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Galena from
Whim shaft, Perkiomen Mines, Audubon, Lower Providence Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA


Locality type:Shaft
Classification
Species:Galena
Formula:PbS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Chalcopyrite2 photos of Galena associated with Chalcopyrite at this locality.
Quartz2 photos of Galena associated with Quartz at this locality.
Limonite2 photos of Galena associated with Limonite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Galena data
Locality Data:Click here to view Whim shaft, Perkiomen Mines, Audubon, Lower Providence Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:748474
Long-form Identifier:1:3:748474:2
GUID (UUID V4):1d8a687e-0efb-4b2a-b840-cb89b78fba88
Nearest other occurrences of Galena
0.2km (0.1 miles) Perkiomen Copper Mine, Perkiomen Mines, Audubon, Lower Providence Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
0.6km (0.4 miles) Ecton Mine, Perkiomen Mines, Audubon, Lower Providence Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
6.3km (3.9 miles) Morris Mine, Schuylkill Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
7.2km (4.5 miles) Wheatley Mines, Schuylkill Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
7.3km (4.5 miles) Chester County Mine, Schuylkill Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
7.7km (4.8 miles) Southwest Chester County Mine (New Chester County Mine), Schuylkill Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
7.7km (4.8 miles) Brookdale Mine, Schuylkill Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
7.9km (4.9 miles) Montgomery Mine, Schuylkill Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
23.7km (14.7 miles) Ridge Avenue and School Lane Quarries, East Falls, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
27.0km (16.8 miles) Keystone Trap Rock Quarry, Cornog, Wallace Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
References
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Report (issue)
I3fls£®[pS@®Il Sketches ©§ ®foM RSnanaang nan Montgomery ©®monty9 Pennsylvania by F. Harold Evans with Forward and...MINERALOGY, PENNSYLVANIA CHAPTER, INC. / Historical Sketches of Copper and Lead Mining in Montgomery County...County, Pennsylvania by F. Harold Evans with Forward and Appendix by Dr. Allen Van Heyl Special Publication...MINERALOGY, PENNSYLVANIA CHAPTER, INC. - Historical Sketches of Copper and Lead Mining in Montgomery County... Copyright © 1980 by Friends of Mineralogy, Pennsylvania Chapter and F. Harold Evans. All rights reserved
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...lithograph showingthe Ecton, "Whim" and "new" Perkiomen mines(left to right, from the east). Courtesy of
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PENNSYLVANIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY FOURTH SERIES BULLETIN M5 LEAD AND ZINC ORES of PENNSYLVANIA Henry a;...lead and zinc in Pennsylvania notwithstanding that all of the old lead and zinc mines have long been closed...the occurrence of lead and zinc ores in Pennsylvania and in other parts of North and South America...is re counted that: lead ore was mined in Blair County in 1778 lo supply bullets for the Revolutionary...of Philadelphia. The ore at Bamford and at New Galena was discovered by men digging holes for fence posts
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 (issue)
COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA Milton J. Shapp , Governor DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES Maurice... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Geology of Pennsylvania Supports Mar's Theory . . . . . . . . . . ..... . . . . . Pennsylvanian Heads U.S. Bureau of Mines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 5 6 7 8 10 10 11...Laure l Creek Reservoir, near Lewistown , Pa. PENNSYLVANIA GEOLOGY is published bimonthly by the Topographic...Dept . of Environmental Resources, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 17 120. JUNE1974 Correction: The volume notation
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iii 017 workings. The accounts of the various mines do not provide a mining report upon the property...listed in the Catalogue of Plansof Abandoned Mines (Mines Department) vol. ii, 1929, have freely given...Geological Department of the Camborne School of Mines, and his successor Mr. J. Robson ; the late Lt.-Col...Bridford Barytes Mine, who supplied information on the mines of Devonshire which he had collected from many sources...specimens collected during his investigations of mines in north Devon and west Somerset; and Mr. J. H
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the JII workings. The accounts of the various mines do not provide a mining report upon the property...listed in the Catalogue of Plans of Abandoned! Mines (Mines Department) vol. ii, 1929, have freely given...Geological Department of the Camborne School of Mines, and his successor Mr. J. Robson; the late Lt.-Col...Bacytes Mine, who supplied information on th.e mines of Devonshire which he had collected from many sources...specimens collected during his investigations of mines in north Devon and west Somerset; and Mr. J. H.
Report (issue)
lecturer in mechanical science at the Royal School of Mines and, in addition to his work on the annual Mineral...edited Ures Dictionary of Arts Manufactures and Mines. The latter was an encyclopedia of 19th century...hand, Monographs are complete entities on specific mines or mining fields and are written b y members with...Society, its activities centred upon the study of mines, mining and speleology in northern England. Subsequently...issued) BRITISH MINING No.60 THE GREENHOW MINES by M.C. GILL A MONOGRAPH OF THE NORTHERN MINE RESEARCH
Report (issue)
British Mining No.13. : THE MINES OF ? GRASSINGTON . -~: • ,~J i . • -· ,::: -, ·:•,: .;:...The results of significant research on individual mines or mining areas will also be considered for publication...0308-2199. ISBN 0 BRITISH MINING NO. 13. THE MINES OF GRASSINGTON MOOR & WHARFEDALE N .M .R . S ....Section Through Middle Vein Etc. Bycliffe Mine Etc. Mines of Grassington Moor - Plan of main workings. Water...Main Shafts at Yarnbury Section of Greenhowbottom Shaft Cupola Mill Flues Cupola Furnace & Coalgrovehead
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.. .. ... iv CHAPTER V . — Details OF THE MINES IN EAST CORNWALL, DEVON AND WEST SOMERSET 8. St...Okehampton district . . .. .. . Mines in the granite (p. 750); Mines in the Culm Measures (p. 751); Newton...section .. .. FIG . 36 . — The Phoenix United Mines Lode . . FIG . 37. — South Phoenix Mine; transverse...CASTLE-AN -DINAS WOLFRAM MINE. .. . . 513 New Shaft, at the southern end of the workings, on the southern...house is behind the headgear. " Trucks from the shaft cages are run along the gantry to dump waste rock
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EXPLANATION OF PLATES V CHAPTER V.-DETAILS OF THE MINES IN EAST CORNWALL, DEVON AND WEST SOMERSET 509 ...13. Okehampton district . . 750 Mines in the granite (p. 750); Mines in the Culm Measures (p. 751); Newton...longitudinal section 524 FIG. 36.-The Phoenix United Mines Lode 592 FIG. 37.-South Phoenix Mine; transverse...PLATE XI. A.-CASTLE-AN-DINAS WOLFRAM MINE. New Shaft, ' at the southern end of the· workings, on the...house is behind the headgear . Trucks from the shaft cages are run along the gantry to
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district has yielded about a million tonnes of galena, with much smaller quantities of copper and zinc...and fore-delta cyclothems of the Brigantian and Lower Pendleian are traced and shown to have a bearing...subordinate fluorite, remain in residues adjacent to the mines. P]ate 1 Section of a lead vein from Gra ·sington...in the Geological Museun1, London SW7 Bands of galena alternate with fluo•rite and barvtc. Widtt1 of...4 History of mining 7 References Chapter 2 The Lower Palaeozoic Ordovician Arenig Series 8 Ashgill Series
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.............. CHAPTER V-DETAILS iv V OF THE MINES IN EAST CORNWALL, DEVON AND WEST SOMERSET ...................................... Mines in the granite (p. 750); Mines in the Culum Measures (p. 751 );................. 524 FIG. 36.-The Phoenix United Mines Lode ................................... 592 FIG...... 513 A.-cASTLE-AN-DINAs WOLFRAM MINE. New Shaft, at the southern end of the workings, on the southern...engine house is behind the headgear. Trucks from the shaft cages are run along the gantry to dump waste rock
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A. Bebb) Son COU 1040867 é The Old Metal Mines of Mid-Wales B.Sc., M.I.Mech.E. 1a Published by...Leckhampton > CONTENTS Introduction he og —~ The Mines Described The Crushing Mill Appendix : Industrial...DIAGRAMS Mines from the Rheidol to Goginan Esgairlle : Plan and Section Llywernog United Mines, 1858 ....TTYIVDS3 g- upuibos NAYS 73A37 9-NOWNWIINAId fe Mines in the Devil’s Bridge—Goginan area (with page numbers)...the great high roads to Cardiganshire, enters the county over the shoulder of Plynlimmon and thence descends
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"'Yth r. A. BebbJ n 11 ·1 r. c o The Old Metal Mines of Mid-Wales ~i//lJCff ~fJ fJtt Part 2 Cardiganshire-The...IN MEMORY OF WILLIAM CONTENTS Introduction The Mines Described The Crushing Mill Appendix : Indus trial...DIAGRAMS Mines from the Rheidol to Goginan Esgairlle : Plan and Section Llywernog United Mines, 1858 ....the great high roads to Cardiganshire, enters the county over the shoulder of Plynlimmon and thence descends...described in this volume. Though more prolific in mines, the region was less productive than that already
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from the workings. The accounts of the various mines do not provide a 1nining report upon iv the property...listed in the Catalogue of Plans of Abandoned Mines (Mines Department) vol. ii, 1929, have freely given...Geological Department of the Cambome School of Mines, and his successor Mr J. Robson; the late Lt-Col...specimens collected during his investigations of mines in north Devon and west Somerset; and Mr J. H. Trounson...for pennission to inspect plans and reports of mines on these estates and holdings; also to the mining
Report (issue)
lecturer in rnechamcnl science at the Royal School of Mines and. in addition to his work on the annual .\l1...Ure ·s Oic1,01101J·ofArrs ,\Jm111Ji1cr11res am/ Mines The la11cr was an encyclopxdia of 19th century technology...hand, Mo11ographs arc complete cn1111cson specilic mines or 111111ing fields and arc wri11en by members with...ocicty, its acuvitics centred upon the study of mines. rmning and speleology in nonhcm England. Subsequently...e11gi11e, buih in before /818. On 1herig/11is the whim (winding) engine house/or the Boscawen DiagonalShafi
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continued by J. C. Jones, of the Mackay School of Mines, at Eeno, whose work covered the State generally...Consolidated Co.'s mines at Pioche, the Keystone and others near Ely, and the Bullshead and O'Neill mines in the...Spruce Mountain district. The Darky and Black Metals mines and the deposits in the Nevada district have features...of the unoxidized manganiferous material in the lower zones. Vein quartz and small amounts of silver,...carbonate, and rhodonite, the silicate. In the Siegel mines the rather uncommon mineral alabandite, a sulphide
Report (issue)
BRITISH MINING No. 49 Aw eis) WHARFEDALE MINES M.C. GILL BRITISH MINING THE OFFICIAL PUBLICATION...lecturer in mechanical science at the Royal School of Mines and, in addition to his work on the annualMineral...edited Ures Dictionary of Arts Manufactures and Mines. The latter was an encyclopedia of 19th century...hand, Monographs are complete entities on specific mines or mining fields and are written by members with...Society, its activities centred upon the study of mines, mining and speleology in northern England. Subsequently
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The results of significant research individual mines or mining areas will also be considered for publication...BRITISH MINING No .15 THE TEIGN VALLEY SILVER-LEAD MINES 1806-1880. Christopher J. Schmitz. A MONOGRAPH...of lead ore at Welsh sales and at Teign Valley mines, 1855-81 1 O. Population change in Christow and...Wheal Exmouth c1860 Surface layout at Porter's Shaft, Wheal Exmouth c1855 South Exmouth, diagram of 'stool'...Teign Valley Silver Lead Mines Facing Page 104. Section of Teign Valley mines Plates I• II. III. IV
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i i i Journal of Mines an�1 Minerals I s s u e No. 15i ,;. ,;�'S '' ` . / . � 1 • •� • ' 4... Sрeгirнcvг: 70 х t30 .r 45»гт UK Journal of Mines and I b i e r a l s Issue No 8 A U T U M N 1 9 9...(UK) Non UK £16.50 Equiv for 3 issues inc. р & р. USA $30 for 3 issues inc. p & p. Note: Non UK prices...Schmitt. 812 Imperial Court, Hartland, Wisconsin 53029 USA Tel: (0414) 3673674 Cyril Kovac Gemcraft Pty. Ltd...Doncaster, South Yorkshire. 2 3 0 Sainte Marie-Aux-Mines Show Report D.I. Green. 3 9 Mineralisation of
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Cheltenham Railway Old Leckhampton The Old Metal Mines of Mid-Wales Part 1 Cardiganshire - South of Devil's...(British i\1uscum) CONTENTS Introduction The Mines Described Water Power and Mining 1 Appendix I The...Ores in Wales The Mineral Lodes and Mines of North Cardiganshire Mines South of Devil's Bridge Wemyss and... PREFACE After many years of disuse the metal mines of Mid-Wales like the ruinous castle or abandoned...least, those who simply find attraction in old mines, have turned increasingly towards them, and it is
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THE MINING MAGAZINE : DEVOTED TO Mines, Mining Operations, Metallurgy, &c., dc. EDITED AND OONDUOTED...Placer Diggings . 66 Ascending and Descending in Mines ...... 330 Mining Districts of. 66 Gold Fields,...419 Cast Iron , ation of, Austria, Product of the Mines, Furnaces of... 141 Castings, Composition .. Castings...Spontaneous Combustion , 567 Chili,Export from County ... , Penn... ofMineral Black Band Ore ... Clarendon...Works. Boly Fields Copper Mines ,. any . , Iron Comp Coal Company 55 Clinton County Share Market for June
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Bebb) Be ocd AMMAN 10408671 é THE OLD METAL MINES OF MID-WALES ee Rare mm an Gebel Part 1 HOWARD...Cheltenham Railway ‘Old Leckhampton. The Old Metal Mines of Mid-Wales Cardiganshire — South of Devil’s Bridge...(British Museum) ~ . CONTENTS Introduction The Mines Described Water Power and Mining ee 4. Appendix...Metallic Ores in Wales The Mineral Lodes and Mines of North Gard Mines South of Devil’s Bridge Wemyss and Frongoch... PREFACE After many years of disuse the metal mines of Mid-Wales like the ruinous castle or abandoned
Report (volume)
Deposits and mines...................................................... Clark County.................prospects...................................... Elko County.................................................... 64 CONTENTS. 5 Deposits and mines Continued. Elko County Continued. Mud Springs district Continued........................................ 76 Tramp shaft.......................................... 76 Dolly...... 82 6 CONTENTS. Deposits and mines Continued. Elko County Continued. Dolly Varden (Mizpah) district
 
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