Locality: Rt. 93 road cut, Ashland, NH
Specimen Size: Double terminated pyrite crystals to 2 mm
Field Collected: Clayton Ford
Catalog No.: A Don Dallaire specimen (#1404) and photo
Notes: [dd] " The overall specimen is 13 cm across and there are 20+ doubly terminated pyrite crystals on it up to 2 mm concentrated in the areas that the arrows point to. It was collected by Clayton Ford and obtained when Bob Whitmore and I bought his collection in 1984."
Locality: Attributed to the Rt. 93 Ashland, NH road cuts
Specimen Size: 7 mm crystal group
Field Collected: Bob Whitmore
Catalog No.: A Don Dallaire specimen (#1009) and photo
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Locality: Attributed to the Rt. 93 Ashland, NH road cuts
Specimen Size: 2.8 cm on the long edge
Field Collected: Bob Whitmore
Catalog No.: A Don Dallaire specimen (#1040) and photo
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Locality: Charles Davis Mine, Groton, NH
Specimen Size: 0.15 central sphere with "arms" extending out to at least 0.45-0.5 mm.
Field Collected: Bob Wilken
Catalog No.: A Bob Wilken specimen and photo
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Locality: Fitzgibbons Mine, Alstead, NH
Specimen Size: 1.06 mm field of view
Field Collected: Bob Wilken
Catalog No.: A Bob Wilken specimen and photo
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Locality: Fitzgibbons Mine, Alstead, NH
Specimen Size: 0.96 mm field of view
Field Collected: Bob Wilken
Catalog No.: A Bob Wilken specimen and photo
Notes: A redo of an earlier photo
Locality: Palermo Mine, Groton, NH
Specimen Size: 3.2 mm crystal
Field Collected: From flat of John Reiner specimens
Catalog No.: A Bob Wilken specimen and photo
Notes: [bw] "A specimen from the Reiner Palermo flat had no ID. It fluoresces white in LW, creamier white in S & M wave. It decrepitates very slowly with very weak effervescence. And the crystal form is kind of a squashed rhombohedral form. So, as best as I can figure it's smithsonite...not something particularly common at Palermo. But, it IS on the Mindat.org list for there."
Locality: Power line site near Mount Mist, Warren, NH
Specimen Size: 19 cm terminated crystal
Field Collected: Don Dallaire & Ernie Schlichter, 1995
Catalog No.: A Don Dallaire specimen, #5410, and photo
Notes: [dd] "#5410 is the largest epidote I know of from NH. The crystal is 19 cm long and terminated. It was collected by me and Ernie Schlichter at the power line site near Mount Mist in Warren. Ernie trimmed all the specimens out of the 500 lb. (or should I say 227 kilo) quartz boulder we split & took home. We split up the specimens & Ernie got this one and it turned up in Tucson 2 years ago (2023) and I bought it. Amazing that I bought something I collected in 1995."
Locality: Keyes Mine, Orange, NH
Specimen Size: 18 cm close up view of 20 cm tall specimen
Field Collected: Keyes Mine miners
Catalog No.: A Don Dallaire specimen, #3435. Jeff Scovil photos
Notes: [dd] "The largest apatite crystals are 2.4 cm long. I purchased this from Bob Whitmore in 2011 and he got it at an auction of material from the Crystal Arrowhead shop that used to be in Bristol, NH. Bill Brownell was the owner of that shop and he got it from the miners in 1961. According to what Bob told me Brownell purchased that piece but the pocket was never fully excavated and subsequently buried."
Locality: Wheeler Mtn., Winchester, NH
Specimen Size: 8.8 cm specimen
Field Collected: Don Dallaire & Ernie Schlichter, 1996
Catalog No.: A Don Dallaire specimen, #2288 and photo
Notes: [dd] "Ernie trimmed out 2 specimens and I got this one (his was better but he sold it and I don't know where it went). The specimen is 8.8 cm across and the main crystal is 4 cm tall. The termination on the large crystal has damage (Ernie's didn't)"
Locality: Milan Hill, Milan, NH
Specimen Size: 6 cm specimen with crystals to 13 mm
Field Collected: Dennis Rossignol, 8/27/2025
Catalog No.: A Don Dallaire specimen, #5704 and photo
Notes: [dd] "From a boulder that was excavated from work being done at Milan Hill."
[tm] Non matrix embedded kyanite crystals are uncommon in New England. Be good to get a confirming Raman verification.
Locality: Milan Hill, Milan, NH
Specimen Size: 2 cm crystal, largest
Field Collected: Dennis Rossignol, 8/27/2025
Catalog No.: A Don Dallaire specimen, #5705 and photo
Notes: [dd] "From same boulder as #5704"
Locality: Mount Rowe Gilford, NH
Specimen Size: 5.5 cm crystal
Field Collected: A specimen purchased from Ethan Willard
Catalog No.: A Don Dallaire specimen, #5706 and photo
Notes: [dd] "Quartz crystal on albite matrix. There are small parallel crystals on the side. There is a secondary drusy white quartz coating on clear colorless slender quarts crystals. Quite attractive specimen."