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Aragonite from
Rose's Quarry, Gladwyne, Lower Merion Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Aragonite
Formula:CaCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Aragonite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Rose's Quarry, Gladwyne, Lower Merion Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:113114
Long-form Identifier:1:3:113114:7
GUID (UUID V4):3ed17e55-a37b-4ce0-b995-d20cf3a47a72
Nearest other occurrences of Aragonite
5.4km (3.4 miles) Bullock Quarry (Geo. Bullock Quarry; George Bullock Quarry), West Conshohocken, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
17.0km (10.6 miles) Ecton Mine, Perkiomen Mines, Audubon, Lower Providence Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
21.9km (13.6 miles) Wheatley Mines, Schuylkill Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
27.5km (17.1 miles) Brinton's Quarry, Westtown Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
29.3km (18.2 miles) Marshall Quarry, West Goshen Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
34.9km (21.7 miles) Kibblehouse Quarry, Perkiomenville, Marlborough Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
35.3km (21.9 miles) Raccoon Creek, Mullica Hill, Harrison Township, Gloucester County, New Jersey, USA
40.8km (25.4 miles) French Creek Mines, Saint Peters, Warwick Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
45.5km (28.3 miles) Henry Pusey's quarry, Willowdale, East Marlboro Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
48.7km (30.3 miles) Nevin's Quarry, Landenberg, London Britain Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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:...Philadelphia: Fairmount Park, Frankford, and Rit- enhouse quarry. SCOLECITE CaAl 2 Si3 Oi .3H 2 O MONOCLINIC
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
river this rock was largely quarried. The first quarry opened was irnmediately on the river bank. When...When the inclined plane was abandoned the Pennsylvania Railroad made a curved cut through these rocks extending...from about 30th Street to 34th Street, and a large quarry, or a series of quarries afterwards merged into...that found on Ridley and Crum Creeks in Delaware County, contained segregated masses of coarse orthocl...the Park north of Girard Avenue, and also in a quarry on Girard Avenue about 38th Street, menaccanite
Report (issue)
Serpentine Rocks Of the Piedmont Upland Maryland, Pennsylvania And Delaware By NANCY C. PEARRE and ALLEN V...serpentine districts ______ -._-_____-_____-___._. Montgomery County, Md_-_-_---_---_-_-----------_-__--_-_-_Soldiers...___________ 715 716 716 718 719 720 721 721 722 723 Quarry descriptions.-___._-_-_-_-_-_-_---_-___--______-_...___--___-________--____.__.__ Cardiff "green marble" quarry...._._._-__________ Jarrettsville-Dublin district...descriptions_______________________________________ Montgomery County, Md___-_______________________.__ Etchison
Book (volume)
Mineralogy of Pennsylvania. THE MINERALOGY OF PENNSYLVANIA. TIKIS Mineralogy of Pennsylvania, BY JOHN...(funth's "Preliminary Report on tlir Mineralogy of Pennsylvania,*' luted n* ...Second Geological Survey of Pennsylvania. Academy MINERALOGY OF PENNSYLVANIA. 1. SILVER. (4)i According...occur in Berks countv, at North Reading, in Oley township, and on Cushion Mt. 2. Native copper east of...page in Dr. Genth's Report. MINERALOGY OF PENNSYLVANIA. 5. GALEN1TK. (10) Galcnite occurs in many
Report (Issue volume)
RESOURCES Part 3, Metal Mines and Occurrences in Pennsylvania by Arthur W. Rose Mineral Conservation Section...Earth & Mineral Sciences The Pennsylvania State University PENNSYLVANIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY FOURTH SERIES...of Pennsylvania Quotations from this book may be published if credit Is given to the Pennsylvania Geological...1365, HARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA 17125 Bulletin MSO, Part 3, Sheet 1 M50 Pennsylvania Geological Survey...Robert C. Smith II of Penn State, and Arthur Montgomery of Lafayette College for information on some
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
correct spelling. East Mineralogical Society of Pennsylvania Lapidary Meeting The pouring rain and howling...the gathering of the lapidary clan of M. S. P. at Quarry Garden Farm, Lansdale, the home of Gene and Charles...following Pennsylvania localities: GROSSULARITE: Berks County: Fritz Island, Dauphin County: Hummelstown...Hummelstown. Delaware County: Leipers Quarry, Lehigh County; Limeport. Philadelphia County: Cobbs Creek Valley...Bucks County: Eden, Finney's Quarry, Hulmville, Mt. Misery, Newportville and Trevose. Chester County: Avondatel
Report (Issue volume)
Earth and Mineral Sciences The Pennsylvania State University PENNSYLVANIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY FOURTH SERIES...of Pennsylvania Quotations from this book may be published if credit is given to the Pennsylvania Geological... ROOM 54, MAIN CAPITOL BUILDING HARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA 17125 Bulletin M50, Part 2-8, Sheet 1 Page...of the mines of clay and shale companies in Pennsylvania supplying data for use in Part 2-B, of this...concerning 106 clay and shale mines operating in Pennsylvania during 1965 are given on 79 maps of the State
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mineralogy of Pennsylvania lists these specimens from the general area opposite Miquon: Soapstone Quarry (opposite...breunnerite; corundum ; magnetite; ilmenite. Rose's Quarry; Enstatite; hypersthene; tremolite; amphibole...talc; prochlorite; dolomite; bornite; millerite; aragonite; epsomite neolite (?); genthite, chalcanthite
Report (issue)
LEAD OCCURRENCES IN PENNSYLVANIA Robert C. Smith, II COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL...ZINC AND LEAD OCCURRENCES IN PENNSYLVANIA Robert C. Smith, II PENNSYLVANIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY FOURTH SERIES...1977 Copyright 1977 by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Quotations from this book may be published...published if credit is given to the Pennsylvania Geological Survey COVER ILLUSTRATION: Photograph of 1852 lithograph...STATE BOOK STORE, P. O. BOX 1365 HARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA 17125 PREFACE The purpose of this report is
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
they could hook on most anywhere — at a city, a county line, or important crossroads. In other words my...even a part of the trip because "300 feet from a county line on a known highway is a fine exposure of red...Mineralogy of Pennsylvania lists these specimens from the general area opposite Miquon: Soapstone Quarry (opposite...breunnerite; corundum ; magnetite; ilmenite. Rose's Quarry; Enstatite; hypersthene; tremolite; amphibole...talc; prochlorite; dolomite; bornite; millerite; aragonite; epsomite neolite (?); genthite, chalcanthite
Report (Issue volume)
Part 1, Supplement, Limestones and Dolomites of Pennsylvania · by George F. Deasy, Phyllis R. Griess, Ronald...Earth a.nd Mineral Sciences The Pennsylvania State University PENNSYLVANIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY FOURTH SERIES...of Pennsylvania Quotations from this book may be published if credit is given to the Pennsylvania Geological...STATE BOOK STORE, P.O. BOX 1365, HARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA 17125 Bulletin MSO, Part 1, Supplement, Sheet...active mines, 1962 .. 2. Types of active mines (quarry andjor underground) 3. Number of months that mines
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)
International, LLC P.O. Box 263, East Hampton, CT 06424, USA Phone 1.860.267.1512; fax 1.860.267.7225 www.lapisint...CHRISTIAN WEISE VERLAG, GERMANY AND LAPIS INTERNATIONAL, USA Tourmaline ♦ History ♦ Mineralogy • Tourmaline...no. 2.2200). The overall specimen is 4 cm wide. Lower: The matrix specimen was donated to Yale (cat. no...the north side of the Himalaya Mine in San Diego County, CA. D. Sterrett photo provided by Jesse Fisher...tourmaline was found in the pegmatites of San Diego County, California. The Advent of Chemical Analysis
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
consisting of three interpenetrating crystals, as in aragonite ; he gives a hypothetical figure of a simple crystal...measured by Kenngott were aeieular, and, adopting Rose's position, he gives the forms present as o~O and...then be given as about 58 ~, which approaches to Rose's value of 59 ~ 21'. On the second crystal a narrow...zinckenite. To this short list of forms are to be added Rose's k {061}, and Luedecke's~ b {010}. The qualitative
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
consisting of three interpenetrating crystals, as in aragonite ; he gives a hypothetical figure of a simple crystal...measured by Kenngott were aeieular, and, adopting Rose's position, he gives the forms present as o~O and...then be given as about 58 ~, which approaches to Rose's value of 59 ~ 21'. On the second crystal a narrow...zinckenite. To this short list of forms are to be added Rose's k {061}, and Luedecke's~ b {010}. The qualitative
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
twinning in some fashion similar to that found in aragonite. The presence of longitudinal striations on the...VAUX AND F. A. BANNISTER ON Dana (1892), from Rose's early measurements on zinckenits, indexed the two...isomorphous. Luedecke (1896), however, reverted to Rose's orientation in which the elongation is parallel...respectively, compared with Rose's measured values 29 ~ 24' and 77 ~ 11' to 77 ~ 26'. Rose's measured values for...approximate to 168 and 72 respectively. Only H. Rose's original analysis gives full support to this conclusion
Book
followed in the text by the old county name, old regional or present county names, as appropriate, depending...Mineral Collection localities use predominantly old county names to an extent. SCOTLAND.THECOUNTRY, PHYSIOGRAPHY...broad sense, the Midland Valley is a swathe of lower ground abundantly dotted with hills between the... Late Caledonian orogenesis continued into the Lower Palaeozoic and generated a suite of granites which...metamorphosed marine sediments of late Precambrian and Lower Palaeozoic age, which formed on a continental shelf
Journal (issue)
after mineral from the Magnet Cove, Hot Spring County, Arkansas' intrusive ring-dike complex are the...pattern but not quite as strong as that shown on Rose's Graves Mountain, Georgia specimen. Magnet Cove...descriptive mineralogy. Just $45 plus $8.50 s/h USA Minerals and their Localities Over 800 pages, 8500...reference book available today! $145 plus $15 s/h USA Foreign customers: please inquire. Minera(o9icaf...located on the edge of the Tarryall Mountains in Park County, Colorado, about 8 miles north of Lake George.
Book
Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee...listed by county and community, range and distance. Whenever the collector crosses a county line, he will...of the county he is entering posted alongside the highway. By looking up the state and county, the user...guide can determine the collecting sites in that county by range and distance from the major cities and...information to reach a specific spot within a particular county. Many old localities listed here have, literally
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
believethat crystais grow soiely in an attempt to lower the energyof the system.It is perhapsmore reasonableto...twinned (e.g.,aragonite).If twinning resultsin a higher total energy and if attainment of lower energy is...Mississippi (lower photos). All crossed polarizersexcept forlower right, which is the same grain as lower center...arrangement of faces of Paradox (upper) and Roc-Tournd (lower) twins, with size of circular symbols showing their...and have come to be known, from the location of Rose's most distinctive material, as Roc Tourn6 twins
Book (edition)
scale to soapstone at the other. There is a still lower limit in liquids and gases; but of the hardness...the planes of the trisoctahedron in Fig. 21. The lower one of the three on the upper front solid angle...by a constant ratio, and the expression for the lower right one of the six planes will be 3c f & la. By...being here directly over those suppressed in the lower pyramid. APATITE. If the student will shade over...of the upper pyramid alternate with those of the lower; but -this kind occurs only in the rhombohedral
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
arrangement; and not only do shells consisting of aragonite undergo this change, but also sometimes those...has often only occurred in those composed of aragonite. If such a molecular re-arrangement were to take...Edinburgh New Phil. Journ. 1847, xlii. 381. t See Rose's second treatise on Carbonate of Lime, Abhandlungen
Catalog/List
specimen naturally rests truly remlnds one of a rose's great symmetry. 3-1/2" x 3-1/2" x 2-3/4". 0ne ether...specimen naturaily rests truly reminds ene of a rose's great symmetry. 3-1/2" ,c 3-1/2" x 2-3/4". 0ne...( 8) MAK-19 CALCITE Annabella Lee Mine, Hardin County, Illinois Elongated white to clear Calcite crystals... (? avail.) $10.00 MW-3 GMELINITE Poudrette Quarry, Mt. St. Hilaire, Quebec, CAN Good population of...avail.) MW-6 CARLETONITE and PECTOLITE Poudrette Quarry, Mt. St. Hilaire, We count 6 minerals on this showy
Journal (issue)
Minerals of Franklin and Sterling Hill, Sussex County, New Jersey. U.S. Geological Survey Professional...of the Iron and Zinc Mining Industry in Sussex County, New Jersey. Franklin Mineral Museum reprint $...dendrites. Rims pararammelsbergite and nickeline in the lower part of the dendritic mass and forms the cores of...minerals of Franklin and Sterling Hill, Sussex County, New Jersey. U.S. Geological Survey Professional...Anorthoclase Graphite Clinozoisite Antlerite Greenockite Aragonite Clintonite Grossular Arsenic Conichalcite Groutite
Book (edition)
occuring planes pertain equally to both the upper and lower (or opposite) ranges of sectants, as in all ordinary...which the planes pertain to either the upper or the lower range, and not to both, and hence the planes are...and of the lower ranges are alternate, but the upper not alternate with reference to the lower, the forms...upper and lower ranges are alternate, and also the upper are alternate with reference to the lower, and,...and lower ranges are adjacent, but the upper are situated diagonally with reference to the lower, being
 
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