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Chrysocolla from
Liberty Mine, Libertytown, Frederick County, Maryland, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Chrysocolla
Formula:Cu2-xAlx(H2-xSi2O5)(OH)4 · nH2O, x < 1
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chrysocolla data
Locality Data:Click here to view Liberty Mine, Libertytown, Frederick County, Maryland, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:150004
Long-form Identifier:1:3:150004:2
GUID (UUID V4):d6c2d6de-266d-497e-9e86-5008fc348924
Nearest other occurrences of Chrysocolla
0.7km (0.4 miles) Dolyhyde Mine (Dolly Hyde Mine), Libertytown, Frederick County, Maryland, USA
25.0km (15.5 miles) Springfield Mine (Mr. Tysons Mine; Sykesville Mine), Sykesville, Carroll County, Maryland, USA
26.3km (16.4 miles) Carroll Mine, Sykesville, Carroll County, Maryland, USA
26.4km (16.4 miles) Mineral Hill Mine, Louisville, Carroll County, Maryland, USA
29.7km (18.4 miles) Teeter Quarry (Teeters Quarry; Valley Quarry; John S. Teeter and Sons Co. Quarry; Gettysburg Quarry; H.T. Campbell's Teeter's Quarry), Gettysburg, Adams County, Pennsylvania, USA
30.5km (19.0 miles) Patapsco Mine (Finksburg Mine; Orchard Mine), Patapsco Mines, Finksburg, Carroll County, Maryland, USA
36.3km (22.6 miles) Fairfield Quarry, Fairfield, Hamiltonban Township, Adams County, Pennsylvania, USA
45.0km (28.0 miles) Hunting Hill Quarry, Rockville, Montgomery County, Maryland, USA
50.2km (31.2 miles) Bare Hills Copper Mine (Smith Avenue Copper Mine), Bare Hills, Baltimore County, Maryland, USA
55.9km (34.7 miles) Sterling Copper Occurrence, Sterling, Loudoun County, Virginia, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
on the Post territory which covers most of Yuma County, Arizona, and a small area in California."—letter...of Diamonds is an abandoned diamond mine (the only diamond mine in the U. S.) that has been opened up...Liggett military reserjade deposits in (Monterey County) Cali- vation are some of the very few found on...Middlesex signed to conserve the stone for removal County, Conn., was sent in by Richard by legitimate collectors...studies of the altered triplite from the local Swanson Mine showed that the little tabular crystals which I
Book (volume)
Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and  the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59...along adjoining Co. linerock crystal. BARROW COUNTY WINDER, along rd. to Jefferson and 1½ mi. inside...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States BARTOW COUNTY AREA, Saltpeter Cave, as floatjasper. CARTERSVILLE:...agate, (banded, various colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY MACON:  at Holton Quarry, 7½ mi. NWagate;  N
Book (edition)
feldspar quarries in pegmatite deposits, mines and mine dumps, and from "float" deposits, minerals loose...should always ask permission it may be un- or a mine dvmip. Cleanliness around a camp site and removal...Lincoln Co. Todd's Branch, Mecklenberg Co. Portis mine, Franklin Co. Muddy Creek headwaters, McDowell...Ferry, Hall Co. Horshaw mine, Racooche Valley, White Co. 1866 Vs White County Daniel Light form, %...Alabama has yielded a 4i%4 carat diamond from Shelby County, 30 miles south of Birmingham, found about 1900
Report (volume)
Rouge. Maine............Mr. C. Vey Holman, Bangor. Maryland........ .Prof. E. B. Mathews, Johns Hopkins University...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;...following localities: Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20, Pv. 7 E.; Jefferson...Jefferson County, at Elyton; Lee County, at Chewacla lime works; St. Clair County, at Gfeensport; Shelby
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...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods...gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason Cr.⎯fossils;
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...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods...gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason Cr.⎯fossils;
Journal (issue)
WASHINGTON May 4, 2013 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Clark County P. U. D. Building 1200 Fort Vancouver Way Vancouver...Lead Minerals from Golden Horn Batholith, Okanogan County, Washington Randy Becker --- huntbecker @aol .com...one-feldspar annite granite (border granite) on Liberty Bell Talus. Several specimens were found in Bob...secondary lead and copper minerals (cerussite, chrysocolla and linarite) surrounding unaltered galena. Boggs...with octahedral faces with brown chamosite from Liberty Bell talus. Collected by Randy Becker in the early
Report (volume)
............................................. Maryland.................................................13, No. 3, 1915. Brown, A. P., and Ehrenfeld, Frederick, Minerals of Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Top. and...See Bauxite and Halloysite. 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;...following localities : Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20 S., R. 7 E.;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ARIZONA—"Under separate cover 1 am sending you another Yuma County mineral. Look it over as it is a most interesting...my name in R&M. Was glad to send him some Yuma County specimens. That Novice Column is a very nice gesture...for the Riverside Cement Company as the Assistant Mine Superintendent. W e are operating in two areas at...reports a new locality for rose quartz in Cobb County, north of Atlanta, Ga. To reach this locality,...was picked up from the dump of the old Lemhi Union mine in Lemhi Co., Idaho."—A nice specimen of black biotite
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
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 (article/letter/editorial)
view showing the Indian Queen mine ca. 1905 at Farlin, Beaverhead County. 208 ROCKS & MINERALS Downloaded...mines at Butte in Silver Bow County and the Black Pine mine in Granite County have produced many fine crystal...Beaverhead County, the pegmatites of Jefferson County, and the Snowbird mine in Mineral County continue...Highlands Centennial Nugget in 1989 in Silver Bow County. The seventh largest gold nugget found in Montana;...should be sent to the author. LOCATIONS BY COUNTY Beaverhead County Anderson deposit, sec. 16, T. 12 S., R
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
A-Beautiful bluish-green amorphous specimens of chrysocolla have been found in Kingman. Mohave Co., Ariz...coarse xline galena has been found in the Aleo lead mine in Cave-in-Rock, Hardin Co., III. INDIANA—Slender...13, Kans. "This petrified wood came from Barber County, Kansas. I am not sure of its exact location but...York of adularia epidote, esbeen found Co., Me. MARYLAND-Zelma Wright, Jr. 3105 Dundalk Ave., Baltimore...imprints of fern leaves at an abandoned oil shale mine southeast of the city."—note sent in by A/2C Lawrence
Journal (issue)
Dam gold prospect is located in central Dickinson County, Michigan, approximately ten kilometers north of...the dominant exposed bedrock in this part of the county. Excavated near the tum of the 20th century, the...obvious even when visiting some of the Garland County mines. I also planned to do some Magnet Cove collecting...not be reliable, for information about from which mine they came. Most will have forgotten but often will...just the county, is better than erroneous detailed location data. The Sweet Surrender mine near Story
Report (volume)
_ 16 Warren mine ____ 16 Milan mine ____________.._____________________ ._ 18 Lyman mine _______ _ _________...____________ '.__ 24 Copperfield or Ely mine ("Vershire mine).______i______ 24 History______________...character of ores____________________ Hartford County deposits__________________________ Simsbury (Newgate)...mine_________________________________ New Haven County deposits________________________ New York ____..._______________ The ores__ _ _ _____ _ American mine ________'________L ______________ Workings and equipment
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Kershners and Buzzells found labradorite at South Liberty, and the Yorks got nice garnets at Vienna The Lincoln...dis­ tance one is to Cornwall, Penna., where the mine engineer will conduct a twohour tour, after which...Mineral Club. South I.ynf:cld, went to the Beauregard Mine, Alstead. N . H . . for some "hard rock" mining...Va.. for unakite. MARYLAND The Baltimore Mineral Society, a sec­ tion of the Maryland Academy of Sci­...a slab saw to the Club. PENNSYLVANIA The Bucks County Gemcutters Guild, Solebury, encourages members
Report (issue)
^ Anne Arundel County 43 Baltimore County 45 Howard County - Montgomery County 88 Prince Georges...Georges County Virginia 74 . 120 129 Arlington County 129 Fairfax County 131 Fauquier County 139...139 Loudoun County 143 Prince William County 149 Diabase quarries of northern Virginia 155 CAPTIONS...of the Baltimore Gabbro Complex at Ilchester, Maryland. Figure 6. Triassic diabase dike forming a ridge...Arundel, Prince George's/and Baltimore Counties, Maryland (Sterrett, 1911). Figure 9. Distribution of
Report (volume)
director | | The | minerals of North Carolina | by | Frederick Augustus Geiitk | [Vignette] | Washington | government...government printing office | 1891 8". 119pp. Genth (Frederick Augustus). United States geological survey | J...director | | The | mineralsof North Carolina | by | Frederick Augustus Genth | [Vignette] | Washington | government...meridian of 76° 30', from Tompkins County, New York, to Bradford County, Pennsylvania, by Henry S. "Williams...cents. 16. On the Higher Devonian Faunas of Ontario County, New York, by John M. Clarke. 1885. 8°. 86 pp.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pegmatite was mined at Barringer Hill in Llano County in the early 1900s but was flooded by Lake Buchanan...from 1900 to the middle 1940s; but the Mariposa mine, which produced most of the rare minerals, ceased...& Minerals on "The Weeks Pegmatite Mine, Wakefield, Carroll County, New Hampshire" (March/April 1991)...Karnes 56 Kenedy 57 King 58 Knox 59 Lampasas 60 Liberty * • 4 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73...66, May/June 1991 197 LOCALITIES BY COUNTY Bastrop County KEY mm T * ? — — — — best occurrence
Book (volume)
..........................................210 Maryland ...............................................................548 Table of Maps Page Alabama County Map ...................................................................................4 Alaska County and Stream Map ......................................................................22 Arizona County Map ..................................................................45 Arizona – Yuma Co. Hull Mine Site Map ......................................
Journal (issue)
LIBERTI COPPER MINE, MARYLAND. By Vernon / . ~filler .................... 665 THE ALICE ZINC MINE OF SOUTHERN...THE (llJ..4ltltY San Diego County-A Great GemBearing Area San Diego County, California, was at one time...camp of Copper City, better known as the Tubal Cain Mine. This camp was built around 1918 and had about a...body of manganese ore but none was found and the mine was shut Buckhorn Pass, Washinlfon 6 50 ROCKS...miles from Bissersk. On the other hand, in Siskiyou County, California, only three localities have been mentioned
Catalog/List
"'· f·,,or.-i ti.s cd: send a 1 ist of th,;'! mine"i",;• L, that price for ~ach piece There is no...(New Cornelia well covered~ Mine,Ajo,Pima greenish (Belstone light County blue coating on , Arizona...A) Cl92 ANDRADITE location. brown crystals on Mine near Okehampton Cl93 ARSENOPYRITE Arsenopyrite...micros and masses on (Ballycormick near Shanagolden, County U.K.journal of Mines and Minerals isssue lxl f3...location pieces, about a third covered (Bedford Consols Mine near Tavistock, Devon) B) for micros lx 1/2 ins
Book (volume)
instance, a single Spodumene crystal from the Etta Mine near Keystone on the east side of the Mount Rushmore...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...Hounds in the United States CUSTER COUNTY AREA: The November Mine, 1.2 mi. SE of the Needles Eye Tunnel
Report (issue)
n.d. X-ray Powder Pattern: Coon Hollow mine, Arkansas, USA; air dried sample. 15.4 (100), 2.67 (100)...(1) Friedensville, Pennsylvania, USA. (2) Coon Hollow mine, Arkansas, USA. Mineral Group: Smectite group...smithsonite, chrysocolla, coronadite, iron oxides. Distribution: In the USA, from the Ueberroth mine, Saucon...Pennsylvania; the Coon Hollow mine, north of Zinc, Boone Co., Arkansas; and the Liberty mine, Meekers Grove, Lafayette...Globe-Miami district, and the 79 mine, Gila Co., and from the Magma mine, Superior, Pinal Co.; and in Colorado
Book
Pennsylvania___ _ _ _ 1 _ 2 _ 2 1 CHAPTER 4 Maryland ... 3 CHAPTER 5 Virginia 4 1 CHAPTER 6 West...was m e r e l y p a r t o f t h e waste o f t h e mine. W h a t t h e y needed was h i g h grade ore o..." c o l o r " i n y o u r pan. Maryland: M o n t g o m e r y, Frederick, H o w a r d , C a r r o l l Vi...n d a n assortment o f fossils. Photograph b y Maryland Board o f Natural Resources. 2 K e n t u c k...Washington D.C. area visit Virginia's noted Rutherford Mine. Photograph by Dr. Virginia Lee Blackford. ical
 
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