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Amber from
Delaware, USA


Locality type:State
Classification
Species:'Amber' (not an IMA approved species)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Amber data
Locality Data:Click here to view Delaware, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:358679
Long-form Identifier:1:3:358679:2
GUID (UUID V4):b09e198e-f8f4-4ec7-9b8b-82eee4fbd9d4
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University ................... p. 6 Spotting fake amber ........................................ p. 7 Website...Newsletter March just might be a busy month: Delaware Mineral Show on the 4th and 5th; GLMS-MC Mineral...Announcements by David MacLean, Secretary The Delaware Mineralogical Society will hold its show in Newark...Newark, DE, on Saturday, March 4. The Delaware Mineral Museum is worth a visit. President Bob Cooke... smell of pine is always a good hint that the amber is genuine. Best Wishes to Gerry Cox! Longtime
Report (issue)
Prepared in collaboration with Abraxis, LLC, Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental...Environmental Laboratory, and the University of Delaware Comparison of Two Cell Lysis Procedures for Recovery...Microcystins in Water Samples from Silver Lake in Dover, Delaware, with Microcystin Producing Cyanobacterial Accumulations...Lake, Dover, Delaware, September 2006 (photograph taken by J. Scott Figurski, Delaware Department of...Microcystins in Water Samples from Silver Lake in Dover, Delaware, with Microcystin Producing Cyanobacterial Accumulations
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
north and northwestern flank) and the Devonian Delaware and Columbus formations (on the eastern flank)...region from just south of Detroit, Michigan, to Delaware, Ohio, to Fort Wayne, Indiana. The eastern and...of brown and yellow fluorite at the Delaware quarry, in Delaware County, Ohio, suggest that the district...absent in others. Barite, for Figure 8. Large amber-colored cubes of fluorite occur with white bladed...occur in the upper 30 meters of strata. Brown, amber, tan, honey, golden, champagne, and yellow fluorite
Book
1 Digging for amber in the Rarit an Formation 64 6.2 Cretaceous cockroach in amber 65 6.3 Dinosaur...diagonally across the state to the Delaware River near the top of Delaware Bay. This area is underlain by...Hudson River southwesterly across the state to the Delaware River, and continuing across southeastern Pennsylvania...Today, the Delaware River cuts through the hard ridge of the Shawangunk Formation at the Delaware Water Gap...is the route for the Appalachian Trail from the Delaware Water Gap to High Point. Along this stretch, the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
national conference held at the University of Delaware, Wilmington, in December 1982, organized by Professor...relations. Professor J. C. Kraft of the University of Delaware ('Strategic Minerals and World Stability') illustrates...He shows very frankly why it is desirable for the USA to maintain good relations with South Africa as its...worse as regards import dependence than that of the USA, while the USSR is very nearly self-sufficient. Professor...cracking, and the reconstruction and clarification of amber. The section on irradiation treatment commences
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Jersey, discovered a relatively large piece of amber, imbedded in the clay bank, conraining several insects...discovering the amber and especially for their full cooperation in allowing the amber inclusion to be....Cretaceous amber is of even greater significance, In all probability much of the amber previously collected...being made to examine earlier collections of the amber from the Magothy and Raritan Formations and also...which this fossiliferous piece of amber was found has exposures in Delaware, Maryland: New Jersey, long Island
Report (issue)
Radioactive. Optical Properties: Transparent. Color: Amber-orange, yellowish orange to orange. Optical Class:...Apache Co., Arizona; in Leiper’s quarry, Avondale, Delaware Co., Pennsylvania; at the Ruggles mine, Grafton... near North Groton, Grafton Co., New Hampshire, USA. In the Palette mine, South Alligator Valley, Northern...Material: Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 106523. References: (1) Vaes, J.F. (1947) Six nouveaux
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
AMBER A N D (GEMS) Kalamazoo Geo Amber calls to mind a substance richly translucent and yellowish. But...But amber can be clouded or even opaque. It occurs in any color from almost clear to black. Amber that...mining—from blue earth, primarily. Baltic amber is the chief source. Other amber comes from Burma, Siam, Great Britain...a deposit in little seams Africans prize white amber for trad­ on the site of a nudist camp in Enuming...show a preference for deep cherry red jewelry. amber; blue is also much sought. Other known deposits
Report (issue)
Biaxial (–). Pleochroism: X = colorless; Y = pale amber-yellow; Z = amberyellow. Orientation: X = c; Y =...the Lac Indicateur area, Quebec, Canada. In the USA, from the Palermo mine, near North Groton, Grafton...Oxford Co., Maine; in Liepers quarry, Swarthmore, Delaware Co., Pennsylvania; from Spruce Pine, Mitchell
Show/Event (guide)
ABBEY’S TREASURES INC P.O. Box 253 Burbank, CA 91503 USA Tel: 818-563-4122 abbeys-treasures-inc.com Booth#:...4400 N Scottsdale Rd #9205 Scottsdale, AZ 85251 USA Tel: 480-437-0411 www.ajemfg.net Booth#: W715, W717...GROUP NY 1239 Broadway. Suite 701 New York, NY 10001 USA Tel: 212-683-2559 http://afdesigninc.com/ 108 | JOGS...Hicksville, New York 11801 USA Tel: 646-235-3484 Booth#: Tent G1 Blue Amber wood displays, jewelry, rings...AM JEWELRY 1811 27th Ave, 107 Oakland, CA 94601 USA Tel: 510-830-6077 gemsandjewellry.com Booth#: N920
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Aug. 19-Sept. 15, 1894.. THEworld's supply of amber in all ages appears to have been drawn from the...cast up by the waves in commercial. quantities. Amber occurs also in numerous inland localities throughout...Sicily and the Adriatic. Up to the present time amber has not been found in North America in commercial...as to increase the difficulty of Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, and a drawing accurate conclusions. Even...for the period in question and to conmade for the amber. sider what the probable influence of that This
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
engine is being erected to take its place. 3d, DELAWARE WORKS have two pumping engines one overhead beam...Schuylkill Works, 396961 :i'dot:p�'ounds' , , Delaware Works, 210,570 foot-pounds; Twenty-fourth Ward...fivil years, is at Schuylkill Works, 15'21 cents; Delaware Works, 24'80 cents; Twenty-fourth Ward Works,...thus : Schuy 1kill Works, $41,637'37 per annum; Delaware Works, $67,­ 890'00 per annum; Twenty.fourth Ward...; � the ol tree-b �a mg SOlI, e find clumps of amber gum bled ,,: � from .h� succ�nifer. SpeClmens are
Journal (issue)
ASCRIBED TO THE GUM IN ALL AGES. That a string of amber beads around a child's throat will keep off throat... made Nero dress the amphitheatre at Rome with amber, and had shields of it broken in the arena to prevent...during an epi demic in Rome. The first use of the amber as a mouthpiece for pipes followed, when the Turks...nearly three thousand years the world's supply of amber has been taken from the region which liesbetween...peninsula in Prussia, and it is more than likely the “amber gatherers ofthe North ,” the mystic Æsti of pre
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
on 5 June 2019 at his home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. Fran was born in Sand Springs, Oklahoma, 27 February...his broad interests he also published papers on amber inclusions, Cretaceous spores and conifers, Pompeiian...outreach, hosting five Amber “Identi-Days” during which he examined 844 pieces of amber brought in by members...services rendered in support of the exhibition of Amber: Window to the Past. As recently as November 2018
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
FROM W. Srnocr, AVONDA],E, PENNS}'I,VANIA DELAWARE COUNTY, Academy of Nafural, Sciences of philod...bank of Crum Creek one mile south of Swarthmore, Delaware County, pennsylvania.6 spar, muscovite, and occasionally...vsrs or SPESsARTTTE Leiper's Quarry, Avondale, Delaware Co., Pa. Lester W. Strock, Analyst. Analysis...of the minerals used as gems, as well as pearl, amber, coral, and jet, are discussed. There is also a
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
engine is being erected to take its place. 3d, DELAWARE WORKS have two pumping engines one overhead beam...Schuylkill Works, 396961 :i'dot:p�'ounds' , , Delaware Works, 210,570 foot-pounds; Twenty-fourth Ward...fivil years, is at Schuylkill Works, 15'21 cents; Delaware Works, 24'80 cents; Twenty-fourth Ward Works,...thus : Schuy 1kill Works, $41,637'37 per annum; Delaware Works, $67,­ 8 90'00 per annum; Twenty.fourth...; � the ol tree-b �a mg SOlI, e find clumps of amber gum bled ,,: � from .h� succ�nifer. SpeClmens are
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
When Fast Curing and Water Clarity are Required AMBER CLEAR EPOXY I LLUSTRAT1 Open 9am to 8pm 552...45239 April 8, 9,1978-aaymont, Delaware. 15th Annual Show of the Delaware Mineralogical Society. Brandywine...Pike, Claymont, Delaware. Show Chairman: George Rambo, Box 126, Clay­ mont, Delaware 19703 March 31
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
02056 April 8, 9, 1978-Claymont, Delaware. 15th Annual Show of the Delaware Mineralogical Society. Brandywine...Pike, Claymont, Delaware. Show Chairman: George Rambo, Box 126, Clay­ mont, Delaware 19703 April 8, 9...When Fast Curing and Water Clarity are Required AMBER C L E A R ILLUSTRATED For Those Tough Bonding Jobs
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Cresco, Howard Co. Decorah, Winneshiek Co. Delhi, Delaware Co. Des Moines River, Vernon, Van Buren Co. Des...Lovilia, Monroe Co. Lowell, Henry Co. Manchester, Delaware Co. Martin Marietta quarry = Cedar Rapids quarry...crystals to 8 cm, yellow, amber, colorless, and included), fluorite* (amber to brown, cubic, fluorescent)...limestone quarry S of Little Brown Church: calcite (amber, fluorescent, phosphorescent) (Priest 1962). Clayton...in Missouri Series limestone: barite (nodules). Delaware County Manchester and Delhi areas, along stream
Journal (issue)
and unique specimens. By Stuart “Tate” Wilson THE AMBER MINES OF CHIAPAS A dangerous journey is worth the...Search the grid for these common mineraloids. AMBER OPAL EBONITE PALAGONITE FULGURITE PEARL JET...com. Rock & Gem THE AMBER MINES OF CHIAPAS Three kilos of polished amber with insect and plant inclusions...risk, and I will never forget my journey to the amber mines in the Mexican state of Chiapas. You see these...these beautifully polished pieces of amber from Mexico, but do you have any idea where they come from
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Aug. 19-Sept. 15, 1894.. THEworld's supply of amber in all ages appears to have been drawn from the...cast up by the waves in commercial. quantities. Amber occurs also in numerous inland localities throughout...Sicily and the Adriatic. Up to the present time amber has not been found in North America in commercial...as to increase the difficulty of Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, and a drawing accurate conclusions. Even...for the period in question and to conmade for the amber. sider what the probable influence of that This
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
polyphemus) were collected from the shores of the Delaware bay. The shells were air dried at room temperature...allowed to air dry. The air-dried film was pale amber in color and flexible. E. X-ray diffraction data...Baltimore canyon approximately 150 km off the coast of Delaware and stored frozen for later study. After thawing...Doctoral Dissertation (University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware). Brine, C. J. and Austin, P. R. (1975)...Solvent,” Master Thesis (University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware). Rutherford, F. A. and Austin, P. R
Journal (issue)
NEW YORK: 16th annual show and sale; GemStreet USA; Hamburg fairgrounds, Grange Bldg.; South Park Ave...AMEX, CHECKS, Money Orders are welcome. S&H $5.00 USA, 7.25% sale tax for CA residents without valid sale...pre-scientific times, Europeans found strange, amber-colored, conical or bullet-shaped objects weathering...of the animal are these guards, which look like amber-colored bullets. Because these guards are so numerous...The belemnite Belemnitella americana became the Delaware state fossil in 1996. I’ve collected some—including
Book (edition)
With a few exceptions such are minerals — amber and as pearl, gem stones natural inorganic...— Mass. — — wave; Baden, Germany — weak —gray Amber: Baltic sea—greenish yellow Amethyst: North...County Chlorastrolite (Cliff Mining Company and Delaware mine dumps Agate Thomsonite (Seven Mile Point...County Serpentine Agate Newton, Sussex County Amber Chalcedony Amethyst Chalcedony Jasper (Bergen...Middlesex Spinel County Paterson, Passaic County Amber (in lignite) Agate Sussex County Amethyst Chalcedony
Journal (issue)
Send Your Photographs to Webmistresses Laurie and Amber!! Field Trips, Specimens, WHATEVER.... email them...Mineral Show sponsored by the Delaware Mineralogical Society. Delaware Technical & Community College...organized by: Philadelphia Mineralogical Society and Delaware Valley Paleontological Society. LuLu Temple (5140...Editor Editor Emeritus Laurie Mechanic-Goodman & Amber Goodman Lizzie Triano, 11 Stage Coach Ln., Patterson
 
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