Locality: Palermo #1 Mine, Groton, NH
Specimen Size: 4.5 cm specimen. Yellow-tan is purported xanthoxenite
Field Collected: ex. R. Januzzi
Catalog No.: 2784
Notes: Purchased from Ted Johnson, Yankee Minerals, 8/24/25, $15.
George Adleman performed a Raman probe of this specimen. The RUFF Raman reference plot is not particularly sharp. The Raman plot George obtained is reasonably close to the RUFF reference.
Locality: Blackberry Crossing, Albany, NH
Specimen Size: 12 mm field of view + close-up
Field Collected: Bob Janules.
Catalog No.: A Bob Janules specimen
Notes: Clusters of cassiterite crystals on albite
Locality: Springer Mine, Chesterfield, NH
Specimen Size: 3 cm specimen. A cluster of clear & milky quartz crystals.
Field Collected: Tom Mortimer
Catalog No.: NC
Notes: The Springer Mine is not much more than a prospect. It is not particularly easy to find. The NH species collector will seek it for azurite and large, massive, barite specimens.
Locality: Chickering Mine, Walpole, NH
Specimen Size: 3.6 mm field of view.
Field Collected: Bob Wilken
Catalog No.: A Bob Wilken specimen and photo
Notes: [bw] "I had for years labeled as stacked apatite crystals. It's on the calcium side of the crandallite-goyazite solid solution series. The empirical formula comes out as
Ca1.05Sr0.88Fe0.05Ti0.05)Al3.26(PO4)2 "
Ideal crandallite chemistry is: CaAl3(PO4)2(OH,H2O)6
Mindat.org lists a strontium bearing crandallite as: (Ca,Sr)Al3(PO4)2(OH,H2O)6
Locality: Turner Mine, Marlow, NH
Specimen Size: 5 mm field of view.
Field Collected: Kevin Czaja ?
Catalog No.: u2787
Notes: [tm] I believe this is a small sample from a Kevin Czaja specimen. The dickinsonite is the dark glassy green area on the upper portion of the sample. Really not much to see here.
EDS analyses, BC575, computed a chemistry of:
K1.02Na3.34Ca0.92Fe10.04Mn15.34Al0.64P7.23O48 normalized for 48 O.
Ideal dickinsonite chemistry (mindat.org) is:
(KNa)(Mn2+[ ])Ca(Na3)Mn2+13Al(PO4)11(PO4)(OH)2 .
For this Turner dickinsonite, all the expected elements are present, but the Mn+Fe is high.
Dickinsonite is a very elusive NH species. Most candidates analyze to be another member of the arrojadite group.
Locality: Curtis Gold Mine, Westmoreland, NH
Specimen Size: 6.5 cm specimen - small plate of milky quartz crystals.
Field Collected: Tom Mortimer
Catalog No.: 1574
Notes: Curt LaPlante and I found this obscure locality in June, 2006. A quartz vein with a bit of pyrite/chalcopyrite. A no stack snapshot.
Locality: Streeter Hill Fluorite Prospect, Westmoreland, NH
Specimen Size: 8 cm specimen - plate with small clear quartz crystals.
Field Collected: Tom Mortimer
Catalog No.: 1573
Notes: A quartz vein with a bit of milky fluorite. A no stack snapshot.
Locality: Streeter Hill Fluorite Prospect, Westmoreland, NH
Specimen Size: 5 cm specimen - plate with small clear quartz crystals.
Field Collected: Tom Mortimer
Catalog No.: 1572
Notes: This is a "/" Phillip Morrill locality. A quartz vein on a ledge hill-side with a bit of milky fluorite. A no stack snapshot.
Locality: Mineral Hill, Wakefield, NH
Specimen Size: 8 mm field of view
Field Collected: Gene Bearss
Catalog No.: u2788
Notes: From a pail collected by Gene Bearss. Vugs coated with druzy crystaline quartz are common at Mineral Hill.
Locality: Stoddard Mine, Westmoreland, NH
Specimen Size: 7 cm specimen of massive barite
Field Collected: Tom Mortimer
Catalog No.: NC
Notes: Chunks of barite are heavy for their size. The massive barite is easy to miss on the Stoddard dumps. Small barite and fluorite crystals are present in vugs in this specimen. A no stack snapshot.
Locality: Stoddard Mine, Westmoreland, NH
Specimen Size: 9 mm field of view - pair of barite crystals on right, oxide coated fluorite crystal on left. Second view, barite only.
Field Collected: Tom Mortimer
Catalog No.: NC
Notes: The massive barite chunk had small voids with barite and fluorite crystals.