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| 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 .... . ...... . .. |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| than 150 years. Quarries, such as the fine zeolite locality at Milford, the garnet and gem aquamarine...activity that has provided Maryland with a fine locality. The Frostburg Fire Clay Mine is situated on the...detrimental to clay mining, but at several places in the county where the 'ore balls', as the miners call them...is a necessity. Primarily Frostburg is a micro locality, although recent extensive work has shown fine...Philadelphia. It was not until recent years that the locality was brought to the attention of local collectors |
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| as specimens. Clarksville is in southern Johnson County in N / W Arkansas. COLORADO — "Recently we took...Table Mountain at Golden, Colo., the famous zeolite locality. Here we found red spherules of thomsonite...located one mile west of Wilbur Springs in S/W Colusa County in North California. The ore of the Manzanita Mine...calcite, marcasite, chalcopyrite and stibnite also occur. CONNECTICUT — "Even an old locality can still produce...garnet mine at Roxbury Falls, in Southern Litchfield County of western Connecticut. Mrs. Scheffer's crystal |
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| WALL STREET Tet.,hoae: IOwlln1 GNN 9-7191 NEW YORK 5, N. Y. W A M'. IN d ,y ROCKS and MINERALS................... 746 MA.zE, JAPAN'S CHIEF ZEOLITE LOCALITY ........... ................................................................ 760 HERKIM ER COUNTY ''DIAMONDS'' ·································...vole ana the tain MINERAL EXHIBIT AND SALE IN NEW YORK As advertised in Rock1 and Minerals, quirements...Shelton Hotel, New Paterson, Great Notch and Prospect York City, on Friday and Saturday, Park, in New Jersey |
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| received consist of tiny brassy-yellow xls of chalcopyrite on xled pale pink dolomite—very nice. No pyrite...mineral to the long list of those for which this locality is famous."—item sent in by Edward W. Rushton...the old open pit Sodium Sulphate mine in Imperial County near BertROCKS AND MINERALS ram siding on the...June 10, 1959, from Ralph A. Clutter, 133 E. Pennsylvania Ave., Escondido, Calif. A number of small clusters...discovery of gold on lot 999, 12th district, of Lumpkin County, Ga., which is owned by the American Legion. The |
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| Dick Mine in the same area and found pyrite, chalcopyrite, galena and sphalerite. 142 xline—crystalline...and aurichalcite at Theba. "Theba is in Maricopa County on Route 80, 5 miles S / W of Gila Bend and the...country for dumortierite is near Dehesa, San Diego County, California, where beautiful specimens, violet...pieces of opalized wood are hard to find at this locality." — sent 'n by A2C Meredith C. Lamb, AF 17577546...not believe that amethyst has been found at this locality before. Other minerals may also be found there |
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| Crystals from the Flambeau Mine Near Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wisconsin Perry M. Ponshock and William S. Cordua...The Flambeau Mine, located near Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wisconsin, produced nearly 1.8 million tons of...minerals of the Palermo Mines in North Groton, Grafton County, New Hampshire. He has also generously contributed...malachite, chalcocite, goethite, bomite and chalcopyrite were observed. Coarse examples of copper crystals...Minerals of Western Connecticut and Southeastern New York State, John gave the audience a field trip through |
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| ...................... EMERALDS STOLEN FROM NEW YORK 0TY MUSEUM ........................................................... .................. 387 NEW YORK PROPERTY 0wNERS TO LOSE RIGHTS TO MINERALS .......seeing you in Septembtt. Paul N. Brannan, Chm. 1414 York Avenue Spokane, Wash. The Mineralotiical Club of...photography, drove me from Los Angeles County via las Vegas to the locality in southwestern Utah producing this... though more delicate. In the Natural Bridges locality, we showed a sample of Utah picture stone to a |
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| Department, Portland State University Introduction The zeolite mineral levyne has been collected in a number of...minerals in the vicinity of Aneroid Lake, Wallowa County, Oregon (Figure 1). Aneroid Lake lies 6 mi by trail...crosscountry via recommended route to reach zeolite locality. ered the entire region and now remains as...apparently altered from disseminated grains of chalcopyrite and chalcocite. The Martin Bridge Limestone...and up a short scree slope to the 120 top. The zeolite area is some distance south from the saddle along |
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| Three mine pegmatites, Ramona district, San Diego County, California ............................101 by...Spaulding R. A. Mason & R. F. Martin , California locality index ..........................................California Chapter of the Friends of Mineralogy, Locality Index Committee Gypsum crystals from near Zaragoza...Three property in the Ramona district, San Diego County, California. This mine, strictly speaking, is developed...for the other pegmatite gem mines in San Diego County, the collapse o f the Chinese tourmaline market |
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| AMENICAN MINENALOGIST ABSENCE OF PYRITE FROM CERTAIN ZEOLITE LOCALITIES J. VOLNEY LEWIS RutgersCollege,New Brut*tttick...unmistakable pyrite been found at any of the zeolite locali- ties about Paterson or Hopewell, \Iew...supply the ornission. At no other prorninent zeolite locality in the state has this coudition been found...diligent search for it has not yet been rnade. Chalcopyrite is universally present' even where pyrite fails' |
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| it is lost. This information, particularly the locality details and the geological context, is crucial...gone with the demise of hard-rock mining in the county, and the practice of exchange with museums, which...of old-time anglesite specimens from the type locality at Pary's Mountain on Anglesey. The Royal Museum...north of England and Ireland. Across the Pennines in York, the Yorkshire Museum recently added a suite of...the Natural History Museum, London had falsified locality details. IGngsbury, who was one of the best known |
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| Zeolites Defined Origin of the Name The name zeolite was created in 1756, by Freiherr Axel Fredrick...to lite and added to ze-o- to create the word zeolite. Early History • Zeolites were known by many...the eighteenth century. Most of the research in zeolite mineralogy was done, at that time, in Germany,...basis of the zeolite group, which has 48 species accepted by the IMA today (see Zeolite Time Line, p...produced erroneous results. For instance, the zeolite wellsite was named because it contained a composition |
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| Zeolites Defined Origin of the Name The name zeolite was created in 1756, by Freiherr Axel Fredrick...to lite and added to ze-o- to create the word zeolite. Early History • Zeolites were known by many...the eighteenth century. Most of the research in zeolite mineralogy was done, at that time, in Germany,...basis of the zeolite group, which has 48 species accepted by the IMA today (see Zeolite Time Line, p...produced erroneous results. For instance, the zeolite wellsite was named because it contained a composition |
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| 00. CRYSTALLINE CUPRITE: Ray Central Mine, Pinal County, Arizona: Excellent small crystalline specimens...lshpeming, Marquetta County, Michigan: 2 to 4 inch specimens from this famous locality, some with an iridescent...HEM/MORPH/TEANO CHRYSOCHOLLA: 79 Mine, Banner District, Gita County, Arizona: Another oldie, clear to white hemimorphite... 2 •• , MOHA WK/TE: Mohawk Mina; Keweenaw County, Michigan: From an old collection, this rare copper-nic...aize: $5.00 each. PYROMORPHITE; Wheatley Mine, Pennsylvania: Very nice reference specimens of small crystals |
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| Geological Survey Richard V. Gaines Pottstown, Pennsylvania Donald R. Peacor Univ. of Michigan Abraham...Switzerland photomicrography Julius Weber Mamaroneck, New York circulation manager Mary Lynn White Ar tides Mineral...A C L E MI L E T U C S O N . ARIZONA 8 5 7 0 5 . USA 602 888-6015 Wanted to Buy or Exchange CRYSTAL...Black ilvaite crystals glued on matrix. Purported locality: Elba, Toscana, Italy. The large crystal is 1...more or less of fake specimens— crystals from one locality stuck on to a matrix from another; a fine quartz |
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| owner of the specimen Mineral species and mineral locality Size of crystals or the slide field of view Photograph...the same specimen (for example hematite and chalcopyrite on a specimen from Moonta Mines), in gen eral...with lay ers of sulphides such as pyrite and chalcopyrite. The minerals seem to be rare in nature but...mineral from Mount Mica and Black Mountain Oxford County, Maine. Ameri can Mineralogist, 78, 653-656. Australian...4)4.l2H2O, a new mineral from Mount Mica, Oxford County, Maine and new data on gainesite. Canadian Mineralogist |
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| long (Marty, 2004 ). AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins...in the region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites between...crystals of edingtonite were first found in 1978. The locality has yielded lustrous, tabular crystals of ilmenite...Litchfield County. Ilmenite masses and crystals from somewhere near Washington, Litchfield County, were described...mineral was then called "washingtonite," after the locality. For the rest of the 19th century and well into |
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| Joseph Vajdak 342 Forest A venue Massapequa, New York 11758-5707 It is a great pleasure to report some...lokkaite-(Y) is a new mineral for this famous locality which produced a scale of REE-bearing minerals...minerals and is only third in Japan after the locality Kirigo, Hizen-cho, Higashi Matsuuragun, Saga Prefecture...Romania). A new mineral for this famous gold mining locality and Romania. The mineral is associated with sylvanite...not present on the specimen. This is the second locality of sampleite in Chile; first reported in Mineral |
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| high concentrations o f sulfide minerals (i.e., chalcopyrite, pyrite, galena, and sphalerite). When the forces...wherryite) and is the first k n o w n (or type) locality o f over 50 species. Consequently, the collector...pink cal cites. Washington Camp is a premier locality for quartz crystals twinned according to the Japanese...Horseshoe D a m , northeast o f Phoenix. Another zeolite locality, Mai pais H i l l , has produced erionite...from the Tombstone and Cababi Districts. Y u m a County produces excellent crystals o f hematite, fluorite |
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| Dake. Ritter Hot Springs, Oregon, a noted Zeolite locality. The Zeolites are found in the erroded lavas...Associated Minerals of the Clevelan d Mine, Ste'"ens County, Washington. By Charles O. F ernquist .. . . .... Azurite, Bornite, Chaknnthite, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Chrysocolla, rite, Ennrgite and Malachite....MINERALS ANO GEM S A SPECIALTY V I SIT OXFORD COUNTY MINERAL L OC ALITIES IN 1930. I CORDIALLY W E L...another without him authorizing you to. NEW YORK NEW YORK P. Zodac (M), 157 Wells St., Peekskill Rocks |
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| _____________________________ 595 Copper: Chalcopyrite _________________________________________ -...recently found in the Tenmile district, Summit County. In his booklet, which today would be classed as...these minerals have been found only in a single locality, others are known only from certain districts...feldspar, and mica, occur in some form in every county in the State. Among mineralogists, Colorado is...mineral belt that extends southwestward from Boulder County to the southern limits of the San Juan Mountains |
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| Geological Survey Richard V. Gaines Pottstown, Pennsylvania Mary E. Mrose U.S. Geological Survey Abraham... photomicrography Julius Weber Mamaroneck, New York circulation manager Mary Lynn White designed by...Articles The Defiance mine and vicinity, Cochise County, Arizona ..............203 by J. R. Thompson Slide.......................211 The C. & B. mine, Gila County, Arizona ........................................213 by J. A. Crowley The Grand Reef mine, Graham County, Arizona ..............................219 by R |
