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Fluorite from
Barber's Quarry, Frankford, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Fluorite
Formula:CaF2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Fluorite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Barber's Quarry, Frankford, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:360632
Long-form Identifier:1:3:360632:2
GUID (UUID V4):96ac1507-9fc6-4f47-b7a1-639afe657c4a
Nearest other occurrences of Fluorite
0.0km (0.0 miles) Peter's Quarry, Frankford, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
0.3km (0.2 miles) William's Quarry, Frankford, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
7.2km (4.5 miles) Holmesburg Granite Company Quarry, Holmesburg, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
8.8km (5.4 miles) Falls of Schuylkill, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
15.7km (9.8 miles) Hitner's Marble Quarry (Hitner's Quarry), Whitemarsh Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
32.5km (20.2 miles) Ecton Mine, Perkiomen Mines, Audubon, Lower Providence Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
37.6km (23.4 miles) Wheatley Mines, Schuylkill Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
37.9km (23.5 miles) Brookdale Mine, Schuylkill Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
42.8km (26.6 miles) Old Perkiomen Mine, Lower Frederick Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
44.4km (27.6 miles) Brookville syenite deposit, Brookville, Delaware Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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...Localities. a few exceptions, have omitted the Philadelphia zone localities, as an excellent directory of... 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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
most part uncommon or rare in pegmatite. Only fluorite, calcite and siderite are at all common while...mineral in a few pegmatites at Atolia, San Bernardino County, California and also in pegmatites north of the...Reagan mining district, Nevada. FLUORIDES (10) FLUORITE, calcium fluoride is the most common fluoride...though it is occasionally found in some quantity. Fluorite appears to occur most frequently and in the largest...earth type of pegmatite as at Barringer Hill, Llano County, Texas where large masses weighing up to four hundred
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Randite, originally described from Phiiadelphia, Pennsylvania, by Koenig in 1878 as a carbonate of calcium...Ruggles pegmatite near Grafton Center, Grafton County, New Hampshire, as crusts of microscopicspicular...This specimencompriseda massof purplish black fluorite together with rusty-appearing quartz crystals...gneissat Frankford near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The original material came from Barber's quarry. Similar...specimen from the Academy of Natural Sciencesof Philadelphia labelled as a gift from Mr. Rand. The writer
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...(Chester), and Ward's quarry; Montgomery County: Sumneytown, and Perkiomenville ; Philadelphia: Fairmount Park...Park, Frankford, and Rit- enhouse quarry. SCOLECITE CaAl 2 Si3 Oi .3H 2 O MONOCLINIC Transparent to
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
A SIMPLE MICRO-INJECTION APPARATUS MADE As in Barber's and Taylor's instruments, OF STEEL mercury is...niicroscopic aperture a t its tip. The pipette is held in Barber's pipette holder which is clamped to the stage of...of the living cell, " Jour. Inf. Dis.,VIII., to Barber's method3 and is sealed with wax into the hollow...('lying in the region shut out by the absorption of fluorite." This preliminary investigation was undertaken...wave-lengths shorter than those transmitted by fluorite. The apparatus used consisted of a vacuum grating
Journal (issue)
Laura Aaron collection, page 11. (rniddle colurnn) Fluorite-Bruce and Marcia Friedman collection, page 105;...collection, page 155; Fluorite-Samuel Cooper collection, page 67. (rniddle colurnn) Fluorite, 5.3 cm, from Naica...rare specimens for sale. Not to be outdone, the Philadelphia mineral dealer Albert E. Foote also made several...many fine specimens of gadolinite, smoky quartz, fluorite, feldspar in crystals to five feet across, and...in the Gien Rose Limestone formation of Lampasas County. Lampasas celestine first became well known among
Book (edition)
named according to chemical composition (e.g. fluorite). to crystallographic tenns (e .g. prismatine)...to reflect the light gypsum. 3 - calcite, 4 - fluorite, 5 - apatite, 6 - ortho- beam on the polished...abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture), dept...always included in text, except in the cases of the USA, UK, and the provinces Ontario and Quebec in Canada...example, the genesis of Pb-Zn ore deposits or fluorite deposits of the central United States or of the
Journal (issue)
Anhaeusser Minerals of the Linwood mine, Scott County, Iowa ............. 231 by P. L. Garvin & D. M...COVER: FLUORITE on quartz, 14 x 18 cm, from Mont Blanc, Chamonix, France. The largest fluorite crystals...curator of the twentieth century. He was born in Philadelphia on September 24, 1920. At the age of 14 he developed...prominent Philadelphia collector. He received his B.S. in chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania in 1942...entered graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania, receiving his M.S. in chemistry in 1948. For
Report (issue)
three-quarters is usually exported, chiefly to the USA: in 1971 production amounted to 9,749 tonnes. World...significant scale. Th.is was due to the demand in the USA and Japan for strontiun1 carbonate for use in colour...Co1n1non and Yate, for example on Cowship Farn1, Barber's Court Farn1, Leechpool Farm and in the Goose Green--Yatc...occurrences at higher stratigraphic levels in the county, for example, in the Westbury Beds south and west...between Wickwar and Tortworth. Gloucestershire County Council recognised the national and international
Journal (issue)
near the County Hall (open 0930 to 1645 hours). The County Library Local Collection at County Hall, Matlock...Dale Limestones were also penetrated in the Eldon Quarry borehole where some 67 m of partly dolomitized...Limestone have been distinguished as the Station Quarry beds by Cope ( 1 933a, 1 939; Stevenson and Gaunt...lagoonal to marginal facies is present in Pindale Quarry and in Bradwell Dale (Gutteridge, 1 989, 1 995)...Occasional isolated mud-mounds occur in the Cement Works quarry (Eden et al. 1 964 ). There are outliers on hill-tops
Book (volume)
TOP GROUP. Green fluorite (121.39 et), Westmoreland, New Hampshire; blue fluorite (132.12 et), Illinois;...Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from Sai, Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...Cantlin, Ellis, ID; Jeannette B. Carillo, Gen1 Center USA, El Paso, TX; Gary Christopher, The Prospectors Cache...Resources, Vancouver, BC; Barbara L. Muntyan, Ouray County Historical Society, Ouray, CO; Merrill 0. Murphy... 15 Figure 6. Dallas Gem Mine in San Benito County, CA...........................................
Journal (issue)
Contents for September-O ctobe r, 1949 JPS FROM THE QUARRY .................................................CO., PENN. By A. J. Boucot ........492 GILLETTE QUARRY, HADDAM NECK, CONN. By Helen Stobbe ...... 496...AND MIN ERALS 1·- - - , I CHIPS ~-,ROM ~J~HE QUARRY -----------------------------Copy Lost in Mails...certain areas in the sand dune regions of Van Buren County, Michigan, bordering the southeast shores of Lake...limonite sand allrarted the the residue from Van Buren County " bog. lightning away from the surrounding iron"
Book (edition)
Mexico (#2, column 1) and TENNANTITE, Dresser quarry, Walton, Nova Scotia, Canada (13, column 2). ...reads as follows: 1 Talc 2 Gypsum 3 Calcjte 4 Fluorite 5 Apatite 6 Orthoclase 7 8 9 10 Quartz Topaz...scale is: (1) talc, (2) gypsum, (3) calcite, (4) fluorite, (5) apatite, (6) orthoclase, (7) quartz, (8)...the Fuernrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely disseminated in uraniferous...in the Cave Hills and Slim Buttes areas, Harding County, South Dakota. BEST REF. IN ENGLISH: Thompson,
Book (edition)
Willard Lincoln. Encyclopedia of minerals ~~cbe County Public Library Saguache, Colorado OEMCO For Refere...reads as follows: I Talc 2 Gypsum 3 Calcite 4 Fluorite 5 Apatite 6 7 8 9 10 Orthoclase Quartz Topaz...scale is: (1) talc, (2) gypsum, (3) calcite, (4) fluorite, (5) apatite, (6) orthoclase, (7) quartz, (8)...the Fuemrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely disseminated in uraniferous...in the Cave Hills and Slim Buttes areas, Harding County, South Dakota. SELECTED REFERENCES: Thompson, M
Book (edition)
Mohs’ Scale 1. Talc 2. Gypsum 3. Calcite 4. Fluorite 5. Apatite 6. Feldspar 7. Quartz 8. Topaz 9....forms a very small industry at Brandon in Suffolk County. Grindstones and Pulpstones. The production of... By otie metluxl the stone is removed from the quarry in rectangular blocks and then split nearly to...laid out on a level surface of the stone in the quarry. Holes as ...stone is then loosened by wedging, lifted from the quarry, and finished by turning. A more recent technique
Book (edition)
(Brazil). Malcolm Back (Canada), Henry L. Barwood (USA). Dmitriy Belakovskiy (Russia). Fabio Bellatreccia...(Italy), T.S. Ercit (Canada). Alexander Falster (USA). Jeffrey de Fourestier (Canada). Robert Gault (Canada)...Henderson. Jr. (USA). D.D. Hogarth (Canada). J.L. Jam bor (Canada), Anthony R. Kampf (USA). Pave! M. Kartashov...Karnp-Moller (Denmark). Akira Kato (Japan). Lance E. Keams (USA). Elisabeth Kirchner (Austria), Uwe Kolitsch (Austria)...Republic). Per Nystcn (Sweden), David O'Hanlcy (USA). Filippo Olmi (deccased) (ltaly). Werner H. Paar
Report (issue)
In Pocket 43. Location Map: Fraser Feldspar Quarry (Glamorgan Township). .....Appendix VII 44. Location... feldspar quarry the closing of last recorded feldspar production from an Ontario quarry occurred The...Ontario is the Bedford Township of Frontenac County. a length Richardson dike in It was exploited...(pyroxene), garnet, anatase, thorite, thorianite), fluorite, topaz, monazite, uraninite, stannite, ilmenite...characterized syenitic composition pyroxene. Calcite, fluorite and sphene are usually present as minor Other
Journal (issue)
countries. Mount Mica is located in Paris, Oxford County and is now owned by the Plumbago Mining Company...gem beryl of green and blue, rutile, pollucite, fluorite, columbite, tantalite, apatite, amblygonite, manganese...Members of the Gem City Rock Club traveled to Ashley Quarry. Iridescent calcite; white and pink dolomite, some...Please remember to follow safety rules set by the quarry management. - Gem City Rock News NEW YORK Geminews...Mineral Club, reports that its members visited Barber's Farm in Johnstown. Doubly terminated quartz crystals
Report (issue)
Ratsep Aavo riidley William J. C. N 1. USA 0 USA 0 POLAND 0 Session 1. Mine Drainage Formation...tailings deposit along the Arkansas River, Colorado, USA USA A comparison of the geochemistry of water draining...geoenvironmental component of mineral deposit models USA Natural acid drainage associated with shale-hosted...deposits in the Brooks Range, northern Alaska, USA USA Variations in chemical and bacterial species of...drainage basin, Ohio the Esco #40 underground mine USA Behavior of heavy metals and REE in acid mine drainageimplications
Book
New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE Published in the USA by Chapman and Hall 29 West 35th Street, New York...chromite in peridot • olivine in diamond • pyrite in fluorite, sapphire and emerald • pyrrhotite in corundum...hydrocarbons such as oil (e.g. in some fluorite from Illinois, USA). Among the large number of gases are...feathers. Included minerals are apatite, mica, fluorite, goethite, calcite and hornblendes. Tourmaline...known as interpenetrant twins. Minerals such as fluorite show cubes protruding from other cubes but interpenetrant
Book (edition)
Feldspar 10. Diamond 3. Calcite 7. Quartz 4. Fluorite 8. Topaz In reality, diamond is very much harder...Dakota (Black Hills); Colorado; New Mexico; Pennsylvania; Maine; Massachusetts. East Africa. Brazil:...potential of yielding gemmy crystals. Chester Co., Pennsylvania; Tintic, Utah; Arizona; New Mexico; Coeur d’Alene...Oregon; Washington; Colorado; Michigan; Virginia; Pennsylvania. Guanajuato, Mexico; Brazil; Canada; Sweden;...Luning, Nevada: Madera Luning, Nevada: masses. Pennsylvania; New Jersey. Cornwall, England; Germany; Norway;
Book
Man-Abell’s Quarry, Oldbury Diorite, Man-Abell’s Quarry, Oldbury Fine grained bedded tuff, Judkins’ Quarry, Nuneaton...Judkins’ Quarry, Nuneaton Probable Lava, near Hartshill Grange Welded Tuff, Man-Abell’s Quarry, Hartshill...Blue Hole Basalt, Judkins’ Quarry, Nuneaton Granophyric Diorite, Boon’s Quarry, Hartshill III Microphotograph...e, Croft Quarry . 56 IV Microtonalite penetrating hornfelsed shale. Coal Pit Lane Quarry, Enderby...inhers of igneous rocks in Leicestershire makes this county one of the most important road-stone producing
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
dolomite in the Martinsburg Formation, eastern Pennsylvania. Proc. Pa. Acad. Sci., 41:133--140. 2050 Allen...stratigraphy of the southwest Marias Pass area, Flathead County, Montana. Bull. Geol. Soc. Am., 74:141--164. 2211..."Cryptozoon ledge" in the town of Greenfield, Saratoga County, New York. Bull. N.Y. State Mus. (1913), 173:39...Depositional environment of Rome Trough rocks, Mingo County Well, West Virginia. Bull. Am. Assoc. Pet. Geol... M.A., 1937. Cambrian calcareous algae from Pennsylvania. Am. Midl. Nat., 18(3):435--441. 2334 Fenton
Book (edition)
2. Gypsum 6. Feldspar 3. Calcite 7. Quartz 4. Fluorite 8. Topaz In reality, diamond is very much harder...Colorado; New Cleavage: Good Brittle. Mexico; Pennsylvania; Maine; Massachusetts. East Africa. Brazil:...yellowish fluorescence in SW and LW. Chester Co., Pennsylvania; Tintic, Ucah; Arizona; Ne¼' Mexico; Coeur d'Alene...gemstones. Name: After the occurrence in San Benito County, California. BERYL Formula: Be3AhSi6O1s Crystallography:...Occurrence: O ccurs in brines in storage welJ at Barber's Hill salt dome, Charn bers Co. , Texas. gems
Book
Future Imperial County 7 Riverside County 24 San Bernardino County Kern County 181 Inyo County 222 58 269...different aspects of San Bernardino and Riverside county mining history. Stephanie Snair Vredenburgh, first...Brunton, the Librarian. Mr. Chris Brewer, of the Kern County Historical Society, and Mr. Glen Settle, of the...the Tropico Mine, have also supplied several Kern County photographs. Mr. Settle was interviewed by Russ...locations in this same vicinity in eastern Kern County, California. Enticed by the allure of gold, Blue
 
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