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Orthoclase from
Kibblehouse Quarry, Perkiomenville, Marlborough Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Orthoclase
Formula:K(AlSi3O8)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Orthoclase data
Locality Data:Click here to view Kibblehouse Quarry, Perkiomenville, Marlborough Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:722005
Long-form Identifier:1:3:722005:0
GUID (UUID V4):608b79c6-bee2-4321-b938-825e557f039a
Nearest other occurrences of Orthoclase
26.1km (16.2 miles) French Creek Mines, Saint Peters, Warwick Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
32.8km (20.4 miles) Hopewell Mines, Warwick (Saint Marys), Warwick Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
41.2km (25.6 miles) McKinney's Quarry, Rittenhouse Lane, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
42.2km (26.2 miles) Falls of Schuylkill, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
43.6km (27.1 miles) Media, Upper Providence Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA
45.2km (28.1 miles) Feldspar Quarry, Mineral Hill, Elwyn, Middletown Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA
46.0km (28.6 miles) Osborne Hill, Birmingham Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
47.6km (29.6 miles) Glen Riddle, Middletown Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA
47.8km (29.7 miles) Lenni, Middletown Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA
49.5km (30.7 miles) Chestnut Hill, Easton, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, USA
References
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T H E KIBBLEHOUSE QUARRY by F . A . K E I D E L 705 Prospect Ave. WUmington, Delaware 19809 Few localities...as has the Kibblehouse Quarry. Many in­ teresting discoveries have been made at the Quarry and the diligent...able to find much worth taking home. The Kibblehouse Quarry is located 30 miles northwest of Philadelphia...east of the town of Perkiomenville, Pennsylvania in picturesque Mont­ gomery County. It is a moderately...moderately sized quarry with active workings about 1000 by 700 feet. Unfor­ tunately insurance requirements forced
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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
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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
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THL Y Contents for April, 1941 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY .................................................................................... THE OVER-MONTGOMERY- SCHORTMANN EXHIBITION SALE- JANUARY 17 · 18...OPAL MINE ........................ KIBBLEHOUSE QUARRY, PERKIOMENVILLE, PA. By William F. Haeberle .......Quatty INCOMPLETE LOCAl _.lTIES 'fhe Over - Montgomery - Schortmann I:xhibition SaJe held in New York...specimens whose localities are given simply as a county or province, or what is worse yet, state or country
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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
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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 (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...given in the categories of : 1. name and location ( county, state, quadrangle, latitude, and longitude) 2...stream, or town. County, State, Quadrangle, Latitude, Longitude Information in the county, state, quadrangle
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t~ Jo,,. (!Jciol,,.,, 191/..2. CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY ............................................................................... 352 A LIMESTONE QUARRY IN QUARRYVILLE, PENN. By Peter Zodac ............indoors. How much better to find a mineral in the quarry wall or waste dumps than in the drawer of the laboratory...laboratory storage cabinet It is in the mine or quarry that one can study, not only the minerals themselves...type of localities are available to eastern Pennsylvania schools doing similar work. THE FRENCH CREEK
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diabase, west-central New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania 141 By Jonathan M. Husch An overview of early...faulting and diabase intrusion, Newark basin, Pennsylvania 176 By Nicholas M. Ratcliffe and William C....selected early Mesozoic copper occurrences in Pennsylvania 320 By R.C. Smith II, S.W. Berkheiser, Jr.,...uranium-bearing sequences in the Newark basin, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and the San Juan basin, New...Palisades sill near the Ramapo fault in Rockland County, New York, as an intrusion of fine-grained diabase
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1973—12th Annual Gem and Mineral Festival of the Oxford County Mineral and Gem Association to be held at the Field...International Swap and Show of T h e Jefferson County Rock and Mineral Club w i l l be held at the Fairgrounds...Maine. 04107 July 26-29, 1973. Eighth Annual Macon County Gem-Boree w i l l be held i n the Franklin H i...M i n ­ eral Displays. Aug. 4, 5, 1973 — Fulton County Mineral Club w i l l hold its 13th Annual Swapping...70 SPECIMENS Archimedes S p i r a l — Bryozoa Orthoclase — X L Portion G i a u b o r i t e — ' / . " X
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...Robert C. Smith II of Penn State, and Arthur Montgomery of Lafayette College for information on some
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Contents for July-August, 1950 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY ................................................................. 363 WORLD'S LARGEST SANDSTONE QUARRY ............ ....................................--v,-- _ ......... ,., :,,..v CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY ---------------•••-••_,..............,..._,..,...for 1950 June 4 -· Strickland Quarry, Portland, Cooo. June 18 - Silox Quarry, No. Stonington, Conn. July...September 24 - Westfield, Mass. October 8 - Slocum Quarry. October 22 - To Be Announced. November 5 - To
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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...of the mines of clay and shale companies in Pennsylvania supplying data for use in Part 2-B, of this...concerning 106 clay and shale mines operating in Pennsylvania during 1965 are given on 79 maps of the State
Report (issue)
LEAD OCCURRENCES IN PENNSYLVANIA Robert C. Smith, II COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL...ZINC AND LEAD OCCURRENCES IN PENNSYLVANIA Robert C. Smith, II PENNSYLVANIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY FOURTH SERIES...1977 Copyright 1977 by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Quotations from this book may be published...published if credit is given to the Pennsylvania Geological Survey COVER ILLUSTRATION: Photograph of 1852 lithograph...STATE BOOK STORE, P. O. BOX 1365 HARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA 17125 PREFACE The purpose of this report is
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Lower Miocene columnar basalt in the Narre Warren Quarry, near Melbourne, Australia. The minerals are believed...assemblages have been mapped in exposed basaltic rock in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, and eastern Iceland....seawater followed faults along the eastern coast of County Antrim and was the fluid in the cavities that produced...HEXOCTAHEDRON {345} TRISOCTAHEDRON {233} BOYLSTONE QUARRY, BOYLSTONE QUARRY GLASGLOW, SCOTLAND, U.K. GLASGLOW, SCOTLAND...across, with cube faces from the Magheramore Quarry, Lame, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, U.K.; SEM photo
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Lower Miocene columnar basalt in the Narre Warren Quarry, near Melbourne, Australia. The minerals are believed...assemblages have been mapped in exposed basaltic rock in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, and eastern Iceland....seawater followed faults along the eastern coast of County Antrim and was the fluid in the cavities that produced...HEXOCTAHEDRON {345} TRISOCTAHEDRON {233} BOYLSTONE QUARRY, BOYLSTONE QUARRY GLASGLOW, SCOTLAND, U.K. GLASGLOW, SCOTLAND...across, with cube faces from the Magheramore Quarry, Lame, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, U.K.; SEM photo
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...active mines, 1962 .. 2. Types of active mines (quarry andjor underground) 3. Number of months that mines
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January, 1948 QE 3s / .Rc, CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY .................................................Association 2 ROCKS AND MINERALS CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY Ro - NORTHWEST FEDERATION CONVENTION Bozeman...the old Dixon 9uarry and its minerals and Way's quarry and its minerals. An article on the vivianite occurrences...Colorado, a small tributary to Grand Lake ( Grand County ) . Near the top of the view are remnants of potholes...Among the locations to be visited are the Mel. drum quarry, near Tavistock, Devon, where green topaz and green
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ADULARIA Adu Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54...Iron-manganese phosphates of the Williams pegmatites, Coosa County, Alabama (by P. B. Leavens & T. A. Simpson) 6:66-73...ALICE GLORY HOLE The Alice glory hole, Clear Creek County, Colorado (by T. A. Hanson & W. B. Craft) 18:185187...--and W. Hunt: The Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County, Arizona 19:139-144 ALLGOOD, GENNE MYERS --and...Allgood, J. Pradenas: Gold occurrences in Tuolumne County, California 18:41-45, 18:62-64 --with W. H. Wilkinson
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The French Creek mine, St. Peters, Chester County, Pennsylvania......................................105...address of Kustos is P.O. Box 332, Stewartstown, Pennsylvania 17363 (telephone 717-993-6930; fax 717-993-9036)...3 /# l D ohrm ann G old collec­ tion, G illette quarry (CT), Spanish fluorite $12 H ouston M useum Catalog...Geochemistry of the Sterling Hill zinc deposit, Sussex County, New Jersey. Geological Society o f America Bulletin...minerals of Franklin and Sterling Hill, Sussex County, New Jersey. United States Geological Survey Pro­
Journal (issue)
CONTENTS FOR FEBRUARY, 1946 , s r CHIPS FR OM THE QUARRY ................................................................ . jEFFERSITE FIRST FOUND IN PENNSYLVANIA ......................................... .................. . THE MINERALS OF BLUEBERRY MT. QUARRY, WOBURN, MASS. By f ero,ne 1\if. Eisenbe,•g ............ . FLUORESCENT MINERALS AT KiBBL EHOUSE QUARRY. By C. A . Tho,nas R & M MEMBER HAD BEEN INTERNED...topography of the Little Cottonwood Area, Salt Lake County, Utah, are here described, and the geologic history
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of M assachusetts, Connecticut, New jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia , Maryland , North Carolina, and other...geology of Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland , North Carolina, and South...appropriate, the applicable early Mesozoic basin, State, county, or 7 1/2minute USGS topographic quadrangle covered...the State are cited. More than one basin, State, county, or quadrangle may appear for an entry. A State...C.-S.C.) Deep River (N.C.) Durham (N.C.) Davie County (N.C.) Dan River and Danville (N.C.-Va.) Scottsburg
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,/.,./4 /all Ma11cl.t l9J/.3 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY ................................................... SOUTH ERN CALIFORNIA LOCALIT IES. 5. Jensen quarry. By Jark Schu•artz ..............................ith a complete line of Ohio, Rhode Island and Pennsylvania) the popular Mineralights from Cal ifor• and...from two Greek words from a new locality, Benton County, to meaning ,·ay and stone, as the mineral is Oregon...Ad11/aria: The finest adularias (varieSC ty of orthoclase) come from Switzerland tion and so received its
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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...dollars at the noted locality of Cowee Valley, Macon County, North Carolina. An enthusiastic family found and...visited the well known old Rutherford mine in Amelia County, Virginia, and found bright spessartine garnets...Excited collectors took home from old quarries in Pennsylvania and Maryland, pieces of apple green precious...green gem spodumene, was discovered in Alexander County, North Carolina, in 1880 and named for one of its
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MineralogicalRecord.com I IIMORIITE-(Y) EUROPE FRANCE Trimouns quarry, Luzenac, Ariege. Operated for talc since the beginning...beginning of the 20th century, the Trimouns quarry became well known to collectors around 1990 for the...long (Marty, 2004 ). AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins...region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites between the towns...Litchfield County. Ilmenite masses and crystals from somewhere near Washington, Litchfield County, were described
 
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