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Cedar Hill Quarry (Stoltzfuss Quarry), Fulton Township, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania, USA

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Cedar Hill Quarry, Fulton Township, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania, USA

Photo: M.Heintzelman
Latitude: 39°43'39"N
Longitude: 76°8'15"W
An aggregate quarry exploiting the serpentinites of the Baltimore Mafic Complex, State Line District.

Operated by D. M. Stoltzfuss & Son, under the name "DM Stoltzfus & Son Cedar Hill Quarry", according to Pennsylvania State Department of Environmental Protection. Produced 731,000 tons of material in 2003.

Mineral List

Albite
Anatase
Antigorite
var: Picrolite
var: Williamsite
Aragonite
Aurichalcite
Brucite
Cacoxenite
Chromite
Chrysotile
Clinochlore
var: Chromian Clinochlore
Coalingite
Desautelsite (TL)
'Deweylite'
Dolomite
Forsterite
Heazlewoodite
Huntite
Hydromagnesite
Limonite
Lizardite
Magnesite
Magnetite
Malachite
Maucherite ?
Mcguinnessite
Nakauriite
'Olivine'
Pokrovskite
Pyrite
Pyroaurite
Pyrolusite
Quartz
var: Bloodstone
var: Chalcedony
var: Prase
'Serpentine Group'
Talc
Vermiculite


41 entries listed. 31 valid minerals. 1 type locality (valid mineral).

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References

McKague, H. L. (1964) The geology, mineralogy, petrology, and geochemistry of the State Line serpentinite and associated chromite deposits, unpublished Ph. D. thesis, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania. [Forsterite compositions estimated to be Fo95-97 by refractive indicies and Fo 94-95 by X-ray powder diffraction.]

Lapham, Davis M. and Geyer, Alan R. (1965), Mineral Collecting in Pennsylvania: 50, 81; (1969): 52, 87.

Montgomery (Feb 1966), "Updated List of Pennsylvania Minerals in Pennsylvania Minerals (38).

Lapham, Davis M. & Barnes, John H. (1971), "Unusual Minerals Found in PA," PA Geol., Vol. 2(6):2;

Montgomery, Arthur (Sep, 1972), "Pennsylvania Minerals (PM), PM(117), Keystone Newsletter.

Grant, Raymond W. (Feb & Mar 1973) "Revised PA Mineral Lists and Index", PM (122 & 123), Keystone Newsletter;

Reed, Juliet C. (1976), Annotated Bibliography of Minerals New to the Pennsylvania List - 1965-1974, Mineralogical Society of Pennsylvania, Inc.: 14, 41, 47-48.

Smith, II R. C. (1978) Huntite chapter in The Mineralogy of Pennsylvania, 1966-1975, Friends of Mineralogy, Pennsylvania Chapter, Special Publication No. 1, p. 146-148. [Notes confirmation by X-ray powder diffraction by R. W. Grant, Lafayette College, and D. M. Lapham and J. H. Barnes, Pennstylvania Geological Survey.]

Dunn, P.J., D.R. Peacor & T.D. Palmer (1979), Desautelsite, a new mineral of the pyroaurite group: American Mineralogist: 64: 127-130.

Smith, II, R. C. and Speer, J. A. (1980) Pennsylvania Minerals V: Heazlewoodite, Ni3S2, verified from Lancaster County, Keystone Newsletter of the Mineralogical Society of Pennsylvania, January, 1980, p. 5-8. [Heazlewoodite confirmed by ore microscopy, X-ray powder diffraction including determination of the unit cell, and quantitative electron microprobe analyses.]

Rocks & Minerals (1985): 60: 243.

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