 | | 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 Whitmore...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 |  | | 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...Janules Robert King Roslyn M. Lawrence Blanche (Ashley) McDonald Gunther Neumeier James W. Nizamoff Helen............................................. 107 Quartz and Other Minerals ..............................experience. As a kid growing up in Manchester, New Hampshire, I was always fascinated by minerals and tried |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Maine Gem and Mineral Museum; Dr. Marian Lupulescu, New York State Museum; Dr. George Robinson, Michigan... Adrian College; and Dr. Steven C. Chamberlain, New York State Museum. The following eighteen abstracts...MoNaZitE-(CE) FRoM RattlESNaKE MouNtaiN, StoNEhaM, oXFoRd CouNty, MaiNE. C. A. Francis and J. A. Mann. Maine Mineral...500, Bethel, ME 04217. The Rattlesnake Mountain quarry comprises two pits at an elevation of 1,170 feet...fluorapatite, microcline, monazite-(Ce), muscovite, quartz, and zircon. This simple mineralogy, except 460 |  | | Show/Event (guide) | | Bob Morgan, Ed Smith, Lee Tutt, Ken Wolff What’s New In Minerals' Joria Staebler Auction Solicitors Gene...program designed to provide excellent speakers, new information, camaraderie, displays of extraordinary...familiar faces. Most of their topics will be quite new to our collective experience. This year’s Technical...Technical Session is again robust! We welcome numerous new attendees and hope you enjoy our meeting. We appreciate...Gouvemeur, NY; Quartz (Japan-Law twin), Ellenville Lead mine, Ellenville, NY; Quartz, Bower Powers farm |  | | 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 |  | | 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 ___ |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Street Brooklyn, New York 11226 WILLIAM ULRICH 404 McNulty Place New Hyde Park, New York 11040 ANTHONY...W H I T M O R E Mineralogy Section Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History 900 Exposition Boulevard...Boulevard Los Angeles, California 90007 Weare, New Hampshire 03281 Photographs by Violet Anderson, except... This classic locale in the White Mountains Hampshire yields nearly 100 mineral species, phosphates...central New Hampshire in Groton Township, Grafton County, near the small village of North Groton. Its surround |  | | Book (edition) | | gem stones mon dull are as hard or harder than quartz, a com- mineral everywhere present as dust which...Hardness Scale 6. Orthoclase 1. Talc 2. Gypsum 7. Quartz Topaz Corundum 10. Diamond 3. Colcite 8. 4...Your will scratch orthoclase feldspar but not quartz. In making hardness appears to be a scratch paper...the general arrange- ment of these surfaces. Quartz and amethyst, for example, are frequently crystallized...SPODUMENE DANBURITE DATOLITE GARNET FLUORITE QUARTZ CRYSTALS SPINEL STAUROLITE •^^ VESUVIANITE |  | Cameron, Eugene Nathan, Larrabee, David Marcel, McNair, Andrew Hamilton, Page, James Jeffers, Shainin, Vincent Everett, Stewart, Glenn William (1945) Structural and economic characteristics of New England mica deposits. Economic Geology, 40 (6) 369-393 doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.40.6.369 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 1945 STRUCTURAL AND ECONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS NEW ENGLAND MICA DEPOSITS. 6 OF E. N. CAMERON, D............................ Types of pegmatitesin New England ..................................... Zoning......................... Types of mica depositsin New England pegmatites....................... Wall-zone...GeologicalSurveyhasbeenengagedin a comprehensive investigationof New England mica pegmatites. More than 200 pegmatiteshave...pegmatite study has been unprecedented, and much new information on the characteristicsof pegmatiteshas |  | | 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) | | fine assemblage of garnets, rare-earth minerals, quartz, zeolites, simulations, cabochons, gem stones,...emeralds and found them identical, each containing the "new earth," which he named "glucina" because its salts...fatigue enduring. The American Optical Company make a new glass with beryllium. The Elgin Watch Company use...tons of beryl in 1944 and 100 tons in 1946. New Hampshire mined 5 tons and South Dakota 95. In 1946 the...Oxford County, Maine. Large crystals can still be seen there, in the walls of the old quarry, where mining |  | | Report (volume) | | Laineilibranchiata of the Raritan Clays and Greensaml Marls of New Jersey, by Robert P. Whitfield. 1885. 4°. xx, 338pp...Fishes and Fossil Plants of the Triassic Rocks of New Jersey and the Connecticut Valley, by John S. Newberry...Cephalopoda of the Raritan Clays and Greensand Marls of New Jersey, by Robert P,Whitfield. 1891. 4°. 402pp. 50...Mollusca and Crustacea of the Miocene Formations of New Jersey, by R. P. Whitfield. Sauropoda, by O. C. Marsh...meridian of 76° 30', from Tompkins County, . New York, to Bradford County, Pennsylvania, by Henry S.Williams |  | | Book (edition) | | FOREWORD Le.ta in the fall of 1953, members ot the New Jersey Mineralogical Society expressed an interest...week collecting in the pegme.tite area ot Oxford county, !!Bine, Neil Wintr:lnghal'!l, a pa.st-president...Stewart C. Fulton Westfield, New Jersey June ll, 1955 Director & Past-President New Jersey Mineralogical Society...Mineral Co., West Rlris), and Mr. H. Arthur Ashley (Ashley Mining Co. , West Rumney, N.H. ) for the many...many courtesies extended to members of the New Jeraey Mineral.ogical Sooiety (Inc.) during their visit |  | | 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...mmed at Broken Arrow aud Trout creek, in Sc. Clair county. The strata in this field are more faulted und |  | | Book | | localities. My fond hope is that someone of the new generation will take up the challenge of revising...tantalizing find, one of several mineral discoveries in New England since the 1970s, including gold in a state...11ne 2; ••• Amph1bo1ite--see Bolton, Worcester County M1nera1 Loca11t1es. page 85 ••• 11.8 3~ter cerium...•••••••••••••••••'.' •.••.•••• 2--6 Barn.table County ro •• il Localiti ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••...Localit1e•••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 21 Br1.tol County Mineral Localit1 •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• |  | | Report (volume) | | Nassau.................. Diagram section across Ashley Hill, northeast of Riders Mills, in Chatham.................... Diagram section a mile south of Ashley Hill, in Chatham ........... Diagram section 2... situated mostly in Rensselaer County but parti}7 in Columbia County, N. Y.; it includes a portion of...the writer's paper on the Rensselaer Plateau in New York (1893), marked the execution of the more important...the Taconic Range, in Washington County, N. Y., and Rutland County, Vt., has thrown much light on the |  | | Book | | A Guide to New England’s Landscape / Neil Jorgensen o: !$» ^ I CV": • • ■: m ■gdt&F * % . #1 ^ I -...Index ' ' .. $8.50 A Guide to New England’s Landscape The New England landscape—its bedrock foundation...swamps and bogs, shrubs and herbs all form part of New England’s varied landscape. At the end of each chapter...well as vacationers who merely wish to enjoy the New England scenery. Mr. Jorgensen’s subject is of particular...Neil Jorgensen’s interest in nature, A Guide to New England’s Landscape/by Neil Jorgensen Barre Publishers |  | | Book (edition) | | illness or death in the family; some are sold, and the new owners may not always permit digging. It is a good... Phone (907) 586-1785 Jade, gold, serpentine, quartz, asbestos, rhodonite, chrysoprase Fossils Garnets...Black quartz, "coontail” quartz, titanium with brookite Quartz crystals Quartz crystals Quartz crystals...crystals Quartz crystals Diamonds Smithsonite CALIFORNIA A. Wilson, Box 281, Baker. CA 92309. "Sheep-Creek...Camping $1 *00/day, trailers $2*00/day. **Mariposite Quarry (Mariposa), CoulterM ZUie. CA 95311- Fee: 5f/Xb~ |  | | 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 |  | | 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...UNITED STATES. Tennessee........Mr. George H. Ashley, Washington, D. C. Texas............Dr. William...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Figure / (fe/f to rigAf.): Paul Lukashuk, Blanche Ashley MacDonald, Robert Whitmore, Peter Samuelson, and...Cambridge, which led to the one you now have at New Haven and every other in the United States. 460 ...4: Entrance to the Palermo mine, North Groton, New Hampshire. Photo by Gerald L . Durette. newsletter...included lectures by noted speakers and scientists, a New England clambake, a one-hundred-year celebration...Bob had al ready redone one wall of the museum's New England room using historic photographs, specimens |  | | 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 _______________________________ |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | World News on Mineral Occurrences Items on new finds are desired. Please send them in. Abbreviations:...turned out to be selenite xls and tiny calcite, quartz, and fluorite xls. These crystals are micro mounts...biotite schist and coming from the Worth feldspar quarry on Bog Hill, East Hampton, Middlesex Co., Conn...thickness, which were composed of plagioclase, quartz, and a glassy cleavable mineral. A cavity of crystallized...been quarried 2\/2 Newark, New Castle ground at Tweed's mill, granular quartz miles north of Co., Del. |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Gait. Royal Ontario Museum: Dr. William Kelly, New York State Geological Survey: Dr. Robert J . King...'Dept. of Geolog-y arid Geophysics, University of New Orleans. LA 70148. Cary Mound is a low hill that...exposed in a small portion of the north face of the quarry. Miaroles up to several inches iicross abound in...this area and are filled with primary feldspar. quartz. ;I dark green chlorite (probably chaniosite. based...& MINERALS RHODlZlTE FROM MADAGASCAR: NEW LOCALITIES AND NEW CHEMICAL DATA.A. U.Falster', E Pezzota2 |  | | Journal (volume) | | current balance as of March 29, 2019 is $9,901.77. No new members joined the society since our last newsletter...in the Groton and Stowe quadrangles, completing the landslide hazard inventory for Orange County, and continuing...importance to these senators and to provide the New England perspective (sometimes different than that...meetings are important venues for Vermont and other New England state surveys to voice our issues to external...external partners and to the AASG organization. The New England state geologists are working to define shared |
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