 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Massachusetts 02138 MAINE Minerals of the Topsham, Maine, Pegmatite District Topsham • Topsham, Maine's underappreciated...the Andros coggin River from Brunswick in Sagadahoc County. A mile-wide belt of granitic pegmatites runs...Androscoggin River, north-northeast through the town of Topsham. The belt extends southward into Brunswick and...but only the pegmatites actually in the town of Topsham are covered in this review. There are thirty or...named quarries and numerous unnamed prospects in Topsham. The quarries, all inactive, are usually named |  | | 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 (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) | | lithia reaction, and may not be of this species." Mallet (1857) analyzed the Goshenmica and confirmed its...examination. Bolton, Massachusetls.'The Bolton marble quarry, famous for lilac scapolite, has been described...pegmatite bouldersin the immediate neighborhood of the quarry but the rock could not be discovered in place ...to be normal to the wall. (c) Coarse-grained cleavelandite-smoky quartz-muscovite pegmatite, with mica...tourmaline grains. In a thin section of unit c, cleavelandite blades can be seen to replace orthoclase of |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | across and about 6 mm thick. Associated with the cleavelandite specimens are sharp muscovite crystals, crystalline...crystals, quartz crystals, and others. Simi lar cleavelandite also occurs in the Morefield pegmatite near...same county. I t also has been observed i n pegmatites i n Powhatan County, Spotsylvania County, and...the world have specimens of allanite from Amherst County, Virginia. The mineral is usually black and is...The mineral was reported in Amherst County as early as 1874. Mallet ( 1 8 7 7 ) first described the classic |  | | Journal (issue) | | mined out as far as the outcrops. Today only the quarry open in this level remains. About 10 tons of heterosite...the access track. At the north corner of the same quarry floor are 1 or 2 tons of triphylite stock containing...bright octahedrons and pyritohedrons perched on cleavelandite in small vugs. Sphalerite crystals are rare...octahedrons, bright steel-gray, perched on cleavelandite in the vugs. It is highly suitable for micromounting...upon roscherite or light blue tourmaline in cleavelandite vugs, childrenite gives excellent micromounts |  | | Book | | GOULDING-KEENE QUARRY 2 1 EGAN CHUTE 2 1 YORK RIVER SKARN ZONE2 MORRISON QUARRY 2 2 3 DAVIS QUARRY 2 3...HILL Dungannon cancrinite, sodalite, apatite, cleavelandite, molybdenite, magnetite, tourmaline 18 DAVIS...calcite, feldspar, magnetite, sodalite 19 DAVIS QUARRY Dungannon sodalite, hackmanite, zircon, cancrinite...molybdenite, pyrite, 4 3 uraninite GOULDING-KEENE QUARRY Dungannon nepheline, biotite, apatite, calcite...smoky), graphic granite, allanite, zircon MORRISON QUARRY Dungannon sodalite, hackmanite, cancrinite, calcite |  | | Report (issue) | | map of the Ridgeway area, Ilenry County, Virginia, and Rockingham County, North Carolina ,-.--..------In...Patterson mine, 2 miles northeast of Amelia, Amelia County; B, Inclusion of wall rock (biotite gneiss) in...Rutherford mines, lfu miles north oI Amelia, Amelia County A, Micrographic texture in the Leatherwood granite...Rutherford mines, lr/a miles north of Amelia, Amelia County; B, Piotomicrograph of pegmatite showing sillimanite...prospect; near Goochland Court House, Goochland County 8. A,' Photornicrograph of {eldspar showing orthoclase |  | | Journal (issue) | | Speer Minerals from the Old Sulphur Mine, Louisa County, Virginia Richard S. Mitchell and Arthur S. Katz...CRYSTALLIZED TURQUOISE from near Lynch Station, Campbell County, is Virginia's unique contribution to the mineral...closed, or in some cases lost. i Albite (cleavelandite variety). Cleave landite (Fig. 1) is a platy...Specimens from the Rutherford pegmatites, in Amelia County, are famous for the per fection of their thin...across and about 6 mm thick. Associated with the cleavelandite specimens are sharp muscovite crystals, crystalline |  | | Book (volume) | | IN E R A LOGY (MAINLY NON-ECONOMIC). BY F. R. MALLET, SUPERINTENDENT, GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA. -...Products, Vol. I, p. 14). * See “Gold,” p. 2. * F. R. Mallet: Records, G. S.I., Vol. XV,p. 55. * Turner's Embassy...imperfect. * System of Mineralogy, p. 11. * F. R. Mallet: Records, G. S. I., Vol. XV, p. 53. 4 P. 2. *..., Bengal, Vol. XII, pp. 333, 904, 914. * F. R. Mallet: Records, G. S. I., Wol. XI, p. 222. * Records...group have as yet been found in India. * F. R. Mallet: Memoirs, G. S. I., Vol. XXI, pp. 268, 270,278 |  | | Catalog/List | | Fairfield County, Branchville White xlline with cymatolite, good study ... New Mexico Taos County, near Dixon...cerium aluminum silicate California Los Angeles County, Pacoima Canyon Large black tabular crystals in...iron silicate ACTINOLITE California San Bernardino County, Wrightwood Green prismatic crystalline mass ....CROSSITE Sodium iron silicate California San Benito County, Gem mine Compact blue-gray mass with natrolite...sodium potassium alumino-silicate Arizona Final County, Christmas Dark green cleavages in andesite .. |  | | Book (volume) | | fabulous tourmalines and kunzites of California and Maine, the sparkling sapphires of Montana, and the...Kobuk jade locality. Descriptions of San Diego County, California, gemstones and the mines in which they...the generous assistance of many residents of that county. My special thanks are extended to Elbert H. McMacken...Mt. Mica Largest crystal from Mt. Mica Eh Towne Quarry 180 Tourmaline Queen Mountain IgI Tourmaline crystal...Stibiotantalite crystal Apatite crystal . Greenlaw Quarry 272 279 281 282 289 296 297 298 299 300 301 |  | | Catalog/List | | radial groups on limonile ........... Utah Toelle County, Gold Hill, Gold Hill mine ~ransparent micro crystals...lapis AJOITE Copper aluminum silicate Arizona Pima County, Ajo, New Cornelia mine Sky blue micro xls and............. ALBITE Sodium aluminum silicate CLEAVELANDITE Colorado Gunnison Co. , Brown Derby mine White...cerium aluminum silicate California Los Angeles County, Pacoirna Canyon Large black tabular crystals in...basic sulfate of aluminum and potassium Utah .Piute County, Tushar Mountains, Marysvale ----i'>ink crystalline |  | | Report (volume) | | the eastern border of the area find in AVorcester County. TRIASSIC. The Suf/ar Loaf arko*e, or feldspathitf... Sci., 1st series, Vol. VI, p. 221. 1823. Cleavelandite. (H. J.' Brooke.) Chesterfield. Brooke : Annals...Sci., 3d series, Vol. XXXIV, p. 201. 1882. Cleavelandite. Chesterfield, G-oshen, Nortlifield. Still occurs...prolongation of the same pegmatite dike. 1885. Cleavelandite. Hunting-ton. Iu blasting for spodumene fine...Albite. Northampton. Iu veins in the granite lit si quarry south of W. N. Moore's east of Florence, as hollow |  | | Book | | ” the gem considered October, Carolina, and Maine, In summary, beryl family, passage of was even...and weighs 235.5 carats, morganite rough Diego County, California, weigh Lea Collection), and from...green than blue” gem There carats. blue gem from Maine of 66.3 carats (Isaac pale are a 1,000 style...History contains the largest aquaa 137-carat it Maine; said to square brilliant of is sketched in...Properties be the largest a was story Angeles County and photographs prepared from a 6,021- International |  | | Report (issue) | | C. A. Michael. COLD NUGGET FROM SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY: Longest dimension approximately 13 cm., photograph...updated “check list” just alluded to, (2) a county-by-county listing of the minerals, and (3) resumes of...(Haydcnitc) 9 Virginia Mineral Localities by County This list is included for possible aid in planning...listed only* if localities arc given for them. The county lists do not include com mon rock-making materials...to occur only as traces. ACCOMACK COUNTY: none given. ALBEMARLE COUNTY: actinolitc, agate, almandine, amethyst |  | | Book | | of Saratoga in Now York, by Doct. John H. Steel. county A (Steel.') 1822." (N. G.) " New Farmer and...Coxcomb, read Radiated Sulphurtt of Iron. 7, under TOPSHAM, after Epidote, dele Manganesian. 14, 73, 114,...MARKET. (W. Greene.) CATALOGUE OF AMERICAN MAINE. BATCHELDER'S GRANT. (Oxford Co.) Sulphuret of Lead...Oxide of Iron, near. (C.) 1 river. near Bath. MAINE. BOWDOIN. Schorl, common, very abundant. (C.) ...abundantly disseminated finely crystallized in MAINE. 3 tables or thin plates, sometimes associated |  | | Catalog/List | | PHOTOGRAPH: _ VANADINITE Apache mine, near Globe, Gila County, Arizona. Sharp hexagonal barrel-shaped crystal...calcium hydroxy-silicate. Ca lifornia Riverside County, Crestmore. White prismatic crystalline on merwinite...QUARTZ AJOITE Copper aluminum silicate. Arizona Pima County, Ajo, New Cornelia mine. Sky-blue micro xls and...and coatings on monzonite .. Arizona Pima County, Ajo, New Cornelia mine. Sky-blue crystals and masses...ALBITE Sodium aluminum silicate. CLEAVELANDITE California San Diego County, Himalaya mine. White crystalled |  | | Journal (issue) | | and includes numerous foreign specimens from the USA, India, Morocco and other locations. Principally...ran a mineral business from Doulting near Shepton Mallet. / Unfortunately there appears to be little or...along some excellent photos of minerals from Machen Quarry, unfortunately just too late to go in the branch...branch had got up to this year. Minerals of Dolyhir Quarry On Sunday morning, November 16th 2003 in the Glanely...handout on all the minerals to be found in the quarry was provided. Quite a few of these minerals from |  | | Catalog/List | | specimen from the Apache mine, near Globe, Gila County, Arizona GLOBES AND ATLASES ...... . 79 Sharp...calcium hydroxy-silicate. California Riverside County, Crestmore. White prismatic crystalline on merwinitegehlenite... AJOITE Copper aluminum silicate. Arizona Pima County, Ajo, New Cornelia mine. Sky- blue micro xls and...and coatings on monzonite . Arizona Pima County, Ajo, New Cornelia mine. S.ky-bJue crystals and masses...ALBITE Sodium aluminum silicate. CLEAVELANDITE California San Diego County, Himalaya mine. White crystalled |  | | Book | | by Marcelo Lerner. Rubellite tourmaline and cleavelandite (81 x 46 mm), Lavra do Jonas, Conselheiro Pena...color, which occurs in Hiddenite, North Carolina, USA, to be hiddenite. 45 Cn·olire whose name means...was Cum mente et malleo ("With the mind and the mallet"), aiming to signify knowledge, research and intellectual...several excursions to Tijuca, for research at the quarry of Conde d'Eu, recorded in the memoir Beitriige...after Duke University, in Durham, North Carolina, USA, whose mineralogical collection included the sample |  | | Book | | Italy 53 France 54 Spain 55 Portugal 56 England 57 USA and Canada 62 Miscellaneous American beryls 65 South...Brazil, India, Malagasy Republic, Namibia, USA, USSR. Bixbite; USA (rare) Emerald; Brazil, Colombia, India... Zimbabwe Goshenite; Malagasy Republic, Brazil, USA (rare) Heliodor; Brazil, Malagasy Republic, Namibia... Morganite; Brazil, Malagasy Republic, Namibia, USA Xill —_ = 7 - Pease iS ean, 2a al + =a...Pratt, housed in the Virginia Museum in Richmond, USA, is a rock crystal egg enclosing miniature paintings |  | | Book | | Italy 53 France 54 Spain 55 Portugal 56 England 57 USA and Canada 62 Miscellaneous American beryls 65 South...Brazil, India, Malagasy Republic, Namibia, USA, USSR. Bixbite; USA (rare) Emerald; Brazil, Colombia, India... Zimbabwe Goshenite; Malagasy Republic, Brazil, USA (rare) Heliodor; Brazil, Malagasy Republic, Namibia...(rare) Morganite; Brazil, Malagasy Republic, Namibia, USA xiii Chapter 1 Emerald and beryl in antiquity...Pratt, housed in the Virginia Museum in Richmond, USA, is a rock crystal egg enclosing miniature paintings |  | | Journal (issue) | | Show; Smokey Mounlain Mineral Society; Jelferson County Res• cue Squad Bldg.. 915 Industrial Park Rd.:...show: M,c• land Gem & Mineral Society; Midland County Exllib:t Bldg.. Business f-20E: Sat. 9-6, Sun....2-4-REIDSVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA: 8th annual show; Rockingham County Mineral Club; Went• worth Recreation Center, Intersection...World of Jewelry, Gems and Minerals"; SI. Lucie County Rock & Gem Club: SI. Lucie Civic Center. Virginia...31st annual show, ·Earth's Treasures·: Licking County Rock & Mineral So• clety; Teheran Grollo Bldg. |  | | Journal (issue) | | - ALL ORDERS MUST INCLUDE A $2.00 fee If in the USA - all others Including Canada must include full amount...SOCIETIES Annual Show. "'Gem-Main-IA". Llncoln County Gem end Mlneral Society, host. Exposition Building...253-7514 10 - JUNE 1975 Show. Pavillion. J osephine County Fairgrounds, Redwood Expressway, Grants Pass, OR...space filled. Admission and parking free. .lune 1. County Mtnerafotr and P8'Nntolotr society. 6th Annual...WNI Cantrel Oflio Rock Club. Annual Show. Allen County Fairgrounds. East Lima on 309. Lima, OH. 10-10 |
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