 | | Report (issue) | | PENNSYLVANIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY FOURTH SERIES Bulletin M 18-C THE MINERALS of PENNSYLVANIA NON-METALLIC...Introduction Asbestos Barite Franklin County Fulton and Bucks Counties Corundum Page 1 1 5 5 8 10 Feldspar...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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | 1897 . No. 8 . For The Mineral Collector . CORUNDUM . By Chas. H. PENNYPACKER . A Few days ago a...sphene, rutile, tourmaline, garnet, quartz, and corundum. They have followed “ the star of empire.” They...the rocks, serpentine. The supply of American Corundum is the product of the serpentine spurs of the...have been a close observer of the vagar ies of corundum and all its forms and appearances, and its supply...Canfield's collection. In Pennsylvania it has been found near Shimerville in Lehigh County. This was a mere |  | | Report (volume) | | DIRECTOR THE OCCUIIRENCE AND DISTRIBUTION CORUNDUM IN THE UNITED STATES BY JOSEPI-I HYDE PR.ATT...Modes of occurrence of corundum ...... ................,_................ Corundum in peridotites...._ ...... Corundum in biotite, contact on saxonite .............................. U 1.1 19 Corundum in enstatite.....1. 20 Corundum in serpentine . _.........._....__...........__....-_..--.._.. Corundum in chlorite-schist.... 20 21 Corundum in amphibolite ................................. ........ 21 Corundum (emery) in |  | | 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 |  | | 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...School, New Haven. Delaware____Prof. B. L. Miller, Lehigh University, South Bethlehem, Pa. Florida-______Dr...Florence Bascom, Bryn Mawr. Prof. B. L. Miller, Lehigh University, South Bethlehem. Rhode Island__Prof |  | | Book (volume) | | although excavations in the underlying black, Upper Devonian (New Albany) shales occasionally produces...colored Vanport flint of the Flint Ridge and the Upper Mercer flint exposed in Hocking, Perry, and Coshocton...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 |  | | Book (volume) | | although excavations in the underlying black, Upper Devonian (New Albany) shales occasionally produces...colored Vanport flint of the Flint Ridge and the Upper Mercer flint exposed in Hocking, Perry, and Coshocton...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 |  | | Report (volume) | | GEOLOGICAL SURVEY - CHARLES D. WALCOTT, DIRECTOR CORUNDUM ITS OCCURRENCE AND DISTRIBUTION IN THE UNITED...__..-.._.__.--...- -18 Physical properties of corundum ......................................... 1.5...composition of corundum ........................................ Determination of percentage of corundum in an...---..-.-..-..-...-,.-..--..-.....Sapphire or gem corundum ........_...'.................--..-.-. .........--.-.... Corundum......-....-.-.......--.......-......--......--........_... Block corundum......... |  | | Book | | Jersey: L a k e Hopatcong, Greenwood L a k e Pennsylvania: S c h u y l k i l l R i v e r Vi r g i n i...dollars at the noted locality of Cowee Valley, Macon County, North Carolina. An enthusiastic family found and...visited the well known old Rutherford mine in Amelia County, Virginia, and found bright spessartine garnets...Excited collectors took home from old quarries in Pennsylvania and Maryland, pieces of apple green precious...green gem spodumene, was discovered in Alexander County, North Carolina, in 1880 and named for one of its |  | | Book | | Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee...listed by county and community, range and distance. Whenever the collector crosses a county line, he will...of the county he is entering posted alongside the highway. By looking up the state and county, the user...guide can determine the collecting sites in that county by range and distance from the major cities and...information to reach a specific spot within a particular county. Many old localities listed here have, literally |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | mineralogies covering Maine, New York, Pennsylvania (Chester County), Arkansas, Idaho, Iowa, Washington...(several dozen specimens). He also added occasional USA classics (amazonite from Colorado, rhodochrosite...vacations to the Rincon pegmatite district in San Diego County Pete and Ed explored for minerals and made many...1939 digging benitoite and neptunite in San Benito County. Peter Bancroft (1916-2015) Pete graduated from...ARIZONA COPPER 16CM CUFF MINE, PHOENIX, KEWEENAW COUNTY, MICHIGAN JOE BUDD PHOTO ■ <-n ::2;~~ l.~.~ |  | | Book (edition) | | Williams, Jr., Professor of Mining Engineering at Lehigh University, Pa 18mo, cloth, 1 25 1 25 A CATALOGUE...the occuring planes pertain equally to both the upper and lower (or opposite) ranges of sectants, as in...Ilemimorphic, in which tlie planes pertain to either the upper or the lower range, and not to both, and hence the...which the sectants of the upper and of the lower ranges are alternate, but the upper not alternate with reference...which the sectants of the upper and lowei ranges are alternate, and also the upper «/' |  | | Book (edition) | | the occuring planes pertain equally to both the upper and lower (or opposite) ranges of sectants, as in...Ilemimorphic, in which the planes pertain to either the upper or the lower range, and not to both, and hence the...which the sectants of the upper and of the lower ranges are alternate, but the upper not alternate with reference...which the sectants of the upper and lower ranges are alternate, and also the upper are alternate with reference...which the sectants of the upper and lower ranges are adjacent, but the upper are situated diagonally with |  | | Book (edition) | | magnesium, or dolomite, oxide of aluminum, or corundum, sili- 24 ROCKS AND ROCK MINERALS cates...Apatite. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Feldspar. Quartz. Topaz. Corundum. Diamond. This means that each mineral, if used...MINERALS ORDER Magnetite Hematite Pyrite Ilnenite Corundum Limonite Garnet Staurolite Topaz 2.86 2.85 2...Greiner, Tyrol; III, Hornblende, Edenville, Orange County, New York; IV, Arfvedsonite, Kangerdluarsuk, Greenland;...= MnO. IV, Common Garnet (mostly almandite), Shimerville, Penn., XyO = MnO. V, Andradite, Sisersk, Ural |
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Shimerville, Upper Milford Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, USA