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WOOD'S CHROME MINE, LANCASTER COUNTY, PENNA.
By L. J . D U E R S M I T H
Curator...Mineralogy
Franklin and Marshall College M u s e u m , Lancaster, Penna.
During the year of 1950, the writer had...concerning the famous Wood's Chrome
Mine, in southern Lancaster County,
Pennsylvania, that he came to the...article describing and bringing
up to date this mine would be in order.
History
There seems to be some...some discrepancy as
to what mineral this mine first produced.
One source states that the first mineral | 👁 Image
| | Report (issue) | | DESCRIPTIVE MINERALOGY OF PENNSYLVANIA
104
Composition:
Analysis:
SiO 2 47.4, A1 2 O 3 26.8, Na 2...= 100.
Lenni, Delaware County.
100.51
2.320
Sp.gr
LOCALITIES: Berks County: Birdsboro, and Gickerville;...Gickerville; Delaware County: Leiperville,
Lenni (druses of colorless crystals), Felton's farm (Chester), and...and Ward's quarry; Montgomery
County: Sumneytown, and Perkiomenville
;
Philadelphia: Fairmount Park...cut east of Reading (probably Birdsboro), Berks County. White,
Smith, 1910, 540.
silky mass of radiating | 👁 Image
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Mineralogical Society of Pennsylvania
Lapidary Meeting
The pouring rain and howling...following Pennsylvania localities:
GROSSULARITE: Berks County:
Fritz
Island, Dauphin County: Hummelstown...Hummelstown. Delaware County: Leipers Quarry, Lehigh County;
Limeport. Philadelphia County: Cobbs Creek
Valley...Bucks County: Eden, Finney's Quarry, Hulmville, Mt. Misery, Newportville and Trevose. Chester County: Avondatel...by the quart.
SPESSARTITE: Berks County: Bernharts.
Chester County: Osborn Hill, Avondale,
Boothwyn, | 👁 Image
| | Report (issue) | | ________
2. Clinochrysotile (Globe-type), Gila County, Ariz___________________________________________...Clinoehrysotile (iron-bearing serpentine), Stillwater County, Mont_________________________
5. Clinochrysotile...Hill, Harford County, Md____________________
,6. Clinochrysotile and lizardite, Morris County, N.J______...Clinochrysotile and lizardite, variant form, Morris County, N.J.____________________________
8. Lizardite...section___________-___
10. Lizardite (deweylite), Delaware County, Pa__-___________-_____________-_---__---__--_-11 | 👁 Image
| | Report (issue) | | Chromite and Other Mineral
Deposits in Serpentine Rocks
Of the Piedmont Upland
Maryland, Pennsylvania...production,
and mining development of deposits of
chromite, titaniferous iron ore, rutile,
talc, asbestos...districts ______ -._-_____-_____-___._.
Montgomery County, Md_-_-_---_---_-_-----------_-__--_-_-_Soldiers...____________
Mine descriptions_______________________________________
Montgomery County, Md___-_______________________...and Harris mines..-_---_-_-_--__-_______.
Choate mine._________________________________
Unnamed mine__ | 👁 Image
| | Report (issue) | | containing chromite; in
metamorphosed limestones and skarns from the reaction of dolomite and chromite.
Association:...Association: Chromite, diopside, zoisite, olivine, dolomite, tremolite, quartz, plagioclase,
epidote, calcite...still with numerous localities. From the
Saranovskii mine, Biserskoye, in the Gorozavod district, and other...Wolfe Co., Quebec. In the
USA, from Wood's Chrome mine, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania; at Riddle, Grant Co...., Oregon;
in the Red Ledge mine, near Washington, Nevada Co., around Newcastle, Placer Co., near New | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Investigation of Gilley Fluorspar Deposits in
Cherokee County, Alabama, by James F.
O'Neill.
It is interesting...Birmingham, in Cherokee County, located
in West 1/2, West V2 of Section 16,
Township 12 South, Range 9 East... Here barite occurs
in the Stanley shale of Pennsylvania age
on both limbs of a syncline. The ore bed...crystal'ized cinnabar which comes from the Culver-Baer
mine, Sonoma Co., Calif.
Colorado—An interesting article...pegmatite district lies
across the Park-Fremont County line in
south-central Co'crado, a few miles northwest | 👁 Image
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:
...finding of green grossularite at the
Line Pit Chrome Mine near Rock Springs,
Md. Efforts are now under...aggregates.
ZAR ATITE: Emerald green incrustations on chromite. Often confused with
genthite. The zaratite may..."The Minerals of Lancaster County ", by
Herbert H. Beck.
2. "The Mineralogy of Pennsylvania", Samuel
G. Gordon...of Investigations
4383.
5. "The Geology of Lancaster County", Second
Geol. Surv. Penna., Rep. C3.
NAVY | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 3NaAlSiO" NaCl 1:3.00 As many sodalitescontain very little or no iron oxide it is probable that the iron oxide...MacNelly (Texas, Pa.); Mr Moyd (Bridgeport, Pa.,-clear quartz crystals); Mr. Knabe (Wood's Chrome Mine, Line...and Huntingdon Valley, Pa.); Mr. Dornblum (Wood's Chrome Mine, Pa. and Franklin, N. J );Mr. Vanartsdalen...Mr. Frorer to Wood's Chrome mine which yielded zaratite, brucite, magnesite, chromite, and picrolite...South River, Bedford, North Carolina, and Herkimer County, New York. JOURNAL MINERALOGICAL SOCIDTY OF AMERICA | 👁 Image
| | 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 | 👁 Image
| | Journal (issue) | | LIBERTI COPPER MINE, MARYLAND. By Vernon / . ~filler .................... 665
THE ALICE ZINC MINE OF SOUTHERN.......................... 670
COMMENTS ON SOME LANCASTER CO., PENN., LOCALITIES ........671
THE AMATEUR...THE (llJ..4ltltY
San Diego County-A Great GemBearing Area
San Diego County, California, was
at one time...of the readers of Rock.r
and Minerals may know little or nothing about San Diego's proud history of
the...Olympics a very difficult geologic problem.
What little geologic exploration that has
been done has been | 👁 Image
| | Journal (issue) | | COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA
Robert P. Casey, Governor
DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES
Arthur... . . . . . . . . . 1
Geological research in Pennsylvania, 1988 ....... ...... : . . . 2
Areal geology...Gap, about
3 miles northeast of Bellwood , Blair County. Photograph by R. T. Fail!.
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PENNSYLVAjiiiA GEOLOGY...tal Resources, P. 0 . Box1 2357, Harri sb urg, Pennsylvania 171 20 .
Edlto~. christine M. Dodge. Associate...limitations and ambiguities of geology, we, too, in Pennsylvania have our
believers in the occult-in the secret | 👁 Image
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MINERALOGCAL SOCIETY
PENNSYLVANIA
OF
May Field Trip and 1955 Annual M e e t...SHOWALTER Limestone Quarry, at Blue Ball,
Lancaster County, Pa., at the invitation of our
much esteemed...to
Cedar Hill Serpentine Quarry in southern Lancaster County, close to the Mason and Dixon
Line, one mile...Maryland. The location is intermediate between
Wood's Chrome Mine and Line Pits, both long
famous for their...satisfied
with their finds of these species as well as
Chromite, Calcite, Zaratite, Kammererite etc.
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·COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA
·
Robert P. Casey, Governor
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DEPARTMENT...viewer. Thus geologic art is doubly valued.
Pennsylvania is not represented in The Art of Geology. Yet...International Geological Con
gress, 49 images of Pennsylvania geology were one of the main
focuses of a large...the 1989 meeting of the Field Con
ference of Pennsylvania Geologists and the 1990 meeting of the
Northeastern...site near Allen
town. At many localities in Pennsylvania, holes have been drilled
into rocks to extract | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Hammer's trusty automobile to the Brookes
Iron & Copper Mine, St. Peters, Pa. The
trip proved very pleasant because...Mineral
Society, Richmond Hill, N.Y.
592
Fulton County Mineral Club
At the meeting held July 29 '57,...paper
was read on the origin of the working of
the mine. Lewis Valachovic reported on a
field trip that...trip for the club. A
report on a hematite (iron) mine near
Northville was given by Bob Bedford—a
possible...Schuylerville.
There the group were to visit a graphite
mine; Lester Park, and Stark's Knob. Lester
Park is a | 👁 Image
| | Book (edition) | | in this part of the series the mineralogist has little
occasion to take note.
Minerals differ in specific...from it.
fore.
CRYSTALLOGRAPHY.
11
With a little ingenuity the student may construct a goniometer...forms under each of
the systems that differ but little in angles from some of
other systems for example...right one of the
six planes will be 3c f & la.
By a little study, the expressions for the
other five adjoining...faces are at right angles to one another.
The little ridges of the striated surfaces are made up of | 👁 Image
| | Journal (volume) | | Emerald 4. Bogota C ,. olumbia 6. Native Silver ,C H County M . alum ough ichig above tho All specim actual...century . After some searching I found the same old mine and dump , really only a prospect hole . The crystals...overdue . You will thus save us a little expense , and enable us to get a little more sleep . 4 For THE... EDGAR T. COUNTY . In and Around WHERRY . NOTE . The localities of Chester County , which still..., this series will be completed . 1. Hopewellj Mine , one mile northwest of Warwick Station , French | 👁 Image
| | Report (issue) | | INTRODUCTION
California.
Economic geology.
Chromite, El Dorado County: Cater, F. W., Jr.
Healdsburg quadrangle:...W. K.
Mercur~·, New Almaden mines, Santa Clara County: Bailey, E. H.
San Francisco Bay counties: Bowen...Bowen, 0. E , Jr., 3
Mineral resources, Fresno County: Logan, C. A.
Geologic maps.
Bitterwater Cre€k area:...Am. Jour. Botany-American Journal of Botany. Lancaster, Pa.
Am. Jour. Sci.-American Journal of Science...Commission, Division of Geology Information Circular. Little
Rock, Ark.
Asoc. Mex. Ge6logos Petroleros Bol.-Asociaci6n | 👁 Image
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1.25
GADOLINITE, Barringer Hill. Texas. Solid mass. 3 x l v2xl ' '2 I 12 oz.I . 4.00
LIMONITE...'2 3.00
UVARCVITE. Ural Mts. Micro. xled . on Chromite. 1 ½ x l .......... . 2 .50
CERUSSITE. Tsumeb...Consoli- former president of the Federation, mandated Mine near Eureka, Utah. H e plans aged the contest. The...as
a Tilly Foster Unit.
The old abandoned iron mine (magnetite) at Tilly Foster, Putnam Co., N. Y.
is...town is located near the
western edge of Morrill County which is
in western Nebraska.
Flowing south of | 👁 Image
| | Book (edition) | | ore of iron, will be heavy in the hand. With
a
little
experience, the
gem hunter can learn to apply...feldspar quarries in pegmatite deposits, mines and
mine dumps, and from "float" deposits, minerals loose...it may be unfenced range, a deserted cabin, or a mine dvmip. Cleanliness
to enter
30 GEM hunter's guide...material others
could have enjoyed, and many of the Texas ranches are closed
to collectors because a few carted...Lincoln Co.
Todd's Branch,
Mecklenberg Co.
Portis mine, Franklin
Co.
Muddy Creek headwaters,
2 or 3 | 👁 Image
| | Journal (volume) | | Coalfor Jewelry..... 20 of Aluminum Greatest Silver Mine . Nature of Meteor Trains . In the Shade of the...PAGK Map V , Upper Bucks County , Pa ... Facing I Map VI , Lower Bucks County , Pa ..... Fluorite coated...Gothard Region, Switzerland... Map VII , Montgomery County , Pa ...... Henry Augustus Ward . " Rock Blossoms...city of Charleston , south of Fairbanks , Cochise County , Arizona , which is entirely out of the ordinary...Law if he could not investigate the question a little more and give us a paper on the matter liter on | 👁 Image
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FROM
WOOD'S
CHROME
MINE...
... LANCASTER COUNTY, PENNA., one of the earliest...nesite on serpentine 3x4”, $2.50;
4x5”, $3.50.
CHROMITE: Choice black masses.
2x3”, $.50; 2%x3%”, $.75;...rose chlorite occurring
as foliated masses on chromite or
rock.
2x3" 3.13:
3x4”,
$1.50;
31x4”, $2.00...pyrighted 195
by The Earth Science Pu
S. and Great Britain. All rights
Title registered in U. S. Patent Office...worth through soil accumulations,
is that there is little if any soil
present
on
the
hills.
There
is
scant | 👁 Image
| | Book (edition) | | mortised and tied together, so as to admit of a little movement
at centre.
Then, the model when in its...expressions, appearing at first sight possibly a little
obscure, may be translated into simple language...[i-i]
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As
The abridged symbols need very little explanation additional to that given on p. 25....These relations may perhaps be made more clear by a little further
through the vertical axis at
Suppose a...; when
this is not the case the relations are a little less simple.
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MATHEMATICAL CRYSTALLOGRAPHY | 👁 Image
| | Catalog/List | | COVER PHOTOGRAPH: _ VANADINITE Apache mine, near Globe, Gila County, Arizona.
Sharp hexagonal barrel-shaped...... . Fl.
Utah Toelle Co., Gold Hill, Gold Hill mine.
.50 2.50
Transparent xls on limonite with austinite...fluo
rescence under ultraviolet light. The
Ojuela mine is one of Mexico's
largest producers of beautiful...calcium hydroxy-silicate.
Ca lifornia Riverside County, Crestmore.
White prismatic crystalline on merwinite...Copper aluminum silicate.
Arizona Pima County, Ajo, New Cornelia mine.
Sky-blue micro xls and coatings on | 👁 Image
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MINERALOGY AND MINING.
Mine Accidents —Ventilation — Ore Dressing, Etc.
DESCRIPTIVE...lific of valuable treats and advice."
PRACTICAL MINE VENTILATION.
WILSON.
For the Use of Mining Engineers... Copyright bt
EDWARD
S.
DANA
1877.
Press of J. J. Little & Co*
Astor Place, New York.
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PREFACE.
The...above, there is also the department of Economic Mine) alogy, which is not here
and (3) in the coarser...mortised and tied together, so as to admit of a little movement
at centre.
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