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Prase from
Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA


Locality type:County
Classification
Species:Quartz var: Prase
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Prase data
Locality Data:Click here to view Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:145655
Long-form Identifier:1:3:145655:4
GUID (UUID V4):d33cf70c-4173-4246-8749-67a7e2bd4a93
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (volume)
Del Norte County; Trinity River, Trinity County; Spanish Creek and Gopher Hill, Plumas County; Placerville...Dorado County; Cherokee Flats, Yankee Hill,and Oroville, Butte County; French Corral, Nevada County; Indian...Indian Gulch and Volcano, Amador County; and Alpine Creek, Tulare County. Other western localities are:...Diamond Basin, Ada County, Idaho; Curry County, Oreg.; and Nelson Hill, near Glacier County, Mont. The Great...Pierce County; Oregon, Dane County; Kohlsville, Washington County; Saukville, Ozaukee County; Eagle,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
large part of Philadelphia is covered with the Delaware River gravels and clays, but most of the streams...bank. When the inclined plane was abandoned the Pennsylvania Railroad made a curved cut through these rocks...with that found on Ridley and Crum Creeks in Delaware County, contained segregated masses of coarse ort...halotrichite occur occasionally, but on the Pennsylvania Railroad at 59th street there was an old quarry...northwesterly line between Philadelphia and Mont(romery County, it has been largely quarried for over a century
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
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)
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
highly commercialized, and often, some approach a County Fair carnival atmosphere — high admission charges...green, pink and black tourmaline. A deep colored prase opal. A large emerald crystal of good color in matrix...exhibit. One of them, a dark green stone form Delaware County, Pa., being the only one ever cut from that...from England. A geniculated rutile from Chester County, Pa., Adamite and smithsonite, polished, from Greece
Journal (issue)
its supposed power of preventing drunkenness. Pennsylvania has no extensive deposits of crystallized quartz...keen discrimination. The amethysts found in Delaware County are superior to those afforded by any other...amethyst from any of the Delaware County localities fetch high prices. Prase is found at Blue Hill in...Overbrooke and Howard House, Delaware County. At Hen derson Station, Montgomery County, transparent and milky...attractive groups of quartz that I have seen from a Pennsylvania locality is in the AmoricanMuseum of Natural
Book (volume)
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, area...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA
Book (volume)
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, area...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA
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Gives a sodium flame. Nearly insoluble. COMANCHE COUNTY: SE%, Sec. 4, T.3N., R.15W. The xtals are i to...side by granite, AGATE (See Quartz) CANADIAN COUNTY: South Canadian Rivers. In the gravel bars of...the Also in sand plant waste dumps. CIMARRON COUNTY: Secs. 7, 8, 9, 10; T.5N., R.2E. Cimarron Meredian...widely scattered in the Black Mesa area. DEWEY COUNTY: Agate is found 2 miles east of Seiling in the...at Taloga in the South Canadian River. HARPER COUNTY: Secs. 17, 20; T.27N., R.23W.. Jaspagate. Secs
Book (volume)
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...woods, etc. DAWSON COUNTY GOTHENBURG, in sand pitspetrified palm wood. DEUEL COUNTY CHAPPELL, all regional
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
Report (volume)
............................ 16 34 42 81 97 Delaware............................................................................................ 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...Oberlin College, Oberlin. Prof. L. G. Westgate, Delaware. Oklahoma____Prof. D. W. Ohern, Norman. Mr. C
Book (edition)
MARIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY 3 1111 00289 4184 \ I s Fifth Revised Edition A complete, state-by-state...corners of the claimed area, and filing in the county land agent's office. In addition he has to show...called bediasites from Bedias, a town in Grimes county. Gold is a subject by itself, but because the gem...commonly lavender Varicolored; usually patterned. Prase is dark green; plasma light 48 less blue, red...gem. Likewise, benitoite comes from San Benito county, California. Many gem materials are named for people
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Survey) Chester County, Pa.: Alabama; Texas; Montana: Humbolt County, Nevada; Beaver County, Utah; Loudon...~unty, Virginia; Wake County, North Carolina; Albany County, Wyommg; and Kern County, California. Natural...realgar and usually with it. It is found in Iron County and Mercur, Utah; also in Yellowstone Park in hot...Counties, California; Idaho; Humbolt, Nevada; Iron county, Utah. It is found also in Mexico. Stibnite is...Vermont; Haddam, Connecticut; Chester County, Pennsylvania; Chelan County; Washington; Pitkin and Climax, Colorado;
Book (volume)
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...of rd. a few yds., outcropRose Quartz. DOUGLAS COUNTY CORSICA, S on US 281 to Armour, area rd. cuts,
Book (volume)
Professors Ray Pepinsky and J. Van den Hende, of the Pennsylvania State University, for the machine computation... x CONTENTS Chrysoprase; Heliotrope; Plasma; Prase, 218 Bloodstone, 219 Flint; Chert; Novaculite...Bolivia, in sulfide veins; and at Hamburg, Cochise County, Arizona. Small twins up to 1.5 mm. in size occur...etc. Many of these types, which include jasper, prase, plasma, and other named varieties, are described....005 .000 ite Tr. .001 .0002 .0001 .0001 Pennsylvania Herkimer, N.Y. Hot Springs, Ark. .003 dle
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well-developed quartz crystals found in Herkimer County, New York. Again the terms "Medfordite" and ""Oregonite"...found at Overbrooke and Howard House, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. It has also been called ''cleavable"...\'icinity of Little Rock, Arkansas, and Herkimer County, New York. The latter locality furnishes which... In the found along the road from Little Lake County, California, large cavities in the igneous rock...position, so that Quartz, Variety Amethyst Jefferson County, Montana. due to the electrical polarity of the
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Jersey: L a k e Hopatcong, Greenwood L a k e Pennsylvania: S c h u y l k i l l R i v e r Vi r g i n i...dollars at the noted locality of Cowee Valley, Macon County, North Carolina. An enthusiastic family found and...visited the well known old Rutherford mine in Amelia County, Virginia, and found bright spessartine garnets...Excited collectors took home from old quarries in Pennsylvania and Maryland, pieces of apple green precious...green gem spodumene, was discovered in Alexander County, North Carolina, in 1880 and named for one of its
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Lelande (Juich CHILTON BOOK COMPANY Radnor, Pennsylvania Copyright © 1963 by Chilton Book Company...Lapidary Society to organize groups in Los Angeles County. these early associations Agate and Mineral Society...action was that other sections of the city and county of Los Angeles soon began organizing their own...moss agate in the Horse Canyon agate field in Kern County, California. The person who never North America...is only area near Death Valley, San Bernardino County, Calilocality. Most (Photo courtesy of A. B.
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Lela11de Oi,ich CHILTON BOOI'i COMPANY Radnor, Pennsylvania Copyright © 1963 by Chilton Book Company ...action was that other sections of tl1e city and county of Los Angeles soon began organizing their O\vn...Phoenix, Arizona Gem and Mineral Society of San Mateo County, Burlingame, California Compton Gem and Mineral...Canyo11's beat1tift1l material in San Bern ardino County, California. Note the lio11's h ead, 011e of m...a field trip into Afton Canyon, San BernardiI10 County, Califor11ia. Afton Canyon is a noted collecting
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HfiRIN COUNTY FREE LIBRfiRY 311110G386652Q I V Russell P MacFal A COLOR TREASUF FOR COLLECTORS...to Hunting Locations ? i 9 GIVEN TO THE MARIN COUNTY LIBRARY BY MARI N L MTNF.RAT. SOCTETY DAVID...of Keweenaw County. Mich- Part of the U.S. Geological Survey topographic the Delaware quadrangle of...pegmatite (g) Mount Antero, 12.000 (h) Chaffee County, Colorado (i) from the Smith collection feet... mine, canyon) district where found (township, county, (i) how obtained (g) state) details) 52
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Amethyst ..... Citrine ..... Rose-quartz .... Prase .... Sapphire-quartz Quartz with enclosures . ...abundant in this country. Corundum Hill in Macon County, North In the Lucas mine on Carolina, small amounts...found more recently in Cowee Creek, also in Macon County, about five miles from Franklin, and have been...corundum found in this region comes from Macon County in North Carolina, where the crystals, which are...Caiolina, and specially at Cowee Creek in Macon County, has already been dealt with undei ruby. In 290
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Fire Opal in matrix, Mexico; Wood Opal, Idaho; Prase Opal, Germany. TURQUOIS (New Mexico) Indian Amulet;...rubies, Cowee Macon County, North Carolina Cowee Valley, Valley, Macon County, North 90 Carolina...is occasionally found in conneccorundum in Macon County, North Carolina. In the In our tion with opaque...sufficient of Cowee Creek quantity to of this county good rubies are reward systematic mining for them...some sapphire is obtained Corundum Hill, Macon County, North Carolina of the same size. A price
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HARBOR !ROCK SHOPSl r::::-::, LAKE BAILEY N I DELAWARE MINE DUMPS IOATOUTE CHLORASTROUTEI 2 AMYGDAlOID...Survey topographic map of the Delaware q uadrangle o f Keweenaw County, Michigan This ,s an example o...mine , canyon) district where found (township, county, state) how obtained (found , given , etc., with...in pegmatite Mount Antero , 12,000 feet Chaffee County . Colorado from the Smith co llection 1/10/74 ...Holbrook ; University of Arizona. Tucson . California· County Museum. University of California and University
 
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