Back - Field Class Quarry Mineral Lists Bennett Emmons Estes Harvard Hayes Ledge Lord Hill Mt. Apatite Mt. Marie Mt. Mica Morgan Nubble Orchard Pit Palermo Mines Scribner Ledge Ski Pike Tamminen Waisanen Maps		Emmons Quarry Mineral List Uncle Tom Mountain, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine (Closed to the General Public - Exclusive collecting access through Poland Mining Camps only!) Started in 1895 by a local farmer and landowner named Joseph Emmons, the initial work was probably due to gem aquamarine beryl found in the exposed ledge. Commercially worked for feldspar in the 1930's, the quarry has mainly been a site for the collector ever since. Gem tourmaline and pink cesian beryl were first reported in the 1930's and the location is noted for its complex nature and mineralization. Since the current mining activity started in 1990, all of the minerals on this list have been found, along with a few new minerals currently in the laboratory. Famous for its abundant micro-mineralizations, minerals of extraordinary size are found also. Some examples are, 1] a cesian beryl 27 inches (68 cm) in diameter, 2] perhamite to 10 mm, and 3] a pollucite mass of 3 tons. "Ball" Cleavelandite, on terminated "ball" Muscovite Mica. Royal purple Fluorapatite crystals on Cleavelandite. Lithiophilite crystals - rare. Found embedded in core zone quartz. specimen repaired.
		Albite Eosphorite Meta-autunite Scorodite Almandine Fairfieldite Metaswitzerite Sicklerite Arsenopyrite Fluorapatite Microcline Siderite Autunite Gahnite Mitridatite Sphalerite Beraunite Goyazite Montebrasite Spodumene Bermanite Hureaulite Montmorillonite Stewartite Bertrandite Hydroxylapatite Moraesite Strengite Beryl Hydroxylherderite Muscovite Strunzite Beryllonite Jahnsite Opal - Hyalite Tantalite Biotite Kastningite - new Phosphosiderite Todorokite Carbonate-fluorapatite Landesite Phosphuranylite Triphylite Cassiterite Laueite Pollucite Uraninite Cleavelandite Lepidolite Purpurite Variscite Columbite Leucophosphite Quartz Vivianite Cookeite Lithiophilite Reddingite Whitmoreite Crandallite Ludlamite Rhodochrosite Wodginite Diadochite Löellingite Robertsite Zircon - including Cyrtolite Dickinsonite Manganocolumbite Rockbridgeite Earlshannonite Elbaite Manganotantalite Schorl Elbaite

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