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Muscovite from
Swain's Quarry, Pennsbury Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Muscovite
Formula:KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Muscovite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Swain's Quarry, Pennsbury Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:133533
Long-form Identifier:1:3:133533:0
GUID (UUID V4):16578d6d-9c05-40ea-85f6-33009b4596b2
Nearest other occurrences of Muscovite
5.1km (3.2 miles) Woodlawn Quarry, Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware, USA
5.2km (3.3 miles) Harvey's Quarry, Pennsbury Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
5.6km (3.5 miles) Beaver Valley (Chandler's Hollow), New Castle County, Delaware, USA
10.2km (6.4 miles) Corundum Hill, Unionville, Newlin Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
10.3km (6.4 miles) Henry Pusey's quarry, Willowdale, East Marlboro Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
10.6km (6.6 miles) Nevin's Quarry, Landenberg, London Britain Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
13.8km (8.6 miles) Copesville, East Bradford Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
13.9km (8.6 miles) Chester County Poorhouse Quarry, West Bradford Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
19.9km (12.4 miles) West Branch pegmatite, Newark, New Castle County, Delaware, USA
21.6km (13.4 miles) Sycamore Mill (Bishop's Mill), Sycamore Mills, Upper Providence Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Book (edition)
form of magnetite occurring in mica at Pennsbury, in Pennsylvania. Arborescent delineations over surfaces...near Clear Lake, in California; Inferno, Humboldt County, and Rabbit Hole Mines, Nevada; near Evanston,...Brunswick, 20 miles west of Fredericton: in Eawdon township, Hants Co., N. Scotia. Affords the most of the...Y.; Greenville, N. C.; near Attleboro, in Bucks County, Pa.; Wake, N. C. ; on Tyger River, and at Spartanburg...the eastward of Halifax; GOLD. 125 in Beauce County, Canada; also, north of Lake Superior; and in the
Book (volume)
Duane L. Leavitt The Bennett Pegmatite, Oxford County, Maine . ........................................permanent photographic exhibits in the northeastern USA. The Shaubs have been active in ornithological research...gratefully dedicated. Gene Foard (right) at Swamp #1 quarry, Topsham. Gene Foard speaking with Frank Perham...Gene Foard with Yan King, 1994 (left) at Nevel quarry, Newry. In Memoriam Gene Foord Gene [Eugene Edward]...tourmalinebearing Himalaya pegmatite at Mesa Grande, San Diego County, California. Most recently, Gene was gratified
Book (edition)
The brownish-black mineral in the mica from Pennsbury, Pa., is magnetite in this form (f 277), as first...many minerals, appearing, for example, in the Pennsbury mica; quartz is also often mechanically mixed...transmit some thin. Magnetite is translucent in the Pennsbury light, if made sufficiently The recent researches...and other parts of North Wales in Scotland in the county of Wicklow, Ireland ; in Sweden, at Edelfors. In...Traces occur also in Franconia township, Montgomery Co. Pennsylvania. In Canada, gold occurs to the south
Book (edition)
The brownish-black mineral in the mica from Pennsbury, Pa., is magnetite in this form (f 277), as first...many minerals, appearing, for example, in the Pennsbury mica; quartz is also often mechanically mixed...only properly Magnetite is translucent in the Pennsbury light, if made sufficiently thin. The recent researches...papers giving results of etching experiments on muscovite, garnet, linnssitc, biotite, epidote, apatite...Bauer has made use of this method in the case of muscovite (Ber. Ak. Berlin, 1877, 704). He has also developed
Report (issue)
iron ores of western North Carolina and Carter County, Tenn., comprise brown hematite (limonite and possibly...counties, N. C., the greater part from Cherokee County. In the earlier years of this century brown ore...magnetite came mainly from Cranberry, in Avery County, N. C. A small quantity has been contributed by...incident. Most of it was mined from deposits in Carter County, Tenn., where search was made for the western extension...CAROLINA AND TENNESSEE. 211 abundantly in Cherokee County and in smaller quantities in Madison, Lincoln,
Report (issue)
RESOURCES GEOLOGY OF EEL RIVER VALLEY AREA HUMBOLDT COUNTY. CALtFOBNIA BULLETIN 164 IS53 DIVISION OF...NOVEMBER GEOLOGY OF EEL RIVER VALLEY AREA HUMBOLDT COUNTY, CALIFORNIA By BURDETTE A. OGLE LIBRARY UNIVERSll...164, Geology of Eel River Valley Area, Humholdt County, California, prepared under the direction of Olaf... ; GEOLOGY OF EEL RIVER VALLEY AREA HUMBOLDT COUNTY, CALIFORNIA By Burdette A. Ogle * ABSTRACT...ABSTRACT The Eel River Valley area is in Hiimholdt County, in northwestern California. The oldest forniational
Book (volume)
Map field, Fig. Section from Bronson's lime quarry to Smith's brook, Fig. Section in Dalton and....... ..... .... Lyman through Burnham's lime quarry, 72 275 278 3^7 320 326 Fig. Section from...Fig. Section from quarry road to L. A. Parker's, Fig. Section from slate quarry to the Fig. Section...Me., locations of specimens collected in Coos county, Section lake to the Fig. 30 Mount Desert...Hall's brook, Newbury, Vt., (356) , to limestone quarry in Haverhill, Fig. 47, Section from (349) Hedgehog
Report (Issue volume)
Surv.) PLATE I (A.8325) A. HOLWELL IRONSTONE QUARRY, LEICESTERSHIRE. i (A.5558) B. NEWBRlDGE IRONSTONE...82 •• 84 15.-Section in Newbridge Ironstone Quarry, showing dip-and-fault structure . . 100 1 7.... 138 1 6.-Section through Holwell Ironstone Quarry and Mine. . 128 1 8.-Section of the Marlstone...in lime content in face samples from Wroxton .. Quarry . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 166 21.-Diagram of...south-west face of the Clay Cross Company's ironstone quarry, Bloxham (1939) .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 159 169
Report (issue)
equivalent to the lowest beds in F1dnar's chert member. Swain's sample 1.54 was taken fran a position that ap~~ars...4.74-5.58 (5.13) 2 hydrothermal minerals are muscovite, green FeO(total) 1.00-1.85 (1.54) tourmaline...quartz, plagioclase, Kfacies feldspar, andalusite, muscovite, clinozoisite, wollastonite Jarvis Creek Glacier...to lower greenschist facies (north to south) MUscovite, quartz, albite, andalusite, actinolite, epidote...Glacier terrane Low greenschist facies MUscovite, quartz, muscovite, actinolite, albite, andalusite, epidote
Journal (volume)
Creek, good miners are in demand in San Miguel county. W. H. BL'sn, of Denver, has a big scheme to run...printed list that in '95 to December 22 in Lake county 1493 mineral locations were made, more than double...was denied them in the District Court in Shoshone county. The Supreme Court reversed it, and a petition...Hayward, at the Utica-Stickles mine, in Calaveras county, turns out five times as much as the Robinson,...really serpentine — or quartzite. Calaveras county has the Utica-Stickles turning out $800,000 a month;
Report (issue)
consist of quartz sand that commonly contains muscovite or bleached biotite flakes. As a rule, the one... Jackson, 1959) to be largely inherited from muscovite in the parent rock. Dixon (1957) stated that most...extent, bottom type also may be important. In Swain's and Curtis' investigations, both living and dead...Texas. A probable fourth species identical with Swain's (1955, Pl . 64 [Fig. l0c]) is also present. The...formation (late Miocene), at the Muldrow place, Sumter County, South Carolina: South Carolina Devel. Board Div
 
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