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Blue Quartz from
Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA


Locality type:County
Classification
Species:Quartz var: Blue Quartz
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Blue Quartz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:359542
Long-form Identifier:1:3:359542:8
GUID (UUID V4):597ad0c9-0f42-4d0d-9cf3-123b170e83b3
References
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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
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... 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
Book (edition)
ice, every blood red glow, every touch of green, blue, gold or royal purple. Gem stones have been the...gem stones mon dull are as hard or harder than quartz, a com- mineral everywhere present as dust which...Hardness Scale 6. Orthoclase 1. Talc 2. Gypsum 7. Quartz Topaz Corundum 10. Diamond 3. Colcite 8. 4...Your will scratch orthoclase feldspar but not quartz. In making hardness appears to be a scratch paper...the general arrange- ment of these surfaces. Quartz and amethyst, for example, are frequently crystallized
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
large part of Philadelphia is covered with the Delaware River gravels and clays, but most of the streams...bank. When the inclined plane was abandoned the Pennsylvania Railroad made a curved cut through these rocks...with that found on Ridley and Crum Creeks in Delaware County, contained segregated masses of coarse ort...about one-eighth of an inch in thickness with a quartz parting from 0 to W of an inch; a separate flat...of natrolite and heulandite and of crystallized quartz. As an efflorescence on these hornblende rocks
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from Library Sen/ices as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of...GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF PENNSYLVANIA: REPORT OF PROGRESS c^ TTTE GEOLOGY PHILADELPHIA COUNTY AND OF THE SOUTHERN... 1881. Entered, for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in the year 1880, according to acts of Congress...regions : 1881. address Pleasantville, Venango county, Pa. Sutton VVall, to report on the coal and...and Fulton counties address Uniontown, Fayette county. Pa. W. G. Platt, geologist for Centre and Clearfield
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
....................... ................. 400 Delaware......................................................................... 424 Pennsylvania (including northern Delaware)................................the Society by the Second Geological Survey of Pennsylvania have been stored in the photograph gallery of...107). 95. Dark limestone, with schistosity and quartz, 1,896 miles above mouth of Gens de Larg river;...(No. 179). 126. On Tasnuna river. Quartz gash veining in blue quartz schist bedrock, >} mile above canyon
Report (edition)
STATE LIBRARY OF PENNSYLVANIA 1 1 II II II nil 3 014 4 00050005 «k. 1 ’^^jklTL% i ^IH ^ 1 k...slice of serpentinite from Lancaster County showing olivine (blue-green and red), serpentine (yellow veinlets)...(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
Report (issue)
PENNSYLVANIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY FOURTH SERIES BULLETIN M 15 BUILDING STONES OF PENNSYLVANIA By RALPH... COPYRIGHTED 1932 BY THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA ADDITIONAL COPIES OF THIS PUBLICATION BUREAU...Structure 3 •> 10 Strength 10 Geology of Pennsylvania Physiography Stratigraphy Appalachian Revolut...Adams County Allegheny County Armstrong County Beaver County 19 1" -<» -- 24 -7 Bedford County -'•'...-;"» SO Perks County ;>- Blair County Bradford County Pucks County Butler County 00 03 07 77 Cambria
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 .... . ...... . ..
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Jersey: L a k e Hopatcong, Greenwood L a k e Pennsylvania: S c h u y l k i l l R i v e r Vi r g i n i...eastern streams and rivers f o r epidote, unakite, blue quartz, agate, chalcedony, petrified wood and other...dollars at the noted locality of Cowee Valley, Macon County, North Carolina. An enthusiastic family found and...visited the well known old Rutherford mine in Amelia County, Virginia, and found bright spessartine garnets...transparent blue crystals of aquamarine. Excited collectors took home from old quarries in Pennsylvania and Maryland
Book (edition)
describes sites under of the nearest town and county. and the many maps included book contain such...4B^ Diamond M Tourmaline ^P Ruby. Sapphire O Quartz crystal ^J^ Garnet __ Azurite, Malachite, Chrysocolla...In Renaissance times, greatly admired, but today blue turquoise is the only ac- ceptable kind. Belief...with respect to one another. gem minerals The quartz gems, such as amethyst, form crystal prisms with...another at 60 degrees and intersected by a fourth Quartz and vertical axis at right angles to the other
Report (edition)
PENNSYLVANIA STATE LIBRARY OF docs, pa Educational series „ - . Pennsylva ^ DATE DUE S 7 : o ...of Museum and 2016 with funding from by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Library...MINERALS OF PENNSYLVANIA PENNSYLVANIA STATE LIBRARY DOCUMENTS SECTION COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT...Geologist COMMON ROCKS and MINERALS of PENNSYLVANIA by Davis M. Lapham Alan R. Geyer Illustrations...and oxygen combined in the minthese rocks eral quartz. buildings, The metals of cars, steel-girdered
Report (volume)
................................. Androscoggin County............................................. Auburn......................................... Lincoln County ............................................................-...:.....-................. Oxford County........................;............................................................. Sagadahoc County.. '...... ............................................................................ Hartford County ..... ....................:............ ......
Report (volume)
............................ 16 34 42 81 97 Delaware............................................................................................ Pennsylvania...............................................of minerals that are widely distributed, such as quartz and calcite, have been omitted, except those that...value. Some minerals, such as the copper ores of Pennsylvania, are included in the list not because they occur...and Ehrenfeld, Frederick, Minerals of Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Top. and Geol. Survey Comm. Kept. No
Report (volume)
Deposits of minerals of wide distribution, such as quartz and calcite, have been omitted, except those that...value. Some minerals, such as the copper ores of Pennsylvania, are included in the list not because they occur...Gregory, Sheffield Scientific School, New Haven. Delaware.........Prof. B. L. Miller, Lehigh University...Oregon............Prof. A. J. Collier, Eugene. Pennsylvania.... .Mr. R. R. Hice, Beaver. Prof. Florence...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found
Report (issue)
GEOLOGIC RADON POTENTIAL OF EPA REGION 3 Delaware Maryland Pennsylvania Virginia West Virginia OPEN-FILE REPORT...GEOLOGIC RADON POTENTIAL OF EPA REGION 3 Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia R. Randall...Preliminary Geologic Radon Potential Assessment of Delaware Linda C.S. Gundersen 48 4. Preliminary Geologic...Preliminary Geologic Radon Potential Assessment of Pennsylvania Linda C.S. Gundersen and Joseph P. Smoot 105...aerial radioactivity, and indoor radon data by county. Because of constraints on the scales of maps presented
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MYLONIZATION OF HYBRID ROCKS NEAR PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA BY ELIZABETH ARMSTRONG CONTENTS Abstract................................................... Quartz veins............................................a quarter of a mile southeast ofSpring Mill, Pennsylvania.. 678 Plate Facing page 1. Geologic and structural...Bucks counties in southeastern Pennsylvania and in Burlington County in New Jersey and is part of the...Montgomery County-Delaware County line and extends northeastward to 4 miles northeast of the Delaware River
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(289) 290 F. BASCOM— PIEDMONT DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA Page Igneous rocks.................. ........Geologic history o f the Piedmont district o f Pennsylvania.................................. 322 Résumé...western lim it is defined by the eastern slopes of the Blue rid g e; its eastern boundary is defined by an equally...R E L A T I O N S The Piedm ont district of Pennsylvania, forming with a width of 65 miles the southeast...New York, and in New England. The valley of the Delaware is the southeast boundary of this belt. From this
Book (edition)
MARIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY 3 1111 00289 4184 \ I s Fifth Revised Edition A complete, state-by-state...Diamond M Tourmaline fQl Ruby, O Sapphire Quartz crystal 'y^ Garnet — Azu rite, Malachite, Chrysocolla...from Derbyshire or, perhaps, a pyramid of smoky quartz from Cumberland. The next it may be rock crystal...Talc 6. Orthoclase feldspar 2. Gypsum 7. Quartz 3. Calcite 8. Topaz 4. Fluorite 9. Corundum...faces are placed with respect to one another. The quartz gems, for example, such as amethyst, form crystal
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
.......... 480 Remarkable landslip in Portneuf county, Quebec ; by George M. Dawson. 484 Thames River.............................................. Pennsylvania.................................. ............hom H a ll m ade explorations in S ain t Lawrence county, h is first sys­ tem atic w ork in geology. T his...succeeded in determ ining th e position of our Pennsylvania anthracites in th e geo­ logical colum n. E...Crinoidea from the Waverly sandstone series of Summit county, Ohio, supposed to be of the age o f the Chemung
Book (volume)
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, area...exposures of blue clay, as clusters and nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS...COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay in rd. cuts, pits, quarries, excavations⎯Pyrite (clustered
Book (volume)
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, area...exposures of blue clay, as clusters and nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS...COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay in rd. cuts, pits, quarries, excavations⎯Pyrite (clustered
Book (volume)
chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...townď‚ľagate, chalcedony, jasper, petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville...chalcedony, jasper, fossils. CHERRY COUNTY VALENTINE, in the Sandhills county along the Niobrara R. and Minnechaduza...DAWES COUNTY CHADRON, in N part of Co. and as far W as Crawford and Harrisonď‚ľchalcedony (some blue). CRAWFORD:...landsď‚ľvertebrate fossil remains; ď‚… Pine Ridge, areaď‚ľQuartz concretions, agates, petrified wood, fossils, etc
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HfiRIN COUNTY FREE LIBRfiRY 311110G386652Q I V Russell P MacFal A COLOR TREASUF FOR COLLECTORS...to Hunting Locations ? i 9 GIVEN TO THE MARIN COUNTY LIBRARY BY MARI N L MTNF.RAT. SOCTETY DAVID...of Keweenaw County. Mich- Part of the U.S. Geological Survey topographic the Delaware quadrangle of...grained granite rugated cardboard where of the quartz t it hits your ribs; then layer of newspaper... with geodes lined with glittering calcite or quartz Often these can be California, in in Southwestern
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casess 34 Site 2. Iwan Creek Mine & Rock. Shop—Quartz, Crystals .o2.<...0c5.c0tsunc dieop.4poecgeqnnnctteen--...ecass 35 Sites). [he Crystal ceen I rading Co,—Quartz Crystals, x55. 4..0cses5enasa8basonttoussenct eastecanrs...oeareees 27 Site 5 The Starfire Mine Quartz Crystal Mine—Quartz Crystals.............cccccsscssesscessesseeeeens...eeeeens 38 Site 6 Weener Crystal Mines & Ranch—Quartz Crystals .............sastenrssecerceecancsneenscacsncenesacs...Site Crystals .........:csseseeseesees Al Mine—Quartz Crystal and Shop Rock Ridge Fiddler’s Site 8 P
 
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