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Enstatite from
Blue Hill, Media, Upper Providence Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA


Locality type:Hill
Classification
Species:Enstatite
Formula:Mg2Si2O6
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Enstatite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Blue Hill, Media, Upper Providence Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:520985
Long-form Identifier:1:3:520985:9
GUID (UUID V4):8597e88a-c4a8-43db-8221-e73cf686d9ed
Nearest other occurrences of Enstatite
3.4km (2.1 miles) Castle Rock, Edgemont Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA
11.9km (7.4 miles) Cambridge Downs, Concord Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA
16.4km (10.2 miles) Rose's Quarry, Gladwyne, Lower Merion Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
17.2km (10.7 miles) Prince's Soapstone Quarry, Lafayette Station, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
34.9km (21.7 miles) Eastburn's Quarries, New Castle County, Delaware, USA
64.0km (39.8 miles) Wood's Chrome Mine, Texas, Little Britain Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA
91.0km (56.5 miles) Cornwall Mines (Cornwall Iron Mine), Cornwall Borough (Cornwall), Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, USA
References
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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:...cut east of Reading (probably Birdsboro), Berks County. White, Smith, 1910, 540. silky mass of radiating
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
large part of Philadelphia is covered with the Delaware River gravels and clays, but most of the streams...about two miles up stream to Fairmount, whose bold hill is composed of a gneiss which apparently rises...bank. When the inclined plane was abandoned the Pennsylvania Railroad made a curved cut through these rocks...with that found on Ridley and Crum Creeks in Delaware County, contained segregated masses of coarse ort...halotrichite occur occasionally, but on the Pennsylvania Railroad at 59th street there was an old quarry
Report (issue)
Rocks Of the Piedmont Upland Maryland, Pennsylvania And Delaware By NANCY C. PEARRE and ALLEN V. HEYL,...districts ______ -._-_____-_____-___._. Montgomery County, Md_-_-_---_---_-_-----------_-__--_-_-_Soldiers...Woodensburg-Cardiff district.: _-________-__________ _ Blue Mount quarries..___--___-________--____.__.__ Cardiff...State Line district__-------___..____.___._... Cedar Hill (Geiger) quarries._--_.-_-----__.____ West Chester...descriptions_______________________________________ Montgomery County, Md___-_______________________.__ Etchison mine_____-_-
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...Albany. North Carolina_.Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, Chapel Hill. North Dakota_.Dr. A. G. Leonard, Grand Forks. Mr
Book (volume)
chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...townagate, chalcedony, jasper, petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville...chalcedony, jasper, fossils. CHERRY COUNTY VALENTINE, in the Sandhills county along the Niobrara R. and Minnechaduza...DAWES COUNTY CHADRON, in N part of Co. and as far W as Crawford and Harrisonchalcedony (some blue). CRAWFORD:...cuts, cut banks, breaks, draws and washes, gullies, hill slopes, etc.chalcedony roses, Celestite crystals
Report (issue)
gems called Apostle Stones; and thus the beautiful blue acteristics of these sapphire became emblematic...as follows: "The best rubies come from the mines Upper Burma, north of Mandalay, in an area covering 25...and, since then, mining has been some success. Blue sapphires are brought from Ceylon, often as rolled...Canton, China. At St. Gothard, it occurs of a red or blue tinge in dolomite, and near Mozzo in Piedmont, in...yards above the works at Track Rock Mine, Union county, Ga., there are several slabs, one of which is
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Marble Peak in the Santa Catalina Mountains, in Pima County, Arizona. A note from him reads: "I have done some...taken from the Cherokee district placers in Butte County, California. Mineral Information Service, July...associated with black plates of ilmenite, in granite. DELAWARE: Dr. A. C. Hawkins, 826 First Place, Plainfield...recently to R & M a most interesting specimen from Delaware. The specimen consists of dark olive-green crystals...Littlefield of Stonewall in old Campbell County (now Fulton County), sent in an interesting specimen of rutile
Report (edition)
much information on collecting sites in Oxford County. Numerous other collectors of Maine minerals also...appeared in Mineral News. Photos of the Crocker Hill locality in Paris were acquired through a grant...Railroad : multiple track .. State. Bridge ...... county, parish, municipio .... Power transmission line...Post-orogenic Devonian sedimentary rocks E-:3 6 - Upper Precambrian (?) ~ to Silurian rocks of the Merrimack...Ordovician stratified rocks of northern Maine ~2- Upper Precambrian to Middle Ordovician stratified rocks
Book (volume)
references, among them may be mentioned: Vermont, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Oregon, Kansas, Alabama, Ohio...Kobuk jade locality. Descriptions of San Diego County, California, gemstones and the mines in which they...the generous assistance of many residents of that county. My special thanks are extended to Elbert H. McMacken...Brazilianite, Lazulite, Cassiterite, Diaspore, Enstatite, Hypersthene, Zircon, Algodonite and Domeykite...crystal . Seven corundum crystals . Map of Corundum Hill—Ellijay area . Map of Cowee Creek area . Cowee Creek
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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...eastern streams and rivers f o r epidote, unakite, blue quartz, agate, chalcedony, petrified wood and other...dollars at the noted locality of Cowee Valley, Macon County, North Carolina. An enthusiastic family found and...visited the well known old Rutherford mine in Amelia County, Virginia, and found bright spessartine garnets...transparent blue crystals of aquamarine. Excited collectors took home from old quarries in Pennsylvania and Maryland
Book (volume)
greater variety of minerals are found in Oxford County, alone, than anywhere else on Earth of comparable...than Maine's, as well. An area smaller than Oxford County in Murmansk Ob last, Kola Peninsula, Russia, has...heliodors, and clear to slightly blue topazes. However, San Diego County, California, is arguably the most...1978, The mineralogy of Pennsylvania, 1966-1975: Friends of Mineralogy, Pennsylvania Chapter, 304 p. Stalder...from Mount Apatite. There are many quarries on this hill but most collectors, unaware of this fact, simply
Report (volume)
Reading: Military Service Pub. Co. Texas, Tordilla Hill area, color: Shale nomenclature: Clark, T. H. ,6...described. Div. Mines, 1; Jenkins, O. P., Choctaw County, Highway 17 area: 3. Toulmin, L. D., Jr., 3. Minor:...analysis: KelH. D., 5. ler, W. D., 3. Talladega County, hematiteOklahoma, potash agstone, granite magnetite...ground water: Powham, C. E. ell, W. J., 4. Marengo County: Newton, J. G., 1. Core-drilling program, ChattanooMica:...J.,4. Excursion, Tertiary type-localiMontgomery County: Reade, ties: Rainwater, E. H. , 1. H. L. , Jr
Report (volume)
Meddelelser. Copenhagen. Del. Geol. Survey Bull.-Delaware Geological Survey Bulletin. Newark, Del. Dissert...-Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society Journal. Chapel Hill, N. C. Evolution. Lancaster, Pa. Fieldiana Geology...Amarillo, Texas. 7 SERIALS Pa. Acad. Sci.-Proc.-Pennsylvania Academy of Science Proceedings. Har. risburg...' ·' ' .· Pa. Geol. Su~ey.~}th. ser., Bull.-Pennsylvania Geological Survey, 4th, series, · Bulletm. ...State Univ., Mineral Industries Expt. Sta. Bull.-Pennsylvania State University, Mineral Industries Experiment
Book (volume)
Illinois geology. These measures constitute the Upper Carboniferous system of repeated alterations of...600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip
Book (volume)
Illinois geology. These measures constitute the Upper Carboniferous system of repeated alterations of...600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip
Report (volume)
Geological Society of Denmark]. Copenhagen, Denmark. Delaware Geol. Survey Rept. Inv.Delaware Geol. Survey Water-Level...and Geology Bull. Idaho Bur. Mines and Geology County Rept.Idaho Bur. Mines and Geology Mineral Resources...Idaho Bureau of Mines and Geology Bulletin and County Report and Mineral Resources Report. Moscow, Idaho...Honolulu, Hawaii. Pennsylvania Dept. Public Instruction Curriculum Services Ser.-Pennsylvania Department of...Series. Harrisburg, Pa. Pennsylvania Geol. Survey Spec. Bull.- XIV Pennsylvania Geol. Survey Topog. and
Report (volume)
Mineral Sci. - Earth and Mineral Sciences. The Pennsylvania State University, College of Earth and Mineral...of Science. University of North Carolina. Chapel Hill, N. C. Endeavour·- Endeav~ur. Imperial Chemical...Engineering and Mining Journal. Co. New York, N.Y. McGraw~Hill Publishing Eng. and Sci.- Engineering and Science...Ky. Kentucky Geol. Survey County Rept. - Kentucky Geological Survey County Report. University of Kentucky...Analysts. Houston, Tex. Los Angeles County Mus. Contr. Sci. - Los Angeles County Museum Contributions in Science
Book (edition)
are the planes of the trapezohedron, Fig. 19. The upper one of the planes 22 in these figures, when extended...trisoctahedron in Fig. 21. The lower one of the three on the upper front solid angle, would meet if extended, the extremities...(Fig. 10); and in the suppressed planes of the upper pyramid being here directly over those suppressed...some hemihedral forms the suppressed planes of the upper pyramid alternate with those of the lower; but -this...pyra- CRYSTALLOGRAPHY. 54 mid, and those in the upper pyramid alternate with these (the shaded in Fig
Book (volume)
Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and  the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59...along adjoining Co. linerock crystal. BARROW COUNTY WINDER, along rd. to Jefferson and 1½ mi. inside...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States BARTOW COUNTY AREA, Saltpeter Cave, as floatjasper. CARTERSVILLE:...agate, (banded, various colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY MACON:  at Holton Quarry, 7½ mi. NWagate;  N
Book
Pyroxenes 91 Pyco,c~m:s - ---------------------EnStatite -----------------------Bronzite -------------..._________________ 69 Dolomite -----------------------70 Enstatite -----------------------95 ~asnesjte asnet1te...for a moment. Notice that the sulfur bums with a blue flame. The gas which is given off is colorleas....solution from the second test tube into the first. A blue precipitate will form. !',Iaoy other kinds of precipitates...should have cwo visible zones: 1-lighc blue inner zone (r) 2--dark blue outer zone (h) The inner zone, containing
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineral found is boracite. It occurs in 2-3 mm pale blue cubes, with crystal surfaces that vary from smooth...uninspiring abstracts. The excellent Mineralogy of Pennsylvania, as updated by Smith (1978), should serve as...labradorite-anorthite composition anthophyllite-Blue Hill antigorite—Deer Isle antimony(?)—Old Town apophyllite—see...axinite group—Bath, see ferroaxinite azurite—Blue Hill, Pembroke, West Brooksville barite—Brunswick,...bavenite—Stoneham "bauxite"—Limewood bementite—Castle Hill, Hovey Mt. beraunite—Newry, Stoneham bermanite—Newry
Report (issue)
several months. The Museum will be placed in the upper story, occupying the entire floor. This principal...Francisco, California. Daily Grass Valley Union, Nevada County, California. Daily Evening Gazette, Reno, Nevada...Standard, Eureka, Humboldt County, 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 10. 11. 12. County Tribune, California. California...California. Inyo Independent, Inyo County, California. Arizona Gazette, Phoenix, Arizona Territory. Ventura...There was an octagonal space in the gallery or upper floor under the dome, and an arched cross reaching
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MARIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY 3 1111 00289 4184 \ I s Fifth Revised Edition A complete, state-by-state...reflects red wavelengths most readily, then the blue wavelengths. The result is red with a bluish cast...But with most minerals, color can be misleading. A blue crystal may be diamond, aquamarine, topaz, tourmaline...hydrochloric acid and held in a flame will color the flame blue. Fluorite (calcium fluoride) when heated in a glass...copper- and agate-bearing rock in the Michigan Upper Peninsula; underneath the whole region is the Duluth
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although excavations in the underlying black, Upper Devonian (New Albany) shales occasionally produces...colored Vanport flint of the Flint Ridge and the Upper Mercer flint exposed in Hocking, Perry, and Coshocton...ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE, area
Report (volume)
Davenport, Iowa. . Delaware County Institute of Science: Proceedings, vol. 4, nos. 2-4. Media, Pa. Denison...Mitchell Scientific Society: Journal, vol. 25. Chapel Hill, N. C. Engineering and Mining Journal, vols. 87...Biennial Report, 1907-8; Bulletin, no. 18. Chapel Hill, N. C. North Dakota Geological Survey: Fifth Biennial...D. C. West Virginia Geological Survey, vol. 4; County Reports, Marshall, Wetzel, and Tyler Counties....for oil. 26. Two areas of oil prospecting in Lyon County., western Nevada. U. S. Geol. Survey, Bull. 381-D
 
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