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Orthoclase from
Lenni, Middletown Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA


Classification
Species:Orthoclase
Formula:K(AlSi3O8)
Comments:also,, varities lennilite and delawarite
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Orthoclase data
Locality Data:Click here to view Lenni, Middletown Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:605761
Long-form Identifier:1:3:605761:9
GUID (UUID V4):50c009b1-ce79-4dc3-8d00-b5ef166dedf2
Nearest other occurrences of Orthoclase
0.9km (0.6 miles) Glen Riddle, Middletown Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA
4.2km (2.6 miles) Feldspar Quarry, Mineral Hill, Elwyn, Middletown Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA
8.2km (5.1 miles) Media, Upper Providence Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA
9.9km (6.2 miles) Bullock's Quarry, Brandywine Summit, Chadds Ford Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA
14.0km (8.7 miles) Osborne Hill, Birmingham Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
16.8km (10.5 miles) Swain's Quarry, Pennsbury Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
17.1km (10.6 miles) Brandywine Quarry (Hubbard Quarry), Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware, USA
25.0km (15.6 miles) Falls of Schuylkill, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
27.0km (16.8 miles) McKinney's Quarry, Rittenhouse Lane, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
27.4km (17.0 miles) Nevin's Quarry, Landenberg, London Britain Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
MINERALOGY OF PENNSYLVANIA 104 Na 2Al 2 Si3 Oi .2H 2 O; SiO 2 47.4, A1 2 O 3 26.8, Na 2 O 16.3, Lenni, Delaware...Delaware County. Crystals. Eyerman, 1911, 11. Composition: Analysis: Fe 2 O3 CaO Na 2 below 115 above...LOCALITIES: Berks County: Birdsboro, and Gickerville; Delaware County: Leiperville, Lenni (druses of colorless...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
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...MINERALOGY OF PENNSYLVANIA THE MINERALOGY OF PENNSYLVANIA: PART 1 490: 425: 426: A: 1. ORTHOCLASE. 313....Easton; pink Lenni, Delaware county VIII crystals green crystals. Rocksville, Bucks county light green...green crystals. No. 1 shaft, St. Peter's, Chester county radiating, columnar crystals of light green to
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
large part of Philadelphia is covered with the Delaware River gravels and clays, but most of the streams...bank. When the inclined plane was abandoned the Pennsylvania Railroad made a curved cut through these rocks...and Crum Creeks in Delaware County, contained segregated masses of coarse orthoclase-albite-muscovite-granite...were found. Those identified are as follows: Orthoclase in fine crystals, nearly all obtained from one...granite bed near the river. Albite, found with the orthoclase, but usually somewhat decomposed, and sometimes
Book (volume)
Mineralogy of Pennsylvania. THE MINERALOGY OF PENNSYLVANIA. TIKIS Mineralogy of Pennsylvania, BY JOHN...(funth's "Preliminary Report on tlir Mineralogy of Pennsylvania,*' luted n* ...Second Geological Survey of Pennsylvania. Academy MINERALOGY OF PENNSYLVANIA. 1. SILVER. (4)i According...occur in Berks countv, at North Reading, in Oley township, and on Cushion Mt. 2. Native copper east of...page in Dr. Genth's Report. MINERALOGY OF PENNSYLVANIA. 5. GALEN1TK. (10) Galcnite occurs in many
Journal (issue)
dendritic crystallized copper from Hudson's Bay and Pennsylvania ; copper and silver “ sand,” and large ragged...crystals of martite which I had collected in Millard county. The largest group, which was sent to an Eastern...out to visit the largegneiss quarries at Lenni, Delaware County, Pennsyl vania. Boarding the train at Wilmington...started for a six or seven mile tramp across to Lenni. After about two miles walk over a muddv road...developed crystals of orthoclase and large plates of mica, we left it, and went on towards Lenni. -> But there
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(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...New York, and in New England. The valley of the Delaware is the southeast boundary of this belt. From this...crest, from which the relatively flat slope to the Delaware can be surveyed. Downloaded from https://pubs
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...Magnesite Phosphate minerals Cumberland County Juniata County 18 23 25 25 26 Potash 29 Quartz-Mint...Quartz-Mint 32 Rock salt 36 Crawford County Elk County 36 37 Erie and Forest Counties 38 McKean, Potter...inquiries about the occurrence of minerals in Pennsylvania that cannot be answered by referring the inquirer
Report (issue)
Rocks Of the Piedmont Upland Maryland, Pennsylvania And Delaware By NANCY C. PEARRE and ALLEN V. HEYL,...districts ______ -._-_____-_____-___._. Montgomery County, Md_-_-_---_---_-_-----------_-__--_-_-_Soldiers...descriptions_______________________________________ Montgomery County, Md___-_______________________.__ Etchison mine_____-_-...Index map of the Piedmont Upland, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Page and Delaware__.____________________-____--_-_-_--709...concentrates from lode mines and placer deposits in Pennsylvania and Maryland before 1900-___-_-__.-______--
Book (edition)
Tables A and Table A: Mohs' Hardness Scale 6. Orthoclase 1. Talc 2. Gypsum 7. Quartz Topaz Corundum...precious and semi-precious in Your will scratch orthoclase feldspar but not quartz. In making hardness...mine, Racooche Valley, White Co. 1866 Vs White County Daniel Light form, % mi. NE Less than 1887 ...Alabama has yielded a 4i%4 carat diamond from Shelby County, 30 miles south of Birmingham, found about 1900...Siding in St. Clair County, 20 miles northeast of Bir- mingham. One found in Lee County in 1901 weighs 4^
Journal (issue)
Minerals of Franklin and Sterling Hill, Sussex County, New Jersey U.S.G.S. Professional Paper 180 by...Minerals of Franklin and Sterling Hill, Sussex County, New Jersey, Geological Survey Professional Paper...lennilenapeite. Lennilenapeite is named in honor of the Lenni Lenape indians, who inhabited the Franklin area...Hill, which cropped out in full view. The words "Lenni Lenape" mean "the original people" in the Algonquin...assemblages from the Franklin mine, Franklin, Sussex County, New Jersey. One of these contains nelenite, triodite
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...Boulder. Connecticut_ Prof. William N. Rice, Middletown. Prof. H. E. Gregory, Sheffield Scientific School
Book
Junitoite 4 Ogdensburgite Ojuelaite O,thochrysotile Orthoclase Orthoserpierite Otavite Oyelite-like mineral...1w. An aboriginal tribe of Algonquin stock, the Lenni Lenape Indians, migrated here from west of the Mississippi...A sub-tribe of the Lenni Lenape was the Wolf Tribe which settled in Sussex County and were known as the...the Stone Country." 5 The Lenni Lenapes were later called the "Delaware" which cons isted of two other...mos t Minsi settled in the Minisink area of the Delaware, some lived along the Wallkill River, which runs
Journal (issue)
p4,, Over two million residents Arizona's Pinal County welcomes everyone as a V.I.P.!!! ?ieU S ~ , ae...MINERALS MAY-JUNE 1978, Volume 53 Number 3 PENNSYLVANIA! EXECUTIVE EDITORS Rudy Bradbury John Hanahan...Hanahan Jr Richard S. Mitchell GUEST PENNSYLVANIA EDITOR Delbert L. Oswald FOUNDER Peter Zodac MANAGING EDITOR...Schmerling 94 Pennsylvania- A Geological Gem Beth Schooler 99 The Paleontology of Western Pennsylvania Richard...Chert in Western Pennsylvania Richard L. George 108 Rare Earth Minerals from Pennsylvania Ralph G. Wells
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
HARMOTOME AND BARIUM FELDSPAR AT GLEN RIDDLE. PENNSYLVANIA Anorpn E. Mernn. Bryn Maur College,Bryn Mawr...flanked by serpentine at Glen Riddle, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. The dike is composed of two distinct...railroad cut along the Octoraro Branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad, just west of the Glen Riddle station...poorly defined) r A. GIen Riddle station. Pennsylvania Railroad, Octoraro Branch. B. Lima road. Penna...those in the dike rock were found in granite near Lenni Mills, Pa., about one half mile west of Glen Riddle
Report (volume)
--...-.--.-..-.-.----.-- ---.....--.----.----Orthoclase and niicrocline................................From the Silver King mine, Calico, San Bernardino County, Cal. Specific gravity, 6:28. Analysis by W. H...From .Teocalli Mountain, Brush Creek, Gunnison County, Colo. Specific gravity, 7.400 at 14.5°, corrected...vol. 3, pt. 1, p. 46. From the Rose mine, Grant County, N". Mex. Specific gravity, 6.644 at 20°. Probably...impurities. From the Missouri mine, Halls Valley, Park County, Colo. Analyses, by Hillebrand, of three different
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
hydrothermalin origin. Many mineralogists regard orthoclase and microcline as iden' Garnets.-W. E. Ford,...Triclinic 7 KA1Si30O P KAlSi308 a KAlSiOs8 Sanidine Orthoclase Microcline Temperature High Intermediate Low...stable; 2. That between 650o°-7oo C. and 900o C. orthoclase is stable; 3. That below 6500 C. microcline is...a minimum (Roozeboom'sType III). The 3 series,orthoclase-albite, and the a series, microcline-analbite...rate, presumablya slower one, 3 feldspars, the orthoclase-albiteseries, result at normal temperatures.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
visit. Take Rt. 224 west, I mile from 1-75 and County Rd., 140 north '12 mile. 10 good points $3.00;...to collectors. Adirondack white and platinum orthoclase moonstone. Specimen and gem cutting grades. Many...Asso. Professor of Geochemistry. Mention of Pennsylvania mineral resources to most residents generally...the state's mineral production. In the past. Pennsylvania led the nation in producrion of nickel and chromium...money order to: ORDER TODAY! ONLY $250 POSTPAID !lenni R. ClSe 225 St Pauls AveDue, Jersey City, New Jersey
Journal (issue)
anorthoclase, celsian, hyalophane, microcline, and orthoclase. Of these seven, only albite, hyalophane, and...Descloizlte Natrolite Anglesite Dolomite Orthoclase Anhydrite Edenite Otavite Anorthite Forsterite...Department E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Company Wilmington, Delaware 19898 The occurrence at the Sterling mine of...Geochemistry of the Sterling Hill zinc deposit, Sussex County, New Jersey.: Geol. Soc. Am. Bull, 69, 775-788...the hundred-some years of zinc mining in Sussex County. This article was written to help explain some
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...gem qualityagatized and opalized wood. DAWES COUNTY CHADRON, in N part of Co. and as far W as Crawford...woods, etc. DAWSON COUNTY GOTHENBURG, in sand pitspetrified palm wood. DEUEL COUNTY CHAPPELL, all regional
Report (volume)
Continued Petalite Analcime Pollucite Feldspars Orthoclase (leelite, lennilite, delawarite) Adularia Microcline...are represented either by a regional name (as a county) that does not cover too wide an area, or by the...Sussex and Passaic Counties, N. J., and Orange County, N. Y.; Cumberland, Durham, Westmorland, Northumberland...luminescence of strength indicated Weak Renfrew County, Ontario. Bovey Tracey, England. Blagodat, India...Prefecture, Japan. Greenwood, Maine_. St. Lawrence County, N. Y. Odegaard, Norway. _. Kola Peninsula, Russia
Book (edition)
is very similar in general form to Fig. 4, of orthoclase, which is monoclinic. This 46 CRYSTALLOG R...4. ORTHOCLASE. OLIGOCLASE. with one exception; but there is this difference, that in orthoclase, as...triclinic feldspars it conforms to the directions in orthoclase, with only the exception arising from the obliquity...feldspars, and is a means of distinguishing them from orthoclase. Similar twinning occurs also in calcite, and...magnetite occurring in mica at Pennsbury, in Pennsylvania. Arborescent delineations over surfaces of rock
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
potassic and passes into what is commonly known as orthoclase, and thence into microcline. Thus the Algoman...perthite? And what is the difference between orthoclase and microcline ? The attempt to answer these...The Feldspar Components The Potassium Component Orthoclase Microcline Dimorphism of the Potassium Component...occurs mixed with the potash silicate KAL2Si60,6in orthoclase built up theoretical conclusions of much interest...to make the formulas of albite, anorthite, and orthoclase more analogous to each other, we may write them
Book (volume)
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...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA
Journal (issue)
of the Iron and Zinc Mining Industry of Sussex County, New Jersey. Property ownerships covering the Franklin...analogue of stilpnomelane and is named for the Lenni-Lenape Indians." New To The Deposit LAUMONTITE...Minerals of Franklin and Sterling Hill, Sussex County, New Jersey (1935) and is reproduced here in Figure...misidentifications of the mineral hemimorphite; orthoclase is likely misidentified microcline; millerite...dump, located on Evans Road in Franklin, Sussex County, New Jersey. Once the collector is familiar with
Book (volume)
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...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA
 
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