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Quartz from
Winfield, Union County, Pennsylvania, USA


Classification
Species:Quartz
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Quartz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Winfield, Union County, Pennsylvania, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:133128
Long-form Identifier:1:3:133128:8
GUID (UUID V4):5b9896f5-58b1-4293-b197-3a685cc593e1
Localities for Quartz in this Region
Faylor-Middle Creek Quarry, Winfield, Union County, Pennsylvania, USA
Nearest other occurrences of Quartz
0.7km (0.4 miles) Faylor-Middle Creek Quarry, Winfield, Union County, Pennsylvania, USA
8.8km (5.5 miles) Doughty Mine, Sunbury, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, USA
14.9km (9.3 miles) Kreamer, Middlecreek Township, Snyder County, Pennsylvania, USA
24.6km (15.3 miles) National Limestone Quarry No. 2, Lime Ridge, Mount Pleasant Mills, Perry Township, Snyder County, Pennsylvania, USA
26.9km (16.7 miles) National Limestone Quarry No. 1, Paxtonville, Middleburg Township, Snyder County, Pennsylvania, USA
40.1km (24.9 miles) Crystal Point Diamond Mine, Williamsport, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, USA
40.8km (25.3 miles) Pine Creek Quarry, Jersey Shore, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, USA
41.1km (25.6 miles) Almedia Mine, Columbia County, Pennsylvania, USA
45.2km (28.1 miles) Susquehanna Quarry, East Salem, Juniata County, Pennsylvania, USA
55.0km (34.1 miles) Salona Quarry (Hanson Aggregates quarry; Milestone Materials), Salona, Clinton County, Pennsylvania, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
JERI L . JONES R.D. #9, Sitler Lane York, Pennsylvania 17402 THE TYPE LOCALITY F O R C E L E S T I T...T E IS B E L L W O O D , B L A I R County, Pennsylvania. It was col­ lected there by a German traveler...area for collecting celestite in Juniata County, Pennsylvania. Location The Susquehanna quarry of the...miles north-northwest of East Salem, Juniata County, Pennsylvania. The quarry can be reached by tak­ ing the...through East Salem, and then turning west onto Pennsylvania R t . 325. Travel about 200 feet and turn right
Report (issue)
the stout tourmaline crystal and the crude smoky quartz crystal that it adjoins. The crystals come from...part are octahedral and which, once their drusy quartz coatings have been removed, are seen to be transparent...modifications, from 1 to 3 cm, resting on milky quartz ============================================================...lightly hematoid and thus orange-tinted crystals of quartz, as loose singles, loose crystal groups, and matrix...matrix pieces from Boylston, Guysborough County, Nova Scotia. This little-known locality is an abandoned
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)
our way out we had picked up Royce's Mother, in Winfield, Kans., and left her with her daughter, Mrs. Roy...to the excessive heat of the day we drove from Winfield, Kans. to Denver (which heat caused a lot of distress...4th and last time. At mileage 3216.0 we reached Winfield, Kansas. (8:30 a.m.), and the home of Royce's...at 2:30 p.m. Just on the northern outskirts of Winfield is Island Park ; which Royce wanted me to see...is a summer playground for the good people of Winfield. Leaving Island Park we headed northward on U
Report (edition)
STATE LIBRARY OF PENNSYLVANIA 1 1 II II II nil 3 014 4 00050005 «k. 1 ’^^jklTL% i ^IH ^ 1 k...of a thin slice of serpentinite from Lancaster County showing olivine (blue-green and red), serpentine...(icologist G BULLETIN 33 Mineral Collecting Pennsylvania in by Davis M. Lapham Mineralogist Alan ...Environmental Geologist JiU-ateJ VanOiden PENNSYLVANIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY FOURTH SERIES HARRISBURG...Commonweath of Pennsylvania book may be pubished if credit this is given to the Pennsylvania Geological
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
has published articles every month 746 The Cobb County Gem and Mineral Club, Marietta, was host to G i...Club went to Columbus, G a . for petrified wood, quartz, quartzite, jasper, chalcedony, marcasite, carnelian..." F a l l lapidary classes are fin progress. PENNSYLVANIA The Gem City Rock and Mineral So­ ciety, Erie...hunt for fossils Twenty-six from the Central Pennsylvania Rock and Min­ eral Club, Harrisburg, went to...agate T h e Rock and Mineral Club of Lower Bucks County, Fairless ROCKS A N D MINERALS Hills, heard member
Book (edition)
«s m •p ■* ; sms •v ■1 mm D 'A ©F PENNSYLVANIA AND NEW JERSEY By Scott Stepanski and Karenne...changes due to man or nature, Gem Trails of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, its publisher and all other...Physiographic Map of Pennsylvania and New Jersey 5 6 7 9 10 12 PENNSYLVANIA SITE NO. PAGE NO. 1...New Enterprise Banded Chert.... Roaring Spring Quartz & Chert... Grazierville Shale Concretions .......Ripple Marks............ Jersey Shore Calcite & Quartz.... Antes Creek Fossils..................... Ralston
Report (edition)
Geyer Mineral Collecting in Pennsylvania I COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS... ' BULLETIN G 33 Mineral Collecting in Pennsylvania by Davis M. Lapham Mineralogist Alan R. Geyer...Geyer Assistant State Geologist PENNSYLVANIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY FOURTH SERIES HARRISBURG First Edition...1965 Copyrighted 1965 b y the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Quotations from this book may be published....... . .. . Adams County .... . .. ... ............... . . ... . Allegheny County .... . ...... . ..
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
painting by Stephen F. Greb. July/August: Pyrite, quartz, and galena, Camp Bird mine, Ouray, Colorado. Barbara...photo. November/December: Gold on quartz, Eagle's Nest mine, Placer County, California. Wayne and Dona Leicht...310-13 Amethyst Discovery on Deer Hill, Stow, Oxford County, Maine, W. B. Thompson, 44-51 Anatase, Colorado...Walker Vein, Caldwell Stone Company Quarry, Boyle County, Kentucky, 254-58 Andorite, 27 Andradite, Arkansas...332; Kentucky, 258, 327; Minas Gerais, 313; Pennsylvania, 260-70; Wyoming, 167 California: benitoite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Concession V I I , Wollaston Township, Hastings County. The new occurrence is only 4 km east of Coe Hill...crystallized in veins of glassy, intensely fractured quartz which cut the marble. Clinochlore pseudomorphic...pleasing specimens were found loose in soil above the quartz veins. The specimens consist of euhedral crystals...chanical and chemical breakdown of the enclosing quartz and calcite. Further investigation along strike...minerali­ zation, characterized by wolframite-bearing quartz veins, subsequently modified by carbonate mineralization
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)
Erica VanPelt photographers March-April: Rutile on quartz, North Carolina; Louis Perloff photographer May-June:...photographer July-August: Turquoise crystals on quartz, Lynch Station, Virginia; John C. Medici photographer...Aragonite, 236 Bald Knob Manganese Deposit, Allegheny County, North Carolina, W. B . Sim­ mons, Jr., 130 Barite...Columbia, Yukon Territory, 9; rutile, Hastings County, 284 Canfield, F . A . , 232 Canfieldite, 233 Caryopilite...172 Dietrich, R. V., Lone Jack Quarry, Rockbridge County, Virginia, 157 Dinosaurs, 71, 174 Diopside, 238
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Portland where more than 100 minerals are reported; quartz, beryl, tourmaline etc. are most common T h e Stamford...trip took them to Loudville, Mass., for galena, quartz, malachite, pyromorphite, cerrusite, pyrite and...and at least that long. The wood is black with quartz crystals scattered through the material. T h e...picnic. H o x i e Jones conducted a program on quartz. Editor Brenda Gray of the Charlotte Gem and Mineral...Mineral Society has gone to jail—literally—the County gave them the old jail to remodel into a museum
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(Virginia). 42.0 miles—Fauquer County line (Va.) 56.0 miles — Culpeper County line (Virginia). About 200...86.0 miles — Famous Skyline Drive crossed. Page County line here. This is the apex of the ascent: W e...Park. 95.0 miles—Luray, Va., — nice little town—county seat of Page Co. 97.0 miles—Famous Luray Caverns...did not stop— raining. 128.0 miles — Harrisonburg—county seat of Buckingham Co. 129.0 miles—Madison College...made no effort to find it. 172.0 miles—Rockbridge County line— on U.S. 11. 183.0 miles—Limestone quarry
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
follow signs to mine ... look for amethyst and quartz crystal clus- Deleu/are Mineralogical Society,...Quarries, Mt. Harleyville for fossils . . . The Garnet Union, was enjoyed by those attending location at Lake...Society went to the Ligon Mine in Amelia County to collect quartz that will star, tourmaline and beryl....on the field trip are: pyrite, brookite, rutile, quartz, agerite, calcite, magnatite, wollastonite, and...from Adairsville north to the Bartow and Gordon County line and on a side road would be the club's treasure
Book
fortune out of the hillsides of the area. When Winfield Scott Stratton was mining his Independence strike...of Miners fight for Unionism. The spirit of the union miners had led them to blow up the Strong Mine before...Land Company Placer. This was three months after Winfield Scott Stratton discovered his Independence Mine...stating that his samples were worth $380 a ton. Winfield Scott Stratton had just struck it rich. He had...cost of more than $280,000, the three Jims and Winfield Stratton were in complete possession of the Portland
Report (volume)
Geology and Construction-Material Resources of Marion County, Kansas GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN Prepared... Geology and Construction-Material Resources of Marion County, Kansas By F. E. BYRNE, C. P. WALTERS, J. L. HILL...1907Geology and construction-material resources of Marion County, Kansas, by F. E. Byrne [and others] Washington... shale...____________________________________ Winfield limestone__-_-__--___-______-____-___-----_. Odell...Geologic and construction-materials map of Marion County, Kans_-__---.____._______-_.-__-___._--_____-_-____
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
members of the Charlotte Gem and Mineral Club. PENNSYLVANIA The Blair Rock and Mineral Club, Al538 toona...trip to Mifflin County. Member Bob Cox of the Rock and Min­ eral Club of Lower Bucks County, Fairless Hills...Leningrad. - - - - The Mineralogical Society of Pennsylvania heard and saw a program by Dr. Ray­ mond Grant...he took part when he was guest speaker of the Pennsylvania Earth Sciences Association, Lehigh Valley. The...hydromagnesite, bruoite, and zircon; at the Quarry at Winfield, calcite, celestite, strontianite, strontian-calcite
Journal (issue)
COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA Raymond P. Shafer, Governor STATE PLANNING BOARD Irving Hand, Executive..........1 New Fossil l,ocality for Ctearfieid:;county .. ; .•. ~ .. : .. ~ ..................8 Earth...COVER - View of rockfall along the side of a Pennsylvania highway. This is an example of an environmental...and knowledge to man and his environment. The Pennsylvania Geological Survey is pleased that the citizens...GEOLOG Y TO MA N IN HI S ENV I RONMENT The Pennsylvania Geological Survey has init iated a new kind
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geology, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405, USA 2 Branch of Isotope Geology, U.S. Geological Survey...963, Federal Center, Denver, CO 80225, USA Abstract. Quartz phenocrysts from 31 granitoid stocks in...Survey, M.S. 905, Federal Center, Denver, CO 80225, USA Offprint requests to: J.L. Hannah * Present address:...Ocean Water (SMOW). Repeated analyses of the NBS-28 quartz standard yield a value of 9.7_+0.2%0 (2 sigma)...Oxygen isotope data The &1so values for phenocrystic quartz from 31 COMB granitoid and rhyolite samples are
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
also may be entered by prior permission only. PENNSYLVANIA The Mitt el Appalachia Rock Club, Mapleton...the Park The Rock and Mineral Club of Lower Bucks County, Fairless Hills, learned about micromounts from...about thumbnails from member Lou Haushalter The Pennsylvania Earth Science Association, Lehigh Valley, re­...Sixty-one from the Mineralogical Society of Pennsylvania at­ tended the field trip to Vera Cruz for jasper...crystal systems with the members of the Central Pennsylvania Rock and Mineral Club, Harrisburg. The Club
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Gemology in the Adult Education system of Mont­ gomery County, Maryland, speak on the Jewels of Iran. Mrs. Taggert...paragraph on thinolite from her collection. The Bergen County Mineralogy and Paleon­ tology Society, Paramus...Nassau Mineral Club, Mineola, joined 77ie Cobb County Gem and Min­ held a symposium session with speakers...be completed some time in 1977 by the Museum. Pennsylvania Pebbles, bulletin of the Min­ eralogical Society...ton, devoted its pages to text and pictures of Pennsylvania Fossils; and Mineral Identification by Walter
Show/Event (guide)
Shows 27 Arkansas Shows 28 California Shows 45 Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, and Tennessee...Press at P.O. Box 740864, Arvada, Colorado 80006 USA; International 1 -(720) 946-2808; Toll-free 1 -(877)...Page 45 . ALABAMA LOUISIANA 6 Shows Page 37 < PENNSYLVANIA 22 Shows Page 45 ^^j^^Page 2 Shows Page 39...July 19-21,2019 Okanagan Gem Show, Winfield Memorial Hall. Winfield. August 9-11,2019 Vancouver Gem &...Vallejo Gem & Mineral Society Annual Show. Solano County Fairgrounds. Me Cormack Hall, Vallejo. March 2020
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the text is devoted to the American Indians. PENNSYLVANIA The Che Hanna Rock and Mineral Club, Sayre.... The Yark. Rock and Mineral Club went to the WInfield Quarry for strontinanite, celestite, fluo********...Mineral Club of Class II (Multiple Page) Lower Bucks County, Fairless Hills, deChips and Facets scribe a field...The Mineralogical Society of Rock Bottom Facts Pennsylvania, continues to report many Triangle Rockbound...Le- of the Mobile Rock and Gem Society high, Pennsylvania. The cover, a draw- was badly mangled in transit
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
sandstone, and intercalated shale. The eastern facies (Winfield and Richfield Springs quadrangles) is chiefly...basing the name on outcrops in southern Herkimer County (in Richfield Springs quad- rangle) although his...Sanford (1936) Eastern part of outcrop belt (Winfield, Richfield Springs quadrangles) Herkimer Member...the meridian of Steele Creek in the Ilion Gorge (Winfield quadrangle, Fig. 1) is very striking. West of...Dolomite is nearly as important a constituent as quartz in the nonshaly intervals, and chlorite is significant
 
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