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


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Forsterite
Formula:Mg2SiO4
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Forsterite 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:150542
Long-form Identifier:1:3:150542:9
GUID (UUID V4):fa65ba26-43f2-4589-931d-c400ae7363f3
Nearest other occurrences of Forsterite
2.7km (1.7 miles) Cedar Hill Quarry (Stoltzfuss Quarry), Fulton Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA
5.7km (3.5 miles) Line pit (Lowe's Mine), Cecil County, Maryland, USA
5.7km (3.5 miles) Line pit (Lowe's Chromite Mine), Fulton Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA
31.9km (19.8 miles) Safe Harbor Quarry, Safe Harbor, Conestoga Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA
52.2km (32.4 miles) Brinton's Quarry, Westtown Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
60.2km (37.4 miles) French Creek Mines, Saint Peters, Warwick Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
61.5km (38.2 miles) Williamson Trade School, Middletown Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA
62.9km (39.1 miles) Castle Rock, Edgemont Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA
64.5km (40.1 miles) Cornwall Mines (Cornwall Iron Mine), Cornwall Borough (Cornwall), Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, USA
74.1km (46.0 miles) Patapsco Glen Construction Site, Woodlawn, Baltimore County, Maryland, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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
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
Journal (issue)
. . . . . . . 1.25 GADOLINITE, Barringer Hill. Texas. Solid mass. 3 x l v2xl ' '2 I 12 oz.I . 4.00 LIMONITE...Consoli- former president of the Federation, mandated Mine near Eureka, Utah. H e plans aged the contest. The...as a Tilly Foster Unit. The old abandoned iron mine (magnetite) at Tilly Foster, Putnam Co., N. Y. is...town is located near the western edge of Morrill County which is in western Nebraska. Flowing south of...collected are very similar to those from Sweetwater County, Wyoming. These are dear chalcedony with small
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
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)
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)
aster, star.] HavThe ing the appearance of a stai mine. An oxyd having an acrid within. Alkali. Containing... a hammer,] 65. Mammillary, [Lat. mu?Kmilla, a little teat,] Micaceous, 53. Changed Containing man-...temperature of our globe rock as limestone but a little lower than it is, we should rarely see water except...by drop, and each drop as it dries, deposits a little carbonate of lime. At first it forms but a mere...the primary form, there would be comparatively little of that variety and beau ty which we actually find
Book (edition)
aditus, an entrance.] horizontal entrance to a mine. The material under chem* blowpipe examination...Hexagonal system, 33, Feldspathic. Of the same texas a principal ingredient con- Homogeneous. ture and...iesselated structure. Magnesian. Containing magnesia. little Nitrate. acid. A compound crystal, or one Mammillary...; and \vere the temperature of our globe but a little lower than it is, we should rarely see water Our...by drop, and each drop as it dries, deposits a little carbonate of lime. At first it forms but a mere
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)
66. AcICULAR, [Lat. The horizontal entrance to a mine. Alkali An oxyd having an acrid taste, and caustic;...of an Mammillary, [Lat. mammilla, a octahedron. little teat,] 53. Odor of minerals, p. 66. Manganesian~...limestone ; and were the temperature of our globe but a little lower than it is, we should rarely see water except...by drop, and each drop as it dries, deposits a little carbonate of lime. At first it forms but a mere...the primary form, there would be comparatively little of that variety and beauty which ,ve actually find
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 (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
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)
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)
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 (volume)
published by the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain. As formerly, an effort w^as made to remedy recognized...Verde Valley, Yavapai County, Arizona. In Nevada along the Virgin River in Clark County, and in distorted...distorted crystals from Humboldt County. From Borax Lake, San Bernardino County, California. In the Permian basin...of southeastern New Mexico and adjacent parts of Texas. Obtained from the waters of Great Salt Lake, Utah...southeastern New Mexico and adjacent parts of Texas. ^^ Alter. Sometimes formed as a Name. The compound
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
Mineralogical Record, Inc., P.O. Box 35565, Tucson, AZ 85750 USA. Copies may be purchased, while supply lasts, at...Md Cover photo: the 180 fathom level of East Pool mine, Illogan, Cornwall, in 1893, by John Charles Burrow...stage, my players are the rarely recognized and little-known body of professional and semi-professional...and distribution of stock-intra.deappears to have little of the passion and obsession of the collector's...with the complex story of John E Calvert, but very little was published until the work of Blackburn (1997)
Book (volume)
das nach unserem Dafürhalten für Nutzer in den USA öffentlich zugänglich ist, auch für Nutzer in anderen...85 CaO, 0.76 Glühverl. — 42.6 57.2 99.8. Die Forsterite verschiedener Fundorte verhalten sich verschieden...Monticellit bezeichneten Vesuv-Olivine sind nur Forsterite. b) Am Monzoni in Tirol auf dem Felsrücken zwischen...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
 
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