 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Massachusetts 02138 MAINE Minerals of the Topsham, Maine, Pegmatite District Topsham • Topsham, Maine's underappreciated...the Andros coggin River from Brunswick in Sagadahoc County. A mile-wide belt of granitic pegmatites runs...Androscoggin River, north-northeast through the town of Topsham. The belt extends southward into Brunswick and...but only the pegmatites actually in the town of Topsham are covered in this review. There are thirty or...named quarries and numerous unnamed prospects in Topsham. The quarries, all inactive, are usually named |  | | 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 |  | | 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................... Turner feldspar |  | | 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 |  | | Report (issue) | | Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of Maine ............... 16 Table 5 Uranium occurrences in...occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of eastern Maine................^..............i.29 Figure 6. Uranium...occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of western Maine.................................30 Figure 7. Uranium...deposit occurs as a thin seam in graphitic Cleburne County. The property is, about 11.2 SINE phyllite which...Location No. Source of information Fairfield County. Short distance northeast of East Village, on a |  | | Book (edition) | | LAZULI TURQUOISE GARNET ONYX • PERIDOT* • ZIRCON • CARNELIAN TOURMALINE OPALS • AOATI • ...from Oregon to the Mexican border and eastward to Maine and Florida. What you cannot collect in person...SPINEL STAUROLITE •^^ VESUVIANITE WILLEMITE ZIRCON CRYSTALS Crystal forms 5 velopment of one face...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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Maine Articles Published in Rocks and Minerals AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY DANIEL BEHNKE 2981 Landwehr...Gentleman of Oxford County. Rocks and Minerals 35:28-29. A tribute to "the dean of Maine minerals," Charles...of Buckfield, Maine. Bailey, E . M. 1929. A catalog of minerals found at Rumford, Maine. Rocks and Minerals...Barker, D. S. 1955. The Union Limestone quarry, Union, Maine. Rocks and Minerals 30:365-66. Short description...several locations includ ing: Berry quarry, Poland; Bennett quarry, Buckfield; Hebron; Paris; and Litchfield |  | | 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...Albany, Maine ; a black tourmaline crystal 3x3x8 feet in the Luella Mine near Avon, Latah County, Idaho...have been obtained at Black Mountain, Rumford, Maine. However the cassiterite found in the United States |  | | 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...platy variety of albite, cleavelandite. Microscopic zircon crystals of the va riety cyrtolite have also been...tourmaline find at the Dunton Gem Mine at Newry, Maine of watermelon and green, elbaite tourmaline, has...further description here. The Bennett Quarry at Buckfield, Maine, was also worked by Mr. Robert Eastman |  | | Report (volume) | | 23 Maine............................................................... Androscoggin County............................................... Lincoln County ............................................................-...:.....-................. Oxford County........................;.................................................................. Sagadahoc County.. '...... ............................................................................... Topsham .............................................. |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | you will find the mine (quarry). Please close all gates after you. This quarry is the newest of the lithium...minerals only present in this type of pegmatite. The quarry was opened up early in 1962 by two young miners...generally considered to be of Paleozoic age. The Walden quarry is located in a lenticular body of pegmatite. It...at the Brown Derby Mine near Ohio City, Gunnison County, Colorado; the pegmatites are quite similar in...much richer in microlite. The Pidlite dike of Mora County, New Mexico contains both topaz and spodumene, |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | of Natural History, 1957. PEGMATITE MINERALS OF MAINE phosphate, has been located as a rare, secondary...mine at Newry. Quarry at Poland; also at the Bennett RUTILE, one of the trimorphs of Quarry at Buckfield...the Consolidated No. 1 Quarry bonate, has been noted as a rare mineral at Topsham, but none has been found...ago Rumford many years ago. at Standpipe Hill in Topsham along with ROCKBRIDGEITE, a hydrous, iron, monazite...has been noted at the Dunton Gem Mine at Newry Maine. SCHEELITE, calcium tungstate, has together with |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | BATES LIMESTONE, LEWTSTON, MAINE* Llovn W. Frsnon, Bates College,Lewi.ston,Maine. INrnonucrton Location.-The...located in the southwestern part of Maine, in Androscoggin County, on the left bank of the Androscoggin...the Bates limestone is represented by the City quarry which is located in the southern part of Lewiston..."W'est Rose Hill." This quarry is along the Brunswick division of the Maine Central Railroad, about one...north of the City quarry, along the same railroad at Cedar Street. The Martin quarry, where the Bates |  | | 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...vol. 8, no. 6, p. 475.]* The best of San Diego County (by W. Larson) [1977, vol. 8, no. 6, p. 507-515 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | inter-grown with c/eavelandite Irom the Walden Quarry, Poriland, Conn"ecticut. ROCKS AND MINERALS 595...accessory mineral. At the Lord's Hill, Stoneham, Maine locality; autunite occurs as excellent haloes surrounding...crystals in vugs in cleavelandite. At the Ruggles Quarry, Grafton Center, New Hampshire autunite is closely...spodumene at the B.B. no. 7 Quarry, Norway, Maine; also at Newry and Auburn, Maine; the Chandler Mine, Raymond...Newry, Maine. Triphylite and lithiophilite are common lithium phosphate minerals as at Newry, Maine (triphylite); |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the Pulsifer quarry at Auburn, Maine. Six inch crystals have been found at West Bethel, Maine, and at the...the Ruggles quarry, Grafton Center, New Hampshire. Notable excellently formed almandite garnets have been...Lode pegmatite near the Royal Gorge in Fremont County, Colorado. Common in the pegmatites of Yavapai...Mountain in the Crested Butte region of Gunnison County, Colorado, in good gem crystals. ANDRADITE, calcium-iron...Andradite has been found at Middletown, Delaware County, Pennsylvania and at other localities in Delaware |  | | Journal (issue) | | Robert B. Cook Auburn University, Al Carl A. Francis Maine Mineral & Gem Museum, ME John Rakovan New Mexico...I. Jacobson, Denver, CO Anthony R. Kampf, l.A. County Museum of Natural History, CA Virgil W. Lueth,...across a local area net\,vork. Subscription offices: USA/North America: Taylor & Francis Group, LLC, 530 Walnut...Copyright Clearance Center (www.copyright.com) in the USA or the Copyright Licensing Agency (www. cla.co.uk)...Southwood Melbourne, Australia Woodrow B. Thompson, Maine Geological Survey, Augusta, ME John S. White, Stewartstown |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | crystals, Bachelor mine, Amethyst vein system, Mineral County, Colorado; Dave Bunk specimen, Jesse La Plante...Uvite with Overgrown Dravite, Bigelow, St. Lawrence County, New York, 250–59; Gemstone Deposits in Turkey...Geological Museum of China, 434–39 Chips from the Quarry, M. E. Huizing, 5–11, 101–3, 197–203, 293–97, 389–93...Uvite with Overgrown Dravite, Bigelow, St. Lawrence County, New York, M. Lupulescu, S. C. Chamberlain, M....Preparation Dilemma—Natural Versus Aesthetic, J. Fisher, 110–11 Eicher Mineral Museum, 567 Emerald, North |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Sehist 15-20 feet (not repl aced by eleayelanditel Quarry Exeavation 523 dosed them, indicating that the...Mountain, Rumford, Maine; in cleavelandite with watermelon colored tourmaline at Newry, Maine; and with deeply...rubellite tourmaline crystal sections from the Walden Quarry, POrlland, Connecticut. ROCKS AND MINERALS 525...Rumford, Maine where it occurs chiefly in association with very late cleavelandite. At Newry, Maine; and...surrounding manganfanfalife crysfals' from ih« Walden Quarry, Portland, Connecficut. 526 ROCKS AND MINERALS |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 27858, USA 2 Department of Mineral Sciences, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20013, USA incompatible...Jahns and Wright 1951; Morgan and London 1999; Fisher 2002). The Southern California Pegmatite Province...North America for over at least 100 years (e.g., Fisher 2002). These layered pegmatite-aplite dikes also...emission scanning electron microscope with a Thermo-Fisher energy dispersive X-ray analytical system was used...contains a large number of pegmatite districts (e.g., Fisher 2002). The Pala Chief and Elizabeth R layered pegmatite-aplite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Agricola bis Werner. f B o o k r e v i e w ]. . . Fisher, D. J. with Palache, C. Gratonite, a new mineral... . .207,534 inclusions of Oriented staurolite, zircon and garnet in muscovite. Skating crystals 69 and...mineral from Cerro de Pasco, Peru. (Pal255 ache, Fisher). Gratonite, geologic occurrence of, at Cerrode...Taos County, New Mexico. 151 619 twinning in arsenopyrite.. . 291 Jordanite, formula of . (Fisher) . ...Microlite and stibiotantalite from (Palache, Topsham, Maine. .211,411 Gonyer). Millerite occurrence at |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | North America; the rare earth pegmatitesb of Llano County (Texas), Minas Geraes(BraziI), Ytterby (Sweden)...southwest. According to Bastin,6 the granites of Maine were intruded in Late Silurian or Devonian time...Geology of the pegmatites and associated rocks of Maine: U . S . G e o l .S t r l e y , B u l l . 4 4 5...A. L Genesis of mica pegmatite deposits, Latah County, Idaho: , Econ. Geology,vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 41-58...30Lovering, T. S., Magmatic chalcopyrite, Park County, Montana: Econ. Geology,vol 19, pp 636-640, 1924 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | SVNPJHSQUARRY, GARLAND COUNTY, ARKANSAS. S. L. Hanson1, A. U. Falster2...pale green to dark green sequence, although Dunton quarry green tourmaline generally fluoresces in contrast...most green tourmalines worldwide. At the Dunton quarry, green tourmaline without adjacent red zones fluoresces...treating rubellite increased the brightness of Dunton quarry tourmaline. Hawkins, Mackinnon, and Schneeberger...(1995) published a chemical analysis of Dunton quarry elbaite and revealed that there was an equal concentration |  | | Journal (issue) | | SEPTEMBER, 1934 PAOI! T opaz and Herderite at Topsham, Maine. By Benjamin B. Burbank ..................... ...... .. .... ........ ..... ... Lake Street Quarry near White Plains, N . Y . By Peter Zodac Collector's...Aaaociation WHOLE No. 89 Topaz and Herderite at Topsham, Maine By BENJAMIN B. BURBANK There exists n long...northeast nncl southwest entirely across the town of Topsham, ~laine. This ridge is cut by a great muur pe~u1atite...1niueruJized zone of the entire region is the Fisher Feldspar Quarry 2 which cousists of a deep cut rnnniug |
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