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


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Albite
Formula:Na(AlSi3O8)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Albite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Barber's Quarry, Frankford, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:360646
Long-form Identifier:1:3:360646:9
GUID (UUID V4):ada00a0d-78a9-4952-8a1f-126554721abd
Nearest other occurrences of Albite
0.3km (0.2 miles) Horrock's Quarry, Frankford, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
1.4km (0.9 miles) Hoffman's Quarry (Hoffmans Quarry), Frankford, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
1.4km (0.9 miles) Jerry O'Neill's Quarry, Tacony Creek Valley, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
7.2km (4.5 miles) Holmesburg Granite Company Quarry, Holmesburg, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
8.4km (5.2 miles) Fowler's Quarry, Germantown, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
10.7km (6.6 miles) Comley's Quarry, Germantown, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
10.9km (6.8 miles) McCrea's Quarry, Germantown, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
11.7km (7.3 miles) Wissahickon Valley, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
13.2km (8.2 miles) Flat Rock Tunnel, Lower Merion Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
15.4km (9.5 miles) Prince's Soapstone Quarry, Lafayette Station, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, 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
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 (issue)
rare specimens for sale. Not to be outdone, the Philadelphia mineral dealer Albert E. Foote also made several...in the Gien Rose Limestone formation of Lampasas County. Lampasas celestine first became well known among... HI STORY_....,_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _......., J COUNTY MAp o, '1~AAa M'Al.t.OFM.11.ES An 1870 map of...during development of the Barber's Hili salt dome at Mont Belview, Chambers County, on the Texas Gulf coast...Mountain and near Kingsland in Llano County. A northeastem Gillespie County locality known as Amethyst Hili
Report (volume)
Point, New York, southward, through New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and into Virginia as far as the Eapidan...miles. Its area is about 5,000 square miles. In Pennsylvania its width is greatly decreased, and the entire...by the state surveys of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. The boundaries in Maryland are...crystalline rocks (PI. vn). It is situated in Orange county, Virginia, to the west of Orange, and is named...begins at the north near Falling river, in Campbell county, and extends southward across Staunton river to
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
angles of 8 ~ developed by primary twinning on the albite and Ala-A laws can frequently be observed and such...established. In many of these primary twins the sharp albite composition plane proved to be vicinal in nature...only be effected at compositions approaching pure albite. The only systematic deviation from Chayes's curves...lower than the curves (with the exception of pure albite), and for those more basic than An~o to be higher...of felspar can exist over the whole range from albite to about Aug0. 550 i.D. MCI~ ON Buerger (1948)
Journal (volume)
J'c AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, HELD AT PHILADELPHIA, PROMOTING USEFUL KNOWLEDGE. VOL. JANUARY...1841, II. TO JUNE, 1843. +**+++®w^+***+*~~ PHILADELPHIA PRINTED FOR THE SOCIETY, By John C. Clark...the Philomathean Society of the University of Pennsylvania, Nov. 3, 1840, by Geo. W. From Rev. Bethune...j Surgeon Wills Hospital, Physician to the Philadelphia to Orphan Asylum, &c, &c. From No. I. ... at Philadelphia These observations he proposes, when compared with those at the Philadelphia Magnetic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
are summarized below: TvPe ^, Jydfne Norrnal Albite Normal Manebach Normal Baveno Parallel Parallel...Carlsbad Ala B Comfosilion plane (010) Complex Albite-Ala (010) Parallel Parallel (001) (001) Complex...SimpIe [0011 (010) Usually multiple tl0ol Complex Albite-Carlsbad Acline Ala A Twinning o)c1s Rhombic...for plagioclase crystal of Fig. (1), twinned on albite and Carlsbad laws. (2) In either case the mean...axis as I(010) and composition plane as (010) (albite law). The composition is given as Anaeby the point
Book (edition)
oligoclase, labradorite, bytownite (series end-members albite and anorthite). These transitional members largely...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...Uintah County. Utah. and m (2.B. acanthite group). Monoclinic, C2/m, a,b,c Rio Blanco County. Colorado...Menzenschwand Scbwarzwald Mts., in the Sailauf quarry, Spessart Mts., Bavaria. both Germany, and from
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(1996) © Meteoritical Society, 1996. Printed in USA. Aqueous alteration in the matrix of the Vigarano...polishedthin-section of Vigaranowas preparedusing Barber's (1981) technique. Back-scattered electron images...poor in CaO (Table 1, no. 3), which suggests that albite or feldspathoid is responsible rather than spinel
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). ...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,...Little Emma mine, Clear Creek County; at the Enterprise n1ine, Dolores County; and at the Double Header lode...lode , Su1nmit County . rt is also found in Canada, Mexico, Czechoslovakia, and Germany. Acanthite is
Book (edition)
Willard Lincoln. Encyclopedia of minerals ~~cbe County Public Library Saguache, Colorado OEMCO For Refere...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...oil shale of the Green River Formation, Uintah County, Utah, associated with authigenic orthoclase, pyrite;...Creek County; at the Enterprise mine, Dolores County; at the Double Header lode, Summit County, and in
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...granodiorite, by abundant and syenitic albite granite, albite syenite; 2.) anorthosite suite consisting...Ontario is the Bedford Township of Frontenac County. a length Richardson dike in It was exploited...(Portland Township) ) . The coarse microcline is albite lamellae considered, by most common in workers
Book (volume)
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..............................................Benitoite recovery from alluvial deposits, San Benito County, CA ................ 29 Figure 8. Title page
Book (edition)
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...blocks of specified diameter are cut in place in the quarry floor by the use of a circular steel cutter employing
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
Book (edition)
Feldspar. AGALMATOLITE AGATE See: Pyrophyllite. ALBITE See: Calcite, Gypsum. Crystallography: See:...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
New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE Published in the USA by Chapman and Hall 29 West 35th Street, New York...from light reflected from layers of orthoclase and albite. allochromatic minerals colourless when chemically...such as oil (e.g. in some fluorite from Illinois, USA). Among the large number of gases are methane, ethane...Chivor mines also contain very small plates of albite and crystals of pyrite. The latter can be recognized...from Gachala which also contain growth tubes and albite platelets. Peculiar to Muzo emeralds which are
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 (edition)
ADULARIA AMBER See: Feldspar. AGALMATOLITE AGATE ALBITE See: Pyrophyllite. See: Calcite, Gypsum. Formula:...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:...Colombia: Chivor Mine. 3-phase inclusions; pyrite; albite. Muzo Mine, 3-phase rnclusions; parisite crystals
Journal (issue)
countries. Mount Mica is located in Paris, Oxford County and is now owned by the Plumbago Mining Company...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...Epidote Andesite Sandstone Anthracite Anorthoclase Albite Nepheline Syenlte Bastite Geyserite Omphac1te Phlogoplte
Book
Minnesota. By N. II. of Houston county. By N. II . of of Fillmore county. By N. II. of CHAPTER The... of Mower By N. county. II. of Dodge county. WINCHELL of Freeborn county. By N. II. The geology...geology of Steele county. 207 to 235 236 to 267 268 to 324 325 to 340 347 to 366 367 to 375 X...Olmsted county. 1 VI. WINCHELL CHAPTER The geology . V. By N. H. WINCHELL Winona county. WINCHELL...geology of Waseca county. XII. By WARREN UPHAM CHAPTER The geology of Blue Earth county. By 404 to 414
Book (volume)
Map field, Fig. Section from Bronson's lime quarry to Smith's brook, Fig. Section in Dalton and....... ..... .... Lyman through Burnham's lime quarry, 72 275 278 3^7 320 326 Fig. Section from...Fig. Section from quarry road to L. A. Parker's, Fig. Section from slate quarry to the Fig. Section...Me., locations of specimens collected in Coos county, Section lake to the Fig. 30 Mount Desert...Hall's brook, Newbury, Vt., (356) , to limestone quarry in Haverhill, Fig. 47, Section from (349) Hedgehog
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
Report (volume)
there was negligible diffusion of Na and A1 in albite when a liquid N2 stage was used, and he gave a... muscovite. and llllte In Wltwatererand and Pennsylvania pelltes. 1 (Aller J i a n g et al.. 1990) Witwatersrand...Pyrophyllite EMPA 2 AEM5 EMPA 3 AEM5 Blackrldge, Pennsylvania Muscovite Pyrophyllite NH4-Ullte 5 AEM AEM5...pyrophyllite, and NH4-containing illite from a Pennsylvania slate are also given in Table 4-1. The Fe 138...Veblen, D.R. (1987) "Eastonite" from Easton, Pennsylvania: A mixture of phlogopite and a new form of serpentine
 
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