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WARDITE Chickering Mine, Walpole, NH 1 mm clear, pseudo-octahedral, crystal	Species: WARDITE Locality: Chickering Mine, Walpole, NH Specimen Size: 1 mm clear, pseudo-octahedral, crystal. Field Collected: Tom Mortimer - 2007 Catalog No.: Notes:
ALMANDINE Murphy Prospect, Springfield, NH 3.2 cm crystal	Species: ALMANDINE Locality: Murphy Prospect, Springfield, NH Specimen Size: 3.2 cm crystal. Field Collected: Tom Mortimer Catalog No.: 1160 Notes: During a revisit to the "Murphy Prospect" in Sept., 2011, none of these garnets could be found. Recent information has indicated that there are two "Murphy Prospects" above the Globe Mine in Springfield.
ALMANDINE Murphy Prospect, Springfield, NH 2 cm crystal	Species: ALMANDINE Locality: Murphy Prospect, Springfield, NH Specimen Size: 2 cm crystal. Field Collected: Tom Mortimer Catalog No.: 1193 Notes:
LÖLLINGITE Globe Mine, Springfield, NH 2.5 cm crystaline mass	Species: LÖLLINGITE Locality: Globe Mine, Springfield, NH Specimen Size: 2.5 cm crystaline mass. Field Collected: ex. "JR" (John Reiner?) # 3504. Ex. Robert Whitmore #3567. Catalog No.: 1773 Notes: Lollingite is reported from the quartz-feldspar wall zone of the Globe Mine in Pegmatite Investigations, pg. 280. A purchased specimen.
SCHORL Globe Mine, Springfield, NH 8.5 cm specimen of partial large schorl crystals	Species: SCHORL Locality: Globe Mine, Springfield, NH Specimen Size: 8.5 cm specimen of partial large schorl crystals. Field Collected: Tom Mortimer Catalog No.: 1773 Notes:
AUTUNITE Murphy Prospect, Springfield, NH 5 cm specimen of autunite on smoky quartz under SW UV light	Species: AUTUNITE Locality: Murphy Prospect, Springfield, NH Specimen Size: 5 cm specimen of autunite on smoky quartz under SW UV light. Field Collected: Tom Mortimer Catalog No.: 1192 Notes:
ALMANDINE - Mn rich Joe Hill area, Springfield, NH 3 cm specimen with broken garnet section	Species: ALMANDINE - Mn rich Locality: Joe Hill area, Springfield, NH Specimen Size: 3 cm specimen with broken garnet section. Field Collected: Tom Mortimer - April 2005 Catalog No.: 1702 Notes: Certainly, a poor garnet specimen, but the locality is of interest to NH collectors. Phillip Morrill, in his Mines and Mineral Localities of New Hampshire booklet states: "the Joe Hill farm may be where all collectors got their spessartites." The earliest report of a Springfield, NH spessartine occurrence is in Jackson's 1844 Geology and Mineralogy of the State of New Hampshire, pg. 183. Jackson states: "A most abundant supply of perfect crystals of this mineral [spessartine] may be obtained in a few hours, by breaking up the mica slate rocks of Springfield, NH. They occur in such profusion that the mica serves only to connect them together, so that on breaking the rock with the hands they fall out and are found to be perfect crystals. They are of perfect uniform sizes and about as large as a filbert. Rarely two crystals are united together. They possess a good color, but none of them appeared sufficiently rich for jewelry, and I have not had them cut so as to try their effect. To the mineralogist and crystalographer, they are interesting specimens." Many NH field collectors, including myself, have searched the "Joe Hill farm" area looking for the spessartine occurrence. None I am aware of have found it. Nor have I seen a spessartine sample perported to be from this locality. This garnet specimen, collected from a pegmatite ledge in the Joe Hill farm area, was analyzed (Joe Hill garnet analysis) and determined have a modest manganese content, but the Mn content is less than the Fe content, so it belongs to the almandine species. End member formulae are: Almandine Fe²⁺₃Al₂[SiO₄]₃ Spessartine Mn²⁺₃Al₂[SiO₄]₃
ALMANDINE Gingras Farm Locality, Deering, NH 5.5 cm specimen	Species: ALMANDINE Locality: Gingras Farm Locality, Deering, NH Specimen Size: 5.5 cm specimen. Field Collected: Tom Mortimer Catalog No.: 1181 Notes:
ALMANDINE Un-named pegmatite, S. Uncanoonuc Mtn., Goffstown, NH 2.4 cm specimen	Species: ALMANDINE Locality: Un-named pegmatite, S. Uncanoonuc Mtn., Goffstown, NH Specimen Size: 2.4 cm specimen. Field Collected: Tom Mortimer Catalog No.: 900 Notes:
URANOPHANE Ham-Weeks Mine, Wakefield, NH 5 mm field of view, yellow uranophane crust of acicular crystals	Species: URANOPHANE Locality: Ham-Weeks Mine, Wakefield, NH Specimen Size: 5 mm field of view, yellow uranophane crust of acicular crystals Field Collected: Tom Mortimer - Aug 2011 Catalog No.: Notes: A visual identification. Uraninite is present in adjacent areas.