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Pyromorphite from
Ecton Mine, Perkiomen Mines, Audubon, Lower Providence Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Pyromorphite
Formula:Pb5(PO4)3Cl
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Wulfenite2 photos of Pyromorphite associated with Wulfenite at this locality.
Baryte1 photo of Pyromorphite associated with Baryte at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pyromorphite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Ecton Mine, Perkiomen Mines, Audubon, Lower Providence Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (2 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:148079
Long-form Identifier:1:3:148079:5
GUID (UUID V4):50c7ca94-60da-4683-b396-5d4f7370d33a
Nearest other occurrences of Pyromorphite
0.6km (0.4 miles) Whim shaft, Perkiomen Mines, Audubon, Lower Providence Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
0.9km (0.5 miles) Perkiomen Copper Mine, Perkiomen Mines, Audubon, Lower Providence Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
5.9km (3.7 miles) Morris Mine, Schuylkill Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
6.7km (4.2 miles) Wheatley Mines, Schuylkill Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
6.8km (4.2 miles) Chester County Mine, Schuylkill Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
7.2km (4.5 miles) Southwest Chester County Mine (New Chester County Mine), Schuylkill Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
7.2km (4.5 miles) Brookdale Mine, Schuylkill Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
7.4km (4.6 miles) Montgomery Mine, Schuylkill Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
7.6km (4.7 miles) Phoenix Mine, Charlestown Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
8.0km (5.0 miles) Charleston Mine, Charlestown Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
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Report (issue)
I3fls£®[pS@®Il Sketches ©§ ®foM RSnanaang nan Montgomery ©®monty9 Pennsylvania by F. Harold Evans with Forward and...MINERALOGY, PENNSYLVANIA CHAPTER, INC. / Historical Sketches of Copper and Lead Mining in Montgomery County...County, Pennsylvania by F. Harold Evans with Forward and Appendix by Dr. Allen Van Heyl Special Publication...MINERALOGY, PENNSYLVANIA CHAPTER, INC. - Historical Sketches of Copper and Lead Mining in Montgomery County... Copyright © 1980 by Friends of Mineralogy, Pennsylvania Chapter and F. Harold Evans. All rights reserved
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...lithograph showingthe Ecton, "Whim" and "new" Perkiomen mines(left to right, from the east). Courtesy of
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)
THE MINERALOGY OF THE ECTO,N MINE, MONTGO,MERY COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA By JOHN B. RANKIN, JR. 5138 Gramercy...section of the the Ecton and the adjacent Perkiomen Philadelphia Sunday Bulletin newspaper mine. The ore was...at Phoenixville, Chester Audubon, the famed naturalist, for several County Penna., several miles west...west of years when he was in this country. The Ecton. Wetherill family of Philadelphia owned After attending..."Mill Grove" until the Mineralogical Societyof Pennsylvania, 1951 when it was sold to the Montgom- of which
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 (issue)
PENNSYLVANIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY FOURTH SERIES BULLETIN M5 LEAD AND ZINC ORES of PENNSYLVANIA Henry a;...lead and zinc in Pennsylvania notwithstanding that all of the old lead and zinc mines have long been closed...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
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 volume)
MINERAL RESOURCES Part 3, Metal Mines and Occurrences in Pennsylvania by Arthur W. Rose Mineral Conservation...Earth & Mineral Sciences The Pennsylvania State University PENNSYLVANIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY FOURTH SERIES...of Pennsylvania Quotations from this book may be published if credit Is given to the Pennsylvania Geological...1365, HARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA 17125 Bulletin MSO, Part 3, Sheet 1 M50 Pennsylvania Geological Survey...Robert C. Smith II of Penn State, and Arthur Montgomery of Lafayette College for information on some
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at the old Warwick Iron Mine area above Elverson on Route 23, in Pennsylvania. Perhaps several tons of...other interesting minerals from the old Perkiomen Mine near Audubon, Pa., are varied in habit. Microscopists...Perhaps the most unique type from the Perkiomen and Ecton Mines area present, in macro and micro forms...crystals on rock from the famous Majuba Hill Mine, Pershing County, Nevada. " This arsenic-pentoxide, cupric...Friedensville, Pa., zinc mine area, we decided to concentrate on the Correll mine dumps, near the large
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INTERIOR U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Inventory of Metal Mines and Occurrences Associated with the early Mesozoic...the U.S. Government. 1992 INVENTORY OF METAL MINES AND OCCURRENCES ASSOCIATED WITH THE EARLY MESOZOIC...Site Number, Site Name ...................... 6 County, State, Quadrangle, Latitude, Longitude ................. .14 VII. Table 1: Inventory of metal mines and occurrences associated with the early Mesozoic...Occurrences located in the Newark basin and vicinity, Pennsylvania ..................... 110 F. Section F: Occurrences
Report (Issue volume)
Earth and Mineral Sciences The Pennsylvania State University PENNSYLVANIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY FOURTH SERIES...of Pennsylvania Quotations from this book may be published if credit is given to the Pennsylvania Geological... ROOM 54, MAIN CAPITOL BUILDING HARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA 17125 Bulletin M50, Part 2-8, Sheet 1 Page............ 49. Other fire clay processed at the mine: quantity ..... .. ............ .... .. .......... 31 18 53. Plastic fire clay processed at the mine: value.........................................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Auburn University Auburn, Alabama 36849-5305 W Pyromorphite Downloaded by [University of Nebraska, Lincoln]...23:16 02 June 2016 Bunker Hill Mine, Coeur d’Alene District, Shoshone County, Idaho 190 ROCKS & MINERALS...23:16 02 June 2016 I t is only fitting that pyromorphite should follow on the heels of its sister mineral...between the two, particularly for the collector. Pyromorphite specimens seem to appear in relatively enormous...are well known to collectors. Unlike mimetite, pyromorphite is historically important from localities in
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= 7.102–7.112 X-ray Powder Pattern: Bastenberg mine, Ramsbeck, Germany. 7.090 (100), 3.549 (25), 1.776...16.75 Total 97.0 [100.0] 100.00 (1) Bastenberg mine, Ramsbeck, Germany; SO4 by photometry, CuO, ZnO...(SO4 )4.00 (OH)19.76 • 9.84H2 O. (2) Ecton mine, Pennsylvania, USA; by electron microprobe, H2 O by difference...linarite, anglesite, pyromorphite, posnjakite, serpierite (Ecton mine, Pennsylvania, USA). Distribution: In...from the Bastenberg mine, Ramsbeck, North Rhine-Westphalia; at the Rammelsberg mine, near Goslar, the Glücksrad
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INDEX UK JOURNAL OF MINES AND MINERALS ISSUES 11 - 20 (1992 - 2000) Michael Wolfe David Green, Julie...Julie Ballard and Richard Bell 2002 UK Journal of Mines and Minerals - index to issues 11 to 20 -1- CONTENTS...index, covers issues 11 to 20 of the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals, published between 1992 and 2000. Information...index. This is organised hierarchically by country, county or state, then site name. To avoid the confusion...century boundary changes in the British Isles, the county boundaries defined by the Local Governmant Act
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Part 1, Supplement, Limestones and Dolomites of Pennsylvania · by George F. Deasy, Phyllis R. Griess, Ronald...Earth a.nd Mineral Sciences The Pennsylvania State University PENNSYLVANIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY FOURTH SERIES...of Pennsylvania Quotations from this book may be published if credit is given to the Pennsylvania Geological...STATE BOOK STORE, P.O. BOX 1365, HARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA 17125 Bulletin MSO, Part 1, Supplement, Sheet...Acknowledgments 2 Section I-Active limestone and dolomite mines 3 Section Il-Crushed and broken limestone and
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........................................... Pennsylvania...............................................value. Some minerals, such as the copper ores of Pennsylvania, are included in the list not because they occur... Willis, C. F., and others, Arizona State Bur. Mines Bulls. 1-8, 1915-16. Comstock, T. B., A preliminary...Survey Bull. 126, 1895. Jones, F. A., New Mexico mines and minerals, World's Fair edition, 1904. Genth...and Ehrenfeld, Frederick, Minerals of Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Top. and Geol. Survey Comm. Kept. No
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High, Yorkshire: azurite, lxxxvi Cornwall Geevor mine, Pendeen, St. Just-inRoseland: uraninite, xc Hingston...1081 South Crofty mine, Illogan, Redruth: coffinite, uraninite, xc South Terras mine, St. Stephen-inBrannel:...nepheline, 114 868 Goldscope, Vale of Newlands: pyromorphite, 722 morphite, 722 Poddy Gill, Caldbeek Fells:...clinozoisite, 868 Yewthwaite, Vale of Newlands: pyromorphite, 722 Derbyshire Calton Hill: olivine, ortho-...ortho- and clinopyroxene, spinel, 483 Golconda mine, Hopton: auricha]cite, 441 Harp Edge: aurichalcite,
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Ramsbeckite, an American occurrence at the Ecton mine, Pennsylvania ........................................]. Dunn & B. D. Sturman Neotocite from the Foote mine, North C arolina..................................by /. S. White Phosphosiderite from the Champion mine, California.......................................QUARTZ (rose, smoky and colorless) from the Sapucaia mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil. The specimen measures 8 cm...Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and even California. Many letters
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value. Some minerals, such as the copper ores of Pennsylvania, are included in the list not because they occur...Sanford. Upon Mr. Sanford's transfer to the Bureau of Mines the work was put into the hands of Frank L. Hess...Oregon............Prof. A. J. Collier, Eugene. Pennsylvania.... .Mr. R. R. Hice, Beaver. Prof. Florence...Mawr. Rhode Island.... .Prof. Charles W. Brown, Providence. South Carolina.. .Dr. Earle Sloan, Charleston...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found
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Universitesi] at 20:25 14 March 2016 Blanchard Mine, Bingham, New Mexico T here once was a time when...originating at what was then known only as the Blanchard mine, Bingham, New Mexico. Oh, for those simpler times...fine brochantite from the abovementioned Blanchard mine has been selected for this issue. Brochantite, a...occurs sparingly at the old Loudville mines, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, and as coatings of tiny...tiny crystals at the Chimney Rock quarry, Somerset County, New Jersey. Dark emerald-green, acicular brochantite
Journal (issue)
Geological Survey Richard V. Gaines Pottstown, Pennsylvania Donald R. Peacor Univ. of Michigan Abraham Rosenzweig...by R.S.W. Braithwaite Graphite from the Lead Hill mine, Ticonderoga, New Y o r k ........................uncommon lithium-mica from Coyote Peak, Humboldt County, California .....................................Reduced Funds 1. Try to get what you like at a lower price. The most common way of doing this is to haggle...anyone might take a shot at micromounting. 4. Buy lower quality specimens. This is perhaps the most difficult
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regarding the type of ABANDONED MINES Guest editorial: collecting in abandoned mines (by S. Voynick) 20: 178-180...On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...ADULARIA Adu Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54...minerals from [the Santa Lucia and Sa Duchessa mines,] Sardinia [Italy] (by F. Olmi, C. Sabelli & G....AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298
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., No 1. Mimetite, variety Campylite, Dry Gill mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria . _ ... Specimen: 135...-----58----CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS UK Journal of Mines & '.\·lincrals No. 11 -1- EDITORIAL T The European...average bunch of collectors in fact. UK Journal of Mines & Minerals No. 11 -2- GODDESS OF MINERALOGY In...what class of minerals they belong. UK Journal of Mines & Minerals No. 11 -3- Encyclopaedia londinensis...Hunterian Museum. Author's photo. UK Journal of Mines & Minerals :-Jo. 11 -4- 0 I Km BORROW-PIT --
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
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on silversmithing Member Bob Culver of the Wayne County Gem and Mineral Club, Marion, found a "fair sized"...inch on 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...Mining was the topic of Oliver Campbell, Director of Mines and Properties at the Buffalo Office of Na­ tional...Canadian Minerals. The club reports that the As­ bestos mine at Eden Mills, Vermont, is to be transferred to
 
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