wertz, Chairman, BEAS. 283 CHIPS AND BITS The |  | | Report (volume) | | Deposits of minerals of wide distribution, such as quartz and calcite, have been omitted, except those that...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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | were sent to Mineral and Lapidary Societies from Maine to Florida. With the ground work laid several Societies...Mineralogical Society ( New Jersey), Oxford County Mineral and Gem Association (Maine) and the Newark Lapidary Society...slides from Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Maine was the fare for members of the Mineral Section...carried such pieces about Francis Beardslee, Harriet Cole and Samuel Senn, Jr. The latter is the Club's President...collecting may be done is listed, such as "Sullivan Quarry in Bradford, R. I. has produced Laumantite xls |  | | Book | | has been privileged to travel extensively from Maine to Southern California, and from Washington’s Pacific...Co. Hematite CALERA, Shelby Co. Wavkllite CLAY COUNTY, Sec. 24. T. 19 S R., 7 E. STATUARY, Coosa Co...Co., (W. border of* Marble Crystalline TALLADEGA COUNTY Marble, (crystalline) VALLEY HEAD, DeKalb Co. Hematite...Feldspar HISSOP, Coosa Co., (near) Beryl JACKSON COUNTY Hematite KENNEDYS, Clay Co., (near) Magnetite MILLERVILLE...Womble) Quartz (clear crystals) CRYSTAL SPRINGS Quartz Crystals DELANEY, Madison Co. Quartz, (clear crystals) |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | The 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...relatively few carats each. It is customary for quartz obtained from pegmatite pockets to be rather badly...1956 Phillips Cole of Dayton, Maine obtained a lease from Harry Eastman of Fryeburg, Maine, the owner of...feldspar and mica, Mr. Cole worked into a pocket filled with kaolinite and quartz crystals, a few of which |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | arch of the Palermo mine, North Groton, Grafton County. Rob Lawrence photo, courtesy Bob Whitmore. 242...2015 LOCATIONS BY COUNTY Belknap County Alton area: arsenopyrite, galena, quartz (crystals), sillimanite...(lodestone), nepheline, quartz (amethyst). Laconia area: psilomelane, quartz (crystals), sphalerite,...occurrence is particularly noteworthy for Carroll County Albany, Blackberry Crossing (includes the Moose...(microcrystals), genthelvite* (microcrystals), microcline, quartz* (smoky, crystals), siderite, siderophyllite, zinnwaldite |
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