SILLIMANITE    Gallery                       Return to Sillimanite page.                  Click on image for larger view
Sillimanite is moderately common in the country rocks of the Groton, NH area.
Highslide JS
Locality: Draper Hill, Chesterfield, NH

 Species:           SILLIMANITE
Locality:          Draper Hill, Chesterfield, NH
Specimen Size: 10 cm specimen with prismatic gray-white sillimanite crystals to 1.7 cm
Field Collected: Tom Mortimer
Catalog No.: 831
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Highslide JS
Locality: Ledge below Palermo #1 Mine, N. Groton, NH

 Species:           SILLIMANITE
Locality:          Ledge below Palermo #1 Mine, N. Groton, NH
Specimen Size: 9 cm specimen with cream-colored sillimanite crystals to 4.5 cm in biotite schist.
Field Collected: Tom Mortimer
Catalog No.: 1460
Notes:

Highslide JS
Locality: Ledge below Palermo #1 Mine, N. Groton, NH

 Species:           SILLIMANITE
Locality:          Ledge below Palermo #1 Mine, N. Groton, NH
Specimen Size: Zoom view of specimen 1460 showing splintery structure of sillimanite crystal section. Field of view 1 cm.
Field Collected: Tom Mortimer
Catalog No.: 1460
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Highslide JS
Locality: Mine road to Valencia Mine, N. Groton, NH

 Species:           SILLIMANITE
Locality:          Mine road to Valencia Mine, N. Groton, NH
Specimen Size: 3.5 cm specimen with white sillimanite crystal sections to 1.3 cm in biotite schist.
Field Collected: Tom Mortimer
Catalog No.: 1598
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Highslide JS
Locality: Draper Hill, Chesterfield, NH

 Species:           SILLIMANITE
Locality:          Draper Hill, Chesterfield, NH
Specimen Size: 6 cm specimen with prismatic gray-white sillimanite crystals to 1.4 cm
Field Collected: Walter Caulkin
Catalog No.: 806
Notes: This is the specimen I acquired from Walter Caulkin at the June 1990 Gilsum Rock Swap. A short time later, Walter guided me to the Chesterfield, NH source locality.