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Keystone Trap Rock Quarry, Cornog, Wallace Township, Chester Co., Pennsylvania, USA

Latitude: 40°4'36"N
Longitude: 75°44'54"W
A crushed stone quarry in Precambrian (Grenville) amphibolite gneiss within the Honeybrook uplift. The mineral assemblages for which this locality is well known, are the product of alpine cleft type hydrothermal recrystallization.

References

Montgomery, A., et al (19__), Mineralogical Record: 2(1): 18-25 & 36.

Lapham, Davis M. & Geyer, Alan R. (1965), Mineral Collecting in Pennsylvania: 55.

Hess, David F. (1966), "The Occurrence of Axinite and Assoc. Mins. in the Keystone Trappe Rock Quarry, at Cornog," in Montgomery, PM (July & August): 43, 44.

Montgomery, A. (1966), Keystone Newsletter, Pennsylvania Minerals (PM): 41-42.

Montgomery, A. (1968), Pennsylvania Minerals (November): 71.

Lapham, Davis M. & Geyer, Alan R. (1969), Mineral Collecting in Pennsylvania: 56-57.

Reed, Juliet C. (1976), Annotated Bibliography of Minerals New to the Pennsylvania List 1965-1974, The Mineralogical Society of Pennsylvania, Inc.: 16-17, 38-39.

Mineral List

Actinolite
'Allanite'
'Amphibole Group
var: Byssolite'

Ancylite-(Ce)
Axinite-(Fe)
Calcite
Chalcopyrite
'Chlorite Group'
Clinozoisite
Dravite
Galena
'Garnet'
Goethite
Gypsum
'Hornblende'
'K Feldspar
var: Adularia'

Limonite
Prehnite
Pyrite
Pyrrhotite
Quartz
Quartz
var: Smoky Quartz

Schorl
Titanite
Tremolite


25 entries listed. 17 valid minerals.

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