[Rockhounds] green county Pa.

[steve chisarick]

Hi Dave yes Fayette would be ok thanks for info. can you help me with a sample thanks Steve


--- On Tue, 11/25/08, betdav97 at aol.com <betdav97 at aol.com> wrote:

> From: betdav97 at aol.com <betdav97 at aol.com>
> Subject: Re: [Rockhounds] green county Pa.
> To: rockhounds at lists.drizzle.com
> Date: Tuesday, November 25, 2008, 10:27 AM
> Hi Steve,
>   First a question; why Greene County over Fayette County?
> Fayette has more surface mines, while the ones in Greene
> are
> deep mines and unless you know a miner, you won't be
> able to
> collect and he probably won't, as they have over things
> on their
> minds. The surface of Greene County is mainly the Dunkard
> Formation, which is leaning toward the Permian, surface
> coals are
> poor and thin. Will another area do?
>   Luzern is more in the anthracite belt, and has a lot of
> quartz; I've
> collected around Frackville and St. Clair, and have several
> specimens of quartz with dickite, but have never checked
> the fluorescence, but I suppose dickite may be an
> inhibitor.
> The coals in western Pa. are bituminous, and rarely have
> quartz
> associated with them. I only know of two exceptions, both
> in
> the Pittsburgh seam, but one was in Tucker County, WV, and
> the other in Garrett County, MD. I have quartz from both
> localities
> and it doesn't fluoresce. You will find calcite more in
> the shales,
> sandstone and limestone, than coal beds. The Greenbrier
> Limestone
> in northern WV and southern Pa., has almost no
> fluorescence, the
> sandstone is the best bet, but only weakly and the shales
> the same
> way. Calcite in the Devonian limestones fluoresces a cream
> color,
> except for the Fore Knobs group which can fluoresce red,
> blue and
> yellow. under short wave. I recently collected calcite from
> both the
> shales and the sandstones in the Pennsylvanian, they were
> very
> disappointing as far as fluorescence. That is one of the
> first things I
> check for. Further south in Randolph County, WV, some of
> the calcite
> has a strong phosphorescence; but it comes from the
> Greenbrier
> Limestone. The quartz from there also fluoresces green due
> to oil
> inclusions. The blue fluoresceing quartz, comes from a
> shale.
> Hope this is some help, and on a further note the igneous
> dike near
> Adah, Pa. only cooked the coal, no mineralization. But the
> dike itself
> has garnet, which can look nice if you make thin sections,
> but no
> fluorescence.
> Dave in Monongalia County, WV
> we border on both Greene and Fayette Counties.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: steve chisarick <jar8912 at yahoo.com>
> To: rocks <rockhounds at lists.drizzle.com>
> Sent: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 9:36 pm
> Subject: [Rockhounds] green county Pa.
> 
> 
> 
> Hi i need some calcite and quartz from green county coal
> area
> to see if it fluoresce
> found some in Luzern county and some fluoresce
> thanks Steve
> 
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