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                                                    Cornwall Mine

                                          Cornwall, PA

 

May 17, 2008, Saturday:  Haines & Kibblehouse Cornwall Materials Quarry, Cornwall, Lebanon County, PA: (8AM-12PM) (Tentative) This quarry produces magnetite, garnet, hematite, chrysocolla, pyrite, chalcopyrite and many other minerals.  Please sign up by May 15th if you would like to attend!

 

October 22, 2005, Saturday: Cornwall Mine, Cornwall, PA
DMS invites its members to visit the historic Cornwall Iron
Furnace in Lebanon County.  Combine a little bit of
history with some mineral collecting!  Junior members are
invited to attend!  The minerals that can commonly be found
here include: azurite and malachite coatings, calcite,
magnetite and pyrite. 
See http://www.mindat.org/loc-3653.html for a list and
photographs of the minerals that have been found at this mine. 
For more information about the historic Cornwall Iron Furnace
and a location map, please see the following
websites:
http://users.mbcomp.com/LitzOnLebanon/iron.htm
and
http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/bhsm/toh/cornwall/cornwalliron.asp.

[Bob Asreen]

 

 

Cornwall Furnace Fieldtrip Slide Show, 10-22-2005 (IE)

Cornwall Furnace Fieldtrip Slide Show, 10-22-2005 (N)

(Coming after the fieldtrip, of course!)

 

 

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