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Saponite from
Deshong's Quarry, Leiperville, Ridley Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Saponite
Formula:Ca0.25(Mg,Fe)3((Si,Al)4O10)(OH)2 · nH2O
Comments:Occurs in a granitic pegmatite of the Wissahickon Formation.
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Saponite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Deshong's Quarry, Leiperville, Ridley Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:61175
Long-form Identifier:1:3:61175:4
GUID (UUID V4):db60c9c4-3a8a-431c-824f-95ad7dac453f
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CLASSIC PEGMATITE OCCURRENCES IN Delaware County, Pennsylvania JOSEPH J . PETERS Department of Mineral...collected from a few granite pegmatites in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia (Figure 1). The quarries...quarries, Avondale; Leiper's quarry, Springfield Township; and Deshong's quarry, Ridley-Nether Providence townships...for the manufac­ ture of snuff. Upper Avondale quarry (Figure 5), one mile south of Swarthmore where...A-310, Registrar of Deeds, Delaware County, Pennsylvania). The Springfield quarry may have been de- Figure
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...LOCALITIES: Berks County: Birdsboro, and Gickerville; Delaware County: Leiperville, Lenni (druses of... Felton's farm (Chester), and Ward's quarry; Montgomery County: Sumneytown, and Perkiomenville ; Philadelphia:...Philadelphia: Fairmount Park, Frankford, and Rit- enhouse quarry. SCOLECITE CaAl 2 Si3 Oi .3H 2 O MONOCLINIC
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Department of Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, under the identifying chairmanship of Associate...samples. Occurs in Utah, Colorado, Montana, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Canada, Mexico, Bolivia, Australia...Maine, New Hampshire, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Arizona, California...specific gravity 4.28. Ocin New York, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Mexico, Alaska, Italy, West Germany...58Maine, Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, California, Ontario, British Columbia
 
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