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PLUMBOPYROCHLORE   Boulder field, N. Sugarloaf Mtn., Bethlehem, NH
0.7 mm plumbopyrochlore crystal.

Species:           PLUMBOPYROCHLORE
Locality:         Boulder field, N. Sugarloaf Mtn., Bethlehem, NH
Specimen Size: 0.7 mm plumbopyrochlore crystal.
Field Collected: Tom Mortimer
Catalog No.: u953
Notes: Reference: "Rocks and Minerals", Vol 65, No. 4, pgs 338-347, "Pegmatite and Miarolitic Minerals of North Sugarloaf Mountain, Bethlehem, New Hampshire", by Scott Whittemore and Bob Janules. In a personal communication from Dr. Eugene Foord, mineralogist of the Smithsonial Instution, to Robert Janules, Merrimack, NH, August 1989, Dr Foorde stated: "Specimen no. 4 (Sugarloaf specimen), a honey brown octahedron, was indeed plumbopyrochlore."