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Microcline from
Deshong's Quarry, Leiperville, Ridley Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA



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Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Microcline
Formula:K(AlSi3O8)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Microcline data
Locality Data:Click here to view Deshong's Quarry, Leiperville, Ridley Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:61147
Long-form Identifier:1:3:61147:1
GUID (UUID V4):a51bc81b-7349-4dc9-8291-67a22611c95b
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
New York, New York 10024 GARNETS from Delaware Coun Pennsylvania Figure 1: Spessartine (Sp Alm34Pyr )...dodecahedron 5 cm across associated with tan microcline, silvery brown muscovite, and gray quartz, from...from Sycamore Mill (Bishop's Mill), Delaware County, Pennsylvania. A M N H 10808. Bement collection via...M E N S from pegmatites located in Delaware County, Pennsylvania. On the basis of microprobe analyses...garnets from Springfield and one garnet from Leiperville, Peters (1984) recommended that "garnets from
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
CLASSIC PEGMATITE OCCURRENCES IN Delaware County, Pennsylvania JOSEPH J . PETERS Department of Mineral...S P E C I M E N S O F spessartine, almandine, microcline, and beryl ever found in North America were collected...collected from a few granite pegmatites in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia (Figure 1). The quarries...quarries, Avondale; Leiper's quarry, Springfield Township; and Deshong's quarry, Ridley-Nether Providence townships...for the manufac­ ture of snuff. Upper Avondale quarry (Figure 5), one mile south of Swarthmore where
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...LOCALITIES: Berks County: Birdsboro, and Gickerville; Delaware County: Leiperville, Lenni (druses of... Felton's farm (Chester), and Ward's quarry; Montgomery County: Sumneytown, and Perkiomenville ; Philadelphia:...Philadelphia: Fairmount Park, Frankford, and Rit- enhouse quarry. SCOLECITE CaAl 2 Si3 Oi .3H 2 O MONOCLINIC
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
large part of Philadelphia is covered with the Delaware River gravels and clays, but most of the streams...river this rock was largely quarried. The first quarry opened was irnmediately on the river bank. When...When the inclined plane was abandoned the Pennsylvania Railroad made a curved cut through these rocks extending...from about 30th Street to 34th Street, and a large quarry, or a series of quarries afterwards merged into...identical with that found on Ridley and Crum Creeks in Delaware County, contained segregated masses of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
inches in length. (2) Deshong's qusrry, Leiperville, Delaware County. Ia,rge microcline crystals were obtained...mile northwest of Capella Hill, Alsace township, Berks County. Nickeliferous pyrrhotite and augite are...Creek, 1 mile west of Spies Cburch, Alsace township, Berks county. Only inferior specimens are now obtainable...3)l miles southwest of Pricetown, Alsace Township, Berks County. Fine limonite, stalactitic and mammillary...I milg gsu66 of Pricetown, Ruscombmanor Township, Berks County; this is surrounded by extensive, but practically
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
abandoned working of the Congo coal mine in Perry County, Ohio. The sample, as received, was & beautiful...inches in length. (2) Deshong's qusrry, Leiperville, Delaware County. Ia,rge microcline crystals were obtained
Report (issue)
Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of Pennsylvania ....... 78 Table 13 Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary...Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of Pennsylvania..................................82 Figure 18...North Carolina; a belt extending from eastern Pennsylvania, across northern New Jersey, to southeastern...deposit occurs as a thin seam in graphitic Cleburne County. The property is, about 11.2 SINE phyllite which...Location No. Source of information Fairfield County. Short distance northeast of East Village, on a
Report (volume)
............................ 16 34 42 81 97 Delaware............................................................................................ Pennsylvania...............................................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...Oberlin College, Oberlin. Prof. L. G. Westgate, Delaware. Oklahoma____Prof. D. W. Ohern, Norman. Mr. C
Book
ADULARIA Adu Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...Iron-manganese phosphates of the Williams pegmatites, Coosa County, Alabama (by P. B. Leavens & T. A. Simpson) 6:66-73...ALICE GLORY HOLE The Alice glory hole, Clear Creek County, Colorado (by T. A. Hanson & W. B. Craft) 18:185187...--and W. Hunt: The Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County, Arizona 19:139-144 ALLGOOD, GENNE MYERS --and...Allgood, J. Pradenas: Gold occurrences in Tuolumne County, California 18:41-45, 18:62-64 --with W. H. Wilkinson
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Book (edition)
MARIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY 3 1111 00289 4184 \ I s Fifth Revised Edition A complete, state-by-state...a Jersey's Limecrest quarry, for instance, is open to a year; the Foote quarry in North Carolina one...or goggles, and safety-toe shoes in an operating quarry or mine. They are prudent precautions against disaster...trespassers or even fenced in some states. Mine and quarry owners are often reluctant to give permission for...physical hazards. Rocks can fall from a shattered quarry wall, a frost-weakened cliff, or an overhanging
Book
Department of Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, under the identifying chairmanship of Associate...FELDSPARS-Substitution of K" and No' (pp. 214-217) Microcline (Sanidine)— Albite: KAISi>Oj - NaAISijOs Complete...temperatures about 20% substitution of Na' in microcline and about 5% substitution of K' in Albite 35...good example of a eutectic intergrowth which microcline contains quartz intergrown along some crystallographic...temperatures olbite (NaAISijOs) is completely soluble in microcline (KAISijOj)! As cooling occurs, however, albite
 
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