Locality type: Quarry Classification Species: Pollucite Formula: (Cs,Na)2 (Al2 Si4 O12 ) · 2H2 O Formation: Primary Comments: Massive material associated with coarse-grained quartz, cleavelandite, montebrasite and spodumene. Includes, thin, smooth layers of a pink-tan mineral with H about 5-6. Habit: massive Colour: colorless to white Luminescent properties: Dull gray under SW UV and similar under MW and LW with some subtle blue to yellowish tints. Quality for species: Good crystals or rich for species - important (!) Confirmation Validity: Confirmed Confirmation Methods: Visually Identified Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data: Spodumene 7 Montebrasite 4 Opal 4 Albite 3 - var Cleavelandite 3 Wodginite 1 Tantalowodginite 1 Perhamite 1 Lepidolite 1 Data Mineral Data: Click here to view Pollucite data Locality Data: Click here to view Emmons Quarry, Uncle Tom Mountain, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine, USA Photo Gallery View Gallery (8 photos) Data Identifiers Mindat Occurrence Record ID: 28566 Long-form Identifier: 1:3:28566:5 GUID (UUID V4 ): 0 Nearest other occurrences of Pollucite
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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 Search for references including Pollucite Emmons Quarry, Uncle Tom Mountain, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine, USA
Emmons Quarry, Uncle Tom Mountain, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine, USA