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Talc from
Blue Hill, Media, Upper Providence Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA


Locality type:Hill
Classification
Species:Talc
Formula:Mg3Si4O10(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Quartz1 photo of Talc associated with Quartz at this locality.
Chromite1 photo of Talc associated with Chromite at this locality.
Byssolite1 photo of Talc associated with Byssolite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Talc data
Locality Data:Click here to view Blue Hill, Media, Upper Providence Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:520990
Long-form Identifier:1:3:520990:3
GUID (UUID V4):5f343758-0d01-4711-bdfd-5138c99e9998
Nearest other occurrences of Talc
3.4km (2.1 miles) Castle Rock, Edgemont Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA
12.1km (7.5 miles) Brinton's Quarry, Westtown Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
16.4km (10.2 miles) Rose's Quarry, Gladwyne, Lower Merion Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
16.4km (10.2 miles) Marshall Quarry, West Goshen Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
16.9km (10.5 miles) Gladwyne Quarries, Gladwyne, Lower Merion Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
17.2km (10.7 miles) Prince's Soapstone Quarry, Lafayette Station, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
20.5km (12.7 miles) Wissahickon Valley, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
25.0km (15.6 miles) Mount Cuba serpentinite, New Castle County, Delaware, USA
36.5km (22.7 miles) French Creek Mines, Saint Peters, Warwick Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
44.4km (27.6 miles) Jones mine, Hopewell Mines, Warwick (Saint Marys), Warwick Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
References
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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:...cut east of Reading (probably Birdsboro), Berks County. White, Smith, 1910, 540. silky mass of radiating
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
large part of Philadelphia is covered with the Delaware River gravels and clays, but most of the streams...about two miles up stream to Fairmount, whose bold hill is composed of a gneiss which apparently rises...bank. When the inclined plane was abandoned the Pennsylvania Railroad made a curved cut through these rocks...with that found on Ridley and Crum Creeks in Delaware County, contained segregated masses of coarse ort...halotrichite occur occasionally, but on the Pennsylvania Railroad at 59th street there was an old quarry
Book (edition)
mmed at Broken Arrow aud Trout creek, in Sc. Clair county. The strata in this field are more faulted und...prong of Canoe creek, in St. Clair county, to Ha\sop creek, in Bibb county, a distance of 60 miles. Down to...to Helena, in Shelby county, the field has an average width of 5 or 6 miles. Below that point the width...miles being in the latitud" of Blocton, in Bibb county. The south ern end of this field has a greater...descends to the south and southwest, bring ing the upper Measures to the surface. The seams of the Cahaba
Report (volume)
value. Some minerals, such as the copper ores of Pennsylvania, are included in the list not because they occur...Gregory, Sheffield Scientific School, New Haven. Delaware.........Prof. B. L. Miller, Lehigh University...North Carolina.. .Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, Chapel Hill. North Dakota... .Dr. A. G. Leonard, Grand Forks...Oregon............Prof. A. J. Collier, Eugene. Pennsylvania.... .Mr. R. R. Hice, Beaver. Prof. Florence...Mawr. Rhode Island.... .Prof. Charles W. Brown, Providence. South Carolina.. .Dr. Earle Sloan, Charleston
Report (issue)
Rocks Of the Piedmont Upland Maryland, Pennsylvania And Delaware By NANCY C. PEARRE and ALLEN V. HEYL,...deposits of chromite, titaniferous iron ore, rutile, talc, asbestos, magnesite, sodium-rich feldspar, corundum...districts ______ -._-_____-_____-___._. Montgomery County, Md_-_-_---_---_-_-----------_-__--_-_-_Soldiers...Woodensburg-Cardiff district.: _-________-__________ _ Blue Mount quarries..___--___-________--____.__.__ Cardiff...State Line district__-------___..____.___._... Cedar Hill (Geiger) quarries._--_.-_-----__.____ West Chester
Report (issue)
PENNSYLVANIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY FOURTH SERIES Bulletin M 18-C THE MINERALS of PENNSYLVANIA NON-METALLIC... CONTENTS Introduction Asbestos Barite Franklin County Fulton and Bucks Counties Corundum Page 1 1 5...Magnesite Phosphate minerals Cumberland County Juniata County 18 23 25 25 26 Potash 29 Quartz-Mint...Quartz-Mint 32 Rock salt 36 Crawford County Elk County 36 37 Erie and Forest Counties 38 McKean, Potter...inquiries about the occurrence of minerals in Pennsylvania that cannot be answered by referring the inquirer
Report (volume)
............................ 16 34 42 81 97 Delaware............................................................................................ Pennsylvania...............................................value. Some minerals, such as the copper ores of Pennsylvania, are included in the list not because they occur...and Ehrenfeld, Frederick, Minerals of Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Top. and Geol. Survey Comm. Kept. No...Albany. North Carolina_.Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, Chapel Hill. North Dakota_.Dr. A. G. Leonard, Grand Forks. Mr
Book (volume)
chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...townagate, chalcedony, jasper, petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville...chalcedony, jasper, fossils. CHERRY COUNTY VALENTINE, in the Sandhills county along the Niobrara R. and Minnechaduza...DAWES COUNTY CHADRON, in N part of Co. and as far W as Crawford and Harrisonchalcedony (some blue). CRAWFORD:...cuts, cut banks, breaks, draws and washes, gullies, hill slopes, etc.chalcedony roses, Celestite crystals
Book
Co. Hematite CALERA, Shelby Co. Wavkllite CLAY COUNTY, Sec. 24. T. 19 S R., 7 E. STATUARY, Coosa Co...Co., (W. border of* Marble Crystalline TALLADEGA COUNTY Marble, (crystalline) VALLEY HEAD, DeKalb Co. Hematite...Feldspar HISSOP, Coosa Co., (near) Beryl JACKSON COUNTY Hematite KENNEDYS, Clay Co., (near) Magnetite MILLERVILLE...DELANEY, Madison Co. Quartz, (clear crystals) GARLAND COUNTY Quartz Crystals HOT SPRINGS, Garland Co. Malachite...Malachite HOT SPRINGS DISTRICT Quartz Xls LAWRENCE COUNTY Pearls LITTLE ROCK Quartz Crystals MAGNET COVE,
Report (volume)
tinted, transparent stones. The desired hues are blue, rose, green, and true canary yellow in the diamond;...diamond; pigeon-blood red in the ruby; cornflower blue in the sapphire; and grass green in the emerald....STATES 205 MOH'S SCALE OP HARDNESS 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Talc Gypsum Calcite Fluorite Apatite . 6. 7. 8. 9....tourmaline; the term "sapphire," to lapis lazuli and other blue stones; the term "topaz," to all yellow stones;...brown, smoky quartz to yellow, pale-green beryl to blue, violet corundum to rose pink, and yellow corundum
Book (volume)
although excavations in the underlying black, Upper Devonian (New Albany) shales occasionally produces...colored Vanport flint of the Flint Ridge and the Upper Mercer flint exposed in Hocking, Perry, and Coshocton...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...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE, area
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
40-ft. thickness of the sill is exposed, to its upper contact with intruded shales. The fine-grained diabase...writer has not verified the malachite report." DELAWARE—Black, cleavable masses of hypersthene can be...by Seymour F. Dozier, Red Oak, Route 1, Fulton County, Georgia. Large lumps of this material can be picked...silver. "The Agency Creek, McDevitt District, Lemhi County, Idaho, radioactive ores (found in that District...employees and the community of Rosiclare."—Hardin County Independent, Elizabethtown, Illinois."— The Crittenden
Report (issue)
Chlorites 52 52 IV. Vermiculites V. Serpentine and Talc 53 56 Phosphates 57 CHAPTER IV. GEOLOGY OF...gems called Apostle Stones; and thus the beautiful blue acteristics of these sapphire became emblematic...as follows: "The best rubies come from the mines Upper Burma, north of Mandalay, in an area covering 25...and, since then, mining has been some success. Blue sapphires are brought from Ceylon, often as rolled...Canton, China. At St. Gothard, it occurs of a red or blue tinge in dolomite, and near Mozzo in Piedmont, in
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Bross Ave., Longmont, Colo. Globe, in southern Gila County, is in S/'E Arizona. FLORIDA—"I am sending some...chalcedony—almost an agate ! Lakeland, in N / W Polk County, is in central Florida. GEORGIA — "The enclosed...Ro.r.e, Ga. Summerville is in centra! Chattooga County in N / W Georgia. MAINE — A few months ago David...was in Maine, where he visited the area around Blue Hill. Here is a letter from him. "Recently you received...Belfast, Maine, concerning the new mining strike in Blue Hill. I am sending you a few specimens from the area
Book (edition)
describes sites under of the nearest town and county. and the many maps included book contain such...In Renaissance times, greatly admired, but today blue turquoise is the only ac- ceptable kind. Belief...comparative table A.) The steps on Table A. 1. Talc known Mohs' scale. (See Table from equal; the...or reflects red lengths most readily, then the blue is A wave lengths. The wave result red with...colorless; minerals, color can be misleading. A blue crystal may be dia- mond, aquamarine, topaz,
Book (volume)
although excavations in the underlying black, Upper Devonian (New Albany) shales occasionally produces...colored Vanport flint of the Flint Ridge and the Upper Mercer flint exposed in Hocking, Perry, and Coshocton...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...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE, area
Report (volume)
Meddelelser. Copenhagen. Del. Geol. Survey Bull.-Delaware Geological Survey Bulletin. Newark, Del. Dissert...-Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society Journal. Chapel Hill, N. C. Evolution. Lancaster, Pa. Fieldiana Geology...Amarillo, Texas. 7 SERIALS Pa. Acad. Sci.-Proc.-Pennsylvania Academy of Science Proceedings. Har. risburg...' ·' ' .· Pa. Geol. Su~ey.~}th. ser., Bull.-Pennsylvania Geological Survey, 4th, series, · Bulletm. ...State Univ., Mineral Industries Expt. Sta. Bull.-Pennsylvania State University, Mineral Industries Experiment
Report (issue)
tonnage has increased 83.8 percent. lime 45 percent, talc 17.7 percent, granite (cubic feet) 16 percent, and...industry prices per ton are about the same as in 1933, talc prices have improved 10.6 percent, while granite...southerly part of the city of Barre, Washington County, State of Vermont, and extending westerly about...miles to and including \Villiamstown. in Orange County. All granite quarried elsewhere may not legally...eminence south of Barre City locally known as Millstone Hill. 668,838 133.768 535,070 418,024 250,814 1,240
Report (volume)
Reading: Military Service Pub. Co. Texas, Tordilla Hill area, color: Shale nomenclature: Clark, T. H. ,6...described. Div. Mines, 1; Jenkins, O. P., Choctaw County, Highway 17 area: 3. Toulmin, L. D., Jr., 3. Minor:...analysis: KelH. D., 5. ler, W. D., 3. Talladega County, hematiteOklahoma, potash agstone, granite magnetite...ground water: Powham, C. E. ell, W. J., 4. Marengo County: Newton, J. G., 1. Core-drilling program, ChattanooMica:...J.,4. Excursion, Tertiary type-localiMontgomery County: Reade, ties: Rainwater, E. H. , 1. H. L. , Jr
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...eastern streams and rivers f o r epidote, unakite, blue quartz, agate, chalcedony, petrified wood and other...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...transparent blue crystals of aquamarine. Excited collectors took home from old quarries in Pennsylvania and Maryland
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Chondrodite TILLY FOSTER MINE, BREWSTER AREA PUTNAM COUNTY, NEW YORK F ew minerals are commonly or uniquely...specimens from the Tilly Foster iron mine, Putnam County, New York, can be seen in many American and foreign...limestone at Coles Brook in Middlefield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts. It is also known from the Bolton...Bolton or Whitcomb quarry at Bolton, Worcester County, where it occurs in densely packed, yellowbrown, rounded...Hinsdale, and Lee, Berkshire County; and at Chelmsford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. It is reported
Book (volume)
Illinois geology. These measures constitute the Upper Carboniferous system of repeated alterations of...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...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip
Book (volume)
Illinois geology. These measures constitute the Upper Carboniferous system of repeated alterations of...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...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip
Book (volume)
Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and  the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59...along adjoining Co. linerock crystal. BARROW COUNTY WINDER, along rd. to Jefferson and 1½ mi. inside...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States BARTOW COUNTY AREA, Saltpeter Cave, as floatjasper. CARTERSVILLE:...agate, (banded, various colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY MACON:  at Holton Quarry, 7½ mi. NWagate;  N
Book (edition)
Allophane Zeolite Section Heulandite 8. 325 Talc, Pyrophyllite, Sepiolite Glauconite 329 Serpentine...are the planes of the trapezohedron, Fig. 19. The upper one of the planes 22 in these figures, when extended...trisoctahedron in Fig. 21. The lower one of the three on the upper front solid angle, would meet if extended, the extremities...(Fig. 10); and in the suppressed planes of the upper pyramid being here directly over those suppressed...some hemihedral forms the suppressed planes of the upper pyramid alternate with those of the lower; but -this
 
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