New Gallery #192

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Photos recently added to NH species galleries, set #192.
GOYAZITE Palermo Mine, Groton, NH 3 mm goyazite perched on 7.5 mm doubly terminated quartz crystal	Species: GOYAZITE Locality: Palermo Mine, Groton, NH Specimen Size: 3 mm goyazite perched on 7.5 mm doubly terminated quartz crystal. Field Collected: Collected August 1980 Catalog No.: Don Dallaire # 674 Notes: A Don Dallaire photo.
GOYAZITE Palermo Mine, Groton, NH 4 mm goyazite crystal on quartz crystal cluster	Species: GOYAZITE Locality: Palermo Mine, Groton, NH Specimen Size: 4 mm goyazite crystal on quartz crystal cluster Field Collected: Collected August 1980 Catalog No.: Don Dallaire # 699 Notes: Overall specimen is 10 mm tall. This crystal appears as a Fred Wilda painting in Bob Whitmore's book The Pegmatite Mines known as Palermo on page 129. The caption in the book had the wrong specimen number. A Don Dallaire photo.
GOYAZITE Palermo Mine, Groton, NH 6 cm specimen GOYAZITE Palermo Mine, Groton, NH A 3 mm goyazite crystal	Species: GOYAZITE Locality: Palermo Mine, Groton, NH Specimen Size: 6 cm specimen with 3 mm goyazite crystals Field Collected: Clayton Ford Catalog No.: Don Dallaire # 1266 Notes: A Don Dallaire photo.
GORDONITE Palermo Mine, Groton, NH 1.2 mm field of view GORDONITE Palermo Mine, Groton, NH 1.2 mm field of view	Species: GORDONITE Locality: Palermo #1 Mine, Groton, NH Specimen Size: 1.2 mm field of view, two photos, second slightly rotated specimen Field Collected: Bob Janules Catalog No.: A Bob Janules specimen Notes: [tm] Best NH gordonite specimen that I have seen (2024). Identification by Bob Janules.
MONTEBRASITE Chickering Mine, Walpole, NH 4.5 cm specimen MONTEBRASITE Chickering Mine, Walpole, NH 5 mm flake with fused right edge	Species: MONTEBRASITE Locality: Chickering Mine, Walpole, NH Specimen Size: 4.5 cm specimen Field Collected: Tom Mortimer Catalog No.: 2177 Notes: Originally thought these pearly plates were lepidolite, due to easy fusability, second photo. A Raman analyses (scan 314, 315 vs. RUFF reference plot) was a good match for montebrasite. An EDS analyses also supported a montebrasite identification, a simple Al, P mineral, (Li not detectable by EDS). Montebrasite is also easily fusable.
MICROCLINE North Conway, NH 3.2 cm Baveno twin crystal	Species: MICROCLINE Locality: North Conway, NH Specimen Size: 3.2 cm Baveno twin crystal Field Collected: Jim Perella #0248 Catalog No.: 2178 Notes: A gift from Jim Perella. Locality labeled as just "North Conway."
MAGNETITE Old Granite Quarry off Limbo Lane, Amherst, NH Crude 1.8 cm magnetite crystal in white "sugar-quartz" matrix	Species: MAGNETITE Locality: Old Granite Quarry off Limbo Lane, Amherst, NH Specimen Size: Crude 1.8 cm magnetite crystal in white "sugar-quartz" matrix Field Collected: Tom Mortimer Catalog No.: NC Notes: Collected pre 2000. This is from the Phillip Morrill listed Amherst locality. Note the "Ye Old Country Store" referenced in Morrill is long since gone and Rt. 101 has been moved since 1960 Morrill's booklet.
MAGNETITE Old Granite Quarry off Limbo Lane, Amherst, NH Crude 1.2 cm magnetite crystal in white "sugar-quartz" matrix	Species: MAGNETITE Locality: Old Granite Quarry off Limbo Lane, Amherst, NH Specimen Size: Crude 1.2 cm magnetite crystal in white "sugar-quartz" matrix Field Collected: Tom Mortimer Catalog No.: NC Notes: Collected pre 2000. This is from the Phillip Morrill listed Amherst locality.
PHOSPHOSIDERITE Palermo Mine, Groton, NH 6 mm field of view PHOSPHOSIDERITE Palermo Mine, Groton, NH 3.3 mm field of view	Species: PHOSPHOSIDERITE Locality: Palermo #1 Mine, Groton, NH Specimen Size: 6 mm field of view and 3.3 mm cropped view Field Collected: Bob Janules Catalog No.: A Bob Janules specimen Notes: [tm] Best Palermo phosphosiderite specimen that I have seen (2024). Identification by Bob Janules.