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Calcite from
Ecton Mine, Perkiomen Mines, Audubon, Lower Providence Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Calcite
Formula:CaCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Calcite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Ecton Mine, Perkiomen Mines, Audubon, Lower Providence Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1297241
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1297241:8
GUID (UUID V4):ace3c49c-9956-4bb1-9b97-bfbd8408eaa8
Nearest other occurrences of Calcite
6.1km (3.8 miles) King of Prussia, Upper Merion Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
6.6km (4.1 miles) Phoenixville tunnel (Conrail tunnel; Black Rock tunnel), Phoenixville, Schuylkill Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
6.7km (4.2 miles) Wheatley Mines, Schuylkill Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
7.2km (4.5 miles) Brookdale Mine, Schuylkill Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
7.4km (4.6 miles) Montgomery Mine, Schuylkill Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
8.2km (5.1 miles) Limestone quarry, Upper Merion Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
8.5km (5.3 miles) Henderson Station, Upper Merion Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
11.6km (7.2 miles) Bullock Quarry (Geo. Bullock Quarry; George Bullock Quarry), West Conshohocken, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
15.2km (9.4 miles) Old Perkiomen Mine, Lower Frederick Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
16.3km (10.1 miles) Highway Materials Quarry (Old Corson Quarry), Whitemarsh Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
References
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Report (issue)
I3fls£®[pS@®Il Sketches ©§ ®foM RSnanaang nan Montgomery ©®monty9 Pennsylvania by F. Harold Evans with Forward and...MINERALOGY, PENNSYLVANIA CHAPTER, INC. / Historical Sketches of Copper and Lead Mining in Montgomery County...County, Pennsylvania by F. Harold Evans with Forward and Appendix by Dr. Allen Van Heyl Special Publication...MINERALOGY, PENNSYLVANIA CHAPTER, INC. - Historical Sketches of Copper and Lead Mining in Montgomery County... Copyright © 1980 by Friends of Mineralogy, Pennsylvania Chapter and F. Harold Evans. All rights reserved
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...lithograph showingthe Ecton, "Whim" and "new" Perkiomen mines(left to right, from the east). Courtesy of
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:...Birdsboro), Berks County. White, Smith, 1910, 540. silky mass of radiating needles, with calcite. Colorless
Report (issue)
PENNSYLVANIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY FOURTH SERIES BULLETIN M5 LEAD AND ZINC ORES of PENNSYLVANIA Henry a;...lead and zinc in Pennsylvania notwithstanding that all of the old lead and zinc mines have long been closed...the occurrence of lead and zinc ores in Pennsylvania and in other parts of North and South America...is re counted that: lead ore was mined in Blair County in 1778 lo supply bullets for the Revolutionary...pumping engine in the world was installed at a zinc mine at Friedensville in 1872, and attracted wide attention
Report (edition)
PENNSYLVANIA STATE LIBRARY OF 0144 00141189 1 v < 2 £ m- c oi; c» tt*s“S S Si! at tss^s isl^j...1 ' s WJ= ~S 5! s „3 &«eq Sjg® . . PENNSYLVANIA 1 .8 ^2»SS 3 d 5-s &s z l|lt« 7* < OF ...GEOLOGY REPORT 1976 33 MINERAL COLLECTING IN PENNSYLVANIA by Alan R. Geyer Robert C. Smith, John H....Graphics by Albert E. VanOlden COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES TOPOGRAPHIC...II Copyrighted 1976 by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Quotations from this book may be published if
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
THE MINERALOGY OF THE ECTO,N MINE, MONTGO,MERY COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA By JOHN B. RANKIN, JR. 5138 Gramercy...section of the the Ecton and the adjacent Perkiomen Philadelphia Sunday Bulletin newspaper mine. The ore was...at Phoenixville, Chester Audubon, the famed naturalist, for several County Penna., several miles west...west of years when he was in this country. The Ecton. Wetherill family of Philadelphia owned After attending..."Mill Grove" until the Mineralogical Societyof Pennsylvania, 1951 when it was sold to the Montgom- of which
Book (volume)
375 9 f-2. 162 fiQl c, THE MINERALOGY OF PENNSYLVANIA PART TWO JOHN ETEKMAN < 1 > w Q O UJ 5...>CQ uf S B o i s UJ THE MINERALOGY OF PENNSYLVANIA PART TWO CHEMICAL ANALYSES JOHN EYERMAN EASTON... CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE MINERALOGY OF PENNSYLVANIA THE MINERALOGY OF PENNSYLVANIA: PART 1 490: 425: 426: A:...pink Lenni, Delaware county VIII crystals green crystals. Rocksville, Bucks county light green crystals...crystals. No. 1 shaft, St. Peter's, Chester county radiating, columnar crystals of light green to pink color
Report (Issue volume)
MINERAL RESOURCES Part 3, Metal Mines and Occurrences in Pennsylvania by Arthur W. Rose Mineral Conservation...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
Report (issue)
INTERIOR U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Inventory of Metal Mines and Occurrences Associated with the early Mesozoic...the U.S. Government. 1992 INVENTORY OF METAL MINES AND OCCURRENCES ASSOCIATED WITH THE EARLY MESOZOIC...Site Number, Site Name ...................... 6 County, State, Quadrangle, Latitude, Longitude ................. .14 VII. Table 1: Inventory of metal mines and occurrences associated with the early Mesozoic...Occurrences located in the Newark basin and vicinity, Pennsylvania ..................... 110 F. Section F: Occurrences
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
at the old Warwick Iron Mine area above Elverson on Route 23, in Pennsylvania. Perhaps several tons of...other interesting minerals from the old Perkiomen Mine near Audubon, Pa., are varied in habit. Microscopists...Perhaps the most unique type from the Perkiomen and Ecton Mines area present, in macro and micro forms...crystals on rock from the famous Majuba Hill Mine, Pershing County, Nevada. " This arsenic-pentoxide, cupric...Perkiomenville, Pa. Individual crystals with white tabular calcite interspersed make lovely thumbnail and cabinet
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............ 49. Other fire clay processed at the mine: quantity ..... .. ............ .... .. .......... 31 18 53. Plastic fire clay processed at the mine: value.........................................
Journal (issue)
New Publication 19 Banded Pseudomalachite, Pennsylvania 20 Mineral Symposia 21-23 Chapter Updates...CHAPTER: Bruce Kelley; bruce.kelley@gmail.com PENNSYLVANIA CHAPTER: Joe Marchesani; Jmarch06@comcast.net...Beech Creek Quarry, Mount Vernon, Grant Co., Oregon, USA. Photo by Doug Merson BULLETIN of FRIENDS OF MINERALOGY...Moore and Wendell E. Wilson entitled “The Emerald Mines of Columbia” in volume 47, no. 1. The winning article...Ridge, Middle Fork of the Snoqualmie River, King County, Washington” in volume 91, no. 6 by Rick Dillhoff
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...Acknowledgments 2 Section I-Active limestone and dolomite mines 3 Section Il-Crushed and broken limestone and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University Auburn, Alabama 36849-5305 HEMIMO RPHITE CALCITE :;:domorphs Downloaded by [North Dakota State...encrustation pseudomorphs of hemimorphite after calcite. The hemimorphite is colored yellow by microscopic...specimen was found in a Joplin, Missouri, district mine in the late 1800s and was donated to the Carnegie...Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, by A. L. 384 ROCKS & MINERALS Means; it was...traditionally known from the lead, zinc, and barite mines of Missouri’s several world-class mining districts
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University Auburn, Alabama 36849-5305 COPPER RAY MINE, PINAL COUNTY, ARIZONA Downloaded by [University of Regina]...pseudomorphs after cuprite, aragonite, azurite, calcite, chalcocite, chalcopyrite, chalcanthite, antlerite...shaft, arborescent groups from the Copper Queen mine, and even postmining growths on old timbers in the...with silver has been reported from a number of mines, including the Campbell shaft and the Czar shaft...include the New Cornelia pit, Pima County, and the Ray mine in Pinal County. Masses and sheets of crystalline
Report (volume)
........................................... Pennsylvania...............................................that are widely distributed, such as quartz and calcite, have been omitted, except those that by reason...value. Some minerals, such as the copper ores of Pennsylvania, are included in the list not because they occur... Willis, C. F., and others, Arizona State Bur. Mines Bulls. 1-8, 1915-16. Comstock, T. B., A preliminary...Survey Bull. 126, 1895. Jones, F. A., New Mexico mines and minerals, World's Fair edition, 1904. Genth
Journal (issue)
Ramsbeckite, an American occurrence at the Ecton mine, Pennsylvania ........................................]. Dunn & B. D. Sturman Neotocite from the Foote mine, North C arolina..................................by /. S. White Phosphosiderite from the Champion mine, California.......................................QUARTZ (rose, smoky and colorless) from the Sapucaia mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil. The specimen measures 8 cm...Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and even California. Many letters
Journal (issue)
INDEX UK JOURNAL OF MINES AND MINERALS ISSUES 11 - 20 (1992 - 2000) Michael Wolfe David Green, Julie...Julie Ballard and Richard Bell 2002 UK Journal of Mines and Minerals - index to issues 11 to 20 -1- CONTENTS...index, covers issues 11 to 20 of the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals, published between 1992 and 2000. Information...index. This is organised hierarchically by country, county or state, then site name. To avoid the confusion...century boundary changes in the British Isles, the county boundaries defined by the Local Governmant Act
Book (edition)
mmed at Broken Arrow aud Trout creek, in Sc. Clair county. The strata in this field are more faulted und...prong of Canoe creek, in St. Clair county, to Ha\sop creek, in Bibb county, a distance of 60 miles. Down to...to Helena, in Shelby county, the field has an average width of 5 or 6 miles. Below that point the width...miles being in the latitud" of Blocton, in Bibb county. The south ern end of this field has a greater...Jefferson county; Helena, Montevallo, and Brierfield, Shelby county; and at Blocion. Bibb county. The Warrior
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...sulphur were found by me, several Ueberroth zine mine, Priedensville, Lehigh Co., years ago, at the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Denver, Colorado 80225, USA 2 US Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA 3 US Geological Survey...94025, USA 4 Department of Geology, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, Washington 99004, USA 5 US Geological...Geological Survey, Denver, Colorado 80225, USA Received: 8 October 1993/Accepted: 17 June 1994 Abstract...Ellenville (lat. 41~ The Ellenville (Ulster) mine in Ulster County, New York, n o w situated within the limits...Indians. In fact, a deed of trust conveying the mine tract and related Wawarsincke lands from the Indian
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
being exhibited: Mr. Biernbaum, Avondale, Delaware County; Mr. Hoadley, New England and Canadian localities;...Oldach, Worrall's farm, Delaware County, and the French Creek mines; Mr. Clay, Stockton, N. J.; Mr. Frankenfield...Frankenfield, Moore, Delaware County; Mr. Warford, Mbore, N. J.; Mr. Boyle, Moore, N. J., and llenderson...J. Mr. Gordon reported a visit to the Ecton and Perkiomen mines, with Dr. Wills; linarite and aurichalcite...Oldach reported an excursion to the French Creek mines over Labor day, taken by Messrs. Biernbaum, Frankenfield
Report (volume)
minerals of wide distribution, such as quartz and calcite, have been omitted, except those that by some unusual...value. Some minerals, such as the copper ores of Pennsylvania, are included in the list not because they occur...Sanford. Upon Mr. Sanford's transfer to the Bureau of Mines the work was put into the hands of Frank L. Hess...Oregon............Prof. A. J. Collier, Eugene. Pennsylvania.... .Mr. R. R. Hice, Beaver. Prof. Florence...Mawr. Rhode Island.... .Prof. Charles W. Brown, Providence. South Carolina.. .Dr. Earle Sloan, Charleston
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pyrrhotite crystal on quartz attributed to the Potosi mine, Santo Domingo, Santa Eulalia (now known as Aquiies...pseudohexagonal pyrrhotite crystal from the Morro Velho gold mine, Nova Lima, Minas Gerais, Brazil. The 10.1-cm specimen...bismuth mine at Monroe and the historic nickel mine at Litchfield, Connecticut; the French Creek mines, Chester...Chester County, the Gap mine, Lancaster County, and the Ecton mine, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania; mines...Haralson, and Douglas Counties and the Stone Hill mine area of Randolph and Cleburne Counties, Alabama
Book
regarding the type of ABANDONED MINES Guest editorial: collecting in abandoned mines (by S. Voynick) 20: 178-180...On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...ADULARIA Adu Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54...minerals from [the Santa Lucia and Sa Duchessa mines,] Sardinia [Italy] (by F. Olmi, C. Sabelli & G....AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298
 
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