 | | Report (edition) | | BULLETIN 41 Third Edition A Collector's Guide to Maine Mineral Localities by Woodrow B. 7KaSVRQ Donald...Vandall T. King Robert G. Marvinney, State Geologist Maine Geological Survey Natural Resources Information...OF CONSERVATION 1998 Copyright © 1998 by the Maine Geological Survey, Department of Conservation. All...5 cm tall; gem weighs 2 carats. From the Havey Quarry, Poland, MaifJ. e. Photo copyright 1995 by Wendell...crystals, 24 x JO mm;Jrom the Bennett Quarry, Buckfield, Maine. Mined in 1996 by Holden !Jrothers Mining |  | Carlsen, Kenneth S., Gale, Marjorie H., Thompson, Woodrow B., Kierstead, Matthew (2015) Belvidere Mountain Asbestos Quarries, Lowell/Eden, Vermont. Rocks & Minerals, 90 (6) 510-551 doi:10.1080/00357529.2015.1080535 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | passes between North Hyde Park and the Gallagher quarry because it broke up the roads. Former Roger Jones...gale@state.vt.us WOODROW B. THOMPSON Maine Geological Survey Augusta, Maine 04333 iceagemaine@myfairpoint.net...yielded some of the most spectacular crystals of grossular, vesuvianite, and epidote ever found in the United...editor of Rocks & Minerals, has worked for the Maine, New Hampshire, and U.S. Geological Surveys. He...Lamoille River). The most recently worked cluster of quarry pits, a sprawling historic extractive industrial |  | | Catalog/List | | 35x30x40nun. £125. 5) ARAGONITE. Frizington, Cumberland. A nice clean mass of off-white tapering sµikey...90x70x40nun approx. £48. 16) CALCITE. Frizington, Cumberland. The top of a thin hematite matrix showing about...120x70x30mm. £275. 17) CALCITE. Egremont, West Cumberland. A nice group of about 80 lustrous gemmy colourless..."Calcite group. Peculiar modifications. West Cumberland". 100x70x60nun. £850. 18) CELESTITE. Yate, Gloucestershire...matrix. 60x40x20nm1. £95. 26) EPISTILBITE. Eklera Quarry, Nasik, Maharashtra, India. A njce group offour |  | | 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 |  | | Catalog/List | | 0° A®ATE, North Shore, Lake Superior, Michigan, USA. Polished pebble showing concentric patterns rarely... Small Ml. £4 £4-°0 HOWLITE, Lang, California, USA. Looks like stone brains, chalklike porcelaneous...GALENA, Hidden Treasures Mine, Nevadaville, Colorado, USA. Mass of pure ore body mainly galena with minor chalco...sulphide. RF SPC. C. £4 £5.00 JASPER/AGATE, Texas, USA. Polished slab of rich green and orange mixture....£5.00 PETRIFIED WOOD, Quincy, Washington State, USA. Polished slab showing original wood grain structure |  | | 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...to us. Will some Colorado reader tell us in what county is Hans Peak and, if possible, send us a few notes...black tourmaline. These crystals came from Walton County, about one mile southwest of Between, from the |  | | Journal (issue) | | News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 E-mail: lream@comtch.iea.com...feldspar. The locality, I believe, is a granite quarry. I have been told that, at the site, the large...Fifties, i.e. chiastolite crystals from Madera County, CA. They used to be very common, almost ubiquitous...Manhattan, NV, from the Twin Creek Mine, Humboldt County, NV. The crystals are about 3/g to 5/g inch (1...with fresnoites from the Junnila Mine, San Benito County, CA, which he described in the Mineral News of |  | | Book | | Geology of Maine. Conte11ts Preface vii Geology of Maine 7 Coastal Maine 25 Interstate 95 (Maine-furnpike)...tli S / Down East Maine: Bangor ;:incl Elli;worll1 to ( ,.i l:tic.; 1/S Maine 3, Maine 102, ancl rh(.;... Bangor (,a ln,s JOI Central Maine 707 M aine 5: Saco-Bethel / 14 Maine 26: Pegmatite Alley, Portland...ton / 49 Maine 7: Belfast-Dover-Foxcrofl I 57 Maine 15: Bangor-Abhot Village.: / 6 / Maine 11: Milo-Millinocket...ountains of Maine 17 3 U.S. 2: Skowhegan-Bcthc: I 179 M aine 4 : Farmington-Rangcley / 91 Maine 27: Farmington-C~oburn |  | | Journal (issue) | | EVENTS ---------- 8 ---------PYRITE from GOAT QUARRY S l'1gham · J G Todd · D Anderson -----------II----------JG...to commend the Sussex Mineral Show in Haywards Heath (see the report in this issue); it may be a small...goes on "As I have myself fruitlessly visited the quarry since, ... I conclude that time 1887). Houston's...across." They also record occurrences "at Bowling quarry near Old Kilpatrick, and other localities north...Bue Heddle (I 901) lists occurrences for "Bowling Quarry, a crystal half an inch in diameter, found about |  | | Catalog/List | | greyish green matrix.RF SPC. C.£15 0014 XONOTLITE.Bin Quarry,Hunlley,Aberdeen,Scolland Radiating off while lo...Good RF SPC C lo Ml. £22 0018 CALCITE,Egremont,Cumberland Attractive xtl group of terminated scalenahedra...1ourmaline.R1ch RF SPC. C.£8 0027 CHALCEDONY.Pentee Quarry,Newlyn,Cornwall.Pretty botryoidal encrustations...D SPC. C.£8 0028 CHLORITE after AXINITE,Aplile Quarry,Meldon,Devon.Unusual pseudomorphs of earthy brown...x1Is.Unusual RF SPC. C £10 0029 WAVELLITE,Highdown Quarry,Filleigh.Devon.Classic wavellite with radiating |  | | 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) | | geologic ages and under varied conditions: the Cumberland Plateau, the Appalachian Valley, the Appalachian...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: |  | | Catalog/List | | mass in Calcite.(Dark Star Mine,Ravalli County, Montana USA) 1 x 14 £2.50 1x1 £4 1x2 £10 156 NATIVE BISMUTH...(Union Carbide Mine, Wilson Springs Garland County, Arkansas USA) 1x1 £4 1x2 £7.50 360 PARATELLURITE TeO...matrix. (Outpost Mine, San Domingo Wash Maricopa County Arizona) Ixliins £4 107 CHLORARGYRITE Ag Cl good...micro's on matrix. (Getchell Mine,Humboldt Co . Nevada USA) 5mm £4 up to 1.5cm £7 242 KOLBECKITE Scandium Phosphate...metallic mass in ■ matrix. (Mohawk Mine,Keenaw County Michigan USA) 1x1 £3 095 CALCIOVOLBORTHITE Ca Cu VO/4 |  | | Catalog/List | | matrix. (Outpost Mine, San Domingo Wash Maricopa County Arizona) lx)4ins £4 063 CAVANSITE Ca (V 0 ) SiO...(Union Carbide Mine, Wilson Springs Garland County, Arkansas USA) lxl £4 1x2 £7.50 497 TELLURITE Te 0/2 good...brown metallic (Herbb £2 Mine, Powhatton County Virginia USA) lcm £6 314 PYRARGYRITE Ag/3 SbS/3 pure crystalline...masses, well coating matrix. (Dooneen Mine Allihies, County Cork, S.Ireland) . lxl £3.50. 1x2 £6.50 2xl.5ins...matrix.(some + Micros! Monument 1 Mine, Navajo County,Arizona,USA) lxl.£3.50 1x2 £7.00 118 CONICHALCITE green |  | | Journal (issue) | | PlymouthMuseum. Figure 5 This calcitetwin from Cumberland is one many superbspecimensin the collectionof...gone with the demise of hard-rock mining in the county, and the practice of exchange with museums, which...number of collectors in Britain compared to the USA, Germany or France, the tendency for British collectors...National Speleological Society, Huntsville, Alabama, USA. NICKEL, E.H. (1995) Definition of a mineral. Mineralogical...which gives the locality as the Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland {though this is thought to be in error). UK |  | | Journal (issue) | | membership. . Persons living over 60 miles from Haywards Heath may opt for associate membership. Anyone joining...Concern Hall, attached to Clair Hall, Haywards Heath from 7.30 -10.30 p.m. Chairman: F!Trip Coordinator:...introduction to his guided photographic tour of the county we all know so well (or thought we did!) Alan has...sandstone, although it is not known from which quarry the stone came, and one of Alan's slides showed...Sussex! Alan then went to the extreme West of our county to show us a series of pictures of the varied coastline |  | | Catalog/List | | Value Specimen 12 £12.00 BARITE, Stoneham, Colorado, USA. Three adjoining transparent pale blue terminated...with COPPER, Central Mine, Keweenaw Co . Michigan, USA. Growths of native silver protrude from milky white...NATIVE GOLD, American Tunnel, Silverton, Colorado, USA. Flecks of native gold <4mm on milky quartz/grey...NATIVE GOLD, Homestake Mine, Lead,South Dakota, USA. Flecks of native gold <4mm with milky quartz on...NATIVE GOLD, American Tunnel, Silverton, Colorado, USA. Flecks of native gold <4mm on milky quartz/grey |  | | Catalog/List | | mass in Calcite.(Dark Star Mine,Ravalli County, Montana USA) 1 x H £2.50 1x1 £4 040 BITYITE Li and Be...white cleavages in Muscovite. (Harding Mine,Taos County, New Mexico) 1x1 £3.50 1x2 £7 097 CHLOANTHITE (variety...micro's on matrix. (Getchell Mine,Humboldt Co . Nevada USA) 5mm £4 151 LEUCOSPHENITE Ba Na Ti B SiO Blue massive... About 7mm mass (Bulldog Mine, Creede, Mineral County,Colorado U.S.A) £4 439 STRACZEKITE Ca K Ba V 0...(Union Carbide Mine, Wilson Springs Garland County, Arkansas USA) 1x1 £4 1x2 £7.50 396 TORBERNITE Cu UO PO/4 |  | | Journal (issue) | | membership. Persons living over 60 miles from Haywards Heath may opt for associate membership. Anyone joining...Concern Hall, attached to Clair Hall, Haywards Heath from 7.30 -10.30 p.m. Chairman: F/Trip Coordinator:...L.S. Flodlgarry The Quiraing ffin ., Dunvegan Quarry • ·.·.·Mainland. · . • of • • • Scotland Moonen...l \ I . / MESOZOIC Sed iments V . z <( Maine ~ ro Torridon i an ~ <( LJ I UJ Lew1sian ...groups: 1. without fluorine and boron minerals e.g. grossular garnet, wollastonite and hedenbergite. 2. with |  | | Journal (issue) | | membership. Persons living over 60 miles from Haywards Heath may opt for associate membership. Anyone joining...Concern Hall, attached to Clair Hall, Haywards Heath from 7.30 - 10.30 p.m. Chairman: Fffrip Coordinator:...series (uvarovite-grossular-andradite). This Group includes: Almandine Andradite Grossular Pyrope Spessartine...radiating crystals from this type locality at High Down quarry, Filleigh, near Barnstaple, Devon, also beautiful...Arkansas in USA, form the limited base for my knowledge of wavellite. Wavelite from High Down Quarry, Filleigh |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | pegmatite was mined at Barringer Hill in Llano County in the early 1900s but was flooded by Lake Buchanan...on "The Weeks Pegmatite Mine, Wakefield, Carroll County, New Hampshire" (March/April 1991). i i • I...66, May/June 1991 197 LOCALITIES BY COUNTY Bastrop County KEY mm T * ? — — — — best occurrence..."specimen quality" questionable occurrence Angelina County Lufkin, 1 mile N of Lufkin in railroad cuts, in...(petrified wood) (Folk et al., 1961). Baylor County Aransas County Aransas Pass area, Intercoastal Canal |  | | Catalog/List | | DfABOLEJTE, PARALAURIONITE and MENDI PITE. Mcrehead Quarry, Cranmore, Somerset. Black manganese matrix with...70x50x40mm. £22. I (1) F,1)I NGTONITE. Morcswood Quarry, D1sgwlfa Hill, Shropshire. Six glossy colourless... Leonard Mine, Butte, Silver Bow Co .. Montana, USA. About a dozen lustrous black enargItc xls to I 0111111...goethite. 70x40x30nun. £65. 24) GOOSECREEKITE. Osare Quarry, Nasik, Mawarashtra, India. A �ovcly geod� showing..."cl I on one edge. 100x70x35mm. £ I 65. " 25) GROSSULAR GARNET. Jef frey Mine, Asbestos, Quebec, Canada |  | | Journal (issue) | | membership. Persons living over 60 miles from Haywards Heath may opt for associate membership. Anyone joining...Concern Hall, attached to Clair Hall, Haywards Heath from 7.30 -10.30 p.m. t Chairman: Fffrip Coordnator:...indicates enormeous numbers of visitors from Haywards Heath, Burgess Hill and Brighton, this year it was a trickle...appeared around the show, there was a Haywards Heath Gold Rush . 100 bags of silver sand laced with garnets...that our visitors came from: Location % Havwards Heath Burgess Hill Brii:ihton District Crawlev and Horsham |  | | Report (issue) | | limestone quarry Phillipsburg marble quarries Les Marbres Waterloo quarry Stukely Sud marble quarry Langlois...serpentine occurrence Orford nickel mine Orford marble quarry Moe River placer deposit Capelton (Capel), Albert...Hartford, Lower Canada) mine Stanstead granite quarry St. Francis mine Acton mine Jeffrey mine Aldermac...Moulton Hill mine Scotstown granite quarry Mount Megantic quarry Ditton area placer deposits Amold River...quarries Weedon (McDonald) mine St-Gerard granite quarry Disraeli Road road-cuts Highway 161 road-cuts Solbec |  | | Journal (issue) | | appropriate channel. through MINERALS OF AUGHRIM QUARRY Stephen Moreton • David Green • Andrew Tindle...the discovery of calcite crystals at Sligachan Quarry in 2010 by French collectors Tom and Jean-Claude...Cruachan Granite (Porter and Selby, 2010). Trcarne Quarry was another subject of an early article in the...Carboniferous limestone. Most specimens from the quarry require magnification to be fully appreciated;...Kcmpock Quarry (also known as Craigmuschat Quarry) at Gourock (Nicholson and Durant, 1986). The quarry was |
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Heath Quarry, Casco, Cumberland County, Maine, USA