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Calcite from
York County, Pennsylvania, USA


Locality type:County
Classification
Species:Calcite
Formula:CaCO3
Habit:Scalenohedral and twin xtls
Colour:Pale Yellow to orange
Quality for species:Excellent - world class for species or very significant. (!!)
Abundance at site:Common
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Quartz7 photos of Calcite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Sphalerite1 photo of Calcite associated with Sphalerite at this locality.
Fluorite1 photo of Calcite associated with Fluorite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Calcite data
Locality Data:Click here to view York County, Pennsylvania, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:777974
Long-form Identifier:1:3:777974:9
GUID (UUID V4):c2f17a87-ea94-41a5-8f86-6dec33918175
Localities for Calcite in this Region
Dillsburg Iron Mines, Dillsburg, York County, Pennsylvania, USA
Altland Mine, Dillsburg Iron Mines, Dillsburg, York County, Pennsylvania, USA
Bell Mine, Dillsburg Iron Mines, Dillsburg, York County, Pennsylvania, USA
Grove Mine, Dillsburg Iron Mines, Dillsburg, York County, Pennsylvania, USA
Jauss Mine, Dillsburg Iron Mines, Dillsburg, York County, Pennsylvania, USA
King Mine, Dillsburg Iron Mines, Dillsburg, York County, Pennsylvania, USA
Longnecker Mine, Dillsburg Iron Mines, Dillsburg, York County, Pennsylvania, USA
McCormick Mine, Dillsburg Iron Mines, Dillsburg, York County, Pennsylvania, USA
Price Mine, Dillsburg Iron Mines, Dillsburg, York County, Pennsylvania, USA
Smyser Mine, Dillsburg Iron Mines, Dillsburg, York County, Pennsylvania, USA
Underwood Mine, Dillsburg Iron Mines, Dillsburg, York County, Pennsylvania, USA
Zeolite locality, Dillsburg, York County, Pennsylvania, USA
Codorus Stone & Supply Co. Quarry, Emigsville, East Manchester Township, York County, Pennsylvania, USA
Thomasville Crushed Stone Quarry (Lincoln Stone Company Quarry; Lincoln Stone and Lime Quarry), Thomasville, Jackson Township, York County, Pennsylvania, USA
Tarmack Quarry, New Oxford, York County, Pennsylvania, USA
Medusa Cement Company Quarry, West York, York County, Pennsylvania, USA
White Pigment Quarry (White Pigment Corp. Quarry; White Pigment Limestone Quarry), West York, York County, Pennsylvania, USA
County Line Quarry (Kline's Quarry), Wrightsville, York County, Pennsylvania, USA
York, York County, Pennsylvania, USA
York Building Supply quarry (Roosevelt Avenue Quarry; Roosevelt quarry; York Stone Quarry; Delta Carbonate quarry), York, York County, Pennsylvania, USA
References
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reduced Lake County, Florida Saharan Desert New South Wales, Australia York County, Pennsylvania Greensboro...Western New York La Paz County, Arizona Great Salt Lake, Utah Yuma County, Arizona Clark County, Nevada ...BDL BDL — — Soil York County, 350 Pennsylvania La Paz County, Arizona Tr Lake County, Florida 400 Abundances...1629 E. University Blvd, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA, 2 Department of Geology, University of South Florida...E. Fowler Avenue, SCA 528, Tampa, Florida 33620, USA. *e-mail: mpasek@cas.usf.edu. NATURE GEOSCIENCE |
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Florida, 4202 E Fowler Ave, SCA 528, Tampa, FL 33620, USA e-mail: mpasek@usf.edu K. Block Department of Planetary...Blvd, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA V. Pasek Free Radical Consulting, Seffner, FL 33584, USA type—droplet fulgurites—is...Additionally, two fulgurites, both from York County, Pennsylvania, USA, showed the reduction of iron to iron...soil (see also Carter et al. 2010a); York County, Pennsylvania (YPA), from a soil with small clasts of...vegetation (an observed strike from 2004); Chaffee County, Colorado (CCO), from the top of Williams Mountain;
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The Iron Mines of DiDsburg, Pennsylvania Pennsylvania is known for three types of iron deposits: limonite...JONES P.O. Box 1962 York, Pennsylvania 17405 JAN GOODMAN Kenray Avenue Dover, Pennsylvania 17315 1908, p...distributed for use in various furnaces in central Pennsylvania (Frazer 1877; Spencer 1908). Several of the...associated w i t h the Triassic rocks of Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New Y o r k . T h e type locality...famous Cornwall mine i n southern Lebanon County, Pennsylvania ( L a p h a m and G r a y 1972). Other Cornwall-type
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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 (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
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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:...Birdsboro), Berks County. White, Smith, 1910, 540. silky mass of radiating needles, with calcite. Colorless
Report (edition)
SERIFS MINERAL COLLECTING PENNSYLVANIA COMMOWl FAITH OF PENNSYLVANIA PY G345/4.3 G33 1959 Snrrtary...Lapham, Davis M. Mineral Collecting in Pennsylvania c.l PENNSYLVANIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN G 33 ... MINERAL COLLECTING IN PENNSYLVANIA by Davis M. Lapham and Alan R. Geyer JMluitrationi lu _JtU... Adams County 15 Allegheny County Armstrong County Berks County Blair County Carbon County Chester...Chester County Cumberland County Delaware County Fulton County Lancaster County Lebanon County Lehigh County
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...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
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PENNSYLVANIA STATE LIBRARY OF 0144 00141189 1 v < 2 £ m- c oi; c» tt*s“S S Si! at tss^s isl^j...1 ' s WJ= ~S 5! s „3 &«eq Sjg® . . PENNSYLVANIA 1 .8 ^2»SS 3 d 5-s &s z l|lt« 7* < OF ...GEOLOGY REPORT 1976 33 MINERAL COLLECTING IN PENNSYLVANIA by Alan R. Geyer Robert C. Smith, John H....Graphics by Albert E. VanOlden COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES TOPOGRAPHIC...II Copyrighted 1976 by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Quotations from this book may be published if
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Rhodochrosite on sulfides, Sweet Home mine, Alma, Park County, Colorado, Martin Zinn specimen, Jeff Scovil photo...November/December: Copper, Cliff mine, Keweenaw County, Michigan. A. E. Seaman Mineral Museum specimen...Manganese-BariumMineral Locality in Northern Pittsylvania County, Virginia, 320-25 Behierite, Wisconsin, 170 Beudantite...J., Minerals of the Granite Gap Mines, Hidalgo County, New Mexico, 298-305 Biotite, Wisconsin, 173 Bitumen...Africa, 94-107; see Who's Who in Mineral Names Calcite, Colorado, 165; Kalahari manganese field, South
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Library] at 09:36 06 February 2015 Calcite from Thomasville, Pennsylvania Morphology and Twinning R. PETER... IN 1986, PENNSYLVANIA COLLECTOR Byron Brookmyer discovered an occurrence of large calcite crystals in...quarry at Thomasville, Pennsylvania. These veins produced plates of drusy calcite crystals, up to about...along the c axis, on which were perched twinned calcite crystals up to 20 cm in length. The best examples...King (1987). Almost overlooked among the drusy calcite crystals surrounding the large twins were uncommon
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Scovil photo. Amethyst, 12 cm, from Collegeville, Pennsylvania. Collected by Bryon Brookmyer; Wendell Wilson...covered with gypsum crystals and less abundant calcite, coated with a thick layer of wad. At the east...sides and most of the back were covered by gypsum, calcite and wad as in the cavern above it, but contained...loosely to tightly cemented and covered with gypsum, calcite, limonite, wad and small aggregates of wulfenite...museum quality.” (Szenics, 1967) Spruce Peak, King County, Washington, 1977 Beautiful pyrite and quartz specimens
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Southern Border of the Triassic Basin, West of York, Pennsylvania: Fault or Overlap? Note: This paper is dedicated...the Newark-Gettysburg Basin near Thomasville Pennsylvania, penetrated about 800 ft of Triassic strata...„. ... Exploratory drilling at Thomasville, Pennsylvania, includes a cored hole a few hundred feet within...section changes little. The geological map of York County (Fig. 1) shows conglomerate beds as continuous...Boston University user 524 CLOOS AND PETTTJOHN YORK LEGEND fino New Sc Que'tz Triassiz €/ Oxford
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epimorph after anhydrite, a large golden calcite and a quartz calcite stalactite as well as an orange Hawthorne...Periodicals Postage (USPS 751-150) paid at Peekskill, New York and additional locations. Postmaster: Send address...piece. I added a large but unfortunately damaged calcite, a Smokey quartz associated with talc and negotiated...em t? e. 1~0 cm.All drawingsby V 1tal1 descnbed calcite BradPlotkin. stalactites encrusted by quartz crystals...show well developed concentric banding of the calcite core with an outer quartz rind. (Continued next
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Maple St. Wrightsville, Pennsylvania 17358 and 1780 Prescott Road York, Pennsylvania Kline's quarry, Wrightsville...Wrightsville, York County, Penn- basis to go mineral collecting, weather permitting. slyvania is located...quarry is located near Wrightsville in York County. PENNSYLVANIA Downloaded by [JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY]...Anne is the imme­ diate past president of the Pennsylvania Chapter of the Friends of Mineralogy. He is...Schmerling is current­ ly serving as chairman of the Pennsylvania Chapter of the Friends of Mineral­ ogy. and
Report (volume)
of the Dillsburg magnetite deposits, York County, Pennsylvania, by Preston E. Hotz_____________________...__ (D) The Blewett iron-nickel deposit, Chelan County, Washington, by Carl A. Lamey_----__----------------------__--...ILLUSTRATIONS Page PLATE 1. Map of southeastern Pennsylvania showing distribution of Triassic sedimentary...northwestern York County, Pa__________ In pocket 3. Geologic map of Dillsburg iron district, York County, Pa_...projection of the Elk Creek corundum deposit, Gallatin County, Mont_____________ In pocket 13. Mine workings
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diabase sheet near Reesers Summit, New Cumberland, Pennsylvania by A. J. Froelich 1 with a section on magnetic...Report 87- 671 Prepared in cooperation with the Pennsylvania Bureau of Topographic and Geologic Survey This...... 4 Magnetic susceptibility investigations of York Haven diabase at Reesers Summit, Pa. (D.L. Daniels)...map of diabase in the Early Mesozoic basins of Pennsylvania (from Smith and others, 1975). Figure A2. Regional...of northern Gettysburg basin, the York Haven diabase sheet, the York Haven locality, the Reesers Summit
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
COLLECTING THE MINERALS OF SOUTHERN PENNSYLVANIA By PAUL BROUGHTON American University, Washington 16...in southern Pennsylvania was at the West Ridge Quarry at Blue Ridge Summit, Adams County. This quarry...Lime Quarry, All this quarry has to offer are calcite crystals, but are they fabulous. W e were able...drive down to the bottom of the quarry, where calcite crystals abound everywhere on a matrix of nearly...from the town of Thomasville, York County, which is seven miles west of York on U. S. Route 30. One must
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White Clays of Pennsylvania GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1558-D White Clays of Pennsylvania By JOHN W... John W. (John Wallace), 1923White clays of Pennsylvania. (Contributions to the geology of mineral deposits)...p. Supt. of Docs, no.: 119.3:1558D 1. Kaolin Pennsylvania. I. Title. II. Series. III. Series: Geological...deposits near Kunkletown and Saylorsburg, Monroe County ...................... Location and history......................... Narvon clay pit, Lancaster County ..............................................
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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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Collector's Note A Remarkable Calcite Pocket at the York Building Supply Company Quarry Downloaded...20 December 2014 York, York County, Pennsylvania Figure I. The pocket in the York Building Supply Company's...JAMES J. COLFLESH 15 South HiUs Drive Hershey, Pennsylvania 17033 jewelersbench @ netzero.net feet high... Every surface was covered with orangecolored calcite crystals. Some were low "nailhead" rhombohedra...calling from the York Building Supply Company's limestone quarry in York, Pennsylvania, where, with the
Report (edition)
PENNSYLVANIA STATE LIBRARY OF docs, pa Educational series „ - . Pennsylva ^ DATE DUE S 7 : o ...of Museum and 2016 with funding from by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Library...MINERALS OF PENNSYLVANIA PENNSYLVANIA STATE LIBRARY DOCUMENTS SECTION COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT...Geologist COMMON ROCKS and MINERALS of PENNSYLVANIA by Davis M. Lapham Alan R. Geyer Illustrations...surface. Those County are an example. Northwestward across Pennsylvania from Chester County toward Lake
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
00:11 06 November 2014 Eagle Mine, Cilman, Eagle County, Colorado W orld production of zinc is enormous...sphalerite after galena, tetrahedrite, barite, and calcite have been found; hemimorphite and smithsonite pseudomorphs...sphalerite specimens from a variety of localities. In New York, brown to pale yellow sphalerite in fine crystals...of the BalmatEdwards district in Saint Lawrence County (Smith and Figure 1. A fine example of jet-black...mines, Sussex County, New Jersey (Palache, 1937).Although approximately one hundred Pennsylvania sphalerite
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of M assachusetts, Connecticut, New jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia , Maryland , North Carolina, and other...geology of Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland , North Carolina, and South...appropriate, the applicable early Mesozoic basin, State, county, or 7 1/2minute USGS topographic quadrangle covered...the State are cited. More than one basin, State, county, or quadrangle may appear for an entry. A State...C.-S.C.) Deep River (N.C.) Durham (N.C.) Davie County (N.C.) Dan River and Danville (N.C.-Va.) Scottsburg
 
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