The Maine Mineral and Gem Museum (MMGM) is a geology museum located in Bethel, Maine.[1][2] It displays a collection of rocks, minerals, and meteorites.
The Maine Mineral & Gem Museum celebrates Earth and cultivates critical thinking through education, research and dynamic exhibits—all designed to inspire visitors about Maine's geologic history, pegmatite mining, and our planet's place in the solar system.
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is a mineral composed of beryllium aluminium silicate with the chemical formula Be3Al2Si6O18. Well-known varieties of beryl include emerald and aquamarine...
history, and natural science. Permanent exhibits include dioramas of Maine's animals, birds and plants in different ecosystems; gemsandminerals; displays...
in diameter and weighing 28 lb (13 kg). have been found at Greenwood in Maine, but these are pseudomorphs of quartz after phenakite. For gem purposes the...
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silicate minerals that have been used since the Bronze Age as gemstones and abrasives. All species of garnets possess similar physical properties and crystal...
structurally as a framework silicate mineraland compositionally as an oxide mineral. Quartz is the second most abundant mineral in Earth's continental crust...
Museum of Natural History. Amethyst was used as a gemstone by the ancient Egyptians and was largely employed in antiquity for intaglio engraved gems....
Learning Center andMuseum is a museum of geology and archaeology located in Milo, Maine. The museum opened to the public in 2016. The museum is owned by...
mineral from a zoned pegmatite. The majority of the world's beryllium is sourced from non-gem quality beryl within pegmatite. Tantalum, niobium, and rare-earth...
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oxide (Al 2O 3). Corundum is one of the hardest minerals, rating 9 on the Mohs scale. Corundum gems of most colors are called sapphires, except for red...
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National Museum (now the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution). George Perkins Merrill was born in Auburn, Maine on May 31...
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designated an official state mineral (talc), pie (apple pie), soil ("Tunbridge Soil Series"), beverage (milk), gem (grossular garnet), and fossil (the beluga skeleton...
canoers, and tubers. The preservation of the area has led to the Wisconsin Wetlands Association to declare the floodplain forest a "wetland gem". The Natural...
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