Locality: Chickering Mine, Walpole, NH
Specimen Size: 1.5 mm field of view. Two "Naval mine" habit whitmoreites.
Field Collected: Tom Mortimer (Oct. 2010)
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Notes: The whitmoreite in the left foreground is the same group as in the photo above.
Locality: Palermo Mine, N. Groton, NH
Specimen Size: A 1 mm "naval mine"
Field Collected: Walter Lane
Catalog No.: u1270
Notes: A tiny rockbridgeite ball is on the left side of the spray.
Locality: Palermo #1 Mine, Pod 3, N. Groton, NH
Specimen Size: 0.7 mm whitmoreite "naval mine" on siderite
Field Collected: Forrest Fogg - 1973
Catalog No.: u1425
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Locality: Fitzgibbons Mine, Alstead, NH
Specimen Size: 1.5 mm fov
Field Collected: Marcelle Weber
Catalog No.: A Bob Wilken collection specimen
Notes: [bw] "Naval mine" (or, as close as I can get to a naval mine) is 0.2 mm. Pretty anemic milky looking composite spikes protruding from the base of the sphere only.
Locality: Charles Davis Mine, N. Groton, NH
Specimen Size: 1.5 mm close-up view
Field Collected: Gene Bearss
Catalog No.: A Bob Wilken collection specimen
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Locality: Palermo #1 Mine, N. Groton, NH
Specimen Size: 0.3 mm "naval mine"
Field Collected: Bob Wilken
Catalog No.: A Bob Wilken specimen and photo
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Locality: Palermo #1 Mine, N. Groton, NH
Specimen Size: 0.5 mm crystal with strunzite
Field Collected: Bob Wilken
Catalog No.: A Bob Wilken specimen and photo
Notes: [bw] "I can't remember if I have ever seen or found individual whitmoreite crystals like this before. I've seen them on naval mines but not just randomly occurring. I think I would normally have thought of this as jahnsite. Yet the color of these matches the naval mines that are in the same material. Most of them are very small, stubby, poorly formed crystals scattered around."
Locality: Palermo #1 Mine, N. Groton, NH
Specimen Size: 1 mm cluster of Whitmoreite crystals
Field Collected: Janet & Steve Cares, 1979
Catalog No.: u594
Notes: This is a new photo of my New Hampshire species display specimen. A small, blocky, jahnsite group crystal is present near the center.
This whitmoreite habit is "type 5" as illustrated on page 173 of Whitmore and Lawrence's book The Pegmatite Mines Known as Palermo.
Locality: Palermo #1 Mine, N. Groton, NH
Specimen Size: 1 mm field of view
Field Collected: Janet & Steve Cares, 1979
Catalog No.: u594
Notes: This whitmoreite cluster is also on my New Hampshire species display specimen.
This whitmoreite habit is likely "type 2" as illustrated on page 172 of Whitmore and Lawrence's book The Pegmatite Mines Known as Palermo. Note the chisel terminations.