Pegmatite Minerals of the Chickering Mine, Walpole, Cheshire County, New Hampshire

Mineral collectors have been visiting the Chickering mine for decades to collect indicolite, the blue variety of elbaite. Despite being active in New Hampshire for many years, micromineral collectors appear to have overlooked this locality prior to the early 2000s. Morrill's (1960) outdated but...

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Published inRocks & minerals Vol. 90; no. 5; pp. 410 - 425
Main Authors Wilken, Robert, Janules, Robert, Mortimer, Thomas
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Washington Taylor & Francis 03.09.2015
Taylor & Francis Inc
Subjects
Crystals
Mineralogy
Minerals
New Hampshire
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Summary:Mineral collectors have been visiting the Chickering mine for decades to collect indicolite, the blue variety of elbaite. Despite being active in New Hampshire for many years, micromineral collectors appear to have overlooked this locality prior to the early 2000s. Morrill's (1960) outdated but authoritative collecting guide, New Hampshire Mines and Mineral Localities, did little to coax collectors of microminerals to the site.
ISSN:0035-7529
1940-1191
DOI:10.1080/00357529.2015.1059078