 | 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...feLCH ALeXANDeR U. fALSTeR DoUGLAS A. BAILeY Maine Mineral and Gem Museum Po Box 500 Bethel, Maine 04217...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 |  | | 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 |  | | 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) | | cm long), Beebe Hall, McCain Valley, San Diego County, California. Cal and Kerith Graeber specimen; Jeffrey...graphic granite.) Typically, smoky quartz, albite, muscovite, and microcline line the cavity walls, and aquamarine...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...8 cm long), Blue Lady mine, Aquanga, San Diego County, California. Bill Larsen specimen; Jeffrey Scovil |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | crystal was noted in the Luella mine near Avon, Latah county, Idaho, which measured 3x3x8 feet. Other large...Dakota. A black crystal from Micaville, Randolph county, Alabama, was 10 inches in diameter and from 3...Section pegmatite of Fremont county, Colorado. ROCKS AND MINERALS Maine, Connecticut, and California...gem tourmalines. The most noted occurrences in Maine are Mt. Mica at Paris, Mt. Apatite at Auburn, also...Rumford, Newry, Buckfield, and Topsham. The Gillette quarry at Haddam Neck, Connecticut, was famous when in |  | | Report (volume) | | Del Norte County; Trinity River, Trinity County; Spanish Creek and Gopher Hill, Plumas County; Placerville...Dorado County; Cherokee Flats, Yankee Hill,and Oroville, Butte County; French Corral, Nevada County; Indian...Indian Gulch and Volcano, Amador County; and Alpine Creek, Tulare County. Other western localities are:...Diamond Basin, Ada County, Idaho; Curry County, Oreg.; and Nelson Hill, near Glacier County, Mont. The Great...Pierce County; Oregon, Dane County; Kohlsville, Washington County; Saukville, Ozaukee County; Eagle, |  | | Report (issue) | | and the Beryl Group William "Skip" Simmons and Alexander Falster Page 24 The Best of the Rockies Tony...Beryl and Pezzottaite William "Skip" Simmons and Alexander Falster Page 28 New England Gem Beryl Bruce Jarnot...Beryl Color Varieties William "Skip" Simmons and Alexander Falster Page 49 Gem Beryl from Russia and Ukraine...Beryl Red and Green William "Skip" Simmons and Alexander Falster Page 100 Grading and Pricing Gem Beryl...and Alexander Falster, pegmatite specialists from the University of New Orleans in Louisiana (USA), with |  | Falster, Alexander U., Simmons, William B., Webber, Karen L., Dallaire, Donald A., Nizamoff, James W., Sprague, Raymond A. (2019) The Emmons Pegmatite, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine. Rocks & Minerals, 94 (6) 498-519 doi:10.1080/00357529.2019.1641021 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Unless otherwise noted, all specimens from the Alexander U. Falster collection Figure 1. The Emmons pegmatite...in 1996. THE EMMONS PEGMATITE Greenwood Oxford County, Maine The Emmons pegmatite, noted for its many...pegmatite. T ALEXANDER U. FALSTER WILLIAM B. SIMMONS KAREN L. WEBBER MP2 Research Group Maine Mineral &...& Gem Museum 99 Main Street Bethel, Maine 04217 alexander.falster@gmail.com wsimmons@uno.edu kwebber@uno...Hebron, Maine 04238 phosphate@gmail.com RAYMOND A. SPRAGUE* 33 Roger Street Lewiston, Maine 04240 * |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | named by Nordenskiold in 1842 for Russian Czar Alexander II (1818-1881) on his birthday. Alexandrite is...ConneMaine Topsham district, Maine Grafton district, New Hampshire Greenfield...in diameter, albite, green beryl, columbite, muscovite, and black tourmaline (Seybert, 1824; Webster...orthoclase(?), black tourmaline, garnet (almandine?), muscovite, biotite, and columbite (Navias and Ostrom, 1951)...here as individual twinned Chrysoberyl, Topsham, Maine. The crystal similarity to the chrysoberyl from |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Washington, Connecticut 06793. The area of Litchfield County immediately north of the Litchfield town center...Formation is typical of the area—a coarse-grained muscovite-quartz schist with sizeable masses of garnet,...length. At the dump of the most northerly quartz quarry, large ilmenite crystals over two inches in diameter...chalcopyrite in feldspar. A second large quartz quarry just to the north of the staurolite area proved...Campbell Road, 2.5 km N W of its intersection with County R t . 87, 4 km N N E of the village of Edwards |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | alike, and its price is definitely affordable. Alexander U. Falster University of New Orleans to a point...DISCOVERIES AT THE BENNEll QUARRY, BUCKFIELD, MAINE. W B. Thompson, Maine Geological Survey, State House...Bennett quarry is located in a complex granite pegmatite in the town of Buckfield, Oxford County, Maine...crystal of gemmy morganite beryl known as the Rose of Maine. In 1990, Ronald and Dennis Holden opened a chain...cleavelandite unit along the north side of the quarry, producing additional morganite and large quartz |  | | Journal (issue) | | William Besse; wwbesse@gmail.com VICE PRESIDENT: Alexander Schauss; alex@aibmr.com SECRETARY: Linda Smith;...Brice W. Bridenbecker; bbridenbecker@cmccd.edu Alexander Schauss; alex@aibmr.com Chris Whitney-Smith; ask...(Michael Finger) and LKA Emeralds, Hiddenite, Alexander County, NC Go On Public Exhibit in New York City.................................... 3 Hewitt Gem Quarry................................................................................... 3 Walden Gem Quarry .............................................. |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | three feet in length have been found at the Palermo Quarry, North Groton, New Hampshire. Crystals to 150 pounds...pounds was found about 1925 at the Bennett quarry, Buckfield, Maine, together with others over three feet...found at a number of places: Paris and Rumford, Maine; Alstead, Gilsum, and Springfield, New Hampshire;...cleavelandite at Newry, Maine. Rose quartz crystals have also been found at Red Hill, Maine; North Groton, New...Hill, Maine; near Statesville, North Carolina; at Amelia, Virginia, near Clayton, Rabun county, Georgia; |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | PEGMATITE, OXFORD CO., MAINE ALEXANDER U. FALSTER§ AND WILLIAM B. SIMMONS 2 MP Research Group, Maine Mineral...Street, Bethel, Maine 04217, USA Keywords: Emmons pegmatite, lithiophilite, ball muscovite, rhodochrosite...slope of Uncle Tom Mountain in Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine. At times, the Emmons pegmatite has been...Uncle Tom Mountain quarry. The Emmons pegmatite is the species-richest pegmatite in Maine with currently...little over 1.5 m. The pods are surrounded by ball muscovite and the shape of the pods suggests an immiscible |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Dale, N. C. 1924. The box-vein of Lyomdale, Lewk County, New York. New York State Museum Bulletin 251:134-48...Quebec. The sill is well exposed in the Varennes quarry, which has been operated continuously for crushed... just off Route 109, there is an old pegmatite quarry known locally chiefly for its occasional production...documented, if at all. Most of the material from the quarry was evidently used in the construction of an adjacent...section of a 1.6cm graphite sphere from Sussex County, New Jersey, showing a radial texture and smooth |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Washington, DC 20013 pohwatp@si.edu Muscovite Shannon Canyon, Inyo County, California R ocks are made up...particular fondness for muscovite. The texture and earth-tone color of muscovite crystals seem to be a...from the old Russian province of Muscovy, where muscovite was used as window glass. In the late eighteenth...to more than 11.0 weight percent (Fleet 2003). Muscovite is one of many phyllosilicates, which are also...phyllosilicates—exemplified by the mica group, of which muscovite is one of the more recognizable members—is due |  | | 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 (issue) | | Robert B. Cook Auburn University, Al Carl A. Francis Maine Mineral & Gem Museum, ME John Rakovan New Mexico...I. Jacobson, Denver, CO Anthony R. Kampf, l.A. County Museum of Natural History, CA Virgil W. Lueth,...across a local area net\,vork. Subscription offices: USA/North America: Taylor & Francis Group, LLC, 530 Walnut...Copyright Clearance Center (www.copyright.com) in the USA or the Copyright Licensing Agency (www. cla.co.uk)...Southwood Melbourne, Australia Woodrow B. Thompson, Maine Geological Survey, Augusta, ME John S. White, Stewartstown |  | | Journal (issue) | | SEPTEMBER, 1934 PAOI! T opaz and Herderite at Topsham, Maine. By Benjamin B. Burbank .......................... ...... .. .... ........ ..... ... Lake Street Quarry near White Plains, N . Y . By Peter Zodac Collector's... WHOLE No. 89 Topaz and Herderite at Topsham, Maine By BENJAMIN B. BURBANK There exists n long, low...zone of the entire region is the Fisher Feldspar Quarry 2 which cousists of a deep cut rnnniug nearly north...Survey. Bath, Maine Sheet (topO• graphical). : Bastin, E. S.. Geology of the Pegmatitea of Maine. Bui. 445 |  | | Journal (issue) | | SEPTEMBER, 1934 PAOI! T opaz and Herderite at Topsham, Maine. By Benjamin B. Burbank .......................... ...... .. .... ........ ..... ... Lake Street Quarry near White Plains, N . Y . By Peter Zodac Collector's... WHOLE No. 89 Topaz and Herderite at Topsham, Maine By BENJAMIN B. BURBANK There exists n long, low...zone of the entire region is the Fisher Feldspar Quarry 2 which cousists of a deep cut rnnniug nearly north...Survey. Bath, Maine Sheet (topO• graphical). : Bastin, E. S.. Geology of the Pegmatitea of Maine. Bui. 445 |  | | 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 |  | Simmons, William B., Falster, Alexander U., Nizamoff, James W., Freeman, Gary (2019) Giant spodumene and montebrasite crystals from the Plumbago North pegmatite, Oxford County, Maine. The Canadian Mineralogist, 57 (5) 795-797 doi:10.3749/canmin.ab00024 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | PLUMBAGO NORTH PEGMATITE, OXFORD COUNTY, MAINE WILLIAM B. SIMMONS§ AND ALEXANDER U. FALSTER 2 MP Research...Research Group, Maine Mineral and Gem Museum, Bethel, Maine, USA JAMES W. NIZAMOFF 64 Mineral Drive, Hebron...Hebron, Maine, USA GARY FREEMAN Freeman Resources, LLC, 48 Lovejoy Road, South Paris, Maine, USA Keywords:...crystals, spodumene, montebrasite, Plumbago North, Maine. INTRODUCTION A new spodumene-bearing pegmatite...on the north side of Plumbago Mountain, Oxford County, Maine. The pegmatite is spodumenerich and is potentially |  | | Journal (issue) | | 2) Alexander U. Falster MP2 Research Lab—Maine Mineral & Gem Museum 99 Main St., Bethel, Maine 04127...It was named after Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (1769 – 1859), a graduate of the...fibrous-to-earthy Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt, portrait by Joseph Karl Stieler...the Mindat website – one as microcrystals on muscovite (Mindat ref. 3), and the other as an amorphous...absence of a visible Fe-oxide substrate on the muscovite, and any knowledge of a prior Fe-oxide coating |  | Webber, Karen L., Simmons, William B., Falster, Alexander U., Hanson, Sarah L. (2019) Anatectic pegmatites of the Oxford County pegmatite field, Maine, USA. The Canadian Mineralogist, 57 (5) 811-815 doi:10.3749/canmin.ab00028 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | ANATECTIC PEGMATITES OF THE OXFORD COUNTY PEGMATITE FIELD, MAINE, USA KAREN L. WEBBER§, WILLIAM B. SIMMONS...SIMMONS, AND ALEXANDER U. FALSTER 2 Maine Mineral & Gem Museum, MP Research Group, 99 Main Street...Street, Bethel, Maine 04217, USA SARAH L. HANSON Adrian College, Geology Department, 110 S. Madison Street...Michigan 49221, USA Keywords: rare-element-pegmatite, anatexis, Oxford County pegmatite field, Maine. INTRODUCTION...of the Oxford County Pegmatite Field (OCPF) in the Central Maine Belt (CMB) of western Maine, are renowned |  | | Journal (issue) | | Skarn of Mina Brejui, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil Alexander U. Falster1 Luizhelio Barreto da Silva Nen2 Wm...After receiving comments that the Goodall Farm Quarry, also known as the Sanford vesuvianite locality...following encouraging information on the locality from Maine collector Duane Leavitt (Skarnrx@megalink.net)....News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 • 3 E-mail: lream@comtch.iea... Y.T., and Foord, E.E., 1994, Mineralogy of Maine: Maine Geological Survey, p. 292. Rutherford, R.L. |
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