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Dyer Quarry, Gickerville (Gibralter), Birdsboro, Berks Co., Pennsylvania, USA

Latitude: 40°16'5"N
Longitude: 75°51'29"W
A crushed stone quarry in Triassic York Haven Diabase.
Located about 2½ miles West of the center of Birdsboro.



References

Montgomery, A. (1970) Pennsylvania Minerals (PM)(August): 95.

Keystone Newsletter & Pennsylvania Minerals (1972) (August): 116.

Grant, R.W. (1973), Pennsylvania Minerals (Feb & Mar): 122 & 123.

Grant, R.W. (1974) Pennsylvania Minerals (136), Keystone Newsletter (April).

Reed, Juliet C. (1976), Annotated Bibliography of Minerals New to the Pennsylvania List 1965-1974, The Mineralogical Society of Pennsylvania, Inc.: 17-18, 26.

Rocks & Minerals (1946): 21: 278.

Rocks & Minerals (1948): 23: 914-915.

Smith, II, R. C. (1978) Cobaltite chapter in The Mineralogy of Pennsylvania 1966 - 1978, Special Publicatrion No. 1, Friends of Mineralogy, Pennsylvania Chapter, p. 90 - 99.

Smith, II, R. C. , Berkheiser,Jr., S. W. and D. T. (1988), Locations and analyses of selected Early Mesozoic copper occurrences in Pennsylvania, in Studies of the Early Mesozoic Basins of the Eastern United States, U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1776, p. 320 - 332.

Mineral List

Apophyllite-(KF)
Arsenopyrite
Babingtonite
Calcite
'Chabazite'
Chalcopyrite
'Chlorite Group'
Cobaltite
Datolite
Erythrite
'Heulandite'
Laumontite
Natrolite
Okenite
Opal
var: Opal-AN

Pectolite
Prehnite
Pyrite
Quartz
Riebeckite
Safflorite
Skutterudite
'Stilbite'
Thomsonite-Ca
Titanite


25 entries listed. 20 valid minerals.

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