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Actinolite from
Grace Mine, Morgantown, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Actinolite
Formula:◻Ca2(Mg4.5-2.5Fe0.5-2.5)Si8O22(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Prehnite1 photo of Actinolite associated with Prehnite at this locality.
Magnetite1 photo of Actinolite associated with Magnetite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Actinolite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Grace Mine, Morgantown, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:406407
Long-form Identifier:1:3:406407:7
GUID (UUID V4):d8c3489e-2606-472a-8921-9ba8be675f34
Nearest other occurrences of Actinolite
2.6km (1.6 miles) Jones Mine, Morgantown, Caernarvon Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA
6.8km (4.3 miles) Hopewell mine, Hopewell Mines, Warwick (Saint Marys), Warwick Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
8.4km (5.2 miles) Silver Hill Quarry, Bowmansville, Brecknock Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA
13.9km (8.7 miles) French Creek Mines, Saint Peters, Warwick Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
15.3km (9.5 miles) Keystone Trap Rock Quarry, Cornog, Wallace Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
29.3km (18.2 miles) Gap Mine, Bart Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA
36.0km (22.4 miles) Osborne Hill, Birmingham Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
38.7km (24.1 miles) Kibblehouse Quarry, Perkiomenville, Marlborough Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
45.4km (28.2 miles) Cornwall Mines (Cornwall Iron Mine), Cornwall Borough (Cornwall), Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, USA
48.0km (29.8 miles) Lenni, Middletown Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ornwall- Type Iron Mines r GRACE MINE • CORNWALL MINE • A JONES' » MINE _ by BRYON BROOKMYER Box 19...19 Blue Ball, Pennsylvania 17506 Introduction where a diabase dike of triassic age intruded calcar­...sedimentary rocks (limestones). This diabase Pennsylvania has a long history of prominence in caused an...its original characteris­ were discovered in Pennsylvania and production tics although being completely...replaced. Not all of started in 1683 at the Jones mine. Many additional the surrounding rock has been replaced
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
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 .... . ...... . ..
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
deposits,as exemplified by the deposit at Cornwall, Pennsylvania, are found at the contact between diabase and...dikes or sheets. The type locality at Cornwall, Pennsylvania, has been mined continuously since the middle...at Cornwall and of Sims (1968) of the Grace mine near Morgantown provide the geologic framework. Geologic...diabase bodies, and the magnetiteore districtsof Pennsylvania. It should be noted that the ore depositsare...southeastern Pennsylvania, where such as those of Dillsburg, \Vheatfield, Morgantown-French Creek,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MINES CHESTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA By F. HAROLD EVANS Doylestown, Pa. FOREWORD The Pennsylvania Geological...collect some of the early and late history of this mine, that after two years of research, this paper is...not survive without the other. Specimens from this mine, have been observed in many of the large museums...History of Iron Manufacturing Chester fir Berks Co. in Pennsylvania The Colonies of New England and Virginia...this metal was found until twenty years later. Pennsylvania, which was not settled until later, started
Journal (issue)
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
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............ 49. Other fire clay processed at the mine: quantity ..... .. ............ .... .. .......... 31 18 53. Plastic fire clay processed at the mine: value.........................................
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...man-hours devoted to specific mine operations during the year 5. Mine or mine-plant equipment modernized
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...320 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:...Railroad cut east of Reading (probably Birdsboro), Berks County. White, Smith, 1910, 540. silky mass of radiating
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...location ( county, state, quadrangle, latitude, and longitude) 2. deposit size (occurrence type - mine, prospect...south and east to west. The most prevalent name of a mine or prospect which was used in reference descriptions
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Grove, Pennsylvania 17362 jlj276@aol.com LARRY EISENBERGER 25 Filbert Street Hanover, Pennsylvania 17331...Adams County, Pennsylvania W ithin the Gettysburg-Newark section of the Piedmont in Pennsylvania lie...the Cornwall Iron mine in Lebanon County and the French Creek mine in Chester County, have yielded world-class...2.2 miles southeast of Gettysburg, Adams County, Pennsylvania, along U.S. 97. The locality was opened...Company in 1959. Valley Quarries of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, bought the property in 1985, and the company
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
refreshed in body and soul. AFMS Scholarship Fund Mrs. Grace Dearborn, 146 Lincoln Street, Newton Highlands,...Gem, Lapidary and Mineral Society of Montgomery County, Maryland, Wheaton, was one by John Greisback on...Trips of the year when its members went to the Mica Mine Farm. The material found was clear quartz, clear...quartz crystals, unakite and possibly gold in Moore County was enjoyed by members of the Charlotte Rock and...Vernon Wertz for his collection of Indian relics. PENNSYLVANIA Being rain-soaked was no deterrent to some
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Carl A. Bakos, Editor, Mineralogica/ Society of Pennsylvania. The Geology Newsletter, Allen O. Reiser, Editor...Rochland Nuggets, Marvin Klibinoff, Editor, Rockland County Mineral and Gem Society, Inc. Neivlapso, Dr. Philip...Jerry Fever, Editors, Junior Division, Rockland County AJneral and Gem Society, Inc. Lack of a large attendance...Merit A-3 MINERALS- ANY TYPE AND SIZE Rockland County Mineral and Gem Society, Ine Newark Mineralogieal...field trip to the French Creek Iron Mine Dumps, St. Peters, Pennsylvania. Mr. Frank Jackel was the leader
Book (edition)
«s m •p ■* ; sms •v ■1 mm D 'A ©F PENNSYLVANIA AND NEW JERSEY By Scott Stepanski and Karenne...changes due to man or nature, Gem Trails of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, its publisher and all other...Physiographic Map of Pennsylvania and New Jersey 5 6 7 9 10 12 PENNSYLVANIA SITE NO. PAGE NO. 1...Williamsport Ammonites........... Crystal Point Diamond Mine....... Montour Fossil Pit............................... Deer Lake Brachiopods.............. . Morgantown Minerals............... . Vera Cruz Jasper..
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Apatite area and a chance to work in a newly blasted mine resulted in members of the Coastal Maine Mineral...Gem, Lapidary and Mineral Society of Montgomery County, Wheaton, as a part of its Safety Education Program...Professor of Mineralogy at the University of Pennsylvania, addressed the members of the Delaware Valley...Quarry for scapolite, diopside which contains actinolite and sphene. NORTH CAROLINA The Piedmont Mineral...limonite pseudomorphs after pyrite crystals. PENNSYLVANIA President Ralph Morgan showed slides of the
Report (issue)
at Cornwall, Pennsylvania Davis M. Lapham and Carlyle Gray COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF...Diabase at Cornwall, Pennsylvania by Davis M. Lapham and Carlyle Gray PENNSYLVANIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...of Pennsylvania Quotations from this book may be published if credit is given to the Pennsylvania Geological...PUBLICATIONS, TENTH AND MARKET STREETS HARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA 17125 FRONTISPIECE View of Cornwall open...magnetite iron ore deposit at Cornwall, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. The investigation was begun to learn where
Report (volume)
diabase, west-central New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania 141 By Jonathan M. Husch An overview of early...faulting and diabase intrusion, Newark basin, Pennsylvania 176 By Nicholas M. Ratcliffe and William C....selected early Mesozoic copper occurrences in Pennsylvania 320 By R.C. Smith II, S.W. Berkheiser, Jr.,...uranium-bearing sequences in the Newark basin, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and the San Juan basin, New...Palisades sill near the Ramapo fault in Rockland County, New York, as an intrusion of fine-grained diabase
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
They are sometimes found in town libraries or county buildings. Occasionally club members in a community...the collecting days ahead. I recall a friend of mine telling me that when he was a boy, he spent every...MillROCKS AND MINERALS eral Club of Lower Bucks County, Fallsington, when they travelled there for corundum...September. . . . The Mineralogical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, reported that the first Field...anniversary for the Pennsylvania Earth Science Association, Lehigh Valley.... The Central Pennsylvania Rock and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
SOCIDTY OF AI,IERICA ll3 Yoshioka copper mine, the Handa silver mine and several other mines which are still...the rninerals extractedTEXAS, LANCASTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA SAMUEL G. GORDON Acad.emgof Naturd Scipnceso...small village in Fulton township, lies along the Pennsylvania-Maryland line between the Susquehanna River...Creek, and may be reached from Conowingo on the Pennsylvania Railroad (Columbia and port Deposit Branch)...localities lie in the northern part of the Havre de Grace quadrangle, and will be referred to below in ninth-coiirdinate
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Magnetite Zinc Corporation of America Mine No. 4, St. Lawrence County, New York T he technological development...recent decades have come not from a New York iron mine but from one of its interesting zinc mines. One...fine specimen from the Zinc Corporation of America mine No. 4 at Balmat. Magnetite is one of many black...out. The famous Tilly Foster iron mine near Brewster, Putnam County (see Cook 2008 and references therein)...Essex County; excellent sharp octahedra to 2 cm have been collected at Port Henry in the same county. The
Report (volume)
THE HONEYBKOOK AND PHOENIXVILLE QUADBANGLES, PENNSYLVANIA BY F. BASCOM AND G. W. STOSE UNITED STATES...anticline__--_-----_---___-__-__-___-_-___---_. Mine Ridge anticline__---___-_-__--_---_______-___-_-_...________________________ 5. Ideal section across Mine Ridge uplift, showing deposition of Conestoga limestone...quadrangles___-___---_-_-__ 7. Map of southeastern Pennsylvania showing relation of Honeybrook uplift to South...___________ 14. Geologic map of western part of Mine Ridge anticline and Chester Valley syncline, showing
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the bus driver, who conducted the trips to the mine pits and the School of Mines. A little sticker,...Newark, has reported a Field Trip to Hamburg, Pennsylvania, for its members. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Mineral...recounting summer collecting experiences. Mrs. Grace Dearborn is conducting classes on descriptive mineralogy...tremolite, sodalite, nepheline, quartz crystals and actinolite crystals. Programs on chalcopyrite by Viola Sinclair...enjoyed by the members. — A letter from the Fulton County Mineral Club, Gloversville, described an interesting
Journal (issue)
COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA Mi l ton J. Shapp, Governor DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES Mau rice...Mahantango Formation, Suedberg, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania ........................ Oi l Well Drill...Pa. Open to the public and maintained by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Co mmission, this is the...Dept . of Environmental Resources, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 17120. A rti cles m ay be reprinted f rom this...been facing in recent years. In southwestern Pennsylvania more and more cases are coming to light of home
Report (issue)
should show the line oflow-Ti0 2 diabase in Pennsylvania and Maryland extending down to locality 9 in...occurrence in the Newark basin, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, by Christine E. TurnerPeterson, P.E. Olsen...26. Magnetite skarn deposits of the Cornwall (Pennsylvania) type- A potential cobalt, gold, and silver...character and anomalies in the Gettysburg basin, Pennsylvania - A preliminary appraisal, by David L. Daniels...anomalies of the Gettysburg basin and vicinity, Pennsylvania - A preliminary appraisal, by Jeffrey D. Phillips
 
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