Turner Mine, Marlow, NH. Minerals field collected by a friend wishing to remain anonymous. Return to mindatnh front page. Click on image for larger view | |
This page is an alphabetical photo gallery of Turner Mine minerals field collected and photographed by an anonymous friend.
These specimens were collected over a ten year span and illustrate the rewards to a persevering, diligent, collector. The field collecting log maintained by this collector
is a testimony to the provenance of these specimens. I [tm] believe several of these specimens are best of species for New Hampshire.
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Species: ALBITE Locality: Turner Mine, Marlow, NH Specimen Size: 6.4 cm specimen Field Collected: A Friend Catalog No.: Notes: |
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Species: ALMANDINE Locality: Turner Mine, Marlow, NH Specimen Size: 5 cm specimen Field Collected: A Friend Catalog No.: Notes: |
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Species: APATITE-(CaF) Locality: Turner Mine, Marlow, NH Specimen Size: 2.9 mm field of view Field Collected: A Friend Catalog No.: Notes: |
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Species: BERYL Locality: Turner Mine, Marlow, NH Specimen Size: 7.8 cm Beryl crystal Field Collected: A Friend Catalog No.: Notes: |
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Species: BERYL Locality: Turner Mine, Marlow, NH Specimen Size: 5.2 cm specimen Field Collected: A Friend Catalog No.: Notes: |
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Species: CASSITERITE Locality: Turner Mine, Marlow, NH Specimen Size: 3.2 cm specimen Field Collected: A Friend Catalog No.: Notes: |
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Species: ELBAITE Locality: Turner Mine, Marlow, NH Specimen Size: 7 cm specimen Field Collected: A Friend Catalog No.: Notes: |
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Species: ELBAITE Locality: Turner Mine, Marlow, NH Specimen Size: 5.5 cm terminated crystal Field Collected: A Friend Catalog No.: Notes: |
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Species: ELBAITE Locality: Turner Mine, Marlow, NH Specimen Size: 8.9 cm specimen Field Collected: A Friend Catalog No.: Notes: |
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Species: LITHIOPHILITE Locality: Turner Mine, Marlow, NH Specimen Size: 6 cm specimen with manganese stained lithiophilite crystals Field Collected: A Friend Catalog No.: Notes: |
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Species: LITHIOPHILITE Locality: Turner Mine, Marlow, NH Specimen Size: 7 cm specimen Field Collected: A Friend Catalog No.: Notes: Butterscotch brown lithiophilite, appears to be broken crystal cross-section. |
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Species: LOELLINGITE Locality: Turner Mine, Marlow, NH Specimen Size: 7.1 cm specimen Field Collected: A Friend Catalog No.: Notes: Loellingite is the most likely species here, but without testing, arsenopyrite cannot be ruled out. |
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Species: MONTEBRASITE Locality: Turner Mine, Marlow, NH Specimen Size: 11.3 x 11.3 cm specimen, two views Field Collected: A Friend Catalog No.: Notes: ID by collector |
Species: MONTEBRASITE Locality: Turner Mine, Marlow, NH Specimen Size: 11.2 cm specimen Field Collected: A Friend Catalog No.: Notes: ID by collector |
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Species: MUSCOVITE Locality: Turner Mine, Marlow, NH Specimen Size: 6.7 cm specimen Field Collected: A Friend Catalog No.: Notes: |
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Species: PURPURITE Locality: Turner Mine, Marlow, NH Specimen Size: 5.6 cm specimen Field Collected: A Friend Catalog No.: Notes: |
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Species: SCHORL Locality: Turner Mine, Marlow, NH Specimen Size: 9 cm specimen Field Collected: A Friend Catalog No.: Notes: |
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Species: SCHORL Locality: Turner Mine, Marlow, NH Specimen Size: 3.2 cm specimen Field Collected: A Friend Catalog No.: Notes: |
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Species: SPESSARTINE Locality: Turner Mine, Marlow, NH Specimen Size: 2.1 cm specimen Field Collected: A Friend Catalog No.: Notes: [tm] The spessartine identification by the collector is reasonable for these garnets, but without analysis of their composition, their placement in the almandine-spesasartine series is uncertain. An EDS analysis on a polished grain of a Turner Mine garnet by Cristofono & Mortimer (2/11/15) indicated a composition near the midpoint of the almandine-spessartine series, slightly on the almandine side. Other specimens could certainly fall on the spessartine side, so I have retained the original colector's identification. The safest labeling would be "Almandine-Spessartine." |
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Species: SPESSARTINE Locality: Turner Mine, Marlow, NH Specimen Size: 3.7 cm specimen Field Collected: A Friend Catalog No.: Notes: |
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Species: SPESSARTINE Locality: Turner Mine, Marlow, NH Specimen Size: 4.5 cm specimen Field Collected: A Friend Catalog No.: Notes: |
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Species: SPESSARTINE Locality: Turner Mine, Marlow, NH Specimen Size: 4.4 cm specimen, two views Field Collected: A Friend Catalog No.: Notes: |
Species: SPODUMENE Locality: Turner Mine, Marlow, NH Specimen Size: 5.4 cm specimen of spodumene in quartz Field Collected: A Friend Catalog No.: Notes: |
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Species: SPODUMENE Locality: Turner Mine, Marlow, NH Specimen Size: 15.5 cm specimen of spodumene crystal Field Collected: A Friend Catalog No.: Notes: |
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Species: SPODUMENE Locality: Turner Mine, Marlow, NH Specimen Size: 20.5 cm specimen of spodumene crystal Field Collected: A Friend Catalog No.: Notes: |
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Species: SPODUMENE Locality: Turner Mine, Marlow, NH Specimen Size: 9.8 cm specimen of spodumene crystal Field Collected: A Friend Catalog No.: Notes: |
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Species: TRIPHYLITE Locality: Turner Mine, Marlow, NH Specimen Size: 7.9 cm specimen with crude triphylite crystal Field Collected: A Friend Catalog No.: Notes: |
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Species: TRIPLOIDITE Locality: Turner Mine, Marlow, NH Specimen Size: 3.1 x 2.2 cm specimen Field Collected: A Friend - 2004 (#8725) Catalog No.: 2100 Notes: The initial visual identification of this mineral was hureaulite. A 2015 XRD analysis indicated the species to be triploidite. These Turner Mine triploidites are exceptional by any standard. |
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Species: TRIPLOIDITE Locality: Turner Mine, Marlow, NH Specimen Size: 6.6 x 4.2 cm specimen Field Collected: A Friend Catalog No.: Notes: |
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Species: TRIPLOIDITE Locality: Turner Mine, Marlow, NH Specimen Size: Two 3.4 cm samples with massive, embedded, triploidite Field Collected: A Friend Catalog No.: Notes: |
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Species: TRIPLOIDITE Locality: Turner Mine, Marlow, NH Specimen Size: 3.1 cm specimen Field Collected: A Friend Catalog No.: Notes: |
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Species: ZIRCON Locality: Turner Mine, Marlow, NH Specimen Size: 1 cm zircon crystal, two views Field Collected: A Friend Catalog No.: Notes: |