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Fuchsite from
Etchison Mine, Montgomery County, Maryland, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Muscovite var: Fuchsite
Formula:K(Al,Cr)3Si3O10(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Fuchsite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Etchison Mine, Montgomery County, Maryland, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:861294
Long-form Identifier:1:3:861294:6
GUID (UUID V4):110a04a8-de13-4fa9-8f10-c80538449111
Nearest other occurrences of Fuchsite
27.5km (17.1 miles) White Oak, Montgomery County, Maryland, USA
42.4km (26.4 miles) McMahon Quarry (Greenspring Quarry), Bare Hills, Baltimore County, Maryland, USA
49.4km (30.7 miles) Bluegrass Company Quarry (H.T. Campbell Quarry; Campbell Quarry), Texas, Baltimore County, Maryland, USA
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
FROM ETCHISON, MONTGOMERY CO., MD. Eanr V. SnaNNoNl An old chromite mine near Etchison in Maryland has...Gill, as a locality for chrome tourmaline and fuchsite narrow opening but, since no light was available...on some minerals from the chrome pits of Montgomery County, Marland. Johns-Hopkins (Ini.a. Circular,...margarite from Montgomery Maryland. A mer. M in eroJogi st, y ol. g, pp. lg 4_Ii S (lg 24). County, JOURNAL...most closely resembling chromite of any about the mine. It was decided that this material must be the ore
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
. CH.ROMIUM-COLOREDMARGARITE FROM MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MARYLAND Eanr,V. Snerwor, U. S. National'Musewmr...chromite mine located 1 mile west of Etchison Post Office, in the northern tip of Montgomery County, Maryland...interesting mineralogically, as having furnished the fuchsite and chromium-bearing tourmaline described by Gill...No difficulty was experienced in locating the old mine and a search of the dumps resulted in the finding...tourmaline and some especially good specimensof fuchsite. In addition to these minerals a third green substance
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Introduction CHROMIUM DEPOSITS of Maryland and Eastern Pennsylvania WINSLOW H. H A R T F O R D Chemistry...Pennsylvania, gold from North Carolina, and chromium from Maryland and Pennslyvania. Because stainless steel and...technology came after the practical exhaustion o f the Maryland chromium ores, the mines are small and many have...yellow." 2 Opening at Choate mine, Soldiers Delight, Baltimore County, Maryland. Paul Clifford of Rocks and...heavy black mineral. Brought by sledge from the mine to tributaries of the Ob, and rafted to the Arctic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of the purple muscovite is in southwestern Taos County, New Mexico, in R. 11 E., T.23 N., about sixteen...purple muscovite is most abundant at the Harding mine which lies about nine and one half miles drie east...the map and about thirteen miles as traveled. The mine is about half way between Picuris and Barranca....Grande River, about three miles NW of the Harding mine, and a mile or so SW of Pilar (Cieneguilla). This...New Mexico, and recently samples from the Harding mine were brought in by Mr. N. H. Darton of the U. S
Journal (issue)
State Line chromite district, Pennsylvania and Maryland ..................149 by E. E. Foord, A. V. Heyl... Special Second Class postage paid at Bowie, Maryland notes fro m th e y EDITOR GLOSSARY UPDATE The...Conservatory o f Music, and was a member of the Maryland State Arts Council from 1974 to 1980. Under his...several suites including Mont St.-Hilaire, the Jeffrey mine in Quebec, and a personally collected suite of dioptase...dioptase and other copper minerals from the Harquahala mine in west-central Arizona. Randy perfers to make his
Report (issue)
Deposits in Serpentine Rocks Of the Piedmont Upland Maryland, Pennsylvania And Delaware By NANCY C. PEARRE...serpentine districts ______ -._-_____-_____-___._. Montgomery County, Md_-_-_---_---_-_-----------_-__--_-_-_Soldiers...____________ Mine descriptions_______________________________________ Montgomery County, Md___-_______________________...Md___-_______________________.__ Etchison mine_____-_-.-_---_-_-_-___-_-___-____ Lyde Griffith property______-_...and Harris mines..-_---_-_-_--__-_______. Choate mine._________________________________ Unnamed mine__
Report (issue)
^ Anne Arundel County 43 Baltimore County 45 Howard County - Montgomery County 88 Prince Georges...Georges County Virginia 74 . 120 129 Arlington County 129 Fairfax County 131 Fauquier County 139...139 Loudoun County 143 Prince William County 149 Diabase quarries of northern Virginia 155 CAPTIONS...of the Baltimore Gabbro Complex at Ilchester, Maryland. Figure 6. Triassic diabase dike forming a ridge...Arundel, Prince George's/and Baltimore Counties, Maryland (Sterrett, 1911). Figure 9. Distribution of
Report (volume)
Bulletin 61. COVELLITE. From the East Greyrock mine, Butte, Mont. Collected by G. W. Tower. Analysis...[BULL. 220. POLYDYMITE. A massive ore from the mine of the Canadian Copper Company, Sudbury, district...Another nickel-iron sulphide, from the Worthington mine, SauTt branch of the Canadian Pacific Railway, 25...STROMEYERITE. From the Silver King mine, Calico, San Bernardino County, Cal. Specific gravity, 6:28. Analysis...in Bulletin 55. Butte, Mont. 13 From the Gagnon mine, Cu ........_. ___... . :_ _ . Ag.-.....-.....
Report (volume)
we suppose in his mineral, which came from a talc mine, a small admixture of talc, the residue agrees with...during a visit to the New Almaden Quick­ silver Mine in California, Dr. D. T. Day, of the II. S. Geological...well-developed crystals lining crevice veins in the mine, and was easily recognizable as apophyllite. Dr...EFILLEBRAND. 1. MAYFLOWER MINE, BALD MOUNTAIN MINING DISTRICT, BEAVER­ HEAD COUNTY, MONT. Through Messrs...probably or descloizite in the Bald Mountain mine, Beaverhead County, Mont. His specimens, however, showed the
Report (volume)
(steatite) Lucianite Muscovite (agalmatolite) Fuchsite Lepidolite Taeniolite Chlorites Xanthophyllite...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
Book (volume)
600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods...gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason Cr.⎯fossils;
Book (volume)
600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods...gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason Cr.⎯fossils;
Report (volume)
............................................. Maryland.................................................See Bauxite and Halloysite. 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;...following localities : Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20 S., R. 7 E.;...; Jefferson County, at Ely ton; Lee County, at Chewacla lime works"; St. Clair County, at Greensport;
Book
Pennsylvania___ _ _ _ 1 _ 2 _ 2 1 CHAPTER 4 Maryland ... 3 CHAPTER 5 Virginia 4 1 CHAPTER 6 West...was m e r e l y p a r t o f t h e waste o f t h e mine. W h a t t h e y needed was h i g h grade ore o...n g y e l l o w " c o l o r " i n y o u r pan. Maryland: M o n t g o m e r y, Frederick, H o w a r d ...n d a n assortment o f fossils. Photograph b y Maryland Board o f Natural Resources. 2 K e n t u c k...Washington D.C. area visit Virginia's noted Rutherford Mine. Photograph by Dr. Virginia Lee Blackford. ical
Report (volume)
...................... 1. Rocks from Aroostook County..... ^..................'........... 2. Miscellaneous................................................ Maryland and the District of Columbia....................1. Elliott County dike............................................... 2. Crittenden County dike............................ Schist from the Aragon iron mine............................... ill 17 .18 18 19....................................... 3. Colfax County................ I.............................
Report (volume)
MARYLAND GEOLOGICAL SURVEY VOLUME ONE MARYLAND GEOLOGICAL SURVEY VOLUME ONE BALTIMORE THE JOHNS... President. GOVERNOR OF MARYLAND. KOBEKT P. GRAHAM, COMPTROLLER OP MARYLAND. DAKLEL C. GILMAN, ....... R. W. SILVESTER, Secretary. PRESIDENT OF THE MARYLAND AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. STATE GEOLOGIST WM. BULLOCK...Excellency Lloyd Lowndes, Governor of the State of Maryland and President of the Geological Survey Commission...Miscellaneous Products 87 The Detailed Study of County Resources 87 The Special Investigation of Road
Report (issue)
International, LLC P.O. Box 263, East Hampton, CT 06424, USA Phone 1.860.267.1512; fax 1.860.267.7225 www.lapisint...elbaite crystals with lepidolite from the Golconda Mine in Minas Gerais, Brazil by Eberhard Equit, 1993...CHRISTIAN WEISE VERLAG, GERMANY AND LAPIS INTERNATIONAL, USA Tourmaline ♦ History ♦ Mineralogy • Tourmaline...view of the old mine portal on the north side of the Himalaya Mine in San Diego County, CA. D. Sterrett...tourmaline was found in the pegmatites of San Diego County, California. The Advent of Chemical Analysis
Book
commercial ores and secondary minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification...61 232 PART The Making 43 II 5 7 3 III Mine PART 267 IV Glossary 279 Bibliography 291...cities, and many of today’s prosperous western county seats began as mining-boom camps. trating sand...Whether you such as those listed alphabetically by county, township, and range in Part II of this book. Where...minerals which make lovely cabinet specimens. old mine western states, to kick up and oxidation,
Report (volume)
crystalline rocks Maine 1. Rocks from Aroostook 'County 2. Miscellaneous rocks5 v New Hampshire 5 Vermont...2. Miscellaneous rocks New Jersey Pennsylvania Maryland and the District of Columbia 1. Peridotite and...Carolina Georgia Kentucky 1.. Elliott County dike 2. Crittenden County dike Tennessee Missouri Arkansas Oklahoma...Upper Quinnesec Falls Schist from the Aragon iron mine Page. 5 15 5 18 5 24 5 25 5 25 5 25 5 26 26 5 27...Grande Canyon 5 2. Mount Taylor region 5 3. Colfax County 4. Miscellaneous rocks 5 Arizona 1. Globe district
Book (volume)
OnifgBid itm'4\| ^ N « C Ul tXkmA drivlaii) |P USA OTHS* 4dvi»g K.: SiikT irm O4s»**o« hmily 0«!MU...Miller Farm (Md.) UF Miller Farm (Md.) BT Farms—Maryland D region [QC881.2.D2] UF D layer BT Lower ionosphere...Creek (Washington County, Or.) BT Rivers—Oregon Dairy Creek Watershed (Washington County, Or.) BT Watersheds—Oregon...famUy (Not Subd Geog) RT Dam famUy Dam Lake (Oneida County, Wis.) BT Lakes—Wisconsin Reservoirs—Wisconsin...ui Dam (Korea) — Mali NT ManantaU Dam (Mali) — Maryland NT Conowingo Dam (Md.) — Massachusetts NT Charles
Book (volume)
Seient. Soc. 1883/84 I, 124. 2. Rod. Mt., Ouray County, Colorado; anal. S. L. Penfield, Am. loum. 45,... Bull. Acad. Belg. 26, Nr. 12 (1868). 3. Kellog Mine, Arkansas, anal. J. Smith, Am. Joum. 43, 68 (1867)...Discovery Mine Leadville (Colorado); anal. W. f. Hillebrand, wie oben. 56. National Belle Mine, Ouray Co...100,47 99,32 100,18 99,27 18. Detroit Copper Mine (Calif.); anal. F. W. Clarke u. J. M. Chatard, Am...(1887); Z. Kryst. 19, 198 (1891). 22. Von der Logan-Mine; anal. F. L. R.ansome, Ann. Rep. U.S. geol. Surv
 
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