The “Harvard” quarry is a “Classic” locality if for no other reason that it was one of the two quarries, the other being the Bennett quarry in Buckfield, on which Kenneth Landes based his groundbreaking Harvard dissertation, “Paragenesis of the Granitic Pegmatites of Central Maine”. The quarry is very small, high up on a steep hillside, and has only been worked sporadically.

This is a small example of “lilac” apatite from the locality. It is not a “display” specimen – the crystals are small, the largest (single) crystal is about 2.7 mm in diameter. But there are more than a half dozen crystals, and they are very pretty under a scope (10-15X). The specimen is ex Perham’s (1993).

The first 6 photos show the largest crystal (2.7 mm).

The 7th and 8th photos show crystals 2.4 and 2.5 mm in diameter resp.

The 9th  photo (FOV 6.5 x 3.9 mm) shows a group of smaller crystals. The one in the center is 1.7 mm in diameter.

There are some other crystals on the specimen, but they are tucked inside small cavities and not fully visible.

The foliated pale tan spheres are cookeite, and there are also small quartz and albite crystals.

Almost all the “apatite” found in Maine is supposedly fluorapatite, so that is what I have called this. But there’s no way to be sure just visually. However, Mindat does not list hydroxylapatite for this quarry.

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