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Anthracite from
Shamokin, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, USA


Classification
Type:Anthracite
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Anthracite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Shamokin, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:280397
Long-form Identifier:1:3:280397:5
GUID (UUID V4):4e29e215-5d1c-40dd-b6ef-c8750c716513
Nearest other occurrences of Anthracite
2.5km (1.5 miles) Burnside, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, USA
18.4km (11.5 miles) Centralia, Columbia County, Pennsylvania, USA
24.3km (15.1 miles) Forestville Coal Dump Fires, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, USA
30.3km (18.8 miles) Wadesville, New Castle Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, USA
30.4km (18.9 miles) Kehley's Run Mine, Shenandoah, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, USA
38.1km (23.7 miles) Kuperavage Mine, Blythe Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, USA
52.6km (32.7 miles) Hazleton, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, USA
63.3km (39.4 miles) Nesquehoning Coal Mine, Nesquehoning, Carbon County, Pennsylvania, USA
87.9km (54.6 miles) Sullivan Trail Coal Company Mine, Pittston, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, USA
99.3km (61.7 miles) Scranton, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, USA
References
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Journal (issue)
Vol. 48, No. 3 Pennsylvania Geology Table of Contents Editorial—A Look Back and Ahead Page 2 Evidence...Lawrence Mine Pools, Western Middle Anthracite Field, Pennsylvania Page 3 Revisiting the Pymatuning Earthquake...org/post-cards.html (accessed on September 26, 2018). Pennsylvania Geology Fall 2018 EDITORIAL A Look Back and...and Ahead Gale C. Blackmer, State Geologist Pennsylvania Geological Survey It’s been quite a year. Mother...early-season snowstorm destined to become a Pennsylvania legend. We haven’t been easy on each other,
Report (issue)
92-568 Field Trip Guidebook: The Anthracite Basins of Eastern Pennsylvania by: Jeffrey R. Levine and Jane...Petrology (9th) The Pennsylvania State University University Park, Pennsylvania July 25, 1992 Field... Field Trip Guidebook; The Anthracite Basins of Eastern Pennsylvania U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report...central Pennsylvania, encompassing the field trip route and most of the Pennsylvania Anthracite region...of the photo. To the east of die river lie die anthracite basins, delineated by the bounding sandstone
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YIN.VA'IA.SNN COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA Robert P. Casey, Governor ·DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL...early Mesozoic basins.~/,.~ .... , .......... 10 County topographic map series:n9w complete .............Valley strip miriet::·t~s·mfl~s-~Outhwest of Shamokin, in Coal Township,· North~ umbertan·(j'County>This...flora of the Anthracite region made his name familiar to many paleontologists in Pennsylvania and the United...paleobotanical reports on the Pennsylvania anthracite fields: Plant fossils from the anthracite coal fields of eastern
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area Adams County, Pa. New Oxford area Baltimore County, Md. Berks. County, Pa. Cecil County, Md. Centre...Centre County, Pa. Chester County, Pa. Oxford area Atglen area Cumberland County, Pa. Carlisle area Harrisburg...53 53 53 53 53 54 54 54 54 54 CONTENTS Dauphin County, Pa. Dauphin area Harrisburg East-Shore Area Hershey...Millersburg area Franklin County, Pa. Harford County, Md. Lancaster County, Pa. Columbia area Elizabethtown...Manheim area Lebanon County, Pa. Lebanon area Palmyra area Northumberland County, Pa. Kulpmont-Mt. Carmel
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
general idea of the b eigbt of the region and THE ANTHRACITE COAL FIELDS O F PENNSYL- market 1,480 tons. In...sbipment frum the entire region du ring the latter Northumberland 452 year being 112,083 tons. GEOGRAPHY. Catawissa... . . . . 477 Anthracite for the generation of steam w as first employed THE anthracite region is situated...n der the boilet· of Thompson 's rolling of Pennsylvania, between tbe Wasbington meridian and that Nanticoke... from t h e fact tempts bad been made to use anthracite in charcoal fur­ Shenandoah . . . . . . " 1252
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···cOMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA· .:Richard L. Thornburgh, Governor.c _ -'_ I, .~,_,'•' ,. ;:- • ,"...State Geologist CONTENTS Geolbgib~l research in Pennsylvania-19~f-:;, ·... : Ar~al geology'..............2.5 miles east of South Williamsport, Lycoming County. Intersecting joint fractures create a rockfall...~~vi·r~~~enta~ Fi~·:.;~;; .,1_ source~. H.arrisburg/Pennsylvania, 17120.'- :, . · .': . __ . .. \· '· ...drought of the mid-sixties? And those of us in Pennsylvania who were direc tl y affected by th e Ag nes
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
analogue of orpiment, from burning anthracite deposits in Pennsylvania PETE J. D U N N Department of Mineral...burning coal waste-dump at Burnside, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. KEYWORDS: laphamite, new mineral...mineral, orpiment, Burnside, Pennsylvania. SECONDARY minerals formed as a result of burning coal seams or coal...waste-dumps have been found in various parts of Pennsylvania, and in other places, for many years. The mineralogy...investigation of a sample from dumps at Burnside, Pennsylvania, has resulted in Copyright the Mineralogical
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B. Roadside geology of Pennsylvania. HQQIUNI ROA DSIDE EOLOGY of Pennsylvania Bradford B. Van Diver ...Roadside p. cm. Includes Bradfor B. geology of Pennsylvania / Bradford B. Van Diver — (Roadside geology...0-87842-227-7 : $15.00 1. Geology—Pennsylvania—Guide-books. 2. Pennsylvania— Description and travel—1981—Guide-books...glance at the 1980 edition of the Geologic Map of Pennsylvania spread upon the wall gives reason enough for...geologic history. On the ground, that spectacular Pennsylvania story is told piecemeal, but in much greater
Journal (issue)
Vol. 45, No. 2 Pennsylvania Geology Table of Contents Editorial—Isn’t Pennsylvania Already Mapped?...the Hamilton Group (Middle Devonian), Sunbury, Pennsylvania Page 3 Reflections on “Spirifer disjunctus...Devonian Brachiopods Useful for Correlation in Pennsylvania Page 11 Continuous Monitoring of Meteorological...Formation (Upper Devonian) of north-central Pennsylvania littered with natural internal and external...article on page 11. Pennsylvania Geology Summer 2015 EDITORIAL Isn’t Pennsylvania Already Mapped? Gale
Report (issue)
Kentucky-Virginia, and part of the Clintwood quadrangle, Pike County, Kentucky: U.S. Geol. Survey Geol. Quad. Map GQ-950...Kentucky-Virginia, and part of the Harman quadrangle, Pike County, Kentucky: U.S. Geol. Survey Geol. Quad. Map GQ-951...quadrangle, Columbia and Schuylkill Counties, Pennsylvania: U.S. Geol. Survey Geol. Quad. Map GQ-918, scale...Carmel quadrangle, Columbia, Northumberland, and Schuylkill Counties, Pennsylvania: U.S. Geol. Survey Geol...south half of the Shamokin quadrangle, Northumberland and Columbia Counties, Pennsylvania: U.S. Geol. Survey
Report (issue)
MINERALOGY ASSOCIATED WITH BURNING ANTHRACITE DEPOSITS OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA Davis M. Lapham John H. Barnes...Downey, Jr. Robert B. Finkelman COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTALRESOURCES BUREAU...MINERALOGY ASSOCIATED WITH BURNING ANTHRACITE DEPOSITS OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA by Davis M. Lapham and John...John H. Barnes Pennsylvania Geological Survey Wayne F. Downey, Jr. R. E.Wright Associates, Inc. Robert...Robert B. Finlcelman U. S. Geological Survey PENNSYLVANIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY FOURTH SERIES HARRISBURG 1980
Journal (issue)
COVER::·- cooperative U.S. Geological Survey-Pennsylvania Geological Survey core-hole drilling in Jurassic...Environmeri~ (~J;.J~j1'~,e,),?9J9s'~;::t:!~ri'l$,~Uf~,~·Pennsylvania 1·~~20~~~~ · ,- :t(·::.;, · ·· ~·, ·. · ·\....resources and natural beauty are made. This issue of Pennsylvania Geology proudly focuses on geological research...sectors who investigate the geological nature of Pennsylvania. This year's compilation marks the completion...on the geologic research being conducted in Pennsylvania, an annual service we intend to continue. In
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
passively treated coal mine drainage sites in Pennsylvania were measured under ambient conditions and with...from the Southern Anthracite Region and the western bituminous coal ®elds in Pennsylvania. Sites 1 and 2...2 (Fig. 2) were from the Anthracite Region and had experienced no treatment. Sites 3±5 were located in...tributary to the North Branch of Shamokin Creek, Northumberland County, PA. . Site 2 ± Flooded shaft draining...deep mine pool, tributary to Carbon Run, Northumberland County, PA. . Site 3 ± Rate measured at outlet
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
generally ~sed throughout the United States, but for anthracite and export trade the long ton=2240 lbs. is adopted...Monongahela I~iver opposifde Pittsburg. Anthracite was not mined in Pennsylvania tilI later. Its earliest discovery...i t w a s discovered near Shamokin, in the south of Northumberland County, but little was done in the...there came the first recorded transportation of anthracite in the United States. I t was sent by boat down...discovered in the Lehigh region near Maueh Chunk, Carbon County, and in 1804 et Carbondale on the Lackawanna. The
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
portions with a sponge, and the print can be The Anthracite laid down in its position before removing the...the mask. Coal .. ' . Fields oC Pennsylvania, BY JOHN H. JONES. The narrow strip of arrowroot...arrowroot extending beyond the The anthracite coal fields of Pennsylvania are situ­ edges of the print may...sufficiently large to allow the bor­ Luzerne, Northumberland. Schuylkill, Sullivan, and pie a matter with...Mahanoy. " "". Shamokin ......... .... 1 r' I J ' The total production of anthracite coal in Pennsyl­
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
portions with a sponge, and the print can be The Anthracite laid down in its position before removing the...the mask. Coal .. ' . Fields oC Pennsylvania, BY JOHN H. JONES. The narrow strip of arrowroot...arrowroot extending beyond the The anthracite coal fields of Pennsylvania are situ­ edges of the print may...sufficiently large to allow the bor­ Luzerne, Northumberland. Schuylkill, Sullivan, and pie a matter with...Mahanoy. " "". Shamokin ......... .... 1 r' I J ' The total production of anthracite coal in Pennsyl­
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
portions with a sponge, and the print can be The Anthracite laid down in its position before removing the...the mask. Coal .. ' . Fields oC Pennsylvania, BY JOHN H. JONES. The narrow strip of arrowroot...arrowroot extending beyond the The anthracite coal fields of Pennsylvania are situ­ edges of the print may...sufficiently large to allow the bor­ Luzerne, Northumberland. Schuylkill, Sullivan, and pie a matter with...Mahanoy. " "". Shamokin ......... .... 1 r' I J ' The total production of anthracite coal in Pennsyl­
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
general idea of the beigbt of the region and THE ANTHRACITE COAL FIELDS OF PENNSYL- market 1,480 tons. In...sbipment frum the entire region during the latter Northumberland . . . . . . . . . . • . . . • . . • • . ' ... . . . . 4 77 Anthracite for the generation of steam was first employed THE anthracite region is situated...521 under the boilet· of Thompson's rolling of Pennsylvania, between tbe Wasbington meridian and that Nanticoke...Little Bon,in the UOited States who bad made anthracite pig 1I'0n Tamaqua (P. & R R R depot) . . . .
Report (volume)
and ground water in the central part of Apache County, Arizona: U.S. Geol. Survey Water-Supply Paper...Andrews, D. A. Willow Creek coal area, Lincoln County, Wyoming: U.S. Geol. Survey Prelim. Map, scale...of anthracite in the western part of the Shamokin quadrangle, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania: U...G. H., Jr. Late Paleozoic orogeny in eastern Pennsylvania consists of five progressive stages: U.S. Geol...Geology of anthracite in the southern part of the Trevorton quadrangle, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania:
Journal (issue)
LVANIA GE_QtpGICAL SURVEY , .. COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA Dick Thornburgh, Governor . DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL..."FROM THE DESK OF THE STATE GEOLOGIST" page of PENNSYLVANIA GEOLOGY published in last month's issue would...comments. In some years nearly each issue of PENNSYLVANIA GEOLOGY resulted in letters and telephone calls...fruitful within the geological framework of Pennsylvania and, therefore, my responsibility as State Geologist...community lost a distinguished scientist and the Pennsylvania Geological Survey lost a one-time colleague
Report (issue)
Kentucky-Virginia, and part of the Clintwood quadrangle, Pike County, Kentucky: U.S. Geol. Survey Geol. Quad. Map GQ-950...Kentucky-Virginia, and part of the Harman quadrangle, Pike County, Kentucky: U.S. Geol. Survey Geol. Quad. Hap GQ-951...quadrangle, Columbia and Schuylkill Counties, Pennsylvania: U.S. Geol. Survey Geol. Quad. Map GQ-918, scale...------quadrangle, Columbia, Northumberland, and Schuylkill Counties, Pennsylvania: U.S. Geol. Survey Geol...south half of the Shamokin quadrangle, Northumberland and Columbia Counties, Pennsylvania: U.S. Geol. Survey
Journal (issue)
COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA Milton J. Shapp, Governor DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES Maurice...Run State Park, Carbon County. Photo courtesy of William Bolles. PENNSYLVANIA GEOLOGY is published bimonthly...Dept. of Environmental Resources, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 17120. FROM THE DESK OF THE STATE GEOLOGIST...government construction project can proceed in Pennsylvania unless the project designers provide a statement...thoroughness by each of several state agencies. The Pennsylvania Geological Survey has been evaluating as many
Report (volume)
Uranium Occurrences in Sedimentary Rocks of Pennsylvania GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN Prepared on behalf... Uranium Occurrences in Sedimentary Rocks of Pennsylvania By HARRY KLEMIC CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE GEOLOGY...ILLUSTRATIONS PLATE 2. FIGURE 30. 31. Map of Pennsylvania showing localities where uranium is known to...areas______________________________ 246 Map of Pennsylvania showing Stratigraphic positions of uranium occurrences...of uraniferous and nonuraniferous rock from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, West Virginia, and Tennessee, with
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
highlights of anthracite history, traditions and geological development. is one down in Shamokin, Pa., along... the miners go down into the pit and dig out anthracite coal. Then, on weekends and holidays, May through...miner-guide then takes over, and visitors are shown how anthracite is mined at the Glen Burn. The guide answers...opened to tourists as a project of the Lower Anthracite Regional Economic Development Organization, Inc...burning culm bank. Tourists can also visit the new Anthracite Museum and view exhibits of fossils, old mining
Journal (issue)
Vol. 44, No. 4 Pennsylvania Geology Table of Contents Editorial—The Business of the Bureau Page 2 ... Mineralogy at the Pennsylvania Geological Survey— 1973 Versus Now Page 3 In Memoriam— Rodger T. Faill...Penn State. —Photograph by Charles Miller Pennsylvania Geology Winter 2014 EDITORIAL The Business...the Bureau George E. W. Love, State Geologist Pennsylvania Geological Survey I have been asked, now that...graphite for crucibles, and so on. Right now, Pennsylvania is famous for its limestones and dolomites,
 
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