Gotta get away
After such a jam packed day, we decided that we would take it a little slower today. Tom (Tom Klinepeter, starkhillgem) suggested we go the Harvard Mine and then check out a couple nearby rockshops.
It was extremely humid, and the hike to the mine is pretty steep, so by the time we made to the bottom of the tailings pile.
After a brief rest, it was time to walk to the actual quarry.
We went to both collecting spots at the site, and we were pleased with the terminated schorl we were finding through out the dumps.
After the walk back down to the car, Tom, Justin and I headed down the road to visit Perham’s Jewlery, Gems & Minerals, in west Paris.
They have an on site museum of locally collected mineral specimens.
And we browsed their stock of of book, tools and minerals.
After which we drove a short distance to Mt. Mann Jewelers in Brethel, Maine. The proprieter Jim Mann is a well know Maine feild collector, and the driving force behind the creation of the Maine Mineral Museum, set to open in early next year.
Every location that we went to in Maine are scattered with Mica, so Jim showed us a lantern from the early 1900’s with still intact mica sheets for the windows.
On the way back to Tom’s house, we stopped and got a photo of us at the Maine crossroads sign.
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