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Prehnite from
Keystone Trap Rock Quarry, Cornog, Wallace Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Prehnite
Formula:Ca2Al2Si3O10(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Byssoliteⓘ5 photos of Prehnite associated with Byssolite at this locality.
Adulariaⓘ4 photos of Prehnite associated with Adularia at this locality.
Actinoliteⓘ3 photos of Prehnite associated with Actinolite at this locality.
Clinozoisiteⓘ1 photo of Prehnite associated with Clinozoisite at this locality.
Schorlⓘ1 photo of Prehnite associated with Schorl at this locality.
Goethiteⓘ1 photo of Prehnite associated with Goethite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Prehnite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Keystone Trap Rock Quarry, Cornog, Wallace Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (3 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:132879
Long-form Identifier:1:3:132879:0
GUID (UUID V4):8deb8549-e7c7-4a6f-a858-90f596e2cf20
Nearest other occurrences of Prehnite
15.3km (9.5 miles) ⓘGrace Mine, Morgantown, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA
19.8km (12.3 miles) ⓘH&K Birdsboro Materials Quarry (Dyer Trap Rock Quarry; Hay Creek Trap Rock Quarry), Hay Creek, Birdsboro, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA
23.0km (14.3 miles) ⓘSilver Hill Quarry, Bowmansville, Brecknock Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA
23.2km (14.4 miles) ⓘDyer Quarry, Gibraltar, Birdsboro, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA
36.2km (22.5 miles) ⓘKibblehouse Quarry, Perkiomenville, Marlborough Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
45.3km (28.2 miles) ⓘWissahickon Valley, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
52.7km (32.8 miles) ⓘRock Hill Quarry, Rock Hill, East Rockhill Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, USA
58.6km (36.4 miles) ⓘCoopersburg Granite Company Diabase quarry [1], Springfield Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, USA
59.3km (36.8 miles) ⓘCornwall Mines (Cornwall Iron Mine), Cornwall Borough (Cornwall), Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, USA
75.1km (46.6 miles) ⓘGoat Hill Quarry, West Amwell Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
COLLECTING THE MINERALS OF SOUTHERN PENNSYLVANIA By PAUL BROUGHTON American University, Washington 16...southern Pennsylvania was at the West Ridge Quarry at Blue Ridge Summit, Adams County. This quarry is of...quite shallow in the side of a mountain. At the quarry we were able to collect several specimens of malachite...the entrance to the quarry. The bedrock of the quarry is a greenstone. The quarry is operated by the Rubberoid...have written permission to collect. To get to the quarry, take Route 16 northwest from Blue Ridge Summit
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 .... . ...... . ..
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
resembles tiny scarlet hairs growing out of solid rock. This specimen came from a copper mine at Bisbee...June 14, 1952 The Kibblehouse trap rock quarry at Perkiomenville, Pennsylvania, was the site of the Nutley...weather, albeit a little too hot, and arrived at the quarry about lunchtime. Evidently we had arrived between...days when the quarry was worked as a copper mine and were a specimen of malachite on trap and another consisting...consisting of chalcocite masses on trap. As it seemed that the quarry was going to produce little that
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
following schedule: JUNE 29, 1967: ...Pennsylvania Sand Glass Quarry, MINERALS & FOSSILS Berkley Springs...South River Mine, Augusta County, Va. Cold Spring Clay Mine, Augusta County, Virginia * * * * # * * MINERALS......Cedar Hill Quarry, Cedar Hill, Pa. Keystone Trap Rock Quarry, Cornog, Pennsylvania ...Plum Point Beach...unakite, jasper and blue quartz; the Cedar Hill quarry will give you some feldspar and micro material;...Portland Cement Quarry, Union Bridge, Md. Goose Creek Quarry Leesburg, Virginia Arlington Quarry, Leesburg
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Florida] at 05:03 06 August 2017 The Rockland County Mineral and Gem Society of New York, prior to taking...which member Robert Baker supplied. Then the Orange County Fair at Midd'etown, N . Y., invited them to display...August 8 to 16th. The MineralĂłgica! Society of Pennsylvania report 173 members and friends present on Sunday...guests of the Gault Brothers at the Keystone Trap Rock Quarry, at Cornog, Pa. Finds at this location included...they visited the Cedar Hill Quarry in Fulton Township in Lancaster County, where permission was granted
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
collecting sphalerite north of Wiarton, at the Ebel Quarry, and at Cragleith. There are collecting areas at...Maryland, and the Cedar Hill Quarry in the same general area in nearby Pennsylvania are the favorite haunts...haunts of Maryland and Pennsylvania Societies. Other material to be 602 SECRETARY Vernon W e r t z 9707 Sutherland...opal (common), deweyite and uvarovite. Other Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and District of Columbia...clear enough to facet. The Keystone Trap Rock Quarry at Cornog, Pennsylvania, offers collecting of pyrite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Society of Pennsylvania The August Excursion of the Mineralogical Society of Pennsylvania was held Sunday...Sunday, the 12th at the Keystone Trap Rock Quarry at Cornog, Chester County, Pa. thru the courtesy of...14, 1956 To the quarry of the Limestone Products Company, Lime Cr,est, (Sussex County) N . J. There were...temperature and the immense quarry offered an inspiring challenge. The rock of the quarry consists mostly of metamorphosed...Products Co., quarry, Lime Crest, Sussex Co., N. J., scene of Mineralogical Society of Pennsylvania Oct. 14
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Tennessee 37830 rjlauf@bellsouth.net Downloaded by [Pennsylvania State University] at 20:18 13 August 2013 All...published by Schiffer Books. Downloaded by [Pennsylvania State University] at 20:18 13 August 2013 site...particular interest to collectors: Downloaded by [Pennsylvania State University] at 20:18 13 August 2013 Table...amphibolite gneiss at the Keystone trap-rock quarry, Cornog, Pennsylvania. ‱ Pink to green crystals...2003). It was found in a boulder of prehnite rock in which the prehnite formed typical fan-shaped aggregates
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
existence. Mrs. Marguerite R. Collyer of the Rockland County Gem and Mineral Society remains as Chairman of...Stringer, of Mass., Henry B. Graves of Miami, Fla., Rock Haven Mineral Company, Everett E. Raether Jr. and...Indiana, Joseph P. Stachura, of Mass., Wilson's Rock Shop of N . C , The Martins of Ann Arbor, Michigan...and garnet, were found and found their way into rock sacks, too. Next on the agenda was the invitation...weekend of August 1st and 2nd, for gold panning and rock hunting. Thus ended the 1959 convention of the Eastern
Book (volume)
Ohio OHIO Only Paleozoic rock formations underlie Ohio’s Pleistocene surface debris and Quaternary soils...the western counties, especially the Clay Center Quarry 12 miles southeast of Toledo but in Ottawa Co....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...areas of drainage in 336 A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the Untied States townships of Franklin
Book (volume)
Ohio OHIO Only Paleozoic rock formations underlie Ohio’s Pleistocene surface debris and Quaternary soils...the western counties, especially the Clay Center Quarry 12 miles southeast of Toledo but in Ottawa Co....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...areas of drainage in 336 A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the Untied States townships of Franklin
Book (volume)
A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States NEBRASKA This rectangular Great Plains state rises...overlooks both Colorado and Wyoming. The subsurface rock strata of the entire state are all undisturbed sedimentaries:...borderland from Sheridan Co. to the Wyoming line is good rock hunting country, especially along the southern slopes...of Crawford in Dawes Co. and the rather extensive rock beds east of the Orella railroad sta. ranks among... The Sandhills Museum in town is well worth the rock hunter’s visit. Draws, cuts and breaks in the hills
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
Jersey: L a k e Hopatcong, Greenwood L a k e Pennsylvania: S c h u y l k i l l R i v e r Vi r g i n i...dollars at the noted locality of Cowee Valley, Macon County, North Carolina. An enthusiastic family found and...visited the well known old Rutherford mine in Amelia County, Virginia, and found bright spessartine garnets...Excited collectors took home from old quarries in Pennsylvania and Maryland, pieces of apple green precious...green gem spodumene, was discovered in Alexander County, North Carolina, in 1880 and named for one of its
Book (edition)
MARIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY 3 1111 00289 4184 \ I s Fifth Revised Edition A complete, state-by-state...Easy-to-understand instructions for recognizing rock formations; glossary. How to identify gem minerals...is a precise explanation of h< to recognize the rock formation* which gems occur. The tabular Gem ... contents fun to hunt for gems 1. It's 2. How 3. Rock formations 4. How 5. Characteristics of important...that comes from opening a nodule or a pocket in rock and being the first to see a sparkling crystal fresh
Book
HfiRIN COUNTY FREE LIBRfiRY 311110G386652Q I V Russell P MacFal A COLOR TREASUF FOR COLLECTORS...are 100 maps geared to leading the "hunter to his quarry" and more than eighty photographs of minerals in...to Hunting Locations ? i 9 GIVEN TO THE MARIN COUNTY LIBRARY BY MARI N L MTNF.RAT. SOCTETY DAVID...the sociologists to decide Not everyone takes up rock hunting because of an interest in mineralogy There...comes when, after hours of hammering, a resistant rock splits just the way you want it to. And in the end
Journal (issue)
................. MISCELLANEOUS CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY .................................................FIND IN COWEE VALLEY, N.C.—Paul E. Lockwood THE ROCK BRIGADE—Rudolph J. Bland, Jr......................7-3185) ROCKS AND MINERALS 641 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY A RUSH TRIP TO SOUTH CAROLINA On Tuesday, August...headed northward towards the gold mine in York County. It was a most enjoyable trip, the mine was reached...Bellevue, Wash. 98004. Oct. 2, 1965—1st Rock Swap of the West­ chester Mineral & Gem Society will be held
Book
100 maps geared to leading the " hunter to his quarry" and more than eighty photographs of minerals in...the soc1olog1sts to decide " Not everyone takes up rock hunting because of an interest in mineralogy. There...comes when after hours of hammering, a resistant rock splits just the way you want 1t to. And in the end...Ouarnes Rock Masses Abandoned Ouarr,es and Mines When and How to Go Immovable Areas of Loose Rock WHAT...LIKE Freestandmg Crystals Cav1t1es 18 Crystals in Rock Format,ons Compact and Special Forms Druses and
Journal (issue)
40, No. 8 WHOLE No. 31L AUGUST, 1965 CONTENTS ROCK HUNTING IN WYOMING—Murray Kane ...................591 593 602 614 618 619 634 562 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY .................................................Coil ............................................. ROCK HOUNDS (poem)—Pat Smurr ..........................FROM THE QUARRY A CALIFORNIA FIRST! GOLD: Official state mineral SERPENTINE: official state rock. On April...state mineral and serpentine the official state rock. Authors of the bill making the designa­ tions,
 
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