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Chalcocite from
Ecton Mine, Perkiomen Mines, Audubon, Lower Providence Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Chalcocite
Formula:Cu2S
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chalcocite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Ecton Mine, Perkiomen Mines, Audubon, Lower Providence Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:148099
Long-form Identifier:1:3:148099:3
GUID (UUID V4):289fb740-5f1b-40ed-8515-e6d51565d196
Nearest other occurrences of Chalcocite
18.1km (11.2 miles) Sanatoga Station, Lower Pottsgrove Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
26.5km (16.4 miles) Brendlinger Mine, Douglass Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
32.1km (19.9 miles) Clark's Quarry, Frankford, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
34.9km (21.7 miles) Jones Mine, Morgantown, Caernarvon Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA
41.3km (25.7 miles) Brandywine Quarry (Hubbard Quarry), Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware, USA
45.5km (28.2 miles) Fritz Island Mines, Cumru Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA
57.6km (35.8 miles) Gap Mine, Bart Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA
64.6km (40.1 miles) Flemington Copper Mine, Flemington, Hunterdon County, New Jersey, USA
68.6km (42.6 miles) Sherrer Quarry, C.K. Williams Quarry complex, Chestnut Hill, Easton, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, USA
71.1km (44.2 miles) Margerum Brothers Quarry, West Windsor Township, Mercer County, New Jersey, 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)
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...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:...cut east of Reading (probably Birdsboro), Berks County. White, Smith, 1910, 540. silky mass of radiating
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
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 volume)
MINERAL RESOURCES Part 3, Metal Mines and Occurrences in Pennsylvania by Arthur W. Rose Mineral Conservation...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
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...pumping engine in the world was installed at a zinc mine at Friedensville in 1872, and attracted wide attention
Report (issue)
INTERIOR U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Inventory of Metal Mines and Occurrences Associated with the early Mesozoic...the U.S. Government. 1992 INVENTORY OF METAL MINES AND OCCURRENCES ASSOCIATED WITH THE EARLY MESOZOIC...Site Number, Site Name ...................... 6 County, State, Quadrangle, Latitude, Longitude ................. .14 VII. Table 1: Inventory of metal mines and occurrences associated with the early Mesozoic...Occurrences located in the Newark basin and vicinity, Pennsylvania ..................... 110 F. Section F: Occurrences
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.........................................
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...Acknowledgments 2 Section I-Active limestone and dolomite mines 3 Section Il-Crushed and broken limestone and
Report (volume)
........................................... Pennsylvania...............................................value. Some minerals, such as the copper ores of Pennsylvania, are included in the list not because they occur... Willis, C. F., and others, Arizona State Bur. Mines Bulls. 1-8, 1915-16. Comstock, T. B., A preliminary...Survey Bull. 126, 1895. Jones, F. A., New Mexico mines and minerals, World's Fair edition, 1904. Genth...and Ehrenfeld, Frederick, Minerals of Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Top. and Geol. Survey Comm. Kept. No
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University Auburn, Alabama 36849-5305 COPPER RAY MINE, PINAL COUNTY, ARIZONA Downloaded by [University of Regina]...pseudomorphs after cuprite, aragonite, azurite, calcite, chalcocite, chalcopyrite, chalcanthite, antlerite, and even...coppers.” It is frequently associated with silver, chalcocite, cuprite, malachite, azurite, tenorite, and a...shaft, arborescent groups from the Copper Queen mine, and even postmining growths on old timbers in the...with silver has been reported from a number of mines, including the Campbell shaft and the Czar shaft
Report (volume)
value. Some minerals, such as the copper ores of Pennsylvania, are included in the list not because they occur...Sanford. Upon Mr. Sanford's transfer to the Bureau of Mines the work was put into the hands of Frank L. Hess...Oregon............Prof. A. J. Collier, Eugene. Pennsylvania.... .Mr. R. R. Hice, Beaver. Prof. Florence...Mawr. Rhode Island.... .Prof. Charles W. Brown, Providence. South Carolina.. .Dr. Earle Sloan, Charleston...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found
Book (edition)
mmed at Broken Arrow aud Trout creek, in Sc. Clair county. The strata in this field are more faulted und...prong of Canoe creek, in St. Clair county, to Ha\sop creek, in Bibb county, a distance of 60 miles. Down to...to Helena, in Shelby county, the field has an average width of 5 or 6 miles. Below that point the width...miles being in the latitud" of Blocton, in Bibb county. The south ern end of this field has a greater...Jefferson county; Helena, Montevallo, and Brierfield, Shelby county; and at Blocion. Bibb county. The Warrior
Journal (issue)
INDEX UK JOURNAL OF MINES AND MINERALS ISSUES 11 - 20 (1992 - 2000) Michael Wolfe David Green, Julie...Julie Ballard and Richard Bell 2002 UK Journal of Mines and Minerals - index to issues 11 to 20 -1- CONTENTS...index, covers issues 11 to 20 of the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals, published between 1992 and 2000. Information...index. This is organised hierarchically by country, county or state, then site name. To avoid the confusion...century boundary changes in the British Isles, the county boundaries defined by the Local Governmant Act
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...occur in Berks countv, at North Reading, in Oley township, and on Cushion Mt. 2. Native copper east of...sulphur were found by me, several Ueberroth zine mine, Priedensville, Lehigh Co., years ago, at the
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Universitesi] at 20:25 14 March 2016 Blanchard Mine, Bingham, New Mexico T here once was a time when...originating at what was then known only as the Blanchard mine, Bingham, New Mexico. Oh, for those simpler times...fine brochantite from the abovementioned Blanchard mine has been selected for this issue. Brochantite, a...occurs sparingly at the old Loudville mines, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, and as coatings of tiny...tiny crystals at the Chimney Rock quarry, Somerset County, New Jersey. Dark emerald-green, acicular brochantite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Denver, Colorado 80225, USA 2 US Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA 3 US Geological Survey...94025, USA 4 Department of Geology, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, Washington 99004, USA 5 US Geological...Geological Survey, Denver, Colorado 80225, USA Received: 8 October 1993/Accepted: 17 June 1994 Abstract...Ellenville (lat. 41~ The Ellenville (Ulster) mine in Ulster County, New York, n o w situated within the limits...Indians. In fact, a deed of trust conveying the mine tract and related Wawarsincke lands from the Indian
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
November 2014 Covellite Summitville, Rio Grande County, Colorado Two minerals are typically formed when...exposed to near-surface weathering environments: chalcocite and the somewhat less abundant covellite. Both...discovery in an active mine makes them briefly available to collectors. Chalcocite has been featured in...chalcopyrite, chalcocite, enargite, arsenopyrite, sphalerite, and bornite. Excellent chalcocite pseudomorphs...description of the fundamental chemistry of covellite, chalcocite, and related secondary copper minerals and of
Report (issue)
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Bulletin 57 Geologic Series Copper Mines and Mining in New Jersey by HERBERT P. WOODWARD...copper ores of New Jersey and the many attempts to mine them. The report is particularly timely in that............................................ 14 Chalcocite ................................................................................. 38 Triassic mines and prospects of New Jersey ......................................................... 39 Schuyler mine ...............................................
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 .... . ...... . ..
Journal (issue)
Geological Survey Richard V. Gaines Pottstown, Pennsylvania Donald R. Peacor Univ. of Michigan Abraham Rosenzweig...by R.S.W. Braithwaite Graphite from the Lead Hill mine, Ticonderoga, New Y o r k ........................uncommon lithium-mica from Coyote Peak, Humboldt County, California .....................................Reduced Funds 1. Try to get what you like at a lower price. The most common way of doing this is to haggle...anyone might take a shot at micromounting. 4. Buy lower quality specimens. This is perhaps the most difficult
Book
regarding the type of ABANDONED MINES Guest editorial: collecting in abandoned mines (by S. Voynick) 20: 178-180...On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...ADULARIA Adu Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54...minerals from [the Santa Lucia and Sa Duchessa mines,] Sardinia [Italy] (by F. Olmi, C. Sabelli & G....AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298
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and it seems that, with the closing of several mines famous for their azurites in the last century, “cornerstones”...apparently quite unusual. Pseudomorphs of copper, chalcocite, jarosite, atacamite, willemite, smithsonite...brochantite, antlerite, atacamite, native copper, and chalcocite. Although the primary deposits from which azurite...Hill, Carroll County, Maryland; French Creek and Phoenixville, Pennsylvania; the Pontiac mine, Halifax County...Sterling Hill, Sussex County, New Jersey; and the Clegg and Snipes mines, Chatham County, North Carolina.
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
Journal (issue)
Anglesey, with thanks to C.J.Williams, of Clwyd County Records Office. DavidGrem 3 FRO TISPIECE CALCITE...CALCITE on HEMATITE Fred Bull 4 MI The UK Jouma/ of Mines and .Minerals publishes articles of interest to... N'(Olbl L'K Journal of Mines & Minerals No. 15 -2- UK Journal of Mines & 1'.lincrals No. 15 -J-...rescue dig on the spoil heap of the Alva silver mine near Stirling. Remarkable specimens of dendritic...has taken place over many years concerning early mine working. Was the area worked for its copper either
 
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