 | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | large part of Philadelphia is covered with the Delaware River gravels and clays, but most of the streams...about two miles up stream to Fairmount, whose bold hill is composed of a gneiss which apparently rises...bank. When the inclined plane was abandoned the Pennsylvania Railroad made a curved cut through these rocks...with that found on Ridley and Crum Creeks in Delaware County, contained segregated masses of coarse ort...halotrichite occur occasionally, but on the Pennsylvania Railroad at 59th street there was an old quarry |  | | 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...Felton's farm (Chester), and Ward's quarry; Montgomery County: Sumneytown, and Perkiomenville ; Philadelphia:...cut east of Reading (probably Birdsboro), Berks County. White, Smith, 1910, 540. silky mass of radiating |  | | Report (volume) | | value. Some minerals, such as the copper ores of Pennsylvania, are included in the list not because they occur...Gregory, Sheffield Scientific School, New Haven. Delaware.........Prof. B. L. Miller, Lehigh University...North Carolina.. .Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, Chapel Hill. North Dakota... .Dr. A. G. Leonard, Grand Forks...Oregon............Prof. A. J. Collier, Eugene. Pennsylvania.... .Mr. R. R. Hice, Beaver. Prof. Florence...Mawr. Rhode Island.... .Prof. Charles W. Brown, Providence. South Carolina.. .Dr. Earle Sloan, Charleston |  | | Report (volume) | | ............................ 16 34 42 81 97 Delaware............................................................................................ 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...Albany. North Carolina_.Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, Chapel Hill. North Dakota_.Dr. A. G. Leonard, Grand Forks. Mr |  | | Report (issue) | | Rocks Of the Piedmont Upland Maryland, Pennsylvania And Delaware By NANCY C. PEARRE and ALLEN V. HEYL,...districts ______ -._-_____-_____-___._. Montgomery County, Md_-_-_---_---_-_-----------_-__--_-_-_Soldiers...Woodensburg-Cardiff district.: _-________-__________ _ Blue Mount quarries..___--___-________--____.__.__ Cardiff...State Line district__-------___..____.___._... Cedar Hill (Geiger) quarries._--_.-_-----__.____ West Chester...descriptions_______________________________________ Montgomery County, Md___-_______________________.__ Etchison mine_____-_- |  | | Book (edition) | | mmed at Broken Arrow aud Trout creek, in Sc. Clair county. The strata in this field are more faulted und...prong of Canoe creek, in St. Clair county, to Ha\sop creek, in Bibb county, a distance of 60 miles. Down to...to Helena, in Shelby county, the field has an average width of 5 or 6 miles. Below that point the width...miles being in the latitud" of Blocton, in Bibb county. The south ern end of this field has a greater...descends to the south and southwest, bring ing the upper Measures to the surface. The seams of the Cahaba |  | | Journal (issue) | | asbestus. Fairly good specimens may be found in Delaware County, Pa. The radiating variety can be found in...of no com mercial value . The variety called chrysotile occurs in fine silky fila ments , and is therefore...asbestus by the large amount of water it contains . Chrysotile is one of the most beautiful of the fibrous minerals...to a dark green , with veins of silver or pink chrysotile passing through in parallel lines , the whole...whole presenting a stratified structure . The chrysotile from Hudson Co . , N . J . , has a beautiful satin |  | | 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...DAWES COUNTY CHADRON, in N part of Co. and as far W as Crawford and Harrisonchalcedony (some blue). CRAWFORD:...cuts, cut banks, breaks, draws and washes, gullies, hill slopes, etc.chalcedony roses, Celestite crystals |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Bross Ave., Longmont, Colo. Globe, in southern Gila County, is in S/'E Arizona. FLORIDA—"I am sending some...chalcedony—almost an agate ! Lakeland, in N / W Polk County, is in central Florida. GEORGIA — "The enclosed...Ro.r.e, Ga. Summerville is in centra! Chattooga County in N / W Georgia. MAINE — A few months ago David...was in Maine, where he visited the area around Blue Hill. Here is a letter from him. "Recently you received...Belfast, Maine, concerning the new mining strike in Blue Hill. I am sending you a few specimens from the area |  | | 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, area |  | | 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, area |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | LAYER LATTICE SILICATES* Tnoiues F. Bares, The Pennsylvania State Llniversity, U niaersity P ark, P ennsyloania...from the college of Mineral rnclustries, The pennsylvania State University. 78 1i1 LAYER LATTICE SILICATES...THOMASF. BATES (2HrO) clay from the Fox deposit,Utah County, Utah, and of a halloysite (2Hro)-kaolinite clay... Frc. 1. Halloysite (2FIzO), Fox deposit, Utah County, Utah. Replica of fracture surface showing laths...serpentine groups is striking. Fibrous serpentine,or chrysotile, ranges morphologicallyfrom tubes of remarkableuniformity |  | | Report (volume) | | Reading: Military Service Pub. Co. Texas, Tordilla Hill area, color: Shale nomenclature: Clark, T. H. ,6...described. Div. Mines, 1; Jenkins, O. P., Choctaw County, Highway 17 area: 3. Toulmin, L. D., Jr., 3. Minor:...analysis: KelH. D., 5. ler, W. D., 3. Talladega County, hematiteOklahoma, potash agstone, granite magnetite...ground water: Powham, C. E. ell, W. J., 4. Marengo County: Newton, J. G., 1. Core-drilling program, ChattanooMica:...J.,4. Excursion, Tertiary type-localiMontgomery County: Reade, ties: Rainwater, E. H. , 1. H. L. , Jr |  | | Book (volume) | | Illinois geology. These measures constitute the Upper Carboniferous system of repeated alterations of...600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip |  | | Book (volume) | | Illinois geology. These measures constitute the Upper Carboniferous system of repeated alterations of...600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip |  | | Book | | commercial ores and secondary minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification...cities, and many of today’s prosperous western county seats began as mining-boom camps. trating sand...you such as those listed alphabetically by county, township, and range in Part II of this book. Where... that he may know first of all what mountain or hill, what valley or plain, can be prospected most profitably...Adapted from Frederic H, Lahee, Field Geology, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1952). * fifth ed. (New York: |  | | Book (volume) | | ..........................................132 Delaware ........................................................................................402 Pennsylvania .............................................................548 Table of Maps Page Alabama County Map ...................................................................................4 Alaska County and Stream Map ......................................................................22 Arizona County Map .......................................... |  | | Book (volume) | | Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59...along adjoining Co. linerock crystal. BARROW COUNTY WINDER, along rd. to Jefferson and 1½ mi. inside...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States BARTOW COUNTY AREA, Saltpeter Cave, as floatjasper. CARTERSVILLE:...agate, (banded, various colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY MACON: at Holton Quarry, 7½ mi. NWagate; N |  | | Report (issue) | | southerly part of the city of Barre, Washington County, State of Vermont, and extending westerly about...miles to and including \Villiamstown. in Orange County. All granite quarried elsewhere may not legally...eminence south of Barre City locally known as Millstone Hill. 668,838 133.768 535,070 418,024 250,814 1,240...Company Anderson-Friberg Co. Anderson & Johnson Barre Blue Granite Company Barre Hickey Mill Barre Memorial...percent of the total United States' output of chrysotile asbestos fiber. Subsequently, the production |  | | Report (volume) | | Habana, Cuba. Delaware County Institute of Science: Proceedings, vol. 8, no. 3. Media, Pa. Economic Geology...Scientific Society: Journal, vol. 33, nos. 1-3. Chapel Hill, N. C. Engineering and Mining Journal, vols. 103...St. Louis, Mo. Engineers' Society of Western Pennsylvania: Proceedings, vol. 33, nos. 1-9. Pittsburgh...Geological Survey: Supplementary Report, Harlan County. Frankfort, Ky. Lake Superior Mining Institute:...Chicago, 111. West Virginia Geological Survey: County Reports, Braxton-Clay. Morgantown, W. 'Va. Wyoming |  | | Journal (issue) | | headed northward towards the gold mine in York County. It was a most enjoyable trip, the mine was reached...Rd., Ardsley, N.Y. Chairman—Gene Jacob, 10 Beacon Hill Rd., Ardsley, N. Y. Oct. 2. 3. 1965—Topeka Gem &...represented here. For details con tact Mark Pearce, 2921 Upper Mountain Rd., Sanborn, N. Y. 643 COMING EVENTS...Monroe, Peru, Indiana. April 30, May 1. 1966—Dallas County Rock Club will hold its Rock Club Showcase at rhe...Federation of Mineralogical Societies. Host: Clark County Gem Collectors, Las Vegas Convention Center, Las |  | | Report (issue) | | several months. The Museum will be placed in the upper story, occupying the entire floor. This principal...Francisco, California. Daily Grass Valley Union, Nevada County, California. Daily Evening Gazette, Reno, Nevada...Standard, Eureka, Humboldt County, 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 10. 11. 12. County Tribune, California. California...California. Inyo Independent, Inyo County, California. Arizona Gazette, Phoenix, Arizona Territory. Ventura...There was an octagonal space in the gallery or upper floor under the dome, and an arched cross reaching |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | mineral found is boracite. It occurs in 2-3 mm pale blue cubes, with crystal surfaces that vary from smooth...uninspiring abstracts. The excellent Mineralogy of Pennsylvania, as updated by Smith (1978), should serve as...labradorite-anorthite composition anthophyllite-Blue Hill antigorite—Deer Isle antimony(?)—Old Town apophyllite—see...axinite group—Bath, see ferroaxinite azurite—Blue Hill, Pembroke, West Brooksville barite—Brunswick,...bavenite—Stoneham "bauxite"—Limewood bementite—Castle Hill, Hovey Mt. beraunite—Newry, Stoneham bermanite—Newry |  | | 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...eastern streams and rivers f o r epidote, unakite, blue quartz, agate, chalcedony, petrified wood and other...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...transparent blue crystals of aquamarine. Excited collectors took home from old quarries in Pennsylvania and Maryland |
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