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Enstatite from
Wood's Chrome Mine, Texas, Little Britain Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Enstatite
Formula:Mg2Si2O6
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Enstatite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Wood's Chrome Mine, Texas, Little Britain Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:144142
Long-form Identifier:1:3:144142:0
GUID (UUID V4):9436481b-2b18-48c1-8b3f-e784e6d76a61
Nearest other occurrences of Enstatite
33.3km (20.7 miles) Eastburn's Quarries, New Castle County, Delaware, USA
54.0km (33.5 miles) Cambridge Downs, Concord Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA
62.0km (38.5 miles) Bare Hills Copper Mine (Smith Avenue Copper Mine), Bare Hills, Baltimore County, Maryland, USA
62.9km (39.1 miles) Castle Rock, Edgemont Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA
64.0km (39.8 miles) Blue Hill, Media, Upper Providence Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA
64.5km (40.1 miles) Cornwall Mines (Cornwall Iron Mine), Cornwall Borough (Cornwall), Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, USA
71.2km (44.3 miles) Lord Baltimore Drive Quartz occurrence area, Windsor Mill, Baltimore County, Maryland, USA
75.3km (46.8 miles) Southern pit ,Hollofield quarries, Hollofield, Baltimore County, Maryland, USA
79.7km (49.5 miles) Rose's Quarry, Gladwyne, Lower Merion Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
80.4km (50.0 miles) Prince's Soapstone Quarry, Lafayette Station, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ROCKS AND MINERALS 243 WOOD'S CHROME MINE, LANCASTER COUNTY, PENNA. By L. J . D U E R S M I T H Curator...Mineralogy Franklin and Marshall College M u s e u m , Lancaster, Penna. During the year of 1950, the writer had...concerning the famous Wood's Chrome Mine, in southern Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, that he came to the...article describing and bringing up to date this mine would be in order. History There seems to be some...some discrepancy as to what mineral this mine first produced. One source states that the first mineral
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
Report (issue)
___________ Clinochrysotile (Globe-type), Gila County, Ariz___________________________________________...Clinoehrysotile (iron-bearing serpentine), Stillwater County, Mont_________________________ Clinochrysotile...Hill, Harford County, Md____________________ Clinochrysotile and lizardite, Morris County, N.J________...Clinochrysotile and lizardite, variant form, Morris County, N.J.____________________________ Lizardite plus...section___________-___ Lizardite (deweylite), Delaware County, Pa__-___________-_____________-_---__---__--_-Lizardite
Report (issue)
Enstatite Mg2 Si2 O6 c 2001 ° Mineral Data Publishing, version 1.2 Crystal Data: Orthorhombic. Point...from Mbeya, Tanzania. At Liahobong, Lesotho. In the USA, at Webster, Jackson Co., and on Corundum Hill, Macon...Carolina; at Wood's chrome mine and Texas, Lancaster Co., and elsewhere in Pennsylvania. Gem material
Report (issue)
Serpentine Rocks Of the Piedmont Upland Maryland, Pennsylvania And Delaware By NANCY C. PEARRE and ALLEN V...districts ______ -._-_____-_____-___._. Montgomery County, Md_-_-_---_---_-_-----------_-__--_-_-_Soldiers...____________ Mine descriptions_______________________________________ Montgomery County, Md___-_______________________...and Harris mines..-_---_-_-_--__-_______. Choate mine._________________________________ Unnamed mine__...mine__.-___-___-_-_-__.__-_.___-____ Calhoun mine---------.-.------------..------- 724 725 726 726 726 727
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mr. Knabe reported little success in working over the dumps of Wood's chrome mine. Mr. Toothaker reported...localities visited included the Trumbull tungsten mine, Connecticut, quarries near Portland and Middletown...limestone quarries near Canaan, Conneeticut, the emery mine at Chester, Massachusetts, the Westfield, Massachusetts...quarries, the Cumington, Massachusetts rhodonite mine, the marble quarries at Rutland, Vermont, the granite...mines at Mineville, the garnet mine on Mt. Gore, and the graphite mine near Ticonderoga, in the Adirondacks
Book (edition)
in this part of the series the mineralogist has little occasion to take note. Minerals differ in specific...separate fore. CRYSTALLOGRAPHY. 11 With a little ingenuity the student may construct a goniometer...forms under each of the systems that differ but little in angles from some of other systems for example...right one of the six planes will be 3c f & la. By a little study, the expressions for the other five adjoining...adjoining faces are at right angles to one another. The little ridges of the striated surfaces are made up of
Catalog/List
COVER PHOTOGRAPH: _ VANADINITE Apache mine, near Globe, Gila County, Arizona. Sharp hexagonal barrel-shaped...... . Fl. Utah Toelle Co., Gold Hill, Gold Hill mine. .50 2.50 Transparent xls on limonite with austinite...fluo­ rescence under ultraviolet light. The Ojuela mine is one of Mexico's largest producers of beautiful...calcium hydroxy-silicate. Ca lifornia Riverside County, Crestmore. White prismatic crystalline on merwinite...Copper aluminum silicate. Arizona Pima County, Ajo, New Cornelia mine. Sky-blue micro xls and coatings on
Book (edition)
MARIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY 3 1111 00289 4184 \ I s Fifth Revised Edition A complete, state-by-state...chemical tests so useful with many minerals are of little value in distinguishing one silicate from another...minerals. He will pick over stream beds, gravel pits, mine dumps, road cuts, and quarries. Some gems agate...for example, are found only in exposures of the Little Falls dolomite; these would be defined on a geologic... and safety-toe shoes in an operating quarry or mine. They are prudent precautions against disaster in
Book (edition)
mortised and tied together, so as to admit of a little movement at centre. Then, the model when in its...expressions, appearing at first sight possibly a little obscure, may be translated into simple language...[i-i] a [6>] As The abridged symbols need very little explanation additional to that given on p. 25....These relations may perhaps be made more clear by a little further through the vertical axis at Suppose a...; when this is not the case the relations are a little less simple. m MATHEMATICAL CRYSTALLOGRAPHY
Book (edition)
from the Tourmaline Q ueen .1ine, Pala, San Diego County, California. From a pen-and-ink drawing by W. E...price increases, which make it more attractive to mine domestic deposits at a profit. Foreign labor is...cut gem 4. Mounce diamond crystal 5. Gibson's Ruby mine, Cowee Creek, North Carolina 6. Corundum Hill, North...Eldorado Bar, Montana 8. W. D. Baltzley 9. Ellis mine pocket, Hiddenite, North Carolina 10. View of American...Pedro mine, Pala, California 15. Morganite crystal from Pala, California 16. Hazel W. pegmatite mine, Pala
Report (volume)
Pub. Co. Texas, Tordilla Hill area, color: Shale nomenclature: Clark, T. H. ,6. South Texas Geol. Soc...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 (edition)
COPYRIGHT BT EDWARD S. DANA 1877. Press of J. J. Little & Co* Astor Place, New York. PREFACE. " " Text-Book...mortised and tied together, so as to admit of a little movement at centre. Then, the model when in its...expressions, appearing at 'first sight possibly a little obscure, may be translated into simple language...oo : : # a a The abridged symbols need very little explanation additional to that given on p. 25....These relations may perhaps be made more clear by a little further explanation. Suppose a plane to pass through
Book (edition)
^ fe o -• vO y MINERALOGY AND MINING. Mine Accidents —Ventilation — Ore Dressing, Etc. DESCRIPTIVE...lific of valuable treats and advice." PRACTICAL MINE VENTILATION. WILSON. For the Use of Mining Engineers... Copyright bt EDWARD S. DANA 1877. Press of J. J. Little & Co* Astor Place, New York. ; PREFACE. preparation...above, there is also the department of Economic Mine) alogy, which is not here and (3) in the coarser...mortised and tied together, so as to admit of a little movement at centre. Then, the model when in its
Report (volume)
are as follows: COLORADO. Mineralogy. Montrose County, uranium-vanadium deposits: Weeks, A. D., 13R....origin of hard hematite: Park, C. F., Jr., 6. Pennsylvania, eastern: Gray, C., 10. Use of index. In general...Iron, Cook County, titaniferous magnetite: Grout, F. F., 5. IRON. Minnesota, Cook County, titaniferous...Journal. Birmingham, Ala. Ala. Geol. Survey Bull.; County Rept.; Inf. Ser.; Map; Mus. Paper; Special Rept...Rept. Alabama Geological Survey Bulletin; County Report; Information Series; Map; Museum Papers; Special
Book
HfiRIN COUNTY FREE LIBRfiRY 311110G386652Q I V Russell P MacFal A COLOR TREASUF FOR COLLECTORS...it a veritable not just a picof informa- is mine tion, telling everything the collector needs to...to Hunting Locations ? i 9 GIVEN TO THE MARIN COUNTY LIBRARY BY MARI N L MTNF.RAT. SOCTETY DAVID... mud ness, for locating nodules for many A little embedded make will •" the trip need and hunting...tools you light in other purposes. such as little specimens freeing for or soft incrustations
Book (edition)
Morocco; (center, left) wulfen ite San Francisco mine, Sonora, Mexico; (center) amethyst, Veracruz, Mexico;...Mountains, Utah; (lower le ft) rhodochrosite, N'Chwaning mine, Sou th A frica; {lower left, center) wulfenite...Willard Lincoln. Encyclopedia of minerals ~~cbe County Public Library Saguache, Colorado OEMCO For Refere...jointly by T he I\Iineralogical Society of G reat Britain and T he Mineralogical Society of Arnerica. Mineralogical...in sandstone at the Fuemrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely disseminated
Book (edition)
at the outstanding shows of the annual San Diego County Fair at Del Mar, California. In addition, the collections...Bet,-veen these extremes of literature there is little specifically aimed at the interests of amateurs...one species only, or even specimens only from one mine. Whatever limits the collector imposes on himself...twins of quartz which, to the beginner, may look little different from hundreds of other specimens of rock...earliest treatises on mineralogy were written when little was known about minerals except vvha t they looked
Book (edition)
the outstanding sho,vs of the annual San Diego County Fair at Del Mar, California. In addition, the collections... I t is short but so discerning that it leaves little doubt of the existence of a limited but accurate...of the Middle Ages (c. 1100 A.D.), produced very little progress in mineralogy or at least no significant...treatises on mineralogy ,vere , vritten ,;,vhen little was known about minerals except ,vhat they looked...attractive forces emanating from the nuclei, leaving little attraction for outermost electrons, especially
Book (volume)
das nach unserem Dafürhalten für Nutzer in den USA öffentlich zugänglich ist, auch für Nutzer in anderen...Analysen XXVII und XXVIII . Bei Webster, Jackson County in North Carolina, kommt im Talkschiefer mit Chromit...(Am. Journ. Sc. II. 48 , 17) . Vorkommen. O'Niel Mine , Orange Co. , N. York , selten in Krystallen, meist...Gallion in Londonderry und am Lyle's Hill in Antrim County. c) Im Yellowstone National Park , Wyoming, kommen...Franklin und Sparta , Sussex Co. , New Jersey, am Mine Hill und Stirling Hill. Wurde von BREITHAUPT in
 
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