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Quartz from
Morris Mine, Schuylkill Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Quartz
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Quartz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Morris Mine, Schuylkill Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1478482
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1478482:6
GUID (UUID V4):7c551480-cd13-49b6-9eff-1c3559cbbe3e
Nearest other occurrences of Quartz
1.9km (1.2 miles) Chester County Mine, Schuylkill Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
1.9km (1.2 miles) Wheatley Mines, Schuylkill Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
2.2km (1.4 miles) Southwest Chester County Mine (New Chester County Mine), Schuylkill Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
2.4km (1.5 miles) Charleston Mine, Charlestown Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
2.5km (1.6 miles) Brookdale Mine, Schuylkill Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
2.6km (1.6 miles) Phoenixville tunnel (Conrail tunnel; Black Rock tunnel), Phoenixville, Schuylkill Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
3.0km (1.8 miles) Phoenix Mine, Charlestown Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
5.9km (3.7 miles) Ecton Mine, Perkiomen Mines, Audubon, Lower Providence Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
6.0km (3.7 miles) Collegeville Amethyst Locality, Collegeville, Upper Providence Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
6.3km (3.9 miles) Whim shaft, Perkiomen Mines, Audubon, Lower Providence Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Their best exposure is along the Schuylkill River. Ascending the Schuylkill, the first exposure occurs at...cases, a vermiculite. Mill Creek flows into the Schuylkill River about three hundred yards above Gray's...albite in poor specimens. In the sand of the Schuylkill above Gray's Ferry, and probably elsewhere,...bank. When the inclined plane was abandoned the Pennsylvania Railroad made a curved cut through these rocks...that found on Ridley and Crum Creeks in Delaware County, contained segregated masses of coarse orthocl
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)
Sketches ©§ ®foM RSnanaang nan Montgomery ©®monty9 Pennsylvania by F. Harold Evans with Forward and Appendix...Special Publication No. 2 FRIENDS OF MINERALOGY, PENNSYLVANIA CHAPTER, INC. / Historical Sketches of Copper...Copper and Lead Mining in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania by F. Harold Evans with Forward and Appendix...Special Publication No. 2 FRIENDS OF MINERALOGY, PENNSYLVANIA CHAPTER, INC. - Historical Sketches of Copper...Montgomery County, Pennsyl­ vania. Copyright © 1980 by Friends of Mineralogy, Pennsylvania Chapter and
Report (issue)
PENNSYLVANIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY FOURTH SERIES BULLETIN M5 LEAD AND ZINC ORES of PENNSYLVANIA Henry a;...revival of interest in mining lead and zinc in Pennsylvania notwithstanding that all of the old lead and...the occurrence of lead and zinc ores in Pennsylvania and in other parts of North and South America...is re counted that: lead ore was mined in Blair County in 1778 lo supply bullets for the Revolutionary...pumping engine in the world was installed at a zinc mine at Friedensville in 1872, and attracted wide attention
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
com/locate/epsl Spectral masking of goethite in abandoned mine drainage systems: Implications for Mars Selby Cull...19010, United States U.S. Geological Survey, Pennsylvania Water Science Center, New Cumberland, PA 17070...Editor: C. Sotin Keywords: Mars remote sensing acid mine drainage a b s t r a c t Remote sensing studies...goethite from abandoned mine drainage (AMD) systems in southeastern Pennsylvania. Mixtures of ferrihydrite...notable acid mine drainage (AMD) sites in the Southern Anthracite Coalfield, Pennsylvania. Shaded areas
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
Book
from Library Sen/ices as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of...GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF PENNSYLVANIA: REPORT OF PROGRESS c^ TTTE GEOLOGY PHILADELPHIA COUNTY AND OF THE SOUTHERN... 1881. Entered, for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in the year 1880, according to acts of Congress...regions : 1881. address Pleasantville, Venango county, Pa. Sutton VVall, to report on the coal and...and Fulton counties address Uniontown, Fayette county. Pa. W. G. Platt, geologist for Centre and Clearfield
Report (volume)
THE HONEYBKOOK AND PHOENIXVILLE QUADBANGLES, PENNSYLVANIA BY F. BASCOM AND G. W. STOSE UNITED STATES..._-___-_-___---_. Mine Ridge anticline__---___-_-__--_---_______-___-_-_._.. Chester Valley syncline_...Plain _______ 3. Reconnaissance geologic map of Chester Valley east of Phoenixville quadrangle. ______...______ 4. Generalized geologic map of part of Chester Valley showing overlap of Conestoga limestone....________________________ 5. Ideal section across Mine Ridge uplift, showing deposition of Conestoga limestone
Report (volume)
Deposits of minerals of wide distribution, such as quartz and calcite, have been omitted, except those that...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...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...............................................of minerals that are widely distributed, such as quartz and calcite, have been omitted, except those that...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...See Bauxite and Halloysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found
Book
of Saratoga in Now York, by Doct. John H. Steel. county A (Steel.') 1822." (N. G.) " New Farmer and...perfect, and abundant, sometimes in very white quartz. Beryl, large crystals in graphic granite, also...Schorl, black, masses sometimes contain fragments of quartz, and feldspar. Feldspar, sometimes white, granular...granite and gneiss, ; limestone, with Granular Quartz ; it forms a stratified ruck of considerable extent...the Kennebeck j very abundant. (C.) LETTEII E. (township,) Oxford Co. its variety of forms, in great abundance
Book (volume)
individual mines. ................... T h e Gulick mine. ............................ I 19 23 25-32 25...mines. .............. Roseberry mine. .......................... Shiloh mine ................................. Swayze's hematite mine. .................. Scott farm exploration. ................... (ii i) NEW..................... Edsall mine. ............................. Pochuck mine. ...........................Hamlen mine. ............................ Thatcher mine. ........................... New Village mine. .
Report (issue)
Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of Pennsylvania ....... 78 Table 13 Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary...Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of Pennsylvania..................................82 Figure 18...North Carolina; a belt extending from eastern Pennsylvania, across northern New Jersey, to southeastern...deposit occurs as a thin seam in graphitic Cleburne County. The property is, about 11.2 SINE phyllite which...radioactivity is 5 to 7 times background. Hill copper mine. RM 1968. Source ol informal Phyllite Location
Report (volume)
the ruby, sapphire, spinel, emerald, rutile, and quartz of gem quality have been synthesized. The best...Fluorite Apatite . 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Orthoclase Quartz Topaz Corundum Diamond The numbers preceding each...of silica (quartz, 7 on Moh's scale) particles, a gem stone should be harder than quartz. Some minerals...react to heat are: violet quartz (amethyst) changing to orange brown, smoky quartz to yellow, pale-green...sapphire, star sapphire, star ruby, rutile, and quartz are gem stones that have been successfully synthesized
Report (volume)
the Older Mesozoic Flora of Virginia, by William Morris Fontaine. 1883. 4°. xi, 144 pp. 541. 54 pi. Price...The Potomac or Younger Mesozoic Flora, by William Morris Fontaine. 1889. 4°. ,xiv, 377 pp. 180 pi. Text...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. 9°. 86 pp....pi. Price 25 cents, t 38. Peridotite of Elliott County, Kentucky, by J. S. Diller. 1887. 8°. 31 pp. 1
Journal (volume)
Mining Company .Gold on Operati Active inar, Mill Quartz Model nia Califor of View Interio 11 THE AMERICAN...Mining Enterprises. PETROLEUM AND OIL MINES OF PENNSYLVANIA .. COPPER REGION OF MICHIGAN .... EDITOR'S MISCELLANEOUS...MISCELLANEOUS PIGEON - HOLE . Flint Steel River Mine - Silver in Michigan - Cotton in France - Great...Places for the Transaction of Business Hampton Lead Mine . 134 MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.... The Coal Trade - The...THE GOLD MINES OF NEVADA TERRITORY ....... 191 QUARTZ HILL - THE GRAND MINING CENTRE OF COLORADO . 193
Report (volume)
State and local historical societies, State, county, and township officers, and individuals in all parts of...Wyoming, Illinois, superintendent of schools, Stark County, 1882-1898, for much valuable information concerning...several hundred cities and towns, and corrections of county names in the State of Illinois. J. P. Dunn, Indiana...Indianapolis, Indiana, for additions to and corrections of county names. M. W. Davis, State Historical Society, Iowa...fora revision of the complete list of Minnesota county names. Franklin L. Riley, Mississippi Historical
Report (issue)
Site Number, Site Name ...................... 6 County, State, Quadrangle, Latitude, Longitude .........Occurrences located in the Newark basin and vicinity, Pennsylvania ..................... 110 F. Section F: Occurrences...located in the Gettysburg basin and vicinity, Pennsylvania ..................... 147 G. Section G: Occurrences...location ( county, state, quadrangle, latitude, and longitude) 2. deposit size (occurrence type - mine, prospect...south and east to west. The most prevalent name of a mine or prospect which was used in reference descriptions
Report (issue)
LEAD OCCURRENCES IN PENNSYLVANIA Robert C. Smith, II COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL...ZINC AND LEAD OCCURRENCES IN PENNSYLVANIA Robert C. Smith, II PENNSYLVANIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY FOURTH SERIES...1977 Copyright 1977 by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Quotations from this book may be published...published if credit is given to the Pennsylvania Geological Survey COVER ILLUSTRATION: Photograph of 1852 lithograph...STATE BOOK STORE, P. O. BOX 1365 HARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA 17125 PREFACE The purpose of this report is
Journal (volume)
6. H & OLLOWAY SG.NY. Alt7 Interior View of Quartz Mill belonging Black the to, Hawk Gold Company...Company - Delaware Mining Company, of Michigan -- Pennsylvania Mining Company's Annual Report - East Bannack...OF THE BLACK HAWK GOLD MINING COMPANY .. 464 A MINE OF ANTIMONY IN WEST VIRGINIA ...... FORMATION OF...UNITED STATES.... PETROLEUM AND OIL REGIONS OF PENNSYLVANIA ... 629 COPPER REGIONS OF MICHIGAN ... 543...Advertisements.. Petroleum and Oil Regions, of Pennsylvania ..... Prices of Oil Stocks at Philadelphia
Book
volume is dedicated is four-fold: (1) To locate by mine, deposit, or community those mineralized areas of...Co. Hematite CALERA, Shelby Co. Wavkllite CLAY COUNTY, Sec. 24. T. 19 S R., 7 E. STATUARY, Coosa Co...Co., (W. border of* Marble Crystalline TALLADEGA COUNTY Marble, (crystalline) VALLEY HEAD, DeKalb Co. Hematite...VILLAGE SPRINGS, Blount Co. Hematite WOODS COPPER MINE, Cloaburne Co. Sphalerite ARIZONA COVEI.I.ITE...Feldspar HISSOP, Coosa Co., (near) Beryl JACKSON COUNTY Hematite KENNEDYS, Clay Co., (near) Magnetite MILLERVILLE
Journal (issue)
Appalachian structures exposed near Newport, Pe County. Photo by Denise Royer. ~j~~~ FROM THE DESK...to develop alternative energy resources. In Pennsylvania this translates into maintaining conservation...between the Susquehanna River on the west and the Schuylkill on the east it bears a number of place names...artificial waterways like the Union, Schuylkil l, and Pennsylvania " Main Line" canals. It can even be argued that...ived (1836-1842) First Geological Survey of Pennsylvania, under Henry Darwin Rodgers (Jord an, 1979)
Book
Red and gray sandstone shale, and limestone. PENNSYLVANIA 40 I 60 50 Ml I 80 KM 76° -, I II --...l0000unse THE GEOLOGY OF PENNSYLVANIA COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA Mark Schweiker, Governor DEPARTMENT...Geology Slippery Rock University Published by PENNSYLVANIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PITTSBURGH GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY...from Hyner View, Hyner Run Slate Park, Clinton County, showing accordant ridges in the Appalachian Plateaus...of the Ridge and Valley province in Huntingdon County. Flooded meanders of Raystown Lake on the Raystown
Report (issue)
Broadwav’and 218th Street, Manhattan Island. 4—Quartz, var. Amethyst (purple), West Paterson. N. J. 5—Garnet...7—Datolitc (pale green), West Paterson* N J 8— Quartz, var. Smoky (brown), Broadway and 162nd Street...Mining; Zinc Mining; Tungsten Mining; Felds­ par, Quartz and Granite; WatehungMountains; Palisades Ridge........ . 11 Quartz (Bi-pyramidal), Manhattan Island) New York City .... . 12 Smoky Quartz and Muscovite...Muscovite, Manhattan Island, New York City . 13 Quartz, Bedford, N. Y......................................
Report (issue)
PENNSYLVANIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY FOURTH SERIES BULLETIN M 15 BUILDING STONES OF PENNSYLVANIA By RALPH... COPYRIGHTED 1932 BY THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA ADDITIONAL COPIES OF THIS PUBLICATION BUREAU...Structure 3 •> 10 Strength 10 Geology of Pennsylvania Physiography Stratigraphy Appalachian Revolut...Adams County Allegheny County Armstrong County Beaver County 19 1" -<» -- 24 -7 Bedford County -'•'...-;"» SO Perks County ;>- Blair County Bradford County Pucks County Butler County 00 03 07 77 Cambria
 
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