 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | The Harry T. Campbell Sons' Co. Gettysburg quarry looking north towards the skarnmagnetite zone. Relic...bedding in the hornfels dips westerly. Campbell's Quarry A Complex Mineral Locality in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania...Harry T . Campbell Sons' Company crushed stone quarry, a noted Pennsyl vania mineral locality, is located...to the local ity as Teeter's quarry. Prior to 1974, the Campbell quarry was a noted zeolite suite locality...Penn sylvania Academy of Science. The Campbell quarry is in the south central por tion of a long structural |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | it R TLhrough Scope The Microminerals of Valley Quarry JERI L. JONES 276 North Main Street Spring Grove...world-class mineral specimens. Although Valley quarry in Gettysburg is not one of these occurrences,...years of dedicated research on this particular quarry. Although Hoff (1978) wrote about the quarry’s...results that warrant publication. Location Valley quarry is located about 2.2 miles southeast of Gettysburg...has worked the quarry for aggregate to the present time. During its early years, the quarry produced some |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | zones with marble, ferrosalite and grossularite-andradite skarn is developed on the marble side whereas...cent ferric iron) in normal gabbro, norite and diabase sheets. The anorthositic pyroxenes are also in...36. (3) Salite from gabbroic anorthosite gneiss, quarry 0.3 mile east of Stickney Bridge, Ausable quadrangle...gabbro pegmatite in Marcy type of anorthosite, quarry 3 miles east oI Wilmington on south shoulder of... noritic and diabase sheets of Stillwater, Mont.; Bushveld, S. Africa; Triassic diabase of eastern U |  | | Report (edition) | | County, the Stillwell quarry in Lancaster County, and the Medusa Cement Company quarry in York County, are...Zircon Crystal 50 Diagramatic Sketch of Brinton Quarry Pegmatite 53 Geologic Cross-Section of West ...84 of Deweylite after Dolomite, Ceclar Hill Quarry 89 _ Limonite Pseudomorphs from Chestnut Hill...permission from the owners of the land, or from the quarry and mine operators, before entering to collect...have been taken from topographic quadrangles. A quarry or mine symbol designates the exact mineral location |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | from the Old Lurzenbach mine, Gosenbach, Siegen, Germany. Jack Halpern specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. distribution...encountered in the diabase quarries of Fairfax County and the Goose Creek quarry near Leesburg, Loudoun...beautiful pyrite, magnetite, apophyllite, and andradite specimens. Interestingly, the old mine dumps were...chalcopyrite specimens have been found in the Ben Hogan quarry at Black Rock, Lawrence County, Arkansas. Well-formed...to 1 cm have been found in the Berry Materials quarry at North Vernon, Jennings County, Indiana. A number |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Ball, Pennsylvania 17506 Introduction where a diabase dike of triassic age intruded calcar eous sedimentary...sedimentary rocks (limestones). This diabase Pennsylvania has a long history of prominence in caused an...Jamestown, Virginia in 1619 but not inating from the diabase. In some places, the lime long after in 1683 "minerals...which but due to the immense heat of the molten diabase, helped in the colonization of Pennsylvania. it...Revolution. Pennsylvania's during early cooling of the diabase. The zeolite min iron industry continued to grow |  | | Report (edition) | | Crystal . . . . . . .. Diagra1natic Sketch of Brinton Quarry Pegmatite Graphic Granite Geologic Cross-Section...Pseudomorphs of Deweylite after Aragonite. Cedar Hill Quarry . . . . . . . Calcite Crystal Forms "Picrolite"... Q t9 Diabase intrusions 225 er ...permission from the owners of the land, or from the quarry and mine operators, before entering to collect...have been taken from topographic quadrangles. A quarry or mine symbol designates the exact mineral location |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | and Brunswick formations of the Newark Group by diabase sills produced unusually varied and unique mineral...differing combinations of diopside-hedenbergite, andradite and grossular, prehnite, datolite, idoerase and...5 m below the Palisade Sill and in the Granton Quarry (Van Houten, 1969, Figs. 9, 30, 31) commonly are...tourmaline also occurs on joints in and very near the diabase intrusions. An estimated 0.01 percent maximum of...percent boron) points to volatile additions from the diabase. I t should be noted, however, that an average |  | | | | by Franckh’sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart, W. Germany. Adapted by Anthony C. Tennissen. Revised Edition...in igneous and contact metasomatic deposits. In Germany, found as nicely shaped crystals at Neudorf, Harz...Idaho, and Tintic, Utah. Beautiful crystals in Saxony, Germany. Massive crystals at Broken Hill, New South...Valley area. Nice crystals at Sieger, Westphal, Germany; at KladnoRodna, Czechoslovakia. Very unusual but...Botes, Rumania, and at Pribram, Czechoslovakia. In Germany, very excellent crystals at several places in Harz |  | | Book (edition) | | Lieber, © 1969 by Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart, W. Germany. Anthony C. Tennissen. der schĂ©nen* Franckh’sche...hydrothermal deposits. Occasionally in igneous Germany, Harz Mts.; and contact metasomatic deposits...Idaho, and Tintic, Utah. Beautiful crystals in Saxony, Germany. Massive crystals at Broken Hill, New South...Valley area. Nice crystals at Sieger, Westphal, Germany; at KladnoRodna, Czechoslovakia. Very unusual but...BotĂ©s, Rumania, and at Pribram, Czechoslovakia. In Germany, very excellent crystals at several places in Harz |  | | Report (edition) | | owners the rockhound, of the land, or from quarry and mine operators, before entering to collect...Metamorphic rocks: Schist Gneiss Igneous rocks: Diabase Ultrabasic Pegmatite Granite Sedimentary rocks:...Chlorite Calcite Sandstone Igneous rocks: Basalt and Diabase Aragonite 13 MINERAL AND ROCK ASSOCIATIONS...contain wurtzite crystals. At the old brickyard quarry at Valley Camp, West7. moreland County; the New...northwest rectangle. At the Glassmere Brick Co. quarry at Glassmere, 9 . 21 BERKS COUNTY Wheatfield |  | | Report (edition) | | “old” Lime Bluff quarry, Muncy; right fibrous : tremolite, C. K. Williams quarry, Easton: bottom: calcite...oriented coatings of goethite, “old” Lime Bluff quarry, Muncy, (courtesy of Delbert L. Oswald) ADDITIONAL...edition of Mineral Collecting Cedar Hill in quarry where Dave had done IV much of his work PREFACE...permission from the owners of the land, from the quarry or mine operators before entering to collect. (Land...compilation. Finally, we acknowledge the many quarry and property owners who have aided the authors |  | | Catalog/List | | Few of the minute crystals you see on mine or quarry dumps or even on cabinet specimens will be satisfactory...at the pristine source underground ar an fresh quarry faces and the like. Very aften though, such source...crystals twinned on the albite law. On altered diabase. 213 ALMANDINE, Petaluna, California. Reddish-brown...Soluble in water but stable in air. Use 30X. 8.00 ANDRADITE, San Benito County, California. Transparent yellow...yellow dodecahedra on serpen6.50 tine. ANDRADITE, near Sandefjord, Norway. Brownish-black dodecahedra |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | were formed by contact metamorphism of intrusive diabase. The rounded cavities were produced by the solution...across the strike of the sedimentaryrocks. The diabase is bordered on both sides by a zone of baked shale...sedimentary rock or the diabase, and makes the high ridge south of the diabase. The thicker red shalesof...shown by diagonal ruling, bordering the intrusive diabase. The garnet was discovered by G. W. Stose and...metamorphosed zone which forms the hill south of the diabase, south of Highspire, at the locality marked (1) |  | | Journal (issue) | | THL Y Contents for April, 1941 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY .................................................OPAL MINE ........................ KIBBLEHOUSE QUARRY, PERKIOMENVILLE, PA. By William F. Haeberle .....T etrahedrite, Gottesg~be Mine, Roth, Nassau, Germany ; Celesttte, Giona Mine, Girgenti, Sicily, Italy...regarding the source of the specimens-name of mine or quarry if possible but at least the town, village, settlement...compressed air, pass under the river. vated in the diabase of the Palisades. When this tunne:l is mentioned |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | T H E KIBBLEHOUSE QUARRY by F . A . K E I D E L 705 Prospect Ave. WUmington, Delaware 19809 Few localities...the Kibblehouse Quarry. Many in teresting discoveries have been made at the Quarry and the diligent...to find much worth taking home. The Kibblehouse Quarry is located 30 miles northwest of Philadelphia just...picturesque Mont gomery County. It is a moderately sized quarry with active workings about 1000 by 700 feet. UnforÂ...variety of mineral species that occur at the quarry. Nearby diabase intrusions of later Triassic time wrought |  | | Book | | Farber and Forbes Dunn of the Farber White Limestone Quarry, Bernard Kozykowski, J. Kenneth Fisher. Miss Margaret...(Nicoll). The modern and fully equipped Farber Quarry. on Cork Hill Road, is the only active operation...metamorphism, resulting in such minerals such as Andradite and Rhodonite and still later hydro thermal (hot...Aegirine-Augite (Jeffersonite}, Hendricksite and Andradite were formed as the result of early regional metamorphism...and Analcime. The dike-rock, itself, is known as Diabase although many collectors refer to it as basalt |  | | Journal (issue) | | Field trip report: Manassas quarry .................. p. 17 Manassas quarry geology, part 1 .............silver-black hematite crystals with deep red andradite (garnet) overgrowths. Moroccan mines and the Wessels...2019 16 Field Trip Report—June 1, 2019 Vulcan Quarry, Manassas, VA by Hutch Brown I joined our club...wanted to go mineral collecting at the Manassas quarry. So, bright and early on a Saturday morning, off...briefing in the quarry parking lot. Then a long line of cars headed into the quarry. The quarry is operated |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | of Ettringen, near Mayen, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Dan Behnke specimen and photo. ter and is transparent...rock) from Ettringen, Eifel, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, where the clear to white crystals reach sizes...(1996). The contact zone between limestone and diabase at Scawt Hill, near Larne, County Antrim, Ireland...States. Of these the best known is the Commercial quarry, Crestmore, Riverside County, California. Ettringite...limestone. An interesting fact concerning Commercial quarry ettringite is the erroneous description of it as |  | | Catalog/List | | .. .. .. .... .. INC. .40 .76 3.00 .75 ANDRADITE-See Garnet ANGLESITE-(Lead sulfate) Xled, on xled...bottle BERTHIERITE (iron sulfantimonite) Xline; Saxony ................... ..... .. 1 x 2" .60 BERYL...assorted forms; Germany each, 15c or 10 for $1.00 Xis, in matrix of an hydrite; Germany. About lxl", .36...trapezohedron ; Lower California. 50 in vial for 20c. Andradite (calcium iron orthosilicate) XI-groups; Arizona...(magnesium aluminum orthosilicate) In serpentine; Saxony. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |  | Xie, Hong-Jing, Wang, Yu-Wang, Guo, Bo-Ran, Shi, Yu, Zhou, Guo-Chao (2019) Characteristics and petrogenesis of the “Pale Microgranular Masses” in ophiolite-type chromitites in northern Xinjiang. Ore Geology Reviews, 115. 103168 doi:10.1016/j.oregeorev.2019.103168 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Although some rodingitized enclaves (gabbro, diabase, and volcanic-clastic rocks) have been discovered...The garnets in PMMs belong to the grossularite-andradite series. The main oxide compositions are SiO2,...samples are classified as Cr-rich grossularite-andradite and show that the Cr was introduced from the surrounding...(0~0.05%). (3) Andradite. There are two types of andradite occurrences. One type of andradite is brownish-red...06%, 0.57% of one sample). The other type of andradite is golden-yellow cryptocrystalline chromium-rich |  | | Catalog/List | | . .25 .50 .10 .25 .50 .35 1.50 3.00 ANDRADITE-See Garnet ANHYDRITE (calcium suliate} Xline,... .50 BERTHIERITE (iron sulfantimonite) Xline; Saxony, Bohemia or Sardinia BERYL (Beryllium aluminum...assorted forms; Germany. Each, 15¢ or 10 for $1.00. Xis, in matrix of anhydrite; Germany. About 1 x 1"...trapezohedron; Lower California. 50 in vial for 201. Andradite (calcium iron orthosilicate) Polyadelphite, massive...00; in vial . . . . . . . . . . . In serpentine; Saxony .................. .. Rhodolite (magnesium-iron |  | | Report (issue) | | crystals), Felton's farm (Chester), and Ward's quarry; Montgomery County: Sumneytown, and Perkiomenville...Philadelphia: Fairmount Park, Frankford, and Rit- enhouse quarry. SCOLECITE CaAl 2 Si3 Oi .3H 2 O MONOCLINIC ...white radiating tufts; Delaware County: Ward's quarry, mealy white radiations. DESCRIPTIVE MINERALOGY...mines, the corundum mines at Unionville, Brinton's quarry south of West Chester, and the French Creek iron...illustration selected is the symbol of Brinton's quarry, three miles south of West Chester. REFERENCES |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | this short article. The specimen is 11 cm wide. Andradite that Was Not and the Search for its Unknown...interesting equant black crystals that was labeled “Andradite, Cornwall, Pennsylvania.” Because it was only...although I already knew that it was tourmaline, not andradite. Thus began the search for more about its identity...Dark Hollow Run. Triassic shales and intrusive diabase.” A Google search led to a U.S. Geological Survey...following description (in the map legend): Diabase (Jurassic) Diabase—Concordant to discordant, predominantly |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | county. The Triassic diabase here overlies a quartzite, and small veins of andradite and specular hematite...Trudell reported the society's trip to Brinton's quarry, where jefferisite (one crystd 9 inches long),...studded vitr[ orssasiennlminute pyrite and smaller andradite crystals. Seuunr, G. Gonoox, Seoetary. Trp Npw |
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