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Sillimanite from
Bullock's Quarry, Brandywine Summit, Chadds Ford Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Sillimanite
Formula:Al2(SiO4)O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sillimanite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Bullock's Quarry, Brandywine Summit, Chadds Ford Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:360475
Long-form Identifier:1:3:360475:5
GUID (UUID V4):5957a04b-2d37-4872-8438-a7c95b1cb930
Nearest other occurrences of Sillimanite
10.6km (6.6 miles) Dickson's Quarry (Dixon's Quarry), Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware, USA
17.4km (10.8 miles) Nevin's Quarry, Landenberg, London Britain Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
34.3km (21.3 miles) Ridge Avenue and School Lane Quarries, East Falls, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
34.9km (21.7 miles) Falls of Schuylkill, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
36.2km (22.5 miles) Wissahickon Valley, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
43.1km (26.8 miles) Horrock's Quarry, Frankford, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
70.3km (43.7 miles) Safe Harbor Quarry, Safe Harbor, Conestoga Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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:...Philadelphia: Fairmount Park, Frankford, and Rit- enhouse quarry. SCOLECITE CaAl 2 Si3 Oi .3H 2 O MONOCLINIC
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
large part of Philadelphia is covered with the Delaware River gravels and clays, but most of the streams...river this rock was largely quarried. The first quarry opened was irnmediately on the river bank. When...When the inclined plane was abandoned the Pennsylvania Railroad made a curved cut through these rocks extending...from about 30th Street to 34th Street, and a large quarry, or a series of quarries afterwards merged into...with that found on Ridley and Crum Creeks in Delaware County, contained segregated masses of coarse ort
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
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...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;
Book (edition)
springs in Columbia county, New York, and a region in the town of Hoosic, Rensselaer county, afford large quantities...gas. There is another locality at Canoga, Seneca county, where the water is in violent ebullition from...Blue Ridge at Warm and Hot Springs in Buncombe county, N. C. and on the Washita in Arkansas. At Bath...been met with, in Rutherford county, North Carolina, (fig. 4,) and Hall county, Georgia. The original rock...sometimes vertigenerally the case throughout central Pennsylvania ; and in some cases the beds are raised in immense
Book (edition)
springs in Columbia county, New York, and a region in the town of Hoosic, Rensselaer county, afford large quantities...gas. There is another locality at Canoga, Seneca county, where the water is in violent ebullition from...at Warm and Hot Springs in Buncombe At Bath, in county, N. C. and on the Washita in Arkansas. England...been met with, in Rutherford county, North Carolina, (fig. 4,) and Hall county, Georgia. The original rock...sometimes vertigenerally the case throughout central Pennsylvania and in some cases the beds are raised in immense
Book (edition)
springs in Columbia county, New York, and a region in the town of Hoosic, Rensselaer county, afford There is...at large quantities of this gas. Canoga, Seneca county, where the water is in violent ebulthe earth, ...at Warm and Hot Springs in Buncombe At Bath, in county, N. C. and on the Washita in Arkansas. lition ...been met with, in Rutherford county, North Carolina, (fig. 4,) and Hall county, Georgia. The original rock...as is generally the case throughout central Pennsylvania ; and in some cases the beds are raised in immense
Book (edition)
magnetite occurring in mica at Pennsbury, in Pennsylvania. Arborescent delineations over surfaces of rock...near Clear Lake, in California; Inferno, Humboldt County, and Rabbit Hole Mines, Nevada; near Evanston,...Brunswick, 20 miles west of Fredericton: in Eawdon township, Hants Co., N. Scotia. Affords the most of the...Y.; Greenville, N. C.; near Attleboro, in Bucks County, Pa.; Wake, N. C. ; on Tyger River, and at Spartanburg...the eastward of Halifax; GOLD. 125 in Beauce County, Canada; also, north of Lake Superior; and in the
Book (edition)
springs in Columbia county, New York, and a region in the to,vn of Hoosic, Rensselaer county, afford large...gas. There is another locality at Canoga, Seneca county, where the ,vater is in violent ebullition from...Blue Ridge at Warm and Hot Springs; in Buncombe county, N. C.; and on the Washita in Arkansas. At Bath...been met with, in Rutherford county, North Carolina, (fig. 4,) and Hall county, Georgia. The original rock...as is generally the case throughout central Pennsylvania ; and in some cases the beds are raised in immense
Book (edition)
pyramid with four-sided summits (f. 351) or if these summit planes are obliterated by a farther extension,...and other parts of North Wales in Scotland in the county of Wicklow, Ireland ; in Sweden, at Edelfors. In...Idaho, and Montana. Also along ranges between the summit and the Sierra Nevada, in the Also in the Sierra...Traces occur also in Franconia township, Montgomery Co. Pennsylvania. In Canada, gold occurs to the south...in the Maris vein, in Los Angeles Co. ; in the township of Ascot, Canada. ; ; ; ; ; ; PLATINUM.
Book (edition)
pyramid with four-sided summits or (f. 351) if these summit planes are obliterated by a farther extension,...and other parts of North Wales in Scotland in the county of Wicklow, Ireland ; in Sweden, at Edelfors. In...Idaho, and Montana. Also along ranges between the summit and the Sierra Nevada, in the Humboldt region and...also in Franconia township, MontDedham, Mass "Rridgewater, Vermont gomery Co. Pennsylvania. In Canada, gold...in the Maris vein, in Los Angeles Co. ; in the township of Ascot, Canada. ; ; ; ; ; ; , ; PLATINUM
Book (edition)
with four-sided summits (1". 351) ; or if these summit planes are obliterated by a farther extension,...and other parts of North Wales in Scotland in the county of Wicklow, Ireland ; in Sweden, at Edelfors. In...Idaho, and Montana. Also along ranges between the summit and the Sierra Nevada, in the Sierra Nevada, mostly...MontBridgewater, Vermont Dedham, Mass ^omcv/ Co. Pennsylvania. In Canada, gold occurs to the south of the...Coin the Maris vein, in Los Angeles Co. in the township of Ascot, Canada. ; ; ; — — ; ; ; ; ;
Book
followed in the text by the old county name, old regional or present county names, as appropriate, depending...Mineral Collection localities use predominantly old county names to an extent. SCOTLAND.THECOUNTRY, PHYSIOGRAPHY...chlorite, biotite, garnet, staurolite, kyanite and sillimanite. Temperature-pressure parameters range from 3007oo•c...Minerals and A Mineralogical Description of tlie County of Dumfries Uameson, 1805a, and 1805b), the latter...Robert Jameson had undertaken fieldwork in that county, the results of which culminated in the appearance
Book (edition)
springs in Columbia county, Ne·w York, and a region in the town of Hoosic, Rensselaer county, atroi·cl larg...Th,e ro is anotber locallty at Canoga,, Seneca county, where the ,vate1· is in violent ebullition fi·om...met with, in Rutherford county, .r ot1.h Carolina, (fig. 4,,) and Hall county, Georgia. . The orig1nal...as is generally the ease throughout oent1al Pennsylvania ; and 1n some cases the beds are raised in immen-se...these a.l"e.as commeu,ces 011 the no1·th, u1 Pennsylvania, and so1:1theast,e rn Ohio, a11d s\veeping south
Report (volume)
geology and mining industry of Leadville, Lake County, Colorado, by S. F. Emmons, pp. 201-290, pis. xliv-xlv...and hydrography Continued. The mines of Ouster County, Colorado, by Samuel Franklin Emmons, pp. 405-472...Edward W. Parker, pp. 285-542, pis. vi-viii. Pennsylvania anthracite, by John H. Jones, pp. 482-506. Pt...Phosphate rock, pp. 951-957. A phosphate prospect in Pennsylvania, by M. C. Ihlseng, pp. 955-957. Sulphur and...The age of the Franklin white limestone of Sussex County, New Jersey, by John Eliot Wolff and Alfred Hulse
Book (chapter)
kinoshitalite, AM 81, 1516 (1996). Bamlit = sillimanite, Dana 6th, 498 (1892). bamlita = allanite-(Ce)...= halite, de Fourestier 34 (1999). banlite = sillimanite, Aballain et al. 32 (1968). Banstnaesit = bastnäsite... bournonite (Lucas) = fine-grained acicular sillimanite, Dana 6th, 498 (1892). Bournonit-Nickelglanz...Webster & Anderson 950 (1983). brilliant spar = sillimanite or staurolite, Bukanov 188, 217 (2006). Brillite...1007 (1892). Bucholzit = fine-grained acicular sillimanite, Dana 6th, 498 (1892). Büchsenstein (?) = pyrite
Book
Bamlite. Monrolite. INTRODUCTIOK. XXXIV tria, Sillimanite. Glucina, Manganese, and Protoxide of Iron...— patrick; Salisbury Craig, Calton Hill, Ratho quarry, Edinburghshire ; Elie, Fifeshire ; Campsie Hills...English. Cornwall; at Looe Localities. — Mills Hill quarry, near Liskeard; and at Tintagel Cliffs. Devonshire;...Linlithgow; Kilkenny, in Ireland; largely in Pennsylvania, U.S., &c. Brit. Mus., Case 4. M. P. G. Upper...the summit of the ellipse shall be situated exactly over the point corresponding with the summit of the
Report (issue)
the eastern San Gabriel Mountains, ~an Bernardino County, by Chris H. Cnuner and John M. Harrington- -...seismicity of the eastern Red Mountain fault, Ventura County, by RobertS. Yeats, W.H.K. Lee, and Robert F. Yerkes-...California Geologic map of the Ventura area, Ventura County, California Geologic map of the Cucamonga fault...Monica-Raymond Hill fault zone study, Los Angeles County, California: California Division of Mines and Geology...THE EASTERN SAN GABRIEL MOUNTAINS, SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY By CHRIS H. CRAMER 1 and ABSTRACT During the
Journal (volume)
the country, from which the state, value, as county or private surveyor may extend triangulation of...Barnett, V. H. The Moorcroft oilfields, ("rook County, Wyoming. Barnett, V. H. Possibilities of oil in...near The Cambrian, Ordovician, and Reading, Pennsylvania, Triassic formations of the region, and their...material, which was said to be above the quarry rock, the quarry, I assume, being then as now in the Nugget...Peak in sec. 23, T. 3 S., R. 37 E., the highest summit in the northeastern part of the reservation, which
Book (edition)
When a fixed alkali is or ig- nited with bullock's blood, or other animal substances, and lixiviated...at Killiney, near Dublin, and at Douce Mountain, county Wicklow. ANDREOLITE. ANHYDRITE. There are HARMOTOME...Rannoch and Cairngorum, Aber; above Dundrum, in the county of Dublin, and near Cronebane, counIt differs from...in alcohol, of alkalis, and alkaline sul- its summit. The forms the cylinder of a sucking pump, and...quicklime, and a little pipeAfter skimming, clay and bullock's blood. and subsidence, a tolerably pure ley is
Book (edition)
it may probably be objected, that the air on the summit of Mont Blanc, and that brought down from by M...PRUSSIAN). When a fixed or alkali is ignited with bullock's blood, or other animal suband lixiviated, it is...at Killiney, near Dublin, and at Douce Mountain, county Wicklow. ANDREOLITE. ANHYDRITE. There are 1....prisms, terminated by a 6 sided pyramid, whose summit is replaced. It is harder than the emeIts rald...Dundrum, in the shire, Scotland; county of Dublin, and near Cronebane, county of Wicklow, in Ireland. It differs
 
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