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Oligoclase from
Media, Upper Providence Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA


Classification
Species:Albite var: Oligoclase
Formula:(Na,Ca)[Al(Si,Al)Si2O8]
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Oligoclase data
Locality Data:Click here to view Media, Upper Providence Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:311270
Long-form Identifier:1:3:311270:0
GUID (UUID V4):43da43a6-aff9-4858-b8fe-8371b7ae72aa
Nearest other occurrences of Oligoclase
1.3km (0.8 miles) Deshong's Quarry, Leiperville, Ridley Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA
8.2km (5.1 miles) Lenni, Middletown Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA
15.8km (9.8 miles) Prince's Soapstone Quarry, Lafayette Station, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
16.2km (10.1 miles) Miquon (Miquon Station; Lafayette; Lafayette Station), Whitemarsh Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
20.6km (12.8 miles) McCrea's Quarry, Germantown, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
24.7km (15.3 miles) Hoffman's Quarry (Hoffmans Quarry), Frankford, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
25.2km (15.7 miles) Barber's Quarry, Frankford, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
25.3km (15.7 miles) Horrock's Quarry, Frankford, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
31.5km (19.6 miles) Corundum Hill, Unionville, Newlin Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
CLASSIC PEGMATITE OCCURRENCES IN Delaware County, Pennsylvania JOSEPH J . PETERS Department of Mineral...collected from a few granite pegmatites in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia (Figure 1). The quarries...Leiper's Upper and Lower Avondale quarries, Avondale; Leiper's quarry, Springfield Township; and Deshong's...Deshong's quarry, Ridley-Nether Providence townships (Figure 2). The fascinating history and mineralogy...erected several mills for the manufac­ ture of snuff. Upper Avondale quarry (Figure 5), one mile south of Swarthmore
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)
large part of Philadelphia is covered with the Delaware River gravels and clays, but most of the streams...bank. When the inclined plane was abandoned the Pennsylvania Railroad made a curved cut through these rocks...with that found on Ridley and Crum Creeks in Delaware County, contained segregated masses of coarse ort...halotrichite occur occasionally, but on the Pennsylvania Railroad at 59th street there was an old quarry...granite containing reddish orthoclase and greenish oligoclase. In a small quarry on Little Tacony Creek west
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...occur in Berks countv, at North Reading, in Oley township, and on Cushion Mt. 2. Native copper east of...page in Dr. Genth's Report. MINERALOGY OF PENNSYLVANIA. 5. GALEN1TK. (10) Galcnite occurs in many
Report (volume)
Del Norte County; Trinity River, Trinity County; Spanish Creek and Gopher Hill, Plumas County; Placerville...Dorado County; Cherokee Flats, Yankee Hill,and Oroville, Butte County; French Corral, Nevada County; Indian...Indian Gulch and Volcano, Amador County; and Alpine Creek, Tulare County. Other western localities are:...Diamond Basin, Ada County, Idaho; Curry County, Oreg.; and Nelson Hill, near Glacier County, Mont. The Great...Pierce County; Oregon, Dane County; Kohlsville, Washington County; Saukville, Ozaukee County; Eagle,
Report (issue)
Rocks Of the Piedmont Upland Maryland, Pennsylvania And Delaware By NANCY C. PEARRE and ALLEN V. HEYL,...districts ______ -._-_____-_____-___._. Montgomery County, Md_-_-_---_---_-_-----------_-__--_-_-_Soldiers...descriptions_______________________________________ Montgomery County, Md___-_______________________.__ Etchison mine_____-_-...Index map of the Piedmont Upland, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Page and Delaware__.____________________-____--_-_-_--709...concentrates from lode mines and placer deposits in Pennsylvania and Maryland before 1900-___-_-__.-______--
Journal (issue)
including periodic visits to Elk Creek, Meade County, to collect superb transparent golden barite found...CHAPTER: Bruce Kelley; bruce.kelley@gmail.com PENNSYLVANIA CHAPTER: Joe Marchesani; Jmarch06@comcast.net...Annabel Lee Mine, Ozark-Mahoning Co., Illinois, USA Small Cabinet, 8.3 x 7.6 x 4.4 cm Courtesy of Dr...Other Chapters: There were no reports from the Pennsylvania or New Jersey chapters. Mindat: Jolyn Ralph...2015. One trip would be in partnership with the Pennsylvania Chapter to visit a quarry in that state that
Journal (issue)
locality is in the Rabbit Basin of southeastern lake County, and the "sunstones" occur as phenocrysts (large......._ _ Figure 1. Index map of a part of Lake County, Oregon, showing routes to the sunstone loca lity...for 20 miles, then proceeding north on a paved county road to Plush. From Plush, gravel and dirt roads...late(spring to early fall. In this part of lake County, extreme seasonal temperature changes and a very...good quality occur in the Warner Valley in Lake County, Oregon (Figure 4). locally the sunstones are referred
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)
(289) 290 F. BASCOM— PIEDMONT DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA Page Igneous rocks.................. ........Geologic history o f the Piedmont district o f Pennsylvania.................................. 322 Résumé...R E L A T I O N S The Piedm ont district of Pennsylvania, forming with a width of 65 miles the southeast...New York, and in New England. The valley of the Delaware is the southeast boundary of this belt. From this...crest, from which the relatively flat slope to the Delaware can be surveyed. Downloaded from https://pubs
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...woods, etc. DAWSON COUNTY GOTHENBURG, in sand pitspetrified palm wood. DEUEL COUNTY CHAPPELL, all regional
Report (issue)
Oligoclase Na0:9¡0:7 Ca0:1¡0:3 Al1:1¡1:3 Si2:9¡2:7 O8 ° c 2001 Mineral Data Publishing, ver sion 1...Powder Pattern: Petrick quarry, Llano Co., Texas, USA (low). 3.18 (100), 4.03 (80), 3.20 (80), 3.76 (70)...Bavaria, Germany. On Tenerife, Canary Islands. In the USA, at Fine and Macomb, St. Lawrence Co., New York;...Corundum Hill, Chester Co., and at Media, Delaware Co., Pennsylvania; near Hawk, east of Bakersville, Mitchell
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
Report (volume)
value. Some minerals, such as the copper ores of Pennsylvania, are included in the list not because they occur...Gregory, Sheffield Scientific School, New Haven. Delaware.........Prof. B. L. Miller, Lehigh University...Oregon............Prof. A. J. Collier, Eugene. Pennsylvania.... .Mr. R. R. Hice, Beaver. Prof. Florence...Mawr. Rhode Island.... .Prof. Charles W. Brown, Providence. South Carolina.. .Dr. Earle Sloan, Charleston...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found
Report (volume)
............................ 16 34 42 81 97 Delaware............................................................................................ Pennsylvania...............................................value. Some minerals, such as the copper ores of Pennsylvania, are included in the list not because they occur...and Ehrenfeld, Frederick, Minerals of Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Top. and Geol. Survey Comm. Kept. No...Oberlin College, Oberlin. Prof. L. G. Westgate, Delaware. Oklahoma____Prof. D. W. Ohern, Norman. Mr. C
Journal (issue)
Vahle Jr. ISSN 0035-7529 1978 by All - Pennsylvania Issue Coming in the Summer A NEW LOOK ROCKS...ROCKS AND MINERALS focusing on the state of PENNSYLVANIA. Scheduled for publication in early June, this...lections and collectors found in PENNSYLVANIA. This all-PENNSYLVANIA issue will also contain complete...Convention July 7, 8, 9, 1978 in New Castle, Pennsylvania. Look for a detailed floor plan of the show... New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and North Carolina. Muscovite (twinned)
Report (volume)
............ ...... .... ......-..'....--.. Pennsylvania.......................................................... ........................... 141 Delaware............... ...--...-..---.....-.--............................................... 145 Pennsylvania............................................... II. Outcrop of peridotite at Buck Creek, Clay County, N. C........ III. A, Corundum in chlorite at Corundum...Carolina; B, Corundum in gneiss, Muskrat Fork, Clay County, N. C... J... IV. A, Bed of ruby-bearing gravel
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
Book
famous was the single beryl stone found in Oxford County in Maine that weighed 18 tons and was 18 feet in...Maryland, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota and Utah. Other...elements? Not to mention amazonite, labradorite and oligoclase, in which the root word is a combination of geographical...Arkansas, New Mexico, Texas, LItah and Vermont. Oligoclase presents itself in clear, vitreous crystals and...in Maine and Utah. We assume he is speaking of oligoclase. 6. AMAZONITE CRYSTAL WHAT GEMS DO YOU HUNT
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
viz., desmin and stilbite, covering felspar, oligoclase, quartz, lithia-mica and tourmalin, in the druses...the minerals ordinarily accomAt Unionville, in Pennsylvania, it frequently panying corundum. occurs with...imperceptible passage of corundum into tourmalin. The upper end of one crystal of tourmalin consists of corundum...exhibiting faces of the prism and pyramid. At the upper end of the crystal, nearly all the corundum is converted...corundum into fibrolite. At Mineral Hill, Delaware, Pennsylvania, there occur in a felspathic rock, variously
Book (volume)
although excavations in the underlying black, Upper Devonian (New Albany) shales occasionally produces...colored Vanport flint of the Flint Ridge and the Upper Mercer flint exposed in Hocking, Perry, and Coshocton...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
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 .... . ...... . ..
Book (volume)
although excavations in the underlying black, Upper Devonian (New Albany) shales occasionally produces...colored Vanport flint of the Flint Ridge and the Upper Mercer flint exposed in Hocking, Perry, and Coshocton...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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
method provides flexible discretization of geologic media by allowing the use of irregular grids, which is...two-, or three-dimensional porous and fractured media with physical and chemical heterogeneity. The model...Mineral Primary Quartz Kaolinite Calcite Illite Oligoclase K-feldspar Na-smectite Chlorite Hematite Secondary...Frio sandstones has an oligoclase composition. In the simulation, oligoclase was assumed to have a 1:4... which closely represents the composition of oligoclase actually found in many arkosic sandstones (Newton
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
geometrical forms-crystallography; (2) as optical media that affect light in characteristic ways-determinachemistry...microcline, (5) anorthoclase, (6) albite, (7) oligoclase, (8) andesine, (9) labradorite, (io) bytownite...this phenomenon is the "microcline" from San Diego County, California. The suggestion is strong that sufficient...heating. This proved to be the case. The San Diego County material was crushed, sieved, and sized, and then... Working with natural microcline from Mitchell County, North Carolina, and employing "thermal apparatus
 
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