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Datolite from
Dyer Quarry, Gibraltar, Birdsboro, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Datolite
Formula:CaB(SiO4)(OH)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Datolite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Dyer Quarry, Gibraltar, Birdsboro, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:148263
Long-form Identifier:1:3:148263:8
GUID (UUID V4):82c46a5c-6dfa-41c2-bece-f30fb272e8e4
Nearest other occurrences of Datolite
7.0km (4.3 miles) Fritz Island Mines, Cumru Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA
10.9km (6.8 miles) Grace Mine, Morgantown, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA
15.3km (9.5 miles) French Creek Mines, Saint Peters, Warwick Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
33.5km (20.8 miles) Kibblehouse Quarry, Perkiomenville, Marlborough Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
46.0km (28.6 miles) Cornwall Mines (Cornwall Iron Mine), Cornwall Borough (Cornwall), Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, USA
77.4km (48.1 miles) Lambertville Quarry (Trap Rock Industries Lambertville Quarry; Mt. Gilboa Quarry), Delaware Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey, USA
78.5km (48.8 miles) Goat Hill Quarry, West Amwell Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey, USA
98.5km (61.2 miles) King Mine, Dillsburg Iron Mines, Dillsburg, York County, Pennsylvania, USA
98.8km (61.4 miles) Price Mine, Dillsburg Iron Mines, Dillsburg, York County, Pennsylvania, USA
99.0km (61.5 miles) 3M Quarry (Gibraltar Rock of Belle Mead), Hillsborough Township, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
issue), datolite has been suggested as the topic of this Connoisseur’s Choice feature. Datolite crystals...green, and pink to white and colorless; nodular datolite is typically white or pastel shades of pink, yellow...fluorescence characterizes some New Jersey datolite. Datolite is commonly seen in monoclinic (2/m) crystals...of some datolite and is derived from the Greek word dateisthal meaning “to divide.” Datolite is a calcium...CaBSiO4(OH) and is a member of the gadolinite-datolite group. Most analyses show very minor amounts of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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...from the Kibblehouse quarry, Perkiomenville, Mont­ gomery County, Pennsylvania. Department of Geological...Kibble­ house quarry near Perkiomenville, Marlborough twp., Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, was con­ firmed...corner (known as the "cobaltite corner") of the quarry (Grant, 1972; Montgomery, 1973c). The cobaltite...of cobaltite-veins have been recognized in the quarry: 1) irregular calcite veins with cobaltite, actinolite
Report (edition)
PENNSYLVANIA STATE LIBRARY OF 0144 00141189 1 v < 2 £ m- c oi; c» tt*s“S S Si! at tss^s isl^j...1 ' s WJ= ~S 5! s „3 &«eq Sjg® . . PENNSYLVANIA 1 .8 ^2»SS 3 d 5-s &s z l|lt« 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
Report (issue)
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
Journal (issue)
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 collec­ 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 Pro­
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of the many quartz slabs we found. From Tellar County, Colorado." — on label. 30 PLEASE SEND THEM I...millerite appears black. "Millerite from limestone quarry. Hamilton (Hancock Co.), Illinois." — on label...specimen which I found at the Cheapside Trap Rock Quarry in Deerfield (Franklin Co.), Mass. Will you please...identify it for me. I wonder if they could be small datolite crystals." — specimen sent in by Ernest H. Fisk...Opal Butte, in extreme southern part of Morrow County of northern Oregon, is especially noted for hyalite
Journal (issue)
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Chips from the Quarry C Downloaded by [McMaster University] at 02:39 25 December 2014 ALIFORNIA, Here...Council of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, in California, among others. Membership in these...our thanks. CORRECTION: Acknowledgment of the datolite specimen ownership for figure 10 in the July/August...July/August 2010 issue’s Connoisseur’s Choice column on datolite should have been Robert (not David) Thacker. Apologies...Chalcopyrite & Sphalerite, Denton Mine, Hardin County, Illinois Volume 86, March/April 2011 103 2011
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
Book (volume)
chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville Quarry chalcedony, jasper...jasper, fossils. CHERRY COUNTY VALENTINE, in the Sandhills county along the Niobrara R. and Minnechaduza...gem qualityagatized and opalized wood. DAWES COUNTY CHADRON, in N part of Co. and as far W as Crawford...woods, etc. DAWSON COUNTY GOTHENBURG, in sand pitspetrified palm wood. DEUEL COUNTY CHAPPELL, all regional
Book
Lower Miocene columnar basalt in the Narre Warren Quarry, near Melbourne, Australia. The minerals are believed...assemblages have been mapped in exposed basaltic rock in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, and eastern Iceland....seawater followed faults along the eastern coast of County Antrim and was the fluid in the cavities that produced...such as apophyllite, gyrolite, okenite, prehnite, datolite, tacharanite, and clay are easily affected by...of natural and synthetic zeolites can be found in Dyer (1988). Species Amicite (Ah-me-chite) K2Na2[Al4Si4016]·5H20
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Lower Miocene columnar basalt in the Narre Warren Quarry, near Melbourne, Australia. The minerals are believed...assemblages have been mapped in exposed basaltic rock in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, and eastern Iceland....seawater followed faults along the eastern coast of County Antrim and was the fluid in the cavities that produced...such as apophyllite, gyrolite, okenite, prehnite, datolite, tacharanite, and clay are easily affected by...of natural and synthetic zeolites can be found in Dyer (1988). Species Amicite (Ah-me-chite) K2Na2[Al4Si4016]·5H20
Journal (issue)
PUBLISHED 1944 MONTHLY ... CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY ....................................................................................... DYER SERPENTINE QUARRY NEAR DELIG:·ff, MD. By Peter 143 144 144...aggregrates usually of an apple /Zreeo color ; datolite ( 14) in stoutish glassy complex crystals which...visited Moore's Station, New Jersey and the trap-rock quarry on Goose Creek, Virginia, two less celebrated localities...to impurities of iron. The Goose Creek trap-rock Quarry has been visited on a number of occasions the last
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...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason
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...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason
Journal (volume)
Cardiff, U.K. R.S.W. Braithwaite, Manchester, U.K. A. Dyer, Hoddlesden, Darwen, U.K. N.J. Elton, St Austell...12, p. 43 for details). Penryn Granite Company’s quarry at Halvosso, Longdowns, Cornwall. Jim Knight Collection;...LUV (middle) and SUV (bottom). East Face, Croft Quarry, Croft, Leics. Frank Ince specimen and photo (FI-1485;...and Pacey, A. (2016). Segnitite from Weardale, County Durham. Journal of the Russell Society, 19, 39–42...Quarrying at Croft, Part 1: The history of Croft Quarry. www.aggregate.com/about-us/history/croft; accessed
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:...(banded, various colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY MACON:  at Holton Quarry, 7½ mi. NWagate;  N of Calloway
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
Report (volume)
........................................... 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...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;
Journal (volume)
Ovington, U.K. M.T. Price, OUMNH, Oxford, U.K. A. Dyer, Hoddleston, Darwin, U.K. R.E. Starkey, Bromsgrove...G. Tindle 23-25 PAPERS Danburite from Meldon Quarry, Okehampton and other UK localities Michael S....characterised on specimens collected in 1989 at Judkins Quarry, Nuneaton, Warwickshire (Hawthorne et al., 1999)...Na2CaCu2(P2O7)·10H2O, a new mineral from Judkins Quarry, Warwickshire. Mineralogical Magazine, 63, 13-16...tin and gold extraction in the Mourne Mountains, County Down. Journal of the Mining Heritage Trust of Ireland
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
formation of the mineralized Mn deposits at Merehead Quarry, Cranmore, Somerset, England R. TURNER* The Drey...formation of the mineralized Mn deposits at Merehead Quarry which accounts for all the features of the deposit... creating a major disconformity visible in the quarry today. The disconformity represents a gap in stratigraphy...mineralized manganese pods, such as Holwell (Coleman’s) Quarry, and Higher Pitts, which exhibit many of the same...the region. These are exposed in the Moon’s Hill Quarry some 3 miles to the west of Merehead, where they
Report (volume)
value. Some minerals, such as the copper ores of Pennsylvania, are included in the list not because they occur...Oregon............Prof. A. J. Collier, Eugene. Pennsylvania.... .Mr. R. R. Hice, Beaver. Prof. Florence...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. 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, Pv. 7 E.; Jefferson
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Windsor Terrace, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4HB A. DYER Department of Chemistry and Applied Chemistry, University...the occurrence of apophyllite. Datolite has been found at Barrasford Quarry, Northumberland (Randall, op...223) to the presence of apophyllite at Copt Hill Quarry, Cowshill, Weardale [NY 8515 4080], though no description...collected early this century, no doubt when the quarry was working. Notable specimens are in the Russell...mineralisation is now visible in this disused and flooded quarry. More recently apophyllite has been found in some
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,
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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
 
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