Mining at the Orchard and GE Quarries
Oxford County, Maine

Coromoto Minerals
Specimens from the '99 Season
at the Orchard Mine



 
 

Terminated Golden Beryl on Feldpspar
with Quartz crystals and
Bertrandite 6cm
99-01

4cm Etched Beryl 10gms
99-02

Golden Beryl 7cm/55 gms
99-09

Heavily Etched Aquamarine 7cm/40gms 
99-12

Tantalite-columbite crystal with Bertrandite and Quartz Crystals
3 cm 
99-11

Etched Beryl
5cm/15 gms 
99-08

Golden Beryl 10cm/30gm 99-14

Acicular Blue Fluorapatite on Feldspar with Bertrandite and Quartz Crystals
99-17

Pocket Beryl on Microcline with Quartz Crystals and Albite 8cm 
99-13

Pocket Beryl with Quartz Crystals 6cm/50gm
99-21

Etched Beryl
3cm/10gm
99-16

Pocket Beryl with Quartz 
Crystals 10cm/150gm 
99-20

Terminated Golden Beryl with gem basal termination. 3 gm 
99-04

 

Quartz Crystal on Golden
Beryl and Albite with
Tantalite-Columbite
8cm
99-28
 


Golden Beryl 9cm 70 gm
99-25

Bertrandite Cluster 3cm
(2 views)
99-24

Scepter Quartz Crystal
On Golden Beryl
8cm
99-27

Beryl with Albite Overgrowth
6 cm 
99-18

Golden Beryl
with inclusion
(schorl?)
2cm/4 gms
99-10

Blue Fluorapatite on Albite with Bertrandite. 5 cm  99-07
 

All photographs by Gary Freeman copyright 1999-2000. All rights reserved.

Photographer's note:
The colors depicted in these photographs are as close as possible to the natural color of the specimens. Lighting only was chosen to enhance their appearance. No color manipulation was used. All photographs were taken using a Sony Mavica digital camera. Lighting was either natural sunlight, flash or tungsten halogen. The images were then processed with ArcSoftPhotoStudio 2000 and ACDSee.

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