Mount Mica update.(Chips from the Quarry)

From: Rocks & Minerals | Date: January 1, 2007 | Copyright information

MOUNT MICA UPDATE: Exciting as it is, there's more in the news than the Tucson Show. Gary Freeman, owner of Mount Mica and Coromoto Minerals, LLC, provided the following account of a 2006 find: 

 
   Mining by Coromoto Minerals resumed 
   at Mount Mica in Oxford County, Maine, 
   in March 2006 after a successful 2005 
   effort (see Rocks & Minerals, November/December 
   2005). After a winter of 
   cogitation, we made a decision to mine 
   in a new direction. Our work convinced 
   us that the pegmatite was laid into the 
   hill of Mount Mica in a series of upward 
   steps from ...

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