 | | 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) | | on Deer Hill, Maine, in 1956 By B. M. SHAUB 159 Elm Street, Northampton, Massachusetts Deer Hill is...F-ryeburg, Maine quadrangle. It is in the town of Stow, a section of Oxford County. The pegmatite on Deer Hill...Hill is often referred to as the Eastman ledge and has been known as a source of an occasional fine colored...top of the hill. In 1956 Phillips Cole of Dayton, Maine obtained a lease from Harry Eastman of Fryeburg...Fryeburg, Maine, the owner of the property, to mine feldspar and mica from a relatively large pegmatite which |  | | 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 |  | | 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 (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...the Allegheny Plateau (from Georgia to central Maine). The NYMC membership is primarily amateur, and...Prize: Quartz Epimorphs after Barile from Diamond Hill, Cumberland, Rhode I land. by Lawrence Bull. Publications...F. Kunz Competition Papers, four articles on NE USA mineral occurrences. 73 pages, 55 illu tra1ions, |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | arch of the Palermo mine, North Groton, Grafton County. Rob Lawrence photo, courtesy Bob Whitmore. 242...at 15:01 05 January 2015 LOCATIONS BY COUNTY Belknap County Alton area: arsenopyrite, galena, quartz...quartz (crystals), sillimanite (Avery Hill, crystals). Belmont area: fluorapatite (blue-green), and orthoclase...(road cut, village bypass), epidote, garnet, muscovite. Gilford area: anorthite, augite, corundum, clinozoisite...occurrence is particularly noteworthy for Carroll County Albany, Blackberry Crossing (includes the Moose |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Manasquan, New Jersey, visited Calamity Wash, Yavapai County, and collected several exciting and Figure 7: Arizona...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...Sweden; the resumption of activity at Mount Mica quarry, Paris; and the find of what might be the world's...world's largest morganite at the Bennett quarry, Buckfield, in the late 1980s convinced the regional collectors |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | quartz. Clora May Mine, Trout Creek Pass, Chaffee County, Colo." The locality is described in Prof. Richard... 109 as follows: "The Clora May quarry stands at the top of the hill. It consists of an opencut over...white quartz float lies on the steep slope of the hill. The country rock is a dark quartz-mica schist....localities swell this book to 223 pages). Chaffee County is in the central part of Colorado. CONNECTICUT—"I...astringent metallic taste. Thompson, in N / E Windham County, is in N / E Connecticut. FLORIDA—"I am mailing |  | | 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...K-feldspar (K/Rb ≈ 17, K/Cs ≈ 90, Rb/Tl ≈ 75), muscovite (K/Rb ≈ 6.6, K/Cs ≈ 14.8, Rb/Tl ≈ 127), beryl...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; |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | as the 1850s. In May 1888, E . A . Andrews of Stow, Maine, discovered topaz and phenakite at South Baldface...contained topaz, smoky quartz, micro cline, biotite, muscovite, and phenakite crystals. Figure 3 (above): View...specimen and photo. Figure 7: Biotite crystal with muscovite interior, Albany; crys tal is 2 c m . K. Hollmann...Oliver. In about 1928, specimens from the Redstone quarry in Redstone Village reached the public through...ceiving the crystals from relatives working in the quarry, young Dondero would place them for sale in his |  | | 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...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip...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...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason |  | | 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...is clear enough to facet. The Keystone Trap Rock Quarry at Cornog, Pennsylvania, offers collecting of pyrite...the Summit Quarry of the Houdaille Construction Materials Company, Inc., an active quarry, Summit. New...chalcedony, ouartz and banded agate; to the Lime Crest Quarry, Lime <~r?st, Newton, New Jersey, for spinel, fluorite |  | | 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 |  | | Report (volume) | | ...................................... 97 Dyer quarry...............................'..................98 Bennington quarry..................:.......................... 98 Kent & Root quarry.................Continental Marble Co.'s quarry................................. 98 Valley quarry (Norcross)........................................... 98 Plateau quarry............................................... . 100...103 Deaf Joe quarry............................................... 103 Blue Ledge quarry............. |  | | 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...pegmatite district lies across the Park-Fremont County line in south-central Co'crado, a few miles northwest...varying degree to pinite, consisting chiefly of muscovite, chlorite, and biotite, and traces of garnet,...to us. Will some Colorado reader tell us in what county is Hans Peak and, if possible, send us a few notes |  | | 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...crystals, oookeite, spodumene, lepi dolite, muscovite crystals with borders of lepidolite, goshenite...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 |  | | Report (volume) | | Society: Journal, 18th year, pt. 1, 1902. Chapel Hill, N. 0. ' Engineering and Mining Journal, vols....Geological Survey: vol. 4,1902; Garrett County, 1902; Cecil County, 1902. Baltimore, Md. Mexico, Institute...Jr.). [Maryland]. The physiography of Garrett County Md. Geol. Surv., Garrett Co., pp. 27-54, pis....Describes .the topographic and drainage features of the county, and discusses its physiographic history. 2 Adams...Knoydart formation (Eq-Devonian) of Antigonish County, Nova Scotia. N. S. Inst. Sci., Trans., vol. 10 |  | | 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) | | quartz, feldspar, muscovite, and biotite. All white micas were included under muscovite, and black micas...specimens came from the New England Province, including Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, and Con...same quarry (indicating the reproducibility of analyses of different specimens from the same quarry); (3)...millimeter. The spectra were taken on 4- by 29%-inch Eastman antihalation safety process film. Both the cathode-layer...analysis diagrams of different specimens from same quarry. AREAL RELATIONSHIPS Granites.—The following elements |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Petrified Forest. The Club's Field Trip was to Garnet Hill near Hiram, Georgia, where they collected garnets...by this club on a trip to the Conklin Limestone Quarry, near Canaan, Connecticut. . . . . Members of the...good account of a trip to the Jones Mine in Berks County. Sixty-four members and guests made this trip and...Gem, Lapidary and Mineral Society of Montgomery County, Wheaton, heard a talk by its President, Daniel...the Blue Ball Stone Company and the Ivan Martin Quarry to hunt for fluorite, pyrite, calcite and other |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | meeting. A field trip was held at the Campbell Quarry at Marriottsville for micro specimens. The members...Gem, Lapi dary and Mineral Society of Montgomery County, Rockville, have a safety program S.T.O.P., which...scheduled for several months of 1972. — The Calhoun County Rock and Mineral Club, Jacksonville heard Carl...while collecting at St. Hilaire, Canada found a muscovite crystal in the form of a six pointed star! — The...field trip was made to the Bayer and Mingolia Trap Quarry in Ashland, Mass. ROCKS AND MINERALS GEORGIA |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the Gosses and Metcalfs found agates in Harrison County, Mis sissippi. PENNSYLVANIA Dr. John Price, President...t i o n o f two n e w minerals i n Blue B a l l Quarry, celestite a n d c a k i o s t r o n t i a n i...o f the t a l k b y D r . E m i l Alan Beaver County w h o showed slides o f archaeological " d i g...Member Deas Rock and Mineral Club of Lower Bucks County, F a i r l e s s H i l l s , t o l d B o y k i...shields when making a field trip to the Lockport quarry Bram Terrill, President of the Eastern Federation |
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