Mount Apatite West Mining District

OVERVIEW

  • MINDAT – Mount Apatite West Mining DistrictHint for using the Mindat website: Look for the photo section on the top left of the page (in the banner under the mine location name). It will have photos of many of the minerals that have been found at the mine. You can also scroll down the main page for the mine and it will have a list of all the minerals that have been found at this location.
  • Pulsifer Apatite at the Harvard: photograph of a stunning apatite
  • Pulsifer Apatite at the Mim Museum: photograph of a spectacular purple apatite
  • Article – Apatite from Minot (Pulsifer Quarry, Auburn): John E. Wolff and Charles Palache, Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. 37, No. 18 (Mar., 1902), pp. 517-528. To download, click the “accept and download” button on the JSTOR page, and you will be taken to the PDF to read.