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Talc from
Mineral Hill, Elwyn, Middletown Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA


Locality type:Hill
Classification
Species:Talc
Formula:Mg3Si4O10(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Talc data
Locality Data:Click here to view Mineral Hill, Elwyn, Middletown Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:305195
Long-form Identifier:1:3:305195:5
GUID (UUID V4):153f60ff-5bde-4d27-a393-930c50e55313
Localities for Talc in this Region
Crump's Quarry, Mineral Hill, Elwyn, Middletown Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA
References
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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 (issue)
support, protect and expand the collection of mineral specimens and to further the recognition of the...and aesthetic value of minerals and collecting mineral specimens. Inside This Issue President’s Message...Chapter Reports 21-22 Best Paper Thank You 22 Mineral Show in Poland 23 Minerals of Western Europe –...– Wrap up (Tucson) 24-25 Tucson Gem and Mineral Show Awards 25 Friends of Mineralogy Tucson Awards 26...and a Request 26-27 Message from the Editor 27 Mineral Hill Field Trip Report 28-30 Fluorite (Dodecahedron)
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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...met with graphite, coating the granite at " Marble Hill," opposite Kaston and one mile north of Phillipsburg
Report (issue)
and Other Mineral Deposits in Serpentine Rocks Of the Piedmont Upland Maryland, Pennsylvania And Delaware...deposits of chromite, titaniferous iron ore, rutile, talc, asbestos, magnesite, sodium-rich feldspar, corundum...districts ______ -._-_____-_____-___._. Montgomery County, Md_-_-_---_---_-_-----------_-__--_-_-_Soldiers...Philadelphia district....._._.-_.-.--. ___________ Mineral deposits___-___--_-_-___-.-------_---_---_-----_-_-_----Geologic...State Line district__-------___..____.___._... Cedar Hill (Geiger) quarries._--_.-_-----__.____ West Chester
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mineral Localities of Philadelphia and Vicinity Author(s): Theodore D. Rand, William W. Jefferis and...org/terms 174 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [1892. MINERAL LOCALITIES OF PHILADELPHIA AND VICINITY. BY THEODORE...Philadelphia has long been famned for the number of its mineral localities and the remarkable abundance and variety...large part of Philadelphia is covered with the Delaware River gravels and clays, but most of the streams...about two miles up stream to Fairmount, whose bold hill is composed of a gneiss which apparently rises
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:...Easton; 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
Report (volume)
the Geological Survey's annual report entitled " Mineral Resources of the United States" (the volumes for...of a century. During that period, however, the mineral resources of the United States have been enormously...showing the composition and character of each mineral and the location of. its principal deposits. Many...These are only examples of notable changes in the mineral production of the United States and of correlated...changes in the appraised value of some of the mineral deposits. In this list, as in the earlier lists
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ALBERT STATES WILLIAMS, Jr. ABSTRACT FROM "MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE UNITED STATES CALENDAR YEAR 1687"—DAVID...UNITED A PARTIAL LIST OF ORES, MINERALS. AND MINERAL SUBSTANCES OF INDUS TRIAL IMPORTANCE, ARRANGED...are based upon those published in the volume of Mineral Resources for 1882, pages 6G4-775, and very closely...principal occurrences of the ores, minerals, and mineral substances of industrial importance of the several...original lists were compiled, the rapid growth of the mineral industries of the country, changes in the channels
Report (volume)
............................ 16 34 42 81 97 Delaware............................................................................................ Pennsylvania...............................................the Geological Survey's annual report entitled "Mineral Eesources of the United States" for 1882 and 1887...more until 1914. During that period, however, the mineral resources of the United States were enormously...resources of the country. Many changes in the mineral industry other than increase in production have
Journal (issue)
.2200 232.5252 .‘mem 7.5mm aTHEssLa MINERAL COLLECTOR. [Entered as Second-Class Matter at the New York...variety of forms, showing as completely as in the mineral crystals a system which admits of classification...regions of Europe and America, and the high THE MINERAL COLLECTOR. 33 Alps, the Pyrenees, and the Carpathians...glide is put together.” 34 THE MINERAL COLLECTOR. For the MINERAL COLLECTOR. RECIPE FOR A PUDDING....conglomer ate; a rock which often finds room in a mineral cabinet, but more often in a geological collection
Report (issue)
term "serpentine"- ___--___-____-______--_-_____ Mineral names used in this study.______________ _____ Geological...___________ Clinochrysotile (Globe-type), Gila County, Ariz___________________________________________...Stillwater County, Mont_________________________ Clinochrysotile and lizardite (deweylite) Forest Hill, Harford...Harford County, Md____________________ Clinochrysotile and lizardite, Morris County, N.J_______________...Clinochrysotile and lizardite, variant form, Morris County, N.J.____________________________ Lizardite plus
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...Tourmaline 48 49 50 Uranium-bearing minerals Mineral resources reports NON-METALLIC MINERALS By R
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pegmatites at QUARTZ, silica, Si02, is an essential mineral in the granite pegmatites. Massive, white, or smoky...crystal was recovered about 1905 from the Barringer Hill, Texas locality, which measured 43x28x15 inches...Rose quartz crystals have also been found at Red Hill, Maine; North Groton, New Hampshire, and from Pala...Deer Hill, Maine; near Statesville, North Carolina; at Amelia, Virginia, near Clayton, Rabun county, Georgia;...Providence, and other places in Delaware and Chester counties, Pennsylvania, were also probably for the most
Book (volume)
chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...townagate, chalcedony, jasper, petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville...chalcedony, jasper, fossils. CHERRY COUNTY VALENTINE, in the Sandhills county along the Niobrara R. and Minnechaduza...gem qualityagatized and opalized wood. DAWES COUNTY CHADRON, in N part of Co. and as far W as Crawford...cuts, cut banks, breaks, draws and washes, gullies, hill slopes, etc.chalcedony roses, Celestite crystals
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Introduction CHROMIUM DEPOSITS of Maryland and Eastern Pennsylvania WINSLOW H. H A R T F O R D Chemistry Department...American West, however, the true importance of these mineral deposits was economic: lead from Connecticut, zinc...zinc from New Jersey, iron from Pennsylvania, gold from North Carolina, and chromium from Maryland and...older collections, mostly in Europe, to cheer the mineral collectors o f the present. About 1 8 0 1 , continued...the most common chromite ore was an ugly black mineral containing about 55% C r 0 . This ore is still
Report (issue)
Chlorites 52 52 IV. Vermiculites V. Serpentine and Talc 53 56 Phosphates 57 CHAPTER IV. GEOLOGY OF...in Georgia, of other deposits of this valuable mineral. Like the report on the " Marbles preliminary...yards above the works at Track Rock Mine, Union county, Ga., there are several slabs, one of which is...HISTORY OF CORUNDUM. KIG I. Track Eock, Union County, Georgia. The dum in first authentic date...it was then discovered ship of Newlin, Chester county, Pa. in the townFollowing the discovery of however
Book (volume)
gas and coal from thick beds contributes to the mineral economy. But as far as the collector is concerned...ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE, area...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay
Book (volume)
gas and coal from thick beds contributes to the mineral economy. But as far as the collector is concerned...ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE, area...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay
Report (volume)
may be determined by scratching it with another mineral or with a knife blade. This may mutilate tllQ StOne...STATES 205 MOH'S SCALE OP HARDNESS 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Talc Gypsum Calcite Fluorite Apatite . 6. 7. 8. 9....Topaz Corundum Diamond The numbers preceding each mineral indicate only increasing degrees of hardness, not...placed next to diamond only because it is the mineral nearest the diamond in hardness. Because much dust...contact with one another. The specific gravity of a mineral is the ratio between its weight and the weight
Book
3 -N APPALACHIAN MINERAL & GEM TRAILS 3 3 By June Culp Zeitner 'NS 3 v' r,. -S.’ Vv '• li ...unequalled i n hospitality. Many friends, gem and mineral clubs, and gem and m i n e n d dealers and suppliers...u m s i n t h e 1 j t r Numerous g e m a n d mineral shows held throughout the Appalachian states each...Jersey: L a k e Hopatcong, Greenwood L a k e Pennsylvania: S c h u y l k i l l R i v e r Vi r g i n i...dollars at the noted locality of Cowee Valley, Macon County, North Carolina. An enthusiastic family found and
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 (volume)
GEOLOGIST J. A. Holmes Chapel Hill. LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL Chapel Hill, N. C., April 1, 1905. To His... Clay County. Macon County. Jackson County. Transylvania County. Swain County. Haywood County. Buncombe...Buncombe County . Madison County. Yancey County. Mitchell County . Watauga County . Wilkes County. Ashe County...County . Alleghany County . Physiography and ecology of the peridotites. 28 28 29 32 34 35 36 38 42 46...mag¬ nesian rocks. Shooting Creek region, Clay County, North Carolina. Elf dunite. Elf amphibole-peridotite
Book (edition)
minerals, to the excellent annual report on the "Mineral Resources of the United States," by Mr. Albert... Allophane Zeolite Section Heulandite 8. 325 Talc, Pyrophyllite, Sepiolite Glauconite 329 Serpentine...Hydrocarbons Oxygenated Hydrocarbons Asphaltum, Mineral Coals 842 348 349 SUPPLEMENT TO DESCRIPTIONS...like limestone of the mineral-made globe. and quartzite, consist of a single mineral in more or less pure...important for the metal they contain. Water is a mineral, but generally in an impure state from the presence
Report (Issue volume)
recreation. The Department assesses our energy and mineral resources and works to assure that their development...chapters on virtually all metallic and industrial mineral commodities important to the U.S. economy. A chapter...mining and quarrying in the metals and industrial mineral industries are included. Volume II, Area Reports:...Reports: International, contains the latest available mineral data on more than 150 foreign countries and discusses...six reports: Mineral Industries of the Middle East, Mineral Industries of Africa, Mineral Industries of
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V ft > Z r > 0 c o m * 1 Woe AMERICAN MINERAL GUIDE & S' is 531 o K C O SQ Cc .-1 r u...American Mineral (5uidc to Notable Collecting Areas and ©ircctoru Cn of American Mineral & Gem Collectors...BY Western Mineral Exchange Seattle, Washington 1941 t Copyright 1941 WESTERN MINERAL EXCHANGE PKISTKD...our United States of particular interest to the mineral collector. (2) To itemize those minerals occuring...included in the amateur collections of our American mineral hobbyists and collectors; (3) To list and offer
 
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