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Locality: Parker Mtn. Mine, Center Strafford, NH
Specimen Size: 3.3 cm specimen. Yellow-green scorodite crust on lollingite.
Field Collected: Tom Mortimer
Catalog No.: 1499
Notes: Lollingite and Arsenopyrite from New Hampshire pegmatites frequently have a green Scorodite crust present. Individual crystals are usually too small to be resolved with typical stereo microscopes. An EDS analysis was performed to confirm the scorodite species at the Parker Mtn. mine.
Locality: Parker Mtn. Mine, Center Strafford, NH
Specimen Size: 4 mm field of view. Yellow-green scorodite balls on lollingite with unknown orange mineral.
Field Collected: Bob Janules
Catalog No.: A Bob Janules specimen
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Locality: Parker Mtn. Mine, Center Strafford, NH
Specimen Size: 5.5 cm specimen. Yellow-green scorodite crust on lollingite.
Field Collected: Tom Mortimer
Catalog No.: NC
Notes: Only a mineral species collector is likely to bring home a crust mineral such as this one! Being an arsenic mineral, this crust is pretty toxic, so wash hands after handling.
Locality: Parker Mtn. Mine, Strafford, NH
Specimen Size: 1.4 mm field of view. Micro crystaline scorodite.
Field Collected: Bob Wilken 2020
Catalog No.: A Bob Wilken specimen & photo
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Locality: Parker Mtn. Mine, Center Strafford, NH
Specimen Size: 5 cm specimen with salmon-pink spessartine garnet embedded in lollingite.
Field Collected: Tom Mortimer
Catalog No.: 1851
Notes: Previous Parker Mtn. mine species lists have indicated "Almandine-Spessartine" without being more specific. An EDS analysis shows that the spessartine garnet species (Mn dominant) is present at Parker. The almandine species may be present as well, perhaps in the pegmatite wall zone.
Locality: Parker Mtn. Mine, Center Strafford, NH
Specimen Size: 1 cm garnet crystal in 3 cm specimen.
Field Collected: Tom Mortimer
Catalog No.: NC
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Locality: Parker Mtn. Mine, Center Strafford, NH
Specimen Size: 5.5 cm crystal section
Field Collected: Tom Mortimer
Catalog No.: NC
Notes: Note prominent cleavage on vertical face.
Locality: Parker Mtn. Mine, Center Strafford, NH
Specimen Size: 6.5 cm specimen of unaltered spodumene
Field Collected: Gene Bearss
Catalog No.: NC
Notes: Note prominent cleavage on vertical face.
Locality: Parker Mtn. Mine, Center Strafford, NH
Specimen Size: 1 mm cluster of lemon-yellow stewartite crystals
Field Collected: Gene Bearss - 1980
Catalog No.: A Gene Bearss specimen
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Locality: Parker Mtn. Mine, Center Strafford, NH
Specimen Size: 4 mm field of view. Strunzite on jahnsite.
Field Collected: Gene Bearss
Catalog No.: A Gene Bearss specimen
Notes: It is difficult to avoid bright reflections on these lustrous crystals, even with a diffuse light source. Photo from Helicon stack of 17 images.
Locality: Parker Mtn. Mine, Center Strafford, NH
Specimen Size: 3.5 mm field of view. Strunzite on jahnsite.
Field Collected: Gene Bearss
Catalog No.: A Gene Bearss specimen
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Locality: Parker Mtn. Mine, Strafford, NH
Specimen Size: 1.1 mm field of view
Field Collected: Bob Wilken
Catalog No.: Bob Wilken # PM-Strunzite02
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Locality: Parker Mtn. Mine, Center Strafford, NH
Specimen Size: 0.1 mm, (very tiny), clear to pale yellow balls of Sulfur
Field Collected: Bob Janules
Catalog No.: u533
Notes: EDS analysis confirmed these tiny, rounded, crystals were native sulfur. These were found in a zone of weathering sulfides. -- Bob Janules, personal communication.
The possibility has been suggested that this sulfur may be a blasting agent residue.
The Europeans and Brits prefer the "Sulphur" spelling.
Locality: Parker Mtn., Strafford, NH
Specimen Size: Largest hex tablet: 0.4 mm
Field Collected: Unknown - From MMNE 2018 symposium sales table
Catalog No.: u2247
Notes: Multiple probings of a November 2018 tiny crystal on carbon tape (BC298 - set 21) gave ambiguous and inconsistent results: EDS analysis . I think the Ca is legit. The unlabeled mush around 1.7 to 1.8 KeV may be silicon. The peak just above O may be F. All that can be said from this analysis is that it is an interesting REE mineral. A photo of the label on the micro-box is included.
A February, 2019 polished grain EDS analysis , (BC321 - set 23) gave synchysite-Ce the "best fit". So I will catalog this as synchysite-Ce. Tan hex tablets are a common form for synchysite-(Ce). The REE content quantified from this analysis is quite low for synchysite-(Ce). However, parasite-(Ce), another Ca-REE mineral, has twice the REE-Ca ratio.
Locality: Parker Mtn. Mine, Center Strafford, NH
Specimen Size: 0.3 mm crystal in cleavelandite vug
Field Collected: Dana Morong
Catalog No.: A Dana Morong collection specimen
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Locality: Parker Mtn. Mine, Center Strafford, NH
Specimen Size: 0.3 mm torbernite crystal
Field Collected: Tom Mortimer - Aug 2014
Catalog No.: u1492
Notes: No fluorescence observed.
Locality: Parker Mtn. Mine, Center Strafford, NH
Specimen Size: 1 mm field of view
Field Collected: Tom Mortimer - Aug 2014
Catalog No.: u1493
Notes: No fluorescence observed.
Locality: Parker Mtn. Mine, Center Strafford, NH
Specimen Size: 8 cm specimen. 4 cm triphylite-lithiophylite zone with rind of ferrisicklerite and heterosite
Field Collected: Ron Bonney, purchased in 1982 by Gene Bearss
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Notes: This "triphylite" has a more greener shade than most NH triphylite. An EDS analysis shows Mn and Fe content about equal. The EDS analyst opined that it was "slightly Mn dominant" so slightly on the lithiophylite side of the series.
Locality: Parker Mtn. Mine, Center Strafford, NH
Specimen Size: Approx. 5 cm specimen with 2 cm triphylite crystal embedded in quartz
Field Collected: H. Savage (1945) ex. Dr. W. Johansson collection
Catalog No.: A Ted Johnson - Yankee Minerals specimen (2013). Asking $375.
Notes: This is the only Parker Mtn. Mine tryphylite crystal the author has seen.
Snapshot taken with borrowed camera at the Capital Mineral Club show, Aug, 2013.
Locality: Parker Mtn. Mine, Center Strafford, NH
Specimen Size: Crude 1.6 cm Uraninite crystal with coating of various uranium oxides.
Field Collected: Don Swenson
Catalog No.: 1374
Notes: This specimen reads 22,000 counts per minute with a Geiger counter tube on the surface of the perkey box containing the specimen.
Locality: Parker Mtn. Mine, Center Strafford, NH
Specimen Size: 1.5 cm Uraninite crystal group on 3 cm specimen.
Field Collected: Don Swenson
Catalog No.: A Don Swenson collection specimen
Notes: This is the best New Hampshire uraninite specimen I have seen.
Locality: Parker Mtn. Mine, Center Strafford, NH
Specimen Size: 5.5 cm specimen with uraninite crystals to 7 mm
Field Collected: Tom Mortimer
Catalog No.: 1901
Notes: Zircons are also present on his specimen
Locality: Parker Mtn. Mine, Center Strafford, NH
Specimen Size: 9 mm specimen
Field Collected: Tom Mortimer - Aug 2014
Catalog No.: u1494
Notes: These recent uraninite finds from the Parker Mtn. mine are the sharpest, most lusterous, NH examples of this species that the author has seen.
Locality: Parker Mtn. Mine, Center Strafford, NH
Specimen Size: 8 mm specimen, two views. Top 23 image stack through scope with Helicon. Bottom - camera with +7 diopters.
Field Collected: Tom Mortimer - Aug 2014
Catalog No.: u1496
Notes: These small crystals are very "hot" and may be located 6 to 12 inches burried in the dump with a sensitive scintillometer.
Locality: Parker Mtn. Mine, Center Strafford, NH
Specimen Size: Uraninite cluster. FOV: 17 mm; Overall: 13.6 x 10.7 x 8.3 mm; largest xtal: 9.3 mm.
Field Collected: Fred Davis - Aug 2014
Catalog No.: A Fred Davis specimen
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Locality: Parker Mtn. Mine, Center Strafford, NH
Specimen Size: Uraninite on feldspar, black quartz and mica matrix. FOV: 32 mm; Overall: 36.5 x 29.3 x 15.7 mm; largest xtal: 4.7 mm.
Field Collected: Fred Davis - Aug 2014
Catalog No.: A Fred Davis specimen
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Locality: Parker Mtn. Mine, Strafford, NH
Specimen Size 2.3 cm uraninite crystal group - three views
Field Collected: Fred Davis - 2018
Catalog No.: A Fred Davis specimen and photo
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Locality: Parker Mtn. Mine, Strafford, NH
Specimen Size: 2.2 cm crystal group
Field Collected: A Mortimer family collecting trip, October, 2023
Catalog No.: u2671
Notes: This is a very large, no matrix, uraninite crystal cluster for the Parker Mine. Some secondary, alteration, uranium minerals are on the specimen surface.
Locality: Parker Mtn. Mine, Center Strafford, NH
Specimen Size: 0.5 mm vivianite crystal
Field Collected: Gene Bearss
Catalog No.: A Gene Bearss specimen
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Locality: Parker Mtn. Mine, Strafford, NH
Specimen Size: 1.1 mm field of view
Field Collected: Bob Wilken
Catalog No.: Bob Wilken # PM-Vivianite01
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Locality: Parker Mtn. Mine, Strafford, NH
Specimen Size: 1.1 mm field of view
Field Collected: Bob Wilken
Catalog No.: Bob Wilken # PM-Vivianite03
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Locality: Parker Mtn. Mine, Center Strafford, NH
Specimen Size: 0.7 mm crystal
Field Collected: Dana Morong
Catalog No.: A Dana Morong specimen
Notes: This “whitlockite” specimen is responsible for whitlockite being on the Parker Mtn. species list.
Locality: Label error - not from Parker Mtn.
Specimen Size: 2 cm field of view. Resinous brown yttrotantalite-(Y) ? in red stained feldspar
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Locality: Parker Mtn. Mine, Center Strafford, NH
Specimen Size: 8 mm crystal
Field Collected: Gene Bearss
Catalog No.: A Gene Bearss specimen
Notes: This crystal fluoresces orange-yellow under short wave illumination.
Locality: Parker Mtn. Mine, Center Strafford, NH
Specimen Size: 5 mm crystal on cleavelandite
Field Collected: Dana Morong
Catalog No.: A Dana Morong specimen
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Locality: Parker Mtn. Mine, Center Strafford, NH
Specimen Size: FOV: 23 mm; Overall: 19.1 x 13.8 x 9.2 mm. Front and rear views.
Field Collected: Fred Davis - Aug 2014
Catalog No.: A Fred Davis specimen
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Locality: Parker Mtn. Mine, Center Strafford, NH
Specimen Size: 2.7 cm complex zircon crystal with minor feldspar at top.
Field Collected: Tom Mortimer - 2014
Catalog No.: 1909
Notes: There is a small amount of uraninite on the backside of this specimen.
Locality: Parker Mtn. Mine, Strafford, NH
Specimen Size 5 cm field of view - three views
Field Collected: Fred Davis - 2018
Catalog No.: A Fred Davis specimen and photo
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Locality: Parker Mtn. Mine, Strafford, NH
Specimen Size Detail view in white light and SW UV of odd crust on bottom side. Looks like quartz in areas that don't fluoresce, and something with lots of uranyl ions elsewhere.
Field Collected: Fred Davis - 2018
Catalog No.: A Fred Davis specimen and photo
Notes: [tm] Perhaps a hyalite coating?
Locality: Parker Mtn. Mine, Strafford, NH
Specimen Size: 1.9 mm crystal
Field Collected: Bob Wilken 2020
Catalog No.: A Bob Wilken specimen & photo
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Locality: Parker Mtn. Mine, Strafford, NH
Specimen Size: 1.2 mm field of view
Field Collected: Bob Wilken
Catalog No.: Bob Wilken # PM-UK14
Notes: [tm] These might be some uranium mineral ?
Locality: Parker Mtn. Mine, Strafford, NH
Specimen Size: 3.2 mm field of view
Field Collected: Bob Wilken
Catalog No.: Bob Wilken # PM-UK14C
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Locality: Parker Mtn. Mine, Strafford, NH
Specimen Size: 6.0 mm field of view
Field Collected: Bob Wilken
Catalog No.: Bob Wilken # PM-UK15
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