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Damourite from
Corundum Hill, Unionville, Newlin Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA


Locality type:Hill
Classification
Species:Muscovite var: Damourite
Formula:KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Damourite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Corundum Hill, Unionville, Newlin Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:310274
Long-form Identifier:1:3:310274:9
GUID (UUID V4):eccecb99-a8e1-404f-ac18-dcf990743a93
Nearest other occurrences of Damourite
6.8km (4.2 miles) Chester County Poorhouse Quarry, West Bradford Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
References
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Report (issue)
DESCRIPTIVE MINERALOGY OF PENNSYLVANIA 104 Na 2Al 2 Si3 Oi .2H 2 O; SiO 2 47.4, A1 2 O 3 26.8, Na...Na 2 O 16.3, Lenni, Delaware County. Crystals. Eyerman, 1911, 11. Composition: Analysis: Fe 2 O3 CaO...Sp.gr LOCALITIES: Berks County: Birdsboro, and Gickerville; Delaware County: Leiperville, Lenni (druses...colorless crystals), Felton's farm (Chester), and Ward's quarry; Montgomery County: Sumneytown, and Perkiomenville...cut east of Reading (probably Birdsboro), Berks County. White, Smith, 1910, 540. silky mass of radiating
Report (issue)
BULLETIN No. 2 A Preliminary Report on the Corundum DEPOSITS OF GEORGIA BY FRANCIS P. KING Assistant...Geologist BULLETIN No, 2 A PRELIMINARY REPORT Corundum Deposits or GEORGIA FRANCIS P. KINO Assistant...OF CORUNDUM 9 9 Early History History of Corundum in the Eastern Hemisphere History of Corundum in...Nomenclature of Corundum CHAPTER VARIETIES OF . . . . 11 . 13 21 II. CORUNDUM 23 23 Introductory...Remarks Sapphire Corundum Emery Physical Properties Artificial Production of Corundum CHAPTER 24 26
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pohwatp@si.edu Muscovite Shannon Canyon, Inyo County, California R ocks are made up of minerals. Some...the littleknown locality of Shannon Canyon, Inyo County, California. The specimen is 3 × 4 cm and was collected...from the Strickland quarry, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut. This is typical of the specimens...Santo Niño mine, Patagonia district, Santa Cruz County, Arizona. Barbara Muntyan specimen, Jeff Scovil...localities are the pegmatites around Newry in Oxford County. Newry muscovite crystals in the collection exhibit
Report (issue)
Serpentine Rocks Of the Piedmont Upland Maryland, Pennsylvania And Delaware By NANCY C. PEARRE and ALLEN V...talc, asbestos, magnesite, sodium-rich feldspar, corundum, and serpentine UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING...districts ______ -._-_____-_____-___._. Montgomery County, Md_-_-_---_---_-_-----------_-__--_-_-_Soldiers...----.._-_-_-------_-----_-----------_----West Chester district...-_._.. --__- .. .._.__ Philadelphia.....____.___._... Cedar Hill (Geiger) quarries._--_.-_-----__.____ West Chester district...___.____-________
Report (volume)
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY - CHARLES D. WALCOTT, DIRECTOR CORUNDUM ITS OCCURRENCE AND DISTRIBUTION IN THE UNITED...__..-.._.__.--...- -18 Physical properties of corundum ......................................... 1.5...composition of corundum ........................................ Determination of percentage of corundum in an...---..-.-..-..-...-,.-..--..-.....Sapphire or gem corundum ........_...'.................--..-.-. .........--.-.... Corundum......-....-.-.......--.......-......--......--........_... Block corundum.........
Report (volume)
https://archive.org/details/corundumperidoti01prat CORUNDUM AND THE PERIDOTITES OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA...SURVEY J. A. HOLMES, STATE GEOLOGIST VOLUME I CORUNDUM AND THE PERIDOTITES OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA...GEOLOGIST J. A. Holmes Chapel Hill. LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL Chapel Hill, N. C., April 1, 1905. To His...Carolina Geological Survey, a description of the Corundum and the Peridotite Deposits of Western North Carolina...I.—The corundum belt of North Carolina. General geology of the State. Geology of the corundum belt. Rocks
Book (edition)
uranium, cerium, lanthanum and tions yttrium. The corundum mines, in the chrysolite ledges of the gion...limestone beds in the muscovite, (mica) chromite, corundum, calcite, piedmont and mountain beds in most...Melaconite. 86. Andesite. 5. Copper. 42. Corundum. 87. Oligoclase. 6. Iron. 43. Hematite. ...Spodumene. 114. Culsageeite. 115. Kerrite. Damourite. 70. Amphibole. 32. Proustite. 71. Smaragdite...made in the Laboratory of the University of Pennsylvania, a number of others which appeared to be of
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chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...townagate, chalcedony, jasper, petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville...chalcedony, jasper, fossils. CHERRY COUNTY VALENTINE, in the Sandhills county along the Niobrara R. and Minnechaduza...gem qualityagatized and opalized wood. DAWES COUNTY CHADRON, in N part of Co. and as far W as Crawford...cuts, cut banks, breaks, draws and washes, gullies, hill slopes, etc.chalcedony roses, Celestite crystals
Book (edition)
titanium, uranium, cerium, lanthanum and yttrium. The corundum mines, iu the chrysolite ledges of the mountain...prochlorite, cerolite, fibrolite, And margarite, damourite. the discovery of so scientific many mineral... 83. Biotite. 125. Zippeite. Oxixles. 42. Corundum. 84. Muscovite. 43. Hematite. 85. Lahradorite...Burdiek, Macon Prof. J. T. I From am of county, of Mr. J. A. D. Stevenson, of States- Humphreys...their size, Cabarrus county, the Montgomery with have been Crump Mine county, (at the lat- octahedral
Book (volume)
600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason
Book (volume)
600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason
Report (volume)
knowledge of the geology of Texas, by Robert T. Hill. 37i BULLETIN No. 46. The nature and origin of...of the Tuscaloosa formation, near Havana, Hale County, Ala ............................................sections of the Liguitic.................. XVIII. Oak Hill, Pine Barren series of the Lignitic...............phosphate beds .............. Section at Olympia, Bath County, Ky.............................. Apatite in the...the Bonanza pit, Union mine, Portland, Ottawa County, Quebec, Canada.................................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and RUBIES in sit5 with CO~UNDUH,at the CULSXGE~CORUNDUM-~IIN]~,~_KCONCOUNTY,NORTH CAaoLr~X. By Colonel...mineralogieally considered, merely coloured crystals of corundum, which mineral species has been shown by chemical...waterworn pebbles ; and although the existence of corundum in small quantities in granular limestone in Asia...numerous fragments of corundum on the surface and in the river-beds of Macon County, North Carolina, which...deposits of corundum now known as the Culsagee Corundum Mine. The locality of this mine is a hill, situated
Report (volume)
of 76° 30', from Tompkins County, New York, to Bradford County, Pennsylvania, by Henry S. "Williams. 1884...cents. 16. On the Higher Devonian Faunas of Ontario County, New York, by John M. Clarke. 1885. 8°. 86 pp....57 pi. Price 25 cents. 38. Peridotite of Elliott County, Kentucky, by J. S. Diller. 1887. 8°. 31 pp. 1...Knowledge of the Geology of Texas, by Robert T. HilL 1887. 8°. 94 pp. Price 10 cents. 46. Nature and...5 cents. 58. The Glacial Boundary in Western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois, by George
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commercial ores and secondary minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification...cities, and many of today’s prosperous western county seats began as mining-boom camps. trating sand...you such as those listed alphabetically by county, township, and range in Part II of this book. Where... that he may know first of all what mountain or hill, what valley or plain, can be prospected most profitably...Adapted from Frederic H, Lahee, Field Geology, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1952). * fifth ed. (New York:
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and geologists as among the most interesting of corundum localities ; and the researches of the late Dr...clear the mode of occurrence and associations of corundum in this area and in the great eorundiferous belt...admirable discussion of " T h e origin of the Corundum associated with the Peridotitvs of North Carolina...strengthened by the finding in the gravels of corundum crystals of similar form, with almost precisely...situated in the State of North Carolina and in the County of Macon, rather more than 20 miles from the borders
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Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee...listed by county and community, range and distance. Whenever the collector crosses a county line, he will...of the county he is entering posted alongside the highway. By looking up the state and county, the user...guide can determine the collecting sites in that county by range and distance from the major cities and...information to reach a specific spot within a particular county. Many old localities listed here have, literally
Book (volume)
read 99.72. 345 23, down for Goat Hill read Great Hill. 80 read 81 3313 Colusite,for Cu3(Sn,Te...in the third StiUweU, Crystal Chemistry, McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, 1938. R. C. Introduction to...V . {hnkJn), then from equation 5 . — X2) — hill hhix'i = hih x'o . = — x' h [7] , jp'o...variations. In some special instances (as in quartz and corundum), however, long usage has established varietal...of chemical elements used as varietal 2' A. H. Chester, A Dictionary of the Names of Minerals including
Report (issue)
. . ALAMANCE COUNTY 5 5 Pyrophyllite ...... f .......... 5 ALEXANDER COUNTY ................. 9 ALLEGHANI COUNTY 1± Manganese ....... f 11 Barite , 11 Copper . 11 ASHE COUNTY. . . . Copper...Staurolite AVERY COUNTY . . ......... 13 13 13 . 13 Iron and Epidote BUNCOMBE COUNTY Garnet ....................... 13 Corundum « . . 13 Kyanite .......... f ...... . . 13 Moonstone and Associated Minerals...Minerals 15 BURKE COUNTY 15 Corundijin 15 Itacolumite 15 Toiirmaline f ........ 16 Garnet .........
Book (volume)
Plains state varies from nearly level farmland to hill ridges, increasing steadily in elev. From 1,000’...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...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States CUSTER COUNTY AREA: The November Mine, 1.2 mi. SE of the Needles
Journal (issue)
been found at the Copperopolis and at the Eureka Hill . At the latter mine there are also found very good...collectors , attested by the Judge and the Clerk of the County Court , and other reputable citizens , was collected...have been found in those mountains . At the Corundum Hill over one hundred beautiful sapphires have been...and upward . In the same State , in Alexandria county , beautiful speci mens of the emerald have been...specimen of crystallized molybdenite from 28th and Pennsylvania Avenue , also chlorite , pyrite and crystallized
Book (edition)
Diffracrio11 File, 1601 Park Lane. Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, USA. Introduction This volume is the third edition...Green River Formation in (TL) Uintah Co .. Utah. USA. Named for P.H. Abelson. 20.7.3 AbernalhJile. K(U00As0...26 A. Z=4 [PDF 1 6-386]. (TL) Temple Mts. Utah. USA. Named for J . Abernathy. Abhurite. S n 30(0HhCl... 4 Aca Acanthicone. syn . of epi.dote. A.H. Chester ( 1896) Diet. Names Mi11 .. p. t . Acanthite. Ag2...A.H. Chester ( 1 896) Diet. Names Min., p. I . Acanticonite. variant of acanticone. A.H. Chester ( 1 896)
Book (edition)
267 Figs. 266, 267, Spangolite* Figs. 264, 265, Corundum rhombohedron r(10Tl); the same w(2l3l) bevels...symmetry. HEXAGONAL SYSTEM 109 cated, as with corundum, by the occurrence on_ other crystals_^)f rhombohedral...cause. Crystals of numerous other species, even of corundum, spinel, quartz, etc., sometimes show the same...the less distinct prismatic (1120) parting of corundum; the octahedral parting of magnetite (cf. Fig...depressions, rhombohedral C h aracter observed on corundum crystals from Montana (Pratt). Fig. shows a twin
Book (edition)
vein) at Newman Hill, Rico, Colo. After T. A. Rickard. 24 6. Banded vein at Newman Hill, near Rico, Colo...After B. S. Lyman 96 12. Ideal cross-section of Iron Hill near Waukon, Allamakee Co., Iowa 99 13. Geological...the Siluro-Cambrian, brown hematite bank at Baker Hill, Ala. From the Engineering and Mining Journal. ...F. Wendt 214 70. Vertical section of Longfellow Hill, Clifton district, Arizona. After A. F. Wendt 215...252 86. View of the open cut at south end of Mine Hill, Franklin Fur nace, N. J. , exposing the syncline
Report (volume)
anonymous papers, placed at the end of Part I Co. county cos. · counties CORPORATE AUTHORS. Am G American...Geology and Mines Pa. G S Pennsylvania Geological Survey Pa. Gen As Pennsylvania, General Assembly Pa. Top...Top G S Com Pennsylvania Topographic and Geologic Survey Com-· mission R Ont Nickel Com Royal Ontario...Porter (J B), 87; Rothwell, 74; Willis, 86a Baker Hill, Cherokee Co.: Brewer, 93 Birmingham district: Brainerd... 04 Chattahoochee River section: Langdon, 91 Chester series: Ulrich, 17 Choctaw Bluff: Winchell (A)
 
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