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Microcline from
Weber's Quarry, Ellicott City, Howard County, Maryland, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Microcline
Formula:K(AlSi3O8)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Microcline data
Locality Data:Click here to view Weber's Quarry, Ellicott City, Howard County, Maryland, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:657314
Long-form Identifier:1:3:657314:0
GUID (UUID V4):14f25a84-2cff-4c73-b9c2-cf1349df743f
Nearest other occurrences of Microcline
2.8km (1.7 miles) Mount Saint Clement College Quarry, Ilchester, Howard County, Maryland, USA
4.9km (3.0 miles) Hollofield Feldspar Quarries, Hollofield, Baltimore County, Maryland, USA
6.7km (4.2 miles) Arlington No. 2 Quarry, Howard County, Maryland, USA
7.2km (4.5 miles) Arlington No. 1 Quarry, Howard County, Maryland, USA
7.2km (4.5 miles) Frost Quarry, Davis, Howard County, Maryland, USA
11.6km (7.2 miles) Hilton Quarry, Baltimore City, Maryland, USA
13.3km (8.3 miles) Marriottsville Quarry, Hernwood, Baltimore County, Maryland, USA
13.7km (8.5 miles) Parlet Prospect, Simpsonville, Howard County, Maryland, USA
16.0km (9.9 miles) McMahon Quarry (Greenspring Quarry), Bare Hills, Baltimore County, Maryland, USA
16.0km (9.9 miles) Jones Falls Quarries, Baltimore City, Maryland, USA
References
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Report (volume)
CHAPTER II. GRANITES OP MARYLAND ...................................... The Maryland Piedmont region.......102395 4 CONTENTS. CHAPTER II. GRANITES OF MARYLAND Continued. PageScientific discussion Continued................................... 49 Individual quarry areas................................................................................... 51 Ellicott City area................................................ 51 Baltimore County .................................... 51 Howard County....................
Book (volume)
pink Lenni, Delaware county VIII crystals green crystals. Rocksville, Bucks county light green crystals...crystals. No. 1 shaft, St. Peter's, Chester county radiating, columnar crystals of light green to pink color...green variety. P & R mine, Siesholtzville, Berks county. (W. Headden) B light ; ; ; 1 : G SiO, ...Iky -white; semi-fibrous; Pusey's quarry, Kenneth Square, Chester county. 10: Altered, very hydrous; Oakford...found near Lamborn's mill, Kenneth Square, Chester county. GARNET. 370. 431: Grossularite, light yellow-brown
Journal (issue)
Los Angeles County Museum Acquires Outstanding Micromount Collection Tony Nikischer tony@excaliburmineral...year, the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County acquired the remarkable combined micromount collections...Hotel, opposite Madison Square Garden in New York City, that Julie patiently pointed out to me that my...rattlesnakes only kill nine people per year in the USA, which has a population 4,000 times that of Amami...one of three rooms devoted to the collection at Weber's home in Mamaroneck,N.Y. While I did not know Lou
Show/Event (guide)
Arizona 85715 Editor and Publisher Map of the City .............................. 31 Wendell E. Wilson...Graphics Services Capitol Communication Crofton, Maryland C olor Separations Hollis Phototechnics Tucson...Tucson, Arizona Printing Waverly Press Easton, Maryland c, 1988 The Mineralogical Record All rights reserved...a little background on the city itself. Tucson is today a fast-growing city of well over half a million...for over a thou­ sand years, making it the oldest city in North America. In fact, it may have been occupied
Report (issue)
Survey, jefEerson City. MARYLAND GEOLOGICAL VOLUME TWO SURVEY MARYLAND GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...President. GOVERNOR OF MARYLAND. PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROTJGH, COMPTROLLER OF MARYLAND. DANIEL C. GILMAN,...SILVESTER, ...... Seceetaey. PRESIDENT OF THE MARYLAND AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. SCIENTIFIC STAFF Wm.... To His Excellency Lloyd Lowndes, Governor of Maryland and President of the Geological Survey Cominission...herewith the second volume of the reports of the Maryland Geological Survey. The several scientific articles
Journal (issue)
Articles Native gold from the Jamestown mine, Tuolumne County, California...................................... Burr Adularia from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland ............................OF PHILIP RASHLEIGH, O r M ENAB1LLY, IN THE COUNTY OF C O R N W A LL, ESQ, M .P . F . R .S . AND F... v.8/#6 California Issue Benitoite, Gold, L.A. County Museum, Himalaya mine $7 Circulation Manager ...$7 v.I5/#5 Jacupiranga mine (Bra­ zil), Jensen quarry (CA), Cunha Baixa mine, Paulkerrite $7 v,15/#6
Report (issue)
4, A1 2 O 3 26.8, Na 2 O 16.3, Lenni, Delaware County. Crystals. Eyerman, 1911, 11. Composition: Analysis:...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:...Philadelphia: Fairmount Park, Frankford, and Rit- enhouse quarry. SCOLECITE CaAl 2 Si3 Oi .3H 2 O MONOCLINIC ...cut east of Reading (probably Birdsboro), Berks County. White, Smith, 1910, 540. silky mass of radiating
Journal (issue)
Carson City, NV 89701 702-883-2598 Bookstore Marilee Chirila 1601 Fairview Dr., Suite C Carson City, NV...Yucaipa, California 92399 Tel: (714) 797-2591 Weber's Minerals 605 San D ieguito Drive Encinitas, California...found in association with large, blocky, green microcline (amazonite) crystals and extremely small, black...Lacroix reported pseudomorphs of gibbsite after microcline crystals. Hambergite Be2B 0 3(OH) Hambergite...oina (after Lacroix, 1922). Microcline KAlSi30 8 Amazonite microcline, in all shades from the palest
Journal (issue)
Carson City, NV 89701 702-883-2598 Bookstore Marilee Chirila 1601 Fairview Dr., Suite C Carson City, NV...Three mine pegmatites, Ramona district, San Diego County, California ............................101 by...Three property in the Ramona district, San Diego County, California. This mine, strictly speaking, is developed...for the other pegmatite gem mines in San Diego County, the collapse o f the Chinese tourmaline market...pegmatite. Coarse-grained albite and intermediate microcline-hosted perthite (Stern et al., 1986, Table 1)
Journal (issue)
Rosenzweig Tampa, FL Richard W. Thomssen Carson City, NV photography: Nelly Bariand Sorbonne Paris,...307 by ]. P. Cassedanne Mineralogy of the Kalkar quarry, Santa Cruz, California..........................R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur...Minerals Mineral & Needle Craft Creations, Inc. Quarry Enterprises Wallingford, CT Oceanside, NY John...South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Rapid City, South Dakota 57701 INTRODUCTION The Black Hills
Journal (issue)
Alves Mineralogy of the Bennett pegmatite, Oxford County, Maine ........................................../# 6 C alifornia Issue B enitoite, G old, L .A . County M useum , H im alaya m ine $7 Circulation Manager...richer in giant crystals of rose-colored microcline, green microcline (commonly surrounded by an albite rim)...present have not been determined. Microcline KAlSi30 8 Microcline, as the green variety “ am azonite...cleavage-plane replacement zones. Large blocks of pink microcline displaying an aesthetic granitic texture are
Journal (issue)
large pegmatite mass which at the west end of the quarry reached a thickness of about 30 m. The pegmatite...reach up to 1-2 m in length. The feldspar is microcline without the ordinary cross-hatching, but shows...shows an irregular twin structure (moire-microcline). It contains a very small amount of albite only; according...phenocrysts of feldspar and quartz. The feldspar is microcline microperthite with a considerable amount of albite...cryptoperthite. It closely corresponds to the microcline microperthites of the Julianehaab District described
Journal (issue)
Rosenzweig Tampa, FL Richard W. Thomssen Carson City, NV Associate Photographers Nelly Bariand Sorbonne...and Book Sales Gale Thomssen RO. Box 1656 Carson City, NV 89702 Design Wendell E. Wilson Subscriptions...Mineralogical Record Book Dept., R O . Box 1656, Carson City, NV 89702. Tel: 702-883-2598 Prepaid orders only...I return it by mail.” George F. Kunz of New York City wrote on September 10th, 1887: “If you should get...JVlmcralogml Record Book^Dept. P.O. BOX 1656, CARSON CITY, NEVADA 89702 TEL.: 702-883-2598 120 Prepaid orders
Journal (issue)
business-card printers. Every reasonably large town or city has at least one company specializing in business...Schacht (who was bom Horace Greele} Schacht in the USA), President of the German Reichsbank. In du< course...overall light smoky shade, and one from Saline County, Arkansas, failed to turn color at all. Crystals...“Hot Springs area” * “Hot Springs area” Lincoln County Veta Grande Claim, Yuma Co. Arkansas Arkansas...limited to those along Charlies Creek in Towns County, Georgia, and those of The Mineralogical Record
Journal (issue)
Rosenzweig Tampa, FL Richard W. Thomssen Carson City, NV Associate Photographers Nelly Bariand Sorbonne...Gale Thomssen 1601 Fairview Dr., Suite C Carson City, NV 89701 702-883-2598 Bookstore Marilee Chirila...Jones, Shipping 1601 Fairview Dr., Suite C Carson City, NV 89701 702-883-2598 Subscriptions • Individuals... Mira Loma, Cali- RED CLOUD MINE SITE, YU M A COUNTY. ARIZONA WULFENITE, Red Ckud M m 7 JTQ MINERAL...Al-Mahaden (Arabic 297 Figure 1. A view o f the city of Almaden, with mine workings in the foreground
Journal (issue)
Rosenzweig Tampa, F t Richard W. Thomssen Carson City, NV Associate Photographers Nelly Bariand Sorbonne...and Book Sales Gale Thomssen RO. Box 1656 Carson City, NV 89702 Design Wendell E. Wilson Subscriptions...Vochten & G. Brizzi The Alice Glory Hole, Clear Creek County, Colorado ................................185 by...M. Kohler & L. Minnaar Garnet Hill, White Pine County, Nevada .........................................has only now come to light. Died, Howard Belsky, 28, of cancer. Howard Belsky, owner of Howard’s Minerals
Journal (issue)
the mineralogy of the Majuba Hill mine, Pershing County, Nevada .........................................tourmaline discoveries in Maine. In the Limecrest quarry they uncovered dravite crystals over a meter in...have held the Majuba Hill property in Pershing County, Nevada, since Gulf Chemical relinquished it, hoping...species known from the Majuba Hill mine(s), Pershing County, Nevada. Agardite-(Ce) Agardite-(Y) Albite Anatase...JENSEN, M. C. (1985) The Majuba Hill mine, Pershing County, Nevada. Mineralogical Record, 16, 57-72. MacKENZIE
Journal (issue)
Rosenzweig Tampa, FL Richard W. Thomssen Carson City, NV Associate Photographers Nelly Bariand Sorbonne...Gale Thomssen 1601 Fairview Dr., Suite C Carson City, NV 89701 702-883-2598 Design Wendell E. Wiison...Three Articles The Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County, A rizona by G. B. Allen & W. Hunt 139 James...Record Bookstore, 1601 Fairview, Suite C, Carson City, Nevada 89701. Satisfaction is guaranteed. CALL...Colorado 80403 W illiam Hunt 10350 Andover Avenue Sun City, Arizona 85351 he Tonopah-Belmont mine is a micromounter’s
Journal (issue)
Cassedanne A vivianite occurrence in Contra Costa County,California ... 337 by C. B. DeWitt Essay: minerals...localities: The Phoenixville lead-silver mines, Chester County, Pennsylvania ...................................not an advertiser we commonly give his address or city so that readers may track him down. In total, many...identified at a new location in the city of Walnut Creek, Contra Costa County, California. The occurrence is...3 cm across. Figure 5. Map of a portion of the city of Walnut Creek showing the vivianite occurrence
Journal (issue)
287 288 293 353 A hornfels unit in the Poudrette quarry .................................................and J.Van Velthuizen Figure 1. The Poudrette quarry in the summer of 1988. Photo by L. Horvath. 284...associations are listed with the descriptions. Quarry maps have not been included because the precise...of many past finds in the quarry were never recorded, and because the quarry has changed so much over...mountain lies about 40 km east of Montreal in Rouville County, Quebec, very close to and clearly visible from
Journal (issue)
Rosenzweig Tampa, FL Richard W. Thomssen Carson City, NV photography: Nelly Bariand Sorbonne Paris,...R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur...Mineralogical Record Book Dept., P.O. Box 1656, Carson City, NV 89702. GONIOMETER PINS Our bronze lapel pin...Mineralogical Record Book Department, P.O. Box 1656, Carson City, NV 89702. GREEK NEWSLETTER A bimonthly, bilingual...Mineralogical Record Book Dept. (P.O. Box 1656, Car­ son City, NV 89702) at $70 for the two plus $4 postage ($1
Journal (issue)
Jr. Inesite from the Hale Creek mine, Trinity County, California..........................................................359 by W. E. Wilson Carson City. NV 89702 Design Wendell E. Wilson Subscriptions... Large diamond crystal, 28 carats, from Liagsu County, Shangdong Province, China. (All specimens pictured...rare mineral found only at Hsianghualin, Linwu County, Hunan Province, China. There followed a very large...dolomite matrix, from the Yanwuping mine, Wanshan County, Guizhou Prov-ince, China. (Ed. Note: This specimen
Journal (issue)
Menzies Pink topaz from the Thomas Range, Juab County, U ta h .........................................contents. The Brown Derby No. 1 pegmatite in Gunnison County, Colorado, is described by Rosenberg (1972). In...type May also be hydrotherm al Quartz, albite, microcline (incl. amazonite), zinnwaldite, fluorite, iron...phenakite, rarely spessartine, tourmaline Quartz, microcline, albite, lepidolite/muscovite, tourmaline, fluorite...forms very showy specimens, with smoky quartz, microcline, zinnwaldite mica, and rarer fluorite and hematite
Journal (issue)
Fluocerite-(Ce) and other minerals from the Little Patsey quarry ........... 429 by M . I. Jacobson & M . W. Smith...cm tall, and came from the Eureka mine, Tuolumne County, California. The specimen, now in the Smithsonian...ontecito, California 93108 Tel: (805) 969-0442 Weber's Minerals 605 San D ieguito Drive E ncinitas, C...PUBLISHING P.O. Box 37072, Tucson, Arizona 85740 USA Richard A. Bideaux, General Partner (602) 297-4862...to produce curved laths. K-feldspar, probably microcline, occurs as white crystals 1 to 10 cm in size
Journal (issue)
Fluocerite-(Ce) and other minerals from the Little Patsey quarry ........... 429 by M . I. Jacobson & M . W. Smith...cm tall, and came from the Eureka mine, Tuolumne County, California. The specimen, now in the Smithsonian...ontecito, California 93108 Tel: (805) 969-0442 Weber's Minerals 605 San D ieguito Drive E ncinitas, C...PUBLISHING P.O. Box 37072, Tucson, Arizona 85740 USA Richard A. Bideaux, General Partner (602) 297-4862...to produce curved laths. K-feldspar, probably microcline, occurs as white crystals 1 to 10 cm in size
 
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