 | | Report (issue) | | PENNSYLVANIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY FOURTH SERIES Bulletin M 18-C THE MINERALS of PENNSYLVANIA NON-METALLIC... CONTENTS Introduction Asbestos Barite Franklin County Fulton and Bucks Counties Corundum Page 1 1 5...Magnesite Phosphate minerals Cumberland County Juniata County 18 23 25 25 26 Potash 29 Quartz-Mint...Quartz-Mint 32 Rock salt 36 Crawford County Elk County 36 37 Erie and Forest Counties 38 McKean, Potter...inquiries about the occurrence of minerals in Pennsylvania that cannot be answered by referring the inquirer |  | | 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...cut east of Reading (probably Birdsboro), Berks County. White, Smith, 1910, 540. silky mass of radiating |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | bank. When the inclined plane was abandoned the Pennsylvania Railroad made a curved cut through these rocks...that found on Ridley and Crum Creeks in Delaware County, contained segregated masses of coarse orthocl...halotrichite occur occasionally, but on the Pennsylvania Railroad at 59th street there was an old quarry...northwesterly line between Philadelphia and Mont(romery County, it has been largely quarried for over a century...the Chestnut Hill schists at Jenkintown, North Pennsylvania Railroad, Mr. Edward D. Drown found an albite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | senopyrite in Darien (Fairfield Co.), Levesque, Cross County, Arkansas. The Conn., for over a year. A few weeks...A H O — "This specimen was found in Twin Falls County about 10 miles south of Hagerman, Idaho. These...a fairly new limestone quarry in eastern DeKalb County, 111. There were a few small fossils in the limestone...lined with tiny rock xls. that comes from Brown County, Ind., in the vicinity of Bean Blossom. Its label...reads: "Quartz crystals implanted with dark brown limonite pseudomorphs. Do not know the original mineral |  | | Report (issue) | | metals in the pegmatite body at Baringer Hill, Llano County, Tex. Because of its resistance to atmospheric...have been reported in New Jersey and New York. Pennsylvania was a small producer of rutile prior to 1901...rutile in Pennsylvania is limited, so far as known, to the central portion of Chester County, in the extreme...of rutile forming complete circles found near Parkesburg, some of which weighed more than a pound. The...1 who has completed the geologic mapping of Chester County, has kindly furnished the following statement: |  | | 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; |  | | | | Timmins, Tisdale Township, Cochrane District, Ontario; Darwin Mine, McMurray Township, Algoma District...nugget recorded is from Carson Hill, California, USA, weighing 72.78 kg. Transylvania, Romania; Roraima...Lake, Labrador, Newfoundland; Cap d’Or, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia. Other Localities: Keweenaw Peninsula...Michigan, USA; Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona, USA; Ajo, Pima County, Arizona, USA; Ray, Pinal County, Arizona...Arizona, USA; Santa Rita, New Mexico, USA; Rudabanya, Hungary; Yekaterinburg Oblast’, Russia; Broken Hill |  | | Book | | Co. Hematite CALERA, Shelby Co. Wavkllite CLAY COUNTY, Sec. 24. T. 19 S R., 7 E. STATUARY, Coosa Co...Co., (W. border of* Marble Crystalline TALLADEGA COUNTY Marble, (crystalline) VALLEY HEAD, DeKalb Co. Hematite...Feldspar HISSOP, Coosa Co., (near) Beryl JACKSON COUNTY Hematite KENNEDYS, Clay Co., (near) Magnetite MILLERVILLE...DELANEY, Madison Co. Quartz, (clear crystals) GARLAND COUNTY Quartz Crystals HOT SPRINGS, Garland Co. Malachite...Malachite HOT SPRINGS DISTRICT Quartz Xls LAWRENCE COUNTY Pearls LITTLE ROCK Quartz Crystals MAGNET COVE, |  | | Book (volume) | | chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...townagate, chalcedony, jasper, petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville...chalcedony, jasper, fossils. CHERRY COUNTY VALENTINE, in the Sandhills county along the Niobrara R. and Minnechaduza...gem qualityagatized and opalized wood. DAWES COUNTY CHADRON, in N part of Co. and as far W as Crawford...woods, etc. DAWSON COUNTY GOTHENBURG, in sand pitspetrified palm wood. DEUEL COUNTY CHAPPELL, all regional |  | | Journal (issue) | | •·J. .• ••• ..,. PROCHLORITE v. CORUNOOPHILITE, Chester, Mass. Xld. 2 ½ "l( l 1/4: .. ESSONITE, Ala, Piedmont...Colorado, a small tributary to Grand Lake ( Grand County ) . Near the top of the view are remnants of potholes...never-ending handiwork. Near Falmouth, Lancaster county, Penn., about one-quarter of a mile south of the...a point just below Falmouth to York Haven, York county - a distance of two to three miles - it is now...walk a,::ross the river bed from Lancaster county to York county, with very little wading. The dramatic effect |  | | Book (edition) | | carbonate (sidoxide erite) to the hydrous iron (limonite). 3. By impression : as in deposition in a cavity...magnetite occurring in mica at Pennsbury, in Pennsylvania. Arborescent delineations over surfaces of rock...manganese; others, of a brownish color, are made of limonite; others, of a reddish black or black color, of...their general shape and origin. Chalcedony and limonite are often stalactitic. Interiorly the structure...near Clear Lake, in California; Inferno, Humboldt County, and Rabbit Hole Mines, Nevada; near Evanston, |  | | Book (volume) | | ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA |  | | Book (volume) | | ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA |  | | Journal (issue) | | Schacht (who was bom Horace Greele} Schacht in the USA), President of the German Reichsbank. In du< course...overall light smoky shade, and one from Saline County, Arkansas, failed to turn color at all. Crystals...“Hot Springs area” * “Hot Springs area” Lincoln County Veta Grande Claim, Yuma Co. Arkansas Arkansas...from Upper Prov idence, D elaw are C ounty, Pennsylvania; 36.2 carats, NM NH #G 1 2 8 3 . Photo by Chip...provinces of the Carolinas, Virginia, M aryland and Pennsylvania, to the high-grade metamorphic and intrusive |  | | Book | | Red and gray sandstone shale, and limestone. PENNSYLVANIA 40 I 60 50 Ml I 80 KM 76° -, I II --...l0000unse THE GEOLOGY OF PENNSYLVANIA COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA Mark Schweiker, Governor DEPARTMENT...Geology Slippery Rock University Published by PENNSYLVANIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PITTSBURGH GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY...from Hyner View, Hyner Run Slate Park, Clinton County, showing accordant ridges in the Appalachian Plateaus...of the Ridge and Valley province in Huntingdon County. Flooded meanders of Raystown Lake on the Raystown |  | | Book (volume) | | references, among them may be mentioned: Vermont, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Oregon, Kansas, Alabama, Ohio...Kobuk jade locality. Descriptions of San Diego County, California, gemstones and the mines in which they...the generous assistance of many residents of that county. My special thanks are extended to Elbert H. McMacken...in the small cavities in limestone in Herkimer County, New York, only one quartz crystal may be found...of Little Lake St. Francis, Coleraine Township, Megantic County. Microscopic crystals were also reported |  | | Book (edition) | | from the Greek fiorpvs, a bunch of grapes. Ex. limonite, chal- Reniform is cedony. Mammillary : resembling...loss of ingredients is furnished by crystals of limonite in the form of siderite, the carbonic acid having...spinel, some jasper. 13. Brownish-red: jasper, limonite. 2. Clove-brown: brown II. BROWN. 1. Reddish-brown...among these are some of the oxides, hematite, limonite, gothite, etc., some sulphates, is many phosphates...which fluorite is an example ; change of color (limonite), and here the color of the mineral' should be |  | | Book (edition) | | from the Greek ySorpv?, a bunch of grapes. Ex. limonite, chal- Reniform is cedony. Mammillary : resembling...loss of ingredients is furnished by crystals of limonite in the form of siderite, the carbonic acid having...: dark red with some 13. Brownish-red: jasper, limonite. blue and brown spinel, some jasper. H. BROWN...among these are some of the oxides, hematite, limonite, gothite, etc., some sulphates, is many phosphates...which fluorite is an example ; change of color (limonite), and here the color of the mineral ; ; A : |  | | Book (edition) | | MINERALS, CHESTER. Alphabetically arranged, with their Chemical Composition By Prof. A. H. Chester, Hamilton...from the Greek ^orpvlimonite, chal- Reniform is cedony, Mammillary : resembling...loss of ingredients is furnished by crystals of limonite in the form of siderite, the carbonic acid having...spinel, some jasper. 13. Brownish-7'ed : jasper, limonite. II. Brown. 1. Reddish-hrown : garnet, zircon...among these are some of the oxides, heuiatite, limonite, gothite, etc., some sulphates, many phosphates |  | | Book | | Office Building Portland 1, Oregon Cf 7 J o ( Pennsylvania Bureau of Topographic and Geologic Survey ✓...Department of Internal Affairs , .., Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Rhode Island Development Council Roger Williams...northeast part of the Coosa Coal Field, St. Clair County, Alabama, by H. E. Rothrock. 1949. 69 B. 50 Well...and G. L. Richardson. 91 1940. district, Franklin County, Alabama, by E . F. Burchard and H. D. Pallister...C".1.5 Geology and mineral resources of Cherokee County, AlaC. 2 Abstract of Alabama clay bama, by E . |  | | Book (edition) | | Manganite, Bauxite, Psilomelane, Goethite 22 Limonite, Spinel, Magnetite, Chromite, Chrysoberyl, Microlite...removed by soaking in oxalic acid to dissolve the limonite, but try the solution on an inferior specimen...terrain. As we work farther east, past Ohio to Pennsylvania, we come to the place (all along the Appalachian...chusetts) “p. 21 Massa- E. 24 “eye” (Westchester County, New York) 5. Marble: dolomitic (Bronx, New York)...(Grass Valley, California) 3. Copper (Keweenaw County, AND SULPHIDES 2. Silver (Kongsberg, Norway) |  | | Report (issue) | | woody tissue of trees, produc- RUTILE FROl\l PARKESBURG, PA. Rosettes of knee-jointed, twinned crystals...which this class of minerals has been deposited. Limonite, the hydrated oxide of iron, and psilom clanc |  | | Book (edition) | | removed by a soaking in oxalic acid to dissolve the limonite, but try the solution on an inferior specimen...terrain. As we work farther east, past Ohio to Pennsylvania, we come to the place (all along ‘the Appalachian...be changed and leached to form an “iron hat” or limonite gossan, though any gold originally in the pyrite...simple weathering, of pyrite (iron sulfide) to limonite (hydroug iron oxide). Garnets may be similarly...and Tochigi Prefectures, Japan; French Creek, Pennsylvania; and several Colorado localities. Often crystallized |  | | Report (issue) | | Granite-gneiss overlain by mantle Cbmpany's mine, Nelson CountY. of feldspathic facies of syenite from VIII. X'ig...Photomicrograph of gabbro from W. A. Campbell's farm' Nelson County...'.. X'is.3. Photomicrograph of feldspathic facies...northeast XXII. XX[I. of Mr.. .Grant,s house, Nelson County. . , . . . l. Outcrop showing contact between diabase...fine-graineil ilmmite nelsonite from Roanoke 188 County. 198 246 X'ig.2. Photomicrograph of epidote-bearing...epidote-bearing ilmenite nelsonite from Roanoke County. 245 X'ig.3. Photomicrograph of epidote-bearing ilmenite |  | | Report (volume) | | Mexico. New York. North Carolina. Ohio. Oregon. Pennsylvania. Ehode Island. South America. South Carolina...subheadings as follows : New England. New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey. Maryland to Alabama. Great Lakes...England. KEY TO SUBJECT ENTRIES. 9 New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey. Southern Appalachians (Maryland...subheadings as follows: New England. New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia. Ohio. Kentucky, Tennessee...subheadings as follows: New England. New York. Pennsylvania. 10 NORTH AMERICAN GEOLOGY. [BULL. 127. |
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Parkesburg, Sadsbury Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA