Mica-Bearing Pegmatites of New Hampshire: a Preliminary Report (open access)

Mica-Bearing Pegmatites of New Hampshire: a Preliminary Report

From abstract: Mica has been mined in New Hampshire since 1803. Production from 1908 through 1939 has aggregated 13,326,990 pounds of sheet and punch mica, an annual average of 416,470 pounds. Since 1931 production has been below this average, because of economic conditions rather than depletions. The mica-bearing pegmatites of the Grafton and Keene districts occur mostly in sillimanite-mica schist adjacent to large areas of biotite gneiss. The pegmatite bodies range from a fraction of an inch to more than 200 feet in thickness; most of them are crosscutting, and about 75 percent strike northeast. Mica occurs sporadically in most of them but where present in commercial quantities it is localized in one or more of the following zones: (1) In quartz-plagioclase-muscovite zones 2 to 10 feet from the walls of large pegmatite bodies, (2) in or near quartz masses that occur mostly near the centers of the bodies, (3) in thin dikes 5 to 15 feet thick or in similar offshoots from larger bodies, (4) within large pegmatite bodies, in more or less tabular streaks or zones composed principally of plagioclase, quartz, and muscovite.
Date: 1942
Creator: Olson, J. C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reconnaissance of Radioactive Rocks of Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Southeastern New York (open access)

Reconnaissance of Radioactive Rocks of Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Southeastern New York

Report discussing a 1948 geological examination of 7,662 miles of roadside rocks in Vermont, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and southeastern New York to find deposits of radioactive materials.
Date: June 1951
Creator: McKeown, Frank A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Beryl Resources of New Hampshire (open access)

Beryl Resources of New Hampshire

From Introduction: "The primary purpose of this work was to summarize and bring up to date the information on beryl resources as gained from investigations during 1942-45, to examine in detail certain beryl-bearing pegmatites discovered and developed in recent years, and to study other pegmatites and groups of pegmatites known or suspected to contain beryl."
Date: December 1957
Creator: Page, James J. & Larrabee, David M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Age Determinations on New Hampshire Granites (open access)

Age Determinations on New Hampshire Granites

From abstract: "Age determinations by the Larsen method are reported for the four Paleozoic plutonic series of New Hampshire."
Date: July 1955
Creator: Lyons, J. B.; Gottfried, D.; Smith, W. L.; Jaffe, H. W. & Waring, C. L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Radioactivity of the Conway Granite at Redstone, Carroll County, New Hampshire (open access)

The Radioactivity of the Conway Granite at Redstone, Carroll County, New Hampshire

Report discussing a study on the radioactivity of red and green phase Conway granite from Redstone, New Hampshire. Information regarding the collection and measurement methods are included as well as experimental data and calculations.
Date: January 1955
Creator: Smith, W. L. & Flanagan, F. J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reconnaissance of Radioactive Rocks of Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Southeastern New York (open access)

Reconnaissance of Radioactive Rocks of Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Southeastern New York

From abstract: In 1948, 7,662 miles of roadside rocks and soils in Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and southeastern New York were traversed with a car-mounted Geiger-Mueller counter. The observed distribution of the abnormally radioactive rocks and soils is limited to certain areas, herein called "radioactive provinces," that are separated from each other by areas of essentially nonradioactive rock.
Date: June 1951
Creator: McKeown, Frank A.
System: The UNT Digital Library