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Photos recently added to NH species galleries. Pink border photos are specimens from other collectors as noted. |
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Species: FLUORITE Locality: Merrimack Industrial Interchange road cut, Merrimack, NH Specimen Size: 6 mm field of view. Clear fluorite octahedrons. Field Collected: Tom Mortimer Catalog No.: U915 Notes: |
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Species: GRAPHITE Locality: Parker Mtn. Mine, Center Strafford, NH Specimen Size: 5.5 cm specimen. Thin seam of graphite on feldspar. Field Collected: Tom Mortimer, May 2010 Catalog No.: Notes: Graphite has been reported from the Parker Mtn. Mine by Foster (1964) and Morong (1987). Graphite is electrically conductive, as may be verified with an ohm-meter. This specimen passed the "conductivity test". |
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Species: FLUORITE Locality: Peeked Hill, Conway, NH Specimen Size: 7 cm specimen. Zoned fluorite cubes on milky quartz. largest crystal 1.6 cm. Field Collected: A purchased specimen. Field collected by Peter Samuelson. Catalog No.: 426 Notes: |
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Species: FLUORITE Locality: Wise Mine, Westmoreland, NH Specimen Size: 7 cm octahedral green fluorite crystal with overgrowth of smaller clear crystals. Field Collected: Tom Mortimer Catalog No.: 95 Notes: |
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Species: SPHALERITE Locality: Palermo Mine, N. Groton, NH Specimen Size: 1.2 mm sphalerite crystal in albite vug. Field Collected: Tom Mortimer, 2009 Catalog No.: u964 Notes: |
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Species: SPHALERITE Locality: "Old Silver Mine", Woodstock, NH Specimen Size: 2 mm sphalerite crystal in albite vug. Field Collected: Tom Mortimer Catalog No.: u937 Notes: Initially thought this might be tetrahedrite, but EDS analysis indicated sphalerite. |
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Species: LEPIDOLITE Locality: Chickering Mine, Walpole, NH Specimen Size: 10 cm specimen of massive, light gray, fine-grained, lepidolite. Field Collected: Tom Mortimer Catalog No.: 1476 Notes: |
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Species: BERYL Locality: Rice Mine, N. Groton, NH Specimen Size: Termination end of 7 cm diameter beryl crystal. Field Collected: Tom Mortimer Catalog No.: Notes: Bright reflections from fine grain mica on crystal surface. |
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Species: GRAPHITE Locality: Graphite Mine, Deering, NH Specimen Size: 11 cm x 12 cm specimen. 3 to 4 mm thick graphite vein in country rock. Field Collected: Tom Mortimer Catalog No.: Notes: |
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Species: COLUMBITE-TANTALITE Locality: Yuhas Mine, Acworth, NH Specimen Size: 6.5 cm specimen of massive Columbite-Tantalite with minor feldspar. Field Collected: A gift from John Jaszczak. Ex. Mrs. Robert Patterson specimen. Catalog No.: Notes: Composition of this "Columbite-Tantalite" specimen has not been determined. File card that came with specimen indicated it was purchased 8-29-1977 for $.50. |