 | Francis, Carl A., Felch, Myles, Falster, Alexander U., Bailey, Douglas A. (2016) Aquamarine from Stoneham and Vicinity, Oxford County, Maine. Rocks & Minerals, 91 (1) 28-35 doi:10.1080/00357529.2016.1099131 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | from Stoneham and Vicinity Oxford County, Maine Downloaded by [Penn State University] at 01:41 12 December...fALSTeR DoUGLAS A. BAILeY Maine Mineral and Gem Museum Po Box 500 Bethel, Maine 04217 cfrancis@mainemineralmuseum...North America’s two largest aquamarine gemstones came from Stoneham, Maine—a century apart. Figure 1...1. Aldrich quarry beryl. Maine Mineral and Gem Museum (MMGM) specimens: Gems of 124.9, 20.3, 6.5, and...photo. A N E XC E P T I ONAL AQUAMARINE CRYSTAL was found in a Stoneham pasture by Gilman McKeen while |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Some Notable MAINE GEMSTONES J A N E C. P E R H A M Route 1, Box 1890 West Paris, Maine 04289 Mining...southwestern Maine. The pegmatite deposits in Oxford County and northern Androscoggin County have yielded...host of gem materi als, including tourmaline, aquamarine, rose quartz, ame thyst, and apatite. The most...These are all Oxford County locales. Producers of gem tourmaline in nearby Androscoggin County are the Pulsifer...quarry, the Keith quarry, the Wade quarry, and the Maine Feldspar quarry, all of which are in Auburn in an |  | | 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...24 x JO mm;Jrom the Bennett Quarry, Buckfield, Maine. Mined in 1996 by Holden !Jrothers Mining and currently...Photo by John B. Poisson. The laws and policies of Maine and the United States prohibit discrimination in |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Aquamarine in the United States The Search Continues MARK I. JACOBSON Amoseas Indonesia, Mulia Tower...collectors seeking aquamarine are information about the geologic environment where aquamarine is found and...PROSPECTORS have spent countless time searching for aquamarine, the blue to bluegreen gemstone of beryl. The...The glassy blue appearance of natural aquamarine has an intoxicating effect, making it a favorite among...gemstone. This article reviews the best-known aquamarine localities of the United States and notes a few |  | | Report (volume) | | gem stones, such as tourmaline, beryl (emerald, aquamarine), spodumene (kunzite, hiddenite), zircon, and...Del Norte County; Trinity River, Trinity County; Spanish Creek and Gopher Hill, Plumas County; Placerville...Dorado County; Cherokee Flats, Yankee Hill,and Oroville, Butte County; French Corral, Nevada County; Indian...Indian Gulch and Volcano, Amador County; and Alpine Creek, Tulare County. Other western localities are:...Diamond Basin, Ada County, Idaho; Curry County, Oreg.; and Nelson Hill, near Glacier County, Mont. The Great |  | | Book (edition) | | from Oregon to the Mexican border and eastward to Maine and Florida. What you cannot collect in person...beryl, topaz and spodumene. crystals, Areas in Maine, Connecticut and California, and Madagascar, are...between The mountain regions in the east from Maine down through Georgia and westward to Tennessee...summer; neither is it wise to prospect in Montana or Maine in the as the winter. An scope, and automobile...mine, Racooche Valley, White Co. 1866 Vs White County Daniel Light form, % mi. NE Less than 1887 |  | | 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...photograph: Fluorapatite, Pulsifer quarry, Auburn, Maine (2.2 cm specimen), Harvard Mineralogical Museum...Wendell E. Wilson, ©1985. The laws and policies of Maine and the United States prohibit discrimination in |  | | 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 with borders of lepidolite, goshenite and aquamarine beryl crystals, almandite garnet crystals to...tourmaline find at the Dunton Gem Mine at Newry, Maine of watermelon and green, elbaite tourmaline, has...description here. The Bennett Quarry at Buckfield, Maine, was also worked by Mr. Robert Eastman of Center |  | | Report (issue) | | Stoppaniite Fabio Tamagnini Page 40 Emerald and Aquamarine in Canada Lee A. Groat Page 22 Beryl Color Varieties...References Page 112 Author's Addresses Right: Aquamarine Rough from Marijao, Madagascar is sorted in a...in Louisiana (USA), with the lowdown on beryl mineralogy An ancient gemstone, aquamarine is well suited...are widely used (see page 22). These include aquamarine, red beryl, morganite, emerald, goshenite, and...emerald and aquamarine are surrounded by the ancient mysticism of birthstones. Emerald, aquamarine and beryl |  | | Report (volume) | | GEOLOGY OF THE PEGMATITES AND ASSOCIATED ROCKS OF MAINE INCLUDING FELDSPAR, QUARTZ, MICA, AND GEM DEPOSITS................................... Origin of the Maine pegmatites........................................Larsen............................. Application to Maine pegmatites............................... Eutectics.............................. 1.... Androscoggin County................................................................................................ Maine Feldspar Company quarry and mill............... |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Gems and Minerals of Maine Pegmatites Carl A. Fran cis Granitic pegmatites in Maine have been collected...with significant gem production is in San Diego County of southern California. In a review paper Wise...located along the seacoast northeast of Portland. The Oxford field is inland northwest of Portland. A fault...the pioneering feldspar mining district in Maine. The Oxford field is much larger and comprises nine series...least superficially the pegmatite series of the Oxford field corresponds to this model, whereas the Topsham |  | | 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...mining, the most productive dump collecting sites in Maine are now closed to all visitors, forcing even native...the more obscure localities. Field collecting in Maine is not currently recommended to vacation collectors |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | BUCKFIELD, MAINE RONALD E . HOLDEN, J R . Sugar Hill Minerals P.O. Box 565 Norway, Maine 04268 I T W...experience was at the Mount Mica quarry in Paris, Maine, where I found my first tourmaline pocket in 1973...who was working the Sugar Hill aquamarine beryl locality in Stoneham. Rupert was a lawyer but spent weekends...weekends for thirty sum mers mining aquamarine. Roy McKay, a veteran of World War I I , was Rupert's...interest in the Ben nett quarry in Buckfield, Oxford County, Maine, an old feldspar mine famous for producing |  | | 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) | | crystal was noted in the Luella mine near Avon, Latah county, Idaho, which measured 3x3x8 feet. Other large...Dakota. A black crystal from Micaville, Randolph county, Alabama, was 10 inches in diameter and from 3...Section pegmatite of Fremont county, Colorado. ROCKS AND MINERALS Maine, Connecticut, and California...gem tourmalines. The most noted occurrences in Maine are Mt. Mica at Paris, Mt. Apatite at Auburn, also...pink and green crystals at Ohio City, Gunnison county, Colorado; dark green, pink, and indicolite tourmalines |  | | Journal (issue) | | as the source of aquamarine crystals, the state gemstone of Colorado. The aquamarine occurs in miarolitic...Crystal Peak area, Colorado. Right: Beryl Var. Aquamarine on Feldspar with Smoky Quartz 15 cm from Diane’s...“lean pickings” for minerals, and dealers Chaffee County, including the are the main source of their gold...Mount sphalerite, galena, and other ore Antero aquamarine deposits, and gangue minerals. Still, some includes...molybdenum mine near Berthoud Pass in Clear Creek County, occasionally produces well-crystallized fluorite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Second Edition Topaz and Herderite at Topsham, Maine "Second Edition" is a feature that reruns pertinent...Carl A. Francis article, "Minerals of the Topsham, Maine, Pegmatite District, "found on pp. 407-16 in this...southwest entirely across the town of Top sham, Maine. This ridge is cut by a great many pegmatite dikes...Apatite, Mt. Mica, and the northern part of Oxford County in Maine. 434 ROCKS AND MINERALS Apparently, here...and mineral collec tor who lived in Brunswick, Maine. In later life, he was a volunteer curator of minerals |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | information-for example, the peridot discovery in Park County and updates on property ownership and accessibility...region beginning in the 1870s, and in the 1880s aquamarine, smoky quartz, and the associated feldspar and...such as the zircons at Saint Peters Dome, El Paso County. Although blue corundum (sapphire), zircon, and...iolite), which occurs near Grape Creek in Fremont County, an occurrence that was mistaken for sapphire when...An interesting case is Ruby Mountain in Chaffee County, long listed as a gemstone occurrence but not known |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Two Point claim, Pikes Peak batholith, Teller County. The Collector’s Edge specimen, Jeff Scovil photo...Junction (Book Cliffs) barite locality 15. Otero County barite occurrences 16. Royal Gorge (Eight Mile...calc-silicate locality 25. North Table Mountain 26. Stoneham barite locality 27. Creede 28. Treasure Falls...Red Feather Lakes amethyst locality 32. Elbert County petrified wood occurrences Downloaded by [Erciyes... Two Point claim, Pikes Peak batholith, Teller County. The Collector’s Edge specimen, Jeff Scovil photo |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | November-December: Roebling Apatite, Pulsifer quarry, Auburn, Maine; photo by Victor E . Kranz. Aegirine-augite, 188...Anhydrite, 189 Apatite, 81, 235, 427 Apophyllite, 155 Aquamarine, 421 Argellite, 188 Arkansas, Stand on Your Head...114 Baumann, H . , 330 Bavenite, 189 Behnke, D., Maine Articles Published in Rocks and Minerals: An Annotated...Burbank, B . B . , Topaz and Herderite at Topsham, Maine, 434 Calaverite, 190 Calcite, 81, 112, 155, 190...Wollastonite and Titanite Near Natural Bridge, Lewis County, New York, 78; 13th Rochester Academy of Science |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | found about 1925 at the Bennett quarry, Buckfield, Maine, together with others over three feet in length...found at a number of places: Paris and Rumford, Maine; Alstead, Gilsum, and Springfield, New Hampshire;...cleavelandite at Newry, Maine. Rose quartz crystals have also been found at Red Hill, Maine; North Groton, New...Hill, Maine; near Statesville, North Carolina; at Amelia, Virginia, near Clayton, Rabun county, Georgia;...at Shaw and Esray's quarry near Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania, and is now in the collection of |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | December 2014 A Spectacular New Aquamarine Find on Mount Antero Chaffee County, Colorado Beautiful crystals...flank of 14,276-foot-tall Mount Antero, in Chaffee County, Colorado, hit pay dirt. Steve Brancato, of Salida...1993], and Heinrich [1985], among others.) The aquamarine pocket measured 2.5 feet wide by 1 foot thick...Alma, Colorado, and the barite discoveries near Stoneham, Colorado. Currently the company is working the...Antero and Chaffee County. Map by William Besse. In all, more than one hundred aquamarine crystals were recovered |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | SAND-CALCITE CRYSTALS FROM STONEHAM, COLORADO F. H. CAMPBELL III and R. S. MITCHELL Department of Geology...known blue barite crystal locality near Stoneham, Weld County, Colorado. The purpose of this paper is...five miles northeast of Stoneham. To reach the deposit drive eastward from Stoneham on State Route 14 for...Siliceous calcites from the Bad Lands, Washington County, Soulh Dakota; Am. j . Sci.. (4) 9. 352-354. Rogers...R. D. (1926) Sandcalcite crystals from Monterey County, California: Am. Mineralogist. 11, 23-28. Spindler |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Location map of major topaz deposits. 1. San Diego County, California pegmatites; 2. western U.S. topaz rhyolite...rhyolite belt (includes some pegmatites); 3. Mason County, Texas; 4. topaz rhyolite belt of Mexico; 5. Appalachian...topaz Brazilian sapphire Siberian aquamarine Brazilian aquamarine Saxon Chrysolite Slaves diamond Oriental...(above). Topaz, Little Three mine, Ramona, San Diego County, California. NMNH specimen 147660. Figure 4 (right)...figure & Topaz, 4.5 em long, Pikes Peak, FJ PSl'lO County, Colorado. NMNH specimen R8772. 18 ROCKS & MINERALS |  | | Journal (issue) | | R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur... 353 by P. Orlandi and P. B. Scortecci M aine Maine tourmaline........................................pegmatites covered here have also yielded superb aquamarine and could just as well have been included in...Elbaite from Newry, Maine (by P. J. Dunn) [1975, vol. 6, no. 1, p. 22-25.] Newry, Maine, a pegmatite phosphate...vol. 8, no. 6, p. 475.]* The best of San Diego County (by W. Larson) [1977, vol. 8, no. 6, p. 507-515 |
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Aldrich Quarry, Stoneham, Oxford County, Maine, USA