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Wavellite from
Moores Mill, Mount Holly Springs, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, USA


Classification
Species:Wavellite
Formula:Al3(PO4)2(OH,F)3 · 5H2O
Colour:Colorless to bluish-white.
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Kaolinite2 photos of Wavellite associated with Kaolinite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Wavellite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Moores Mill, Mount Holly Springs, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (6 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:72894
Long-form Identifier:1:3:72894:8
GUID (UUID V4):62139920-00e7-4e1a-b7fe-7273a4d01b09
Nearest other occurrences of Wavellite
34.0km (21.1 miles) New Bloomfield, Perry County, Pennsylvania, USA
40.7km (25.3 miles) W.L. Newman Phosphate Mine, East Waterford, Lack Township, Juniata County, Pennsylvania, USA
41.6km (25.9 miles) Perulack, Lack Township, Juniata County, Pennsylvania, USA
70.7km (43.9 miles) National Limestone Quarry No. 2, Lime Ridge, Mount Pleasant Mills, Perry Township, Snyder County, Pennsylvania, USA
80.1km (49.8 miles) Kreamer, Middlecreek Township, Snyder County, Pennsylvania, USA
91.6km (56.9 miles) Peach Bottom Township, York County, Pennsylvania, USA
References
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Report (issue)
Costa County, Cal., and there made into superphosphates to be used as fertilizers. HOT SPRINGS, IDAHO...IDAHO. The phosphate series is. found at Hot Springs, Idaho, near the north end of Bear Lake on its east...Lafferty Creek, on the western edge of Independence County. The only point at which the beds.are now worked...least as far as the town of St. Joe, in Searcy County, a distance of more than 80 miles in a direct line...Devonian shales in the western part of Carroll County, on War Eagle Creek. While it is certain that prospecting
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
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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...Miller 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...inquiries about the occurrence of minerals in Pennsylvania that cannot be answered by referring the inquirer
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Occurrence in Carroll County, Georgia" (November/December 1988). Banks County 184 ROCKS & MINERALS...Bentley provided many of the photographs. Baldwin County Milledgeville district—between the State Sanitarium...pit—east of S.R. 243 near the Baldwin-Wilkerson County line: kaolinite (Martin and Stafford, 1972). Cheatham...property—Route 3, Commerce, 4.8 km from the Jackson County line, 8 km east of Commerce on S.R. 59, and 0.8...[University of Calgary] at 09:55 07 August 2017 Barrow County Arnold mine—1.6 km northeast of Statham, near the
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Michigan. Found in Colorado at Aspen and in Boulder County; also in several mining areas in Arizona. Good...and at Waihi Mine, New Zealand. In Australia, at Mount Morgan Mine, from Chartres Towers district, from...Clear Creek County, Colorado. Very fine crystals in dolomite from French Creek Mines, Pennsylvania. Also at...Darwin district, Inyo County, California; also at Antimony Peak, San Benito County, California; and large...district, San Bernardino County. Long crystals at Manhattan Mines, Nye County, Nevada. Excellent needle-like
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Geological Survey Richard V. Gaines Pottstown, Pennsylvania Mary E Mrose U.S. Geological Survey Abraham...Symposium Sept. 26-28 Pasadena We sell San Diego County pegmatite specimens — Himalaya mine tourma­ lines...M cG R E G O R & W A TK IN S Rt. 8 Box 487 Hot Springs, Arkansas 71901 7 Mi. West on U.S. 70 3 .C o liz...for c u rren t list. Mineral Collectors 3824 Mount Ave. Missoula, MT. 59801 Ph.: 406-549-7074 Donald...rather than keep an unknown mineral in his micro­ mount collection. The unknown was found to possess a unique
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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
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........................................... 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;
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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...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
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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...Keene, Mill Creek and Tuscarawas, as hard dark gray to black nodules⎯flint. CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN...Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE, area Co. exposures of blue clay, as clusters...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay
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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...Keene, Mill Creek and Tuscarawas, as hard dark gray to black nodules⎯flint. CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN...Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE, area Co. exposures of blue clay, as clusters...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay
Report (issue)
COVER PHOTO : Gold nugget from Dukes Creek, White County, weight 5 oz., 12 dwt., approx. 2x. BACK COVER...approx. 1.5x. Lower left - Goethite from Pulaski County, approx. lx. Right - Magnetite crystal face showing.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Wavellite .......................................................................................... 170 County Index ...........................................from Washington and Bleck ley counties to Irwin county. Some minerals described herein have never been
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the out- standing shows of the annual San Diego County Fair at Del Mar, California. In addition, the collections...apatite group, the pyromorphite series, turquois, wavellite, etc. The chromates are rare, and only one species...purple crystals, 5” by 4”, lron Station, Lincoln County, North Carolina. CRYSTAL GROWTH 73 light from...the brilliant red, hematitecoated calcites from Cumberland, England, only one side of all crystals upon...“kidney-like,” and globular, as in the example of wavellite shown in Figure 38, means that individual acicular
Book (edition)
at the outstanding shows of the annual San Diego County Fair at Del Mar, California. In addition, the collections...apatite group, the pyromorphite series, turquois, wavellite, etc. The chromates are rar e, and only one species...purple crystals, 5" by 4", Iron Station, Lincoln County, North Carolina. CRYSTAL GROWTH 73 light from...the brilliant red, hematitecoated calcites from Cumberland, England, only one side of all crystals upon...replacing glauberite crystal; Camp Verde, Yavapai County, Arizona; size 2" by 2". Top center: calcite replacing
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Red and gray sandstone shale, and limestone. PENNSYLVANIA 40 I 60 50 Ml I 80 KM 76° -, I II --...l0000unse THE GEOLOGY OF PENNSYLVANIA COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA Mark Schweiker, Governor DEPARTMENT...Geology Slippery Rock University Published by PENNSYLVANIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PITTSBURGH GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY...from Hyner View, Hyner Run Slate Park, Clinton County, showing accordant ridges in the Appalachian Plateaus...of the Ridge and Valley province in Huntingdon County. Flooded meanders of Raystown Lake on the Raystown
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commercial ores and secondary minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification...cities, and many of today’s prosperous western county seats began as mining-boom camps. trating sand...Whether you such as those listed alphabetically by county, township, and range in Part II of this book. Where...will help you prospect and explore any state and county. etc., for mineral deposits in Finding Suitable...detailed reports on special areas, according to county. The bibliography of the United States Geological
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pnlpstones 5. Holystones G. Grinding pebbles anmill liners 7. Millstones 8. Sand 9. Sharj)ening stones...grains c. Impregnaterl metal d. Chaser-mill stones, paint-mill st...forms a very small industry at Brandon in Suffolk County. Grindstones and Pulpstones. The production of...(Ohio), a coarse, sharp grit, is used for grinding springs and files and for dry grinding of castings. 4....grit, is used for grinding large edged tools, springs, files, and dry castings. 5. The Tippecanoe grit
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Symplesite Kertschenite Torbernite Autunite Carnotite Wavellite Delvauxite Analyzed Specimens 205 8 3 3 9 10...060 Not det. Germany Rheinprussen Laacher Lake USA Minnesota, Duluth Massachusetts, Salem Montana, Stillwater...Cornwall U. S. A. Aleutian Islands Oregon, Lake county Utah, Millard area ., tt Japan Shimane Kumamoto...for the USSR are from B.I. Zlobin, 1958; for the USA and Canada from Shaw, 1952) Samples Analyzed Thallium...Wyoming, Albany County 1. ,. ” New York, Clove Quadrangle ,. N. NI New York, Moores Mill Danbury Quadrangle
 
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