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Lepidolite from
Emmons Quarry, Uncle Tom Mountain, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine, USA


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Lepidolite, etc.

Emmons Quarry, Uncle Tom Mountain, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine, USA
04539420017363641556126.jpg
Lepidolite, etc.

Emmons Quarry, Uncle Tom Mountain, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine, USA
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Lepidolite, etc.

Emmons Quarry, Uncle Tom Mountain, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine, USA
Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:'Lepidolite' (not an IMA approved species)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Behoite3
Bertrandite2
Pollucite1
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Lepidolite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Emmons Quarry, Uncle Tom Mountain, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:28552
Long-form Identifier:1:3:28552:2
GUID (UUID V4):0
Nearest other occurrences of Lepidolite
5.5km (3.4 miles) ⓘOutback prospect (Gross prospect), Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine, USA
5.6km (3.5 miles) ⓘNoyes Mountain Quarry (Harvard Quarry), Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine, USA
5.6km (3.5 miles) ⓘMorgan Quarry (Morgan Pit; Upper Noyes Mountain Quarry; Upper Harvard Quarry), Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine, USA
6.2km (3.9 miles) ⓘTamminen Quarry, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine, USA
8.2km (5.1 miles) ⓘB.B. No. 7 Quarry, Norway, Oxford County, Maine, USA
11.6km (7.2 miles) ⓘCobble Hill Quarry (George Howe prospect), West Paris, Oxford County, Maine, USA
18.6km (11.6 miles) ⓘMount Mica Quarry, Paris, Oxford County, Maine, USA
21.6km (13.4 miles) ⓘBennett Quarry, Buckfield, Oxford County, Maine, USA
24.3km (15.1 miles) ⓘMount Marie Quarries, Paris, Oxford County, Maine, USA
24.4km (15.2 miles) ⓘKinglet Prospect, Newry, Oxford County, Maine, USA
References
Rocks and Minerals (1980) 55:209-213
Falster, Alexander U., Simmons, William B., Webber, Karen L. (2017) An unusual perhamite-pollucite-lepidolite-fluorapatite-quartz assemblage in the Emmons pegmatite, Greenwood, Oxford Co., Maine, USA: implication for the origin of this unusual paragenesis, in PEG2017. 8th International Symposium on Granitic Pegmatites. NGF Abstracts and Proceedings of the Geological Society of Norway, 2017 (2) 27-28
Falster, Alexander U., Simmons, William B., Webber, Karen L., Dallaire, Donald A., Nizamoff, James W., Sprague, Raymond A. (2019) The Emmons Pegmatite, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine. Rocks & Minerals, 94 (6) 498-519 doi:10.1080/00357529.2019.1641021
Vignola, Pietro; Demartin, Francesco; Campostrini, Italo; Falster, Alexander U; Simmons, William B; Sprague, Raymond A (2021) Crystal structure of correianevesite from the Emmons pegmatite, Uncle Tom Mountain, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine. Bulletin de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège, 90. 125-135
 
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