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Delawarite from
Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA


Locality type:County
Classification
Species:Orthoclase var: Delawarite
Formula:K(AlSi3O8)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Delawarite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:567124
Long-form Identifier:1:3:567124:3
GUID (UUID V4):6b87512e-0b99-45c6-82a2-bb587842ecbe
Localities for Delawarite in this Region
Crump's Quarry, Mineral Hill, Elwyn, Middletown Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA
Lenni, Middletown Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
brucite from Wood's mine, Texas (Lancaster County), Pennsylvania; and texasite is a name given in 1853 by...least on the ground of patriotism." Likewise, delawarite (originally spelled delawareite )was applied...orthoclase—pearly and distinctly cleavable — from Delaware County, Pennsylvania. Floridite is the name given in 1891...having a state name. First discovered in Boulder County, ROCKS AND MINERALS it is a mercury telluride...Montana) where it occurs." A white clay in Lawrence County, Indiana, was named indianaite (or Indiana stone)
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
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...halotrichite occur occasionally, but on the Pennsylvania Railroad at 59th street there was an old quarry...northwesterly line between Philadelphia and Mont(romery County, it has been largely quarried for over a century
Report (volume)
Pollucite Feldspars Orthoclase (leelite, lennilite, delawarite) Adularia Microcline (amazonstone) Hyalophane...are represented either by a regional name (as a county) that does not cover too wide an area, or by the...Sussex and Passaic Counties, N. J., and Orange County, N. Y.; Cumberland, Durham, Westmorland, Northumberland...luminescence of strength indicated Weak Renfrew County, Ontario. Bovey Tracey, England. Blagodat, India...Prefecture, Japan. Greenwood, Maine_. St. Lawrence County, N. Y. Odegaard, Norway. _. Kola Peninsula, Russia
Journal (issue)
dendritic crystallized copper from Hudson's Bay and Pennsylvania ; copper and silver “ sand,” and large ragged...crystals of martite which I had collected in Millard county. The largest group, which was sent to an Eastern...to visit the largegneiss quarries at Lenni, Delaware County, Pennsyl vania. Boarding the train at Wilmington...obtained specimens of these as well as species of delawarite, the peculiar orthoclase found here, and actinolite...the mountains at Four Mile Creek, over in Fremont county, Col., six miles south of Cripple Creek and near
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
this phenomenon is the "microcline" from San Diego County, California. The suggestion is strong that sufficient...heating. This proved to be the case. The San Diego County material was crushed, sieved, and sized, and then... Working with natural microcline from Mitchell County, North Carolina, and employing "thermal apparatus...augite-syenite-granite, Ausable Forks, Clinton County, New York. Polarized light. X5o. Specimen 61. ..."Microcline Amazonstone,"Amelia CourtHouse, Amelia County, Virginia. (Specimen 992.) Microscopic examination
Book
Lelande (Juich CHILTON BOOK COMPANY Radnor, Pennsylvania Copyright © 1963 by Chilton Book Company...Lapidary Society to organize groups in Los Angeles County. these early associations Agate and Mineral Society...action was that other sections of the city and county of Los Angeles soon began organizing their own...moss agate in the Horse Canyon agate field in Kern County, California. The person who never North America...is only area near Death Valley, San Bernardino County, Calilocality. Most (Photo courtesy of A. B.
Book
Lela11de Oi,ich CHILTON BOOI'i COMPANY Radnor, Pennsylvania Copyright © 1963 by Chilton Book Company ...action was that other sections of tl1e city and county of Los Angeles soon began organizing their O\vn...Phoenix, Arizona Gem and Mineral Society of San Mateo County, Burlingame, California Compton Gem and Mineral...Canyo11's beat1tift1l material in San Bern ardino County, California. Note the lio11's h ead, 011e of m...a field trip into Afton Canyon, San BernardiI10 County, Califor11ia. Afton Canyon is a noted collecting
Book (edition)
magnetite occurring in mica at Pennsbury, in Pennsylvania. Arborescent delineations over surfaces of rock...near Clear Lake, in California; Inferno, Humboldt County, and Rabbit Hole Mines, Nevada; near Evanston,...Y.; Greenville, N. C.; near Attleboro, in Bucks County, Pa.; Wake, N. C. ; on Tyger River, and at Spartanburg...the eastward of Halifax; GOLD. 125 in Beauce County, Canada; also, north of Lake Superior; and in the...North Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, formerly in the County of Wicklow, where a nugget of 22 ounces was found;
Book (volume)
Colorado; colorless scheelite (19.66 ct), Kern County, California; octagonal step cut violetish pink...Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from San Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...Cantlin, Ellis, [D; Jeannette B. Carillo, Gem Center USA, EI Paso, TX; Gary Christopher, The Prospectors Cache...Resources, Vancouver, BC; Barbara L. Muntyan, Ouray County Historical Society, Ouray, CO; Merrill O. Murphy...sne-aseseeateeCounty, Can tess ccraccacaerscsascn enaeantsrse Figure
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)
colored in San gem Purple species Benito found County, dispersion, .014. beryl cat’s-eye. Beryl with...usually as curio stones. delawarite. Aventurine feldspar from Delaware County, Pa. delphinite. Yellowish...hematite cameos. money stone. A local name in Pennsylvania for rutile (Mer- Mocha lucent to transparent... Headquarters: 1900 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103. natrolite. A colorless or white, also...Evans Collection belonging to the University of Pennsylvania. Queensland opal. Australian opal with light
Book (edition)
blue colored gem species found only in San Benito County, Calif. In color resembles the sapphire, but is...2-2.5; S.G. 1.0444. Aventurine feldspar from Delaware County, Pa. delphinite. Yellowish green epidote from...both solid and wax-filled im¬ itation pearls. delawarite. demantoid. (1) A transparent green Titles...name for lodestone. Rock crys¬ tal, from Herkimer County, New York. herrerite. Copper-stained blue and green...imitations of hematite cameos. monel money stone. Pennsylvania A local name in for rutile (Mer¬ GEMOLOGY
Book (edition)
colored gem species found only . eye San Benito County, Calif. In color resembles the sapphire, but is...set as delawarite. Aventurine feldspar in silver, or gold-filled jewelry, from Delaware County, Pa. but..."Herkimer Diamond." Rock crystal, from Herkimer County, New York. herrerite. Copper-stained blue and...as (Boutan). stone. ducing monochromatic Pennsylvania term light. Us- troscope which can be adjusted...another and each penetrating through the other. "Pennsylvania, diamond. 9" Iron py- rite. pentagon cut
Book (edition)
Maine OR Oregon AK Alaska MD Maryland PA Pennsylvania AZ Arizona MA Massachusetts RI Rhode Island...Michigan Mississippi Connecticut MO Missouri DE Delaware MT Montana UT Utah FL NE Nebraska VT Vermont...3 to 4.9 m) wide in the Albert Shale of Albert County, NB, Can. It is partly soluble in turpentine, but...mined in the United States, mainly in eastern Pennsylvania, although in small quantities in other States...coal-producing area extending from northern Pennsylvania to Alabama, in and adjacent to the Appalachian
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Newton by the Mack Printing Company of Easton, Pennsylvania, and Helvetica by Artisan Type, Inc., of Washington...are, for the most part, restricted to those of the USA. Old and obsolete terms are defined when possible...(Powell, 1875, p. 149-150). Albert Shale of Albert County, New Brunswick. It is partly sol¬ alcyonarian...antiperthite. Its name is derived from Amherst County, grained brown groundmass. Virginia. Amherst...anatase. (c) A type of ore, discovered in Yavapai County, Ariz., whose prin¬ by mechanical aggregation
 
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