Articles on NH Mineral Collecting
Ordered by date posted, oldest to newest.
Caution: New information may have become available on older dated articles.
Mineral photographs on older articles is not as good as more recent ones with better cameras and lenses.
Localities
Micro-mineral Collecting in the Greater Nashua, NH Area (pdf) - Tom Mortimer (2008)
A Field trip to a Dummer, NH Road Cut and Iron Mountain Bartlett (pdf) - Bob Wilken (2008)
NH Type Localities (pdf) - Joe Mulvey (2012)
Mascot Mine, Gorham Musings (revised) (pdf) - Bob Janules (2012)
Chandlers Mill mines, Newport (pdf) - Fred Davis (2013)
Mine Falls Park, Nashua (pdf) - Tom Mortimer (2011)
Ore Hill Mine, Waren, NH (pdf) - Anna Wilken (2015)
Location of The Lovejoy Quarry (pdf) Conway - Dana Morong (2015)
Audley Quarry, Merrimack, NH (pdf) - Tom Mortimer (2017)
Minerals of the 101 - 101A Road Cut, Amherst-Milford, NH (pdf) A Powerpoint file, no narration. Tom Mortimer (2019)
Ellacoya Locality Gilford, (pdf), A Powerpoint file, no narration - Tom Mortimer (2020)
Aegirine discovery at Hurricane Mtn., Conway, NH (pdf) - Bob Wilken (2022)
Mining History of Ruggles mine, Grafton, New Hampshire by Fred Davis (2023)
Raymond, New Hampshire Quartz (2023) by Bob Janules
Woodman Institute - Dover, (2023) Tom Mortimer
Minerals of the Richmond Soapstone Quarry (written 2013, posted 2023) Tom Mortimer
MMNE field trip to the AI_Quarry_Raymond pdf (written 2013, posted 2023) Tom Mortimer
Green hyalite opal from Bedford pdf (written 2013, posted 2023) Tom Mortimer
Gale River & Sugar Hill (pdf) - Curt LaPlante (written 2009, posted 2023)
Morse Brook Pyrite Locality Easton (pdf) - Tom Mortimer (written 2008, posted 2023)
Pike Hooksett Field Trip (pdf) - Tom Mortimer (written 2014, posted 2023)
A New NH Locality for Chrysoberyl Springfield (pdf) - Tom Mortimer (written 2021, posted 2023)
An ode to the Audley Quarry Nashua (pdf) - Tom Mortimer (2023)
Minerals of Hurricane Mtn. Conway (pdf) - Tom Mortimer (2023)
Species & Analysis In order of date added
Analysis of Some New Hampshire Garnets (pdf) - Tom Mortimer (2006)
Halotrichite, A New Species for New Hampshire (pdf) - Tom Mortimer (2007)
Jarosite, A New Species for New Hampshire (pdf) - Tom Mortimer (2009)
Habit Variations in Palermo Mine Goyazite (pdf) - Tom Mortimer (2014)
Fusibility Testing of Mica Minerals (pdf) - Tom Mortimer (2016)
Mineral Hardness Testing (pdf) - Tom Mortimer (2007)
U & Th color fluorescence (pdf) - Fred Davis (2016)
New Hampshire Titanite Color Variations(pdf) - Tom Mortimer (2016)
Perhamite Identification (pdf) - Tom Mortimer (2017)
A study of NH glauconite (pdf) - Tom Mortimer (2019)
Vermont and New Hampshire Paragonite (pdf) - Tom Mortimer (2019)
Palermo Zanazziite (pdf) - Tom Mortimer (2019)
NH Scorzalite and Lazulite (pdf) - Tom Mortimer (2020)
Eleonorite and Beraunite (pdf) (pdf) - Tom Mortimer (2020)
NH diadochite (pdf) discredited (pdf) , Diadochite analysis (pdf) - Tom Mortimer (2020)
Investigation of New Species for NH (pdf), Pitticite, Pumpellyite, Frondelite - Tom Mortimer (2020)
Humboldtine (pdf) A new species for New Hampshire- Tom Mortimer (2020)
The Discovery of Radioactive Minerals (pdf) at Ruggles mine, Grafton, New Hampshire (pdf) - Fred Davis (2021)
New Hampshire Black Micas (pdf) - Tom Mortimer (2023)
Chevkinite, A confirming New Hampshire specimen (pdf) - Tom Mortimer (2023)
Collinsite, from the Palermo Mine (pdf) - Tom Mortimer (2023)
Corundum Quest, (pdf) - Tom Mortimer (2023)
Ferrisicklerite and Sicklerite Discredited, (pdf) - Tom Mortimer (2023)
Growth of Mineral Species (pdf), - Tom Mortimer (2023)
Mineral Identification: A Simple Case Study (pdf), - Tom Mortimer (2023)
New Hampshire Ishikawaite (pdf), - Tom Mortimer (written 2011, posted 2023)
Sinkankasite and Gatumbaite from Palermo (pdf), - Tom Mortimer (written 2017, posted 2023)
Palermo Leucophosphite, (pdf) - Tom Mortimer (written 2017, posted 2023)
NH Ankerite absent (pdf), - Tom Mortimer (written 2018, posted 2023)
NH The Beraunite Mess (pdf), - Tom Mortimer (written 2022, posted 2023)
NH NH Vanmeersscheite (pdf), - Mortimer & Dallaire (written 2020, posted 2023)
NH Western New Hampshire Black Tourmalines (pdf), - Tom Mortimer (written 2006, posted 2023)
Jahnsite (pdf) from the Fletcher Mine - Tom Mortimer (written 2022, posted 2023)
Bow Willeminite ID withdrawn (pdf) - Tom Mortimer (written 2018, posted 2023)
Palermo Greifensteinite (pdf) - Tom Mortimer (written 2019, posted 2023)
Collection Curating In order of date added
Collection cataloging (pdf) - Tom Mortimer (2020)
Applying Numbers to Specimens (pdf) - Tom Mortimer (2023)
Mineral Radiation Risks (pdf)- Tom Mortimer (2023)
Buying Specimens on the web (pdf) - Tom Mortimer
Mineral collection disposition (pdf) - Tom Mortimer
Microminerals are a Bargain (pdf) - Tom Mortimer (2023)
Mineral Shows and Symposiums In order of date added
Gilsum Rock Swap 2004 (pdf)- Tom Mortimer (Written 2004, posted 2023)
Gilsum Rock Swap 2005 (pdf)- Tom Mortimer (Written 2005, posted 2023)
Gilsum Rock Swap 2014 (pdf)- Tom Mortimer (2014)
Gilsum Rock Swap 2022 (pdf)- Tom Mortimer (2022)
Gilsum Rock Swap 2023 (pdf)- Tom Mortimer (2023)
Reference
Philip Foster (pdf) Early NH micromounter (A Tom Mortimer presentation)
NH Articles in Rocks and Minerals magazine (Alphabetical bibliography 1926-2015) (pdf) - Dana Morong (Revised - 2015)
NH Articles in Rocks and Minerals magazine (Chronological bibliography 1926-2015) (pdf) - Dana Morong (Revised - 2015)
Morrill Coordinates and Errors (pdf) - Dana Morong (2011)
Famous NH Beryl Specimen (pdf) - Fred Davis (2018)
US Mica Industry Pioneers (pdf) - 445 pages, Fred Davis (2018)
Gunar Bjareby (pdf) Gunar Bjareby (Transcribed from 1989 MMNE symposium booklet)
Mineral Photography
Image Stacking Software Comparisons (pdf) - Tom Mortimer (2012). A very dated article.
Micromineral Photography, on the "Cheep" (pdf) - Tom Mortimer (2012). A dated article (2007).
A manual photo stacking aid (pdf) - Tom Mortimer (2014)
Using wire gauges to estimate crystal sizes (pdf) - Tom Mortimer (2007)
Advances in Micro Photography (pdf) - Tom Mortimer (2023)
Hayear Digital Camera Review (pdf) - Tom Mortimer (2023)
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