 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | I993 discovery at the historic Deer Hill locality in southwestern Maine. Downloaded by [NUS National...2015 Amethyst Discovery on Stow, Oxford County, Maine WOODROW B. THOMPSON Maine Geological Survey State...House Station 22 Augusta, Maine 04333 In the summer of 1993, a trio of Maine mineral collectors worked...prospect-called the Intergalactic pit-in an area of Deer Hill that has lured prospectors for many years. They...concentration of amethyst crystals ever found on Deer Hill. During July and August, clay-filled pockets yielded |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | The Quartz Crystal Pocket Discovered on Deer Hill, Maine, in 1956 By B. M. SHAUB 159 Elm Street, Northampton...Massachusetts Deer Hill is located in the extreme northwest corner of the F-ryeburg, Maine quadrangle....It is in the town of Stow, a section of Oxford County. The pegmatite on Deer Hill is often referred to...to as the Eastman ledge and has been known as a source of an occasional fine colored amethyst; for such...relatively few carats each. It is customary for quartz obtained from pegmatite pockets to be rather badly |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Don Dallaire photo. 64 Mineral Drive Hebron, Maine 04238 phosphate@gmail.com W hen one thinks of...Neumeier. 302 3 South Baldface 93 302 Redstone Quarry Bartlett Lincoln Huntington Mountain Moat Mountain...minerals. He is on the board of trustees of the Maine Mineral & Gem Museum. James Nizamoff has a master’s...of the “MP2” research group associated with the Maine Mineral & Gem Museum. Volume 92, November/December...the Mesozoic-age granites 510 ROCKS & MINERALS Maine Monteregian Hills of the White Mountain Igneous |  | | Journal (issue) | | open-pit Gold Quarry Mine, Eureka County, Nevada. from the Radersburg District, Broadwater County, Montana...small wulfcnite crystals found at the Broadwater County, Montana (Sec. 28, T 5 N, R 1 W), some interesting...on crystals growing over the wulfenitc and its quartz substrate. The aragonite was usually dissolved...the wulfenites, which are protected by a light quartz druse. Before -~ating one matrix piece, 1 decided...the Allegheny Plateau (from Georgia to central Maine). The NYMC membership is primarily amateur, and |  | | 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) | | Unusual Quartz John Ebner of Manasquan, New Jersey, visited Calamity Wash, Yavapai County, and collected...and Figure 7: Arizona quartz; John Ebner photo. Figures 2 & 3 Arizona quartz; John Ebner photos. unusual...unusual micromount-sized quartz crystals. The accompanying photographs illustrate the variety of groupings...groupings and distortions found in the specimens. Maine New Mining Activity Ever since the feldspar mill...mill burned in West Paris in the early 196Os, Maine pegmatite mining has been conducted only for the recovery |  | | 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) | | 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...sillimanite (Avery Hill, crystals). Belmont area: fluorapatite (blue-green), and orthoclase (road cut, village...(lodestone), nepheline, quartz (amethyst). Laconia area: psilomelane, quartz (crystals), sphalerite,...occurrence is particularly noteworthy for Carroll County Albany, Blackberry Crossing (includes the Moose |  | | 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) | | pink or tan and made up of 65% feldspar, 30% smoky quartz, and 5% biotite. It occurs in several phases...a fine-grained phase in which the feldspar and quartz are 0.2-1 mm in diameter, to a porphyrinic phase...with feld spar phenocrysts 5-20 mm in length and quartz phenocrysts 5-20 mm in width, set in a finer-grained...weathered. It is composed of 65% feldspar, 30% quartz, and about 5% dark minerals— mostly ferrohastingsite...as the 1850s. In May 1888, E . A . Andrews of Stow, Maine, discovered topaz and phenakite at South Baldface |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | UNIVERSITY] at 18:07 24 August 2017 Freeport, Maine Graphite, in a friable granite p. 3 Chesterfield...Argillaceous Marl, in a hollow n e a r the top of a hill in a b e d 5 feet thick. It is used for Fuller's...Cumberland, R. I. Amianthus, associated with epidote in quartz, a n d in the anthracite of this town, sometimes...(Cumberland to b e continued) Cornwall, Conn. SMOKY QUARTZ, crystallized. CYANITE, in gneiss, with GRAPHITE...issuing from a spring, opposite Albany p. 116 Compton Hill. N. J. PYROXENE, about 16 m. N.W. from the falls |  | | 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...Amethysts, or Quartz crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T...S, R. 10 E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee...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...Amethysts, or Quartz crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T...S, R. 10 E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | delicate white, or light flesh color, 20 m. from Oxford, on the road to Person court house. p. 213 across...difficult to determine, whether to refer them to smoky quartz or amethyst p. 241 Maysville, Ky. COAL p....light it appears of a topaz yellow, or like smoky quartz; in the cavities, the crystals are white and...and transparent p. 233 Superior Lake, Mich. SMOKY QUARTZ, at Point Keewiiweenon (or Keweena) in a crystalline...directions to several good W. Conn, localities. Maine — Philip C. Lyman, Box 6, Livennore Falls, Me. 04254 |  | | Book (edition) | | MARIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY 3 1111 00289 4184 \ I s Fifth Revised Edition A complete, state-by-state...Diamond M Tourmaline fQl Ruby, O Sapphire Quartz crystal 'y^ Garnet — Azu rite, Malachite, Chrysocolla...on the gem resources of our land. "Do you, Mr. Maine," he continued, "know that some of the finest tourmalines...from Alaska to the Mexican border and eastward to Maine and Florida. Still others are found in Canada and...strike gem tourmaline by the bushel basketful in Maine and California; emerald in North Carolina, a big |  | | 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...associated pegmatites. A few pegmatites (e.g., the Lord Hill pegmatite and amethyst-bearing pegmatites) show...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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | PEGMATITE MINERALS OF MAINE By D A V I D M. S E A M A N 36 Winter St., Norway, Maine 0 4 2 6 8 INTRODUCTION...of minerals have been found in the pegmatites of Maine since the discovery of Mt. Mica near Paris H i l...including a few water melon tourmalines, clear and smoky quartz crystals, oookeite, spodumene, lepi dolite...tourmaline find at the Dunton Gem Mine at Newry, Maine of watermelon and green, elbaite tourmaline, has...here. The Bennett Quarry at Buckfield, Maine, was also worked by Mr. Robert Eastman of Center Ossipee |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | collecting sphalerite north of Wiarton, at the Ebel Quarry, and at Cragleith. There are collecting areas at...Line Pitts at Oakwood, Maryland, and the Cedar Hill Quarry in the same general area in nearby Pennsylvania...water washed quartz, some of which is clear enough to facet. The Keystone Trap Rock Quarry at Cornog, Pennsylvania...crystals, chalcopyrite, fluorescent calcite, blue quartz, garnet and other associated minerals. New Jersey...Pennsylvania for quartz crystals; for serpentine at Lake Valhalla; to the Summit Quarry of the Houdaille |  | | 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...CLIFTON-MORENCI DISTRICT, Greenlee Co Chalcedony DEER CREEK, Gila Co., near Jasper GEALE MOUNTAINS, Maricopa |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Investigation of Gilley Fluorspar Deposits in Cherokee County, Alabama, by James F. O'Neill. It is interesting... 50 miles northeast of Birmingham, in Cherokee County, located in West 1/2, West V2 of Section 16, Township...fluoresces blue (through the quartz) under the Mineralight; in addition the quartz crystal has a colorless...pegmatite district lies across the Park-Fremont County line in south-central Co'crado, a few miles northwest... N . J., donated to R & M two quartz specimens—groups of milky quartz and rock crystals—both coming from |  | | Book | | HfiRIN COUNTY FREE LIBRfiRY 311110G386652Q I V Russell P MacFal A COLOR TREASUF FOR COLLECTORS...are 100 maps geared to leading the "hunter to his quarry" and more than eighty photographs of minerals in...to Hunting Locations ? i 9 GIVEN TO THE MARIN COUNTY LIBRARY BY MARI N L MTNF.RAT. SOCTETY DAVID...knapsack you can use a mountaineering bag or a mili- quarry or mine where a permit tary bag; make it it...may be able to buy specimens. map of Keweenaw County. Mich- Part of the U.S. Geological Survey topographic |  | | Journal (issue) | | GALENA CRYSTALS, BARITE CRYSTALS, CALCITE CRYSTALS, QUARTZ CRYSTALS ETC. EACH PIECE TRIMMED AND SELECTED FOR...591 593 602 614 618 619 634 562 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY .................................................7-3185) ROCKS AND MINERALS i 561 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY A CALIFORNIA FIRST! GOLD: Official state mineral...Dakota comes close, with a "state gem stone”—rose quartz. —Mineral Information Sendee Ferry Building San...and Mineral Fair will be held at the Jefferson County Fair Grounds west of Denver, Colo., on U. S. 6 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | activities, month by month. NEW JERSEY The Bergen County Mineralogy and Paleontology Society, Paramus, either...dary Society heard Vincent Vozza of the Bergen County Mineralogy and Paleon tology Society speak on...Harrisburg, made an early winter trip to Cedar Hill Quarry for zircon, hydromagnesite, deweylite, and other...jew elry! The Club cooperates with the Mif flin County Educational Speakers Asso ciation and provides...fossils The Rock and Mineral Club of Lower Bucks County, Fairless Hills, viewed the Eastern Federation |  | | Journal (issue) | | information gathering trip to the Black Hills Institute in Hill City, South Dakota, where he attended a symposium............................. 7 New Hampshire and Maine, 2005 ............................................more quickly than a 100% limestone section. The Hill Country of Texas has lots of ammonites, too, but...BACKBENDER'S GAZETTE SEPTEMBER 2005 New Hampshire and Maine, 2005 by Art Smith Member of the Houston Gem & Mineral...(west) to the collecting area, go left and up the hill a couple of hundred feet to what Bob Janules calls |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the discovery of a variety of gemstones. Beryl, quartz, 300 ROCKS & MINERALS in museum and fluorite...Natural His tory in New York City, the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, and the Harvard Mineralogical...almandine is the Turner mine in Marlow, Cheshire County, from which a 2.15-carat emerald-cut gem (figure...the Charles Davis mine in North Groton, Grafton County, sev eral gemmy orange beryl crystals were found...fashion. The Island Mica mine in Alstead, Cheshire County, has produced gem-quality material from which a |
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