Friends of Mineralogy Pennsylvania Chapter Newsletters
March 2026 Volume 54 Number 1 -- Ron Sloto receives 2020 Carnegie Mineralogical Award; Tucson Review
Winter 2025 Volume 53 Number 4 -- 2025 Symposium and Field Trip Review
Fall 2025 Volume 53 Number 3 -- ECGMS trip to Havey Quarry and Mt. Mica;
Fluorescence and Phosphorescence of Calcite from Cavetown, Washington County, Maryland
Summer 2025 Volume 53 Number 2 — Fluorescence and Phosphorescence of Wavellite from National Limestone Quarry #2, Snyder County, Pennsylvania; Announcement of FM PA 2025 Symposium
March 2025 Volume 53 Number 1 -- Fluorescent Calcite and Strontianite from National Limestone Quarry #2, Snyder County, Pennsylvania; FM National meeting in Tucson
December 2024 Volume 52 Number 4 -- Report on the 2024 FMPA Symposium
October 2024 Volume 52 Number 3 -- Minerals of the
White Pigment Quarry, West York, York County, Pennsylvania
June 2024 Volume 52 Number 2 -- 2024 FM Symposium announcement
March 2024 Volume 52 Number 1 -- Tucson show review; Minerals of the Penn/MD Materials
Quarry Part 6
December 2023 Volume 51 Number 4 -- 2023 FM PA Symposium report
October 2023 Volume 51 Number 3 -- Symposium update with speakers listed; EFMLS update
Summer 2023 Volume 51 Number 2 -- Symposium update; EFMLS update
Spring 2023 Volume 51 Number 1 -- Orange Planerite from Lime Ridge, Mt. Pleasant Mills; Symposium move to Johnstown
Fall 2022 Volume 50 Number 3 -- Mignone Halls of
Gems and Minerals at the American Museum of Natural History; The year in review
Summer 2022 Volume 50 Number 2 -- Report on Re-opening the Mount Pleasant Mills, Snyder County, Pennsylvania, Wavellite Occurrence; Minerals from the Phoenixville
Mines, Chester County, Pennsylvania
Spring 2022 Volume 50 Number 1 -- Tucson Travel Log and Report; National 2022 FM Meeting in Tucson
Winter 2021 Volume 49 Number 4 -- Symposium and Symposium Field Trip Report
Fall 2021 Volume 49 Number 3 -- Fluorcalciomicrolite from Mineral Hill, Delaware County, PA
Summer 2021 Volume 49 Number 2 -- 2021 Symposium announcement
Spring 2021 Volume 49 Number 1 -- Bill Stephens new president; Minerals of the Penn/MD Materials quarry, part 5
Winter 2020 Volume 48 Number 4 -- Yellow Epidote from the Rock Hill Quarry, 2020 Symposium and field trip report
Fall 2020 Volume 48 Number 3 -- Minerals of the Penn/MD Materials quarry, part 4
Summer 2020 Volume 48 Number 2 -- Amethyst collecting field trip report
Spring 2020 Volume 48 Number 1 -- Minerals of the Silver Hill Quarry contact zones
Fall 2019 Volume 47 Number 3
Winter2019 Volume 47 Number 4 -- Minerals of the Penn/MD Materials quarry, part 3
Summer 2019 Volume 47 Number 2 -- Minerals of the Penn/MD Materials quarry, part 2
Spring 2019 Volume 47 Number 1 -- Minerals of the Penn/MD Materials quarry, part 1
Spring 2018 Volume 46 Number 1
Summer 2018 Volume 46 Number 2
Fall 2018 Volume 46 Number 3 -- Exton mine 80-foot stope chalcanthite
Winter 2018 Volume 46 Number 4 -- Cobaltite from the Kibblehouse Quarry
Spring 2017 Volume 45 Number 1 -- Banded pseudomalachite
from the Perkiomen mine whim shaft, Audubon, Montgomery County
Summer 2017 Volume 45 Number 2 -- Stilbite-stellerite solid
solution series from the Kibblehouse quarry, Perkiomenville, Montgomery County; West Chester University
geology museum
Fall 2017 Volume 45 Number 3 -- Hiddenite North Carolina field trip report; Barite from the Perkiomen mine in the Charles Wheatley collectiom
Spring 2016 Volume 44 Number 1
Summer 2016 Volume 44 Number 2 -- Planerite from Lime Ridge,Mount Pleasant Mills,
Snyder County; National Limestone Middleburg quarry field trip report; Belemnite collecting along the
Chesapeake and Delaware (C&D) Canal; Albite found at C.K. Williams quarry
Fall 2016 Volume 44 Number 3 -- Actinolite, augite, and titanite from the Rock Hill quarry,
East Rockhill Township, Bucks County; Update on C&D Canal belemnite collecting; Penn/MD Materials quarry field trip report
Winter 2016 Volume 44 Number 4 -- 2016 FMPA symposium report; Cornwall field trip report
Spring 2015 Volume 43 Number 1 -- Mineral Hill field trip report, Cornwall Big Hill field trip report
Summer 2015 Volume 43 Number 2 -- Texas, Pennsylvania
Fall 2015 Volume 43 Number 3 -- Gem & mineral show in Chenzhou, China
Winter 2015 Volume 43 Number 4 -- Cornwall mine field trip report,
a look back at the first Friends of Mineralogy Pennsylvania Chapter symposium
Spring 2014 Volume 42 Number 1 -- Twinned franklinite from the Sterling mine, New Jersey
Summer 2014 Volume 42 Number 2
Fall 2014 Volume 42 Number 3 -- Vince Matula memorial
Winter 2014 Volume 42 Number 4 -- John Passaneau memorial
Spring 2013 Volume 41 Number 1
Summer 2013 Volume 41 Number 2 -- Montgomery County cacoxenite
Fall 2013 Volume 41 Number 3
Winter 2013 Volume 41 Number 4 -- Phosphate Minerals from the National Limestone Quarry
Spring 2012 Volume 40 Number 1 -- Remembering Floyd Faux, Platinum group minerals new to Pennsylvania
Summer 2012 Volume 40 Number 2 -- Slag minerals from Hopewell Furnace new to Pennsylvania
Fall 2012 Volume 40 Number 3
Winter 2012 Volume 40 Number 4
Spring 2011 Volume 39 Number 1 -- Okenite from the Dyer Quarry, Trace element content of magnetite and clinochlore
from the Penn/MD Materials quarry
Winter 2011 Volume 39 Numbers 2-4 -- Metal deposits of the Newark Basin part 3
Winter 2010 Volume 38 Number 1 -- University of Delaware mineralogical museum, Metal deposits of the Newark Basin part 1
Summer 2010 Volume 38 Number 2 -- Metal deposits of the Newark Basin part 2
Spring 2009 Volume 37 Number 1 -- Allen Heyl Memorial, Neil Wintringham memorial
Spring 2008 Volume 36 Number 1 -- Ruizite from the Cornwall Mine, Doanld Hoff memorial
Summer 2008 Volume 36 Number 2
Fall 2007 Volume 35 Number 2 -- Pennsylvania Minerals list
Spring/Summer 2007 Volume 35 Number 1 -- Carnotite from Jim Thorp (Mauch Chunk), Origins of dolomite
Spring 2006 Volume 34 Number 1 -- FM Symposium abstracts Classic Eastern Localities
Summer 2006 Volume 34 Number 2
Fall 2006 Volume 34 Number 3 -- Chronicles of central Pennsylvania mineralogy,
part 3
Winter-Spring 2005 Volume 33 Numbers 1 & 2 -- Lininger collection auction
Fall 2005 Volume 33 Number 3
Spring-Summer 2004 Volume 32 Numbers 1 & 2 -- Minerals from the I-99 roadcut at Skytop, Centre County;
Frederick genth mineral collection; chloritoid from Pape's orchard, Adams County
Fall 2004 Volume 32 Number 3 -- Jay Lininger memorial
Spring 2003 Volume 31 Number 1 -- Poorhouse quarry, Chester County;
the Nottingham serpentine barrens and Wood mine; Cedar Hill quarry mineras; Wood mine minerals
Summer 2003 Volume 31 Number 2 -- Siderite and barite mineralization at Fairhope, Somerset County;
sulfide zone discovery at the Codorus quarry, Emigsville, York County
Fall 2003 Volume 31 Number 3 -- Wurtzite and phillipsite loclities; Valley quarry, Gettysburh, Adams
County
Winter 2003-2004 Volume 31 Number 4 --Shimersville corumdum, occurrence, Lehigh
County; Carpenter mine, Bradford County
Spring 2002 Volume 30 Number 1 -- FM Symposium abstracts Psuedomorphs part 2
Summer 2002 Volume 30 Number 2 -- Gold panning in Pennsylvania
Fall 2002 Volume 30 Number 3 -- Wollastonite from Texas, PA; African adventures of a young geologist
Winter 2002 Volume 30 Number 4 -- Roland Bounds memorial, Discovery of the Grace Mine iron deposit
Spring 2001 Volume 29 Number 1 -- Vauxite; Pennsylvania minerals on display in the British Museum, part 1
Summer 2001 Volume 29 Number 2 -- Pennsylvania minerals on display in the British Museum, part 2
Fall 2001 Volume 29 Number 3 -- EFMLS geology tour north and south of the [Canadian] border
Winter 2001 Volume 29 Number 4 -- FM Symposium abstracts Psuedomorphs part 1
Spring 2000 Volume 28 Number 1 -- The great zeolite hunt
Summer 2000 Volume 28 Number 2 -- Loellingite or safflorite from Huff's Church?
Fall 2000 Volume 28 Number 3
Winter 2000 Volume 28 Number 4 -- Bryn Mawr College micromounts
Spring 1999 Volume 27 Number 1 -- Corundum Hill revisited
Summer 1999 Volume 27 Number 2 -- Olivine in diabase; Frech Creek mine minerals
Fall 1999 Volume 27 Number 3 -- Lead and zinc veins at New Galena, part 3
Winter 1999 Volume 27 Number 4 -- Authur Montgomery memorial
Spring 1998 Volume 26 Number 1
Summer 1998 Volume 26 Number 2 -- Lead and zinc veins at New Galena, part 2
Fall 1998 Volume 26 Number 3 -- FM Symposium abstracts
Winter 1998 Volume 26 Number 4 -- Delaware County zoisite and leidyite,
Diabase intrusion at Kibblehouse quarry
Spring 1997 Volume 25 Number 1 -- Lead and zinc veins at New Galena, part 1
Summer 1997 Volume 25 Number 2 -- Micro staurolite crystals from Trainer; Tanoma kimberlite, SW PA
Fall 1997 Volume 25 Number 3 -- Joseph Wharton (Gap Mine) biography; Psuedo-octahedral
calcite from the Limecrest Quarry, Sparta, NJ
Winter 1997 Volume 25 Number 4
Spring 1996 Volume 24 Number 1 -- Chromites in SE PA
Summer 1996 Volume 24 Number 2 -- Minerals from the PA-MD Materials Quarry
Fall 1996 Volume 24 Number 3 -- Native copper in PA; PA copper, gold and powellite
Winter 1996 Volume 24 Number 4 -- Minerals of Delaware; Chlorine-rich pargasite from Coatesville
Spring 1995 Volume 23 Number 1 --Dumortierite, tourmaline, and tschermakite from Chester County, part 3
Summer 1995 Volume 23 Number 2
Fall 1995 Volume 23 Number 3
Winter 1995 Volume 23 Number 4 -- Dozeyite from PA; FM symposium abstracts,
Eastern States Phosphate Mineralogy
Spring 1994 Volume 22 Number 1 -- Chronicles of central Pennsylvania mineralogy (part 1)
Summer 1994 Volume 22 Number 2 -- Mineralogy of the ultramafic body at routes 29 and 322 near West Chester;
Calcite from Winfield
Fall 1994 Volume 22 Number 3 -- Dumortierite, tourmaline, and tschermakite from Chester County, part 1
Winter 1994 Volume 22 Number 4 -- Dumortierite, tourmaline, and tschermakite from Chester County, part 2
Spring 1993 Volume 21 Number 1
Summer 1993 Volume 21 Number 2
Winter 1993 Volume 21 Number 4
Spring 1992 Volume 20 Number 1 -- Twinning in rutile crystals; wurtzite from Donohoe,
Westmoreland County
Summer 1992 Volume 20 Number 2
Fall 1992 Volume 20 Number 3 -- Siegenite from the Wheatley mine
Winter 1992 Volume 20 Number 4
Spring 1991 Volume 19 Number 1 -- Amethyst find near Collegeville, Montgomery County
Summer 1991 Volume 19 Number 2
Fall 1991 Volume 19 Number 3
Winter 1991 Volume 19 Number 4 -- Minerals from Sugar Grove, WV
Spring 1990 Volume 18 Number 1 -- Ecton mine Whim Shaft minerala; Aheylite and planerite
species list, 1976-1989
Summer 1990 Volume 18 Number 2 -- Proposed changes in the Pennsylvania mineral
species list, 1976-1989
Fall 1990 Volume 18 Number 3 -- Proposed changes in the Pennsylvania mineral
species list, 1976-1989
Winter 1990 Volume 18 Number 4 -- Arsenian pyrite from the Ecton mine, Audubon, Montgomery County
Spring 1989 Volume 17 Number 1 -- Pennsylvania collecting in the nineteen thirties (part 2)
Summer 1989 Volume 17 Number 2
Fall 1989 Volume 17 Number 3 -- Coalingite, povroskite, & mcguinessite from the Cedar Hill Quarry
Winter 1989 Volume 17 Number 4 -- Tosudite from Luzerne and Schuylkill Counties
Spring 1988 Volume 16 Number 1 -- Pennsylvania strontianite and celectine; the York Iron Company
mine, York County (part 1)
Summer 1988 Volume 16 Number 2 -- Pyrite crystals from the French Creek mine
Fall 1988 Volume 16 Number 3 -- Pennsylvania meteorites; Columbite-Fe from the Steidler quarry; Calcio-ancylite
Winter 1988 Volume 16 Number 4 -- Pennsylvania collecting in the nineteen thirties (part 1)
Spring 1987 Volume 15 Number 1 -- Ramsbeckite from the Ecton mine,
Montgomery County
Summer 1987 Volume 15 Number 2 -- Galena from the Pequea silver mine, Lancaster County
Fall 1987 Volume 15 Number 3 -- Magnesio-riebeckite from PA, part 1
Winter 1987 Volume 15 Number 4 -- Magnesio-riebeckite from PA, part 2
Spring 1986 Volume 14 Number 1 -- Feldspar from Delaware County;
ferrihydrite from Delaware County
Summer 1986 Volume 14 Number 2 -- Pyromorphite from the Brookdale mine, Phoenixxville,
Chester County; laphamite from Pennsylvania
Fall 1986 Volume 14 Number 3 -- Harold Evans memorial
Winter 1986 Volume 14 Number 4 -- Wheatleyite from the Wheatleymine, Phoenixville
Spring 1985 Volume 13 Number 1 -- Pennsylvania mineral list, 1980 update;
Occurrence and petrogenesis of riebeckite at Glen Mills quarry, Delaware County (part 2)
Summer 1985 Volume 13 Number 2 -- allophane from Allenport; Pennsylvania phosphates
Fall 1985 Volume 13 Number 3 -- Antlerite from the Ecton mine
Winter 1985 Volume 13 Number 4 -- Nakaurite from Cedar Hill quarry, Lancaster County
March 1984 Volume 12 Number 1 -- Billmyer quarry, Lancaster County minerals;
celectine from East Salem; siderite from Somerset County; riebeckite from the Glen Mills quarry, Delaware County;
perovskite from Pennsylvania
June 1984 Volume 12 Number 2
September 1984 Volume 12 Number 3 -- Turquoise from General Trimble's mine, Chester County
December 1984 Volume 12 Number 4
March 1983 Volume 11 Number 1 -- Further data on andalusite and Kyanite psuedomorphous after
andalucite from Delaware County (part 2, kyanite)
June 1983 Volume 11 Number 2 -- Nickelian serpentine from the Wood Mine;
Pennsylvania field trips of the 1930s, part 2
September 1983 Volume 11 Number 3 -- York County mineral species list
December 1983 Volume 11 Number 4 -- Paragonite ar Blue Hill, Delaware County; Pennsylvania
field trips of the 1930a, part 3
March 1982 Volume 10 Number 1 -- Spring Conference and Mineralogy Symposium
June 1982 Volume 10 Number 2 -- Matulaite and cacoxenite from the General trimble mine, Chester County;
Catasauqua slag pile minerals
September 1982 Volume 10 Number 3 -- Paragenesis of the Dillsburg magnetite deposit
December 1982 Volume 10 Number 4 -- Mottramite from PA
June 1981 Volume 9 Number 2 -- Pennsylvania lanthanite (part 2); Further data
on nickelian serpentine minerals from Wood's chrome mine, Lancaster County
September 1981 Volume 9 Number 3 -- Desautelsite, downeyite, and matulaite from
Pennsylvania; further data on andalusite and kyanite pseudomorphs after andalusite from Delaware County (Part 1, andalucite)
December 1981 Volume 9 Number 4 -- Catasauqua slag pile
March 1980 Volume 8 Number 1 --
Andalusite from Delaware County
June 1980 Volume 8 Number 2 -- Beryl from Fairmount Park, Philadelphia;
Andalusite, kyanite and paragonite from Delaware County; Nickelian clinochrysotile from the Wood Mine
September 1980 Volume 8 Number 3 -- Corrensite from the Kibblehouse Quarry;
Maucherite from the State Line District
Summer 1979 -- Williams Quarry in Easton
Fall 1979 -- Dillsburg iron mines
Spring 1978 Pennsylvania lead and zinc occurrences
Spring 1977
Summer 1977 -- Chester County chromite localities; Unionville corundum mines
Matulaite from the Bachman Mine
Fall 1977 -- Chromian dravite from the Line Pit (Low's Mine)
Winter 1977
Spring 1976 -- Charles Wheatley biography
Summer 1976 -- Minerals from Texas, Lancaster County
Fall 1976 -- Millerite and other minerals from West Pittston
Winter 1976 -- Photographing fluorescent minerals
Spring 1975 -- Pennsylvania mineral list 1974;
Chamosite from PA; Pyrrhotite and celestine from Blair County
Summer 1975 -- Fetid barite from Berks County
Fall 1975 -- Minerals from the Safe Harbor Quarry, Lancaster County
Winter 1975 -- Discredited and probable Pennsylvania minerals
Spring 1974 -- Iron ores
Summer 1974 -- Clues to mineral occurrences from the geological literature, part 1
Fall 1974 -- Clues to mineral occurrences from the geological literature, part 2
Winter 1974 -- Clues to mineral occurrences from the geological literature, part 3;
Pennsylvania mineral list
Spring 1973 -- Eastonite; Possible minerals that might reasonably occur in PA;
Anatase from Kline's Quarry
Summer 1973
Fall 1973 -- Multi-colored fluorite at New Paris
Winter 1973
1972 -- Status of the New Galena lead mines