Provenite

Mount Mica Quarry

QuarryRestricted accessDraft data

44.2694° N, 70.4731° W · ± 1 km

Rose quartz from Maine, United States, with photos of specimens from this locality.

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Minerals found here

Rose quartz

Rose quartz at Mount Mica Quarry

Thumbnail rose quartz scepter on quartz from a 2009 pocket at Mount Mica Quarry, 2.3 cm.
Thumbnail rose quartz scepter on quartz from a 2009 pocket at Mount Mica Quarry, 2.3 cm.
Photo: Robert M. Lavinsky · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source
Second view of the rose quartz scepter on quartz from Mount Mica Quarry, 2.3 cm.
Second view of the rose quartz scepter on quartz from Mount Mica Quarry, 2.3 cm.
Photo: Robert M. Lavinsky · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source
Formula
SiO₂
Morphology
Rose-pink crystals, including a scepter on a quartz crystal
Typical size
Thumbnail-sized specimens, about 2 cm
Color / luster
Unusually intense rose-pink for this locality (2009 pocket)
Associated minerals
Quartz
Availability
Scarce
History
The first rose quartz crystals known anywhere were found at Mount Mica around 1913-1915, before Dunton (1927) and a Newry locality found in 1942; a pocket of unusually intense rose quartz was found in 2009.

Sources: SRC-465 SRC-468 SRC-469

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Geology of the locality

Setting
LCT-class granite pegmatite in the Oxford pegmatite field, in an area of Silurian metasandstone-dominated Sangerville Formation. Discovered for tourmaline in 1821; the second oldest elbaite occurrence in North America.
Region
Maine
Country
United States

Coordinates from the Mindat locality page (accuracy not stated there). Maine Geological Survey says the quarry has produced intermittently to the present and that visitors can usually collect in the rock piles for a fee, hence restricted access.

Sources: SRC-465 SRC-466

Sources

  1. SRC-465 · Database
    Mount Mica Quarry, Paris, Oxford County, Maine, USAMindat.org · Mindat.org
  2. SRC-466 · Website
    Tourmaline: Maine's State MineralMaine Geological Survey · Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry
  3. SRC-468 · Database
    Rose Quartz from Mount Mica Quarry, Paris, Oxford County, Maine, USA (locality entry)Mindat.org · Mindat.org
  4. SRC-469 · Website
    Wikimedia Commons file page Quartz-288009.jpgLavinsky, R.M. · Wikimedia Commons

Draft data from the Provenite workbook. Check entries against the cited sources before relying on them. Photos are open-licence images from Wikimedia Commons; the author and licence are given with each photo.