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Plagioclase from
Woodlawn Quarry, Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:'Plagioclase' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:(Na,Ca)[(Si,Al)AlSi2]O8
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Plagioclase data
Locality Data:Click here to view Woodlawn Quarry, Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:161280
Long-form Identifier:1:3:161280:6
GUID (UUID V4):cf7aabb5-2ec0-4d6e-aef2-a449de3e6468
Nearest other occurrences of Plagioclase
6.0km (3.7 miles) Mount Cuba serpentinite, New Castle County, Delaware, USA
26.6km (16.5 miles) Iron Hill Mine (Chestnut Hill Mine), Newark, New Castle County, Delaware, USA
55.1km (34.2 miles) Worth Brothers Quarry, Cecil County, Maryland, USA
81.9km (50.9 miles) Brookville syenite deposit, Brookville, Delaware Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Cumberland County, Maine. Blue-bladed crystals to 2.5 cm long occur at Blandford, Hampden County, Massachusetts...at Ratlum Mountain, Hartford County, and at Washington, Litchfield County, Connecticut. Kyanite associated...Jaffrey, Lyme, Orford, Warren, Lebanon, and Berlin, New Hampshire. Good gemmy kyanite has been found at Strafford...Bellows Falls, Vermont, and at a locality near Wilmington, Delaware. Several wellknown kyanite collecting areas...Creek– Prospect Park area, Delaware County, and at East Bradford, Chester County, Pennsylvania; crystal groups
Journal (issue)
Australia and New Zealand Micromineral News Issue 10 – January 2015 Editor: Steve Sorrell – steve@crocoite... Australia and New Zealand Micromineral News: Issue 10 In This Issue Introduction Great to see the New South...South Wales collaborative effort on an article (Woodlawn). And this publication will have at least another...one of the following: New South Wales: George Laking – bglaking@tech2u.com.au New Zealand: Jocelyn Thornton...inclusion in the next issue of the Australian and New Zealand Micromineral News. The Arthur Roe Micromounter
Report (issue)
STATE OF DELAWARE UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE DELAWARE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY . SELECTED PAPERS ON THE GEOLOGY...GEOLOGY OF DELAWARE '.'.. . . PRESENTED TO THE DELAWARE ACADEMY OF SCIENCE IN 1976 AND PUBLISHED BY THEM...PUBLISHED BY THE DELAWARE ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND NOW IS BEING PRINTED BY THE DELAWARE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...SPECIAL INVOLVEMENT OF MUCH OF THE SURVEY STAFF. THE DELAWARE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ENCOURAGES THE DISTRIBUTION... Transactions of the Delaware Academy of Science VOLUME 7 OFFICERS OF THE DELAWARE ACADEMY OF SCIENCE
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World News on Mineral Occurrences Items on new finds are desired. Please send them in. Abbreviations:...and much used in industry, is found in De Kalb County, 4 miles northwest of Fort Payne, Ala. There a...Another deposit is reported as being in Clarke County-" ARIZONA—Earl Mayer, 1753 " I " St, Yuma, Ariz...might now add, that Clinton is the county seat of Van Buren county. As stated, this bridge is in the wilds...know of two pivot rocks near Shirley, Van Buren county, and one about three-fourths mile from edge of
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_--_--._-_-._-_---___ Geology of the McCalls Ferry-Quarry ville district. ________________ Pre-Cambrian rocks...vicinity._ Lower Cambrian rocks of the McCalls Ferry-Quarry ville district..-----._---_-_-..---------_----_---_-______...Geologic map and geologic structure sections of the Quarry ville and McCalls Ferry quadrangles. -_.-___-_--_____...Pennsylvania Railroad near Vintage; B, Vintage dolomite in quarry at Kinzers..---------50 4. A, Kinzers pseudoconglomerate...unconformably overlying Vintage dolomite, Bellemont quarry ________________________________________________
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Studies on Crustal Effects in the Genesis of the Woodlawn Pb-Zn-Cu Deposit Brian L. Gulson CSIRO Division...which the volcanic P b - Z n - C u deposit at Woodlawn, southeastern N.S.W., was formed, and to relate...discrete rounded crystals or cores surrounded by new euhedral growth. The populations and U - P b data...ratio, Th/U ratios and rare earth data suggest the Woodlawn volcanics were formed by multistage remelting...multistage processes operating during formation of the Woodlawn volcanics acted as an effective homogeniser of
Report (issue)
contains crystals and fragments of crystals of plagioclase METALLIC RESOURCES altered to albite from...lending and buying policies. For instance, Avery County produced about $186,000 worth of sheet mica in...pegmatite and granitic rock, some of which are plagioclase rich and lack mafic minerals. Judged from exposures...Dolomite at Woodlawn in the Little Switzerland quadrangle and in migmatitic gneiss at the Causby quarry in the...southwestern part of the Lenoir quadrangle. The quarry at Woodlawn, which was operated by the State Highway
Report (issue)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 County Listings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . 4 Mineral Localities Listed by County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Beaver County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Box Elder County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Cache County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
deposits ranging from Cambrian to Permian in age. The Woodlawn, Captains Flat and Currawang deposits also occur...intrusives are characterised by alkali feldspar, plagioclase, minor biotite, and partially resorbed quartz...adjacent to the Hill End Trough which hosts the Woodlawn and Captains Flat VHMS deposits. The basalts from...the Lachlan Fold Belt from Goonumbla to Orange in New South Wales (£Nd(450Ma) = -~5.8 to +7.6; Sun and...and slight negative Eu anomalies (reflecting plagioclase fractionation). Fractionation in the early stages
Report (issue)
the Piedmont Upland Maryland, Pennsylvania And Delaware By NANCY C. PEARRE and ALLEN V. HEYL, JR. CONTRIBUTIONS...districts ______ -._-_____-_____-___._. Montgomery County, Md_-_-_---_---_-_-----------_-__--_-_-_Soldiers...___________ 715 716 716 718 719 720 721 721 722 723 Quarry descriptions.-___._-_-_-_-_-_-_---_-___--______-_...___--___-________--____.__.__ Cardiff "green marble" quarry...._._._-__________ Jarrettsville-Dublin district...descriptions_______________________________________ Montgomery County, Md___-_______________________.__ Etchison mine_____-_-
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Wollondilly Basin, eastern Lachlan Fold Belt, New South Wales J. A. Jones a b a a , P. F. Carr...the Wollondilly Basin, eastern Lachlan Fold Belt, New South Wales, Australian Journal of Earth Sciences:...the Wollondilly Basin, eastern Lachlan Fold Belt, New South Wales J. A. JONES,1* P. F. CARR,1 C. L. FERGUSSON1...Basin, east of Goulburn in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, contains a mafic to silicic volcanic...episode. Key words: ignimbrite, Lachlan Fold Belt, New South Wales, shoshonite, Silurian, Wollondilly Basin
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Willott Zinc-lead skarn deposits at Leadville, New South Wales, Australia, and their distinction from...deposits at Leadville, northern Lachlan Fold Belt, New South Wales, for over two decades has been largely...Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia Present address:...polymetallic deposits at Leadville in central-western New South Wales (Fig. 1). These deposits have enjoyed...was also influenced by metallogenic mapping of the New South Wales Geological 17 Survey which implied
Report (issue)
. . ALAMANCE COUNTY 5 5 Pyrophyllite ...... f .......... 5 ALEXANDER COUNTY ................. 9 ALLEGHANI COUNTY 1± Manganese ....... f 11 Barite , 11 Copper . 11 ASHE COUNTY. . . . Copper...Staurolite AVERY COUNTY . . ......... 13 13 13 . 13 Iron and Epidote BUNCOMBE COUNTY Garnet ...........13 Moonstone and Associated Minerals 15 BURKE COUNTY 15 Corundijin 15 Itacolumite 15 Toiirmaline...Amethyst f . , 4 .18 CABARRUS COUNTY 18 Minerals of the Cabarms County Mines 18 CALDWELL COUNT! 18 Pyrite
Report (issue)
contains crystals and fragments of crystals of plagioclase METALLIC RESOURCES altered to albite from...lending and buying policies. For instance, Avery County produced about $186,000 worth of sheet mica in...pegmatite and granitic rock, some of which are plagioclase rich and lack mafic minerals. Judged from exposures...Dolomite at Woodlawn in the Little Switzerland quadrangle and in migmatitic gneiss at the Causby quarry in the...southwestern part of the Lenoir quadrangle. The quarry at Woodlawn, which was operated by the State Highway
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
volcanic-hosted polymetallic massive sulphide deposit, New South Wales, Australia Received: 5 April 2004 /...in the eastern Lachlan Fold Belt, central western New South Wales, exhibits the characteristics of both...and dacite provides a basis for new exploration targets elsewhere in New South Wales. Fig. 1 Geology of...important stratabound VHMS deposits, including Woodlawn, Wisemans Creek and Captains Flat, occur in the... 3, 4). A thick sequence of coherent quartz-plagioclase phyric dacite occurs in the footwall (Western
Report (volume)
microcline-microperthite, plagioclase, quartz, and biotite in a fine-grained matrix of reconstituted plagioclase, quartz...conspicuous tails of recrystallized quartz and plagioclase parallel to the cataclastic foliation. Most of...sealed by fine-grained mosaics of quartz. The plagioclase porphyroclasts are sericitized and saussuritized...interwoven with discontinuous folia of fine-grained new biotite and sericite which define the cataclastic...microcline-microperthite), and plagioclase in subequal amounts; traces of fine-grained new sericite, biotite, and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
R E N , School of Applied Geology, University of New South Wales, Kensington, 2033, Australia. (Present...Analysis). 8. Quartz porphyry. Drill Corc. WE2. 49.3 m Woodlawn. north-north-west. (Paterson cf ctl. 1978). 9...9. Acidic tuff with quartz and plagioclase phenocrysts. Metasomonttu. south-west Finland. (Latvalahti...in Table 3 of a recognized volcanic rock from Woodlawn (within the '['-type area of the Lachlan Fold...quartzite from the Edwards Creek Prospect. 759 12692 Plagioclase-bearing garnet-orthopyroxene-cordierite quartzite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineralisation in the Quidong Area, southeastern New South Wales, Australia K.G. McQueen School of Applied...unconformity in the Quidong area of southeastern New South Wales. The composition of these sediments reflects...known in Europe. The Quidong basin in southeastern New South Wales contains Late Silurian, shallow marine...extremity of the Cowra-Yass synclinorial zone in New South Wales (Scheibner 1973) and include Early to...geological setting of the Quidong area in southeastern New South Wales @~/< Fold axis anticline, syncllne Early
Report (issue)
size or low grade of the occurrences. In 1976, a new look at this region appeared warranted by improvements...Topographic and Geologic Survey was able to respond to county health officials with details down to the level...zones at a house in Colebrookdale Township, Berks County, which came to the authorities’ attention as having.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Quarry L, Northampton County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... . . . . . . . C. K. Williams quarry, north part, Northampton County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Report (issue)
owned by Tiffany valued at $100,000. & Company of New York and First thought to be emerald but later identified...beauty are found in Cowee Valley in the Franklin County area of western North Carolina. Many of these...COUNTIES Alamance County • .' 22 24 24 Alexander County 24 Alleghany County 25 Ashe County • 25 Avery...Avery County 25 Buncombe County 26 Burke County 26 Cabarrus County 27 Caldwell County 27 Caswell...Caswell County 27 Catawba County 28 Chatham County 28 Cherokee County 28 Clay County • • 29 Cleveland
Report (issue)
Carolina Emerald owned by Tiffany f, Company of New York and valued at $100,000. First thought to be...beauty are found in Cowee Valley in the Franklin County area of western North Carolina. Many of these...Alamance County ........................................................... 24 24 Alexander County ......Alleghany County ....................................................... 25 Ashe County ............Avery County ............................................................... 25 Buncombe County ...
Report (volume)
............................ 16 34 42 81 97 Delaware....................................................... New Hampshire........................................................... 190 201 New Jersey.............. New Mexico............................................................. New York. .........F. C. Schrader: Besides giving several thousand new localities of mineral deposits and adding more than...especially from those of Arkansas, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Texas;
Report (issue)
district- ___________ Buncombe district__-_-__--_--_ Woodlawn district_____________ Franklin-Sylva district-...Wilkes districts. 3. Spruce Pine district. 4. Woodlawn and Buncombe districts. 5. Outer part of Franklin-Sylva...The most common type of zoned pegmatite has a plagioclase-quartz-muscovite wall zone and a quartz or quartzperthite...mica remains in the ground as has been mined. A few new deposits have been found in the last 20 years, but...Wilkes 8. Bryson City Spruce Pine 9. Zirconia Woodlawn 10. Rabun Buncombe 11. North Georgia, Franklin-Sylva
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Greenet al., 1981), Captains Flat (Davis, 1975), and Woodlawn(Malone, 1979; The Benambramassivesulfidedepositsoccurin...Australia:1 = Benambra, 2 = Captains Flat,3 = Woodlawn, 4 = Peelwood, 5 = Wisemans Creek,6 = LewisPonds-Mount...underwentstrong mm phenocrystsof quartz, K-feldspar,.plagioclase, deformationand regionalmetamorphism of lower...undifferentiated feldspar,K = K-feldspar, P = plagioclase, Q = quartz, pp = transmitted plane-polarized...coherent rhy- replaced,andboth K-feldsparand plagioclase comolite are characterized by granularfalseclasticand
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
are probably due to alteration of phenocrystic plagioclase and subsequent removal of divalent Eu. Substantial...intensity. Eu has been leached from both former plagioclase phenocrysts and the groundmass. Some of the Eu...volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits has given new impetus to REE studies in mineralized environments...that REE were mobile during mineralization in the New Brunswick deposits, Canada. In particular, Eu was...enrichment in Eu observed by Graf (1977) in the New Brunswick deposits is common to many volcanogenic
 
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