 | | 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 |  | | 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...riety cyrtolite have also been found in al bite. Autunite has been noted at times as small flakes associated...been noted at times with the garnets and with the autunite. ROCKS AND MINERALS The fabulous, recent gem...tourmaline find at the Dunton Gem Mine at Newry, Maine of watermelon and green, elbaite tourmaline, has |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | crystals are concerned, but again covered Oxford County, Maine, mineralogically and otherwise. It was another...Pribil, T. Orchard Lisle, Dewitt Gutman, H. A. Mitchell and the Newark Mineral Club, in Maine. New acquisitions...five quarries are being worked this year in Oxford County, Maine, for feldspar, which seems to be scarce...money maker. Bumpus Quarry The old Bumpus quarry, 8 miles South of Bethel, Maine, famous for its large...one can find black tourmaline, mica, garnets, autunite, cookite. etc., few good collector's crystals |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | sylvite, and anhydrite. Quebec Francon quarry The large Francon quarry in Montreal is located in a residential...little or no land available for expanding the quarry. The economics of dig ging deeper for the construction-grade...mining offsets transportation costs. The Francon quarry is world-famous for being the first (or only) producing...dawsonite are found at the Francon quarry. Dawsonite was first found in a quarry near the Francon. The city of...agreement with the Fran con company to use the quarry as a landfill. Reports from several collectors |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | PEGMATITE MINERALS OF MAINE B y D A V I D M. SEAMAN 36 Winter St., Norway, Maine 04268 (Continued from...alteration product at many localities, especially at Buckfield, Greenwood, and Paris. It is found frequently...frequently in the gem pockets in the pegmatites of Maine, formed by the weathering or hydrothermal alteration of...reddingite as octahedral-like crystals at the Berry Quarry in Poland; also as one of the rare secondary phosphates...Bennett Quarry at Buckfield, the Dun ton Gem Mine at Newry, and at Black Mt. at Rumford in Maine. Its crystals |  | | 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 |  | | 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) | | CORNER Looking for Maine Apatites by DUANE L. LEAVITT Route 1, Box 10 Buckfield, Maine 04220 One of the...the more ubiquitous families of minerals found in Maine pegmatites, but often overlooked by many newcomers...Hartford, Maine. Photo by Fred Graves. Manganapatites from Harvard Mine, Green wood, Maine. Collected...apatite twinned crystal from Harvard Mine, Greenwood, Maine. Photo by Fred Graves. Apatite (fluorapatite) crystal...termination from Ragged Jack Mountain, Hartford, Maine. Collected on July 14, 1976. Photo by Duane Leavitt |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | quartz. Clora May Mine, Trout Creek Pass, Chaffee County, Colo." The locality is described in Prof. Richard...Mineral Guide" p. 109 as follows: "The Clora May quarry stands at the top of the hill. It consists of an...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...Beach County, is in southern Florida. I N D I A N A — "The enclosed specimen comes from a quarry about |  | | 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 (issue) | | Minerals. By Peter Zodac...... .. 7 5 Autunite in Mitchell County, North Carolina. By Bradley Johnson ...Westthe deep l,lack Yariety of smoky quartz chester County, not far from the Conknown as morion. Small black...deprei-i;ions - e,·idently the solution esce. Autunite occurs as tiny lemon-yelwas not deep enough to...s pots, it w·as helieYed tbat large scales of autunite conted the crystal. ~ext clay the erys tnl was...a ltered variety 11ssoc-lated with columbite, autunite and h~·a lite, phosphoresces n pale ~olden brown |  | | Journal (issue) | | y, CONTENTS FOR NOVEMBER, 1946 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY ...................:.............................FRANKLIN QUARRY, FRANKLIN, N. J. By Peter Zodac ................................ 760 HERKIM ER COUNTY ''DIAMONDS''...··········································761 AUTUNITE AT MAUCH CHUNK, PENN ... .......................the southwest face of the Cedar Mountains, Tooele County, Utah. Its geo- graphic position, as indicated...Lower Manhattan Island old stamping grounds-Oxford County, (New York City ) After many Saturday afternoon |  | | Book (edition) | | HANDBOOK for A WEEK WITH MAINE MINERALS by NEIL A. WINTRINGHAM 1_� Cv1,_1'--A� __, SECOND EDITION...a week collecting in the pegme.tite area ot Oxford county, !!Bine, Neil Wintr:lnghal'!l, a pa.st-president...field trial of the hambook during our ''Week with Maine Minerals" furnished additional information end resulted...characterized the evenings spent with members of the Oxford County Mineral & Gem Association. N. A. W. Mountainside...minerals. The geology of pegmatites, in general, and Maine pegmatites, in particular, is summarized briefly |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Alabama—Mr. Ernest Fairbanks, 109th Street, Old Orchard Beach, Me., sends in this bit of information: "Here...Please Send Them In. calcite from the West End quarry, Inyo Co., Calif., and the other is a bluishwhite...in Georgia at the fo'lowing localities: Cherokee County —2V2 miles northeast of Ball Ground, 1 mi'e northwest...of Cherry Grove School; Fayette County—near Fayetteville; Fulton County—near College Park. (Georgia Mineral..."flowers of gold," according to assay reports." Maine—Mr. I. S. Skillin, Freeport, Me. donated to R & |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | community of Talucah near Vahlermoso Springs, in Morgan County, north Alabama. A large portion of this cave had...of Mines, I heard of an active uranium mine or quarry a couple of miles from town. Following the highway...kindly permitted to gather some fine specimens of autunite, torbernite, uranophane, and gummi te. Furthermore...pollucite which I discovered at the Strickland Quarry, in Portland, during 1954. "Several institutions...proved to be fairly abundant in one section of the quarry wall, intergrown with lepidolite, spodumene, pink |  | | 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 |  | | 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...DELANEY, Madison Co. Quartz, (clear crystals) GARLAND COUNTY Quartz Crystals HOT SPRINGS, Garland Co. Malachite |  | | Book (volume) | | series of pegmatite dikes ranking with those in Maine and Southern California for their production of...beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm...gray Barite rosette up to 5 or 6 inches. CAMPBELL COUNTY MOUND CITY, W to the Missouri R., regional hillsides...gravels, etc.petrified wood, wood opal. CORSON COUNTY LITTLE EAGLE: area ridges, slopes, stream beds...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States CUSTER COUNTY AREA: The November Mine, 1.2 mi. SE of the Needles |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Contents for March - April, 1950 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY ...................................................................... 135 POUND OF TEA ISLAND, MAINE. By Peter Zodac ·······················-·············.... Satz .................... 140 MORE NOTES ON ORCHARD HILL, ELMSFORD, N. Y . By Evelyn Waite .. 144 AERIAL...····················· 155 SOME MINES OF OXFORD COUNTY, MAINE. By N eil Jorgensen ............ 158 NEWARK............ 1 78 }ADE AND CHRYSOPRASE IN T ULARE COUNTY, CALIF . ..................................... |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | permission to run a society trip to the famous Leiper's quarry at Avondale, Delaware Co., Penn. Filling in the...According to club geologist, Julie Reed, the Morrow quarry, presently in operation, is in granite gneiss,...specimens, including autunite, uraninite, torbernite and gummite, in this quarry long known for the radioactive...Gault brothers, owners of the Keystone Trappe rock quarry, at Cornog, Penn. The Honeybrook report of the...grained, but not aphinitic. Where exposed in the quarry it is light gray green, irregularly jointed and |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | .......... 594 NATIVE COPPER IN AN. J. QUARRY. BY T . ORCHARD LISLE ................ 597 MOUNT ANTERO........................ 607 SOME RECENT FINDS IN MAINE AND NEW HAMPSHIRE. BY D . M. SEAMAN .............. 562 ROCKS AND MlN ERALS - CHIPS ~-,ROM THE QUARRY (!I~risintas Oireetings ! - Again it is the happy...an- pleasant. Soon an officer of the Westchester County Police informs us that this portion of Croton Point...Point Park is reserved for groups of Westchester County boys for whom definite camping times have been |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | pale smoky crystals, from the Center, Cherokee County, Ala., locality and that they are very good. This...Madison County. "Beryl: as light golden crystals, fractured but gemmy, from near Hissop, Coosa County." Arizona—A...Las Vegas, Nev., publicity director of the Clark County Gem Collectors, carried the following paragraph...locality is the south shore of Lake Mead, Mohave County, Ariz. Another letter from Mr. Drury contained...(petrified wood) are found 3 miles west of Piggott, Clay County, Ark. California—A new California mineral is perovskite |
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