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Quartz from
Chester County Mine, Schuylkill Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Quartz
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Pyromorphite8 photos of Quartz associated with Pyromorphite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Quartz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Chester County Mine, Schuylkill Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:57996
Long-form Identifier:1:3:57996:2
GUID (UUID V4):3f59e07f-b14d-4b1c-96b8-0f823dc0c042
Nearest other occurrences of Quartz
0.1km (0.1 miles) Wheatley Mines, Schuylkill Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
0.4km (0.2 miles) Southwest Chester County Mine (New Chester County Mine), Schuylkill Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
0.6km (0.4 miles) Brookdale Mine, Schuylkill Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
1.1km (0.7 miles) Phoenix Mine, Charlestown Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
1.3km (0.8 miles) Charleston Mine, Charlestown Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
1.9km (1.2 miles) Morris Mine, Schuylkill Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
4.4km (2.7 miles) Phoenixville tunnel (Conrail tunnel; Black Rock tunnel), Phoenixville, Schuylkill Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
5.9km (3.6 miles) Mill Lane Farms (Great Valley Corporate Center), Valley Store, East Whiteland Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
6.8km (4.2 miles) Ecton Mine, Perkiomen Mines, Audubon, Lower Providence Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
7.3km (4.5 miles) Whim shaft, Perkiomen Mines, Audubon, Lower Providence Township, Montgomery 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...colorless crystals), Felton's farm (Chester), and Ward's quarry; Montgomery County: Sumneytown, and Perkiomenville...cut east of Reading (probably Birdsboro), Berks County. White, Smith, 1910, 540. silky mass of radiating
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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from Library Sen/ices as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of...GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF PENNSYLVANIA: REPORT OF PROGRESS c^ TTTE GEOLOGY PHILADELPHIA COUNTY AND OF THE SOUTHERN... 1881. Entered, for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in the year 1880, according to acts of Congress...regions : 1881. address Pleasantville, Venango county, Pa. Sutton VVall, to report on the coal and...and Fulton counties address Uniontown, Fayette county. Pa. W. G. Platt, geologist for Centre and Clearfield
Report (issue)
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
Report (issue)
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
Report (edition)
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
Report (volume)
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
Report (issue)
PENNSYLVANIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY FOURTH SERIES Bulletin M 18-C THE MINERALS of PENNSYLVANIA NON-METALLIC... CONTENTS Introduction Asbestos Barite Franklin County Fulton and Bucks Counties Corundum Page 1 1 5...Phosphate minerals Cumberland County Juniata County 18 23 25 25 26 Potash 29 Quartz-Mint 32 Rock salt ... 36 Crawford County Elk County 36 37 Erie and Forest Counties 38 McKean, Potter, Susquehanna and...inquiries about the occurrence of minerals in Pennsylvania that cannot be answered by referring the inquirer
Report (issue)
Serpentine Rocks Of the Piedmont Upland Maryland, Pennsylvania And Delaware By NANCY C. PEARRE and ALLEN V...districts ______ -._-_____-_____-___._. Montgomery County, Md_-_-_---_---_-_-----------_-__--_-_-_Soldiers...----.._-_-_-------_-----_-----------_----West Chester district...-_._.. --__- .. .._.__ Philadelphia...Hill (Geiger) quarries._--_.-_-----__.____ West Chester district...___.____-________... Brinton's quarries-------...____________ Mine descriptions_______________________________________ Montgomery County, Md___-_______________________
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MINERAL ISOGRADS IN SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA Hucn McKrNSrRy, H araaril IJniaersity, Cambrid.ge, M...covered by the Philadelphia and Coatesville-West Chester Folios showing reported and observed occurrences..., Structural and petrologic studies in Duchess County, New York, Pt. II: G. S. A. Bulletin,47,775-850...8 . 874 MINERAL ISOGRADS IN SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA 875 metamorphism: in the Piedmont region and...miles in the extreme southr:astern corner of Pennsylvania and includes most of the area covered by the
Report (issue)
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
Book (edition)
mmed at Broken Arrow aud Trout creek, in Sc. Clair county. The strata in this field are more faulted und...prong of Canoe creek, in St. Clair county, to Ha\sop creek, in Bibb county, a distance of 60 miles. Down to...to Helena, in Shelby county, the field has an average width of 5 or 6 miles. Below that point the width...miles being in the latitud" of Blocton, in Bibb county. The south ern end of this field has a greater...Jefferson county; Helena, Montevallo, and Brierfield, Shelby county; and at Blocion. Bibb county. The Warrior
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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an entire rail road from Philadelphia to West Chester, now being made, 7oill afford facilities to the...various minerals, Chester through 1825, in made tour on a we found On a late county and part of the state...mineralogists a Chester county presents to the serpenlimestone, Her investigation. rich field for county, gneiss...manifested towards strangers by the inhabitants of the county, and the singular hospitality which particularly...for encouraging the mineralogist, to visit this county in preference to almost any section of country
Journal (issue)
� ... ��: ;... �. .. .' ·COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA · Robert P. Casey, Governor 1 DEPARTMENT...viewer. Thus geologic art is doubly valued. Pennsylvania is not represented in The Art of Geology. Yet...International Geological Con­ gress, 49 images of Pennsylvania geology were one of the main focuses of a large...the 1989 meeting of the Field Con­ ference of Pennsylvania Geologists and the 1990 meeting of the Northeastern...site near Allen­ town. At many localities in Pennsylvania, holes have been drilled into rocks to extract
Report (issue)
PENNSYLVANIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY FOURTH SERIES Bulletin M 13 FELDSPAR IN PENNSYLVANIA By RALPH W... COPYRIGHTED, 1931 BY THE Commonwealth op Pennsylvania...transmit herewith a manuscript on Feldspar in Pennsylvania by Ralph W. Stone and II. Herbert Hughes, of...tons valued at sjd.f)!)0,000. Twenty years ago Pennsylvania ranked second among the States for crude feldspar...which figures are available at time of writing) Pennsylvania held eighth place with an output of only 2052
Report (issue)
PENNSYLVANIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY FOURTH SERIES BULLETIN M 15 BUILDING STONES OF PENNSYLVANIA By RALPH... COPYRIGHTED 1932 BY THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA ADDITIONAL COPIES OF THIS PUBLICATION BUREAU...Structure 3 •> 10 Strength 10 Geology of Pennsylvania Physiography Stratigraphy Appalachian Revolut...Adams County Allegheny County Armstrong County Beaver County 19 1" -<» -- 24 -7 Bedford County -'•'...-;"» SO Perks County ;>- Blair County Bradford County Pucks County Butler County 00 03 07 77 Cambria
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
............... 298 Cambro-Ordovician rocks : Chester V alley lim estone...............................(289) 290 F. BASCOM— PIEDMONT DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA Page Igneous rocks.................. ........Geologic history o f the Piedmont district o f Pennsylvania.................................. 322 Résumé...R E L A T I O N S The Piedm ont district of Pennsylvania, forming with a width of 65 miles the southeast...reservoir, Swarfchmore College buildings, and the Chester reservoir are located on its crest, from which
Report (volume)
the ruby, sapphire, spinel, emerald, rutile, and quartz of gem quality have been synthesized. The best...Fluorite Apatite . 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Orthoclase Quartz Topaz Corundum Diamond The numbers preceding each...of silica (quartz, 7 on Moh's scale) particles, a gem stone should be harder than quartz. Some minerals...react to heat are: violet quartz (amethyst) changing to orange brown, smoky quartz to yellow, pale-green...sapphire, star sapphire, star ruby, rutile, and quartz are gem stones that have been successfully synthesized
Report (volume)
Deposits of minerals of wide distribution, such as quartz and calcite, have been omitted, except those that...value. Some minerals, such as the copper ores of Pennsylvania, are included in the list not because they occur...Oregon............Prof. A. J. Collier, Eugene. Pennsylvania.... .Mr. R. R. Hice, Beaver. Prof. Florence...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;
Report (volume)
........................................... Pennsylvania...............................................of minerals that are widely distributed, such as quartz and calcite, have been omitted, except those that...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...See Bauxite and Halloysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found
Report (edition)
SERIFS MINERAL COLLECTING PENNSYLVANIA COMMOWl FAITH OF PENNSYLVANIA PY G345/4.3 G33 1959 Snrrtary...Lapham, Davis M. Mineral Collecting in Pennsylvania c.l PENNSYLVANIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN G 33 ... MINERAL COLLECTING IN PENNSYLVANIA by Davis M. Lapham and Alan R. Geyer JMluitrationi lu _JtU... Adams County 15 Allegheny County Armstrong County Berks County Blair County Carbon County Chester...Cumberland County Delaware County Fulton County Lancaster County Lebanon County Lehigh County Monroe County
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 (article/letter/editorial)
COLLECTING THE MINERALS OF SOUTHERN PENNSYLVANIA By PAUL BROUGHTON American University, Washington 16...in southern Pennsylvania was at the West Ridge Quarry at Blue Ridge Summit, Adams County. This quarry...malachite specimens occurred as coatings on a milky quartz vein, which was uncovered near the entrance to...clearly visible from the town of Thomasville, York County, which is seven miles west of York on U. S. Route...Iron Mine of the Bethlehem Steel Co. in Cornwall, ROCKS AND MINERALS Lebanan County. This mine, I must
Report (issue)
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
 
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