 | | Report (issue) | | LEAD OCCURRENCES IN PENNSYLVANIA Robert C. Smith, II COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL...ZINC AND LEAD OCCURRENCES IN PENNSYLVANIA Robert C. Smith, II PENNSYLVANIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY FOURTH SERIES...1977 Copyright 1977 by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Quotations from this book may be published...published if credit is given to the Pennsylvania Geological Survey COVER ILLUSTRATION: Photograph of 1852 lithograph...STATE BOOK STORE, P. O. BOX 1365 HARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA 17125 PREFACE The purpose of this report is |  | | Book (volume) | | Mineralogy of Pennsylvania. THE MINERALOGY OF PENNSYLVANIA. TIKIS Mineralogy of Pennsylvania, BY JOHN...(funth's "Preliminary Report on tlir Mineralogy of Pennsylvania,*' luted n* ...Second Geological Survey of Pennsylvania. Academy MINERALOGY OF PENNSYLVANIA. 1. SILVER. (4)i According...occur in Berks countv, at North Reading, in Oley township, and on Cushion Mt. 2. Native copper east of...found by me, several Ueberroth zine mine, Priedensville, Lehigh Co., years ago, at the probably resulting |  | | 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) | | 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 |  | | Book (edition) | | mmed at Broken Arrow aud Trout creek, in Sc. Clair county. The strata in this field are more faulted und...prong of Canoe creek, in St. Clair county, to Ha\sop creek, in Bibb county, a distance of 60 miles. Down to...to Helena, in Shelby county, the field has an average width of 5 or 6 miles. Below that point the width...miles being in the latitud" of Blocton, in Bibb county. The south ern end of this field has a greater...descends to the south and southwest, bring ing the upper Measures to the surface. The seams of the Cahaba |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | correct spelling. East MINERALOGCAL SOCIETY PENNSYLVANIA OF May Field Trip and 1955 Annual M e e t...SHOWALTER Limestone Quarry, at Blue Ball, Lancaster County, Pa., at the invitation of our much esteemed, fellow...Cedar Hill Serpentine Quarry in southern Lancaster County, close to the Mason and Dixon Line, one mile north...The location is intermediate between Wood's Chrome Mine and Line Pits, both long famous for their mineral...Natural Sciences had republished the MINERALOGY of PENNSYLVANIA, by Samuel G. Gordon. This statement should |  | | Journal (issue) | | drawer of the laboratory storage cabinet It is in the mine or quarry that one can study, not only the minerals...type of localities are available to eastern Pennsylvania schools doing similar work. THE FRENCH CREEK... Peters in Chester County, and several places west of the point into Berks County. Two of the mining...indicate that this mine has been in operation for many years. THE CHESTER-MONTGOMERY COUNTY LEAD, ZINC, AND...town, along Mine Run in Mont• Station in French Creek valley. First gomery County. In each mine the veins |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | sphalerite have been reported. Quartz,goethite, pyrolusite, and tarbuttite pseudomorphs after smithsonite...been reported from many localities related to the upper oxidized parts of deposits containing primary zinc...depth. These include the Loudville mines, Hampshire County, Massachusetts; the Buckwheat pit, Franklin, New...Chester County, the Ueberroth mine near Bethlehem, and the zinc mines at Friedensville, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania;...Shenandoah Counties, and the Austinville district, Wythe County, Virginia; and the zinc occurrences in Claiborne |  | | Report (volume) | | ........................................... 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...School, New Haven. Delaware____Prof. B. L. Miller, Lehigh University, South Bethlehem, Pa. Florida-______Dr...Florence Bascom, Bryn Mawr. Prof. B. L. Miller, Lehigh University, South Bethlehem. Rhode Island__Prof |  | | Report (volume) | | value. Some minerals, such as the copper ores of Pennsylvania, are included in the list not because they occur...New Haven. Delaware.........Prof. B. L. Miller, Lehigh University, South Bethlehem, Pa. Florida.........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...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton; |  | | Journal (issue) | | • . . . • • • • . . • • • • 4.0I Csl:clle, Ecton Mine, England. Xfs. enclosing minute xis. of Chalcopyrite.... J., COPPER MINE. By Peter Zodac .................................... 346 BREWER MINE OF GEORGIA •....···································347 1HE FRIEDENSVILLE ZINC MINES AGAIN. By C. A. Thomas ............. ........ 356 A VISIT TO THE CROUSE MANGANESE MINE. By C. W. Ervin .............. 357 SANDING DISKS... stoa inselberg in the central part of Tooele County, Utah, are here briefly outlined. Introduction |  | | Report (issue) | | pockets of decomposed limestone are known only in the Valley and Ridge province of the Eastern United States...Alaska.. a Includes 550 tons from Davis, Murray County, Okla. 'Production to 1934 only. PART 1. GENERAL...England province, the Ridge and Valley province, the principal Mississippi Valley zinc and lead districts, and...Franklin-Sterling Hill, N.J. Ridge and Valley province: Friedensville, Pa. Austinville, Va. Mascot-Jefferson...Kentucky-Illinois fluorspar-zinc district Upper Mississippi Valley zinc-lead district Valle Mines, Mo. Tri-State |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | NOVEMBER 11, 1876. knife,which is provided in the upper ),oller, and operat�d by a cam movement so as to...alternately between the upper and lower rollers, two papers to the lower and two to the upper alternatelY; and...nearly two years 'in collecting specimens from every mine of importance in these States. The greater part...covers and sides. The small specimens are in the upper part while the larger ones are placed below. In...stephanite, from the Reese River district, Lander County. Among these are several quite valuable specimens |  | | Book (volume) | | chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...townagate, 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...gem qualityagatized and opalized wood. DAWES COUNTY CHADRON, in N part of Co. and as far W as Crawford...woods, etc. DAWSON COUNTY GOTHENBURG, in sand pitspetrified palm wood. DEUEL COUNTY CHAPPELL, all regional |  | | Journal (issue) | | ..............................704 NEW FRIEDENSVILLE ZINC MINE. By Cha.I. A . Tho,na.I .................Foster Iron Mines, Tilly Foster, N. Y. Sept. 12-Upper Merryall Quarry Sept. 26-Chester, Mass. Blanford...found one o f Valiant's locations. First the garnet mine just on the outskirts of Go uverneur. If you will...blocks up Main St., she can tell you right where the mine is located. My map gives it about a mile north of...a pea are scattered thru the quartz ledges. lhe mine dump contains much fine massive garnet, tho the |  | | Book (volume) | | although excavations in the underlying black, Upper Devonian (New Albany) shales occasionally produces...colored Vanport flint of the Flint Ridge and the Upper Mercer flint exposed in Hocking, Perry, and Coshocton...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 |  | | Book (volume) | | although excavations in the underlying black, Upper Devonian (New Albany) shales occasionally produces...colored Vanport flint of the Flint Ridge and the Upper Mercer flint exposed in Hocking, Perry, and Coshocton...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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | 10th - Field trip to N. J. Zinc Co. Quarry at Friedensville, Pa. September 17th - Field trip 9:00 A.M. to...October 15th - Field trip 9 A.M. to Noon Andover Iron Mine, Andover, N. J. Meeting - 2:30 P.M. Speaker to be...Buckwheat Dump, the Franklin Mineral Museum and the Mine Replica* Every collector, novice to expert, always...resumed mining.operations a~t the Sterling Hill Mine, Ogdensb^rg, N.J. (Note #l). In the four rears since...(Note #2). A broad picture of the activities of this mine and the minerals found therein is overdue and this |  | | Report (issue) | | Kentucky, and Wisconsin ................... Upper Mississippi Valley district ....................... Kentucky-Illinois......................................... Getchell mine area (Potosi district) ................ Gilbert............................................ Lake Valley district .................................................. Pennsylvania and New Jersey .................................... Friedensville district ............................................. Bull Valley (Goldstrike) district ........................ |  | | Book (edition) | | are the planes of the trapezohedron, Fig. 19. The upper one of the planes 22 in these figures, when extended...trisoctahedron in Fig. 21. The lower one of the three on the upper front solid angle, would meet if extended, the extremities...(Fig. 10); and in the suppressed planes of the upper pyramid being here directly over those suppressed...some hemihedral forms the suppressed planes of the upper pyramid alternate with those of the lower; but -this...pyra- CRYSTALLOGRAPHY. 54 mid, and those in the upper pyramid alternate with these (the shaded in Fig |  | | Catalog/List | | mineral, "At were of large, prisms, of this mine have been obtained, more Note. - Galena offer...in the specimens Dundasite, bunches samples Mine, of occurs lode. beautiful white large more...originally Cornish mining ceeding by colour, Mine fractures of great the mineral often Mount ...extremely some rarely Anglesite. Embolite, back Mine. with minute of small of capping gossan the...diagonally, Sterling township. Over 500 decom- a Macle interior, township, Massachusetts, pencils |  | | Journal (issue) | | “hematite” (an iron-containing mineral) and “pyrolusite” (a manganese-containing mineral), they would...Visible light Ultraviolet Adamite (green) Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico Hydrozincite (blue) on...Carpathite (blue-green) with Cinnabar in Quartz Picacho Mine, San Benito Co., California 11 such as fluorescent...localities in northwest Ohio (white, cream); Hardin County, Illinois (white); Bingham, New Mexico (blue or...shows a bright pink fluorescence, and that from Friedensville, PA exhibits a golden-yellow fluorescence in |  | | Book | | natron 50 negro’s head 95, 96 pyroaurite 51 pyrolusite 34 pyrope 76 pyrophyllite 102, 103 pyroxene...its comparative rarity; it is found mainly in the upper layers of lead-silver deposits. It has a characteristic...suppliers are, in order, the USSR, Canada, and the USA (South Dakota, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and California)...especially near Kimberley); diamonds from the Kimberley mine are embedded in ultrabasic blue rock called kimberlite...carats, equal to 621 grams) was found at the Premier Mine; named the Cullinan diamond, it was presented to |  | | | | pyrargyrite 17 pyrite 15, 15, 16 pyroaurite 51 pyrolusite 34 pyromorphite 68, 68 pyrope 76 pyrophyllite...its comparative rarity; it is found mainly in the upper layers of lead-silver deposits. It has a characteristic...suppliers are, in order, the USSR, Canada, and the USA (South Dakota, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and California)...especially near Kimberley); diamonds from the Kimberley mine are embedded in ultrabasic blue rock called kimberlite...carats, equal to 621 grams) was found at the Premier Mine; named the Cullinan diamond, it was presented to |
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