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Spodumene from
Mount Mica Quarry, Paris, Oxford County, Maine, USA


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Spodumene

Mount Mica Quarry, Paris, Oxford County, Maine, USA
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Spodumene

Mount Mica Quarry, Paris, Oxford County, Maine, USA
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Spodumene

Mount Mica Quarry, Paris, Oxford County, Maine, USA
Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Spodumene
Formula:LiAlSi2O6
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Spodumene data
Locality Data:Click here to view Mount Mica Quarry, Paris, Oxford County, Maine, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:28228
Long-form Identifier:1:3:28228:8
GUID (UUID V4):0
Nearest other occurrences of Spodumene
2.9km (1.8 miles) ⓘRyerson Hill Quarries, Paris, Oxford County, Maine, USA
4.5km (2.8 miles) ⓘBennett Quarry, Buckfield, Oxford County, Maine, USA
6.6km (4.1 miles) ⓘMount Marie Quarries, Paris, Oxford County, Maine, USA
12.0km (7.4 miles) ⓘB.B. No. 7 Quarry, Norway, Oxford County, Maine, USA
13.3km (8.3 miles) ⓘWaisanen Quarry (Tamminen-Waisanen Quarry), Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine, USA
13.4km (8.3 miles) ⓘTamminen Quarry, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine, USA
13.6km (8.4 miles) ⓘOutback prospect (Gross prospect), Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine, USA
13.6km (8.5 miles) ⓘMorgan Quarry (Morgan Pit; Upper Noyes Mountain Quarry; Upper Harvard Quarry), Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine, USA
13.6km (8.5 miles) ⓘHayes Ledge Quarries (East and West), Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine, USA
13.7km (8.5 miles) ⓘNoyes Mountain Quarry (Harvard Quarry), Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine, USA
References
King, Vandall T., Foord, Eugene E. (1994) Mineralogy of Maine Vol. 1 - Descriptive mineralogy. Maine Geological Survey.
Thompson, Woodrow B., Joyner, Ronald L., Woodman, Raymond G., King, Vandall T. (1998) Bulletin (41), A Collector's Guide to Maine Mineral Localities (3rd ed.) Maine Geological Survey
Encar Roda-Robles, William Simmons, Alexander Falster, Alfonso Pesquera, Pedro-Pablo Gil-Crespo (2018) Paragenetic and compositional evolution of tourmaline from the Mt. Mica pegmatite (Maine, USA). in abstracts of the 22nd IMA Meeting Melbourne p 498
Hernández-Filiberto, Lorena, Roda-Robles, Encarnación, Simmons, William B., Webber, Karen L. (2021) Garnet as Indicator of Pegmatite Evolution: The Case Study of Pegmatites from the Oxford Pegmatite Field (Maine, USA) Minerals, 11 (8) 802 doi:10.3390/min11080802
 
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