Locality: Palermo Mine, N. Groton, NH
Specimen Size: 1.5 cm specimen
Field Collected: Unknown. Purchased as anapaite. Ex. Mike Swanson collection
Catalog No.: A Ray Meyers specimen.
Notes: My first impression was that this is likely ludlamite. A polished grain EDS analysis confirmed ludlamite. (Anapaite has calcium, ludlamite does not). The specimen is of a pale-green embedded/protruding mineral. Both anapaite and ludlamite have perfect cleavage (as that specimen shows... and the color/luster is about the same for both). Re-reading the anapaite description in the 1981 R&M article on Palermo, it says it is "Generally only found intergrown with messelite in white radiating bladed masses .... these masses are locally abundant as cavity fillings in siderite and ludlamite." There is messelite in/on this specimen.... and the pale green mineral does have a bladed structure. I am glad to have studied this specimen (and rechecked the references). I presently do not have a NH anapaite in my collection.
Locality: Turner Mine, Marlow, NH
Specimen Size: 3 cm specimen. Cluster of three terminated schorl-dravite crystals
Field Collected: A Purchased specimen
Catalog No.: 2016
Notes: Purchased as schorl, however these crystals have a definite brown tint under intense light, suggesting dravite. Much of the dark tourmaline from south western NH has been analyzed to be dravite.
Locality: Turner Mine, Marlow, NH
Specimen Size: 1.8 cm terminated schorl-dravite crystal
Field Collected: A Purchased specimen
Catalog No.: 2017
Notes: Purchased as schorl, however these crystals have a definite brown tint under intense light, suggesting dravite. Much of the dark tourmaline from south western NH has been analyzed to be dravite.
Locality: Wise Mine, Westmoreland, NH
Specimen Size: 4.5 cm specimen of embedded galena cleavages.
Field Collected: Bob Whitmore
Catalog No.: 2014
Notes: Purchased from Ted Johnson - Yankee Minerals. ex. Bob Whitmore. A voucher specimen for Galena at the Wise Mine. Possible tiny cerussite crystals present.
Locality: Mt. Kearsarge, Rollins State Park, Warner, NH
Specimen Size: 4.5 cm specimen with embedded white blades of sillimanite in biotite-garnet schist.
Field Collected: Tom Mortimer
Catalog No.: 2018
Notes:
Locality: Palermo Mine, N. Groton, NH
Specimen Size: 3 mm field of view - indistinct cerussite crystals
Field Collected: Bob Whitmore (found in tub of Palermo "rocks" gifted by Bob)
Catalog No.: 2004 - cataloged as a galena specimen - as this is the principal mineral present.
Notes: Not tested - intimate association with galena makes cerussite the most likely species. Cerussite is reported from Palermo.
Locality: Joe Hill Farm, Springfield, NH
Specimen Size: 4 cm specimen with garnets to 5 mm
Field Collected: Bob Whitmore. Specimen purchased from Yankee Minerals 2016.
Catalog No.: 2015
Notes: These small garnets are embedded in pegmatite, not mica slate as noted by Jackson (1844) in his report of spessartine at the Joe Hill Farm. I [tm] have been on the lookout for Joe Hill Farm garnets for many years. Bob Whitmore was one of many collectors who searched for Jackson's spessartine locality. These garnets are similar to analyzed, self collected, almandine specimens from the area of Joe Hill Farm.
Locality: Charles Davis Mine, N. Groton, NH
Specimen Size: 2.5 mm zone of bright yellow rutherfordine
Field Collected: Tom Mortimer (June 2000)
Catalog No.: u405
Notes: A grain from this zone disolves slowly in cold muriatic acid with a few occasional bubbles, suggesting a carbonate. This yellow mineral is not fluorescent, but the specimen surface has much, nearly (daylight) invisible autunite. The specimen is weakly radioactive. Rutherfordine is reported from the nearby Palermo Mine.
Locality: Palermo Mine, N. Groton, NH
Specimen Size: 0.5 mm "cogwheel" beryllonite? or parallel growth apatite with pseudo-cubic goyazite crystals
Field Collected: Clayton Ford. A gift from Gordon Jackson
Catalog No.: u1959
Notes: [tm] My initial impression of this was beryllonite, but other knowledgeable phosphate species collectors have opined apatite.
Locality: Chandlers Mill Mine, Newport, NH
Specimen Size: 2.5 cm specimen with zone of soft pink montmorrillonite
Field Collected: Tom Mortimer
Catalog No.: TBC
Notes:
Locality: Soapstone Quarry, Richmond, NH
Specimen Size: Full specimen: 12 mm. 10 mm tan, Roman sword blade crystal embedded in calcite
Field Collected: Tom Mortimer - 1980's
Catalog No.: u1917
Notes: A polished grain EDS analysis , (two probings) show a O, Ti, Al, Si, Mg, Ca, Fe, with strong dominance of Ti. I can't find anything with this chemistry that has Ti as essential.
The dark mineral is clinochlore. Small, sharp, pyrite crystals are also embedded in the calcite, (one is visible in the lower left). A second small sample from this find has multiple broken blades in calcite, a couple of these blades have what is likely some embedded rutile.
The soapstone at this quarry has been analyzed to be magnesiohornblende.