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Photos recently added to NH species galleries.
Locality: Ham-Weeks Mine, Wakefield, NH	Species: SAMARSKITE-Y Locality: Ham-Weeks Mine, Wakefield, NH Specimen Size: 4.5 cm specimen with central zone of black columbite. Samarskite-Y is 1 to 2 mm thick resonous-brown zone on right edge of columbite, (yellow arrow). Field Collected: Gene Bearss - 1979 Catalog No.: 1742 Notes: Samarskite-Y verified by EDS analysis.
Locality: Livermore Falls, Campton, NH	Species: DOLOMITE Locality: Livermore Falls, Campton, NH Specimen Size: 7 mm field of view. Milky rhombs of dolomite on quartz to 0.4 mm. Field Collected: Tom Mortimer Catalog No.: u1118 Notes: Dolomite, CaMg(CO₃)₂ , indicated by EDS analysis. Low element weight Mg peak somewhat attenuated by EDS detector compared to Fe peak. This would likely be ferroan dolomite, bordering on ankerite.
Locality: Livermore Falls, Campton, NH	Species: DOLOMITE Locality: Livermore Falls, Campton, NH Specimen Size: Zoom view of u1118. Milky rhombs of dolomite to 0.4 mm. Field Collected: Tom Mortimer Catalog No.: u1118 Notes:
Locality: Jackson Hill, Stoddard, NH	Species: SCORZALITE - (previously labeled as LAZULITE) Locality: Jackson Hill, Stoddard, NH Specimen Size: 3 cm zone of massive scorzalite with muscovite mica Field Collected: A Harvard Mineral Museum specimen Catalog No.: #100715 Labeled as Lazulite Notes: A Feb., 2011 EDS analysis of a grain from this specimen showed an absence of magnesium indicating this phosphate species is scorzalite, Fe²⁺Al₂(PO₄)₂(OH)₂ , not lazulite, (Mg,Fe²⁺)Al₂(PO₄)₂(OH)₂ . Specimen photo moved to scorzalite gallery.
Locality: Rt 112 road cut, Easton, NH	Species: ALMANDINE-QUARTZ - (previously labeled as RHODONITE) Locality: Rt 112 road cut, Easton, NH Specimen Size: 3 cm specimen with massive pink almandine - quartz vein. Field Collected: Tom Mortimer Catalog No.: 1642 Notes: A Feb., 2011 EDS analysis of a grain from this specimen showed a minimal amount of manganese. The EDS analyst concluded "This is a quartz matrix which is shot with millions of tiny blebs of an almandine garnet."
RHODONITE Locality: Wildwood, Easton, NH	Species: RHODONITE Locality: Wildwood, Easton, NH Specimen Size: 3.2 cm specimen with zone of massive pink rhodonite. Field Collected: Bob Whitmore Catalog No.: 1779 Notes: Hardness greater than 5, not soluable in HCl, therefore not rhodochrosite.
VESUVIANITE on Grossular Locality: Joppa Hill, Amherst, NH	Species: VESUVIANITE on Grossular Locality: Joppa Hill, Amherst, NH Specimen Size: 0.8 cm double terminated vesuvianite crystal on 1.8 cm grossular garnet with minor pale green diopside. Field Collected: Bob Janules Catalog No.: Notes:
VESUVIANITE on Grossular Locality: Joppa Hill, Amherst, NH	Species: VESUVIANITE on Grossular - another view Locality: Joppa Hill, Amherst, NH Specimen Size: 0.8 cm double terminated vesuvianite crystal on 1.8 cm grossular garnet with minor pale green diopside. Field Collected: Bob Janules Catalog No.: Notes:
MORAESITE Locality: Chickering Mine, Walpole, NH	Species: MORAESITE Locality: Chickering Mine, Walpole, NH Specimen Size: 5 mm field of view. Radial sprays of moraesite Field Collected: Tom Mortimer Catalog No.: Notes: Moraesite, Be₂[OH\|PO₄] · 4H₂O, confirmed by EDS analysis. Note, elements lighter than sodium (i.e. Be and O) do not generate a response on the EDS detector.