Latitude: 39°4'7"N
Longitude: 77°30'58"W
Ref.: Rocks & Minerals: 60: 167.
Located near Belmont Station, Loudoun Co., VA. Owned by the Luck Company. Produces aggregate in diabase traprock. Started 1972.
Known for exceptional apophyllite-(KOH) crystals. Meier and Kearns (2011) determined much if not all of the northern Virginia are uniformly near end-member apophyllite-(KOH) and verified its occurrence at this locality. (Lance Kearns, personal communication, 2011).
References
Meier, B. M. and Kearns, Lance E., 2011, Chemical Characterization of Northern Virginia Apophyllite, (K, Na)Ca4Si8)20(OH, F).8H2O, 38th Rochester Mineralogical Symposium Progran and Abstracts, p. 25-27.
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