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Pennine from
Grace Mine, Morgantown, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Clinochlore var: Pennine
Formula:Mg5Al(AlSi3O10)(OH)8
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pennine data
Locality Data:Click here to view Grace Mine, Morgantown, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:360890
Long-form Identifier:1:3:360890:6
GUID (UUID V4):fe74888d-07bd-4122-987c-4e69dd65ca26
References
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London] at 11:30 03 January 2015 T he Northern Pennine orefield has been an important source of lead,...collectors, and specimens from these locations now grace most major mineral collections worldwide. In recent...exception to this has been specimens from the Rogerley mine, which was worked by partners Lindsay Greenbank...1970s and 1996. The Rogerley is, to date, the only mine in the United Kingdom that has been operated specifically...on a commercial basis, and during this time the mine produced a limited but steady stream of high-quality
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Geological Survey Richard V. Gaines Pottstown, Pennsylvania Donald R. Peacor Univ. of Michigan Abraham...the Line Pit, State Line chromite district, Pennsylvania and Maryland ..................149 by E. E....several suites including Mont St.-Hilaire, the Jeffrey mine in Quebec, and a personally collected suite of dioptase...dioptase and other copper minerals from the Harquahala mine in west-central Arizona. Randy perfers to make his...he sponsored color in a m ajor article on the 79 mine (in Arizona), and has since added im­ measurably
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
numerous mines and prospects in the Northern Pennine Mountains, centered on the Weardale area of northern...operating a specimen-recoveryproject at the Rogerley mine in Weardale, England. His most recent article for...Rocks & Minerals was titled “The Rogerley Mine, Weardale, County Durham, England” and appeared in the January/February...collectors, and specimens from these locations now grace most major mineral collections worldwide. However...cost of rehabilitating and running an underground mine, coupled with everincreasing environmental concerns
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Geological Survey Richard V. Gaines Pottstown, Pennsylvania Donald R. Peacor Univ. of Michigan Abraham...circulation manager Articles The Boltsbum mine, Weardale, County Duiham, England ......................... Bariand Arsenate minerals of the Sterling Hill mine: an overview .....................................1144 W .M IRACLE MILE TUCSON. ARIZONA 8 5 7 0 5 . USA 6 0 2 8 8 8 -6 0 1 5 < rDistinctivtJrDisplays Number...The Mineralogical Record Jan uary-February, 1982 mine Weardale, CpuntyJ)urham, England t h e B o l
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and yellow zoning from the find at Rodderup Fell Mine in the early 1930’s Photo G. Scovil WANTED! We...Pyromorphite on plumbogummite from Roughton Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria. Photo: David Green. The...------ 9 -------------------------- Rogerley Mine Jesse Fisher • Lindsay Greenbank MARKETING Peter...cially-attached scheelite crystal from the Carrock Mine (to give an example of a Bryce Wright “specimen”...groupings of Herkimer diamonds from the eastern USA. Because of problems involved in removing some of
Book
Red and gray sandstone shale, and limestone. PENNSYLVANIA 40 I 60 50 Ml I 80 KM 76° -, I II --...l0000unse THE GEOLOGY OF PENNSYLVANIA COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA Mark Schweiker, Governor DEPARTMENT...Geology Slippery Rock University Published by PENNSYLVANIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PITTSBURGH GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY...from Hyner View, Hyner Run Slate Park, Clinton County, showing accordant ridges in the Appalachian Plateaus...of the Ridge and Valley province in Huntingdon County. Flooded meanders of Raystown Lake on the Raystown
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Zn+Ba+Pb includes the eastem part of the Northern Pennine and Cu+Zn+Sn). Orefield, the Durham coalfield and...definition of a cave but some of the Northern Pennine Orefield, the influence of mineral-lined cavities...illustrated in full colour, though the lack Roman mine working and is sealed with concrete to of scale...deposition within. The book is well produced and would grace any accompanied by a bibliographic index with the
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Ballard 39 EPIDOTE-(SR) AND PIEMONTITE-(SR) BENALLT MINE FROM NEWS and EVENTS Peter J. Briscoe David McCallum...of the Editorial Board. GORCEIXITE FROM BENALLT MINE Tom Cotterell • Richard Tayler 61 Publication...fluorite specimens from the northern Pennine Orefield that would grace any UK collection. Ief Frontispiece...processes involvedin mineraldeposition. UK JMine~& Mincrab No. 33 -2- UKJournal of Mines & Minerals...fromSgurrnanCearcall, Isleof Skye. UKJounul of Mine~ & Mineral, Nu. 33 -4- A column such as Mineral
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definition of a cave but some of the Northern Pennine Orefield, the influence of mineral-lined cavities...illustrated in full colour, though the lack Roman mine working and is sealed with concrete to of scale...deposition within. The book is well produced and would grace any accompanied by a bibliographic index with the
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otherwise noted FLUORITE JESSE FISHER 380 Pennsylvania Avenue San Francisco, California 94107 jef520@comcast...Pennines Orefield England Figure 1. The Groverake mine, located in upper Rookhopeburn, a tributary to Weardale...operating commercial fluorspar mine in the North Pennines, closing in 1999. Mine waste heaps (known locally...nineteenth centuries can be seen on the hills above the mine site. Figure 2 (left). A scattering of numerous...matrix, 14 × 10 × 7 cm, recovered from the Cambokeels mine in the early 1980s. Figure 3 (right). A penetration-twinned
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-1995 by Trevor Bridges .......... 23 The North Pennine Heritage Trust ........................................ 29 Carbonate Mineralogy Symposium at Pennsylvania State University by Andrew Sicree ............going to meet with our demise and go to the big mine in the sky, where all the vughs are full of topaz...meeting repor t: 'No! It is n ot Isolation Mine but Snelston Mine.' there were several attemp ts to exploit...early in the 20th century w hen Snelston Copper Mine Limited w as inco rp orated. The company was established
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5 cm wide. Fisher/Kureczka collection. Rogerley Mine, UK – mining for fluorites J. Scovil photo. Tomasz...Tomasz Praszkier (Poland) Scott Werschky (USA) INTRODUCTION Strzegom (Lower Silesia, Poland) is a classic...photo. J. Scovil photo. ISSUE #2 The Northern Pennine Orefield has been for many centuries an important...fluorescence. Fluorite specimens from Weardale mines now grace most major mineral collections world-wide. By the...Rogerley Mine. First discovered by local mineral collectors around 1970, the Rogerley Mine has produced
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No 3. "Henwoodite", West Phoenix Mine, Linkinhorne Specimen: 118 x 85 x 65mm Watercolour commissioned...Historical Society. COVER:BLUE JOHN FLUORITE, Blue John Mine, Castleton, Derbyshire, polished slab 7 x I 0cm...the keeping of the Councv Librarian, Derbyshire County Council Offices, Matlo~k. Derbyshire. DE4 3AG....Trnmwa f useum, Crich, Derbyshire. Good.luck Mine - This mine, in the ia Gellia, Middletonby-\\ irksworth...commonly co/led Blue John, and other fossils in this County so universally admired.• Blue John has retained
Book
waste rock and gangue discarded during mining - the mine pagel The Lindsay Gree11ba11k Collection curators...Lindsay Greenbank Collection Fluorite Rogerley Mine. Frosterley, Wearda/e page4 The Lindsay Greenbank...unique and the recent finds of boracite from Boulby Mine have set new standards for the species. Fine specimens...specimens. Nevertheless, the old Pyrrhot/te Cambokeels Mine, Weardale, Durham. British classics remain a touchstone...Lindsay Greenbank Collection Baryte Force Crag Mine, Braithwaite, Cumberland. page Tb e Lindsay Gr
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nouveaux auxquels je ne m'etais pas attache. C'est grace au GGU, OU les moyens de recherche les plus modernes...direction NE. Au NE d'Ivnarssuaq, ils disparaissent grace a une brutale plongee axiale, au SE on les retrouve...cristallise meme plusieurs fois. On peut le prouver grace a d'anciennes fissures caracterisees par des lignes...la reacLion. Cne chloritisalion sous forme cle pennine il bil'efringence anormale brune 'ob erve aussi...pt'imair'es ou derivant d'amphiboles s'alLeren t en pennine il teinte de polarisalion anol'malement bleue (le
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practically identical with the succession in the Pennine area, and to a certain extent with that which obtains...distribution of the Carboniferous corals in the Pennine area and the Lower Limestone Series of Scotland...whole of the Carboniferous Limestone Series of the Pennine area and Scotland belong to the Dibunophyllum and...contention of Dr. W. Hind that the limestones of the Pennine area are characterised by Productus giganteus and...part of the Pendleside Series anywhere in the Pennine area. We have not yet found the lowest zonal fossil
Journal (volume)
flat, Admirality Concession Flat, Nentsberry Haggs Mine, Nenthead, Cumbria. Specimen width 60 mm. Trevor...24–30 NOTE Kinoshitalite from Bennalt Manganese Mine, Rhiw, Pen Llŷn, Gwynedd, Wales: a first British...John S. Mason 32–35 The mineralogy of Pim Hill Mine, Shropshire, with a study of mottramites Richard...the Admiralty Consession Flat, Nentsberry Haggs Mine, Nenthead, Cumbria Trevor F. Bridges, Frank Bouweraerts...composition and formulae, and its status in the Northern Pennine Orefield Trevor F. Bridges, David I. Green and
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been included to give complete coverage of the Pennine Dales. Not only is there miles of open countryside...ISBN 0 86190 154 1 (paperback) Published in the USA by Hunter Publishing Inc, 300 Raritan Center Parkway...but I believe that the dales occupy most of the Pennine chain and for that reason I decided to expand my...few years ago I did a photographic essay of the Pennine Way and to get the shots I wanted, I spent months...Outdoor Leisure Maps, giving cover to much of the Pennine area between the Peak District and the ‘Three Peaks’
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Hill, Breedon Cloud, Barrow Hill, Osgathorpe, and Grace Dieu. The first three of the latter group form prominent...99). In the case of Barrow Hill, Osgathorpe, and Grace Dieu, the quarries are now greatly overgrown and...is similar to a type seen at Breedon Cloud. 5. GRACE DIEU The important feature about this heavily overgrown...Carboniferous Limestone and Millstone Grit Series in the Pennine region. The old quarry 300 yards E.S.E. of Calke...extent reminiscent of some Millstone Grits of the Pennine area. The section as described by Parsons is as
Journal (volume)
with minor hematite on cream dolomite. Florence Mine, Egremont, Cumbria. David Green photograph. BACK...2012 PAPERS Geology and mineralisation at Florence Mine, Egremont, Cumbria Brian Young 3-18 A geochemical...of type mineral species at the Benallt Manganese Mine, Rhiw, Pen Llšn, Gwynedd, Wales Tom F. Cotterell...experience of an underground tour of the Florence Mine in Cumbria. With the closure of Florence, it is...account. The unique legacy of another important mine, Benallt Mine on the Lleyn Peninsula, North Wales, is reviewed
Journal (issue)
Treolar and the High Raise vein, in the Nentsberry mine at Alston, Cumbria in January 1931, will depend...well have been in the lower levels of some lead mine, now abandoned. Further information was obviously...in a field adjoining the mine on the Duke of Rutland's Estate adjoining mine [Bateman's] and I cannot...of cockscomb' type. It was probably from the Odin Mine (SK 134 835); but no further specimens from that...Just, St. Ives, Botallack Mine, Old Levant Mine, Geevor77Đż Mines, Old Wherry Mine, Wheal Alfted. 42 pages
Journal (volume)
5–16 mineral deposition in a cavity in Smallcleugh mine, Nenthead, Cumbria Trevor F. Bridges and Roy Starkey...mineralised cavity at the Smallcleugh Mine in the North Pennine Orefield, where Trevor focused much of...we were walking down from Copa Hill at Cwmystwyth mine in mid-wales. we had both been participants on one...interest in the mineralisation of the Northern Pennine Orefield, and he was one of a group of members...group of clear quartz crystals from brownley Hill mine, and Journal of the Russell Society (2015) 1st
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of the local limestone by Murelli on. citing the grace and goodne of God in endowing the nation with 1he...give access to data on RIGS . ites throughout the county. di plays of the Society" s pa t field meeting...crvat1ons of the mi neral zonation in the North Pennine . He included ome colourful insights into the ensuing...to 1hc grou p ou1,ide the con: store ut Boltsburn Mine Offices 12 After lunch Trc\'or 13ridgcs of the...group to Pike Law. an exposed site in the onh Pennine. . 10 dcmonstrate the sharp boundary between the
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National Park was set up in 1872 at Yellowstone in the USA, by far-sighted, guntoting pioneers of the Old West...The others are run by special committees of the county councils in whose areas they lie, with a repre¬...local farmer riding Wheal Betsy lead and silver mine. home one night who met Dewer and foolishly asked...designation has made any difference. The Devon County Council committee which runs the Dartmoor National...of four ‘burghs’ or fortified positions in the county to defend his kingdom against invasion by the Danes
Report (issue)
COUNCIL Structure and evolution of the south-west Pennine Basin and adjacent area • l , • .., NA1'UAAL...Westphalian .� (I) M udstone , sandstone , siltstone Pennine Coal Measures Group siltstone, coal Millstone...Shaw Structure and evolution of the south­ west Pennine Basin and adjacent area Subsurface memoir Keyworth...north, to control the margin of theCarboniferous Pennine Basin and Permian-Jurassic Cheshire Basin (Photographer...Marsdenian (R2) 60 Yeadonian (Gl) 60 \,Vestphalian 61 Pennine Coal Measures Group 62 Warwickshire Group 64 Coalfields
 
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