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Malachite from
Greenstone Quarry, Adams County, Pennsylvania, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Malachite
Formula:Cu2(CO3)(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Azurite2 photos of Malachite associated with Azurite at this locality.
Cuprite2 photos of Malachite associated with Cuprite at this locality.
Copper2 photos of Malachite associated with Copper at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Malachite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Greenstone Quarry, Adams County, Pennsylvania, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:240862
Long-form Identifier:1:3:240862:0
GUID (UUID V4):ef5f20b5-45f9-47fd-bcb2-80f10cb360e7
Nearest other occurrences of Malachite
0.4km (0.2 miles) Headlight Mine, Hamiltonban Township, Adams County, Pennsylvania, USA
0.7km (0.5 miles) Eagle Metallic Mine, Hamiltonban Township, Adams County, Pennsylvania, USA
1.2km (0.7 miles) Virgin Copper MIne, Hamiltonban Township, Adams County, Pennsylvania, USA
1.2km (0.8 miles) Pine Mountain, Iron Springs, Adams County, Pennsylvania, USA
2.2km (1.4 miles) Bingham and National Mines, Hamiltonban Township, Adams County, Pennsylvania, USA
3.0km (1.9 miles) Reed Hill Mine, Glatfelter Farm, Hamiltonban Township, Adams County, Pennsylvania, USA
5.0km (3.1 miles) Russel and Bechtel Mines, Glatfelter Farm, Hamiltonban Township, Adams County, Pennsylvania, USA
7.6km (4.8 miles) Snively Mine, Hamiltonban Township, Adams County, Pennsylvania, USA
17.6km (10.9 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
26.9km (16.7 miles) Robert D. Repp Prospect (Portland Cement Company), Carroll County, Maryland, USA
References
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Report (Issue volume)
RESOURCES Part 3, Metal Mines and Occurrences in Pennsylvania by Arthur W. Rose Mineral Conservation Section...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...him. Part 3 Metal Mines and Occurrences in Pennsylvania TYPES OF DEPOSITS by Arthur W. Rose CONTENTS
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...of the mines of clay and shale companies in Pennsylvania supplying data for use in Part 2-B, of this...concerning 106 clay and shale mines operating in Pennsylvania during 1965 are given on 79 maps of the State
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
discussion of the more interesting and unusual Pennsylvania mineral collecting areas is complete without...without including the South Mountain area of Adams County. Though the minerals of the area have been known...well studied, the "first-time" col­ lector to Adams County, and in particular to the South Mountain area...collecting in Adams County. The author will be glad to answer spe­ cific inquiries on this area. Adams County... 140 Adams County is the fourth county west of Delaware on the southern line of Pennsylvania comprising
Report (Issue volume)
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...active mines, 1962 .. 2. Types of active mines (quarry andjor underground) 3. Number of months that mines
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p4,, Over two million residents Arizona's Pinal County welcomes everyone as a V.I.P.!!! ?ieU S ~ , ae...MINERALS MAY-JUNE 1978, Volume 53 Number 3 PENNSYLVANIA! EXECUTIVE EDITORS Rudy Bradbury John Hanahan...Hanahan Jr Richard S. Mitchell GUEST PENNSYLVANIA EDITOR Delbert L. Oswald FOUNDER Peter Zodac MANAGING EDITOR...Schmerling 94 Pennsylvania- A Geological Gem Beth Schooler 99 The Paleontology of Western Pennsylvania Richard...Chert in Western Pennsylvania Richard L. George 108 Rare Earth Minerals from Pennsylvania Ralph G. Wells
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COLLECTING THE MINERALS OF SOUTHERN PENNSYLVANIA By PAUL BROUGHTON American University, Washington 16...southern Pennsylvania was at the West Ridge Quarry at Blue Ridge Summit, Adams County. This quarry is of...a mountain. At the quarry we were able to collect several specimens of malachite and native copper. The...The best malachite specimens occurred as coatings on a milky quartz vein, which was uncovered near the...the entrance to the quarry. The bedrock of the quarry is a greenstone. The quarry is operated by the Rubberoid
Report (edition)
SERIFS MINERAL COLLECTING PENNSYLVANIA COMMOWl FAITH OF PENNSYLVANIA PY G345/4.3 G33 1959 Snrrtary...Lapham, Davis M. Mineral Collecting in Pennsylvania c.l PENNSYLVANIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN G 33 ... MINERAL COLLECTING IN PENNSYLVANIA by Davis M. Lapham and Alan R. Geyer JMluitrationi lu _JtU...14 Adams County 15 Allegheny County Armstrong County Berks County Blair County Carbon County Chester...Chester County Cumberland County Delaware County Fulton County Lancaster County Lebanon County Lehigh County
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
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barites. He had just a few specimens of azurite and malachite from the Flambau Mine in Wisconsin, now completely...News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 E-mail: lream@comtch.iea.com...feldspar. The locality, I believe, is a granite quarry. I have been told that, at the site, the large...attractive lustrous green barite specimens, many with malachite, from the Dikuluwe Mine in Shaba, Zaire. I have...Fifties, i.e. chiastolite crystals from Madera County, CA. They used to be very common, almost ubiquitous
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
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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:...(banded, various colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY MACON:  at Holton Quarry, 7½ mi. NWagate;  N of Calloway
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 .... . ...... .
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
A PENNSYLVANIA STATE MINERAL By RICHMOND E. MYERS Moravian College, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Downloaded...August 2017 Reprinted from Proceedings of the Pennsylvania Academy of Science, pages 140-146. Vol. XXXIV...XXXIV, 1960 At the spring meeting of the Pennsylvania Academy of Science held at Schwenksville in 1959...ardent Pennsylvania rockhounds. The question was raised, "What is the state mineral of Pennsylvania ?" We...other states would be justified far more than Pennsylvania in adopting any one of them. Lansfordite and
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of some of the principal localities in the same county, was given by Messrs . Greg and Lettsom in their...locality by some independent authority, such as maps, county directories, local guide books, &c. The geological...LONDONDERRY LONGFORD LOUTH MAYO MEATH MONAGHAN . QUEEN'S COUNTY . . . SLIGO TIPPERARY TYRONE . WATERFORD...possible, the various mineral- localities in the same county around their respective post-towns. A few cases...rule, where a parish or village is situated in one county, and its post-town in another. Chains of hills
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the western counties, especially the Clay Center Quarry 12 miles southeast of Toledo but in Ottawa Co....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...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay
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the western counties, especially the Clay Center Quarry 12 miles southeast of Toledo but in Ottawa Co....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...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay
Report (issue)
.................................... Millbrook Quarry Member ..........................................near the end of Virginia State Route 656, Loudoun County, Va............. ...... ..... .. ........ . 16...slab at the Culpeper Crushed Stone quarry, Stevensburg, Culpeper County, Va. .............................Siltstone exposed in north quarry face at the Culpeper Crushed Stone quarry near Stevensburg, Culpeper...Siltstone at the Culpeper Crushed Stone quarry, Stevensburg, Culpeper County, Va............................
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of Saratoga in Now York, by Doct. John H. Steel. county A (Steel.') 1822." (N. G.) " New Farmer and...compact, in veins traversing granite, gneiss, greenstone, &cc. Hornblende, fibrous, in large proportions...compact, in veins traversing granite, gneiss, &c. greenstone, Granular Epidote, in veins more than a foot...HANOVER. Precious Garnet, in dodecaedrons in , greenstone, near Dart- mouth College. (C.) Carbonate oj...filling crevices, also in the same rock. Fibrous Malachite, in very thin veins, rare. (Hall.) Staurotide
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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...minesColumbite, Gold, Silver, etc.; and (2) Old Marble Quarry on the Needles Hwy. 5.5 mi. NEScheelite, and deep
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...given in the categories of : 1. name and location ( county, state, quadrangle, latitude, and longitude) 2...stream, or town. County, State, Quadrangle, Latitude, Longitude Information in the county, state, quadrangle
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THE MINERALS OF ALBEMARLE COUNTY, VIRGINIA PART I I : CARBONATES, SULFATES, AND PHOSPHATES By R. S. MITCHELL...from the old Alberene quarry. In the carbonates, sulfates, and phosphates new quarry at Alberene white cleavable...Stone quarry at Red Hill. Calcite is the major component of the common in the soapstone quarry at Old...white ferroan dolomite ses the eastern edge of the county. White rhombohedrons, are embedded in mas- cleavable...from the Esmont James near Warminster in Nelson County. However, marble does occur in Alquarry are siderite
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Department of Geological Sciences Duluth MN 55812-2496 USA grapp@d.umn.edu ISBN: 978-3-540-78593-4 e-ISBN:...Eastern Desert . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 3.2 Slate quarry, eastern United States . . . . . . . . . . . ....quartzite, Boulder Lake Reservoir, St. Louis County, Minnesota, USA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... 86 Major obsidian deposits of the southwestern USA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Basalt...Basalt hafted hammer from Lake Superior north shore, USA . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Hafted granite hammer from
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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...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason
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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...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason
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Jr. Inesite from the Hale Creek mine, Trinity County, California...................................... Large diamond crystal, 28 carats, from Liagsu County, Shangdong Province, China. (All specimens pictured...15 cm in height. An exceptional vug of velvet malachite stalactites from Guangdong measures 42 cm in width...rare mineral found only at Hsianghualin, Linwu County, Hunan Province, China. There followed a very large...5 x 5 .5 c m ;a l7 x 35-cm malachite geode contain­ ing velvet malachite stalactites —a specimen of great
 
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