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


Locality type:Shaft
Classification
Species:Wulfenite
Formula:Pb(MoO4)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Pyromorphite1 photo of Wulfenite associated with Pyromorphite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Wulfenite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Whim shaft, Perkiomen Mines, Audubon, Lower Providence Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (2 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:748480
Long-form Identifier:1:3:748480:3
GUID (UUID V4):fb429c30-0c04-4c51-a64d-583ed01e63f8
Nearest other occurrences of Wulfenite
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
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
8.1km (5.0 miles) Phoenix Mine, Charlestown Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
8.4km (5.2 miles) Charleston Mine, Charlestown Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
30.8km (19.1 miles) Doan's Lead Mine (New Britain Mine), New Galena, New Britain Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, USA
68.0km (42.2 miles) Verdolite Quarry, C.K. Williams Quarry complex, Chestnut Hill, Easton, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, USA
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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
Report (issue)
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...spending money and labor in attempts to develop mines in those places where all the evidence is against
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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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plants. David & Julie Green at the bottom of Whim Shaft, Whitesmith Mine, Strontian April 2009 BMS Newsletter...camping in the desert at Melissa Mine, where wulfenite is common. In 2004 a round the world holiday included...more involved with the team at the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals and became its webmaster, designer...uncovered some of the secrets of the abandoned mines. We explored the local hills making the long horseshoe...to Sgurr Donald several times. The descent of Whim Shaft was one of our most ambitious adventures. At
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Photograph originally published in the UK Journal of Mines & Minerals no. 29 (2008) . NOTES FOR CONTRIBUTORS...A review of the mineralogy of the Roughton Gill Mines, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria: Part 2 The Roughton Gill...volborthite and tangeite. Strontianite is described from County Mayo in Ireland, and postmining stalactitic rancieite...volume and in volume 29 (2008) of the UK Journal of Mines & Minerals. Michael Wolfe, compiler of the Mineral...A REVIEW OF THE MINERALOGY OF THE ROUGHTON GILL MINES, CALDBECK FELLS, CUMBRIA: PART 2 THE ROUGHTON GILL
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(1968 - 2013) Julie and David at the bottom of Whim Shaft, Whitesmith Mine, Strontian in April 2009. Photograph:...camping in the desert at Melissa Mine, where wulfenite is common. In 2004 a round the world holiday included...more involved with the team at the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals and became its webmaster, designer...uncovered some of the secrets of the abandoned mines. We explored the local hills making the long horseshoe...to Sgurr Donald several times. The descent of Whim Shaft was one of our most ambitious adventures. At
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authority of the Hon. D. G. May, M.L.A., Minister for Mines 94792-1 PREFATORY NOTE This is the first Bulletin...202 202 203 203 203 203 APPENDIX1 List of gold mines containing minor amounts of lead and zinc minerals...APPENDIX2 Catalogue of plans of lead-zinc mines held by Mines Department or published .... Plate 1. 2.... .... .... .... Production from miscellaneous mines in Northampton Mineral Field .... .... Annual production...uneconomic amounts, nor with the many gold and copper mines in the State which have yielded silver as a by-product
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