 | | Report (volume) | | THE PEGMATITES AND ASSOCIATED ROCKS OF MAINE INCLUDING FELDSPAR, QUARTZ, MICA, AND GEM DEPOSITS BY EDSON................................................ Feldspar brushes......................................................................... Origin of the Maine pegmatites........................................Larsen............................. Application to Maine pegmatites............................... Eutectics........ 1.... Androscoggin County.................................................. Auburn............ |  | | Book (volume) | | 0 n101ercai o of Maine j f·~ ....__ :,,. . - .._"' ..;. .. ~ L-- -~ \. • .J_..::.; I Volume...Volume 2: Mining History, Gems, and Geology edited by Vandall T. King Maine Geological Survey DEPARTMENT...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 |  | | 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 |  | | Report (issue) | | QUARTZ AND FELDSPAR. FELDSPAR AND QUARTZ DEPOSITS OF MAINE, By EDSON S. BASTIN. INTRODUCTION. The commercially...commercially important feldspar and quartz deposits, of Maine all belong to a single type of rocks known...of. granite, their principal constituents being feldspar, quartz, and mica, usually with subordinate amounts...amounts of other minerals. The pegmatites of Maine were studied by the writer during part of the summer...Sagadahoc,, Cumberland, Androscoggin, and Oxford counties, in southwestern Maine, though occurring to some |  | | 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...mm;Jrom the Bennett Quarry, Buckfield, Maine. Mined in 1996 by Holden !Jrothers Mining and currently in |  | | 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........................................Elbaite from Newry, Maine (by P. J. Dunn) [1975, vol. 6, no. 1, p. 22-25.] Newry, Maine, a pegmatite phosphate...] 328 Famous mineral localities: the Pulsifer quarry (by W. E. Wilson) [1977, vol. 8, no. 2, p. 72-77...localities: the Himalaya dike system, Mesa Grande district, California (by E. E. Foord) [1977, vol. 8, no |  | | Report (volume) | | DIRECTOR BULLETIN 420 ECONOMIC GEOLOGY OF THE FELDSPAR DEPOSITS OF THE UNITED STATES BY EDSON S. BASTIN...Minerals of the feldspar deposits............."............................... Methods of mining ............ 23 Maine............................................................... Androscoggin County................................................ Auburn.............;................................................................................. Lincoln County .............................................. |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | smokies, topaz from Imperial colorless to wine and baby blue, deep rum muscovite, many tints of apatite, beryl... yellow of Ceylonite, shadings Dunton Mine in Maine ROCKS AND MINERALS of bi-colors, red with green...Columbus, probably had some knowledge Newry Mountain, Maine Tourma/ine area. 155 of tourmaline in spite of...1820 Mt. Mica (Paris, Me.) and the 1862 Mt. Apatite (Auburn, Me.) discoveries came the impetus to look...elsewhere, coupled with the incidental finds of other mining. By the early part of this century over 45 mines |  | 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...came from Stoneham, Maine—a century apart. Figure 1. Aldrich quarry beryl. Maine Mineral and Gem Museum...MINERALS Dr. Carl A. Francis is curator at the Maine Mineral and Gem Museum and an executive editor of...at the Maine Mineral and Gem Museum. Alexander U. Falster is research technologist at the Maine Mineral |  | | Book (volume) | | lie some of the oldest crystalline rocks in the East, both igneous and metamorphic, strongly mineralized...Aquamarine, Beryl, some Ruby-red Corundum, Spodumene and Topaz. Georgia has been actively prospected for gold since...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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Renewed Mining at the Western Quarries of Mount Apatite, Maine Downloaded by [University of Arizona]...The western quarries of Mount Apatite. A fter decades of inactivity, mining has been resumed on the...the western slopes of Mount Apatite in the town of Auburn, Maine (see fig. 1). This is the location of the...Pulsifer quarry, which has produced fine gem tourmaline but is best known for deep purple apatite, including...including the remarkable Roebling apatite, now in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution. In addition |  | | Book (volume) | | Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift...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 |  | | Book (volume) | | Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift...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 |  | | Report (issue) | | 3: Tourmaline Publisher Lapis International, LLC; East Hampton, CT Concept & Design Maximilian Glas, Stamberg...Lapis International, LLC P.O. Box 263, East Hampton, CT 06424, USA Phone 1.860.267.1512; fax 1.860.267.7225...CHRISTIAN WEISE VERLAG, GERMANY AND LAPIS INTERNATIONAL, USA Tourmaline ♦ History ♦ Mineralogy • Tourmaline...78 Australia ......................... 82 Europe (east) ...................... 83 Europe (west) .........important find of gem tourmaline was made at Mount Mica in Paris, Maine, though only small quantities were uncovered |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | MT. APATITE, AUBURN, MAINE By M. Jean Ingraham Smith College, Northampton, Mass. INTRODUCTION the Auburn...the hill, and show a garnetiferous zone in the feldspar. N o garnets are present in pits near the summit...The outer pits contain a pegmatite of quartz and feldspar in graphic interGENERAL GEOLOGY growth, which...becomes coarser in texture The country rock at Mt. Apatite may be toward the core zone, where it finally observed...and lithia-rich zones are ated rocks of western Maine. With regard less likely to do so. Heinrich also |  | | Book (volume) | | Cultural Art Santa Ana, California + GEMSTONES OF EAST AFRICA by Peter C. Keller + GEMSTONES OF AFGHANISTAN...Hallelujah Junction, Nevada; blue, cushion cut topaz (25.30 ct), Ramona, California; brownish yellow...calcite (21.30 ct), Montana; light yellow orthoclase feldspar (25.03 ct), Idaho; rectangular step cut purplish...purplish pink elbaite tourmaline (30.89 ct), Maine; round brilliant red-orange spessartine garnet (16.62 ct)...Colorado; colorless scheelite (19.66 ct), Kern County, California; octagonal step cut violetish pink |  | | Journal (issue) | | This Issue Osmiridium Mining in Tasmania. By P. Ormsby Lennon Beryllium in Maine. By Prof. Freeman F...By David Modell A NON-TECHNICAL MAGAZINE - -ON- MINING · PROSPECTING • GEOLOGY - MINERALOGY • . THE... ROCI\S and MINERALS A NON-TECH NICAL MAGAZINE ---ON-MINING-PROSPECTING-GEOLOGY-MINERALOGY Published Quarterly...19. 1926 Contents for March, 1931 Osmiridium Mining in 'l'asmania. Bu P. Orm11bu Lennon . . . . . ...Postage Extra CRYSTALLIZED VANADINITE From Pinal County, Arizona Flame red crystals on a dnrk yellow matrix |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | PARAGENESIS OF THE GRANITE PEGMATITES OF CENTRAL MAINE Knr.txprn K. Laxons.* Haraard Uni.aersif'y SUMMARY...the paragenesis of certain pegmatites in central Maine has caused the writer to advance the following ideas... The typical minerals of this classare potash feldspar (usually microcline), qnartz, muscovite, biotite...Buckfield, and to a very minor degree at Mount Mica and Auburn, an intermediate phase followed during which...developed at Buckfield, Greenwood and parts of Auburn resulted in the deposition of large amounts of |  | | Book (edition) | | describes sites under of the nearest town and county. and the many maps included book contain such...from Alaska to the Mexican border and eastward to Maine and Florida. Still others are to be found in Canada...EMERALD FELDSPAR EPIDOTE ^?^ (& \ ^^ GARNET KYANITE IOLITE SPHALERITE RUBY i^b TOPAZ CRYSTALS...Carlsbad (One twin shown dark; other, light) FELDSPAR TWINS I J PHENACITE QUARTZ CRYSTALS ffrl...identify minerals pyramid terminations, and the apatite, with their six-faced flat-terminated prism of |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Extracts from the logs of mineral col leering in Maine and New Hampshire. (Several trips are omitted for...mica mine where we found several aquamarines on the east €nd as well as a gemmy beryl crystal in the center...black flies and midges. Ernie went south and I went east where I located an old opening. Could not relocate...tremolite crystals. May 23-24 Went to Augusta (Maine) to prepare tiie family lots for Memorial Day. I...Dillingham Sunday morning. We went to the Tamrninen Quarry where we met Nestor 4 Tamminen. Later, Charlie | | | Book (volume) | | Cultural Art Santa Ana, California GEMSTONES OF EAST AFRICA by Peter C. Keller GEMSTONES OF AFGHANISTAN...Hallelujah Junction, Nevada; blue, cushion cut topaz (25 .30 et), Ra1nona, Caufornia; brownish yellow...(21 .30 et), 1\1ontana; light yellow orthoclase feldspar (25.03 et), Idaho; rectangular step cut purplish...purplish pink elbaite tourmaline (30.89 et), Maine; round brilliant red-orange spessartine garnet ( 16.62...Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from Sai, Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75 |  | | Journal (issue) | | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.00 T..,..IIH. Maine. Bleck well terminated xi. 2 x 1 ½ . . . . . . ...1946 CONTENTS FOR SEPTEMBER, 1946 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY .................................................···································575 WINDSOR QUARRY, RUDEVILLE, N . J. By Peler Z odac ..............pages added. The present increase, however, was Topaz at La Jolla Beach, California Can any reader give...give first hand information on the deposit of topaz crystals in several colors at La Jolla Beach, near |  | | Book (edition) | | MARIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY 3 1111 00289 4184 \ I s Fifth Revised Edition A complete, state-by-state...on the gem resources of our land. "Do you, Mr. Maine," he continued, "know that some of the finest tourmalines...from Alaska to the Mexican border and eastward to Maine and Florida. Still others are found in Canada and...strike gem tourmaline by the bushel basketful in Maine and California; emerald in North Carolina, a big...SCALE Talc 6. Orthoclase feldspar 2. Gypsum 7. Quartz 3. Calcite 8. Topaz 4. Fluorite 9. Corundum |  | | Journal (issue) | | held to the Wolverine #2 mine, Kearsarge, Houghton County, Michigan. The collecting guides for the 2022 field...13 July 2022. Kyanite from Balsam Gap, Buncombe County, North Carolina Tony Nikischer tony@excaliburmineral...of Tristan Jordan Feldspar Mining Topsham pegmatite field, Sagadahoc County, Maine Mark Ivan Jacobson...Denver, CO 80210 The primary source of potassium feldspar, a critical ingredient for creating ceramic products...pegmatites. The Topsham pegmatite field in Sagadahoc county, Maine provided these raw materials to the developing |  | | Journal (issue) | | MONTHLY Contents for September, 1939 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY ...................................................................................... 270 LOST QUARRY ( a poem). 8 ) D . H opkins . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271 THE MAINE PEGMATITE BELT. By Philip iWorri/l .............. 272 $500...Chiapas, and enter the republic from Honduras to the east. Except for a narrow coastal plain on the Pacific...City. This is by far the most accessible of the mining regions. To visit it permits must be obtained from |
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