Locality: Chandlers Mill, Newport, NH
Specimen Size: 4 mm field of view
Field Collected: Tom Mortimer 2006
Catalog No.: u860
Notes: On the suggestion of two knowledgeable phosphate mineral collectors, I originally had this labeled as messelite.
An EDS analysis indicates the species is wardite, NaAl3(PO4)2(OH)4·2H2O. It is noteable that these wardite crystals lack the lateral striations seen on many other NH wardite specimens.
Locality: Chandlers Mill, Newport, NH
Specimen Size: 2 mm crystal group
Field Collected: Tom Mortimer 2014
Catalog No.: TBC
Notes: Wardite rhombic pyramids with some oxide surface coating.
Locality: Chandlers Mill, Newport, NH
Specimen Size: 0.8 mm crystal group
Field Collected: Tom Mortimer 2014
Catalog No.: TBC
Notes: Wardite rhombic pyramids.
Locality: Chandlers Mill, Newport, NH
Specimen Size: 4 mm field of view. Cluster of green roscherite group balls.
Field Collected: Tom Mortimer 2014
Catalog No.: TBC
Notes: The white mineral is perhaps messelite.
Locality: Chandlers Mill, Newport, NH
Specimen Size: 8 mm field of view.
Field Collected: Tom Mortimer 2014
Catalog No.: TBC
Notes: Broken ball, forground shows glassy, radial, structure. Ball top center is hollow.
Locality: Chandlers Mill, Newport, NH
Specimen Size: 8 mm field of view.
Field Collected: Tom Mortimer 2014
Catalog No.: TBC
Notes: These balls are sitting on a bed of smaller broken balls, which are, in turn, sitting on what may be columnar/cord-wood beryllonite. The cluster in the center-right is noticeably greener. An EDS analysis supports the roscherite group identification. The "best fit" roscherite group member is Ruifrancoite, Ca2◻2(Fe3+,Mn2+,Mg)4Be4(PO4)6(OH)4(OH,H2O)2·4H2O. Note Berylium will not show up on the EDS instrument.
Locality: Palermo Mine, N. Groton, NH
Specimen Size: 6 mm field of view
Field Collected: Walter Lane material
Catalog No.: TBC
Notes: My visual ID for these balls was crandallite. A polished grain EDS analysis indicated just a simple calcium phosphate, apatite. A fluorine response (@ 677 eV, above the 525 eV oxygen peak) is totally absent in the EDS spectrum indicating these balls are hydroxylapatite. Tabular apatite crystals are also present in this view.
Locality: Palermo Mine, N. Groton, NH
Specimen Size: The largest xl is 1.5 mm long.
Field Collected: ex. Jim Warner
Catalog No.: A Bob Wilken specimen
Notes: [bw] This is a specimen we purchased with a "collection" of Palermo minerals from Jim Warner back in 2003. I think he had bought material from Whitmore and he broke it down and sold a bunch of it.
Locality: Palermo Mine, N. Groton, NH
Specimen Size: 1 mm tabular vivianite crystal
Field Collected: Steve Cares
Catalog No.: A Bob Wilken specimen
Notes: [bw] A fat 1.0 mm tabular xl against a nice white UK background (messelite?) amid green ludlamite background.
Locality: Valencia Mine, N. Groton, NH
Specimen Size: 6.5 cm specimen of massive triphylite
Field Collected: Dana Jewell
Catalog No.: NC
Notes: A voucher specimen for un-altered triphylite at the Valencia Mine
Locality: Valencia Mine, N. Groton, NH
Specimen Size: 3.2 cm vug with Apatite-(CaOH) crystals to 1.5 mm in massive quartz.
Field Collected: Dana Jewell
Catalog No.: TBC
Notes: Vug is likely a former triphylite crystal. This apatite is identical to previously EDS analyzed Valencia Mine apatite-(CaOH).
From a flat of Valencia Mine rocks donated by Dana Jewel at the November, 2014 Micromounters of New England meeting.
Locality: Valencia Mine, N. Groton, NH
Specimen Size: 4.5 cm rockbridgeite specimen with vug of botryoidal rockbridgeite
Field Collected: Dana Jewell
Catalog No.: NC
Notes: From a flat of Valencia Mine rocks donated by Dana Jewel at the November, 2014 Micromounters of New England meeting.
Locality: Palermo Mine, N. Groton, NH
Specimen Size: 3 mm and 2 mm fields of view
Field Collected: From a phosphate rock saved by Forrest Fogg, acquired by Gordon Jackson and passed along to Bob Wilken.
Catalog No.: A Bob Wilken specimen
Notes: Analysis pending. Bob reports there appears to be some sphalerite (another zinc mineral) present on the specimen.
Locality: Palermo Mine, N. Groton, NH
Specimen Size: 0.3 mm clear prismatic rhombic montebastite perched on yellowish mass
Field Collected: Walter Lane material from MMNE
Catalog No.: A Bob Wilken specimen
Notes: [bw] It's amazing that such a small thing when sharp and clearly defined will come out. Other things this size come out as blobs.
Locality: Palermo Mine, N. Groton, NH
Specimen Size: 1.5 mm spray
Field Collected: ex. Jim Warner
Catalog No.: A Bob Wilken specimen
Notes: [bw] I came across another Palermo one that has me scratching my head. They look like flat laths, so much so that at first I thought it could be parascholzite but color is all wrong and the laths are kind of crinkly looking. A tentative ID is greifensteinite.