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Tourmaline from
Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA


Locality type:County
Classification
Species:'Tourmaline' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:AD3G6 (T6O18)(BO3)3X3Z
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Tourmaline data
Locality Data:Click here to view Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:162496
Long-form Identifier:1:3:162496:0
GUID (UUID V4):71e99a54-b72a-4a3a-a734-25a1a69662dd
Localities for Tourmaline in this Region
Morton Homestead, Prospect Park, Ridley Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA
Leiper's Upper Avondale Quarry, Wallingford, Ridley Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA
Leiper's Quarry, Springfield Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA
Leiper's Lower Avondale Quarry (Morrow Quarry; Facenda Quarry), Woodlyn (Avondale), Swarthmore (Borough of Swarthmore), Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA
Marcus Hook Creek, Trainer, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
CLASSIC PEGMATITE OCCURRENCES IN Delaware County, Pennsylvania JOSEPH J . PETERS Department of Mineral...collected from a few granite pegmatites in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia (Figure 1). The quarries...tor Index, A-310, Registrar of Deeds, Delaware County, Pennsylvania). The Springfield quarry may have been...been de- Figure 1: Map of Pennsylvania showing location of Delnware County. The quarries are located...map of selected pegmatite quarries in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, adapted from Hall (1885). Deshong's
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
Book (edition)
ONYX • PERIDOT* • ZIRCON • CARNELIAN TOURMALINE OPALS • AOATI • • AMETHYST URINE • •... lOLITE k:^ RUBY /^^ RUTILE SAPPHIRE 1^ TOURMALINE CRYSTALS TOPAZ CRYSTALS 4 GEM hunter's GUIDE...six or eight different gem as color, its tourmaline may B are, in fact, A blue gem minerals...found many of stones, such as quartz amethyst, tourmaline, beryl, topaz and spodumene. crystals, Areas...mine, Racooche Valley, White Co. 1866 Vs White County Daniel Light form, % mi. NE Less than 1887
Book (volume)
375 9 f-2. 162 fiQl c, THE MINERALOGY OF PENNSYLVANIA PART TWO JOHN ETEKMAN < 1 > w Q O UJ 5...>CQ uf S B o i s UJ THE MINERALOGY OF PENNSYLVANIA PART TWO CHEMICAL ANALYSES JOHN EYERMAN EASTON... CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE MINERALOGY OF PENNSYLVANIA THE MINERALOGY OF PENNSYLVANIA: PART 1 490: 425: 426: A:...Easton; pink Lenni, Delaware county VIII crystals green crystals. Rocksville, Bucks county light green crystals...crystals. No. 1 shaft, St. Peter's, Chester county radiating, columnar crystals of light green to pink
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Wollastonite and Titanite Near Natural Bridge, Lewis County, New York, 78; 13th Rochester Academy of Science...Pegmatite Bodies in the Wausaw Pluton, Marathon County, Wisconsin, 188 Fascinating Story of Mount Mica's...Mica's Largest and Most Remarkable Tourmaline Crystal, B . M. Shaub, 447 Faustite, 162 Ferguson, C. J ....Localities in the Beaver Creek Area of St. Lawrence County, New York, W. S. Condon, S. C. Chamberlain, 105... 399 Four Obscure Mineral Localities in Oxford County, Maine, M. I . Jacobson, 401 Fox, R. A . , 334
Report (issue)
PENNSYLVANIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY FOURTH SERIES Bulletin M 18-C THE MINERALS of PENNSYLVANIA NON-METALLIC... CONTENTS Introduction Asbestos Barite Franklin County Fulton and Bucks Counties Corundum Page 1 1 5...Magnesite Phosphate minerals Cumberland County Juniata County 18 23 25 25 26 Potash 29 Quartz-Mint...Quartz-Mint 32 Rock salt 36 Crawford County Elk County 36 37 Erie and Forest Counties 38 McKean, Potter...Beryl, Cyanite, Epidote 47 Gems, Greenockite, Tourmaline 48 49 50 Uranium-bearing minerals Mineral resources
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Carolina; at Amelia, Virginia, near Clayton, Rabun county, Georgia; etc. The old localities near West Chester...Providence, and other places in Delaware and Chester counties, Pennsylvania, were also probably for the most...and Esray's quarry near Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania, and is now in the collection of the Philadelphia...Philadelphia Academy of Sciences in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Massive quartz pseudomorphs after Large smoky...pegmatite of the Eight Mile Park area of Fremont county, Colorado; while pink chalcedony has been found
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Middletown, Concord, Leiperville, and Newlin, Pennsylvania; Upper Merryall and Haddam, Connecticut; Russell...Colorado; some localities in Chester and Delaware counties, Pennsylvania ; in North Carolina, and elsewhere...Lode pegmatite near the Royal Gorge in Fremont County, Colorado. Common in the pegmatites of Yavapai...Organ Mountains, New Mexico; in Connecticut, and Pennsylvania; and especially in San Diego and Riverside Counties...variety essonite or cinnamon stone occur in the tourmaline deposits of Mesa Grande, Pala, and Rincón. Also
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
serpentinite outcrop at Mineral Hill, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, and was described as a hydrated basic...Melanosiderite, shiny black fragment, Middleton, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, BM No. 66908. (b) = broad line. (2)...biotite granite, which is cut by veins of a later tourmaline leucogranite. Both varieties show varying degrees...needles of ruffle. The tourmaline leucogranite shows recrystallization of tourmaline as small needles as
Report (edition)
SERIFS MINERAL COLLECTING PENNSYLVANIA COMMOWl FAITH OF PENNSYLVANIA PY G345/4.3 G33 1959 Snrrtary...Lapham, Davis M. Mineral Collecting in Pennsylvania c.l PENNSYLVANIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN G 33 ... MINERAL COLLECTING IN PENNSYLVANIA by Davis M. Lapham and Alan R. Geyer JMluitrationi lu _JtU... Adams County 15 Allegheny County Armstrong County Berks County Blair County Carbon County Chester...Chester County Cumberland County Delaware County Fulton County Lancaster County Lebanon County Lehigh County
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
large part of Philadelphia is covered with the Delaware River gravels and clays, but most of the streams...bank. When the inclined plane was abandoned the Pennsylvania Railroad made a curved cut through these rocks...with that found on Ridley and Crum Creeks in Delaware County, contained segregated masses of coarse ort...kaolin, the orthoclase renmaining unchanged. Tourmaline, black, in good crystals, sometimes terminated... It is a small group of crystals imbedded in tourmaline. Muscovite, biotite and pyrite and two specimens
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Silica and Silicates (part three) (concluded) TOURMALINE is a complex silicate of boron and aluminum with...large amounts in granite and is then called a tourmaline granite. The common, black, iron rich variety...in height and width. Black tourmaline is the most common kind of tourmaline and has been found in all...Another black tourmaline crystal was noted in the Luella mine near Avon, Latah county, Idaho, which measured...Dakota. A black crystal from Micaville, Randolph county, Alabama, was 10 inches in diameter and from 3
Report (volume)
all red stones: spinel, ruby, garnet, and rose tourmaline; the term "sapphire," to lapis lazuli and other...beauty of irregularly colored stones, such as tourmaline. UNIT OF WEIGHT The carat, meaning one-fifth...dikes contain a variety of gem stones, such as tourmaline, beryl (emerald, aquamarine), spodumene (kunzite...Del Norte County; Trinity River, Trinity County; Spanish Creek and Gopher Hill, Plumas County; Placerville...Dorado County; Cherokee Flats, Yankee Hill,and Oroville, Butte County; French Corral, Nevada County; Indian
Report (issue)
Rocks Of the Piedmont Upland Maryland, Pennsylvania And Delaware By NANCY C. PEARRE and ALLEN V. HEYL,...districts ______ -._-_____-_____-___._. Montgomery County, Md_-_-_---_---_-_-----------_-__--_-_-_Soldiers...descriptions_______________________________________ Montgomery County, Md___-_______________________.__ Etchison mine_____-_-...Index map of the Piedmont Upland, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Page and Delaware__.____________________-____--_-_-_--709...concentrates from lode mines and placer deposits in Pennsylvania and Maryland before 1900-___-_-__.-______--
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)
on the east flank of the Inyo Mountains in Inyo County, CA. It can be reached by taking Route 168 east...es of. In~o Figure10. Scanningelectronmicroscope County , California Imageof beudantltecrystals. Div. Mines...bonhams.com/us or call + 1 (323) 436 5437 A superb tourmaline crystal. Paproolc, Nuristan. Kunar Province,...Chinese stibnites and gem crystals of beryl and tourmaline were prominent. Rare species and old classics...library @ $195.00 plus $15.00 Priority shipping (USA). We accept all major credit cards, PayPal, checks
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Large Andalusite Crystals from Campbell County, Virginia: Their Alteration to Kyanite and Sillimanite...veins at a previously unknown site in Campbell County, Virginia (Giannini et a l . , 1986). A l ­ though...miles east of Lynch Sta­ tion in southern Campbell County, Virginia. The Univer­ sal Transverse Mercator...permission. 2 4 3 Andalusite Figure 1: Campbell County, Virginia. Area of deposit is marked. 446 ROCKS...found in the United States in the past. Delaware County, Pennsylvania, has yielded crystals (some altered
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
road. It is abandoned, and shows now -no sign of tourmaline-bearing pockets, or of clevelandite, lepidolite...granite-pegmatite too rich in biotite and black tourmaline to be of economic value. Some small rose-red...regret also to note the deaths of two veteran Pennsylvania mineral collectors: Mr. Thomas lIarvey, Boothwyn...active collector, accumulating a wealth of Delaware County minerals, in particular those from the pegmatites
Report (issue)
PENNSYLVANIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY FOURTH SERIES Bulletin M 13 FELDSPAR IN PENNSYLVANIA By RALPH W... COPYRIGHTED, 1931 BY THE Commonwealth op Pennsylvania •...transmit herewith a manuscript on Feldspar in Pennsylvania by Ralph W. Stone and II. Herbert Hughes, of...tons valued at sjd.f)!)0,000. Twenty years ago Pennsylvania ranked second among the States for crude feldspar...which figures are available at time of writing) Pennsylvania held eighth place with an output of only 2052
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
these include members of the amphibole group, tourmaline, and goethite. In addition, most rutilated quartz...reported from the Warwick and Amity areas of Orange County, New York. Good rutilated quartz specimens are...Philadelphia County, the Dismal Run and Boothwyn Station vicinities of Delaware County, and from near...near Kinzer, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Kunz (1892) states that “fine pieces of quartz, 4 inches square...Alexander County, as well as other localities including the Buckhorn Falls vicinity of Chatham County, the
Report (volume)
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Book (edition)
describes sites under of the nearest town and county. and the many maps included book contain such... *' ^ *D * D } '<&*=> 4B^ Diamond M Tourmaline ^P Ruby. Sapphire O Quartz crystal ^J^ Garnet...IOLITE SPHALERITE RUBY i^b TOPAZ CRYSTALS TOURMALINE CRYSTALS (Cro»$-$«ction ot righl) ^ \b7 CHRYSOBERYL...of feldspar that make parallel to is and tourmaline, and the pearly cleavage unmistakable. Kunzite...aquamarine, topaz, tourmaline, cyanite, or apatite. Conversely, such a chameleon as tourmaline may be found
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 (article/letter/editorial)
the members of the Mineralogical Society of Pennsylvania will recall with pleasure the trips in which...(Member over 50 years.) 4) Delaware County Institute of Science—(Delaware Co., Media, Penn.). 5) Leidy...Fern Society| 9) The Mineralogical Society of Pennsylvania— (Life member.) 10) The Academy of Natural Sciences...CRYSTAL, Ark. ; BLOEDITE, N.M.; TOPAZ, Mexico; and TOURMALINE, pink/green, Cal. One each of above (nicely terminated
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
California; and three miles west of Buntingville, Lassen County in the same state. GALENA, lead sulfide, has been...have been noted in feldspar at Pine, Jefferson County, Colorado. Noted in large masses at the Midnight...Stoneham, Maine; Pala, California, and in Delaware County, Pennsylvania. It has been noted in large masses at...purple fluorite crystals and small, green etched tourmaline crys­ tals. The latter have been partially dis­...in a pegmatite at Frankford, Phil­ adelphia, Pennsylvania. Molybdenite has also been found at the Colgate
 
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