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Timestamp: 2019-04-25 23:54:19+00:00

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Nevel Quarry. Triphylite zone on right.
A region in western Maine, well-known for gem-producing granite pegmatites. Mount Mica Quarry, Paris; Dunton Gem Quarry, Newry, and Bennett Quarry, Buckfield are the most note worthy for gem production, especially elbaite and related tourmalines.
213 valid minerals. 9 (TL) - type locality of valid minerals. 1 (FRL) - first recorded locality of unapproved mineral/variety/etc. 28 erroneous literature entries.
Localities: Reported from at least 174 localities in this region.
Reference: King, V. and Foord, E., 1994, Mineralogy of Maine, volume 1.
Localities: Reported from at least 68 localities in this region.
Description: post-mining efflorescence on pyrrhotite and not a true mineral of the locality.
Reference: King & Foord, 1994. Mineralogy of Maine, V.1.; King, V. and Foord, E., 1994, Mineralogy of Maine.
Reference: King, V. and Foord, E., 1994, Mineralogy of Maine, V. 1; King, V. (ed), 2000, Mineralogy of Maine, V. 2.
Reference: Arthur Smith (2003) "Is there any lead at the Porter Lead Mine?", Mineral News, 19, #3, 1-2.
Reference: King, V. T. and Foord, E. E., 1994, Mineralogy of Maine.
Reference: King & Foord, 1994. Mineralogy of Maine, V. 1.; King and Foord, 2000, Addenda to Volume 1, Mineralogy of Maine, v. 2.
Localities: Reported from at least 158 localities in this region.
Description: Very crystallographically rich beryllonite specimens are highly prized. Most crystals from this area are usually etched and many so-called terminated crystals are actually are showing perfect cleavage.
Reference: King, V. and Foord, E., 1994, 2000, Mineralogy of Maine.; Bastin, Edson Sunderland (1911) Geology of the pegmatites and associated rocks of Maine, including feldspar, quartz, mica, and gem deposits. USGS Bulletin 445.
Localities: Reported from at least 85 localities in this region.
Description: Historically reported in 1820's. Mistake for columbite-(Fe).
Reference: Anderson, 1991. Maine Mineral Localities, 2nd ed.
Reference: King, V. and Foord, E., 1994, Mineralogy of Maine.
Reference: If both species are here so is the series. Needed for unanalysed specimens.
Habit: Radial clusters of tightly grown platy crystals. The clusters show the typical arrangement of chlorite group minerals.
Colour: White to clear when pure. Also found pale yellow, pale, green, or pale pink.
Reference: King, V. T. and Foord, E. E., 1994, Mineralogy of Maine, Descriptive Mineralogy, volume 1, Maine Geological Survey, Augusta, Maine, USA, pp. 418 + 88 plates.
Description: There is no eucryptite present at this locality, either as true eucryptite or as a mixture of quartz plus albite. The spodumene from this locality does have a pale red fluorescence, but this test is inadequate to verify eucryptite.
Reference: King, V. and Foord, E., 1994, Mineralogy of Maine, v. 1.
Description: Reported in thin section by Sid Williams.
Description: Specimen was a hoax sold as another mineral. Not a specimen from this locality.
Reference: King & Foord, 1994. Mineralogy of Maine, Vol.1, p.29.
Description: An obviously improbable species in a granite pegmatite or its schist host rocks. Typographical error or slip of the pen for gahnite?
Reference: Bastin, Edson Sunderland (1911) Geology of the pegmatites and associated rocks of Maine, including feldspar, quartz, mica, and gem deposits. USGS Bulletin 445.
ⓘ Grossular var: Hessonite ?
Description: Has a question mark in reference indicating that the species is misidentified.
Description: A bad guess of what the original material was in the quartz pseudomorphs known for this locality. No original material ever found and probably replacements of feldspar crystals.
Reference: Cameron, Eugene N.; and others (1954) Pegmatite investigations, 1942-45, in New England. USGS Professional Paper 255.
Description: brownish pink grains to several mm in calc-silicate rock.
Reference: King & Foord, 1994. Mineralogy of Maine, Vol. 1., p.188.
Reference: Cheney, J. and Guidotti, C., 1973, American Mineralogist, v. 58, p. 1076-1079.
Habit: Rhombohedral pale blue crystals which may have a a tiny c pinacoid.
Reference: Brownfield, M. E., Foord, E. E., Sutley, S. J. and Botinelly, T. (1993): Kosnarite, KZr2(PO4)3, a new mineral from Mount Mica and Black Mountain, Oxford County, Maine. Am. Mineral. 78, 653-656.
Description: Has a question mark in the reference indicating the species is misidentified.
Reference: King & Foord, 1994. Mineralogy of Maine, V.1., p.225.
Habit: Simple steeply pyramidal crystals.
Reference: Canadian Mineralogist(1994) 32, 839-842 King, V. T. and Foord, E. E., 1994, Mineralogy of Maine, Descriptive Mineralogy, volume 1, Maine Geological Survey, Augusta, Maine, USA, pp. 418 + 88 plates.
Reference: King and Foord, 2000, Mineralogy of Maine, Addenda to Volume 1.
Reference: Gene Foord, personal communication, 1993 and King and Foord, 1994, Mineralogy of Maine listing both ends of the hydration series "vanmeersscheite/metavanmeersscheite"
Description: Amazonite specimens from the Wheeler Quarries are actually microcline altered by mica replacements. The feldspar is indeed greenish gray, but not amazonite but mica impregnated.
Localities: Reported from at least 258 localities in this region.
Description: Misidentified by a mineral dealer so the fake name could be sold. The mineral is ordinary montebrasite. A "natromontebrasite" from one of the distributors, but from the "original lot of specimens" was chemically analyzed and proved to be typical montebrasite with very little Na.
Description: Based on a thin section identified by Sid Williams. Examination of the same thin section did not support the original report.
Description: Careful reading of the article shows that no paragonite was found as a species. The most sodic mica found was only 26 mole percent paragonite and the paper only claimed that there was a paragonite "component" to the muscovite.
Reference: King, V. and Foord, E., 1994, 2000, Mineralogy of Maine, volume 1 and 2, with updates by Van King.
Localities: Reported from at least 283 localities in this region.
Habit: Pseudocubic appearance due to equal development of "r" faces and near absence of prism faces.
Localities: Reported from at least 141 localities in this region.
Description: One specimen was observed that had a schrötterite identification, but was a clayey alteration of microcline and could have been montmorillonite.
Description: Typographical error for strunzite.
Description: Tantalite is very uncommon and many "tantalite" compositions found worldwide are actually tapiolites.
Reference: Hanson, S.L., Falster, A.U., Simmons, W.B., Sprague, R., Vignola, P., Rotiroti, N., Andó, S. and Hatert, F. (2018) Tantalowodginite, IMA 2017-095. CNMNC Newsletter No. 41, February 2018, page page 184; European Journal of Mineralogy: 30: 183-186; Hanson, S.L., Falster, A.U., Simmons, W.B."S"., Sprague, R., Vignola, P., Rotiroti, N., Andó, S., Hatert, F. (2018): Tantalowodginite, (Mn0.5□0.5)TaTa2O8, a New Mineral Species from the Emmons Pegmatite, Uncle Tom Mountain, Maine, U.S.A. Canadian Mineralogist, 56: 543-553.

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