Green's Farm locality (Roxbury garnet mine; Roxbury Falls garnet mine; Garnet Hill), Roxbury, Litchfield Co., Connecticut, USA
Latitude: 41°30'25"N
Longitude: 73°18'11"W
An almandine garnet occurrence in schist. Dodecahedral almandine porphyroblast crystals are extremely abundant and well-formed and reach over 2.5 cm along a crystal edge. Staurolite is also common, rare as twins though. The other minerals are rare or are rock-forming.
The mine is just north of the county line, in Roxbury (the southern part of town is called Roxbury Falls), but visitors should park in neighboring Southbury (New Haven County) at 41 30' 22'' N; 73 18' 06'' W.
The date of mining is uncertain but the works were abandoned before 1941.
References
- Yedlin, Leo N. (1947). Garnet at Roxbury and W. Redding, Conn. Rocks & Minerals, vol. 22, no. 9, p. 824-825.
- Januzzi, 1976. Mineral Localities of CT and Southeastern NY State.
- Schooner, Richard. (1961) THE MINERALOGY OF CONNECTICUT.
- Hiller, John and Kurt Patzlaff. (1973). Connecticut Mines and Minerals. Privately Published.
- Ryerson, Kathleen. (1972) ROCK HOUND'S GUIDE TO CONNECTICUT.
- Webster, Bud. (1978) MINERAL COLLECTOR’S FIELD GUIDE CONNECTICUT.
- Weber, Marcelle H. and Earle C. Sullivan. (1995) CONNECTICUT MINERAL LOCALITY INDEX. Rocks & Minerals (Connecticut Issue), Volume 70, No. 6, p. 399.
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