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Rutile from
Parkesburg, Sadsbury Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA


Locality type:Village
Classification
Species:Rutile
Formula:TiO2
Comments:the finest locality for Rutile in PA, where crystals up to a pound in weight were found (19th century). Large twined crystals were found elsewhere in the soils throughout this 7 mile long region, along the Sadsbury township area.
Habit:tetragonal usually conststing of several prisms , frequently in double "geniculated" twins
Colour:Reddish Brown, inclining to red
Quality for species:Good crystals or rich for species - important (!)
Abundance at site:Extremely common
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Quartz2 photos of Rutile associated with Quartz at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Rutile data
Locality Data:Click here to view Parkesburg, Sadsbury Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (23 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:214064
Long-form Identifier:1:3:214064:3
GUID (UUID V4):d52e2723-feda-4158-9f88-9096e6eb884d
Nearest other occurrences of Rutile
15.2km (9.5 miles) Logan's Quarry, Upland, East Marlboro Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
18.8km (11.7 miles) Chester County Poorhouse Quarry, West Bradford Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
20.4km (12.7 miles) Willowdale, East Goshen Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
20.9km (13.0 miles) Quarryville Lime and Stone Company Quarry, Quarryville, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA
21.2km (13.2 miles) Blue Ball Stone Co. Quarry, Blue Ball, East Earl Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA
22.1km (13.7 miles) Nevin's Quarry, Landenberg, London Britain Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
29.6km (18.4 miles) Rawlinsville, Martic Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA
32.4km (20.1 miles) Pequea Silver Mine, Pequea Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA
33.2km (20.7 miles) Pocopson, Pocopson Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
37.7km (23.4 miles) Safe Harbor Quarry, Safe Harbor, Conestoga Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Disjoined JOHN S. WHITE PO Box 332 Stewartstown, Pennsylvania 17363 jwkustos1@gmail.com Crystals Figure 1...cm across, Texas quarry, Cockeysville, Baltimore County, Maryland. John S. White specimen and photo. F... Figure 2. Rutile in iron-stained quartz, 2 cm across, Parkesburg, Sadsbury Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania...Maine beryl photograph, to Jake Slagle for the rutile photograph, and to Jim and Gail Spann for the photograph
Report (issue)
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...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, Potter...Washington Counties Quantity of salt 30 40 11 Titanium-Rutile 12 Vermiculitc-.TeflVrisite 4-1 Miscellaneous
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...colorless crystals), Felton's farm (Chester), and Ward's quarry; Montgomery County: Sumneytown, and Perkiomenville...cut east of Reading (probably Birdsboro), Berks County. White, Smith, 1910, 540. silky mass of radiating
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
bank. When the inclined plane was abandoned the Pennsylvania Railroad made a curved cut through these rocks...that found on Ridley and Crum Creeks in Delaware County, contained segregated masses of coarse orthocl...halotrichite occur occasionally, but on the Pennsylvania Railroad at 59th street there was an old quarry...northwesterly line between Philadelphia and Mont(romery County, it has been largely quarried for over a century...zoisite, pyrophyllite, barite and one specimen of rutile in dolomite. Associated with the steatite is a
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
00:39 19 January 2015 Graves Mountain, Lincoln County, Georgia B lack and nearly black minerals-no...and Namibian schorl, Panasqueira ferberite, and rutile, especially that from Graves Mountain, Georgia...other aesthetic qualities may carry equal weight. Rutile in particular is clearly appreciated for its crystal...schists; and alpine-type pockets. The Graves Mountain rutile nominated for this issue’s Connoisseur’s Choice...Choice is a fitting ambassador for this species. All rutile is not black; in fact, its name is derived from
Report (issue)
Rutile TiO2 c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data: Tetragonal. Point Group: 4/m...Georgia, USA. Polymorphism & Series: Mineral Group: Trimorphous with anatase and brookite. Rutile group...From Kassoi Brod, Ural Mountains, Russia. In the USA, at Magnet Cove, Hot Spring Co., Arkansas; on Graves...Co., North Carolina; from Parkesburg and elsewhere, Chester Co., Pennsylvania; in the Champion mine, White...Dickson (1992) Structural and thermal parameters for rutile and anatase. Acta Cryst., 47, 462–468. (4) (1969)
Report (issue)
THE RUTILE DEPOSITS OF THE EASTERN UNITED STATES. By THOMAS L. WATSON. INTRODUCTION. The titanium-bearing...largest concentrations of the element are as oxide (rutile), as iron titanate (ilmenite), and in iron ferrate...of the element at present is rutile. The known workable deposits of rutile, however, are extremely few...summarizes present knowledge of the geology of the rutile deposits in the eastern United States and for the...foreign deposits, each of which has produced some rutile. Of the known deposits in the United, States only
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
tsaitimore gneiss betrveen Somerton and Newton, Bucks County. The quarry coutains three difierent types of pegmatite...Avondale, Chester Co, Pa., autunite and torbernite from Leiperville, Pa., rutile from Parkesburg, Pa., erythrite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
tsaitimore gneiss betrveen Somerton and Newton, Bucks County. The quarry coutains three difierent types of pegmatite...Avondale, Chester Co, Pa., autunite and torbernite from Leiperville, Pa., rutile from Parkesburg, Pa., erythrite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(5.3 cm). Figure 13: Silver, Calumet, Houghton County, Michigan (11 cm). A photograph of this specimen...crystal of rutile, Figure 25: Gold, Breckenridge, Colorado (6 cm). A photograph of this Parkesburg, Pennsylvania...octahedron and pyrite cube, Calton Talc mine, Chester, Vermont (8.5 cm). Figure Figure (variety Figure...quarry, Lafayette Station, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. Figure 50: Colorless spinel twin diamond...Phoenixville, crystals, San Carlos mine, Guanajuato, Pennsylvania (11 cm). Mexico (4.4 cm). M A R C H / A P R
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
senopyrite in Darien (Fairfield Co.), Levesque, Cross County, Arkansas. The Conn., for over a year. A few weeks...A H O — "This specimen was found in Twin Falls County about 10 miles south of Hagerman, Idaho. These...a fairly new limestone quarry in eastern DeKalb County, 111. There were a few small fossils in the limestone...lined with tiny rock xls. that comes from Brown County, Ind., in the vicinity of Bean Blossom. Its label...label. MISSISSIPPI — "In the creek beds of Panola County, Miss., between Sardis and Batesville, some cutting
groups are included. Corundum, spinel, cuprite, rutile, cassiterite, calcite, aragonite, dolomite, siderite...black, black), p. 66 chromite (black), p. 80 rutile (brown, dark red brown), p. 118 chromite, p. 80...72 ilmenite (red to brownish black), p. 78 12 rutile (reddish brown), p. 118 Beginner's Guide to Minerals...Timmins, Tisdale Township, Cochrane District, Ontario; Darwin Mine, McMurray Township, Algoma District...nugget recorded is from Carson Hill, California, USA, weighing 72.78 kg. Transylvania, Romania; Roraima
Journal (issue)
•·J. .• ••• ..,. PROCHLORITE v. CORUNOOPHILITE, Chester, Mass. Xld. 2 ½ "l( l 1/4: .. ESSONITE, Ala, Piedmont....................................12 WHAT PRICE RUTILE. By f. C. Boyle .................................Colorado, a small tributary to Grand Lake ( Grand County ) . Near the top of the view are remnants of potholes...never-ending handiwork. Near Falmouth, Lancaster county, Penn., about one-quarter of a mile south of the...a point just below Falmouth to York Haven, York county - a distance of two to three miles - it is now
Book
Co. Hematite CALERA, Shelby Co. Wavkllite CLAY COUNTY, Sec. 24. T. 19 S R., 7 E. STATUARY, Coosa Co...Co., (W. border of* Marble Crystalline TALLADEGA COUNTY Marble, (crystalline) VALLEY HEAD, DeKalb Co. Hematite...Feldspar HISSOP, Coosa Co., (near) Beryl JACKSON COUNTY Hematite KENNEDYS, Clay Co., (near) Magnetite MILLERVILLE...DELANEY, Madison Co. Quartz, (clear crystals) GARLAND COUNTY Quartz Crystals HOT SPRINGS, Garland Co. Malachite...Malachite HOT SPRINGS DISTRICT Quartz Xls LAWRENCE COUNTY Pearls LITTLE ROCK Quartz Crystals MAGNET COVE,
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groups are included. Corundun1, spinel, cupri te, rutile, cassiterite, calcite, aragonite, dolo1nite, siderite... p. 66 ilmenite (brownish black, black), p. 66 rutile(brown, dark red brown), p. 118 chromite, p. 80... p. 68 ilmenite (red to brownish black), p. 78 rutile (reddish brown), p. 118 Beginner's Guide to Minerals...Timmins, Tisdale Township, Cochrane Distiict, Ontario; Darwin Mine, McMUJTay Township, Algon1a District...nugget recorded is fro1n Carson Hill, California, USA, weighing 72.78 kg. Transylvania, Ron1ania; Rorai
Report (volume)
........................................... 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;
Book (volume)
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...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA
Book (volume)
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...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA
Book (volume)
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
Report (issue)
and classiffcation. . . . Details of oecurrences Rutile 106 107 109 .111 nelsonite. . ... rr7 rr7...trli"tot*pi. character......,. The rutile ore.. .. General statement. rutile.. . Syenite -Megascopic f93 f93...f93 r94 I95 196 196 197 Composition of the rutile. . Microscopic character. 197 r98 r98 LovrNcsror...Introduction I57 159 193 character. Composilion of the rutile. Micrbsconic character. Nelsonite iutile.. Biotite...ix PAGE ..;.... Diabase 253 Pyrgxenite The rutile ore.. General . .. character. .. . . .. ..
Book (edition)
The bending in the annexed figure of a crystal of rutile. has here taken place at equal distances from the...geniculation is parallel to one of the terminal In rutile the geniculated crystals sometimes repeat edges...orthorhombic form (G. in brookite, one tetragonal form in rutile, and another In the hornblende group, tetragonal...hornblende; aragonite than calcite, brookite than rutile. 4. PSEUDOMORPHS, PSEUDOMORPHISM. The crystalline...magnetite occurring in mica at Pennsbury, in Pennsylvania. Arborescent delineations over surfaces of rock
Journal (issue)
Schacht (who was bom Horace Greele} Schacht in the USA), President of the German Reichsbank. In du< course...overall light smoky shade, and one from Saline County, Arkansas, failed to turn color at all. Crystals...“Hot Springs area” * “Hot Springs area” Lincoln County Veta Grande Claim, Yuma Co. Arkansas Arkansas...locations produce rutilated amethyst in which the rutile needles are oriented perpendicular to both prism...from Upper Prov­ idence, D elaw are C ounty, Pennsylvania; 36.2 carats, NM NH #G 1 2 8 3 . Photo by Chip
Book (volume)
references, among them may be mentioned: Vermont, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Oregon, Kansas, Alabama, Ohio...Kobuk jade locality. Descriptions of San Diego County, California, gemstones and the mines in which they...the generous assistance of many residents of that county. My special thanks are extended to Elbert H. McMacken...GEMSTONES RarRE AND UnusuaL GEMSTONES Chrysoberyl, Rutile, Petalite, Pollucite, Phenakite, Axinite, Microlite...Mexican agate slice (color) . . . . . . . . X11 Rutile group Phenakite crystal Phenakite crystal group
Report (issue)
such as sagenite, enclosing slender needles of rutile, and cat 's-eye quartz, in which the silica solution...replace the woody tissue of trees, produc- RUTILE FROl\l PARKESBURG, PA. Rosettes of knee-jointed, twinned...deposits are shown in this �eries. Cassiterite and rutile arc closely related oxides of this group and furnish
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Office Building Portland 1, Oregon Cf 7 J o ( Pennsylvania Bureau of Topographic and Geologic Survey ✓...Department of Internal Affairs , .., Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Rhode Island Development Council Roger Williams...northeast part of the Coosa Coal Field, St. Clair County, Alabama, by H. E. Rothrock. 1949. 69 B. 50 Well...and G. L. Richardson. 91 1940. district, Franklin County, Alabama, by E . F. Burchard and H. D. Pallister...C".1.5 Geology and mineral resources of Cherokee County, AlaC. 2 Abstract of Alabama clay bama, by E .
 
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