Newry Maine Tourmaline Gallery

06/06/2025

Recent developments hint at a significant breakthrough for the electric vehicle industry, placing lithium front and center in discussions about alternative

02/08/2024

Maine is Home to Sacred Places. This is certainly the Most Well Known.

By Maulian Bryant, Penobscot Nation tribal ambassador Our homelands are at risk. The Katahdin region is at risk.

02/08/2024

While many crystals are attractively beautiful, some of them can be dangerous. They might look inviting and harmless at first, but certain crystals carry risks that...

02/08/2024

A Good plan.

The Penobscot Nation already owns more than...

02/03/2024

The Land Use Planning Commission staff today issued a recommendation to deny the re-zoning for a metallic mineral mine in Penobscot County. Ahead of the commission's...

01/22/2024

Just the facts.

In January, the Land Use Planning Commission will decide on the rezoning by Wolfden Mining for the purpose of zinc and other metallic mining in the...

05/02/2023

04/03/2023

Blue tourmaline from a Newry Pocket that Bob Brown and I unearthed. We called the pocket zone “Eight of Hearts” as there were 8 little hand-sized pockets which all held beautiful gem rough. (This photo by me is very amateur—taken with an old iPhone). The discovery was special and produced a fascinating array of blue gems.

At the same time, we had located the focal point at Newry in the Spodumene Brook area (now so-called Plumbago North).
Excited about both discoveries we shared the news with our partners—one of whom we owned an “undivided half interest” with (Lithium-bearing Pegmatite at Newry) and the other whom we had an otherwise documented partnership with.

A brief but relevant history would show that no good comes from this exuberant and open sharing by us—with others who have non-matching agendas and significantly more worldly power than we did.

It’s a tale of woe, deceit, and strategic manipulation where not only does the cliche “no good deed goes unpunished” apply but all good deeds done for the greater good are used as vantage points for the taking.

Should have called the pocket zone “Heartless” 🤔🤦🏽‍♀️

03/19/2023

02/24/2023

All for naught, really. What real good will come of it? And do we really need to tear apart the beautiful forests of Newry, Maine so that we are connected across the globe to these travesties?

During one of his many visits to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Siddharth Kara, an author and Harvard academic who has spent 20 years researching modern slavery, met a young woman sifting dirt for traces of cobalt.Priscille told him she had suffered two miscarriages and that her husband, a fe...