 | | Report (issue) | | Lansfordite MgCO3 • 5H2 O c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data: Monoclinic....shale roof of an anthracite coal mine (Nesquehoning, Pennsylvania, USA); in a hydromagnesite deposit (Atlin...Distribution: In the USA, from Nesquehoning, near Lansford, Carbon Co., Pennsylvania; near the Robinson...Name: For its occurrence near Lansford, Pennsylvania, USA. References: (1) Palache, C., H. Berman,...Canterford, and F.J. Moyle (1982) New data for lansfordite. Mineral. Mag., 46, 453–457. (3) Bai-Nian Liu |  | Nestola, Fabrizio, Kasatkin, Anatoly V., Potapov, Sergey S., Chervyatsova, Olga YA., Lanza, Arianna (2017) First crystal-structure determination of natural lansfordite, MgCO3·5H2O. Mineralogical Magazine, 81 (5) 1063-1071 doi:10.1180/minmag.2016.080.152 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | First crystal-structure determination of natural lansfordite, MgCO3·5H2O FABRIZIO NESTOLA1,*, ANATOLY V. KASATKIN2...determination of natural MgCO3·5H2O, mineral lansfordite, in comparison with previous structural works...arrangement. Our new data confirm that natural lansfordite can be stable for several months at room temperature...carbonate, lansfordite, X-ray diffraction, structure, stability. Introduction LANSFORDITE is a monoclinic...of Lansford, Pennsylvania, USA (hence the name of the mineral), subsequently lansfordite was recognized |  | | Report (issue) | | 13 39.06 Total 99.76 100.00 (1) Lansford, Pennsylvania, USA; average of four analyses. (2) Mg(HCO3 )(OH)...caves due to loss of CO2 in waters. Association: Lansfordite, dypingite, calcite, aragonite, artinite, hydromagnesite...Distribution: In the USA, from Nesquehoning, near Lansford, Carbon Co., Pennsylvania; near the Robinson...at Nesquehoning, Pennsylvania, USA. Type Material: Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA, 3 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | flattened crystals and crystalline aggregates of lansfordite up to 18 mm in size associated with aragonite...product of lansfordite, MgCO3·5H2O. The type locality of nesquehonite is No. 1 Tunnell at Nesquehoning anthracite...anthracite mine, Nesquehoning near Lansford, Pennsylvania, USA, where it forms pseudomorphs and crystals...crystals formed by dehydration of lansfordite (Genth, Penfield 1890). Other well-known localities of nesquehonite...pseudomorphs of nesquehonite after aggregates of lansfordite The powder X-ray diffraction data crystals. Photo |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | DECEMBER t982, VOL. 46, PP. 453-7 New data for lansfordite R. J. HILL, J. H. CANTERFORD, AND F. J. MOYLE...Euhedral crystals of the low-temperature mineral lansfordite, MgCO 395H20, have been prepared from saturated...mineral lansfordite occurs as short, colourless to white, prismatic crystals (fig. 1) at Nesquehoning, Carbon...Carbon County, Pennsylvania, at Atlin, British Columbia, and at Cogne, Piedmont, Italy (Palache et al....Following its initial discovery by Genth (1888), lansfordite received regular attention for some 50 years |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | B. A. A. of leucite from different lavas. Lansfordite and Nesquehonite. By F. A. GENTHand S. L. PENFIELD... J . Sci.[33,39,131-137).-Under the name of lansfordite, Qenth (Abstr., 1888, 793) described a new mineral...in one of the anthracite mines near Lansford, Pennsylvania. Analysis gave results corresponding with the...where it was found, the Nesquehoning mine being one of the best known in Pennsylvania. The crystallisation...from the Nesquehoning mine were found to be pseudomorphs of nesquehonite after lansfordite, and from |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Creek mines, in Chester County, were first visited. At Robeson, Berks County, a number of zeolites were...obtained, including epidesmine; at Cornwall, Lebanon County: pytite' chalcopyrite, magnetite, calcite, serpentine... 2)$ km. southeast of Moore'g Mill, Cumberland County: wavellite, beraunite, cacoxenite, and strengite'...Permission was secured to visit the No. 1 Tunnel at Nesquehoning, where la^nsforditeand nesquehonite were found...the "Fifty-foot vein." Colorlessstalactites of lansfordite up to 8 cm. in length were obtained, showing |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Permission was secured to visit the No. 1 Tunnel at Nesquehoning, where la^nsforditeand nesquehonite were found...the "Fifty-foot vein." Colorlessstalactites of lansfordite up to 8 cm. in length were obtained, showing...obtained on the wall, coated with crystals of lansfordite (since altered) in front, and exhibiting solid |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | anthracite mines of Nesquehoning near Lansford, Schuyllkill County, Pennsylvania, and a ®rst description...occurrence of nesquehonite as a pseudomorph after lansfordite, MgCO3 5H2O, formed by dehydration of the pentahydrate...other known hydrated magnesiumcarbonates: in lansfordite, MgCO3 5H2O (Liu et al., 1990) all MgO6 octahedra...Zhou XT, Cui XS, Tang JG (1990) Synthesis of lansfordite MgCO3 5H2O and its crystal structure investigation |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | e:1.519). The specimen is from Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. The DTA curve is characterizedby three endothermic...is from No. 2 Tunnel, Nesquehoning Carbon Company, Nesquehoning, Pennsylvania. The doublet endothermic...Nesquehonite Reaction product HzO HzO H:O oHMgo? Lansfordite Schroeckingerite Exothermic l+J 175 Area...The specimen is from St. Peter,s Dome, El paso County, Colorado. The DTA c.rve is practically identical...the curves discussedabove for nesquehoniteand lansfordite save in this casethe water of crystallization |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | ceilcontents F nrmrrle P2t/n Czns MgCOr.3HrO z:4 Lansfordite P2t/m Cznz MgCOr'5H:O z:4 Artinite MgCOa'Mg(OH)z'3HzO...well-crystallized mass of needles on serpentine from San Benito County, California. The individual crystals were 2_-4mm...of nesquehonite was from the type Iocality at Nesquehoning, Pa. obtained from the mineral collection of...crystal grown from silica gel media by S. Sommers. Lansfordite is not stable at room temperature. The type locality |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | equilibria 7 Mineralogy of nesquehonite and lansfordite 12 Field of low CO2 concentrations 14 Field of...curves for basic 11 magnesium carbonates 11 7. Lansfordite crystals 8. Equilibrium titration curve for Mg(OH)...crystallographic and optical characteristics of lansfordite, MgCO3 '5H2 0 14. Results of analyses of liquid...for experiments 30, 32, and 33, where they are lansfordite (MgCO3. 5H 2 0). TABLE 2. Characteristics of...2 mm thick: Mineralogy of Nesquehonite and Lansfordite Nesquehonite (MgCO3. 3H20) ° ° ° d:d 49 6' |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 399 ROCKS AND MINERALS THE PENNSYLVANIA ANTRACITE REGIONS By J. KENNETH FISHER 147 Fairlamb Avenue...Havertown, Pa. In Eastern Pennsylvania, the term "The Coal Regions" means the Pennsylvania Anthracite Area. The...carbonates, nesquehonite and lansfordite, from the old No. 1 Tunnel at Nesquehoning ; numerous rock crystals...spent a few years in the anthracite mines of Pennsylvania, chiefly at Tamaqua, as a young mining engineer |  | | 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 |  | | Book | | Series 1 ROCKS AND MINERALS OF PENNSYLVANIA COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND...TOPOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGIC SURVEY COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA Edward G. Rendell, Governor DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION...R., 1969, Mineral Collecting in Pennsylvania (3rd ed.): Pennsylvania Geological Survey, 4th ser., General...Series 1 Rocks and Minerals of Pennsylvania by John H. Barnes PENNSYLVANIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY FOURTH SERIES...H., 2004, Rocks and minerals of Pennsylvania (4th ed.): Pennsylvania Geological Survey, 4th ser., Educational |  | | Journal (issue) | | Ccurrence. Sometimes a village or township and a county, or a village and a state have the same name and...happens that the village or city 1s not 1n the county of the same name nor even in the state. For example...counties in Pennsylvania noted for minerals. Chester is also a large city in Delaware County. We have frequently...Was the locality the city of Chester or Chescer County ? Worse still, we have run across items in which...Texas; to the one who knows, it is Texas, Lancaster County, Penn. Another instance are the frequent references |  | | 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 .... . ...... . .. |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur...Vanadinite from the J. C. Holmes claim, Santa Cruz County, A rizona........................................light and clouds of vapor rising over eastern Pennsylvania. There 99 was no lightning or noise of any...currence. Sometimes a village or township and a county, or a village and a state have the same name and...hap pens that the village or city is not in the county of the same name nor even in the state. For example |  | | Journal (issue) | | little town of Engle (in the eastern part of Sierra County in S. W. New Mexico). Engle is east o f Hot Springs...goes through Audubon to Oaks, in southeastern Pennsylvania, is an old copper mine. In one cave-i n a collector...11 village in the eastern part of West • chtster County in the southeastern part of New York. An1ong the...almost in the: northwest corner of Maricopa County; the county is in the southwestern part of the state...eastern Sussex Natron is a hydrous sodium carbonate, County in the northern part of the state. white in color |  | | Report (issue) | | (1) Pieds des Monts, Quebec, Canada. (2) Amherst County, Virginia, U.S. A. Ref.: Kauffman, A.J. Jr., and...) 3 . 18HzO Loe.: Ref.: Springhill, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, Canada. Gabinet, M.P.: Min. Sbornik...Glaucophane; Uto, Sweden. Hexagonite; St. Lawrence County, New York, U.S.A. Hornblende; Bilin, Bohemia. Kaersutite;... Greenland . Mountain Cork; Buckingham, Ottawa County, Quebec. Nephrite; New Zealand. Richte rite; Lang...Sweden. Tremolite; Nordmark, Sweden. Uralite; Ottawa County, Quebec, Canada. Winchite; Jhabua State, India |  | | Book | | for the first time; demonstrated that diamond is carbon. gaylussite, Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1778-1850)...(1848); professor of chemistry, University of Pennsylvania (1872-1888); described numerous new mineral...mineral species; wrote first mineralogy of Pennsylvania. dawsonite, John William Dawson (1820-1899), Canadian...Canada, rynersonite, Rynerson family of San Diego County, California, sicklerite, Sickler family of Pala...Madagascar. cebollite, Cebolla Creek, Gunnison County, Colorado, doloresite, Dolores River in Colorado |  | Palache, Charles, Berman, Harry, Frondel, Clifford (1951) The System of Mineralogy (7th ed.) Vol. 2 - Halides, Nitrates, Borates, Carbonates, Sulfates, Phosphates, Arsenates, Tungstates, Molybdates, Ect. John Wiley and Sons, New York. | Book (volume) | | Verde Valley, Yavapai County, Arizona. In Nevada along the Virgin River in Clark County, and in distorted...distorted crystals from Humboldt County. From Borax Lake, San Bernardino County, California. In the Permian basin...near Silver City, New Mexico; Tombstone, Cochise County, Arizona; in the Rand district and in the Calico...Calico and Barstow mines, San Bernardino County, California. A mass of cerargyrite weighing over six tons...Bullfrog district, Nye County, and in the Rochester district, Halides 14 Humboldt County. In the Silver City |  | | Book | | for the anion sites when these are occupied by carbon and surrounded by three oxygens which are situated...directly measures the distance C-O from the nearest carbon. The unit is ahex, so that C-O = abex . Xhex. The...related by the binary axis through the oxygen and the carbon center. The 0-0 distance of 2.22 Awithin a C0 3...calculations they tried different z coordinates for carbon (zc) and oxygen (zo), i.e. they allowed for a possible...related by a binary axis through the oxygen and the carbon. The cooperation of these axes with the centers |  | | Journal (issue) | | bom on May 5, 1837, in Saxonburg, Butler County, Pennsylvania, the eldest of three sons of the John A...that no adequately detailed map of that part of Pennsylvania was to be had. Colonel Roebling remem bered...65 cm (17.85 car ats), from Murfreesboro, Pike County, Arkan sas (#R 2). Photo by Chip Clark. The M...Gold group, 2.5 cm, from Brown’s Flat, Tuolumne County, California (#R41). Photo by Dane Penland. Figure...Gold group, 8 cm tall, from Grass Valley, Nevada County, California (#R36). Photo by Dane Penland. Figure |
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