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Wulfenite from
Charleston Mine, Charlestown Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Wulfenite
Formula:Pb(MoO4)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Wulfenite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Charleston Mine, Charlestown Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:346443
Long-form Identifier:1:3:346443:4
GUID (UUID V4):a57e1016-5a8d-4dc6-8959-c0a88424bdc0
Nearest other occurrences of Wulfenite
1.1km (0.7 miles) Southwest Chester County Mine (New Chester County Mine), Schuylkill Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
1.3km (0.8 miles) Chester County Mine, Schuylkill Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
1.4km (0.8 miles) Brookdale Mine, Schuylkill Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
1.5km (0.9 miles) Wheatley Mines, Schuylkill Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
1.5km (0.9 miles) Phoenix Mine, Charlestown Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
8.0km (5.0 miles) Ecton Mine, Perkiomen Mines, Audubon, Lower Providence Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
8.4km (5.2 miles) Whim shaft, Perkiomen Mines, Audubon, Lower Providence Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
8.6km (5.3 miles) Perkiomen Copper Mine, Perkiomen Mines, Audubon, Lower Providence Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
38.4km (23.9 miles) Doan's Lead Mine (New Britain Mine), New Galena, New Britain Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, USA
68.9km (42.8 miles) Pequea Silver Mine, Pequea Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
minerals, including azurite, malachite, smithsonite, wulfenite, pyromorphite, and mimetite. Of these, the acquisition...anglesite, pyromorphite, smithsonite, hemimorphite, wulfenite, willemite, vanadinite, descloizite, caledonite...Preble Hill mine near Garland, Maine; the old lead mine near Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut;...Perkiomen mine, Montgomery County, and the well-known Wheatley and nearby mines, Phoenixville, Chester County...County, Pennsylvania (Slot0 1989). In the western United States. where morc arid climates prc*vail, mimetite
Report (volume)
value. Some minerals, such as the copper ores of Pennsylvania, are included in the list not because they occur...Oregon............Prof. A. J. Collier, Eugene. Pennsylvania.... .Mr. R. R. Hice, Beaver. Prof. Florence...Providence. South Carolina.. .Dr. Earle Sloan, Charleston. South Dakota... .Prof. E. C. Perisho, Vermilion...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;
Report (volume)
........................................... 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...Providence. South Carolina__.Dr. Earle Sloan, Charleston. South Dakota_.Prof. E. C. Perisho, Vermilion...See Bauxite and Halloysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found
Report (edition)
PENNSYLVANIA STATE LIBRARY OF 0144 00141189 1 v < 2 £ m- c oi; c» tt*s“S S Si! at tss^s isl^j...1 ' s WJ= ~S 5! s „3 &«eq Sjg® . . PENNSYLVANIA 1 .8 ^2»SS 3 d 5-s &s z l|lt« 7* < OF ...GEOLOGY REPORT 1976 33 MINERAL COLLECTING IN PENNSYLVANIA by Alan R. Geyer Robert C. Smith, John H....Graphics by Albert E. VanOlden COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES TOPOGRAPHIC...II Copyrighted 1976 by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Quotations from this book may be published if
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mineral Club of Lower Bucks County, Fairless Hills, found quartz crystals, wulfenite, pyro­ morphite, galena...at the Wheatley Mine. The Monogahela Rockhounds, Homestead, went to the Bingham Mine and collected cooperrhyolite...Mineralogical Soci­ ety collected garnets at Green's Garnet Mine for use as "door give-a-ways" at their September...needed. PENNSYLVANIA MARYLAND Congratulations to the Mineralogical Society of Pennsylvania for publishing...Bulletin has been an out­ standing reference on Pennsylvania min­ erals and locations. Also congratulations
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and Manila Mine Downloaded by [New York University] at 00:58 20 June 2015 Cochise County, Arizona ROBERT...mm, from the Gallagher mine. T HE TOMBSTONE MINING DISTRICT in Cochise County, Arizona, is one of the...extraordinary array of secondary tellurium minerals, wulfenite, jarosite, cuprite, and silver halides has been...fluorite, gold, jarosite, mimetite, vanadinite, and wulfenite. History The Gallagher and Manila mining claims...land along the Charleston road near its intersection with Highway 80 in Cochise County, Arizona (fig.
Journal (issue)
12-5 [evenings by appointment only] WULFENITE — RED CLOUD MINE (ED OVER SPECIMEN KEHA Wayne and Dona...Geological Survey Richard V. Gaines Pottstown, Pennsylvania Mary E. Mrose U.S. Geological Survey Abraham...copyright 1980 @ Articles The Defiance mine and vicinity, Cochise County, Arizona ..............203 by J. R............................211 The C. & B. mine, Gila County, Arizona .......................................213 by J. A. Crowley The Grand Reef mine, Graham County, Arizona ..............................219
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...Jefferson county; Helena, Montevallo, and Brierfield, Shelby county; and at Blocion. Bibb county. The Warrior
Report (issue)
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...of the ice plant, which grows in Santa Barbara County." Wines. Buena Vista Vinicultural Society of San...wines. C. H. Le Franc, of New Almaden, Santa Clara County, red and white wines. M. Keller, Rising Sun and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineral has been mined quite extensively in Clay County, Alabama, from one end to the other. It is quite...chrysocolla and greenish malachite. From San Manuel Mine, San Manuel, Arizona. Tourmaline: Mass of black...Mts., near Oracle, Pinal Co., Ariz. Wulfenite: Orange-yellow wulfenite xls with drusy rock xls in a dark...Stayton Mine, Lone Tree, two miles south of Antimony Peak, near Hollister, San Benito County, California...its original shape. The Stayton Mine is principally a quicksilver mine, yielding cinnabar and native mercury
Journal (issue)
11th annual FM-TGMS-MSA Mineralogicai Symposium: Wulfenite .................................... 98 COVER...from the Bunker Hill mine, Idaho (see vol. 13, no. 5) and wulfenite from the 79 mine, Arizona (see vol....action or inaction which might offend or aggravate mine owners. Secondly it means the most careful and skillful...whatever errors in reasoning that may remain are mine alone. REFERENCES BENTLEY, R. E., WILSON, W. E....connecting Mapimi, Durago, Mexico, with the Ojuela mine—at the time of its construction (1899) the second
Journal (issue)
Frontcover Wulfenite with Mimetite on Barite 5.1 cm, from the Rowley mine, Maricopa County, Arizona. Dick...explore literally thousands of mineral occurrences, mine dumps and abandoned mines in the public domain administered...Heintzelman (1805-1880) shipped ore specimens from his mine to be exhibited at the Cincinnati Merchant's Exchange...Thomas noticed tbe beautifül red crystals of wulfenite and vanadinite in the ore. He collected a suite...and collected specimens in 1864, described tbe wulfenite and vanadinite specimens in an 1881 article published
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
nice article. We also got a flyer touching on wulfenite, vanadanite, smithin the mail from Millie Schupp...in Cochise County. Wulfenite from the a good crowd but we predict that it will Hilltop Mine in the northeastern...people the county is our own favorite and the told us that they would have attended Defiance Mine at Gleason...Gallagher Mine at Charleston was more nationally known figures from all the source of good wulfenite and a...old mines in the area or name from the old Tiffany Mine on the that there will be much for sale except Eastern
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
workshop sessions have begun for the winter The West­ chester Mineral and Gem Society, Eastchester, found excellent...on silversmithing Member Bob Culver of the Wayne County Gem and Mineral Club, Marion, found a "fair sized"...the edge. Pyromorphite and wulfenite crystals were found at the Wheatley mine (Penna.) Robert Middleton...and now Superintendent of all mu­ seums in Nassau County, spoke with the Long Island Mineral and Geology...Canadian Minerals. The club reports that the As­ bestos mine at Eden Mills, Vermont, is to be transferred to
Report (issue)
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. A sbestos ore Lead ore, Balmat mine, N . Y. Chromite-chromium ore, Washington Zinc ore...not yet discovered or not presently profitable to mine. The mining of mineral deposits, once discovered...They consist of base-metal vanadate minerals and wulfenite, the molybdate of lead. These minerals replace...common vanadium minerals in the vanadate deposits. Wulfenite, a molybdate of lead (PbMo0 4), is also common...same general habits as the vanadium minerals. Wulfenite may be even more commonly reported in oxidized
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pegmatite at the Superior Quarry, Ra­ leigh, Wake County, North Carolina in association with kobellite,...found at the Superior Stone Quarry, Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina. It has been noted here with kobellite...nice article. We also got a flyer touching on wulfenite, vanadanite, smithin the mail from Millie Schupp...in Cochise County. Wulfenite from the a good crowd but we predict that it will Hilltop Mine in the northeastern...people the county is our own favorite and the told us that they would have attended Defiance Mine at Gleason
Report (issue)
INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MINERAL RESOURCES OF ELKO COUNTY, NEVADA By Roscoe M. Smith Prepared in cooperation...-Carlin district Cave Creek district ----Charleston district_--Coal Mine district~ Contact district Cornucopia...Illustrations . Plate 1. Mineral resources map of Elko County. Figure 1. Index-map of mining districts 2. Exploratory...petroleum, through 1973 9 Temperatures of some Elko County hot springs- -- 12 Distribution of mineral deposits...10. Bootstrap 11. Burns Basin 12. Carlin 13. Charleston 14. Contact 15; Cornucopia16. Delano17. Dolly
Report (issue)
INDEX OF MINING PROPERTIES IN COCHISE COUNTY., ARIZONA by Stanton B. Keith Geologist Bulletin 187...Employer. INDEX OF MINING PROPERTIES IN COCHISE COUNTY, ARIZONA by Stanton B. Keith Geologist Bulletin...Warren (Bisbee) mining district, which includes this mine, yielded 167,242,000 tons of ore from 1880 to 1981... 10. Index Map to Mining Districts in Cochise County and Explanation of Geologic Symbols. . • • California...geologic framework and mineral resources of Cochise County have been released. Because the bulletin was reprinted
Journal (issue)
Arizona has produced some of the most wonderful wulfenite specimens in the world. This 6.3-cm-high group...group of sharp crystals is from the Rowley mine (Maricopa County). (Jeff Scovil photo/ Scott & Margie Adams...FeAtUreS My Favorite Minerals 12 Part III: Wulfenite, cerussite, smithsonite, legrandite and selenite...the Silver Reef article. I must have passed by the mine a dozen times. Next time, I will stop for sure....5-7—CANBY, OREGON: Annual show; Jean Miller, Clackamas County Fairgrounds; 694 N.E. 4th Ave., (off Hwy. 99E);
Journal (issue)
found in Delaware County, Pa. The radiating variety can be found in John Smedley's mine near the Black Horse...excellent specimens come from East Nottingham, Chester Co., many of them measuring over two feet long...serpentine belt of the eastern township, which extends from the township of Broughton, on the northeast...Cliffs opal field is situated in the Parish of Kirk, County of Yungunlgra, New South Wales, about sixty miles...Cayuga lake, and Canandaigua lake through Livingston County ; also Genesee, Wyoming and Erie Counties. The
Journal (issue)
Oemson Universitv , Paul Seel Bala-Cynwyd, Pennsylvania George L. Holloway Northridge, California ...Prairie Creek j ust 10uth of Murfree• boro, Pike County, Arkansas. The near-oval shaped area is an enclosed...diatreme (volcanic pipe) near Murfreesboro, Pike County, Arkansas (The Crater of Diamonds State Park)....origin and derivation of mineral names. SO ROCKS AND MINE~ Natural Diamonds and Their Imperfections When...ROCKS AND MINERALS focusing on the state of PENNSYLVANIA. This special KEYSTONE issue will discuss the
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instance, a single Spodumene crystal from the Etta Mine near Keystone on the east side of the Mount Rushmore...beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm...gray Barite rosette up to 5 or 6 inches. CAMPBELL COUNTY MOUND CITY, W to the Missouri R., regional hillsides...gravels, etc.petrified wood, wood opal. CORSON COUNTY LITTLE EAGLE:  area ridges, slopes, stream beds...Hounds in the United States CUSTER COUNTY AREA: The November Mine, 1.2 mi. SE of the Needles Eye Tunnel
Report (issue)
Mimetite, pyromorphite, descloizite, mottramite, wulfenite, cerussite, anglesite, calcite, barite, iron oxides...Sonora, Mexico. In the USA, in Arizona, fine examples from the Old Yuma mine, near Tucson, Pima Co.,...in the Puzzler mine, Castle Dome district, Yuma Co., from the Mammoth-St. Anthony mine, Tiger, Pinal Co...Gallagher mine, near Charleston, Cochise Co., in the Apache mine, Gila Co., at the Western Union mine, near...crystals from Mibladen, at Taouz, and in the Touissit mine, near Oujda. At Keban, Turkey. Very large crystals
Book (edition)
McDonald Co\·er photo: \\ 7 ulfenite, Rowley Mine, Maricopa County, 4 cm high specimen, Evan and Melissa Jones...by the Chemical Publishing Company of Easton, Pennsylvania. Guild was a professor of chemistry and mineralogy...specimens of wulfenite than Arizona, including many mines that for decades produced the finest wulfenite specimens...gemandmineralmuseum.arizona.edu) is located in the old Pima County Courthouse building at 115 North Church Avenue...on the market. The mines at Bisbee, in Cochise County, have produced large quantities of gem-quality
Report (volume)
of M assachusetts, Connecticut, New jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia , Maryland , North Carolina, and other...geology of Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland , North Carolina, and South...appropriate, the applicable early Mesozoic basin, State, county, or 7 1/2minute USGS topographic quadrangle covered...the State are cited. More than one basin, State, county, or quadrangle may appear for an entry. A State...C.-S.C.) Deep River (N.C.) Durham (N.C.) Davie County (N.C.) Dan River and Danville (N.C.-Va.) Scottsburg
 
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