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Stellerite from
Dyer Quarry, Gibraltar, Birdsboro, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Stellerite
Formula:Ca4(Si28Al8)O72 · 28H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Stellerite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Dyer Quarry, Gibraltar, Birdsboro, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (4 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:923110
Long-form Identifier:1:3:923110:8
GUID (UUID V4):fa70b0d6-1404-45cd-98eb-7115a5ff27a7
Nearest other occurrences of Stellerite
33.5km (20.8 miles) Kibblehouse Quarry, Perkiomenville, Marlborough Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Figure 1. The stellerite fissure in the Dyer quarry: (a) as discovered, (b) close-up view, (c) after...opening. Skip Coleflesh photos. Stellerite and Stilbite from PENNSYLVANIA TRAP ROCKS PETER B. LEAVENS...all over Pennsylvania since the late sixties when he was a college student. By respecting quarry rules,...indemnify quarry owners in case of an accident, he has been able to earn the trust of a number of quarry managers...made a find at the Dyer trap-rock quarry of what have proven to be the best stellerite specimens found in
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the Jeffrey mine in Quebec; Ontario’s Flamboro quarry and Liscombe deposits; the very far north’s Pine...orange-yellow fluorite from Ontario’s Flamboro quarry. For some of these specimens you may click on “collecting...analcime from St.-Hilaire argues for why this great quarry complex should probably be called the world’s finest...======= Analcime, 3.6 cm, from the Poudrette quarry, St.-Hilaire, Québec, Canada. Quebul Fine Minerals...collected stellerite specimens from a find by Skip Colflesh and Scott Snavely in August 2014 in the Dyer quarry
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57, PP. 540-542 Stellerite from Todhead Point, Grampian Region, Scotland STELLERITE is a zeolite (named...P D 1700) suggested that the sample contained stellerite and some mordenite. Scanning electron microscopy...ToC FIG. 1. Differential thermograms for: (a) stellerite, Jambar Springs, New South Wales, Australia;... co This calcium phase is thus confirmed as stellerite and constitutes the first record of this mineral...ascertain, has not been envisaged at this location. Stellerite is a particularly unusual occurrence and a comprehensive
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sulphide mylonites, 83 DUNCAN,M.A., 565 DYER, A., stellerite from Scotland, 540 EALES,H., orthopyroxenes...from Buckbarrow Beck, 754;--, Shropshire, Squilver Quarry, edingtonite from, 349 Eosphorite, new structural...metamorphism, 189 SCOTLAND,matildite from, 751;--, stellerite from, 54O SECCOMBE, P.K., metamorphic fluids...STANLEY,C.J., 643 Stellerite, from Scotland, 540 Stilbite, comparison with stellerite, 540 Strontian calcite...YOUNG,B., 754 Zeolite, from Shropshire, 349;--, stellerite from Scotland, 540 ZHANG,M., zoning in olivine
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Barrerite is topologically similar to stilbite and stellerite, but it has different symmetry correlated with...structure is similar to that of stilbite and stellerite, but it has different symmetry as a result of...the Neer Road, 0.2 km north of Goble, Columbia County, Oregon, U.S.A. Named after Robert Maxwell Boggs...No. 4 wollastonite mine near Harrisville, Lewis County, New York, U.S.A. (Robinson and Grice, 1993). Also...6 km east of mouth of Owl Canyon, San Bemardino County, California, U.S.A., USGS Lab. no. D100594 (Sheppard
Report (volume)
Konghak 18:163-170 Dyer A (1984) Uses of natural zeolites. Chem & Ind 7:241-245 Dyer A (1988) An Introduction...Heulandite and clinoptilolite (HEU) Stilbite, stellerite, barrerite (STI) Brewsterite (BRE) OTHER RARE...Mountain, Nevada . . . . 129 . 1 32 Heulandite-stellerite equilibria . . . .. Clinoptilolite-analcime equilibria...(pahasapaite) -RON (roggianite) STI (barrerite, stellerite, stilbite) TSC (tschörtnerite) TER (terranovaite)...heulandite, clinoptilolite gmelinite stilbite, stellerite, barrerite chabazite, willhendersonite brewsterite
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(phillipsite and wellsite), and stilbite (barrerite and stellerite). 6/ ZEOLIlES DEFINED ANALCIME GROUP Analcime...chemical compositions. STiLBITE GROUP Stilbite, stellerite, and barrerite all have the same framework and...or monoclinic sectors in the same crystal. In stellerite, calcium is the only exchangeable cation and...orthorhombic, monoclinic, and triclinic sectors. Most stellerite, stilbite, or barrerite crystals are not purely...is considered the only species in this group. Stellerite and barrerite are orthorhombic varieties of stilbite
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(phillipsite and wellsite), and stilbite (barrerite and stellerite). 6/ ZEOLIlES DEFINED ANALCIME GROUP Analcime...chemical compositions. STiLBITE GROUP Stilbite, stellerite, and barrerite all have the same framework and...or monoclinic sectors in the same crystal. In stellerite, calcium is the only exchangeable cation and...orthorhombic, monoclinic, and triclinic sectors. Most stellerite, stilbite, or barrerite crystals are not purely...is considered the only species in this group. Stellerite and barrerite are orthorhombic varieties of stilbite
Journal (issue)
Mineral Show Oohn Pearce) Cronstedt's Zeolite (Alan Dyer) Book Launch:"Minerals of Northern England" (Roy...articles of more general interest in this issue.Alan Dyer rewrites zeolite history and type localities for...almost on his doorstep, he was in his element. Shap Quarry in Cumbria held a special fascination for Max and...(PPE) Whilst on a recent field trip to Bardon Hill Quarry, the Duty Manager informed us that there had been...be prudent for all members planning to visit a quarry or mine to purchase a pair of trousers and consider
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L.S. Flodlgarry The Quiraing ffin ., Dunvegan Quarry • ·.·.·Mainland. · . • of • • • Scotland Moonen...Broadford for shipment. There is still a large marble quarry near the coast in the same area, the source of...such as those at Sligachan, Edinbane and the "MOD quarry" in Glen Eynort. Over the years explorations were...offretite prehnite, quartz scolecite stilbite, stellerite, thomsonite,. The different crystal shapes of...68,71,72, 86, 112,1 36, 147 and 178 Wilson, 0., Dyer, A. and Hassan, E. 2003 ... Zeolites of the British
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followed in the text by the old county name, old regional or present county names, as appropriate, depending...Mineral Collection localities use predominantly old county names to an extent. SCOTLAND.THECOUNTRY, PHYSIOGRAPHY...Rock of Gibraltar, its strata and caves, appeared in 1798 (Imrie, 1798). (He served at Gibraltar as an...Minerals and A Mineralogical Description of tlie County of Dumfries Uameson, 1805a, and 1805b), the latter...Robert Jameson had undertaken fieldwork in that county, the results of which culminated in the appearance
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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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on challenges. To the outgoing President, Alan Dyer, I would like to extend a vote of thanks from all...and Rocks and Minerals He lives in San Francisco, USA, but is arranging to be in Sussex for the Show as...RussellSociety field trip to Torr Works ('Merehead Quarry'), Somerset, a small manganese oxide bearing pod...The find is in a vein at the opposite end of the quarry from the original discovery of mereheadite, which...132.9m (above MSL), and it is on Bench F of the quarry. The same vein system has previously yielded good
Journal (issue)
gone with the demise of hard-rock mining in the county, and the practice of exchange with museums, which...number of collectors in Britain compared to the USA, Germany or France, the tendency for British collectors...National Speleological Society, Huntsville, Alabama, USA. NICKEL, E.H. (1995) Definition of a mineral. Mineralogical...found in inularly fine specimens at Auchenlo h Quarry near Dalbeattie in the early 1990 . This locality...Moving north into the M.idland Valley, Loanhead Quarry, cear Beith exposed a 30 m wide Tertiary dyke cutting
Journal (issue)
to attract junior members is age restrictions on quarry visits, so I will be looking at arranging visits... Our first forays, in 1993, were to Coldstones Quarry, an easy journey from Leeds. In the early years...Wales and ewaldite and paralstonite at Dolyhir Quarry with Peter Todhunter, Neil Hubbard and David Roe...lived for a time in the USA near Washington D.C. Upon their return from the USA Mary took up a post providing...Missouri, 63040, USA C Mrs. Diana Weinrich PO Box 425, Grover, Missouri, 63040, USA C Mr. Peter Briscoe
Journal (volume)
Waddingham, U.K. R.E. Starkey, Bromsgrove, U.K A. Dyer, Hoddleston, Darwen, U.K. R.F. Symes, Sidmouth,...an alkaline syenite pegmatite at Allt a’ Mhullin Quarry, Assynt, Sutherland, Scotland Stephen Moreton ...Gwynedd, Wales: a first British occurrence Alan Dyer, David I. Green and Craig D. Williams 30–32 PAPERS...long, of julgoldite on pectolite, Auchinstarry Quarry, Kilsyth. G.435.27. © National Museums Scotland...the topography, geology and mineralogy of each county, starting with Shetland, then Orkney, Caithness
Report (issue)
Mineralogy and Petrology 66: 361-366. Ahmad, Z. B. and A. Dyer (1984). "Ion exchange in ferrierite, a natural zeolite..."Dynamics of dehydration in stilbite-type structures; stellerite phase B." Physics and Chemistry of Minerals 2:...zeolite tuff." KQGAI 10(4): 197-204. Araya, A. and A. Dyer (1981). "Studies on natural clinoptilolites. clinoptilolites...Cation mobilities in near homoinic Araya, A. and A. Dyer (1981). "Mobility of salt molecules in zeolites...zeolites." Zeolites 1(1): 35-40. Araya, A. and A. Dyer (1981). "Studies on natural clinoptilolites. 43(3): 589-594
Journal (issue)
....... Zeolites from the Kilpatrick Hills Alan Dyer & Oneta Wilson 34 ..............................an unknown lump of mineral found in a limestone quarry on the Mendips in Somerset a few years ago. It...was found by way, that this mineral stopped the quarry stone crusher. It activated a safety mechanism...working at the quarry this has never happened before. Further to this I spoke to the quarry foreman who...who has spent the last 4oyrs working at the quarry; he told me independently of the same happening and having
Journal (issue)
Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada Expedition of Conquest. Pennsylvania State University Press, p. 71. GIULIANI, G....ARSENOPYRITE 12.3CM YAOGANGXIAN MINE, YIZHUANG COUNTY, CHENZHOU, HUNAN, CHINA JOE BUDD PHOTO The Arkenstone...from the Purple Hope claim on Green Ridge, King County, Washington. Joe George, Paul Geffner, Rick Kennedy...2015 gleanings from the Dreamtime mine in Teller County, including some typically lustrous dark brown,...crystals from 2 to 5 cm. From the Mona mine in El Paso County (and in the Pikes Peak batholith), he had very
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appropriate channel. through MINERALS OF AUGHRIM QUARRY Stephen Moreton • David Green • Andrew Tindle...the discovery of calcite crystals at Sligachan Quarry in 2010 by French collectors Tom and Jean-Claude...Cruachan Granite (Porter and Selby, 2010). Trcarne Quarry was another subject of an early article in the...Carboniferous limestone. Most specimens from the quarry require magnification to be fully appreciated;...Kcmpock Quarry (also known as Craigmuschat Quarry) at Gourock (Nicholson and Durant, 1986). The quarry was
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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 County Listings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . 4 Mineral Localities Listed by County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Beaver County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Box Elder County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Cache County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Schmitt. 812 Imperial Court, Hartland, Wisconsin 53029 USA. Telephone: (0414) 3673674 U.S. $7.50 inc. p & p...Atkinson Exchanging Minerals 16 E. Otty Zeolites 17 A. Dyer and 0. Wilson Mining of the Basal Pennian Sands...mining news. Remember that the working mine or quarry of today will become the collecting and study site...crystallised , have been reported from a small quarry near Redpa in Tasma nia. Although well known amongst...uffcred a marine incu rsion. The rock expo.eel in the quarry arc classed a foot-now breccias. In their study
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$324/three years, (Canada) $186/one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $265 for one year Subscription...volume 50, May–June, 2019 Gold | Eagle’s Nest Mine, USA 11.0 x 8.5 x 2.0cm 239 Azurite and Cerussite...drone photo. Figure 5. Aerial view of the Sosedka quarry, showing the size of the pegmatite as well as contacts...freshly-opened pocket in the floor of the Sosedka quarry. Note water pump hose leading into the pocket,...tourmaline from the Electric Pink Pocket at the Sosedka quarry. Jan Kynický photo. ibly, more than 100 tons of
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....................................... Copper County Mineral Retreat Christine Chritchley 41 .........unusual for the temperature at the bottom of a quarry to be 15 degrees Centigrade higher than the outside...under these conditions the bottom of our local quarry is a pretty fair approximation of the Sahara in...you can. Get them out of the sun, and out of the quarry. In the meantime, loosen their clothing and lie...Alderley Edge Mines (insurance fee) Minera, Llyn Clys Quarry Manchester Museum Llanrwst Mines, Dolyhir Thurstaston
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Germany Chapman & Hall USA, One Penn Plaza, 41st Floor, New York NY 10119, USA Chapman & Hall Japan...6 1057) 10.8 Zeolite surfaces and reactivity A. Dyer Introduction Zeolite structures Creation of natural... Jr Department W.H. Casey Stanford CA 94305, USA. Land Air and Water Resources, of Geology, Stanford...University of California, Davis CA 95616, USA. A. Dyer G.N. Greaves M.F. Hochella, Jr G.H. Kelsall...Institute and State University, Blacksburg VA 24061, USA. Department of Mineral Resources Engineering, Imperial
 
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