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Species: MONTEBRASITE Locality: Palermo Mine, N. Groton, NH Specimen Size: 6 cm massive chunk of montebrasite Field Collected: Marge Holland between 1940 and 1950 Catalog No.: Notes: Purchased as "ambligonite" at 2009 Gilsum Rock Swap. EDS analyzed and determined to be montebrasite. Many old Palermo species lists include ambligonite, but a confirmed ambligonite specimen is unknown to the author (Tom Mortimer). |
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Species: MONTEBRASITE Locality: Chickering Mine, Walpole, NH Specimen Size: 3.5 cm massive chunk of montebrasite Field Collected: Tom Mortimer Catalog No.: Notes: Montebrasite can be quite difficult to distinguish from feldspar on a mine dump. |
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Species: ARSENOPYRITE Locality: Mine Falls Park, Nashua, NH Specimen Size: 4 mm arsenopyrite crystal in quartz-mica matrix Field Collected: Tom Mortimer Catalog No.: U1040 Notes: More arsenopyrite photos added on Arsenopyrite photo gallery |
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Species: ARSENOPYRITE Locality: Mine Falls Park, Nashua, NH Specimen Size: 7 cm specimen of intergrown steel-gray arsenopyrite crystals with minor mica-quartz. Field Collected: Tom Mortimer Catalog No.: Notes: A typical Mine Falls Park arsenopyrite vein rock chunk. After the blasting for the hydrostation out-fall channel, hundreds of pounds of this vein were laying on the channel floor. |
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Species: SARCOPSIDE Locality: Gingras Farm Locale, Deering, NH Specimen Size: 8 cm x 2 cm x 2 cm specimen of massive sarcopside. Field Collected: Ex. Harvard Museum (study) specimen Catalog No.: 1454 Notes: |
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Species: RIEBECKITE var Crocidolite Locality: Hurricane Mtn., Conway, NH Specimen Size: 7 cm specimen with large zone of blue riebeckite var crocidolite. Field Collected: Tom Mortimer (1982) Catalog No.: 178 Notes: More riebeckite photos added on Riebeckite photo gallery |
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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 Notes: More sillimanite photos added on Sillimanite photo gallery |