Harvard Mineralogical & Geological Museum Collections
Search the collection online including specimens in the back rooms that you typically have no access to. This is a great reference source.

Maine Rock Stars – Oral Histories – By and for the Maine Mineral & Gem Museum.
Mineral & Gem Museum sat down with over 40 miners, scientists, jewelers, and collectors, each telling their own story so as to help capture the history before it is lost.

Tourmaline from Achroite… to Verdelite, with Skip Simmons
Maine Mineral & Gem Museum; Tourmaline Turns 200 Lecture Series

Frank Perham Collage by Karen Weber

Old Time Finnish Mining with Nestor Tamminen and Eddie Waisenen

History of Maine Tourmaline by Cross Jewelers

The Maine Gem Book – Martin L. Keith
This was put out around 1917 and talks about the different material from Maine. Has some pictures and diagrams along with pricing of some of the jewelry and gems from that era. A fun short read. “The purpose of this brief work is that of acquainting the people of Maine and neighboring state with the true worth of Maine Gems, and enable them to choose a genuine Maine Stone in a market flooded for years with worthless substitutes or man-made imitations” Martin L. Keith Havey photos archival

Feldspar In The Potters’ Field – a Maine Feldspar Company brochure 1921
Great read for those interested in what mining for feldspar was like in the early 1900s. A few great mining photos are included in the booklet. Havey photos archival

Maine Pegmatite Mines and Prospects and Associated Minerals – a 1957 publication by the Maine Geological Survey. A comprehensive index of pegmatite mines and prospects across Maine, with associated minerals, maps, and other information.