| Locality type: | Quarry |
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| Species: | Muscovite |
| Formula: | KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2 |
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| Validity: | Believed Valid |
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| Mineral Data: | Click here to view Muscovite data |
| Locality Data: | Click here to view Beech Hill Mica Quarry, Waterford, Oxford County, Maine, USA |
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| Mindat Occurrence Record ID: | 36368 |
| Long-form Identifier: | 1:3:36368:0 |
| GUID (UUID V4): | bee9d192-52c1-4d67-8275-5fd9ad88e356 |
| Nearest other occurrences of Muscovite |
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| 1.8km (1.1 miles) | ⓘSaunders-Wheeler Prospect, Albany, Oxford County, Maine, USA |
| 3.9km (2.4 miles) | ⓘKnight #1 and #2 Quarries, Waterford, Oxford County, Maine, USA |
| 5.1km (3.1 miles) | ⓘOrman McAllister Quarry, Lovell, Oxford County, Maine, USA |
| 7.5km (4.7 miles) | ⓘChester Holt prospect, Albany, Oxford County, Maine, USA |
| 8.0km (4.9 miles) | ⓘSaltman Amethyst locality, Sweden, Oxford County, Maine, USA |
| 8.3km (5.2 miles) | ⓘWardwell Quarry (Pechnic Quarry), Albany, Oxford County, Maine, USA |
| 8.4km (5.2 miles) | ⓘHenry Fox Feldspar Prospect, Lovell, Oxford County, Maine, USA |
| 9.0km (5.6 miles) | ⓘBeryllium Corporation prospect, Lovell, Oxford County, Maine, USA |
| 9.3km (5.8 miles) | ⓘWentworth Quarry, Albany, Oxford County, Maine, USA |
| 10.9km (6.8 miles) | ⓘStearns Quarry, Albany, Oxford County, Maine, USA |
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 | | Report (volume) | | PEGMATITES AND ASSOCIATED ROCKS OF MAINE INCLUDING FELDSPAR, QUARTZ, MICA, AND GEM DEPOSITS BY EDSON S...lithium phases................................... Muscovite phase...........................................minor constituents............................. Mica................................................................................... Origin of the Maine pegmatites........................................Larsen............................. Application to Maine pegmatites............................... Eutectics |  | | Report (volume) | | SURVEY GEORGE OTIS SMITH, Director Bulletin 740 MICA DEPOSITS OF THE UNITED STATES DOUGLAS B. STERRETT...Physical properties_____________________________ Mica mining__________________ ____ _ ________ . Hist...Methods_____________________:_____________ Preparation of mica for the market____________________ Uses________...General features____________________________ Coosa County _________ ____________________ Randolph County...Cherokee County_____________________________ 72 Elbert County _____________________________ 75 Hall County__ |  | | Field Trip Notes | | Hampshire Field Trip No. 2, Outstanding pegmatites of Maine and New Hampshire 73 Geology of the "Chelmsford...the chlorite zone is the same as the chlorite-muscovite subfacies of the green schist facies| the biotite...formation on the west and the highly deformed Snake Hill shale or slate on the east (all Middle Ordovician);...is lost in a wide expanse of Canajoharie or Snake Hill shale covered by late-glacial lake and marine clay...under stratigraphically higher shale (the Snake Hill shale), also highly deformed, which forms most of |
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