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June
16, 2007, Saturday: Prospect
Aggregates Quarry, Landisville, PA. This quarry mines the limestone and
dolostones of the Cambrian age Buffalo Springs Formation. Minerals that can be found
at this quarry include: calcite, pink dolomite, quartz crystals, fluorite, pyrite,
sphalerite and chalcopyrite. Collection is by hammer and chisel almost exclusively.
Please sign up by Wednesday, June 13th if you would like to attend!
Note: This is about a 1.5-hour drive from Wilmington.
April 28, 2007, Saturday: Binkley-Ober Quarry,
East Petersburg, PA and Prospect
Aggregates Quarry, Landisville, PA. These quarries mine the limestone
and dolostones of the Cambrian age Buffalo Springs Formation. Minerals that can be
found at these quarries include: calcite, pink dolomite, quartz crystals, fluorite,
pyrite, sphalerite and chalcopyrite. Collection is by hammer and chisel almost
exclusively. Please sign up by Wednesday, April 25th if you would like to
attend! Note: This is about a 1.5-hour drive from Wilmington.
November 18, 2006, Saturday: Binkley-Ober
Quarry, East Petersburg, PA and Prospect Aggregates Quarry, Landisville, PA.
The quarries mine the limestone and dolostones of the Cambrian age Buffalo Springs
Formation. Minerals that can be found at these quarries inclued: calcite, pink
dolomite, quartz crystals, fluorite, pyrite, sphalerite, and chalcopyrite.
Collection is by hammer and chisel almost exclusively. Please signup by
Wednesday November 15th if you would like to attend! Note: This is
about a 1.5-hour drive from Wilmington.
May 20, 2006, Saturday: Binkley-Ober
Quarry, East Petersburg, PA Members of DMS will meet at the
Binkley-Ober Quarry outside of Lancaster, PA and collect there in the morning. In
the afternoon, the group will collect at the nearby Prospect Aggregates Quarry.
These quarries mine the limestone and dolostones of the Cambrian age Buffalo Springs
Formation. Minerals that can be found at these quarries include calcite, pink
dolomite, quartz crystals, fluorite, pyrite, sphalerite, and chalcopyrite.
Collection is almost exclusively by hammer and chisel. Please sign up by
Wednesday, May 17th if you would like to attend! Note: This is about a
1.5-hour drive from Delaware.
November 19, 2005, Saturday: Binkley-Ober Quarry, East Petersburg, Lancaster Co. PA: This quarry is mining limestone, dolostone, shale
and sandstone of the Cambrian age Buffalo Springs Fm.
Minerals that have been found at this quarry include: golden calcite, pink
dolomite, cubic and octahedral fluorite, pyrite, and chalcopyrite.
June 11, 2005, Saturday at 9:00AM sharp, we met at
the entrance to the quarry. A highlight of the fieldtrip was the finding of a
freshly blasted area containing a large vein of purple fluorite.
Some of the specimens recovered by Bob and Karissa were:
fluorite/dolomite/calcite in limestone matrix, pink dolomite crystal clusters, and fine,
cream colored calcite crystals, ranging up to ~3/4".
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Bob found this Fluorite/Dolomite/Calcite
in Limestone from our most recent fieldtrip.
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This pink Dolomite crystal
group also
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November 13, 2004, Saturday: Binkley-Ober
Quarry, East Petersburg, PA: This was the first DMS trip into this quarry in
a number of years. This is also an active quarry, which is mining the limestone,
dolostone, shale and sandstone of the Cambrian age Buffalo Springs Formation.
Minerals found at the quarry include: golden calcite, pink dolomite, cubic
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Out in the Field
Bob Asreen
Binkley-Ober
Quarry, East Petersburg, PA - November 13, 2004
On November
13, 2004, 10 mineral collectors braved the cold windy conditions to
visit the Binkley-Ober Quarry in East Petersburg. Once
again, this was the first DMS trip into this quarry in a number of years. This is
also an active quarry that mines the limestone, dolostone, shale and sandstone of the
Cambrian age Buffalo Springs Fm. for road aggregate and cinder blocks
The
group included 9 DMS members (Joe Meloney, Ken Casey, Tim Cretien, John Osoinach, Karissa
Hendershot, Carl Muendel, Jeff Chalfant, Tom Pankratz and me) along with Jim Schoonmacker
from the MGS.
The
most notable find of the day was made
by Joe Meloney, whose very nice
specimen of pink dolomite is pictured on the DMS web site.
All
of us came
out of the quarry with numerous specimens containing calcite crystals, pink dolomite crystals, and purple fluorite and had a good time
while collecting them!
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