 | | Journal (issue) | | The Newsletter of the Geological Society of New Hampshire, Winter Edition – December 2016 – Issue No....expectations for the new year. Treasurer – Bill Abrahams-Dematte AECOM, Wilton, NH As the new year geosocnh@gmail...me we Past-President – Julie Spencer should make New Year’s AECOM, Chelmsford, MA resolutions even if...are finding improvements and making plans for your new year, Tina Cotton – jtcotton80@gmail.com too. Lee...- geology@des.nh.gov The Board has changed with new members Shane Csiki, secretary, and Sharon Lewandowski |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | EMSTONES OF NEW HAMPSHIRE A variety of New Hampshire's beautiful gemstones are represented and private... JOHN J . BRADSHAW P. O. Box 7467 Nashua, New Hampshire 03060 Photographs by Tino Hammid except a s...R E L A T I V E L Y S M A L L I N A R E A , New Hampshire has provided a considerable variety of fine...the discovery of a variety of gemstones. Beryl, quartz, 300 ROCKS & MINERALS in museum and fluorite...well as new sources to provide the mineralogical world with both specimen and gem material. New Hampshire |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | NOTES ON RARE AND UNUSUAL NEW ENGLAND GEM STONES By RALPH GOSSE P.O. Box 5 3 5 1 , A l b a n y , N e...gem materials found within the boundaries of the New England States. Perhaps some of the localities mentioned...article and any additional information concerning New England gemstones for future articles. Cat's-Eye...of Gilsum, in Alstead Township, Cheshire County, New Hampshire. Although found in Brazil and other foreign...ray. Some of the aquamarine collected at this New Hampshire locality is so highly chatoyant that it equals |  | | Book (volume) | | MODIFIED DRIFT By WARREN ae OF GLACIAL IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. UPHAM, DRIFT. APPENDIX II. TO PARTS ...INTRODUCTION, . . . . .. THE MINERALOGY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, LITHOLOGY, INDEX TO PART IV, APPENDIX, Part...Monroe, Fig. 4, Section in Newbury and North Haverhill, Fig. 5, Section in Bradford and Piermont, . Fig...Rockingham, Vt., 3 : 18, Section in Bridgewater and New Hampton, 19, Section in Concord, Fig. 20, Section...gravel, Whitefield, 311 . 64, Section of Bald mountain, 365 vii ILLUSTRATIONS. OF LIST Part IV |  | | Book (edition) | | channels of trade, transportation and consumption, new utilizations, and recent discoveries, have, to a...most part, have been progressive. In addition to new finds of valuable deposits, many of the occurrences...has therefore seemed advisable to pre sent such new information as may bring the whole subject more nearly...gas fields occur in almost every State except in New England and a few Southern States, but the discoveries...by Prof. John G. Smock, and that for the Eocky Mountain region by Mr. C. Whitman Cross. To these gentlemen |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | cm long), Beebe Hall, McCain Valley, San Diego County, California. Cal and Kerith Graeber specimen; Jeffrey...pegmatites that contain iron-rich minerals, such as black tourmaline, biotite, pyrite, magnetite, triplite...crystals that are rooted in the microcline-plagioclase-quartz wall zone Downloaded by [] at 04:12 15 May 2015...project into the white quartz core. The portion of beryl enclosed by the quartz core is often sharply...suFounded by graphic granite.) Typically, smoky quartz, albite, muscovite, and microcline line the cavity |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Silica and Silicates ( 107 ) from the pegmatites at QUARTZ, silica, Si02, is an essential mineral in the granite...pegmatites. Massive, white, or smoky colored crystalline quartz often makes up the greater bulk of the mass of...are of pink or the rose quartz variety. Rock crystals, or the colorless quartz crystals, are often found...found as well as are smoky quartz crystals in the cavities of druses which occur in many pegmatites. Amethyst...Amethyst, the purple colored variety of crystalline quartz, usually is found in crystals in cavities or pockets |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | North Groton, New Hampshire and to an inch in diameter at the Smith Mine, Newport, New Hampshire. It also...mine near Custer, South Dakota with quartz, albite, muscovite, black tourmaline and triphylite. DICKINSO^ITE...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) | | and the Harlem River, New York City, N.Y. ; at the Dake mine, Mitchell County, North Carolina; with tysonite...Springs, Colorado; and with rutile in Alexander County, North Carolina. MONAZITE, is essentially a phosphate...half inches in size at the Dake mine in Mitchell County. It occurs also in crystals at the Ray mine near...Burnsville and the Ramsey mine near Toledo in Yancy County, North Carolina. Large masses of Monazite occurred...occurred at the Flat Rock mine in Mitchell County and a very large crystal measuring 6y2 x 9Y2 x ! * inches |  | | Book (volume) | | UNH LIBRARY 3 MbOD DllEE THE GEOLOGY NEW HAMPSHIRE A REPORT COMPRISING THE RESULTS OF EXPLORATIONS...marked to the statements already printed. White Mountain work, often corrected, improved, two summers'...Arrangements have been made upon the scale of Bien, of New York. The execute the coloring. tion with this...I. Page. THE RELATIONS OF THE GEOLOGY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE TO THAT OF THE ADJACENT TERRITORY. By II. ...(Pages 408-427 by V. 37 GEOLOGY OF THE WHITE MOUNTAIN DISTRICT. J. 271 H. Huntington.) GEOLOGY OF |  | | Report (volume) | | Deposits of minerals of wide distribution, such as quartz and calcite, have been omitted, except those that...Prof. H. E. Gregory, Sheffield Scientific School, New Haven. Delaware.........Prof. B. L. Miller, Lehigh...Tangier Smith, Berkeley, Cal. New Jersey...... .Dr. H. B. Kummel, Trenton. New York.........Mr. D. H. Newland...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton; |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | California; in the Petaca district of Rio Arriba County, New Mexico; from the Harney Peak region of South...Reagan mining district, Kern range, White Pine County, Nevada. SULFUR, S, occurs very rarely in pegmatites... Noted in grains also at Shaft 7 near Fishkill, New York. GRAPHITE. C, is rather uncommon in pegmatite...region of New York particularly at Ticonderoga it occurs in graphitic quartzites, in small quartz veins,...sulfide, has been found in the Ben Nevis ville, Union County, Georgia. It has been mine on San Augustin Peak |  | | 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...quality __ AnalyHis of the wartime mica industry of New England ________________________________________...Androscoggin County ______________________ _ Berry feldspar quarry __________________ _ Cumberland County ___ |  | | Report (volume) | | ...... New Hampshire........................................................... 190 201 New Jersey.............. New Mexico............................................................. New York. .........F. C. Schrader: Besides giving several thousand new localities of mineral deposits and adding more than...of minerals that are widely distributed, such as quartz and calcite, have been omitted, except those that...especially from those of Arkansas, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Texas; |  | | Report (issue) | | rocks of New Hampshire ....... 44 Table 9 Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of New Jersey ...Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of New York ........... 56 Table 11 Uranium occurrences...Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of New Hampshire.......................^..^.i....48 Figure 12...Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of New Jersey....................................55 Figure...occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of northeastern New York.........................64 Figure 14. Uranium |  | | 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 (volume) | | IdberalHri-sr iff 3 4bUU THE GEOLOGY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE A REPORT COMPRISING THE RESULTS OF EXPLORATIONS...are well adapted to mond, upon our citizens a new interest in the and botany. Should selves repaid...the The Atlas topography, will late White Mountain scenery, from the Rev. T. Starr King. show...a satisfactory heliotype of the view of White Mountain range from Jackson, which was intended for the...of Mt. Washington. For a similar reason, White Mountain Notch from Mt. Willard, accompanying Willey house |  | | Report (issue) | | [2.26] Total [99.55] (1) Black Mountain, Grafton Co., New Hampshire, USA; by electron and ion microprobe...Almandine, sillimanite, kyanite, tourmaline, muscovite, quartz, chloritoid. Distribution: Widespread, with ¯ne...Portugal. In the USA, at Franconia, Grafton Co., New Hampshire; Chester¯eld, Hampshire Co., Massachusetts;...Ridge, Fannin Co., Georgia; near Picures, Taos Co., New Mexico. In Brazil, in Minas Gerais, from Rubellita |  | | Book (volume) | | Descriptive Mineralogy Vandall T. King Rochester, New York 14609 , Eugene E. Foord U S. Geological Survey...Philip Hauck Richard P. Hauck was born in Bloomfield, New Jersey on June 30, 1935. He has been actively involved...for the fate of the Sterling mine in Ogdensburg, New Jersey, and his intense interest in mining history...States Geological Survey in Reston, Virginia; the New York City Public Library; the Library of Congress;... The authors welcome input from people who have new information or old information that should have been |  | | Book (edition) | | and county. and the many maps included book contain such specific details as farm roads, mountain paths...4B^ Diamond M Tourmaline ^P Ruby. Sapphire O Quartz crystal ^J^ Garnet __ Azurite, Malachite, Chrysocolla...collector of gem minerals RUSSELL P. Thomas NEW YORK MACFALL Y. Crowell Company / ESTABLISHED...Shop and Herbert Grand Girard, both of Santa Fe, New Mexico, Ken Kyte of Covington, Louisiana, Merton...Indiana, George E. Lambert of Wappingers Falls. New York, and D. L. Hathaway of Cosmopolis, Washington |  | | Report (issue) | | 1(2)◦ X-ray Powder Pattern: Palermo #1 mine, New Hampshire, USA. 3.05 (10), 2.73 (9), 3.22 (8), 3.48 (7)...78 [100.0] 100.00 (1) Palermo #1 mine, New Hampshire, USA; corresponds to (Ca3.28 Mn0.47 Mg0.17 )Σ=3...Republic; recalculated to 100% after deduction of quartz 3.90% from an original total of 99.89%; corresponds...Distribution: In the USA, from the Palermo #1 mine, near North Groton, Grafton Co., New Hampshire; in the Tip...California; in the Dunton quarry, Newry, and on Black Mountain and Red Hill, Rumford, Oxford Co., Maine. From |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Natural History, New York, N. Y. Photographs by Julius Weber, Mamaroneck, N. Y. Quartz in soda-lithium...core margin zones or in the core itself, euhedral quartz crystals are likely to be deposited along with...caesium mineralization); followed by columbite; then black, green, or blue tourmaline; montebrasite; rubellite...finally the deposition of the last generation of quartz filling in all of the interstitial spaces left...smoky quartz crystals in vugs in cleavelandite. At the Ruggles Quarry, Grafton Center, New Hampshire autunite |  | | Journal (issue) | | same for distribution; to encourage the search for new minerals that have not yet been discovered; and to...Association by nom,nating them for membership? Each new member helps to extend the Association's activities--helps.......... 3 NOTES ON GYPSUM CRYSTALS IN MORTON COUNTY, NORTH DAKOTA. By Robe,-, H. Mitchell and Wilson...1'1. Lisle .................................. 12 NEW GUINEA RICH IN GOLD ...............................SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LOCALITIES. 3. Rincon, Sao Diego County. By f ark Schwartz ............... ........... |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | ON ^--^ "^%C^ Minerai Occurrences ' ITEMS ON NEW FINDS ARE DESIRED & _ . PLEASE SEND THEM I N . Abbreviations:...of R&M (p. 255) of the "Big Beryl" Mine Imperial County in southern Calif. (old Hogg Mine), gem hunters...hornblende schist with beryl, aquamarine, star rose quartz, mica, peculiar nodules was found on the dump columbite...1st—Georgia had a record low the Mt. Zirkel area, Routt County, Colo- of 10 4-° degrees in this area and about...green microcline (Amazon- found plenty of rose quartz and some stone) . beryl xls. "The mineral was later |  | Bradley, Dwight, Shea, Erin, Buchwaldt, Robert, Bowring, Sam, Benowitz, Jeff, O'Sullivan, Paul, McCauley, Andrew (2016) Geochronology and Tectonic Context of Lithium-Cesium-Tantalum Pegmatites In the Appalachians. The Canadian Mineralogist, 54 (4) 945-969 doi:10.3749/canmin.1600035 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Appalachian orogen from Alabama to Nova Scotia. We report new U-Pb zircon (CA-TIMS), 40Ar/39Ar muscovite, U-Pb...track ages for 14 pegmatites. Based mostly on these new results, we recognize a minimum of four ages of LCT...Massachusetts, at ca. 371–339 Ma; (3) Palermo, New Hampshire, at ca. 326– 294 Ma; and (4) Mount Mica, Maine...Virginia, at ca. 253 Ma; and Hurricane Mountain, New Hampshire, which cross-cutting relations prove can...protolith. All of the dated LCT pegmatites of the New England Appalachians are significantly younger than |
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