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Calcite from
Brookdale Mine, Schuylkill Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Calcite
Formula:CaCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Calcite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Brookdale Mine, Schuylkill Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:50235
Long-form Identifier:1:3:50235:9
GUID (UUID V4):f50aee5b-561d-4294-b0f5-191a57a3aaf1
Nearest other occurrences of Calcite
0.6km (0.4 miles) Montgomery Mine, Schuylkill Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
0.6km (0.4 miles) Wheatley Mines, Schuylkill Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
5.0km (3.1 miles) Phoenixville tunnel (Conrail tunnel; Black Rock tunnel), Phoenixville, Schuylkill Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
7.2km (4.5 miles) Ecton Mine, Perkiomen Mines, Audubon, Lower Providence Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
11.8km (7.3 miles) King of Prussia, Upper Merion Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
14.0km (8.7 miles) Henderson Station, Upper Merion Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
14.1km (8.8 miles) Limestone quarry, Upper Merion Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
17.1km (10.6 miles) Bullock Quarry (Geo. Bullock Quarry; George Bullock Quarry), West Conshohocken, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
18.1km (11.2 miles) Old Perkiomen Mine, Lower Frederick Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
18.8km (11.7 miles) Downington, East Caln Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
References
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PENNSYLVANIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY FOURTH SERIES BULLETIN M5 LEAD AND ZINC ORES of PENNSYLVANIA Henry a;...revival of interest in mining lead and zinc in Pennsylvania notwithstanding that all of the old lead and...the occurrence of lead and zinc ores in Pennsylvania and in other parts of North and South America...is re counted that: lead ore was mined in Blair County in 1778 lo supply bullets for the Revolutionary...pumping engine in the world was installed at a zinc mine at Friedensville in 1872, and attracted wide attention
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LEAD OCCURRENCES IN PENNSYLVANIA Robert C. Smith, II COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL...ZINC AND LEAD OCCURRENCES IN PENNSYLVANIA Robert C. Smith, II PENNSYLVANIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY FOURTH SERIES...1977 Copyright 1977 by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Quotations from this book may be published...published if credit is given to the Pennsylvania Geological Survey COVER ILLUSTRATION: Photograph of 1852 lithograph...STATE BOOK STORE, P. O. BOX 1365 HARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA 17125 PREFACE The purpose of this report is
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Sketches ©§ ®foM RSnanaang nan Montgomery ©®monty9 Pennsylvania by F. Harold Evans with Forward and Appendix...Special Publication No. 2 FRIENDS OF MINERALOGY, PENNSYLVANIA CHAPTER, INC. / Historical Sketches of Copper...Copper and Lead Mining in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania by F. Harold Evans with Forward and Appendix...Special Publication No. 2 FRIENDS OF MINERALOGY, PENNSYLVANIA CHAPTER, INC. - Historical Sketches of Copper...Montgomery County, Pennsyl­ vania. Copyright © 1980 by Friends of Mineralogy, Pennsylvania Chapter and
Journal (issue)
Cassedanne A vivianite occurrence in Contra Costa County,California ... 337 by C. B. DeWitt Essay: minerals...Moore Phosphate minerals from the Leveaniemi iron mine, Svappavaara, Sweden .............................Hollabaugh Laueite from Hagendorf-Siid andthe Palermo mine ................. 363 by L. C. Pitman New data...The Phoenixville lead-silver mines, Chester County, Pennsylvania ......................................image of a crack hidden in the back (roof) of a mine adit (from A. P. Annan etal. (1988) Radar sounding
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Their best exposure is along the Schuylkill River. Ascending the Schuylkill, the first exposure occurs at...cases, a vermiculite. Mill Creek flows into the Schuylkill River about three hundred yards above Gray's...albite in poor specimens. In the sand of the Schuylkill above Gray's Ferry, and probably elsewhere,...bank. When the inclined plane was abandoned the Pennsylvania Railroad made a curved cut through these rocks...that found on Ridley and Crum Creeks in Delaware County, contained segregated masses of coarse orthocl
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Site Number, Site Name ...................... 6 County, State, Quadrangle, Latitude, Longitude .........Occurrences located in the Newark basin and vicinity, Pennsylvania ..................... 110 F. Section F: Occurrences...located in the Gettysburg basin and vicinity, Pennsylvania ..................... 147 G. Section G: Occurrences...location ( county, state, quadrangle, latitude, and longitude) 2. deposit size (occurrence type - mine, prospect...south and east to west. The most prevalent name of a mine or prospect which was used in reference descriptions
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
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THE HONEYBKOOK AND PHOENIXVILLE QUADBANGLES, PENNSYLVANIA BY F. BASCOM AND G. W. STOSE UNITED STATES..._-___-_-___---_. Mine Ridge anticline__---___-_-__--_---_______-___-_-_._.. Chester Valley syncline_...Plain _______ 3. Reconnaissance geologic map of Chester Valley east of Phoenixville quadrangle. ______...______ 4. Generalized geologic map of part of Chester Valley showing overlap of Conestoga limestone....________________________ 5. Ideal section across Mine Ridge uplift, showing deposition of Conestoga limestone
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Washington, D.C. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND The old lead mine at Loudville, on the banks of the Manhan River,...material is due to the fact that it is a very old mine, and in early days the miners probably hand-cobbed...Washington's Continental Army in the Revolutionary War. The mine then lay idle, but was re­ opened in 1809. At this...specimens may be selected, among the rubbish of this mine, more interesting than a majority of those which...MINERALS Work continued until about 1828, when the mine again became idle. The next recorded activity was
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Newsletter—Carl Bakos, Editor Mineralogical Society of Pennsylvania Tuscarora Bulletin—F. Kerek Shecktor, Editor...Pick—Philip Corley, Editor Junior Division of Rockland County Mineral & Gem Society Newlapso—Dr. Philip E. Eisman...Rockland Nuggets—Marvin Klibonoff, Editor Rockland County Mineral & Gem Society, Inc. Unaka Rock & Mineral...field trip took the members to the Old Tungsten Mine and Topaz Prospect, Trumbull, Connecticut for topaz...Lead Mines, Southampton, and to the Emery Mine at Chester, both located in Massachusetts. Their program
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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
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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...colorless crystals), Felton's farm (Chester), and Ward's quarry; Montgomery County: Sumneytown, and Perkiomenville...Birdsboro), Berks County. White, Smith, 1910, 540. silky mass of radiating needles, with calcite. Colorless
Report (Issue volume)
RESOURCES Part 3, Metal Mines and Occurrences in Pennsylvania by Arthur W. Rose Mineral Conservation Section...Earth & Mineral Sciences The Pennsylvania State University PENNSYLVANIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY FOURTH SERIES...of Pennsylvania Quotations from this book may be published if credit Is given to the Pennsylvania Geological...1365, HARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA 17125 Bulletin MSO, Part 3, Sheet 1 M50 Pennsylvania Geological Survey...him. Part 3 Metal Mines and Occurrences in Pennsylvania TYPES OF DEPOSITS by Arthur W. Rose CONTENTS
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popping up: On The Web Helvite with calcite, 12 cm, from the DongWuQi mine, Huanggangliang Mountains, Inner...specimens of arsenopyrite, hedenbergite, fluorite, calcite, datolite, apophyllite, beryl and several much...strikingly large ones which show helvite crystals with calcite. The picture, shown here, of a 12-cm specimen from...crystals on borcarite, 2.5 cm, from the Huanggang mine, Huanggangliang Mountains, Inner Mongolia, China...Huanggangliang, and especially from the Huanggang mine—stay tuned for my report on the 2012 Tucson Show
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Earth and Mineral Sciences The Pennsylvania State University PENNSYLVANIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY FOURTH SERIES...of Pennsylvania Quotations from this book may be published if credit is given to the Pennsylvania Geological... ROOM 54, MAIN CAPITOL BUILDING HARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA 17125 Bulletin M50, Part 2-8, Sheet 1 Page............ 49. Other fire clay processed at the mine: quantity ..... .. ............ .... .. .......... 31 18 53. Plastic fire clay processed at the mine: value.........................................
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Part 1, Supplement, Limestones and Dolomites of Pennsylvania · by George F. Deasy, Phyllis R. Griess, Ronald...Earth a.nd Mineral Sciences The Pennsylvania State University PENNSYLVANIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY FOURTH SERIES...of Pennsylvania Quotations from this book may be published if credit is given to the Pennsylvania Geological...STATE BOOK STORE, P.O. BOX 1365, HARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA 17125 Bulletin MSO, Part 1, Supplement, Sheet...man-hours devoted to specific mine operations during the year 5. Mine or mine-plant equipment modernized
Journal (issue)
................232 Pyromorphite at the Brookdale Lead Mine. By Thomas J. Lewis.... 234 A Tragic Accident....................................... 243 A 'Par Mine' in Maine. By Kaarina Biareby ....................cost. Plenty of fossil~. a vein of good minerals, mine dumpE> to cull over old Indian camp sites second-hand...and wait until they find some- fault was mostly mine. Don't try to thing of interest for us. Be prompt...ROCKS and MINERALS PYROMORPHITE AT THE BROOKDALE LEAD MINE By THO MAS J. LEWIS Sometime after "Reminiscent"
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 .... . ...... . ..
Journal (issue)
Today Pennsylvania has no lead mining and only one operating zinc mine, located in Lehigh County, at Friedensville...than 40 mines have produced lead and zinc in Pennsylvania during the past 200 years and there were times...zinc-lead mines in the Sinking Valley of Blair County. The ores were actually used to support the Revolutionary...includes such mine names as Albright, Keystone, Fl eck, Bridenburgh, and lsett. In Bucks County the history...history of the New Galena mine is reputed to go back to the days of George Washington's Valley Forge encampment
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Denver, Colorado 80225, USA 2 US Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA 3 US Geological Survey...94025, USA 4 Department of Geology, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, Washington 99004, USA 5 US Geological...Geological Survey, Denver, Colorado 80225, USA Received: 8 October 1993/Accepted: 17 June 1994 Abstract...Ellenville (lat. 41~ The Ellenville (Ulster) mine in Ulster County, New York, n o w situated within the limits...Indians. In fact, a deed of trust conveying the mine tract and related Wawarsincke lands from the Indian
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diabase, west-central New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania 141 By Jonathan M. Husch An overview of early...faulting and diabase intrusion, Newark basin, Pennsylvania 176 By Nicholas M. Ratcliffe and William C....selected early Mesozoic copper occurrences in Pennsylvania 320 By R.C. Smith II, S.W. Berkheiser, Jr.,...uranium-bearing sequences in the Newark basin, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and the San Juan basin, New...Palisades sill near the Ramapo fault in Rockland County, New York, as an intrusion of fine-grained diabase
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....... 3 NOTES ON GYPSUM CRYSTALS IN MORTON COUNTY, NORTH DAKOTA. By Robe,-, H. Mitchell and Wilson...SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LOCALITIES. 3. Rincon, Sao Diego County. By f ark Schwartz ............... ..............U. S. A. The official Joun1al cf the Rocks and Mine,alt Aaoc~ation 2 ROCKS AND MINERALS e I I I I...Lawrence County, New York (page 633, figure 2) ; and a crystal of clinochlore from W est-town, Chester County...County, Pennsylvania (page 646). It is also interesting to note that the mineral, jefferisite, one of the
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and Sons. She stressed the commercial uses. The Brookdale Community College offered a short course entitled...ization of the Museum of Science for Vir­ ginia. PENNSYLVANIA The Mineralogical Society of Pennsyl­ vania...the Department of Geology and Geophysics of Pennsylvania State University verified the finding of zircons...Hill Quarry — a first for this quarry, — The Pennsylvania Earth Sciences Association, Lehigh Valley...French Creek at St. Peters (Pa.) and reported green calcite. magnetite, erythrite, garnets pyrite and quartz
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was m e r e l y p a r t o f t h e waste o f t h e mine. W h a t t h e y needed was h i g h grade ore o...Jersey: L a k e Hopatcong, Greenwood L a k e Pennsylvania: S c h u y l k i l l R i v e r Vi r g i n i...Washington D.C. area visit Virginia's noted Rutherford Mine. Photograph by Dr. Virginia Lee Blackford. ical...dollars at the noted locality of Cowee Valley, Macon County, North Carolina. An enthusiastic family found and...trippers visited the well known old Rutherford mine in Amelia County, Virginia, and found bright spessartine
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of M assachusetts, Connecticut, New jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia , Maryland , North Carolina, and other...geology of Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland , North Carolina, and South...appropriate, the applicable early Mesozoic basin, State, county, or 7 1/2minute USGS topographic quadrangle covered...the State are cited. More than one basin, State, county, or quadrangle may appear for an entry. A State...C.-S.C.) Deep River (N.C.) Durham (N.C.) Davie County (N.C.) Dan River and Danville (N.C.-Va.) Scottsburg
 
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