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


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Vesuvianite
Formula:Ca19Fe3+Al4(Al6Mg2)(◻4)◻[Si2O7]4[(SiO4)10]O(OH)9
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Vesuvianite 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:132724
Long-form Identifier:1:3:132724:3
GUID (UUID V4):e997d5b6-2882-4af7-a180-d66802f62fec
Nearest other occurrences of Vesuvianite
36.8km (22.9 miles) Willowdale, East Goshen Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
64.5km (40.1 miles) Cornwall Mines (Cornwall Iron Mine), Cornwall Borough (Cornwall), Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, USA
65.7km (40.8 miles) Fritz Island Mines, Cumru Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA
79.4km (49.3 miles) Frost Quarry, Davis, Howard County, Maryland, USA
97.8km (60.8 miles) Teeter Quarry (Teeters Quarry; Valley Quarry; John S. Teeter and Sons Co. Quarry; Gettysburg Quarry; H.T. Campbell's Teeter's Quarry), Gettysburg, Adams 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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
>%ff Li : i Wood's chrome mine, Sunday, December 3, 1 9 5 0 . View looking...finding of green grossularite at the Line Pit Chrome Mine near Rock Springs, Md. Efforts are now under...VERMICULITE: Reported. N e e d s confirmation. VESUVIANITE: As greenish, brownish and yellowish columnar..."The Minerals of Lancaster County ", by Herbert H. Beck. 2. "The Mineralogy of Pennsylvania", Samuel G. Gordon...of Investigations 4383. 5. "The Geology of Lancaster County", Second Geol. Surv. Penna., Rep. C3. NAVY
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...inquiries about the occurrence of minerals in Pennsylvania that cannot be answered by referring the inquirer
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
Book (edition)
FLUORITE QUARTZ CRYSTALS SPINEL STAUROLITE •^^ VESUVIANITE WILLEMITE ZIRCON CRYSTALS Crystal forms 5... an ore of iron, will be heavy in the hand. a little experience, the gem "heft" of a specimen to...feldspar quarries in pegmatite deposits, mines and mine dumps, and from "float" deposits, minerals loose...should always ask permission it may be un- or a mine dvmip. Cleanliness around a camp site and removal...collectors because a many material others of the Texas ranches are closed few carted away agate by the
Book (edition)
Chrysolite Group Garnet Group Zircon Group 281 Vesuvianite, Epidote, etc Axinite 282 Danburite, lolite...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
Book (edition)
MARIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY 3 1111 00289 4184 \ I s Fifth Revised Edition A complete, state-by-state...LAZULITE PERIDOT PHENACITE QUARTZ CRYSTALS V^v VESUVIANITE WILLEMITE ZIRCON CRYSTALS HOW TO IDENTIFY...chemical tests so useful with many minerals are of little value in distinguishing one silicate from another...gems, garnet, jade, kyanite, lapis lazuli, and vesuvianite. In such places heat and mineralizing solutions...minerals. He will pick over stream beds, gravel pits, mine dumps, road cuts, and quarries. Some gems agate
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...occur in f. 129, of In the unit series of planes vesuvianite. ; there are the octahedrons (or pyramids) 1...[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
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
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)
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...occur in f 129, of In the unit series of planes vesuvianite. there are the octahedrons (or pyramids) 1,2...oo : : # a a The abridged symbols need very little explanation additional to that given on p. 25.
Journal (issue)
. . . . . . . 1.25 GADOLINITE, Barringer Hill. Texas. Solid mass. 3 x l v2xl ' '2 I 12 oz.I . 4.00 LIMONITE...good loose octahedral x i. 1" ......... . 1.25 VESUVIANITE I IDOCRASE I, Ludwig, Nevada. 1 ½ " loose xi...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
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
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
Journal (issue)
crystal with calcite, 6.5 cm, from the Cosq uez mine, Colombia; found in 1998. Scott Rudolph collection............................................... 22 Mine Exploitation (or not) Today ......................see it in New York, after which it toured Great Britain and seven other American cities, drawing similar...occurrences (abandoned), The Nemoc6n mine is primarily a salt mine refitted as a tourist attraction; it...both slopes of a funnel-shaped valley above the little Itoco River, at elevations ranging from 20 to 150
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)
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
 
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