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Home > Explore! > Mineral Collecting > Collector's Guide to Maine Minerals > Chapter 5 > Newry Quarries



Entrance to Plumbago Mining Corporation workings at the Dunton Quarry, where a series of large gem tourmaline pockets was discovered in 1972. Note contact (center) between pegmatite and overlying schist. Photo by Woodrow B. Thompson, 1975.


Last updated on October 6, 2005