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⇱ Granite from Hall's Quarry, Mount Desert, Hancock County, Maine, USA


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Granite from
Hall's Quarry, Mount Desert, Hancock County, Maine, USA

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Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Type:Granite
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Granite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Hall's Quarry, Mount Desert, Hancock County, Maine, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1877106
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1877106:0
GUID (UUID V4):0
Nearest other occurrences of Granite
0.2km (0.1 miles) Joe's quarry, Mount Desert, Hancock County, Maine, USA
0.7km (0.4 miles) Grenci-Ellis Granite quarry, Mount Desert, Hancock County, Maine, USA
9.4km (5.9 miles) Sea Wall, Southwest Harbor, Hancock County, Maine, USA
28.1km (17.5 miles) T. M. Blaisdell Granite Quarry, Franklin, Hancock County, Maine, USA
34.9km (21.7 miles) The Sherwood Quarries, Crotch Island, Stonington, Hancock County, Maine, USA
35.4km (22.0 miles) Moose Island Quarry, Moose Island, Stonington, Hancock County, Maine, USA
36.7km (22.8 miles) Catherine Mountain Molybdenite prospect, Catherine Mountain, T10 SD, Hancock County, Maine, USA
36.9km (22.9 miles) Highland Mine, Penobscot, Hancock County, Maine, USA
51.2km (31.8 miles) Mosquito Mountain Granite Quarry, Frankfort, Waldo County, Maine, USA
51.9km (32.2 miles) Bodwell Quarry, Vinalhaven, Knox County, Maine, USA
References
Locality descriptionIdentification: Visual Identification
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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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
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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
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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...gummite, pegmatite amphibolite which is cut by granite phosphuranylite, dikes. Age of the pegmatite is
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Report (issue)
CHARLES D. WALCOTT, DIRECTOR THE GEAOTTES OF MAINE BY T. NELSON DALE WITH AN INTKObUCTTOtf BY GEORGE...GEORGE OTIS SMITH PREPARED IN COOPERATION WITH THE MAINE STATE SURVEY COMMISSION WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT ... CONTENTS. INTRODUCTION THE OCCUKHENCE OK GRANITE IN MAINE, BY GEORGE OTIS SMITH. Page. Geographic............................ 12 THE GRANITES OF MAINE, BY T. NELSON DALE. Introduction....................... 14 Granite proper..........................I............................ Granite in general.
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Book (volume)
districts, particularly in distinguishing the coarse granite belt and the fine-grained division of the Bethlehem...Androscoggin — 5 line of Cambridge and Errol .... Maine line south of Umbagog lake, 36 — to the 51 Fig...field, 275 Fig. Section from Bronson's lime quarry to Smith's brook, Lyman 278 Fig. Section in...Section from Palmer hill through Burnham's lime quarry, 326 Fig. Section from Crouch's to Shute's house...Fig. Section from quarry road to L. A. Parker's, Fig. Section from slate quarry to the Ammonoosuc river
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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
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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
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Book (edition)
MARIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY 3 1111 00289 4184 \ I s Fifth Revised Edition A complete, state-by-state...Washington beaches, the Mojave desert of California and the Sonoran desert of Arizona, the lake beaches...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
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Book (edition)
describes sites under name of the nearest town and county. The directions and the many maps included in the...from Alaska to the Mexican border and eastward to Maine and Florida. Still others are to be found in Canada...include the range of gem mamore species, such as granite and satin spar, and a wider choice of quality...there are some exceptions. A few rocks, such as granite and unakite, are made into jewelry and ornaments...feldspar, and hornblende are characteristic of granite. As part of the buried melt crystallizes, other
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Report (issue)
Bisbee Group, Empire Mountains quadrangle, Pima County, Arizona, by Tommy L. Finnell-_______________________...correlative. In the type area along the Genesee River, Hall's Portage Group (1839) consisted of the strata above...half of our Genesee Formation the upper part of Hall's Genesee Slate. Thus, the strata near Ithaca that...Portage Group are not the lateral equivalents of Hall's Portage on the Genesee but are separated from the...part of the West Falls Formation on the Genesee, Hall's Portage Group, change facies to the east; and if
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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 ..............INTRODUCTION Covering several square miles of desert north of the old Pony Express trail, north and...Creek and Callao. Roads into the area are good desert roads. Spare tires, tools, water and gasoline should
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Journal (issue)
cutters • Freestanding for use in the field or mount on your working table - NEWLAND .. Model Inside...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.
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
L U S S H A L E NEAR S Y R A C U S E , ONONDAGA COUNTY, NEW Y O R K . W. P. Dossert and S. C. Chamberlain...WITHIN A P E G M A T I T E Z O N E , N E W R Y , MAINE. V. T. King, P.O. Box 90888, Rochester, N Y 14609;...University of Maine, Walpole, M E . The Main pegmatite sheet on Hall's Ridge of Mount Plum­ bago, Newry...Newry, Maine, is a complex, lithium-bearing pegmatite that is zoned on its apex and unzoned on its flanks...vertical transect [T] from an exposure in the Nevel quarry where the first intermediate zone was 1.95 meters
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Report (issue)
189Q lRA\2.A- PREFATORY NOTE A report on the quarry districts of New York, tind on the location, extent...cities. Answers were received from many of the quarry owners and superintendof representative stones...to acknowledge my great indebtedness to the many quarry owners and superintendents who gave freely of their...CONTENTS 196 Page ' III. Descriptive notes of quarry districts and quarries. I. . 228-255 Crystalline...stone of the state, and in the description of the quarry districts and localities the subdivisions under
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MINERALS in California and Mexico. We went on to Hall's Harbour where we had our best opportunity to view...got some good pictures there. While we were in Hall's Harbour we called on Mrs. Paul Mosher. She had...bridges to remind us of a pleasant day. W e crossed Maine on a road about 75 miles inland from the shore....the Thruways from Beloit, Wisconsin to Augusta, Maine and came home via Ottawa and Sault Ste. Marie. The...there. W e spent two days around Paris and Rumford, Maine. W e have been there twice before and have always
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Devonian Plants. 1. State of New York. 3. Canada. 2. Maine. 4. New Brunswick. II~ Descriptions of the species...forms. Prof. C. H. Hitchceck, State-geolo~st of Maine, had in the meantime further explored the deposits...throughout, but * Report on the Geological Survey of Maine, now in the press. ? See also notices by Dr. Jackson...limestone is penetrated by a thick vein of graphic granite, holding black tourmaline ; and at Drury's Cove...extend along the coast as far as the frontier of Maine, and there can scarcely be any doubt that t h e
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Journal (issue)
as Goblin Valley, the Circle Cliffs, the South Desert, and Cathedral Valley. Here is found some of the...841 1 1 Phone (801) 355-2991. Resort & Marina Desert Magazine Book Shop DUTCH OVEN COOKBOOK by Don Holm...years is available again. Many of these appeared in DESERT Mgazine years ago and these issues are no longer...the book. Hardcover, 240 pages, $7.50. COLORFUL DESERT WILDFLOWERS by Grace and Onas Ward. Segregated...Murfcarger, the well known "roving reporter of tho desert." An intimate chronicle of Arizona's oncebooming
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Report (issue)
.................................. 10 Franklin County.................................................................................... 11 Lamoille County.................................................................................. 12 Washington County...................................................................................... 14 Orange County.................................................. 17 Addison County.......................................................... 19 Hancock.............
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Report (issue)
WALCOTT, DIBECTOIt CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE GEOLOGY OF MAINE BY HENRY S. Wir/LIAMS AND HERBERT E. GKREOORY................. Part J. The Paleozoic faunas of Maine: a preliminary report upon the Paleozoic faunas...upon new faunas recently collected from Aroostook County, by Henry S. Williams ................... Part...volcanic area of Maine, including an account of the clastic rocks of Aroostook County, by Herbert E. Gregory...Contributions to the Geology of Maine, viz: Part I, The Paleozoic faunas of Maine, by Henry S. Williams; Part
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Report (issue)
Mar. 3, 1917)...... . (B) The N e~ngton moraine, Maine, ' New Hampshire, and Massachusetts, by F Katz and...MapofNewEnglandcoastalregio~fromPlum Island, Mass., to Casco Bay, Maine, showing distribution of moraine and outwash deposits.... ·.... . 12 v. A, B, Gravel pit in Biddeford, Maine~ ..... ~ .........................................Moraine front and outwash, Merriland Ridge,. Wells, Maine .......... ~ ·. ; .......... . VII. South side of...of railroad cut across Merriland Ridge, Wells, Maine ........................... . 16· VIII. A, West
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Mr. Baker know. The police, both at Wyndham and Hall's Creek, have been instructed by the Commissioner...much as he can. I hope you will be able to reach Hall's Creek without much difficulty (I assume you will...&c. Should the wire be in working order between Hall's Creek and Derby you can, as opportunities offer...and 17° 20' South latitude, near Mount Dowley, .Mount Wells, and Mount Luke, cutting its way through the...crystalline King Leopold Range, somewhere near Mount Leake ; but, as its uppter courses have not yet
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
uniformity of the porphyritic granite. Pegmatite veins cutting the porphyritic granite. The age of the Intrusions...occurrence remark that "large bowlders of porphyritic granite are very numerous over the sur694 SO-CALLED PORPHYRITIC...beautiful and striking specimens. This bed of granite extends across the state in a general northeast...width, though often interrupted with veins of granite of various texture."' With the physical difficulties...porphyritic granite, often traversed by beds and veins of fine grained, dark colored granite and trap.
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Journal (issue)
excellent , illiaumite crystals from the Aris Phonolite Quarry (Windhoek District. Khomas Region. Namibia). In...Kvanefjeld, Point of Rocks (Colfax Co., New Mexico, USA) and a few from Aris. 5-15 mm free-standing crystals...from near Hiddenite (Alexander Co., North Carolina, USA) in the collection of Houston Museum of Natural History...library @ $195.00 plus $15.00 Priority shipping (USA). We accept all major credit cards' PayPal, checks...Draw Rods, 22-8: I Jacobson. Mark: Memoirs of a Maine Gold Huot.er by CJ. Stevens. 22-3: 14 Jensen. Martin:
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things which I had lost when shipwrecked in the desert. Herdsmen and hunters from Khotan-daria had found...which form a transition from the mountains to the desert. On August 6 we left Dalai-kurgan, and marched...were the last white-faces we saw until reaching Hall's Creek (Kim- berley goldfields) in the middle of... 30' we entered the desert proper, which continued in unbroken monotony to Mount Worsnop. Vast sand-flats...sand-flats timbered with desert gums and a few quondongs and acacia bushes, interchanging with long stretches
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Report (issue)
Geomechanical Aspects of Subsidence in Eastern Maine By Fitzhugh T. Lee 1 Open-File Report 85-519 Prepared...lithologic map showing major faults in eastern Maine............................................. Strikes...microfractures measured in thin sections taken from granite core samples from sites 1, 2, and 3.................. 10 Bouguer gravity anomaly map of eastern Maine. Positive contours near the coast reflect large.............. 12 Earthquakes reported in eastern Maine from January 1, 1976 through December 31, 1984.
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