 | | 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 |  | | 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 (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 (issue) | | y, CONTENTS FOR NOVEMBER, 1946 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY ...................:.............................FRANKLIN QUARRY, FRANKLIN, N. J. By Peter Zodac ................................ 760 HERKIM ER COUNTY ''DIAMONDS''...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...members of the tions of the many new buildings being Maine Mineralogical Club, with whom erected on the island |  | | Journal (issue) | | July 1943 PUBLISHED MONTH LY CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY .................................................White Horse Ranch to the Blitzen Valley, (Harney County, Oregon} and on the way I picked up some pieces...looked like slag from a furnace. This was in Grant County, Oregon, about 5 miles from Seneca. I was on a...of South Dakota ; the huge beryl crystals at Albany, Maine ; a black tourmaline crystal 3x3x8 feet in the...the Luella Mine near Avon, Latah County, Idaho ; and etc. Origin The crystals have reached their large |  | | 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) | | the Sebago granite–pegmatite system, southern Maine, USA Michael A. Wise*, Cathleen D. Brown Department...two-mica granite situated in the Oxford pegmatite field, southwestern Maine. Surrounding the pluton is an...chemistry, petrology, geochemistry, Sebago, southern Maine Received: 1 October 2009; accepted: 30 March 2010;...Introduction The granitic pegmatites of southern Maine represent one of several major pegmatite regions...Unfortunately, very little geochemical data exist for the Maine pegmatites despite their popularity among mineral |  | | Journal (issue) | | small community of Embreeville is in Washington County. located in the far north-eastern comer of T ennessee...to the southwest near Bumpass C ove (now called Bumpus Cove), ultimately producing a unique combination...most mines in the Bumpass Cove Di tric t a Unico i County ; in fact most of the mines in the no rtheaste...rtheaste rn part of the cove a re in Washington County (sec figu re 3) . While Embreeville is a modestly populated...hboring Unicoi County as we ll , it wa no t a des ig nated census entity in 20 10, w hile Bumpus C o ve (popul |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | locality in the State is Russell Gulch in Gilpen County. A small but very fine crystal group from Russell...mind. We have only one small rock outcrop in my county (Orange) at Rock Springs near Apopka. "The beaches...specimens in the world are found in the limestone quarry in Legrand, Marshall Co., Iowa. The most noted...well worth a visit to see and look at and marvel." MAINE — A letter, dated July 27, 1952, was sent by Wallace...are some of the specimens collected: "Bumpus Quarry, Albany, Maine—Rose quartz, beryl xls (and massive) |  | | Show/Event (guide) | | vacations in Maine. After hearing a Stanley Perham lecture about the huge beryl crystals at the Bumpus Quarry...Rossmanite and associated minerals from Newcomb, Essex County, NY by M. Lupulescu & J. Rakovan T h e minerals...Road Wollastonite Deposit, Pitcairn, St. Lawrence County, New York by M. R. Walter, S. C. Chamberlain, R...Road Wollastonite Deposit, Pitcairn, St. Lawrence County, New Y o r k by S. C. Chamberlain, M. R. Walter...Pyrochlore-group minerals form the Wausau Complex, Marathon County, W I by T. W. Buchholz, A. U. Falster, and W. B |  | | Journal (issue) | | PETER ZODAC Contents for June, 1940 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY .................................................by the author.) By LEO NEAL YEDLIN Cedar Grove, Maine. ged uch •uld Evil the 1n. I a own :ling e...interpreter, and I, rather competent ballast. At Albany, Miss Winifred Gold ring, State Paleontologist...collect specimens of the world's largest garnets. The quarry is atop Gore Mountain ( a certified slci run in...interest was Fine, N . Y . (See sketch.) Good titanite and diopside had been reported. Proceed southeasterly |  | | Report (issue) | | ----5. Structure cross sections of the Gulf of Maine ------------------------------------------6. Maps...-13. Distribution of sand in the inner Gulf of Maine and Massachusetts Bay -----------14. Distribution...----15. Distribution of gravel in the inner Gulf of Maine and Massachusetts Bay ---------16. Offshore distribution...except for basins deeper than 200 m in the Gulf of Maine. Below the shelf break, finer and more carbonate-rich...promising in surficial deposits. In the Gulf of Maine the existence of ores beneath glacial deposits remains |  | | Journal (issue) | | After receiving comments that the Goodall Farm Quarry, also known as the Sanford vesuvianite locality...following encouraging information on the locality from Maine collector Duane Leavitt (Skarnrx@megalink.net)....News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 • 3 E-mail: lream@comtch.iea... Y.T., and Foord, E.E., 1994, Mineralogy of Maine: Maine Geological Survey, p. 292. Rutherford, R.L....V anadiun1 l\'line, l\fagnet Cove, Hot Springs County, Arkansas is Reclaimed and Collecting Ceases |  | | Journal (issue) | | Contents for Novem ber - December, IQ50 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY .................................................undersigned, being all of the officers of rhc Clark County Gem Co!l~tors, Inc., most sincerely wish to convey... T48N-R29W N 5 6 ONE MILE VAN RIPER 0 j COUNTY dil otl id1 X X 7 X JS IO 29 4 X 3 qt...editorial advice. Thanks are also due to the Marquette County Road Commission who supplie.d a base map from which-...fifty-one years ; he has the largest collection in the county, sorted, labeled, and well studied. Leo Burraston |  | | 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 (article/letter/editorial) | | Bolivia. A trip was planned to the Kibblehouse Quarry at Perkiomenville, Pennsylvania. At the July meeting...July 8th, 1951, to French Creek Mines, in Chester County, Penn. When sixty-one rockhounds pounded the old...rewarding. The next trip will be to Kibblehouse Quarry on August 19th. Mrs. Otto Karl Bauhof 352 Church...minerals were most common. The West Cheshire trap quarry yielded specimens of natrolite and other minerals... but black tourmaline crystals from the Turner quarry were the best specimens found. The members visited |  | | Journal (issue) | | Contents for November-December, 1948 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY .................................................····························905 VESUVIANITE CRYSTALS FROM ESSEX COUNTY, N. Y. By E. B. Rou iey 906 MONAZITE OCCURRENCE.........................................912 ONYX QUARRY AT TOLENAS SPRINGS, CALIF. By R. F. Henley ...... 882 R OCKS AND ~ l lNl'.HAI.~ CHlPS FROM THE QUARRY Grieger'• Encyclopedia and Super- Catalog of his...FISHER Dept. of Geology-Bates College, Lewiston, Maine Introduction An excellent clear out crystal of |  | | Report (edition) | | PIERPONT Treasurer H. Winser John MORRIS C. Bumpus open Sundays. membership free to the on...Sphaerosiderite. of flattened crystals greenish Titanite imbedded in the superb black masses. The view... for 22 Scientific Staff DIRECTOR Hermon C. Bumpus DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION Prof. Albert |  | | Book | | MineralogicalRecord.com I IIMORIITE-(Y) EUROPE FRANCE Trimouns quarry, Luzenac, Ariege. Operated for talc since the beginning...beginning of the 20th century, the Trimouns quarry became well known to collectors around 1990 for the...long (Marty, 2004 ). AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins...region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites between the towns...and Edenville, large, fine crystals of spine!, titanite, amphibole and pyroxene have been found since |  | | 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 |  | | Report (issue) | | _______________________ _ Geology of the pegmatite districts of Maine __ :. . _____ _ Metamorphic rocks _________________________...__________________ _ Maine ________________________________________ _ Androscoggin County ______________________...______________________ _ Berry feldspar quarry __________________ _ Cumberland County _______________________ _ LaChance...LaChance mines _______________________ _ Oxford County ____________________________ _ Barrett beryl prospect...prospect __________________ _ Bennett feldspar quarry ________________ _ Black Mountain area ___________________ |  | | 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 (issue) | | Franklin, New Jersey Pulsifer quarry, Auburn, Maine Dunton mine, Newry, Maine Las Vigas mine, Vera Cruz...Goschenen clefts, Goschenen, Switzerland Lengenbach quarry, Bina Valley, Switzerland Knappenwand, Salzburg...Greece Mont St-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada Jeffrey quarry, Asbestos, Quebec, Canada Arsukfjord, Ivigtut,...as: well-crystallized rose quartz from Brazil and Maine; Swiss quartz in its many varieties and habits;...epidote occurrences and the Holland mine, Santa Cruz County, Arizona. Specimens from these localities are inconsistently |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | left). Calcite, 5.5 cm high, Elmwood mine, Smith County. Terry Huizing specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Figure...(above). Fluorite, 13.1 cm wide, Elmwood mine, Smith County. Francis Benjamin specimen, Jeff Scovil photo....Smith County. Terry Huizing specimen and photo. Figure 4 (right). Cumberland mine, Smith County. Travis...earths to make saltpeter, at Nicojack Cave in Marion County, then nitromagnesite at the same location (Shepard...Sevier County (Coskren and Lauf 2000). The following index is arranged alphabetically by county. It is |
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