Locality: N. Sugarloaf Mtn., Bethlehem, NH
Specimen Size: 3.3 mm crystal group
Field Collected: Gene Bearss (1987)
Catalog No.: A Gene Bearss collection specimen
Notes: Identification by Gene Bearss
Locality: Moose Pocket, Albany, NH
Specimen Size: 0.8 mm bastnasite crystal
Field Collected: Scott Whittemore 10/95
Catalog No.: u261
Notes: This specimen is glued into the micro box. I could not optimally orient this crystal due the box interfering with my Nikon camera objective that has only a 10.5 mm working distance. The basal pinicoid of the hexagonal crystal points to the lower left. There are secondary faces around this pinicoid. The prism faces are the most prominent. Parts of the crystal have some crustal coating.
Locality: N. Sugarloaf Mtn., Bethlehem, NH
Specimen Size: 2.5 mm field of view
Field Collected: Bob Janules
Catalog No.: A Bob Janules specimen
Notes: Crystal group mounted on porcupine quill. Photo from a stack of 60 images with Nikon Plan 10 objective.
Locality: N. Sugarloaf Mtn., Bethlehem, NH
Specimen Size: 1.1 mm bastnasite-(Ce) crystal group
Field Collected: Bob Janules
Catalog No.: A Bob Janules specimen
Notes: Crystal group mounted on porcupine quill. Photo from a stack of 35 images with Nikon Plan 10 objective.
Locality: N. Sugarloaf Mtn., Bethlehem, NH
Specimen Size: 2.0 mm bastnasite-(Ce) crystal
Field Collected: Bob Janules
Catalog No.: A Bob Janules specimen
Notes: [tm] If the white coating were cleaned from this crystal it would photo much better.
Crystal mounted on porcupine quill. Photo from a stack of 48 images with Nikon Plan 10 objective.
Locality: N. Sugarloaf Mtn., Bethlehem, NH
Specimen Size: 1.2 mm bastnasite-(Ce) crystal
Field Collected: Bob Janules
Catalog No.: A Bob Janules specimen
Notes: There is an out of focus, small, vertically oriented, bastnasite crystal on the surface of the larger crystal.
Crystal mounted on porcupine quill. Photo from a stack of 24 images with Nikon Plan 10 objective.
Locality: N. Sugarloaf Mtn., Bethlehem, NH
Specimen Size: 2.5 mm bastnasite-(Ce) crystal with red danalite
Field Collected: Bob Janules
Catalog No.: A Bob Janules specimen
Notes: Photo from a stack of 11 images with Meiji trinocular scope.
Locality: Government Pit, Albany, NH
Specimen Size: 0.7 mm crystal, oblique frontal view and top view
Field Collected: Found in large box of uncleaned, untrimmed, Government Pit specimens collected by Leroy Grant of Albany, NH (deceased). Collected in the 1970's.
Catalog No.: u2241
Notes: A visual ID. Crystal embedded in biotite mica, appears to be tabular-hexagonal form, third photo. This form is common for bastnasite.
The R&M article by Bearss & Janules, May/June 1992, pg.160 states: "bastnasite-(Ce) is an extremely rare mineral at Government Pit, occurring as minute (>1 mm) tabular, hexagonal, crystals that are butterscotch in color and have a resinous but frosted luster. The determination of bastnasite-(Ce) was by SEM EDS and XRAY diffraction."
Locality: Hurricane Mtn., Conway, NH
Specimen Size: 0.5 mm compound crystal group, two views.
Field Collected: Bob Wilken - 9/21
Catalog No.: A Bob Wilken specimen & photo. HUR-Bastnaesite02AA
Notes: Bastnasite-Ce confirmed by EDS analysis .
Top photo taken with Nikon Plan 10X objective, 111 photos in stack with 6 um steps.
[bw] "Having found bastnaesite twice now in two different Hurricane localities, I don't think it can be too awfully uncommon. It certainly doesn't show up as much as zircon, but with persistence and a micro hunter attitude, it should be found. I think most people that go to Hurricane are just looking for the typical species that make nice thumbnails."
Locality: Hurricane Mtn., Conway, NH
Specimen Size: Largest crystal is 1.1 mm
Field Collected: Bob Wilken
Catalog No.: Bob Wilken specimen and photo
Notes: [BW} "I find this one rather interesting and consider it to be more primary to the emplacement of the various species. Most of the free-standing ones seem to be secondary and are usually half this size."