 | | Report (issue) | | DESCRIPTIVE MINERALOGY OF PENNSYLVANIA 104 Na 2Al 2 Si3 Oi .2H 2 O; SiO 2 47.4, A1 2 O 3 26.8, Na...Na 2 O 16.3, Lenni, Delaware County. Crystals. Eyerman, 1911, 11. Composition: Analysis: Fe 2 O3 CaO...Sp.gr LOCALITIES: Berks County: Birdsboro, and Gickerville; Delaware County: Leiperville, Lenni (druses...colorless crystals), Felton's farm (Chester), and Ward's quarry; Montgomery County: Sumneytown, and Perkiomenville...Philadelphia: Fairmount Park, Frankford, and Rit- enhouse quarry. SCOLECITE CaAl 2 Si3 Oi .3H 2 O MONOCLINIC |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | THE MINERALS OF BRINTON'S QUARRY, CHESTER COUNTY, PA. HUGH E. MCKINSTRY Wesl, Chester,Pa. BRrNroN's Quennv... The quarry is locatedin WesttownTownship,ChesterCounty, Pa., thrge miles south of West Chester. It is...Birmingham road (continuation of South New Street, West Chester) southeastof its crossingwith the Street Road....West Chester quadrangle5322. It is variously referred to in mineralogies as West Chester, 'Westtown, Birmingham...ChesterCounty. Hrsrony eNo Pnnsnwr Cor.rprrrox The quarry was first openedin 17301and many farmhouses of |  | | Report (issue) | | Serpentine Rocks Of the Piedmont Upland Maryland, Pennsylvania And Delaware By NANCY C. PEARRE and ALLEN V...deposits of chromite, titaniferous iron ore, rutile, talc, asbestos, magnesite, sodium-rich feldspar, corundum...districts ______ -._-_____-_____-___._. Montgomery County, Md_-_-_---_---_-_-----------_-__--_-_-_Soldiers...----.._-_-_-------_-----_-----------_----West Chester district...-_._.. --__- .. .._.__ Philadelphia...___________ 715 716 716 718 719 720 721 721 722 723 Quarry descriptions.-___._-_-_-_-_-_-_---_-___--______-_ |  | | Journal (issue) | | number of economic miner als such as asbestos, talc, chrome, iron a11d b11ildi119 stone. They were also...ocwrre11ce was Brinton's Quany, located three miles south of the village of West Chester, Pennsylvania. Brinto11's...Brinto11's Quarry, also identified in early In this issue: A Remarkable Mineral Region: A Visit to Brinton's...James D. Dana, 1858;: Josialt P. Cooke, I 867). Brinton's Q11any clinoc/Iiores were "T/1e ivurk111e11 save...mineral collections around the world. In 1899 Brinton's Quarl)' was in the twilight of its productive |  | | Report (issue) | | O: (2) Corundum Hill, Macon Co., North Carolina, USA; corresponds to 2+ ² (Mg 2:68 Al 0:35 Fe3+ 0: 29...soils. Association: Corundum, apatite, serpentine, talc; interstrati¯es with chlorite, biotite. Distribution:...Distribution: Uncommon in large amounts. In the USA, at Milbury, near Worcester, Worcester Co., Massachusetts;...Rutherford quarry, near Tuxedo, Henderson Co., North Carolina; in Brinton's quarry, Westtown, Chester Co.,...and on Chestnut Hill, Easton, Northampton Co., Pennsylvania; from Magnet Cove, Hot Spring Co., Arkansas; |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | exposure of a meta-pyroxenite dike (a mixture of talc and amphibole) which has metamorphoeed the Wissahickon...length. (2) Deshong's qusrry, Leiperville, Delaware County. Ia,rge microcline crystals were obtained and one...mile northwest of Capella Hill, Alsace township, Berks County. Nickeliferous pyrrhotite and augite are...Creek, 1 mile west of Spies Cburch, Alsace township, Berks county. Only inferior specimens are now obtainable...3)l miles southwest of Pricetown, Alsace Township, Berks County. Fine limonite, stalactitic and mammillary |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | river this rock was largely quarried. The first quarry opened was irnmediately on the river bank. When...When the inclined plane was abandoned the Pennsylvania Railroad made a curved cut through these rocks extending...from about 30th Street to 34th Street, and a large quarry, or a series of quarries afterwards merged into...that found on Ridley and Crum Creeks in Delaware County, contained segregated masses of coarse orthocl...the Park north of Girard Avenue, and also in a quarry on Girard Avenue about 38th Street, menaccanite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | ORIGIN WITH OF THE VERMONT TALC DEPOSITS, A DISCUSSiON' ON' THE FORMATION' OF T^LC IN' GEN'ERAL...of Vermont .................................... Talc Deposits..........................................Property, Chester, Windsor County.................... 253 254 Talc and Verde Antique Quarry, Stockbridge...Windsor County Williams Mine, RochesterTownship, Orange County........ ... Verde Antique Quarry, North...Rochester, Orange Co. Talc Prospect at Hammondsville, Reading Township, Windsor County ................. |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | permeating type producing amphibole-, chlorite-, and talc-rich serpentinites at or near the margins of the...granite pegmatite cutting Moine limestone in a quarry 900 m. to the north-east. Marginally to the albitite...Chlorite and talc are also present, the latter often pseudomorphous after gedrite. Chlorite and talc probably...exposure of the gedrite zone which is represented by talc and chlorite. This may either be part of the same...granular quartz at the centre of an albitite in Brinton's Quarry, West TABLE I Parageneses in the Zoned Hydrothermal |  | | Report (edition) | | PENNSYLVANIA STATE LIBRARY OF 0144 00141189 1 v < 2 £ m- c oi; c» tt*s“S S Si! at tss^s isl^j...1 ' s WJ= ~S 5! s „3 &«eq Sjg® . . PENNSYLVANIA 1 .8 ^2»SS 3 d 5-s &s z l|lt« 7* < OF ...GEOLOGY REPORT 1976 33 MINERAL COLLECTING IN PENNSYLVANIA by Alan R. Geyer Robert C. Smith, John H....Graphics by Albert E. VanOlden COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES TOPOGRAPHIC...II Copyrighted 1976 by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Quotations from this book may be published if |  | | Journal (issue) | | following : A. Bands of chert and amorphous 1. | CHESTER BEDS. St. Louis LIMESTONE . geodes, in shale and...The Sub -Carboniferous is divided as follows : Chester Group .. St. Louis Group . Keokuk Group Burlington...Keokuk limestone is to be seen ; geologically, Lee County appears thus : Alluvium. Drift or Boulder .. Coal...and botryoidal forms of chalcedony. In Des Moines County geological aspect is somewhat changed, ap pearing...COLLECTOR . 105 Three miles south of West Chester, Pa. , are “ Brinton's Serpen tine Quarries,” celebrated |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Summit. rose quartz at Bedford, and actinolite and talc at Mahopac. Dr. Oldach reported visits to the Wissahickon...reported on a trip with Mr. Boyle to Blue Hill and Brinton's quarries. W. H. Fr,acr, Secretary PHILADELPHIA...quarries near Canaan, Conneeticut, the emery mine at Chester, Massachusetts, the Westfield, Massachusetts, trap...Ausable Chasm, Herkimer, New York, and Easton, Pennsylvania. Beautiful specimens of beryl, tremolite, garnet |  | | Journal (issue) | | 1945 CONTENTS FOR AUGUST, 1945 CH1PS FROM THE QUARRY .................................................o o a O O O O *-LL!' O 00 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY e e e e o o o e o e o o e e o o o +as e o e o o... w tides on mineral localities of Arizona, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Iowa, Missouri, and other states...al a1 tl "Cl Garnets Seven Miles From West Chester, Pa. Has any reader of Rocks and Mi11eral1 visited...visited the ridge one mile south of Brinton's quarry where garnets up to onehalf inch diameter have been |  | | Report (volume) | | ........................................... Pennsylvania...............................................value. Some minerals, such as the copper ores of Pennsylvania, are included in the list not because they occur...and Ehrenfeld, Frederick, Minerals of Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Top. and Geol. Survey Comm. Kept. No...See Bauxite and Halloysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton; |  | | Book (edition) | | describes sites under of the nearest town and county. and the many maps included book contain such...comparative table A.) The steps on Table A. 1. Talc known Mohs' scale. (See Table from equal; the...hazards as well. Rocks can fall from a shattered quarry wall, a cliff, or an overhang. Someone on a rocky...associated with the gem material. Oregon thunder a quarry, eggs, for example, are in volcanic beds; tourmaline...pink hue (right) from the Sunnyside Mine, San Juan County, Colorado. MOTTLED AGATE from Chihuahua, Mexico |  | | Report (volume) | | Boletin de Minas, no. 1. Habana, Cuba. Delaware County Institute of Science: Proceedings, vol. 7, nos...St. Louis, Mo. Engineers' Society of Western Pennsylvania: Proceedings, vol. 31, no. 10; vol. 32, nos...Chicago, 111. West Virginia Geological Survey: County Reports, Lewis and Gilmore; Raleigh, Summers, and.... 3. The Weedon or McDonald copper mine [Wolf County, Province of Quebec, Canada] : Canadian Min. Inst...General map of the anthracite coal fields of Pennsylvania and adjoining counties showing the position |  | | Book (edition) | | laminse are thin and spar), some varieties of gypsum, talc, etc. the structure is said foliaceous. Mica is...MOHS. It is as follows By to abrasion. : 1. Talc; common laminated light-green 2. Gypsum / 4...remain bent after the bending force is removed ; talc. (a) ; PHYSICAL CHARACTERS OF MINERALS. 118...varieties of calcite and quartz. 5. Greenish-white : talc. 6. Milk-white : white, slightly bluish some 1....gray, with some brown cat's eye, some varieties of talc. 5. Yellowish-gray : some varieties of compact limestone |  | | Book (edition) | | MINERALS, CHESTER. Alphabetically arranged, with their Chemical Composition By Prof. A. H. Chester, Hamilton...wollastonite (tabular spar), some varieties of gypsum, talc, etc. When the laminae ai-e thin and easily separable...hardness was introduced by Moiis It is as follows 1. Talc,' common laminated light-green variety. 2. Gy])suin...remain bent after the bending force is removed ; talc. PnYSICAI. 0HAKA.CTER8 cF MINERALS. 122 (e) ...varieties of calcite and quartz. 5. Greenish-white : talc, some 6. Milk-white : white, slightly bluish 1. |  | | Book (edition) | | and Rabun County, Georgia. Between 1900 and 1905 the corundum deposits of Gallatin County, Montana, were...to a small extent. The Corundum Hill mine, Macon County, North Carolina, is about 8 miles northeast of...occur in peridotite. The most important Jackson County deposits are in the extreme northeastern part,...counties, but the Lucas mine at Laurel Creek, Rabun County, is one of the best known corundum mines in the...vicinity of Elk Creek in the central part of Gallatin County, Montant., where the ore c>ccur11 in ayenite!J |  | | Book (edition) | | laminse are thin and spar), some varieties of gypsum, talc, etc. the is to folia ceous. Mica is a striking...laminated light-green Gypsum; a crystallized variety. Talc ; 3. Calcite ; transparent variety. 4. Fluorite... pieces powder, bending force is removed ; talc. PHYSICAL CHARACTERS cF MINERALS. 122 (e) Elastic...varieties of calcite and quartz. 5. Greenish-white : talc. some 6. Milk-white : white, slightly bluish 1....gray, with some brown cat's eye, some varieties of talc. 5. Yellowish-gray : some varieties of compact limestone |  | | Book (edition) | | MARIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY 3 1111 00289 4184 \ I s Fifth Revised Edition A complete, state-by-state...hard as talc and more than twice as hard as corundum. TABLE A. MOHS' HARDNESS SCALE Talc 6. Orthoclase...a Jersey's Limecrest quarry, for instance, is open to a year; the Foote quarry in North Carolina one...or goggles, and safety-toe shoes in an operating quarry or mine. They are prudent precautions against disaster...trespassers or even fenced in some states. Mine and quarry owners are often reluctant to give permission for |  | | Report (issue) | | charged layers, are not as soft as kaolinite and talc, whose layers are not charged. In the present study...chlorites, Petrograd, [Mineralog. Abs. v. 2, p. 215]. Chester, Mass. Corundophilite. 2. Phillips, W. R., 1954...Rendus, v. 176, p. 1233. Carter's mine, Madison County, N. C. Prochlorite. 6. Ross, C. S., 1935, U.S....Mineralogie Bull. 53, p. 536. Corundum Hill, Macon County, N. C. Grochauite. 8. Lacroix, A., 1922, Acad....Washington Acad. Sci. Jour., v. 12, p. 240. Brinton's Quarry, Chester County, Pa. White chlorite. 13. Hodl, A. |  | | Journal (issue) | | degrees are represented by ten well known minerals, talc being (1) and diamond (10). Only four of these are...hold on a safety rope which is knotted around Brinton's waist. Bob Brinton, left, and Glen Dawson studying...surround- is open. This provides an excellent aping the quarry. This tract was given proach to the Valley from...UndLlanl By F. R. JOHNSTON I 1 •"V'i 20 N INYO county, California, is a small canyon, unnamed on the...Later, "Hassamp" or "Hasiamp." Rises in Yavapai county on north slope of Mount Union; flows south, enters |  | | Book (edition) | | opal SiO2, quartz SiO2 Pyrophyllite AlSi2O5OH, talc Mg3Si4O10(OH)2, serpentine (Mg, Fe)3Si2O5(OH)4 Albite...λex=532 nm 3+ 3.0 Pryor Mountain, Big Horn County, Mantana, USA 8 Intensity (a.u.) b λex=532 nm 10...Albany County, Wyoming, USA 1.5 0 600 650 700 750 d 15 868 Tie Siding, Albany County, Wyoming...Wyoming, USA 700 750 800 λex=785 nm 874 866 Nd 650 15 λex=780 nm 875 3+ Intensity (a.u.) 600 ...mine, Gillman, Colorado, USA 15 Black Rock, Lawrence County, Arcansas, USA 891 4 10 2 5 0 870 |  | | Journal (volume) | | context. Substitution of que of the passage makes Brinton's transcription appear more casual and ambiguous...area to 5120 square feet, nearly equivalent to Brinton's kaan of 5184 square feet, or square of 24 yards...California. ORNITHOLOGY. —Svuan Lake, Nicollet County, Minnesota, as a breedHarry C. Oberholser. Fins...thorough biological survey of Swan Lake, Nicollet County, Minnesota, was made in 19 17 to ascertain its...system R. B. Sosman. manganese deposits in Madison County, Montana. U. S. Geol. Survey Bull. 690-F. Pp. 131-143 |
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