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


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Actinolite
Formula:◻Ca2(Mg4.5-2.5Fe0.5-2.5)Si8O22(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Adulariaⓘ6 photos of Actinolite associated with Adularia at this locality.
Byssoliteⓘ4 photos of Actinolite associated with Byssolite at this locality.
Limoniteⓘ3 photos of Actinolite associated with Limonite at this locality.
Clinozoisiteⓘ3 photos of Actinolite associated with Clinozoisite at this locality.
Prehniteⓘ3 photos of Actinolite associated with Prehnite at this locality.
Goethiteⓘ2 photos of Actinolite associated with Goethite at this locality.
Fluorapatiteⓘ2 photos of Actinolite associated with Fluorapatite at this locality.
Albiteⓘ1 photo of Actinolite associated with Albite at this locality.
Schorlⓘ1 photo of Actinolite associated with Schorl at this locality.
Pyriteⓘ1 photo of Actinolite associated with Pyrite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Actinolite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Keystone Trap Rock Quarry, Cornog, Wallace Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (2 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:132868
Long-form Identifier:1:3:132868:4
GUID (UUID V4):07de55f0-6270-470e-ab98-e1a777d2388f
Nearest other occurrences of Actinolite
11.3km (7.0 miles) ⓘHopewell mine, Hopewell Mines, Warwick (Saint Marys), Warwick Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
12.2km (7.6 miles) ⓘFrench Creek Mines, Saint Peters, Warwick Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
13.7km (8.5 miles) ⓘJones Mine, Morgantown, Caernarvon Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA
15.3km (9.5 miles) ⓘGrace Mine, Morgantown, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA
20.9km (13.0 miles) ⓘOsborne Hill, Birmingham Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
23.0km (14.3 miles) ⓘSilver Hill Quarry, Bowmansville, Brecknock Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA
31.4km (19.5 miles) ⓘGap Mine, Bart Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA
32.7km (20.3 miles) ⓘLenni, Middletown Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA
33.5km (20.8 miles) ⓘWilliamson Trade School, Middletown Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA
36.2km (22.5 miles) ⓘKibblehouse Quarry, Perkiomenville, Marlborough Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, 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)
Aurora Borealis, Bill LaBounty, Editor, Northland Rock and Mineral Club, Second Place. The Dop Stick, Vernon...F. Johnson, Editor, Tuscarora Lapidary Society. Rock Bottom Pacts, Roslyn and Kenneth Hancock, Editors...Participation: Keystone Newsletter, Carl A. Bakos, Editor, Mineralogica/ Society of Pennsylvania. The Geology...Rochland Nuggets, Marvin Klibinoff, Editor, Rockland County Mineral and Gem Society, Inc. Neivlapso, Dr. Philip...Jerry Fever, Editors, Junior Division, Rockland County AJneral and Gem Society, Inc. Lack of a large attendance
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
17:12 24 August 2017 Mineralogical Society of Pennsylvania November Meeting The semi-annual meeting of...We found some trunks 2 feet in diameter. THE KEYSTONE picture of downfold shoe with an upfold 62 NEWSLETTER...us a St. Clair Geology: "A syncline is a of a rock layer (imagine a horsethe open end up;) an anticline...feature of the geologic map of east-central Pennsylvania, where the harder strata forms zigzag ridges...ridges. The anthracite region of Pennsylvania is one of the world's best types of such topography. The coal
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...several centimeters long are associated with actinolite, variety byssolite, and numerous other species...amphibolite gneiss at the Keystone trap-rock quarry, Cornog, Pennsylvania. ‱ Pink to green crystals
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
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
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
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 (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
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,
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
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
 
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