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Schorl from
Barber's Quarry, Frankford, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Schorl
Formula:NaFe32+Al6(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3(OH)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Schorl data
Locality Data:Click here to view Barber's Quarry, Frankford, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:360649
Long-form Identifier:1:3:360649:0
GUID (UUID V4):7f0b91de-c28d-4c21-8b1d-2b2fdc485d28
Nearest other occurrences of Schorl
12.6km (7.9 miles) Rock Hill Road, Pencoyd (West Manayunk), Lower Merion Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
13.2km (8.2 miles) Haddington section, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
14.5km (9.0 miles) Greyhorse Road, Willow Grove, Upper Moreland Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
25.2km (15.7 miles) Smedley Park beryl locality, Springfield Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA
25.3km (15.7 miles) Deshong's Quarry, Leiperville, Ridley Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA
36.5km (22.7 miles) Boothwyn, Upper Chichester Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA
37.9km (23.6 miles) Trap Rock Industries Moores Station Quarry, Moore, Hopewell Township, Mercer County, New Jersey, USA
40.4km (25.1 miles) Brinton's Quarry, Westtown Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
45.0km (28.0 miles) Osborne Hill, Birmingham Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
52.3km (32.5 miles) Dickson's Quarry (Dixon's Quarry), Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
serpentinites; Nigadoo River mine (Pb, Zn, Cu), Gloucester County, New Brunswick-sulfide veins intruding porphyry...iron-bearing trioctahedral micas from the Poudrette quarry shows that these micas have been strongly influenced...iron-bearing trioctahedral micas in the Poudrette quarry in the Mont Saint-Hilaire alkaline intrusion; characterize...apple-green dolomite crystals were found in the Poudrette quarry at Mont Saint-Hilaire, QuCbec, Canada. These occurred...Hercules, San Diego, and Himalaya of San Diego County, California. The Rutherford and Alen mines of Amelia
Journal (issue)
rare specimens for sale. Not to be outdone, the Philadelphia mineral dealer Albert E. Foote also made several...in the Gien Rose Limestone formation of Lampasas County. Lampasas celestine first became well known among... HI STORY_....,_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _......., J COUNTY MAp o, '1~AAa M'Al.t.OFM.11.ES An 1870 map of...during development of the Barber's Hili salt dome at Mont Belview, Chambers County, on the Texas Gulf coast...Mountain and near Kingsland in Llano County. A northeastem Gillespie County locality known as Amethyst Hili
Book (edition)
abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture), dept...always included in text, except in the cases of the USA, UK, and the provinces Ontario and Quebec in Canada...Uintah County. Utah. and m (2.B. acanthite group). Monoclinic, C2/m, a,b,c Rio Blanco County. Colorado...Menzenschwand Scbwarzwald Mts., in the Sailauf quarry, Spessart Mts., Bavaria. both Germany, and from...coal dumps at Shamokin, Northumberland co., Pennsylvania, and at Chervonograd, LvivVolhynia basin, Ukraine
Book (volume)
Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from Sai, Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...Cantlin, Ellis, ID; Jeannette B. Carillo, Gen1 Center USA, El Paso, TX; Gary Christopher, The Prospectors Cache...Resources, Vancouver, BC; Barbara L. Muntyan, Ouray County Historical Society, Ouray, CO; Merrill 0. Murphy... 15 Figure 6. Dallas Gem Mine in San Benito County, CA..............................................Benitoite recovery from alluvial deposits, San Benito County, CA ................ 29 Figure 8. Title page
Book (edition)
(Brazil). Malcolm Back (Canada), Henry L. Barwood (USA). Dmitriy Belakovskiy (Russia). Fabio Bellatreccia...(Italy), T.S. Ercit (Canada). Alexander Falster (USA). Jeffrey de Fourestier (Canada). Robert Gault (Canada)...Henderson. Jr. (USA). D.D. Hogarth (Canada). J.L. Jam bor (Canada), Anthony R. Kampf (USA). Pave! M. Kartashov...Karnp-Moller (Denmark). Akira Kato (Japan). Lance E. Keams (USA). Elisabeth Kirchner (Austria), Uwe Kolitsch (Austria)...Republic). Per Nystcn (Sweden), David O'Hanlcy (USA). Filippo Olmi (deccased) (ltaly). Werner H. Paar
Book (edition)
Dakota (Black Hills); Colorado; New Mexico; Pennsylvania; Maine; Massachusetts. East Africa. Brazil:...potential of yielding gemmy crystals. Chester Co., Pennsylvania; Tintic, Utah; Arizona; New Mexico; Coeur d’Alene...Oregon; Washington; Colorado; Michigan; Virginia; Pennsylvania. Guanajuato, Mexico; Brazil; Canada; Sweden;...Luning, Nevada: Madera Luning, Nevada: masses. Pennsylvania; New Jersey. Cornwall, England; Germany; Norway;...After California. the occurrence in San Benito County, have the variety known as morganite. Heliodor
Book (edition)
forms a very small industry at Brandon in Suffolk County. Grindstones and Pulpstones. The production of... By otie metluxl the stone is removed from the quarry in rectangular blocks and then split nearly to...laid out on a level surface of the stone in the quarry. Holes as ...stone is then loosened by wedging, lifted from the quarry, and finished by turning. A more recent technique...blocks of specified diameter are cut in place in the quarry floor by the use of a circular steel cutter employing
Book (edition)
Mexico (#2, column 1) and TENNANTITE, Dresser quarry, Walton, Nova Scotia, Canada (13, column 2). ...the Fuernrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely disseminated in uraniferous...in the Cave Hills and Slim Buttes areas, Harding County, South Dakota. BEST REF. IN ENGLISH: Thompson,...Little Emma mine, Clear Creek County; at the Enterprise n1ine, Dolores County; and at the Double Header lode...lode , Su1nmit County . rt is also found in Canada, Mexico, Czechoslovakia, and Germany. Acanthite is
Book (edition)
Willard Lincoln. Encyclopedia of minerals ~~cbe County Public Library Saguache, Colorado OEMCO For Refere...the Fuemrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely disseminated in uraniferous...in the Cave Hills and Slim Buttes areas, Harding County, South Dakota. SELECTED REFERENCES: Thompson, M...oil shale of the Green River Formation, Uintah County, Utah, associated with authigenic orthoclase, pyrite;...Creek County; at the Enterprise mine, Dolores County; at the Double Header lode, Summit County, and in
Journal (volume)
Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of) Philadelphia, Part 3 (Aug. to Dec, 1885) ... J The Academy...slight contribution to the scientific history of the county a few personal notes hitherto unpublished, chiefly...to point out an important error in some of our county histories, concerning to that it Royal Institution...to refer to an important error in some of the County histories, relating to the date when the Rev...to a slip of the pen of one of history of the county Malachy Hitchins's most intimate not be further
Book (edition)
Colorado; New Cleavage: Good Brittle. Mexico; Pennsylvania; Maine; Massachusetts. East Africa. Brazil:...yellowish fluorescence in SW and LW. Chester Co., Pennsylvania; Tintic, Ucah; Arizona; Ne¼' Mexico; Coeur d'Alene...gemstones. Name: After the occurrence in San Benito County, California. BERYL Formula: Be3AhSi6O1s Crystallography:...Occurrence: O ccurs in brines in storage welJ at Barber's Hill salt dome, Charn bers Co. , Texas. gems...Washington; Wyoming; Maryland; North Carolina; Pennsylvania. Canada; Cuba; Norway; U.S.S.R.; France; Rhodesia;
Book
New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE Published in the USA by Chapman and Hall 29 West 35th Street, New York...such as oil (e.g. in some fluorite from Illinois, USA). Among the large number of gases are methane, ethane...in minute triclinic crystals at Lynch, Virginia, USA (but masses are far more common). • Quartz: rose...Analyser made by LeE Ltd of Worthington, Minnesota, USA, computes the 'total optical activity' (TOA) of the...violet crystals are found in Maine (Androscoggin County), USA and formerly at Ehrenfriesdorf, Saxony, East
Book
hydraulic and electric power to the mines. The Sandon County Electric-light and Power Company have constructed...River, in the parishes of Lyndhurst and Belubula, county of Bathurst, about eight miles West by South from...ground is of larger dimensions. It was opened as a quarry, and, at the surface, measured about sixty feet...2 3 ), but a careful sampling of the ore in the quarry was subsequently made by Mr. J. B. Jaquet, Geological...River, county of Dampier county of Wellington ; in the form of small grains at Bendemeer, county of Inglis
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describes a ditch iu the North Channel between the county of Down and the coast of Wigtonshire. It is 28...up in cubical masses like the pro- duct of some quarry. bodily up vertical cliffs The waves in some...smooth A slope of a chalk hill. much chalk quarry (which of a slope more abruptly than does this...Shaftesbury situated, with In the southwest part of the county the escarpments of greensand and associated rocks...Among them may ments. be included the side of Barber's Hill, which exhibits a shallow concavity evi-
 
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