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Allophane from
Friedensville, Saucon Valley, Upper Saucon Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, USA


Classification
Species:Allophane
Formula:(Al2O3)(SiO2)1.3-2 · 2.5-3H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Allophane data
Locality Data:Click here to view Friedensville, Saucon Valley, Upper Saucon Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1206343
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1206343:7
GUID (UUID V4):9c2d91fd-fdc6-4ff3-acd0-dad1eac39639
Nearest other occurrences of Allophane
9.7km (6.1 miles) ⓘAllentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, USA
45.6km (28.3 miles) ⓘMount Pisgah, Nesquehoning, Carbon County, Pennsylvania, USA
57.7km (35.9 miles) ⓘJones Mine, Morgantown, Caernarvon Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA
91.4km (56.8 miles) ⓘCornwall Borough (Cornwall), Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, USA
References
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Report (issue)
PENNSYLVANIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY FOURTH SERIES BULLETIN M5 LEAD AND ZINC ORES of PENNSYLVANIA Henry a;...SURVEY Benjamin LeRoy Miller. Professor of Geology, Lehigh University. DEPARTMENT OF FORESTS AND WATERS R...revival of interest in mining lead and zinc in Pennsylvania notwithstanding that all of the old lead and...prospecting with dia mond drills for zinc ore at Friedensville. As the principal data on (he subject were reports... L. Miller, head of the Department of Geology, Lehigh I'niversity, to visit the locali ties where these
Book (volume)
Mineralogy of Pennsylvania. THE MINERALOGY OF PENNSYLVANIA. TIKIS Mineralogy of Pennsylvania, BY JOHN...(funth's "Preliminary Report on tlir Mineralogy of Pennsylvania,*' luted n* ...Second Geological Survey of Pennsylvania. Academy MINERALOGY OF PENNSYLVANIA. 1. SILVER. (4)i According...occur in Berks countv, at North Reading, in Oley township, and on Cushion Mt. 2. Native copper east of...me, several Ueberroth zine mine, Priedensville, Lehigh Co., years ago, at the probably resulting from
Book (volume)
375 9 f-2. 162 fiQl c, THE MINERALOGY OF PENNSYLVANIA PART TWO JOHN ETEKMAN < 1 > w Q O UJ 5...>CQ uf S B o i s UJ THE MINERALOGY OF PENNSYLVANIA PART TWO CHEMICAL ANALYSES JOHN EYERMAN EASTON... CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE MINERALOGY OF PENNSYLVANIA THE MINERALOGY OF PENNSYLVANIA: PART 1 490: 425: 426: A:...pink Lenni, Delaware county VIII crystals green crystals. Rocksville, Bucks county light green crystals...crystals. No. 1 shaft, St. Peter's, Chester county radiating, columnar crystals of light green to pink color
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...Felton's farm (Chester), and Ward's quarry; Montgomery County: Sumneytown, and Perkiomenville ; Philadelphia:...cut east of Reading (probably Birdsboro), Berks County. White, Smith, 1910, 540. silky mass of radiating
Report (edition)
STATE LIBRARY OF PENNSYLVANIA 1 1 II II II nil 3 014 4 00050005 «k. 1 ’^^jklTL% i ^IH ^ 1 k...of a thin slice of serpentinite from Lancaster County showing olivine (blue-green and red), serpentine...(icologist G BULLETIN 33 Mineral Collecting Pennsylvania in by Davis M. Lapham Mineralogist Alan ...Environmental Geologist JiU-ateJ VanOiden PENNSYLVANIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY FOURTH SERIES HARRISBURG...Commonweath of Pennsylvania book may be pubished if credit this is given to the Pennsylvania Geological
Journal (issue)
II . MAY, 1895 . No. 3 : A Wisit to the Friedensville Zinc Fines. [Read before the Students 'Mineralogical...Borden. Ar Friedensville , a little country village in the Saucon Valley of Lehigh County, Pa., occurs...and the zinc deposit so important that the Friedensville Zinc Company ordered an enormous pumping engine...dodecahedral cleavage. The most of the ore at Friedensville is massive, granular and compact ; luster resinous...a sulphide of cadmium, has been ob tained in Pennsylvania only in its amorphous variety. It was discov
Report (edition)
Geyer Mineral Collecting in Pennsylvania I COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS... ' BULLETIN G 33 Mineral Collecting in Pennsylvania by Davis M. Lapham Mineralogist Alan R. Geyer...Geyer Assistant State Geologist PENNSYLVANIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY FOURTH SERIES HARRISBURG First Edition...1965 Copyrighted 1965 b y the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Quotations from this book may be published....... . .. . Adams County .... . .. ... ............... . . ... . Allegheny County .... . ...... . ..
Report (issue)
Al2 O3 ÂČ 1:3ÂĄ2:0(SiO2 ) ÂČ 2:5ÂĄ3:0(H2 O) Allophane c 2001 ° Mineral Data Publishing, version 1.2 Crystal...00 99.76 [99.84] (1) Allentown, Lehigh Co., Pennsylvania, USA; CaO as (Ca; Mg)CO3 : (2) Iijima, Japan...copper mine, near Lyons, Rh^one, France. In the USA, from Bisbee, and the Maid of Sunshine mine, Gleeson...California; and at Friedensville, Lehigh Co. and Cornwall, Lebanon Co., Pennsylvania. In the Mbobo Mkulu...693{694. (2) Kitagawa, Y. (1974) Dehydration of allophane and its structural formula. Amer. Mineral., 59
Journal (issue)
p4,, Over two million residents Arizona's Pinal County welcomes everyone as a V.I.P.!!! ?ieU S ~ , ae...MINERALS MAY-JUNE 1978, Volume 53 Number 3 PENNSYLVANIA! EXECUTIVE EDITORS Rudy Bradbury John Hanahan...Hanahan Jr Richard S. Mitchell GUEST PENNSYLVANIA EDITOR Delbert L. Oswald FOUNDER Peter Zodac MANAGING EDITOR...Schmerling 94 Pennsylvania- A Geological Gem Beth Schooler 99 The Paleontology of Western Pennsylvania Richard...Chert in Western Pennsylvania Richard L. George 108 Rare Earth Minerals from Pennsylvania Ralph G. Wells
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
colleges and of the State. - - - - The Shenandoah Valley Gem and Mineral Society, Waynesboro, visited the...200 visitors per day. NORTH CAROLINA The Catawba Valley Gem and Mineral Qub of Hickory visited the Lithium... that the committee can plan trips. - Lawrence County for many kinds of - - The Gem, Lapidary and Mineral...- - - Curt Segeler spoke Society of Montgomery County, Rockwith the New York Mineralogical Club ville...presented a color slide talk about Collect­ the Mohawk Valley Geological Society, Clinton. Mrs. Heidi Lueck conducted
Report (issue)
Kentucky, and Wisconsin ................... Upper Mississippi Valley district ....................... Kentucky-Illinois............................................ Lake Valley district .................................................. Pennsylvania and New Jersey .................................... Friedensville district ............................................. Bull Valley (Goldstrike) district .................................................................... Rush Valley (Stockton) district ........................ San
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Minerals of Pennsylvania'" Mr. Gordon touched on the geology and physiography of Pennsylvania, and outIined...Lafayette, Phoenixville, the falls of French Creek, Friedensville, Cornwall, Avondale and several other notable...where along the re-location of the Pennsylvania Railroad, gypsum, allophane, titanite, pyrite and clinozoisite
Journal (issue)
...................................704 NEW FRIEDENSVILLE ZINC MINE. By Cha.I. A . Tho,na.I ............Foster Iron Mines, Tilly Foster, N. Y. Sept. 12-Upper Merryall Quarry Sept. 26-Chester, Mass. Blanford...the South Terras mine which is situated in the valley of the Fal. The country rock here is slate, with...(and) in an extremely mixed condition. · Paradox Valley, Colorado: The ores in this district differ chiefly...holes run. downward at a slight angle into the upper layers of the ore body. One believes these holes
Book (edition)
Pectolite, Laumontite, Apophyllite 2. Prehnite, Allophane Zeolite Section Heulandite 8. 325 Talc, Pyrophyllite...are the planes of the trapezohedron, Fig. 19. The upper one of the planes 22 in these figures, when extended...trisoctahedron in Fig. 21. The lower one of the three on the upper front solid angle, would meet if extended, the extremities...(Fig. 10); and in the suppressed planes of the upper pyramid being here directly over those suppressed...some hemihedral forms the suppressed planes of the upper pyramid alternate with those of the lower; but -this
Report (volume)
Confolensite Montmorillonite Steargilite Stevensite Allophane RÂŁ.zoumovskyn Collyrite Malthacite Halloysite...are represented either by a regional name (as a county) that does not cover too wide an area, or by the...Sussex and Passaic Counties, N. J., and Orange County, N. Y.; Cumberland, Durham, Westmorland, Northumberland...luminescence of strength indicated Weak Renfrew County, Ontario. Bovey Tracey, England. Blagodat, India...Prefecture, Japan. Greenwood, Maine_. St. Lawrence County, N. Y. Odegaard, Norway. _. Kola Peninsula, Russia
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is acknowledged. Richard Gaines of Pottstown, Pennsylvania, also provided help for which I am grateful...ultraviolet is quickly absorbed by the oxygen in the upper atmosphere. Oxygen atoms, freed from the oxygen...certain pollutants which might be carried to the upper regions of the atmosphere where the ozone exists...lights produced by Ray tech Industries, Inc. In the upper left, the pocket size PPS#10A short wave battery...good deal of enjoyment. Once 1 prospected in Death Valley, checking the hills and valleys, and of course
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is acknowledged. Richard Gaines of Pottstown, Pennsylvania, also provided help for which I am grateful...ultraviolet is quickly absorbed by the oxygen in the upper atmosphere. Oxygen atoms, freed from the oxygen...certain pollutants which might be carried to the upper regions of the atmosphere where the ozone exists...lights produced by Raytech Industries, Inc. In the upper left, the pocket size PPS#10A short wave battery...good deal of enjoyment. Once I prospected in Death Valley, checking the hills and valleys, and of course
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
SAN 1950 MANUEL No. 6 COPPER DEPOSIT, PINAL COUNTY, ARIZONA. 1 T. S. LOVERING, ß L. C. HUFF, and...Chapman,L. T., San Manuel Copper Deposit, Pinal County, Arizona: U.S. Bur. Mines, Rept. Inv. 4108, 1947...Schwartz, G. M., Geologyof the San Manuel area, Pinal County,Arizona: U.S. Geol. Survey Strategic Mineral Investigation...ore depositsof the Mammothmining camparea, Pinal County, Arizona (1938): Arizona Bur. Mines and Geol. Set...the rock to the north, but has somechloriteand allophane,and a moderateamountof hydrobiotitein micro-veinlets
Book (volume)
chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...townï‚Ÿagate, 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 qualityï‚Ÿagatized and opalized wood. DAWES COUNTY CHADRON, in N part of Co. and as far W as Crawford...woods, etc. DAWSON COUNTY GOTHENBURG, in sand pitsï‚Ÿpetrified palm wood. DEUEL COUNTY CHAPPELL, all regional
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be minerals. Microcline, Crystal Peak, Colorado, USA * 12 x 9x 5 om MINERALS: PRODUCTS OF A CHANGING...variety of geologically active environments. In the upper crust, minerals may crystallize in wide fractures...zeolites. Calcite (septarian nodule), San Juan County, Utah, USA * 18 x 24x Bem 14 | MINERALS: PRODUCTS...Madagascar e(2x23x3em Quartz, Mount Ida, Arkansas, USA ° 14x 15 x 10 cm Corundum, Mozambique * 17 x 11...typical crystal shape. Goethite, Tintic, Utah, USA * 16.5 x 3.5 x 2.5 om Drusy These minerals have
Report (issue)
Chromite-chromium ore, Washington Zinc ore, Friedensville, Pa. Banded iron-formation. Palmer, Mich. 6...——— Lincoln County _______________——— Clark County __________————————— Esmeralda County __—_______————...__—_______———— Mineral County _________________ Lyon County _______________———— Humboldt County ________________...____________________———_— Santa Cruz County ________________ Yuma County _______________—— Deposits in other...___ Hinsdale County _________________ Rio Grande County ________________ Custer County ___________________
Book (volume)
although excavations in the underlying black, Upper Devonian (New Albany) shales occasionally produces...colored Vanport flint of the Flint Ridge and the Upper Mercer flint exposed in Hocking, Perry, and Coshocton...ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE
Book (volume)
although excavations in the underlying black, Upper Devonian (New Albany) shales occasionally produces...colored Vanport flint of the Flint Ridge and the Upper Mercer flint exposed in Hocking, Perry, and Coshocton...ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE
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Balmat, New York; and Howard Brown of Lucerne Valley, California. Emanuel Fritch of the Gemological...lamp—the fluorescent blue of benitoite from San Benito County, California; the lemon yellow of esperite from... or the intense green of autunite from Spokane County, Washington. The color and beauty of minerals under...reference to the nearest town or village, a province or county name, or a prominent geographical feature, such...eastern United States. Mines at Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, were, however, major lead ore producers. These
Book (edition)
abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture), dept...always included in text, except in the cases of the USA, UK, and the provinces Ontario and Quebec in Canada...historical names of regions is preferred here, e.g. Upper Silesia, Moravia and Transylvania. Some names of...deposits of the central United States or of the Upper Silesian historical region in Poland, where the...Uintah County. Utah. and m (2.B. acanthite group). Monoclinic, C2/m, a,b,c Rio Blanco County. Colorado
 
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