Article: Micromineral collecting at Mineral Hill, Wakefield, Carroll County: New Hampshire.(Through the 'Scope)

My mineral collecting in New Hampshire began in summer 1961 with a trip to the Weeks (now known as the Hams-Weeks) pegmatite mine (Smith and Bearss 1991). I dug and collected minerals from the dumps there for several years before reading in Morrill (1960) that Mineral Hill was just across the road. In the late 1960s my brothers and I took a collecting trip to Mineral Hill. There was no road up the densely wooded hill, so we bushwhacked our way through the vegetation, usually taking the path of least resistance while still continuing upward. As I remember, we found two shafts that day. We did no serious digging but broke some rocks and noted nothing but sparse green ...

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