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Locality: Parker Mtn. Mine, Center Strafford, NH
Specimen Size: 0.8 mm octahedral kryzhanovskite crystals
Field Collected: Gene Bearss
Catalog No.: A Gene Bearss collection specimen
Notes: Broken crystals on this specimen have a vitreous, red-brown, interior. These are the finest NH kryzhanovskite crystals the author has seen.
Locality: Parker Mtn. Mine, Center Strafford, NH
Specimen Size: 1.7 mm cluster of square, pale-pink, leucophosphite crystal plates
Field Collected: Gene Bearss
Catalog No.: A Gene Bearss specimen
Notes: For New Hampshire, these are excellent leucophosphite crystals.
As leucophosphite has not been previously reported from the Parker Mtn. Mine, hureaulite could be considered as an alternate identification for this specimen. Both hureaulite and leucophosphite are monoclinic, class 2/m. Leucophosphite has potassium as an "essential element" where-as hureaulite does not, so a qualtive EDS test would be diagnostic. Visually, I concur with Gene's leucophosphite ID.
Locality: Parker Mtn. Mine, Center Strafford, NH
Specimen Size: 2.5 cm specimen. Metalic silver Löllingite on quartz
Field Collected: Tom Mortimer
Catalog No.: 860
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Locality: Parker Mtn. Mine, Center Strafford, NH
Specimen Size: 7 cm, 1.2 lb. specimen of massive lollingite
Field Collected: Tom Mortimer
Catalog No.: 1900
Notes: Oxide coating (possibly acquired from years of burial in the mine dump) disguises the species, but weight of specimen gives it away.
This is the host specimen for ferrisymplesite.
Locality: Parker Mtn. Mine, Center Strafford, NH
Specimen Size: 3 cm lollingite crystal blade (repaired) on matrix, with yellow-green scorodite coating
Field Collected: Tom Mortimer
Catalog No.: 622
Notes: Blade thickness at center about 2mm. This is as close as I have come to a complete large lollingite crystal. A Center Strafford, NH lollingite was used to illustrate Dana's System of Mineralogy vol. 1.
Locality: Parker Mtn. Mine, Center Strafford, NH
Specimen Size: 1.8 mm lollingite crystal with yellow-green scorodite balls.
Field Collected: Bob Janules
Catalog No.: A Bob Janules specimen
Notes: Well formed lollingite crystals are rare.
Locality: Parker Mtn. Mine, Center Strafford, NH
Specimen Size: 10 mm crystal cluster with iridescent tarnish on beryl
Field Collected: Gene Bearss
Catalog No.: A Gene Bearss specimen
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Locality: Parker Mtn. Mine, Strafford, NH
Specimen Size: 3.73 mm lollingite xl (upper xl)
Field Collected: Bob Wilken
Catalog No.: Bob Wilken # PM-Lollingite02
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Locality: Parker Mtn. Mine, Strafford, NH
Specimen Size: 3.9 mm lollingite xl
Field Collected: Bob Wilken
Catalog No.: Bob Wilken # PM-Lollingite03
Notes: A Bob Wilken ID. [tm] Crystal habit suggests arsenopyrite to me.
Locality: Parker Mtn. Mine, Strafford, NH
Specimen Size: 1.5 mm larger crystal
Field Collected: Bob Wilken
Catalog No.: Bob Wilken # PM-Ludlamite01
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Locality: Parker Mtn. Mine, Center Strafford, NH
Specimen Size: 2.5 mm field of view – magnetite? embedded in muscovite
Field Collected: Dana Morong
Catalog No.: A Dana Morong specimen
Notes: Specimen is illuminated from the rear. An illustration of magnetite inclusions in muscovite from an American Mineralogist article by Frondel & Ashby, vol. 22 (1937) pg. 106 compares very favorably to this Parker Mtn. specimen.
Locality: Parker Mtn. Mine, Center Strafford, NH
Specimen Size: 9 cm specimen (estimate)
Field Collected: Unknown
Catalog No.: Woodman Instute specimen
Notes: Identification method unknown. This is the only known example of Parker Mtn. melanterite known to the author. The melanterite is the white crusty mineral.
Locality: Parker Mtn. Mine, Center Strafford, NH
Specimen Size: 0.6 mm microlite crystal with smaller daughter crystal on top
Field Collected: Gene Bearss
Catalog No.: u1432
Notes: I found this small crystal difficult to photograph. Many faces are slightly rounded and lack sharp definition.
Gene had this labeled as pharmacosiderite. Pharamacosiderite is reported from the Parker Mtn. Mine, but specimen examples are very rare to non-existant. The crystal color and luster are reasonable for pharmacosiderite, however pharmacosiderite crystals are usually cubes. I could not orient this small crystal to see the cube form.
A January, 2014 EDS analysis showed these small crystals to be microlite. The EDS instrument has a very low response to light elements. The analyst stated: "I can imagine a small Na peak at 1.04 KeV"
Locality: Parker Mtn. Mine, Center Strafford, NH
Specimen Size: 0.4 mm microlite crystal
Field Collected: Gene Bearss
Catalog No.: u1432
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Locality: Parker Mtn. Mine, Center Strafford, NH
Specimen Size: 5 mm vug with mitridatite coating
Field Collected: Gene Bearss
Catalog No.: A Gene Bearss specimen
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Locality: Parker Mtn. Mine, Strafford, NH
Specimen Size: 1.5 mm field of view
Field Collected: Bob Wilken
Catalog No.: Bob Wilken # PM-Mitridatite02
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Locality: Parker Mtn. Mine, Center Strafford, NH
Specimen Size: 1.2 mm flat-tabular monazite crystal
Field Collected: Tom Mortimer - 1970's
Catalog No.: u1437
Notes: Monazite is reported from the Parker Mtn. Mine. A RAMAN spectroscopy analysis indicated an excellent match for monazite-(Ce).This monazite crystal is visible adjacent to the white apatite crystal shown photo of catalog # 1457. The specimen contains six micro monazite crystals.
Locality: Parker Mtn. Mine, Center Strafford, NH
Specimen Size: 0.6 mm monazite tablet
Field Collected: Tom Mortimer - 1970's
Catalog No.: u1437
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Locality: Parker Mtn. Mine, Center Strafford, NH
Specimen Size: 0.5 mm monazite tablet on edge of muscovite book
Field Collected: Tom Mortimer - 1970's
Catalog No.: u1437
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Locality: Parker Mtn. Mine, Center Strafford, NH
Specimen Size: 6 mm field of view. Iron stained muscovite crystals.
Field Collected: Tom Mortimer
Catalog No.: NC
Notes: The Parker Mtn. pegmatite was mined for muscovite mica. The saleable mica was obtained in large sheets of the mineral embeded in the pegmatite body. Small crystals of mica found in albite vugs make attractive micro specimens.
Locality: Parker Mtn. Mine, Center Strafford, NH
Specimen Size: Natural muscovite crystal – 5.5 cm along base
Field Collected: Uncertain - acquired through trade
Catalog No.: A Dana Morong collection specimen
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Locality: Parker Mtn. Mine, Strafford, NH
Specimen Size: 3.8 mm mscovite crystal grouping
Field Collected: Bob Wilken 2020
Catalog No.: A Bob Wilken specimen & photo
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Locality: Parker Mtn. Mine, Strafford, NH
Specimen Size: 1 mm field of view. Crusty mass of orpiment-realgar on triphylite
Field Collected: Phillip Foster (#26.10=1)
Catalog No.: u2063
Notes: An article in the December, 1982 issue of "Granite Chips" newsletter of the Southeastern New Hampshire Mineral Club by Phillip Foster reports a find of two "pin-head" sized occurrences of orpiment-realgar from Parker Mtn. This is likely one of those specimens. Harvard examined the specimen, but was non-committal and indicated the sample was too small for analysis. Gunnar Bjareby opined a possible realgar-orpiment ID. The elements in realgar/orpiment are arsenic and sulfur, both of these are present at Parker. Until seeing this specimen, I [tm] had discounted a realgar-orpiment occurrence at Parker as "folklore." The matrix for this small crusty bleb is triphylite-ferrisicklerite and appears quite legitmate for a Parker Mtn. piece. A Parker Mtn. Mine species list authored by Art Smith, Rocks & Minerals, July/Aug, 2005, pg. 256, includes orpiment. This Art Smith list is likely responsible for the inclusion of orpiment in mindat.org's Parker Mtn. Mine species list (2015).
Locality: Parker Mtn. Mine, Center Strafford, NH
Specimen Size: 7 cm specimen (estimate)
Field Collected: Roland Bonney
Catalog No.: Woodman Instute specimen W1:640067
Notes: Petalite has been reported from the Parker Mtn. Mine. This is the only known example of Parker Mtn. petalite known to the author (or from any other NH locality as well). How this petalite specimen was identified is uncertain. The color and luster of the specimen are consistent with petalite. A request by T. Mortimer to take a 1-2 mm sample grain from the specimen for analysis was was finally fulfilled by Patrick Bigos in 2016. Note, petalite chemistry, LiAlSi4O10, is quite close to eucryptite: LiAlSiO4 and spodumene: LiAlSi2O6 . It will take a relatively accurate quantitative analysis to determine which of these three lithium-aluminum-silicates that this specimen actually is!
A June 2016 EDS analysis (BC75 set 6) indicated an aluminum silicate, but did not fully resolve the species ambiguity. The EDS analysis atomic%'s indicated an Al:Si APFU ratio of 1.34:2.0 that favors a spodumene identification.
Locality: Parker Mtn. Mine, Center Strafford, NH
Specimen Size: 0.3 mm pale-lavender balls of phosphosiderite
Field Collected: Gene Bearss
Catalog No.: A Gene Bearss specimen
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Locality: Parker Mtn. Mine, Strafford, NH
Specimen Size: 6 cm specimen. Feldspar with yellow phosphuranylite crust.
Field Collected: Gene Bears
Catalog No.: 2050
Notes: An EDS analysis (BC131) of a carbon tape mounted grain of this yellow crust indicated phosphuranylite. All required phosphuranylite elements are present, Ca, P, Si, U, however the element assignment software failed to identify the strong line at about 3.3 Kev as phosphorous. The aluminum and arsenic may be minor substitions.
Locality: Parker Mtn. Mine, Center Strafford, NH
Specimen Size: 0.6 mm pyrite crystal in quartz
Field Collected: Gene Bearss
Catalog No.: A Gene Bearss specimen
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Locality: Parker Mtn. Mine, Center Strafford, NH
Specimen Size: 3 mm iron-stained quartz septer crystal
Field Collected: Tom Mortimer
Catalog No.: u275
Notes: Larger quartz crystals as well as abundant massive quartz are found at the Parker Mtn. Mine.
Locality: Parker Mtn. Mine, Center Strafford, NH
Specimen Size: 2.7 cm quartz scepter crystal
Field Collected: Neil Santerre
Catalog No.: A Neil Santerre collection specimen
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Locality: Parker Mtn. Mine, Center Strafford, NH
Specimen Size: 6 cm specimen. 4 cm milky stem with 1.2 cm smoky scepter termination
Field Collected: Neil Santerre
Catalog No.: A Neil Santerre collection specimen
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Locality: Parker Mtn. Mine, Center Strafford, NH
Specimen Size: 2.5 mm smoky scepter termination
Field Collected: Dana Morong
Catalog No.: A Dana Morong collection specimen
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Locality: Parker Mtn. Mine, Center Strafford, NH
Specimen Size: 1.7 mm smoky scepter termination
Field Collected: Dana Morong
Catalog No.: A Dana Morong collection specimen
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Locality: Parker Mtn. Mine, Center Strafford, NH
Specimen Size: 0.4 mm radial spray of green-black rockbridgeite
Field Collected: Gene Bearss
Catalog No.: A Gene Bearss specimen
Notes: Identification by Gene Bearss. A voucher specimen for rockbridgeite at the Parker Mtn. Mine. State-wide, this is not remarkable for the species.
Locality: Parker Mtn. Mine, Strafford, NH
Specimen Size: 1.2 mm field of view
Field Collected: Bob Wilken
Catalog No.: Bob Wilken # PM-Rockbridgeite03
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Locality: Parker Mtn. Mine, Strafford, NH
Specimen Size: 3 mm field of view
Field Collected: Gene Bearss
Catalog No.: u1102
Notes: Gene had this labeled as "Roscherite group". Neither roscherite nor greifensteinite have been previously reported from the Parker Mtn. Mine.
Locality: Parker Mtn. Mine, Center Strafford, NH
Specimen Size: 2 cm specimen with yellow-orange zones of Schoepite/Paraschoepite.
Field Collected: Bob Janules
Catalog No.: A Bob Janules specimen
Notes: Bob Janules initially had this specimen labeled as vandendriesscheite. Mindat.org lists vandendriesscheite for the Parker Mtn. Mine. This mindat reference appears to have been from the Art Smith "New Hampshire Mineral Locality Index" that appeared in the Jun/Jul 2005 issue of Rocks & Minerals. Art Smith's reference is to an unpublished 1995 article by Dana Morong, "Minerals of the Parker Mountain Pegmatite". This reference chain is an interesting case study of how a species can be assigned to a locality (and thence often to a state) mineral list with little or no published analytic supporting data.
A 2013 EDS analysis indicated Schoepite/Paraschoepite. The EDS analyst stated that this is "one of the simple hydrated Uranium oxides such as Schoepite/Paraschoepite There is no lead. The small silica content is probably scattering off [the instrument] backscatter diodes".
Locality: Parker Mtn. Mine, Center Strafford, NH
Specimen Size: 2.3 cm specimen with yellow-orange zones of Schoepite/Paraschoepite on uraninite.
Field Collected: Gene Bearss
Catalog No.: A Gene Bearss specimen
Notes: A Gene Bearss specimen example of this Parker orange-yellow secondary uranium mineral. Gene's label indicates this species might be kasolite.
Locality: Parker Mtn. Mine, Center Strafford, NH
Specimen Size: 2.2 cm crudely terminated schorl crystal
Field Collected: Tom Mortimer
Catalog No.: 431
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Locality: Parker Mtn. Mine, Center Strafford, NH
Specimen Size: 7.5 cm specimen
Field Collected: Bob Janules
Catalog No.: A Bob Janules specimen
Notes: Acquamarine in background