The Graphite Page

Graphite localities:

• Historically famous graphite from Borrowdale, England
  
• Graphite from Pargas, Finland
  
• Spheroidal graphite in gabbro from Oshirabetsu mine, Hiroo, Hokkaido, Japan
• Spherical graphite from a roadcut near Gooderham, Ontario, Canada.
  
• Naturally occurring graphite cones from Gooderham, Ontario, Canada.
  (Preprint version is available here.)
• Louis Coupal Prospect, Arundel, Argenteuil, Quebec, Canada (graphite bireflectance)
  
• Graphite and diamond from the ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic rocks from the Kokchetav Massif, Kazakhstan
• Hackman valley, Mt. Yukspor, Kola Peninsula, Russia
  • NEW: Preprint for 2007 paper in Canadian Mineralogist
• Narsarsuk Pegmatite, Narsarsuk, Igaliko, Greenland.
• Mount Ozernaya, Taimyr Peninsula, Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia. Graphite pseudocubes in iron.
• Sujiquan graphite mine, Xinjian, China
• Graphite from Umzimkulu quarry, KwaZulu/Natal, South Africa
• Graphite in meteorites
• Remarkable graphite crystals from near Namib Grube, Wlotzkas Baken, Namibia
  • Atomic force microscopy of graphite surfaces
• Graphite/Tanzanite mines, near Arusha, Merelani Hills, Lelatema Mountains, Tanzania. Remarkable graphite crystals with gem diopside. These crystals also have interesting overgrowths of rare graphite dendrites.
• Graphite from Ukraine.
  

• Graphite from Alaska (New)
• Nodular and botryoidal graphite from the "Boston Lead Mine", Little Mountain, Mt. Kearsarge, Salisbury, New Hampshire
  
• Graphite mines in Deering and Nelson, New Hampshire (page by Tom Mortimer)
• Excellent graphite crystals from Crestmore quarry, Riverside County, California
  
• Various graphite crystals from Lime Crest quarry near Sparta, Sussex County, New Jersey. Click here for pictures only.
  
• Famous graphite crystals from Sterling Hill, Sussex County, New Jersey.
  
• Unusual columnar (or "skeletal") graphite from Treadway quarry, Port Henry, New York
• Graphite from the Trotter Mine dump, Franklin, Sussex County, New Jersey.
  
• Excellent graphite from the #4 Quarry, Gouverneur Talc Company (Valentine property) near Harrisville, Lewis County, New York.
  • Unusual "snowflake" graphite crystals.

Looking for a commercial source of quality natural graphite crystals?
Try graphitecrystals.com.

Other Graphite Links:

Special Event: The Graphite Ball

Watch graphite floating in mid air!

Nice image generator by Steffen Weber for carbon or boron nitride sheets, cones and tubes.

Peter Harris's Carbon Nanotube page.

NetWatch column in Science magazine by Mitch Leslie featuring natural graphite.

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