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Photos recently added to NH species galleries, set #50.
MONTMORILLONITE Tripp Mine, Alstead, NH 7 cm specimen with pink crust of montmorillonite on feldspar-muscovite matrix.	Species: MONTMORILLONITE Locality: Tripp Mine, Alstead, NH Specimen Size: 7 cm specimen with pink crust of montmorillonite on feldspar-muscovite matrix. Field Collected: Wayne Corwin. A purchased specimen from Toveco Minerals - 2013 Catalog No.: 1861 Notes:
FOGGITE Palermo Mine, Pod 3, N. Groton, NH 4 mm Foggite sphere on quartz crystals.	Species: FOGGITE Locality: Palermo Mine, Pod 3, N. Groton, NH Specimen Size: 4 mm Foggite sphere on quartz crystals. Field Collected: Bob Whitmore #954 - 1974 Catalog No.: A Don Swenson specimen Notes: Goyazite also appears to be present on this specimen. Identification presumed by Bob Whitmore or Forrest Fogg.
VESUVIANITE Warren, NH 6 cm specimen VESUVIANITE Warren, NH 4 cm zoom view VESUVIANITE Warren, NH specimen labels	Species: VESUVIANITE Locality: Warren, NH Specimen Size: 6 cm specimen. Zoom view is 4 cm. Field Collected: ex. Arthur L. Flagg (d. 1961) collection Catalog No.: 1862 Notes: Purchased from David H Garskey (Sept. 2013). Garskey purchased specien from dealer, "Mineral Zone" 2012. I do have some concern about the validity of the Warren provenance of this specimen. A Harvard vesuvianite specimen from Beach Hill, Warren, NH, mindat.org link has a much browner coloration. The color, form, and luster of this Warren specimen are close to the typical vesuvianite from the Webster Quarry, Sanford, ME. I understand that old specimens from obscure/lost localities can get miss-labeled at some point in their multi-owner history. Perhaps some more Warren skarn specimens will come to light in the future to correlate with this one.
TRIPHYLITE Ruggles Mine, Grafton, NH 4.7 cm specimen TRIPHYLITE Ruggles Mine, Grafton, NH 2 cm zoom view	Species: TRIPHYLITE Locality: Ruggles Mine, Grafton, NH Specimen Size: 4.7 cm specimen with 1.2 cm triphylite crystal, top. Zoom view is 2 cm. Field Collected: Purchased specimen from D. Robenson Minerals. Ex. Johanson collection - 1942 Catalog No.: 1876 Notes: Phillip Morrill does report triphylite as occurring at the Ruggles Mine. Triphylite crystals have scaly flakes of fluorescent autunite on their surface. Uranium minerals such as autunite are common at the Ruggles Mine. Specimen contains many broken triphylite crystals, but only one essentially complete one.
DRAVITE Canterbury Soapstone Quarry, Canterbury, NH 3.2 cm specimen height. Brown dravite tourmaline on quartz. DRAVITE Canterbury Soapstone Quarry, Canterbury, NH 7 mm zoom view, shows brown color	Species: DRAVITE Locality: Canterbury Soapstone Quarry, Canterbury, NH Specimen Size: 3.2 cm specimen height. Brown dravite tourmaline on quartz. 7 mm zoom view shows brown color. Field Collected: Tom Mortimer 2013 Catalog No.: 1882 Notes: From quartz outcrop near highway. EDS analysis indicated the Mg rich tourmaline dravite. The analyst stated, the EDS "detector detects Al better than Si so I’ll buy Dravite."
ACTINOLITE Canterbury Soapstone Quarry, Canterbury, NH 1.5 cm field of view ACTINOLITE Canterbury Soapstone Quarry, Canterbury, NH 5 mm zoom view.	Species: ACTINOLITE Locality: Canterbury Soapstone Quarry, Canterbury, NH Specimen Size: 1.5 cm field of view, top. Field Collected: Tom Mortimer 2013 Catalog No.: 1875 Notes: Broken jumble of lustrous bladed crystals is difficult to photograph. Actinolite identification by EDS analysis . Actinolite is reported from this locality.
COLUMBITE-(Fe) / TANTALITE-(Fe) N. Sugarloaf Mtn., Bethlehem, NH 3 cm specimen with 8 mm radial structure Columbite-(Fe) / Tantalite-(Fe) COLUMBITE-(Fe) / TANTALITE-(Fe) N. Sugarloaf Mtn., Bethlehem, NH 1881 zoom view.	Species: COLUMBITE-(Fe) / TANTALITE-(Fe) Locality: N. Sugarloaf Mtn., Bethlehem, NH Specimen Size: 3 cm specimen with 8 mm radial structure Columbite-(Fe) / Tantalite-(Fe) Field Collected: Tom Mortimer Catalog No.: 1881 Notes: Columbite-(Fe), Tantalite-(Fe), identification by EDS analysis . Analyst said: "Intermediate Ferrocolumbite/Ferrotantalite."
PYRRHOTITE Rt. 93 Road Cut, Campton, NH 2.5 cm specimen	Species: PYRRHOTITE Locality: Rt. 93 Road Cut, Campton, NH Specimen Size: 2.5 cm specimen Field Collected: Clayton Ford, ex. Bob Whitmore Catalog No.: 1880 Notes: This bronzy-metalic mineral was originally thought to be pentlandite, a nickle-iron sulfide. This Rt. 93 Campton, NH occurrence was responsible for pentlandite being included on New Hampshire mineral species lists for many years. A Bob Whitmore gift of this TN specimen allowed me to have it analyzed, (EDS analysis) . There is no nickle present, (two sample points probed). The species is pyrrhotite. It is slightly magnetic. Pentlandite and pyrrhotite are visually indistinguishable. These two species are frequently found mixed together. There are only a handful of specimens from this occurrence. It is possible that one of these may contain pentlandite, but lacking any past or present analytic data, I have deleted pentlandite from my NH mineral species list.
RUTILE Rt. 110A Road Cut, Dummer, NH 1.5 mm rutile crystal spearing chlorite group	Species: RUTILE Locality: Rt. 110A Road Cut, Dummer, NH Specimen Size: 1.5 mm rutile crystal spearing chlorite group Field Collected: Bob Wilken 2008 Catalog No.: u1399 Notes:
FERROGEDRITE Moat Mtn., Bartlett, NH 1 cm field of view. Gray-green ferrogedrite needles on microcline FERROGEDRITE Moat Mtn., Bartlett, NH 1404 zoom view.	Species: FERROGEDRITE Locality: Moat Mtn., Bartlett, NH Specimen Size: 1 cm field of view. Gray-green ferrogedrite needles on microcline Field Collected: Art Smith, ex. Bob Janules Catalog No.: u1404 Notes: Excalibur Minerals EDS analysis performed for Art Smith.