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Byssolite from
Jones Mine, Morgantown, Caernarvon Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Amphibole Supergroup var: Byssolite
Formula:AX2Z5((Si,Al,Ti)8O22)(OH,F,Cl,O)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Byssolite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Jones Mine, Morgantown, Caernarvon Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:70508
Long-form Identifier:1:3:70508:0
GUID (UUID V4):29d83309-29f5-403b-ac81-1e67d1471731
Nearest other occurrences of Byssolite
4.2km (2.6 miles) Hopewell Mines, Warwick (Saint Marys), Warwick Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
11.3km (7.0 miles) Keim's Mine, French Creek Mines, Saint Peters, Warwick Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
11.3km (7.0 miles) French Creek Mines, Saint Peters, Warwick Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
13.7km (8.5 miles) Keystone Trap Rock Quarry, Cornog, Wallace Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
55.3km (34.4 miles) Wissahickon Valley, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
64.0km (39.7 miles) North East Quarry, Cecil County, Maryland, USA
References
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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 (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 .... . ...... . ..
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...traces of silver occur in Berks countv, at North Reading, in Oley township, and on Cushion Mt. 2. Native...sulphur were found by me, several Ueberroth zine mine, Priedensville, Lehigh Co., years ago, at the
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MINES CHESTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA By F. HAROLD EVANS Doylestown, Pa. FOREWORD The Pennsylvania Geological...collect some of the early and late history of this mine, that after two years of research, this paper is...not survive without the other. Specimens from this mine, have been observed in many of the large museums...History of Iron Manufacturing Chester fir Berks Co. in Pennsylvania The Colonies of New England and Virginia...this metal was found until twenty years later. Pennsylvania, which was not settled until later, started
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...Chester County Cumberland County Delaware County Fulton County Lancaster County Lebanon County Lehigh County
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...320 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:...Railroad cut east of Reading (probably Birdsboro), Berks County. White, Smith, 1910, 540. silky mass of radiating
Journal (issue)
drawer of the laboratory storage cabinet It is in the mine or quarry that one can study, not only the minerals...available to eastern Pennsylvania schools doing similar work. THE FRENCH CREEK AND JONES MINES About the... Peters in Chester County, and several places west of the point into Berks County. Two of the mining...serpentine, byssolite, and g raphite. Neither field evidence nor available data indicate that this mine has been...operation for many years. THE CHESTER-MONTGOMERY COUNTY LEAD, ZINC, AND COPPER MINES All these mines are
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
Report (volume)
THE HONEYBKOOK AND PHOENIXVILLE QUADBANGLES, PENNSYLVANIA BY F. BASCOM AND G. W. STOSE UNITED STATES...anticline__--_-----_---___-__-__-___-_-___---_. Mine Ridge anticline__---___-_-__--_---_______-___-_-_...________________________ 5. Ideal section across Mine Ridge uplift, showing deposition of Conestoga limestone...quadrangles___-___---_-_-__ 7. Map of southeastern Pennsylvania showing relation of Honeybrook uplift to South...___________ 14. Geologic map of western part of Mine Ridge anticline and Chester Valley syncline, showing
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Valley Quarry JERI L. JONES 276 North Main Street Spring Grove, Pennsylvania 17362 jlj276@aol.com LARRY...LARRY EISENBERGER 25 Filbert Street Hanover, Pennsylvania 17331 Downloaded by [University of New Mexico]...Adams County, Pennsylvania W ithin the Gettysburg-Newark section of the Piedmont in Pennsylvania lie...the Cornwall Iron mine in Lebanon County and the French Creek mine in Chester County, have yielded world-class...2.2 miles southeast of Gettysburg, Adams County, Pennsylvania, along U.S. 97. The locality was opened
Report (Issue volume)
RESOURCES Part 3, Metal Mines and Occurrences in Pennsylvania by Arthur W. Rose Mineral Conservation Section...Earth & Mineral Sciences The Pennsylvania State University PENNSYLVANIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY FOURTH SERIES...of Pennsylvania Quotations from this book may be published if credit Is given to the Pennsylvania Geological...1365, HARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA 17125 Bulletin MSO, Part 3, Sheet 1 M50 Pennsylvania Geological Survey...him. Part 3 Metal Mines and Occurrences in Pennsylvania TYPES OF DEPOSITS by Arthur W. Rose CONTENTS
Report (Issue volume)
Earth and Mineral Sciences The Pennsylvania State University PENNSYLVANIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY FOURTH SERIES...of Pennsylvania Quotations from this book may be published if credit is given to the Pennsylvania Geological... ROOM 54, MAIN CAPITOL BUILDING HARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA 17125 Bulletin M50, Part 2-8, Sheet 1 Page............ 49. Other fire clay processed at the mine: quantity ..... .. ............ .... .. .......... 31 18 53. Plastic fire clay processed at the mine: value.........................................
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was m e r e l y p a r t o f t h e waste o f t h e mine. W h a t t h e y needed was h i g h grade ore o...Jersey: L a k e Hopatcong, Greenwood L a k e Pennsylvania: S c h u y l k i l l R i v e r Vi r g i n i...Washington D.C. area visit Virginia's noted Rutherford Mine. Photograph by Dr. Virginia Lee Blackford. ical...dollars at the noted locality of Cowee Valley, Macon County, North Carolina. An enthusiastic family found and...trippers visited the well known old Rutherford mine in Amelia County, Virginia, and found bright spessartine
Report (Issue volume)
Part 1, Supplement, Limestones and Dolomites of Pennsylvania · by George F. Deasy, Phyllis R. Griess, Ronald...Earth a.nd Mineral Sciences The Pennsylvania State University PENNSYLVANIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY FOURTH SERIES...of Pennsylvania Quotations from this book may be published if credit is given to the Pennsylvania Geological...STATE BOOK STORE, P.O. BOX 1365, HARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA 17125 Bulletin MSO, Part 1, Supplement, Sheet...man-hours devoted to specific mine operations during the year 5. Mine or mine-plant equipment modernized
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Smithsonian Institution March-April: Wulfenite, Red Cloud mine, Arizona; photo by Jeffrey Scovil May-June: Calcite...Crystallized gold on quartz, Colorado Quartz mine, Mariposa County, California. © Harold and Erica Van Pelt...342 Apatite, 33, 58, 75, 220 Arizona's Red Cloud Mine: A 1985 Report, R. W. Grant, 54 Arsenopyrite, 75...Andesine Anorthosite Body Near Montpelier, Hanover County, Virginia, 57 Bowenite, 251, 266, 288 Britholite...Leber, 356 Byssolite, 282 Cahoon, J . , Minerals of Poker Hill, Cum­ berland, Providence County, Rhode Island
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
trip to Falls of French Creek where the old iron mine, dating from pre-revolutionarytimes, was to be openedagain...several channelsthat high hopeswereentertainedof the mine oncemore becominga producer of iron and that a considerablesum...Clearing up the camp we crossedthe river to the Pennsylvania Railroadstation and about 7.10the 5.38from "down...recruits: Dr. Jones and C. J. Jarden, making our company a force of six strong (all generals). Dr. Jones reported...rnind, however. The dumps yielded three types of byssolite, the fine silky hair like variety, the inclusions
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of solid rock. This specimen came from a copper mine at Bisbee, Arizona. Ray Scherzinger 6991 Valley...Kibblehouse trap rock quarry at Perkiomenville, Pennsylvania, was the site of the Nutley Mineralogical Society's...the days when the quarry was worked as a copper mine and were a specimen of malachite on trap and another...to light excellent pyrite xls., chalcopyrite, byssolite, calcite, and magnetite. A good find was made...behind the lumber yard. We hunted, thereafter for the mine, but encountered only granite quarries, and finally
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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...halotrichite occur occasionally, but on the Pennsylvania Railroad at 59th street there was an old quarry...northwesterly line between Philadelphia and Mont(romery County, it has been largely quarried for over a century...the Chestnut Hill schists at Jenkintown, North Pennsylvania Railroad, Mr. Edward D. Drown found an albite
Journal (issue)
crystals $3,500 - Calaveras County, Calif. GOLD on Quartz—$1,400 Crystal Mine, Angels Camp, Calif. GOLD—1...crystals $3,200 - Ma­ dera County, Calif. GOLD on Quartz—$2,750 Crystal Mine, Angels Camp, Calif. KRISTALLE.............. 28 by Peter B. Leavens The Bluebell Mine, Riondel, British Columbia, Canada................since then there has been no production. The major mine in the district, the Jumbo, produced 5000 tons of...copper mine at Bingham, Utah. Recently there has been some prospecting and drilling in the Jumbo mine area
Journal (issue)
Vanadinite, 2.4 cm, from the Apache mine, Arizona. Collected by Evan Jones; Jeff Scovil photo Middle row,...Miglioli photo. Fluorite, 7.4 cm, from the La Barre mine, France. Collected by Aubin Cosson; Niels Brouwer... from left: Caledonite, 1.1 cm, from the Reward mine, California. Collected by Jeff Lines; Ben DeCamp...Scovil photo. Amethyst, 12 cm, from Collegeville, Pennsylvania. Collected by Bryon Brookmyer; Wendell Wilson...Thrill of Discovery by Wendell Wilson Epilog: On Mine Safety UThe Field-CollectorsV Anthony J. Albini
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Braclforul, Egee, I.lack, _ Geist, Gordon, Hagey, Jones, I{nabe, Leffrnann, Itotheunel, Trutlell, Vanartsdalen...River with Messrs. Trvitchell, Trudell, Knabe, Jones, Biernbautn, Frankenfield, ancl others. \.ery fine...reportecl a trip to'\faril,s quarry, I)elaware County, finding very good argentine (a variety of calcite)...Flack, Frankenfielcl, Geist, Gordon, Hagey, Knabe, Jones, Leffrnan, Rosenbaurn, Rothellnel, 'Irudell, Vanartsdalen...read sorne abstracts on arnethyst and beryl in Pennsylvania. Mr. Trtrdell gave a short account of a trip
Journal (issue)
Geological Survey Richard V. Gaines Pottstown, Pennsylvania Donald R. Peacor Univ. of Michigan Abraham...Record Inc. Articles The Bunker Hill mine, Kellogg, Shoshone County, Id a h o 339 by N. Radford and J...by R. S. W. Braithwaite Barite from the Niobec mine, Chicoutimi, Quebec .....................355 by...G. Gagnon Minerals of the Yates uranium mine, Pontiac County, Quebec . 359 by D. L. Leavitt Shavano...— December, 1981 Bunker Hill the mine kellogg, shoshone county, idaho by Norman Radford P. O. Box N
 
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