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Actinolite from
York, York County, Pennsylvania, USA


Locality type:Town
Classification
Species:Actinolite
Formula:◻Ca2(Mg4.5-2.5Fe0.5-2.5)Si8O22(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Actinolite data
Locality Data:Click here to view York, York County, Pennsylvania, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:155031
Long-form Identifier:1:3:155031:3
GUID (UUID V4):9331cfb2-e593-47dd-9393-246f9e80a541
References
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Report (chapter)
NY PA PQ RI SC TN VA VT New Hampshire New York Pennsylvania Province of Quebec, Canada Rhode Island South...complex Chain Lakes massif Canaan Mountain Dutchess County Elmore Mountain Exeter pluton Green Mountain massif...Wenlock metamorphism in the northern Appalachians, USA. Abbreviations are defined in Table 1. The stippled...muscovite Mafic schist 4°Ar/39Ar total fusion, actinolite Felsic schist K - A r muscovite Felsic schist...cores and actinolite rims 4°Ar/39Ar plateau, hornblende cores and Mafic schist actinolite rims 4°Ar/39Ar
Report (issue)
anthophyllite (anthophyllite asbestos), (4) actinolite (actinolite asbestos), and (5) tremolite (tremolite...Virginia, Maryland, Connecticut, and Massachusetts. Pennsylvania saw some small-scale mining of "amphibole asbestos"...because they contain chrysotile and tremolite-actinolite asbestos (Churchill and Hill, 2000; Clinkenbeard...naturally occurring asbestos. For example, the Fairfax County Health Department, Va., developed an asbestos exposure...containing material" (ultramafic rock bodies) within the county (Dusek and Yetman, 2002). Information on naturally
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
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)
West Side of the Appalachian Metamorphic Belt, Pennsylvania to Newfoundland1 by E-AN ZEN U.S. Geological...Jonestown, south-eastern Pennsylvania; (2) on Rensselaer Plateau, eastern New York; (3) near Quebec City...yite-prehnite; actinolite-chlorite-hematite-pumpellyite-stilpnomelane; (2) actinolite-chlorite-epidotestilpnomelane;...assemblages by the Schreinemakers method for the phases actinolite-chlorite-epidote-hematite-prehnite-pumpellyite-stilpnomelane...E-AN ZEN—PREHNITE- AND OCCURRENCES Jonestown, Pennsylvania (Fig. 2) Prehnite-pumpellyite assemblages occur
Report (edition)
SERIFS MINERAL COLLECTING PENNSYLVANIA COMMOWl FAITH OF PENNSYLVANIA PY G345/4.3 G33 1959 Snrrtary...Lapham, Davis M. Mineral Collecting in Pennsylvania c.l PENNSYLVANIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN G 33 ... MINERAL COLLECTING IN PENNSYLVANIA by Davis M. Lapham and Alan R. Geyer JMluitrationi lu _JtU... Adams County 15 Allegheny County Armstrong County Berks County Blair County Carbon County Chester...Chester County Cumberland County Delaware County Fulton County Lancaster County Lebanon County Lehigh County
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Grove, Pennsylvania 17362 jlj276@aol.com LARRY EISENBERGER 25 Filbert Street Hanover, Pennsylvania 17331...Adams County, Pennsylvania W ithin the Gettysburg-Newark section of the Piedmont in Pennsylvania lie...Cornwall Iron mine in Lebanon County and the French Creek mine in Chester County, have yielded world-class...2.2 miles southeast of Gettysburg, Adams County, Pennsylvania, along U.S. 97. The locality was opened...Company in 1959. Valley Quarries of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, bought the property in 1985, and the company
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)
COLLECTING THE MINERALS OF SOUTHERN PENNSYLVANIA By PAUL BROUGHTON American University, Washington 16...in southern Pennsylvania was at the West Ridge Quarry at Blue Ridge Summit, Adams County. This quarry...from the town of Thomasville, York County, which is seven miles west of York on U. S. Route 30. One must...Steel Co. in Cornwall, ROCKS AND MINERALS Lebanan County. This mine, I must admit, is the biggest hole in...the Cornwall Mine, we started south to Lancaster County. Here at the town of Blue Ball, we visited the
Journal (issue)
p4,, Over two million residents Arizona's Pinal County welcomes everyone as a V.I.P.!!! ?ieU S ~ , ae...MINERALS MAY-JUNE 1978, Volume 53 Number 3 PENNSYLVANIA! EXECUTIVE EDITORS Rudy Bradbury John Hanahan...Hanahan Jr Richard S. Mitchell GUEST PENNSYLVANIA EDITOR Delbert L. Oswald FOUNDER Peter Zodac MANAGING EDITOR...Schmerling 94 Pennsylvania- A Geological Gem Beth Schooler 99 The Paleontology of Western Pennsylvania Richard...Chert in Western Pennsylvania Richard L. George 108 Rare Earth Minerals from Pennsylvania Ralph G. Wells
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
Field Trip Notes
COLLECTING SITES IN ST. LAWRENCE COUNTY MICHAEL A. WHITTON St. Lawrence County Rock and Mineral Club/ Geology...Canton, NY 13617 SCHUYLER ALVERSON St. Lawrence County Rock and Mineral Club P. O. Box 112 Rensselaer...Falls, NY 13680 Introduction The St. Lawrence County Rock and Mineral Club is a local organization who...trip of classic mineral localities in St. Lawrence County. If you would like more information about our club...CLASSIC MINERAL COLLECTING SITES IN ST. LAWRENCE COUNTY Cumulative Mileage Miles From Last Point Route
Catalog/List
PAGE l· MICROMOUN'fS ACTINOLITE: Gooderham, Ontario, Canada. crystals ACTINOLITE: St. Hilaire. Qu0bec...and tufts ACTINOLITE: Bull Run Quarry, Loudon County, Virginia, USA. sprays and tufts ACTINOLITE,variety...sprays and tufts ACTINOLITE,variety BYSSOLITE: Mount Bianco, Italy. sprays and tufts ACTINOLITE,variety BYSSOLITE:...BYSSOLITE: French Creek, Pennsylvania, USA. sprays and tufts ACTINOLITE SMARAGDITE:Micciano, Pisa, Italy...crystals ADAMITE,variety CUPROAN:Gold Hill, Utah, USA. crystals AEGERINE: Kola Peninsula, USSR. crystal
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)
.........................................96 Pennsylvania ......................................................................................123 New York ..................................................blackwall or a soapstone containing talc, chlorite, actinolite, serpentine, carbonate, and Fe-oxide minerals...Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Vermont, and New York. Districts in California...talc-chlorite schist. Most of the talc deposits in Pennsylvania are in altered serpentinite and are similar
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
GeologicalSuruey, Washi,ngton,D.C. Assttecr Salite, actinolite, dolomite, and fluorite at Iron Mountain, Missouri...density:3.350. Locally salite was changed to actinolite, which has been called amphibole or tremolitel...properties of numerous grains fall within the range of actinolite with "y:1.645' a:1.625; Z\c:15'. The iron garnet...replaces actinolite: and euhedral, zoned dodecahedrons contain relict fibers of actinolite. Calcite,...hematite deposit at Iron Mountain, St. Francois County, Missouri, exposed additional outcrops of ore and
Report (issue)
at Cornwall, Pennsylvania Davis M. Lapham and Carlyle Gray COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF...Diabase at Cornwall, Pennsylvania by Davis M. Lapham and Carlyle Gray PENNSYLVANIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...of Pennsylvania Quotations from this book may be published if credit is given to the Pennsylvania Geological...PUBLICATIONS, TENTH AND MARKET STREETS HARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA 17125 FRONTISPIECE View of Cornwall open...magnetite iron ore deposit at Cornwall, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. The investigation was begun to learn where
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
FIVE TYPICAL PENNSYLVANIA MINERALS By Dr. Richmond E. Myers Dean of N/1 in, Moravian College, Bethlehem...and described. you suggest as the most typical Pennsylvania minerals to have in a mineral col- ~~3. LANCASTERITE...decide what might for the county-not the city. constitute a typical Pennsylvania mineral. 4. EASTONITE a...silver-white to silShould it be one found only in Pennsylvania? This would limit our list con- ver - green...chlorite vermiculite. It is found in the for a Pennsylvania locality where it was Williams Quarry along
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MINE _ by BRYON BROOKMYER Box 19 Blue Ball, Pennsylvania 17506 Introduction where a diabase dike of...sedimentary rocks (limestones). This diabase Pennsylvania has a long history of prominence in caused an...its original characteris­ were discovered in Pennsylvania and production tics although being completely...molten diabase, helped in the colonization of Pennsylvania. it has been metamorphosed. These contact meta­...soon built near morphic rocks contain garnet, actinolite, diopside the mines and forges produced implements
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...page in Dr. Genth's Report. MINERALOGY OF PENNSYLVANIA. 5. GALEN1TK. (10) Galcnite occurs in many...small quantities have been found near Frystown, York Co. land Co., it sphalerite. 6. BOHNITR. (12)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Five samples of tremolite asbestos from Italy and USA were fully characterized by ICP-MS, SEM, EMPA, FT-IR...Stura N Rufeno N Castelluccio Superiore), and the USA sample from Maryland shows a value almost double...habit regulated worldwide as asbestos (tremolite, actinolite, amosite, antophyllite, crocidolite and chrysotile)...fibrous amphiboles belonging to the tremolite–actinolite series are more widely distributed as minor constituents...abundant of these rocks, chrysotile, tremolite and actinolite asbestos frequently occur (Ross and Nolan, 2003)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
20059, USA Branch, Code 691, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA 3Faculty...rock 399 © Meteoritical Society, 2003. Printed in USA. 400 G. Kletetschka, T. Kohout, and P. J. Wasilewski...granite, Quincy, Massachusetts 7.4 5 Aplite, Boulder County, Colorado 6.96 6 Quartz monzonite porphyry, Garfield...Rock, Colorado 7.3 12 Rhyolite porphyry, Chaffee County, Colorado 4.24 13 Hornblende syenite, Cuttingsville...09 15 Trachyte porphyry (bostonite), Essex County, New York 8.52 16 Trachyte porphyry, Cripple Creek,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
November/December: Gold on quartz, Eagle's Nest mine, Placer County, California. Wayne and Dona Leicht specimen, Harold...Rochester Mineralogical Symposium Acanthite, 25 Actinolite, Colorado, 302 Aegirine, Arkansas, 181 Aguilarite...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)
well defined. The includes South Mountain in Pennsylvania and cleavage normal is interpreted as paralleling...Greenish; Layering Ind Mineralogy: Quartz, Al Actinolite, Chlorite Interbeds: Quartz Sana GreenstoneColumnar...synchronous with this metamorphism since chlorite and actinolite are dimensionally oriented parallel to cleavage...of metamorphic minerals such as chlorite and actinolite and are very prominent tectonic structures. LI...rock group, dimensionally oriented chlorite and actinolite form Si. The degree of dimensional orientation
Journal (issue)
Hole Empire State Mine, Balmat, St. Lawrence County, New York Michael Walter, mwalter9@twcny.rr.com Kevin...alpineminerals@gmail.com There are six mines in northern New York that comprise the Balmat Zinc Mining District. The...Empire State mine in Balmat, St. Lawrence County, New York was previously known as St. Lawrence Zinc...Mahler, Empire State mine, Balmat, St. Lawrence County, New York. F.O.V. 0.6 meters (about 2 feet across)!...Empire State mine in Balmat, St. Lawrence County, New York. With specimens from this locality being uncommon
 
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