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Cobaltite from
Kibblehouse Quarry, Perkiomenville, Marlborough Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Cobaltite
Formula:CoAsS
Comments:Bright silvery Octahedrons and Cubo-octahedrons as small crystals in green grey hornfels, larger crystals up to 1/4 inch in calcite veins from the North-West wall. A. Geyer, R. Smith III, J. Barnes (1976) Mineral collecting in Pennsylvania: 189-192

Occurs as small pyritohedral crystals embedded in diabase matrix. Collected personally by Warren Cummings.
Habit:Octahedrons and Cubo-octahedrons (Gyer, Smith Barnnes); Pyritohedrons (W. Cummings)
Colour:Bright Sivlery
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Cobaltite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Kibblehouse Quarry, Perkiomenville, Marlborough Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
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Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:85764
Long-form Identifier:1:3:85764:8
GUID (UUID V4):f8a4ca42-3724-4554-996a-0683826c0032
Nearest other occurrences of Cobaltite
26.1km (16.2 miles) ā“˜French Creek Mines, Saint Peters, Warwick Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
33.5km (20.8 miles) ā“˜Dyer Quarry, Gibraltar, Birdsboro, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA
References
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The ^Cobaltite" Crystals from the Kibblehouse Quarry by J. A L E X A N D E R SPEER JAMES R. C R A I G...Photomicrograph of a cobaltite octahedron from the Kibblehouse quarry, Perkiomenville, MontĀ­ gomery County, Pennsylvania...existence of cobaltite, CoAsS, at the KibbleĀ­ house quarry near Perkiomenville, Marlborough twp., Montgomery...Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, was conĀ­ firmed by Lapham and Barnes in 1971. Initial colĀ­ lection of the...begun in a simple attempt to characterĀ­ ize the cobaltite better in terms of its chemistry and physical
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T H E KIBBLEHOUSE QUARRY by F . A . K E I D E L 705 Prospect Ave. WUmington, Delaware 19809 Few localities...as has the Kibblehouse Quarry. Many inĀ­ teresting discoveries have been made at the Quarry and the diligent...able to find much worth taking home. The Kibblehouse Quarry is located 30 miles northwest of Philadelphia...east of the town of Perkiomenville, Pennsylvania in picturesque MontĀ­ gomery County. It is a moderately...moderately sized quarry with active workings about 1000 by 700 feet. UnforĀ­ tunately insurance requirements forced
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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 (issue)
metamorphic rock. Association: Gold, silver, glaucodot, cobaltite, cobaltian arsenopyrite, emplectite, bismuthinite...Canada. In the USA, in the Kibblehouse quarry, Perkiomenville, Montgomery Co., Pennsylvania. From Bou Azzer...structure of alloclasite, CoAsS, and the alloclasiteā€“cobaltite transformation. Can. Mineral., 14, 561ā€“566. (4)
Report (edition)
PENNSYLVANIA STATE LIBRARY OF 0144 00141189 1 v < 2 Ā£ m- c oi; cĀ» tt*sā€œS S Si! at tss^s isl^j...1 ' s WJ= ~S 5! s ā€ž3 &Ā«eq SjgĀ® . . PENNSYLVANIA 1 .8 ^2Ā»SS 3 d 5-s &s z l|ltĀ« 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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Site Number, Site Name ...................... 6 County, State, Quadrangle, Latitude, Longitude .........Occurrences located in the Newark basin and vicinity, Pennsylvania ..................... 110 F. Section F: Occurrences...located in the Gettysburg basin and vicinity, Pennsylvania ..................... 147 G. Section G: Occurrences...given in the categories of : 1. name and location ( county, state, quadrangle, latitude, and longitude) 2...stream, or town. County, State, Quadrangle, Latitude, Longitude Information in the county, state, quadrangle
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Minerals Theme: Education Opens New Horizons PENNSYLVANIA The York Rock and Mineral Club opened the field...trip season with a trip to the Bethlehem Steel Quarry near HanĀ­ over for hematite, pyrite, calcite and...others. This trip -was followed by one to the Faylor Quarry at Winfield for calĀ­ cite, strontian-calcite, eelestite...an added bonus, some fossils may be found in the quarry. (Ed. note: Do not go to these quarries to hunt...College in Easton was guest speaker at the Central Pennsylvania Rock and Mineral Club, Harrisburg, when he discussed
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Diamond Mines, at (or near) Murfreesboro, Pike County, Arkansas. At the mines, I was kindly given permission...for the talc was Georgia Marble Co. Verde Antique Quarry, 2 miles s/w of Holly Springs, Cherokee Co., Ga...how he pinpoints his findings: It is in Somerset County near Great Moose Pond on the banks of Goodwins...locally as Pebbley Beach. Cohasset is in Norfolk County on the south shore of Massachusetts Bay, about...1951, about 12 miles southeast of Ely, St. Louis County, Minnesotaā€”south of Birch Lake. The minerals include
Report (volume)
diabase, west-central New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania 141 By Jonathan M. Husch An overview of early...faulting and diabase intrusion, Newark basin, Pennsylvania 176 By Nicholas M. Ratcliffe and William C....selected early Mesozoic copper occurrences in Pennsylvania 320 By R.C. Smith II, S.W. Berkheiser, Jr.,...uranium-bearing sequences in the Newark basin, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and the San Juan basin, New...Palisades sill near the Ramapo fault in Rockland County, New York, as an intrusion of fine-grained diabase
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COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA Richard L . T hornburgh, Gove rnor DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES...of landsliding at Height Drive, Shaler Township, Allegheny County. Note piers into bedrock; "Pittsburgh...sta rted spring, 1976. Photo by Jesse Craft. PENNSYLVANIA GEOLOGY is published bimonth ly by the Topographic...Dept . of Environmental Resources, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 17120. A rticles may be reprinted from this...PART OF THE PROBLEM. GEOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN PENNSYLVANIA 1979 INTRODUCTION This publication is the
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Contents for July-August, 1950 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY ................................................................. 363 WORLD'S LARGEST SANDSTONE QUARRY ............ ....................................--v,-- _ ......... ,., :,,..v CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY ---------------ā€¢ā€¢ā€¢-ā€¢ā€¢_,..............,..._,..,...for 1950 June 4 -Ā· Strickland Quarry, Portland, Cooo. June 18 - Silox Quarry, No. Stonington, Conn. July...September 24 - Westfield, Mass. October 8 - Slocum Quarry. October 22 - To Be Announced. November 5 - To
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The French Creek mine, St. Peters, Chester County, Pennsylvania......................................105...address of Kustos is P.O. Box 332, Stewartstown, Pennsylvania 17363 (telephone 717-993-6930; fax 717-993-9036)...3 /# l D ohrm ann G old collecĀ­ tion, G illette quarry (CT), Spanish fluorite $12 H ouston M useum Catalog...Geochemistry of the Sterling Hill zinc deposit, Sussex County, New Jersey. Geological Society o f America Bulletin...minerals of Franklin and Sterling Hill, Sussex County, New Jersey. United States Geological Survey ProĀ­
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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
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Saxony. Xld. radiating in rock. 2 x 2 x 1 Ā½ .. COBALTITE, Tunaberg. Brilliant Ā½" xi. in Chalcopyrite. 1...January, 1948 QE 3s / .Rc, CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY .................................................Association 2 ROCKS AND MINERALS CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY Ro - NORTHWEST FEDERATION CONVENTION Bozeman...the old Dixon 9uarry and its minerals and Way's quarry and its minerals. An article on the vivianite occurrences...Colorado, a small tributary to Grand Lake ( Grand County ) . Near the top of the view are remnants of potholes
Report (volume)
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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ADULARIA Adu Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54...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
Book (edition)
abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture), dept...always included in text, except in the cases of the USA, UK, and the provinces Ontario and Quebec in Canada...Uintah County. Utah. and m (2.B. acanthite group). Monoclinic, C2/m, a,b,c Rio Blanco County. Colorado...Menzenschwand Scbwarzwald Mts., in the Sailauf quarry, Spessart Mts., Bavaria. both Germany, and from...coal dumps at Shamokin, Northumberland co., Pennsylvania, and at Chervonograd, LvivVolhynia basin, Ukraine
Journal (issue)
1946 CONTENTS FOR DECEMBER, 1946 CHIPS FROM 11-IE QUARRY ................~................................MINERAL LOCALITIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 1. GRANITE ST. QUARRY, SOMERVILLE, MASS. By Prof. C/,ar/eJ Pa/ache Ā·...in Tooele Cannon, son of a Morman pioneer, the County, Utah. Here, .according to local mineral resources...MINERAL LOCALITIES OF NEW ENGLAND I. Gr1nite St. Quarry Somerville, Massachusetts IY PROF. CHARLES PALACHE...nd as far back as Robinson the name of Milk-Row Quarry, Charlestown, where black hornblende and prehnite
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MineralogicalRecord.com I IIMORIITE-(Y) EUROPE FRANCE Trimouns quarry, Luzenac, Ariege. Operated for talc since the beginning...beginning of the 20th century, the Trimouns quarry became well known to collectors around 1990 for the...long (Marty, 2004 ). AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins...region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites between the towns...Litchfield County. Ilmenite masses and crystals from somewhere near Washington, Litchfield County, were described
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Rock, Ark Ark Geol. Survey County Mmeral Rpt.-Arkansas Geological Survey County Mmeral Report Little Rock...Bethlehem, Pa. Los Angeles County Mus Sci Ser, Paleontology; Quart.-Los Angeles County Museum Science Series...Raymond Peter, and Lee, Wallace). 011 and gas m Montgomery County, Kansas Kans State Geol Survey Bull 31, p...mto Chattanooga shale m Chetopa oil pool, Labette County, KansasĀ· Am. Assoc. Petrol. Geol Bull., v. 25,...water well at the Jayhawk Ordnance Works m Cherokee County, KansasĀ· Kans. State Geol Survey Bull 47, pt. 3
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Earth Sciences, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Thalassa Skinner: Cambridge, Massachusetts...Tuscon, Arizona. John S. White: Stewartstown, Pennsylvania. Hans J. Wilke: Eppertshausen/Hessen, Germany...North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Puerto Rico Rhode Isand South Carolina South...an accessory mineral in serpentinite. Cedar Hill quarry, Lancaster Co., PA; Josephine Co., OR; White Creek...accessory in meteorites and lunar rocks. Howard Montgomery quarry, Howard Co., MD; Mackinaw mine, Snohomish
 
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