 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | New Hampshire Mineral Locality Index Downloaded by [University of Newcastle, Australia] at 15:01 05...entrance and arch of the Palermo mine, North Groton, Grafton County. Rob Lawrence photo, courtesy Bob...Bob Whitmore. 242 ROCKS & MINERALS lthough New Hampshire, the Granite State, is one of our smaller states...reading Jackson (1844) on the mineralogy of New Hampshire that even at this early date there was already...activity produced new localities, renewed some old localities, and resulted in new minerals being discovered |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | North Groton, New Hampshire and to an inch in diameter at the Smith Mine, Newport, New Hampshire. It also...occurs at the Victory mine near Custer, South Dakota with quartz, albite, muscovite, black tourmaline and...dickinsonite occurs sparingly at Branchville, Fairfield county, Connecticut. FAIRFIELDITE, a hydrous phosphate...noted as a rare mineral at Branchville, Fairfield county, Connecticut from which it was named; and also...Buckfield, Maine; and from Center Strafford, New Hampshire. REDDINGITE, a hydrous manganese phosphate occurred |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Minerals of North Groton, New Hampshire The historical background of the famous North Groton mines is as fascinating...Candia Road Chester, New Hampshire 03036 R O B E R T W. WHITMORE Weare, New Hampshire 03281 N O R T H G...from local residents and collectors. History North Groton is unknown to many people outside the mineral fraternity... a large percentage of the popula tion of New Hampshire would not recognize the name, let alone be able...Forest. 350 ROCKS & MINERALS In the early 1800s, Groton was a thriving farming com munity with a population |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | page 568, Nov.-Dec, 1962) There is an old mica mine on Blue- powder. If a specimen shows nothing but...Strafford, New Hamp- alteration species ferri-sicklerite or if you shire. It is known as the Buzzo's Mine, are...we were in the vicinity. My second visit to the mine was both had a small vug in which was a botryoiunusual...been up near the southern end of Lake accicular new mineral. When I broke this Winnipesaukee for a week...1938 and a found more and larger crystals of this new persistent drizzle made the snow too species which |  | | Report (issue) | | 02(1)◦ X-ray Powder Pattern: Palermo #1 mine, New Hampshire, USA; cannot be distinguished from herderite... Total 100.51 [100.03] 100.00 (1) Paris, Maine, USA. (2) Virgem da Lapa, Brazil; by electron microprobe...Elbaite, topaz, cassiterite, albite, microcline, muscovite, lepidolite, quartz. Distribution: Many localities...most. Some for analyzed material include: in the USA, in Maine, at Paris, Hebron, Greenwood, Stoneham...elsewhere; in the Fletcher and Palermo #1 mines, near North Groton, Grafton Co., and at the Keyes mine, Orange |  | | Report (issue) | | 410 X-ray Powder Pattern: Palermo #1 mine, New Hampshire, USA. 5.04 (10), 2.98 (8), 2.73 (8), 2.68 (8)...56 9.96 Total 100.23 100.00 (1) [Córrego Frio mine,] Brazil. (2) NaAl3 (PO4 )2 (OH)4 . Occurrence:...deposits. Association: Muscovite, albite, apatite, tourmaline ([Córrego Frio mine,] Brazil); whitlockite...whitlockite, apatite, quartz (Palermo #1 mine, New Hampshire, USA); amblygonite, lazulite-scorzalite, augelite...do Norte. In the USA, at the Palermo #1 and Fletcher mines, near North Groton, Grafton Co., and the G.E |  | | Journal (issue) | | The Newsletter of the Geological Society of New Hampshire, Fall-Winter (December) 2008 Issue No.63 www...–Society - Lee Wilder Colby-Sawyer College New London, New Hampshire lwilder@colby-sawyer.com Secretary – Doug...Doug Allen Haley & Aldrich Manchester, New Hampshire dallen@HaleyAldrich.com Treasurer – Rich Moore US...US Geological Survey Pembroke, New Hampshire rmoore@usgs.gov Past-President – Julie Spencer Westford...Paul Rydel Sanborn, Head & Associates Concord, New Hampshire prydel@sanbornhead.com Ralph Wickson NHDES Waste |  | | Field Trip Notes | | //' . GUIDEBOOK FOR FIELD IN ''fy,.'t:J TRIPS NEW ENGLAND NOVEMBER 10-12, 1952 Organized by the...Before visiting any of the sites described in the New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference guidebooks...Highlands of East-Central New York, Southern Vermont, and Southern New Hampshire Field Trip No. 2, Outstanding...Outstanding pegmatites of Maine and New Hampshire 73 Geology of the "Chelmsford Granite" 103 Field Trip...OF EAST-CENTRAL NEW YORK, SOUTHER Leaders: VERJ-IONT, AND SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE Marland P, Billings |  | | Journal (issue) | | Minerals 1998: What's New Dan Weinrich www.danweinrich.com China One of the exciting new finds from China...specimens belong. A more recent find involves a new locality for spessartine 1998 California Show at...more than the kids, and hopefully may have started new "collecting families." 2 Mineral News I found...years ago in Denver; the other, about tin size, were new. They were water clear with deep reddish/purplish...(Geoprime Minerals) had stibnites from a new Nevada locality, the Murray Mine, not the old Manhattan, but he had |  | | Report (issue) | | Pegmatite Investigations 1942-45 New England By EUGENE N. CAMERON and OTHERS GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL..._______ _ Geology of the pegmatite districts of New Hampshire_ Rock units ________________________________...pegmatites ___________________ _ Pegmatites of the Grafton and Keene districts __ _ Sources of pegmatites...characteristics of mica _________________ _ Properties of muscovite _____________________ _ Structural imperfections...quality __ AnalyHis of the wartime mica industry of New England ________________________________________ |  | | Book | | ( C. 4 ( MINERAL & GEM TRAILS of NEW ENGLAND .� ';� M � [- ' 1f,.,,1 " VE M NlN[W �IUWPS�l-...MINERAL & GEM TRAILS OF NEW ENGLAND by Ed & Bert Sloan Maine Vermont New Hampshire Massachusetts Rhode...Company Mine Hyde Park, Lamoille Co. , Vermont Copper Mine Locality Milton, Vermont Parrot Jasper Mine Reading...Talc Mine Saxtons River, Vermont Davis Soapstone Quarry South Newfane, Vermont Adams Hill Site NEW HAMPSHIRE...Strafford, New Hampshire Parker Mt. Mine Conway, New Hampshire Hurricane Mt. Grafton, New Hampshire Ruggles |  | | Report (volume) | | General features____________________________ Coosa County _________ ____________________ Randolph County...Cherokee County_____________________________ 72 Elbert County _____________________________ 75 Hall County__...County_______________________________ 76 Hart County. ___ __ __________________ 77, Lumpkin and Union counti...___________ S3 Pickens County _______-______________________ 83 Rabun County-_____________________________...____________ 86 Troup County ________________________________ 86 Upson County _______________________________ |  | | Book | | recent findings. For the new minerals described since 1973, I have used the New Minerals section of the...the American Mineralogist, Lists of New Mineral Names of Mineralogical Magazine and the recent compilation...deposits in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah were opened centuries ago by the...the mines in the Cerrilos Hills, near Santa Fe, New Mexico (Encyclopedia Britannica 968, p 415). Turquois...historical pattern in the subsequent introduction of new phosphate minerals (still valid) into the scientific |  | | Report (issue) | | Beryl Resources of New Hampshire GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 353 Prepared on behalf of the...with the New Hampshire State Planning and Development Commission Beryl Resources of New Hampshire By JAMES...Commission^ and in part in cooperation with the New Hampshire State Planning and Development Commission UNITED...Page, James Jeffers, 192ftBeryl resources of New Hampshire, by James J. Page and David M. Larrabee. Washington...Commission, and in part in cooperation with the New Hampshire State Planning and Development Commission. Bibliography: |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | TABLE2. Occurrences of Hurlbutite (all in quartz-muscovite pegmatites) Location Associations References...Not stated Rao and Silva, 1964 Grand Slam beryl mine, SW of Miami, Rhodesia Albite, beryl Gallagher...quartz, The system Caa(PO4)•-Bea(PO4)•,containing muscovite, microcline, albite, topaz, beryl, her- hurlbutite... 1957, 19 Perham, 1964 EmmonsQuarry (Uncle Tom Mine), Greenwood,Oxford Co., Maine Gem tourmaline, beryl...amblygonite Rand, 1957, 10 Moore, 1973, 120 Tiger Bill Mine, Greenwood, Oxford Co., Maine Spodumene,bertrandite |  | | Report (issue) | | Geoloqy of the Nashua River Area, Massachusetts - New Hampshire By Gilpin Rile Robinson, Jr. Open-Fi1e Report...FORMATION TO THE MASSABESIC GNEISS COMPLEX IN NEW HAMPSHIRE CHAPTER 6. GEOLOGIC HISTORY 118 123 POSSIBILITY...2 Index map 4 3 Major structural elements of New England 7 4 Lithotype belts in the Nashua River... = 3.5 kilobars involving the mineral phases muscovite, dolomite, K-feldspar, quartz, biotite, chlorite...triple point (3.8 kb.: v. 271, p. 97-131). primary muscovite. Holdaway, 1971, Am. Jour. Sci., Devonian granite |  | | Book | | THE PEGMATITE MINES KNOWN AS NORTH GROTON, NEW HAMPSHIRE eral I ederi Acknowledi:ments Dedicated...Alexander U. Falster Carl Francis James W. Grandy Groton Historical Society Jonathan Herndon Various contributions...experience. As a kid growing up in Manchester, New Hampshire, I was always fascinated by minerals and tried...premier sandbox, but I could also make sure the mine would remain open to mineral enthusiasts for years...maintained the notoriety acquired by the Palermo No. I mine. Its impact on the nation, and in some respects |  | | Journal (issue) | | you wish to receive a copy. Please request our new arrivals list Dealers in: • rare minerals • fine... Paul Brian Moore Wyllieite, Na2Fe2AI(P04)3, A New Species........ Paul B. Moore Jun Ito Richard V...Scarsdale, New York, measures 8-1/2 by 10 inches. Photograph by HenriJansen, Ardsley,New York. Editorial...appointment Tourmaline Tourmaline Queen Mine Pala, California NEW ACQUISITIONS: RUTILE from Graves M tn...TOURMALINE from Pala, California We w ill offer fine new material from Europe and A frica fo llo w in g our |  | | Report (volume) | | quarries................................ Caledonia County ............................................................ Groton ...................................................... Orange County................of the granites and quarries Continued. Orleans County ................. ............................................................... 46 Washington County .................................................the granites and quarries Continued. Washington County Continued. Cabot ............................. |  | | 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...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods...gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason Cr.⎯fossils; |  | | 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...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods...gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason Cr.⎯fossils; |  | | Report (issue) | | VARIEGATED MARBLE SOUTHEAST OF CALERA, SHELBY COUNTY, ALABAMA. By CHARLES BUTTS. About 3£ miles a little...is great, and it would not be easy to establish a new enterprise in that line on a paying basis except...in Bulletins 313, 404, 430, and 484, on the other New England granites. The following scale of shades and...chief commercial granites offMassachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island: Bull. U. S. Geol. Survey...the writer's work on the commercial granites of New England. It contains two petrographic determinations |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Minerals of New Hampshire A Checklist JANET W. C A R E S 18 S i n g l e t a r y L a n e Sudbury. Massachusetts...ities. As other articles in this issue will attest, New Hamp shire has rightfully earned its nickname, the...Janules, 1990), and the fumed "gummite" of the Ruggles mine accounts foi the many alteration products of uraninke...lead-bearing minerals are found at the Madison lead mine, and barite occurs in the well-known fluorite mines... while copper minerals—which are scarce in New Hampshire—are found mainly in a few small depos its. |  | | Report (volume) | | Director Bulletin 738 THE COMMERCIAL GRANITES OF NEW ENGLAND BY T. NELSON DALE WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT...Pegmatite dikes in groups____________________ Muscovite veins___________________________ Zeolite vein...expansion____^_________________ Geographic distribution of New England granite quarries____ Descriptions of the...___ Groton____________________________ Oriinge County __________________________ Topsham___________________________..._ Randolph ___________________________ Orleans County- _______________________ Derby Barton _ _________ |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | locality known as the Ruggles' Mine in Grafton Center, New Hampshire. Already then it had been in more...body. It consisted mainly of feldspars with much muscovite, occasional beryls, some phosphates and the radio-actives...color groupings on the whitish microcline. My New Hampshire friends, Mr. Leggett and Mr. Weeks of Meredith...Meredith, mentioned having seen workmen repairing the mine road with some of the colorful stuff! Good specimens...met the Walls a few months earlier at the Nevel Mine, Newry, Maine. At the time Bill was still in the |
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