Locality: Beech Hill, Warren, NH
Specimen Size: 6 cm specimen
Field Collected: ex. L. L. Hubbard (1849 - 1933)
Catalog No.: A Don Dallaire specimen (#2736) and photo
Notes: [dd] "I purchased it from the Seaman Museum store in August 2003. I also purchased another specimen from the same location that was larger, but the garnets were smaller. The Seaman Museum got a donation of specimens from an L. L. Hubbard. They kept the 2 best specimens for the museum and they were larger and far better quality (they would not sell those to me, I asked)."
[tm] I made two trips to find this skarn locality. I was unsuccessful. I did find some micro crystals of grossular in a brookside boulder (see below), suggesting that I was in the right area or formation.
Locality: Beech Hill, Warren, NH
Specimen Size: 1.8 mm field of view
Field Collected: Tom Mortimer
Catalog No.: u1811
Notes: The grossular crystals are sub-hedral. Not a remarkable specimen, but a confirmation of a skarn occurrence on Beech Hill, Warren. This has been a "lost locality" for decades.
Locality: Rt. 4, Orange,, NH
Specimen Size: 4.5 mm field of view
Field Collected: Clayton Ford
Catalog No.: A Bob Wilken specimen and photo
Notes: [bw] "Ford's label just was written this way: 'Rt 4, Orange Summit, NH'. Rt 4 and Orange is fine, but did he mean 'Orange Summit?' which is north of Rt 4."
Locality: Palermo Mine, Groton, NH
Specimen Size: 2.6 mm crystal
Field Collected: Bob Wilken
Catalog No.: A Bob Wilken specimen and photo
Notes: A Bob Wilken identification. A remarkably clear brazilianite crystal.
Locality: West Alton, NH
Specimen Size: 6.5 mm field of view
Field Collected: Clayton Ford
Catalog No.: A Bob Wilken specimen and photo
Notes: [bw] "Ford labeled it erroneously as siderite. There is white fluorescence."
Locality: West Alton, NH
Specimen Size: 7.2 mm field of view
Field Collected: Clayton Ford
Catalog No.: A Bob Wilken specimen and photo
Notes: [bw[ "Only location given is West Alton. This is an interesting specimen and it would be nice to have more specific location data. Perhaps a route 11 roadcut? The fluorite is not well formed, perhaps partially eroded and intermixed with what looks like clinichlore 'bundles'."
[tm] The green mineral in the upper left is thought to be the unknown seen in several Ellacoya Locality specimens."
Locality: I93 Road Cut, Ashland, NH
Specimen Size: 6.9 mm doubly terminated pyrite xl
Field Collected: Clayton Ford
Catalog No.: A Bob Wilken specimen and photo
Notes: [bw[ "It's hard to figure where the point of attachment was. Perhaps where Ford mounted it to some kind of a translucent plastic bristle? "
Locality: I93 Road Cut, Meredith, NH
Specimen Size: 1.1 mm pyrite xl
Field Collected: Clayton Ford
Catalog No.: A Bob Wilken specimen and photo
Notes: [bw[ "There are only a couple of I-93 roadcuts for the short section of Meredith that it traverses."
Locality: Ore Hill, Warren, NH
Specimen Size: 0.8 xl
Field Collected: Clayton Ford
Catalog No.: A Bob Wilken specimen and photo
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Locality: Palermo Mine, Groton, NH
Specimen Size: 1.7 mm eroding beryllonite crystal
Field Collected: Walter Lane material
Catalog No.: A Bob Wilken specimen and photo
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Locality: Palermo Mine, Groton, NH
Specimen Size: 1.2 mm beryllonite crystal mass
Field Collected: Walter Lane material
Catalog No.: A Bob Wilken specimen and photo
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Locality: Palermo Mine, Groton, NH
Specimen Size: 1.2 mm crystal
Field Collected: Walter Lane material
Catalog No.: A Bob Wilken specimen and photo
Notes: [bw] "photo taken with a M Plan Mitutoyo APO 5X; a stack of 65 w. 20 um increments."
Locality: Palermo Mine, Groton, NH
Specimen Size: 1.0 mm field of view
Field Collected: Walter Lane material
Catalog No.: A Bob Wilken specimen and photo
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Locality: Palermo Mine, Groton, NH
Specimen Size: 1.15 mm field of view
Field Collected: Walter Lane material
Catalog No.: A Bob Wilken specimen and photo
Notes: [tm] These seem quite green to me suggesting ferroberaunite, but [bw] stated "These are obviously rockbridgeite."
Locality: Palermo Mine, Groton, NH
Specimen Size: 0.5 mm crystal group
Field Collected: Walter Lane material
Catalog No.: A Bob Wilken specimen and photo
Notes: [bw] "Practically all of the montebrasite photos on Mindat.org are of single crystal, non-micro variety. This little cluster must have been formed as a secondary recrystallization of the primary montebrasite. I've attached a screenshot of the triclinc (montebrasite) and monoclinic (augelite) crystal forms. You can see the elongate and off-kilter nature of the triclinic from. If you take one of such forms, stand it vertically, and pack others around it, you have a representation of that little cluster."
Locality: Palermo Mine, Groton, NH
Specimen Size: 0.7 mm crystals
Field Collected: Walter Lane material
Catalog No.: A Bob Wilken specimen and photo
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