Chickering Mine, Walpole, NH. Minerals field collected by a friend wishing to remain anonymous.
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This page is an alphabetical photo gallery of Chickering Mine minerals field collected and photographed by an anonymous friend.
These specimens were collected on fourty-six field trips over a eleven year span and illustrate the rewards to a persevering, diligent, collector. The field collecting log maintained by this collector
is a testimony to the provenance of these specimens.
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Species: APATITE-(CaF) Locality: Chickering Mine, Walpole, NH Specimen Size: 4.5 x 3.4 cm specimen Field Collected: A Friend - 1998 Catalog No.: Notes: |
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Species: APATITE-(CaF) Locality: Chickering Mine, Walpole, NH Specimen Size: 5.1 x 4.6 cm specimen Field Collected: A Friend - 1998 Catalog No.: Notes: |
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Species: APATITE-(CaF) Locality: Chickering Mine, Walpole, NH Specimen Size: 22 mm field of view Field Collected: A Friend - 1998 Catalog No.: Notes: |
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Species: APATITE-(CaF) Locality: Chickering Mine, Walpole, NH Specimen Size: 3 cm specimen Field Collected: A Friend - 1998 Catalog No.: Notes: |
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Species: CASSITERITE Locality: Chickering Mine, Walpole, NH Specimen Size: 5.8 cm specimen. Dark brown octahedral crystal in quartz-feldspar pegmatite. Field Collected: A Friend - 2000 Catalog No.: Notes: |
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Species: CHILDRENITE Locality: Chickering Mine, Walpole, NH Specimen Size: 12 mm field of view Field Collected: A Friend - 2003 Catalog No.: Notes: White balls may be rhodochrosite or apatite-(CaF). |
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Species: COLUMBITE-(Fe) Locality: Chickering Mine, Walpole, NH Specimen Size: 3.5 cm field of view Field Collected: A Friend - 1999 Catalog No.: Notes: Unknown how Fe vs. Mn species of columbite was determined. |
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Species: ELBAITE Locality: Chickering Mine, Walpole, NH Specimen Size: 10 cm Elbaite crystal Field Collected: A Friend - 2005 Catalog No.: Notes: |
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Species: ELBAITE Locality: Chickering Mine, Walpole, NH Specimen Size: 3.9 cm specimen Field Collected: A Friend - 2004 Catalog No.: Notes: |
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Species: ELBAITE - var. Indicolite Locality: Chickering Mine, Walpole, NH Specimen Size: 26 x 13 cm specimen Field Collected: A Friend - 2004 Catalog No.: Notes: |
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Species: ELBAITE - var. Indicolite Locality: Chickering Mine, Walpole, NH Specimen Size: 27 x 13 cm specimen Field Collected: A Friend - 2005 Catalog No.: Notes: |
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Species: ELBAITE Locality: Chickering Mine, Walpole, NH Specimen Size: 5 cm specimen. Fractured crystal with quartz frature filling. Field Collected: A Friend - 2004 Catalog No.: Notes: |
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Species: ELBAITE Locality: Chickering Mine, Walpole, NH Specimen Size: 5 x 3 cm specimen Field Collected: A Friend - 2005 Catalog No.: Notes: |
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Species: ELBAITE Locality: Chickering Mine, Walpole, NH Specimen Size: 6.4 cm specimen. Partial color-zoned crystal. Field Collected: A Friend - 2004 Catalog No.: Notes: |
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Species: ELBAITE Locality: Chickering Mine, Walpole, NH Specimen Size: 7.7 cm specimen with terminated dark-blue elbaite crystal. Field Collected: A Friend - 1999 Catalog No.: Notes: |
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Species: ELBAITE Locality: Chickering Mine, Walpole, NH Specimen Size: 16 cm specimen Field Collected: A Friend - 2000 Catalog No.: Notes: |
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Species: ELBAITE Locality: Chickering Mine, Walpole, NH Specimen Size: 25 cm specimen Field Collected: A Friend - 2003 Catalog No.: Notes: |
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Species: HETEROSITE Locality: Chickering Mine, Walpole, NH Specimen Size: 6 x 4 cm specimen Field Collected: A Friend - 2000 Catalog No.: Notes: |
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Species: HETEROSITE Locality: Chickering Mine, Walpole, NH Specimen Size: 5.7 x 4.7 cm specimen Field Collected: A Friend - 2003 Catalog No.: Notes: |
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Species: 'PINITE' (spodumene altered to mica) Locality: Chickering Mine, Walpole, NH Specimen Size: 7.5 cm specimen Field Collected: A Friend - 2000 Catalog No.: Notes: |
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Species: 'PINITE' (spodumene altered to mica) Locality: Chickering Mine, Walpole, NH Specimen Size: 10 x 7.3 cm specimen Field Collected: A Friend - 2000 Catalog No.: Notes: |
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Species: QUARTZ Locality: Chickering Mine, Walpole, NH Specimen Size: 12 x 9 cm specimen Field Collected: A Friend - 1999 Catalog No.: Notes: |
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Species: PYRITE Locality: Chickering Mine, Walpole, NH Specimen Size: 1.2 cm field of view Field Collected: A Friend - 2003 Catalog No.: Notes: |
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Species: SIDERITE Locality: Chickering Mine, Walpole, NH Specimen Size: 3.7 mm siderite crystal Field Collected: A Friend - 2003 Catalog No.: Notes: |
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Species: SPODUMENE Locality: Chickering Mine, Walpole, NH Specimen Size: 10.4 x 6.1 cm spodumene crystal Field Collected: A Friend - 1999 Catalog No.: Notes: |
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Species: SPODUMENE - partially altered Locality: Chickering Mine, Walpole, NH Specimen Size: 8.7 cm partially altered spodumene crystal Field Collected: A Friend - 2000 Catalog No.: Notes: |
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Species: TRIPHYLITE Locality: Chickering Mine, Walpole, NH Specimen Size: 8 x 6 cm specimen of massive triphylite Field Collected: A Friend - 1999 Catalog No.: Notes: |
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Species: WARDITE Locality: Chickering Mine, Walpole, NH Specimen Size: 3.9 mm field of view Field Collected: A Friend - 2003 Catalog No.: Notes: |
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Species: WARDITE Locality: Chickering Mine, Walpole, NH Specimen Size: 3.9 cm specimen Field Collected: A Friend - 2003 Catalog No.: Notes: |
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Species: WARDITE Locality: Chickering Mine, Walpole, NH Specimen Size: 1 mm wardite crystal on left Field Collected: A Friend - 1999 Catalog No.: Notes: |
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Species: WHITMOREITE Locality: Chickering Mine, Walpole, NH Specimen Size: 1.2 mm field of view Field Collected: A Friend - 2003 Catalog No.: Notes: |
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Species: WHITMOREITE Locality: Chickering Mine, Walpole, NH Specimen Size: 1.5 mm field of view Field Collected: A Friend - 2003 Catalog No.: Notes: |
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Species: ZIRCON Locality: Chickering Mine, Walpole, NH Specimen Size: 6 mm field of view Field Collected: A Friend - 2004 Catalog No.: Notes: |