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Glastonbury, Hartford County, Connecticut, USAi
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Glastonbury31,876 (2017)
Glastonbury Center7,387 (2017)
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24899
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French:
Glastonbury, Comté de Hartford, Connecticut, États-Unis
German:
Glastonbury, Hartford County, Connecticut, Vereinigte Staaten
Italian:
Glastonbury, Contea di Hartford, Connecticut, Stati Uniti d'America
Russian:
Гластонбери, Хартфорд, Коннектикут, Соединённые Штаты Америки
Simplified Chinese:
格拉斯頓伯里 , 哈特福德縣, 康乃狄克州, 美国
Spanish:
Glastonbury, Condado de Hartford, Connecticut, Estados Unidos
Arabic:
غلاستونبوري, مقاطعة هارتفورد, كونيتيكت, الولايات المتحدة
Basque:
Glastonbury , Hartford konderria, Connecticut
Catalan:
Glastonbury, Connecticut, Estats Units d’Amèrica
Cebuano:
Glastonbury, Hartford County, Connecticut
Chechen:
Гластонбери , Коннектикут, Америкин Цхьаьнатоьхна Штаташ
Danish:
Glastonbury, Connecticut, USA
Dutch:
Glastonbury, Hartford County, Connecticut, Verenigde Staten
Farsi/Persian:
گلستونبری، کنتیکت, شهرستان هارتفورد، کنتیکت, کنتیکت, ایالات متحده آمریکا
Finnish:
Glastonbury, Connecticut, Yhdysvallat
Georgian:
გლასტონბერი, კონექტიკუტი, ამერიკის შეერთებული შტატები
Haitian:
Glastonbury, Konèktikòt, Etazini
Hebrew:
גלסטונבורי, קונטיקט, ארצות הברית
Hungarian:
Glastonbury, Hartford megye, Connecticut, Amerikai Egyesült Államok
Japanese:
グラストンベリー, ハートフォード郡, コネチカット州, アメリカ合衆国
Kazakh (Cyrillic Script):
Гластонбюри, Коннектикут, Америка Құрама Штаттары
Kyrgyz:
Гластонбюри, Америка Кошмо Штаттары
Minnan / Hokkien-Taiwanese:
Glastonbury
Norwegian:
Glastonbury, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
Polish:
Glastonbury, Hrabstwo Hartford, Connecticut, Stany Zjednoczone
Portuguese:
Glastonbury, Condado de Hartford, Connecticut, Estados Unidos
Swedish:
Glastonbury, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
Tatar:
Гластонбери , Коннектикут, Америка Кушма Штатлары
Turkish:
Glastonbury, Hartford County, Connecticut, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri
Ukrainian:
Гластонбері, Гартфорд, Коннектикут, Сполучені Штати Америки
Urdu:
گلیسٹنبری، کنیکٹیکٹ, ہارٹفورڈ کاؤنٹی، کنیکٹیکٹ, کنیکٹیکٹ, ریاستہائے متحدہ امریکا
Uzbek (Latin Script):
Glastonbury, Konnektikut, Amerika Qoʻshma Shtatlari
Volapük:
Glastonbury, Connecticut, Lamerikän
Welsh:
Glastonbury, Connecticut, Unol Daleithiau America


A town on the east side of the Connecticut River, just southeast of Hartford. The bedrock geology consists of continental clastic sedimentary rocks (Portland Formation) within the Mesozoic Hartford Basin under the westernmost part of town, though these are mostly covered by Pleistocene deposits, and, in the Eastern Highlands, metamorphic rocks of the Bronson Hill terrane under the eastern part of the town. Most of the Bronson Hill bedrock is the Ordovician Glastonbury meta-plutonic gneiss, flanked on the east and west by Collins Hill formation, and unconformably overlain by the Silurian-Devonian meta-sedimentary Fitch, Clough, and Littleton formations in a north-northeast trending syncline near the eastern edge of town. Numerous pegmatites intrude these units, most notably just south of the village of South Glastonbury near the Portland line. This swarm is the northern part of the Middletown Pegmatite District.

The diversity of mineralogy found within the town is dominated by the pegmatites, which include both common and mariolitic, lithium-rich types. Rock forming and accessory metamorphic minerals are found in the meta-plutons and meta-sediments, and low temperature hydrothermal minerals are found in later faults and fractures.

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51 valid minerals. 3 erroneous literature entries.

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Detailed Mineral List:

Albite
Formula: Na(AlSi3O8)
Localities: Reported from at least 40 localities in this region.
Description: Occurs in pegmatite.
References:
Albite var. Cleavelandite
Formula: Na(AlSi3O8)
Habit: tabular
Colour: white
Description: Crystals are thin and fragile in the northern prospect, thicker and chunkier in the southern prospect.
'Allanite Group' ?
Formula: (A12+REE3+)(M13+M23+M32+)O[Si2O7][SiO4](OH)
Description: Listed on Table 1 in Betts (1999) with a question mark.
Almandine
Formula: Fe2+3Al2(SiO4)3
Localities: Reported from at least 11 localities in this region.
Habit: dodecahedral and trapezohedral
Colour: maroon
Description: Usually small (<5mm) but well formed crystals in fine-grained schist, larger crystals to 3 cm in coarser schist. Confirmed as almandine using XRF (Fe:Mn ratio = 83:17) by Harold Moritz.
Annite
Formula: KFe2+3(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Localities: Reported from at least 10 localities in this region.
Description: fka: biotite
'Apatite'
Formula: Ca5(PO4)3(Cl/F/OH)
Autunite
Formula: Ca(UO2)2(PO4)2 · 10-12H2O
Beryl
Formula: Be3Al2(Si6O18)
Localities: Reported from at least 10 localities in this region.
Habit: stout prisms with pinacoidal terminations
Colour: yellow green to pale green
Description: Crystals up to several inches in diameter, best crystals associated with nearly black smoky quartz and cleavelandite.
Beryl var. Aquamarine
Formula: Be3Al2Si6O18
Colour: blue
Description: good gem material found
Beryl var. Goshenite
Formula: Be3Al2(Si6O18)
Habit: hexagonal prisms
Colour: colorless
Description: a gem quality flattened crystal 8 cm in diameter retained by Brack family.
Beryl var. Heliodor
Formula: Be3Al2(Si6O18)
Beryl var. Morganite
Formula: Be3Al2(Si6O18)
Colour: pink to peach
Bismuthinite
Formula: Bi2S3
Habit: massive
Colour: gray
Description: irregular masses in the quartz core, most are altered to bismutite.
Bismutite
Formula: (BiO)2CO3
Description: Good quality specimens were reported by Dick Schooner in Betts (1999).
Cassiterite
Formula: SnO2
Chalcopyrite
Formula: CuFeS2
Columbite-(Fe)
Formula: Fe2+Nb2O6
Habit: crudely prismatic
Colour: black
Description: crude crystals with dull luster typically associated with or grown up against samarskite-(Y) crystals. In aggregates to about 8 cm, tiny euhedral crystals rare. Duller luster of the coarse, uneven fracture surface differentiates it from samarskite.
'Columbite-(Fe)-Columbite-(Mn) Series'
Localities: Reported from at least 9 localities in this region.
Description: Occurs in pegmatite.
References:
'Columbite-Tantalite'
Description: Accessory in the pegmatite.
Cookeite
Formula: (LiAl4◻)[AlSi3O10](OH)8
Dickite
Formula: Al2(Si2O5)(OH)4
Dravite
Formula: NaMg3Al6(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3(OH)
Elbaite
Formula: Na(Li1.5Al1.5)Al6(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3(OH)
Habit: elongated prisms
Colour: green, pink, red
Description: all elbaite crystals have a thin blue cap on the pedion termination, with "watermelon" crystals and gem nodules to 5 mm common
Epidote
Formula: (CaCa)(AlAlFe3+)O[Si2O7][SiO4](OH)
Habit: elongated prismatic
Colour: green
Description: euhdral crystal to three inches, with scapolite and titanite in a quartz vein
'Feldspar Group'
'Feldspar Group var. Perthite'
Ferrimolybdite
Formula: Fe2(MoO4)3 · nH2O
Habit: earthy
Colour: pale yellow
Description: Alteration product of molybdenite.
Fluorapatite
Formula: Ca5(PO4)3F
Localities: Reported from at least 10 localities in this region.
Fluorapatite var. Manganese-bearing Fluorapatite
Formula: (Ca,Mn2+)5(PO4)3(F,Cl,OH) or Ca5([P,Mn5+]O4)3(F,Cl,OH)
Fluorite
Formula: CaF2
Habit: mostly massive, rarely octahedral
Colour: Light pink to dark red
Fluorescence: blue-green
Description: Occurs as small masses or octahedra (which typically crumble) in the northern pegmatite.
Fluorite var. Chlorophane
Formula: CaF2
Habit: massive to crudely octahedral
Colour: pink to dark red
Fluorescence: blue-green
Description: Crystals or masses typically crumble so rarely intact or on matrix.
Gahnite
Formula: ZnAl2O4
Habit: octahedral
Colour: dark green
Description: Usually small octahedra less than about 1 cm, associated with cleavelandite and very dark smoky quartz in the southern pegmatite. According to Schooner (1958), Mary E. Mrose, of the U. S. Geological Survey, established the identity of this material by an x-ray diffraction test.
'Garnet Group'
Formula: X3Z2(SiO4)3
Goethite
Formula: α-Fe3+O(OH)
Grayite
Formula: (Th,Pb,Ca)(PO4) · H2O
Hematite ?
Formula: Fe2O3
Colour: maroon
Description: Red to maroon coatings on feldspars near samarskite and columbite crystals. Qualitative testing suggests hematite.
Ishikawaite
Formula: U4+Fe2+Nb2O8
Description: Although ishikawaite has been found at some former samarskite-(Y) localities, all analyses of Spinelli Prospect specimens show they are consistent with samarskite-(Y).
Kaolinite
Formula: Al2(Si2O5)(OH)4
Colour: white
Description: most of the feldspar has weathered to this clay.
'Lepidolite'
Habit: "ball-peen" aggregates
Colour: gray to lavender
Magnetite
Formula: Fe2+Fe3+2O4
Habit: anhedral
Colour: black
Description: from the lower portion of the pegmatite away from the samarskite zone, easily distinguished by attraction to magnet.
Meta-autunite
Formula: Ca(UO2)2(PO4)2 · 6H2O
Habit: thin crusts
Colour: pale yellow
Fluorescence: green
Description: Associated with other uranium minerals
Metatorbernite
Formula: Cu(UO2)2(PO4)2 · 8H2O
Habit: square, tabular
Colour: green
Description: as flaky coatings with not very distinct crystals
Microcline
Formula: K(AlSi3O8)
Localities: Reported from at least 37 localities in this region.
References:
Microcline var. Amazonite
Formula: K(AlSi3O8)
Habit: massive
Colour: pale blue-green
Description: grades into typical white microcline
'Microlite Group'
Formula: A2-mTa2X6-wZ-n
Habit: octahedral with dodecahedral and cubic modifications
Colour: pale to dark brown to black, yellow-green
Description: Crystals up to "almost half an inch" (Schooner, 1958) associated with cleavelandite and very dark smoky quartz in the southern pegmatite.
Molybdenite
Formula: MoS2
Description: Good quality specimens were reported by Dick Schooner in Betts (1999), though this could be an allusion to Foye (1922), who is actually referencing the Howe #1 quarry.
'Monazite' ?
Formula: REE(PO4)
Description: Listed in Table 1 in Betts (1999) with a question mark.
Monazite-(Ce)
Formula: Ce(PO4)
Habit: subhedral, blocky
Colour: brown-red
Description: Recent collecting aided by ionizing radiation detectors (May 2012) has turned up an approximately 15-cm-long, subhedral crystal weighing around 4 kg and a few other smaller crystals to 8 cm. These are the first crystals found in the pegmatite since 1933 and may be the largest from Connecticut.
Muscovite
Formula: KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Localities: Reported from at least 39 localities in this region.
Habit: tabular
Colour: silvery to pale green
Description: Significant accessory mineral, mostly massive and up to 1 foot or so across, but euhedral crystals formed adjacent to the quartz core zone.
Nacrite ?
Formula: Al2(Si2O5)(OH)4
Description: Dick Schooner reports (via Januzzi, 1976) finding nacrite in an unspecified pegmatite, no details are provided.
Opal
Formula: SiO2 · nH2O
Habit: bubbly coatings
Colour: colorless to aqua
Fluorescence: green
Description: Coatings mostly invisible unless illuminated by SW UV, rarely colored blue-green in daylight and if thick enough has a translucent, fine-grained bubbly appearance.
Opal var. Opal-AN
Formula: SiO2 · nH2O
Habit: bubbly coatings
Colour: colorless to aqua
Fluorescence: green
Description: Coatings mostly invisible unless illuminated by SW UV, rarely colored blue-green in daylight and if thick enough has a translucent, fine-grained bubbly appearance.
Orthoclase
Formula: K(AlSi3O8)
Description: Occurs in pegmatite.
Pollucite ?
Formula: (Cs,Na)2(Al2Si4O12) · 2H2O
Description: Reference includes a list of minerals identical to Schooner (1958). No details provided.
Pyrite
Formula: FeS2
Pyrolusite
Formula: Mn4+O2
Description: No pyrolusite dendrite or staining in a granite pegmatite in the world has been verified as pyrolusite. The name was a mistake in the nineteenth century which has been widely publicized.
Quartz
Formula: SiO2
Localities: Reported from at least 41 localities in this region.
Quartz var. Rose Quartz
Formula: SiO2
Description: Foye (1922) refers to the Howe #1 quarry, aka Huspband quarry, often misspelled Husband.
Quartz var. Smoky Quartz
Formula: SiO2
Localities: Reported from at least 10 localities in this region.
Habit: prismatic with rhombic terminations
Colour: gray to brown
Description: associated with gem crystals
Rutile
Formula: TiO2
Rutile var. Strüverite
Formula: (Ti,Ta,Fe)O2
Samarskite-(Y)
Formula: YFe3+Nb2O8
Localities: Reported from at least 6 localities in this region.
Habit: radiating to subparallel prismatic groups with dome terminations
Colour: black
Description: Crystals usually in aggregates (up to 15 cm) typically well terminated but very brittle and easily damaged due to incipient fractures and metamict nature. Fractures conchoidally with lustrous, pitch-black surface. Commonly associated with columbite-(Fe) that has a duller luster especially on the fracture face. Coated with clays from altered surrounding feldspars that are reddish colored, and thin muscovite, both can be removed with micro-blasting using soft abrasive.
References:
'Scapolite'
Description: with epidote and titanite in a quartz vein
Schorl
Formula: NaFe2+3Al6(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3(OH)
Localities: Reported from at least 11 localities in this region.
Sillimanite
Formula: Al2(SiO4)O
Spessartine
Formula: Mn2+3Al2(SiO4)3
Habit: trapezohedral
Colour: orange-brown
Description: Reference includes a list identical to Schooner (1958) with no details. However, spessartine is very likely given the abundance of Mn minerals in this pegmatite and the orange-brown color typical of near end-member crystals analyzed at other Connecticut pegmatites. Schooner (1958) states: "collected a superb specimen of intergrown one inch orange-brown trapezohedra... resembling essonite".
Sphalerite
Formula: ZnS
Description: Collected by Dick Schooner associated with columbite.
Staurolite
Formula: Fe2+2Al9Si4O23(OH)
Habit: Elongated prismatic, rarely twinned
Colour: dark brown
Description: Prismatic crystals can reach several cm, associated with almandine in fine-grained schist.
Strengite
Formula: FePO4 · 2H2O
Thorite
Formula: Th(SiO4)
Colour: dark brown
Titanite
Formula: CaTi(SiO4)O
Description: with scapolite and epidote in a quartz vein
Torbernite
Formula: Cu(UO2)2(PO4)2 · 12H2O
Description: Dick Schooner reports (via Betts, 1999) good crystals found here, but that may be in allusion to Foye (1922), who is actually referring to an alternate name for the Howe #1 quarry.
'Tourmaline'
Formula: AD3G6 (T6O18)(BO3)3X3Z
Habit: elongated prisms
Colour: red to pink
Description: typically with blue color "cap" on the pedion
'Tourmaline var. Rubellite'
Formula: A(D3)G6(T6O18)(BO3)3X3Z
Habit: elongated prisms
Colour: red to pink
Description: typically with blue color "cap" on the pedion
Uraninite
Formula: UO2
Description: Occurs in pegmatite.
References:
'Uranmicrolite (of Hogarth 1977)' ?
Formula: (Ca,U,Na)2-x(Ta,Nb)2(O,OH)7
Uranophane
Formula: Ca(UO2)2(SiO3OH)2 · 5H2O
Xenotime-(Y) ?
Formula: Y(PO4)
Description: Listed on Table 1 in Betts (1999) with a question mark.
Zircon
Formula: Zr(SiO4)
Zircon var. Cyrtolite
Formula: Zr[(SiO4),(OH)4]

Gallery:

List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification

Group 2 - Sulphides and Sulfosalts
Bismuthinite2.DB.05Bi2S3
Chalcopyrite2.CB.10aCuFeS2
Molybdenite2.EA.30MoS2
Pyrite2.EB.05aFeS2
Sphalerite2.CB.05aZnS
Group 3 - Halides
Fluorite3.AB.25CaF2
var. Chlorophane3.AB.25CaF2
Group 4 - Oxides and Hydroxides
Cassiterite4.DB.05SnO2
Columbite-(Fe)4.DB.35Fe2+Nb2O6
Gahnite4.BB.05ZnAl2O4
Goethite4.00.α-Fe3+O(OH)
Hematite ?4.CB.05Fe2O3
Ishikawaite ?4.DB.25U4+Fe2+Nb2O8
Magnetite4.BB.05Fe2+Fe3+2O4
'Microlite Group'4.00.A2-mTa2X6-wZ-n
Opal4.DA.10SiO2 · nH2O
var. Opal-AN4.DA.10SiO2 · nH2O
Pyrolusite ?4.DB.05Mn4+O2
Quartz4.DA.05SiO2
var. Rose Quartz ?4.DA.05SiO2
var. Smoky Quartz4.DA.05SiO2
Rutile4.DB.05TiO2
var. Strüverite4.DB.05(Ti,Ta,Fe)O2
Samarskite-(Y)4.DB.25YFe3+Nb2O8
Uraninite4.DL.05UO2
Group 5 - Nitrates and Carbonates
Bismutite5.BE.25(BiO)2CO3
Group 7 - Sulphates, Chromates, Molybdates and Tungstates
Ferrimolybdite7.GB.30Fe2(MoO4)3 · nH2O
Group 8 - Phosphates, Arsenates and Vanadates
Autunite8.EB.05Ca(UO2)2(PO4)2 · 10-12H2O
Fluorapatite8.BN.05Ca5(PO4)3F
var. Manganese-bearing Fluorapatite8.BN.05(Ca,Mn2+)5(PO4)3(F,Cl,OH) or Ca5([P,Mn5+]O4)3(F,Cl,OH)
Grayite8.CJ.45(Th,Pb,Ca)(PO4) · H2O
Meta-autunite8.EB.10Ca(UO2)2(PO4)2 · 6H2O
Metatorbernite8.EB.10Cu(UO2)2(PO4)2 · 8H2O
Monazite-(Ce)8.AD.50Ce(PO4)
Strengite8.CD.10FePO4 · 2H2O
Torbernite8.EB.05Cu(UO2)2(PO4)2 · 12H2O
Xenotime-(Y) ?8.AD.35Y(PO4)
Group 9 - Silicates
Albite9.FA.35Na(AlSi3O8)
var. Cleavelandite9.FA.35Na(AlSi3O8)
Almandine9.AD.25Fe2+3Al2(SiO4)3
Annite9.EC.20KFe2+3(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Beryl9.CJ.05Be3Al2(Si6O18)
var. Aquamarine9.CJ.05Be3Al2Si6O18
var. Goshenite9.CJ.05Be3Al2(Si6O18)
var. Heliodor9.CJ.05Be3Al2(Si6O18)
var. Morganite9.CJ.05Be3Al2(Si6O18)
Cookeite9.EC.55(LiAl4◻)[AlSi3O10](OH)8
Dickite9.ED.05Al2(Si2O5)(OH)4
Dravite9.CK.05NaMg3Al6(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3(OH)
Elbaite9.CK.05Na(Li1.5Al1.5)Al6(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3(OH)
Epidote9.BG.05a(CaCa)(AlAlFe3+)O[Si2O7][SiO4](OH)
Kaolinite9.ED.05Al2(Si2O5)(OH)4
Microcline9.FA.30K(AlSi3O8)
var. Amazonite9.FA.30K(AlSi3O8)
Muscovite9.EC.15KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Nacrite ?9.ED.05Al2(Si2O5)(OH)4
Orthoclase9.FA.30K(AlSi3O8)
Pollucite ?9.GB.05(Cs,Na)2(Al2Si4O12) · 2H2O
Schorl9.CK.05NaFe2+3Al6(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3(OH)
Sillimanite9.AF.05Al2(SiO4)O
Spessartine9.AD.25Mn2+3Al2(SiO4)3
Staurolite9.AF.30Fe2+2Al9Si4O23(OH)
Thorite9.AD.30Th(SiO4)
Titanite9.AG.15CaTi(SiO4)O
Uranophane9.AK.15Ca(UO2)2(SiO3OH)2 · 5H2O
Zircon9.AD.30Zr(SiO4)
var. Cyrtolite9.AD.30Zr[(SiO4),(OH)4]
Unclassified Minerals, Rocks, etc.
'Allanite Group' ?-(A12+REE3+)(M13+M23+M32+)O[Si2O7][SiO4](OH)
'Apatite'-Ca5(PO4)3(Cl/F/OH)
'Columbite-(Fe)-Columbite-(Mn) Series'-
'Columbite-Tantalite'-
'Feldspar Group'-
'var. Perthite'-
'Garnet Group'-X3Z2(SiO4)3
'Lepidolite'-
'Monazite' ?-REE(PO4)
'Scapolite'-
'Tourmaline'-AD3G6 (T6O18)(BO3)3X3Z
'var. Rubellite'-A(D3)G6(T6O18)(BO3)3X3Z
'Uranmicrolite (of Hogarth 1977)' ?-(Ca,U,Na)2-x(Ta,Nb)2(O,OH)7

List of minerals for each chemical element

HHydrogen
H ElbaiteNa(Li1.5Al1.5)Al6(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3(OH)
H TorberniteCu(UO2)2(PO4)2 · 12H2O
H Opal var. Opal-ANSiO2 · nH2O
H StauroliteFe22+Al9Si4O23(OH)
H MuscoviteKAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
H Epidote(CaCa)(AlAlFe3+)O[Si2O7][SiO4](OH)
H OpalSiO2 · nH2O
H SchorlNaFe32+Al6(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3(OH)
H DickiteAl2(Si2O5)(OH)4
H DraviteNaMg3Al6(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3(OH)
H StrengiteFePO4 · 2H2O
H Goethiteα-Fe3+O(OH)
H AutuniteCa(UO2)2(PO4)2 · 10-12H2O
H Cookeite(LiAl4◻)[AlSi3O10](OH)8
H UranophaneCa(UO2)2(SiO3OH)2 · 5H2O
H Zircon var. CyrtoliteZr[(SiO4),(OH)4]
H AnniteKFe32+(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
H Fluorapatite var. Manganese-bearing Fluorapatite(Ca,Mn2+)5(PO4)3(F,Cl,OH) or Ca5([P,Mn5+]O4)3(F,Cl,OH)
H KaoliniteAl2(Si2O5)(OH)4
H MetatorberniteCu(UO2)2(PO4)2 · 8H2O
H FerrimolybditeFe2(MoO4)3 · nH2O
H ApatiteCa5(PO4)3(Cl/F/OH)
H Grayite(Th,Pb,Ca)(PO4) · H2O
H Meta-autuniteCa(UO2)2(PO4)2 · 6H2O
H Pollucite(Cs,Na)2(Al2Si4O12) · 2H2O
H Allanite Group(A12+REE3+)(M13+M23+M32+)O[Si2O7][SiO4](OH)
H Uranmicrolite (of Hogarth 1977)(Ca,U,Na)2-x(Ta,Nb)2(O,OH)7
H NacriteAl2(Si2O5)(OH)4
LiLithium
Li ElbaiteNa(Li1.5Al1.5)Al6(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3(OH)
Li Cookeite(LiAl4◻)[AlSi3O10](OH)8
BeBeryllium
Be Beryl var. MorganiteBe3Al2(Si6O18)
Be Beryl var. AquamarineBe3Al2Si6O18
Be Beryl var. GosheniteBe3Al2(Si6O18)
Be BerylBe3Al2(Si6O18)
Be Beryl var. HeliodorBe3Al2(Si6O18)
BBoron
B ElbaiteNa(Li1.5Al1.5)Al6(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3(OH)
B Tourmaline var. RubelliteA(D3)G6(T6O18)(BO3)3X3Z
B TourmalineAD3G6 (T6O18)(BO3)3X3Z
B SchorlNaFe32+Al6(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3(OH)
B DraviteNaMg3Al6(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3(OH)
CCarbon
C Bismutite(BiO)2CO3
OOxygen
O Samarskite-(Y)YFe3+Nb2O8
O ElbaiteNa(Li1.5Al1.5)Al6(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3(OH)
O Beryl var. MorganiteBe3Al2(Si6O18)
O Beryl var. AquamarineBe3Al2Si6O18
O Beryl var. GosheniteBe3Al2(Si6O18)
O Tourmaline var. RubelliteA(D3)G6(T6O18)(BO3)3X3Z
O Monazite-(Ce)Ce(PO4)
O Columbite-(Fe)Fe2+Nb2O6
O TorberniteCu(UO2)2(PO4)2 · 12H2O
O BerylBe3Al2(Si6O18)
O Opal var. Opal-ANSiO2 · nH2O
O AlmandineFe32+Al2(SiO4)3
O StauroliteFe22+Al9Si4O23(OH)
O MuscoviteKAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
O Bismutite(BiO)2CO3
O Epidote(CaCa)(AlAlFe3+)O[Si2O7][SiO4](OH)
O TourmalineAD3G6 (T6O18)(BO3)3X3Z
O OpalSiO2 · nH2O
O UraniniteUO2
O OrthoclaseK(AlSi3O8)
O AlbiteNa(AlSi3O8)
O SchorlNaFe32+Al6(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3(OH)
O Garnet GroupX3Z2(SiO4)3
O QuartzSiO2
O FluorapatiteCa5(PO4)3F
O Quartz var. Smoky QuartzSiO2
O CassiteriteSnO2
O DickiteAl2(Si2O5)(OH)4
O DraviteNaMg3Al6(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3(OH)
O SillimaniteAl2(SiO4)O
O StrengiteFePO4 · 2H2O
O GahniteZnAl2O4
O SpessartineMn32+Al2(SiO4)3
O Goethiteα-Fe3+O(OH)
O AutuniteCa(UO2)2(PO4)2 · 10-12H2O
O ZirconZr(SiO4)
O Cookeite(LiAl4◻)[AlSi3O10](OH)8
O Beryl var. HeliodorBe3Al2(Si6O18)
O MicroclineK(AlSi3O8)
O UranophaneCa(UO2)2(SiO3OH)2 · 5H2O
O Zircon var. CyrtoliteZr[(SiO4),(OH)4]
O AnniteKFe32+(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
O Albite var. CleavelanditeNa(AlSi3O8)
O Fluorapatite var. Manganese-bearing Fluorapatite(Ca,Mn2+)5(PO4)3(F,Cl,OH) or Ca5([P,Mn5+]O4)3(F,Cl,OH)
O KaoliniteAl2(Si2O5)(OH)4
O MetatorberniteCu(UO2)2(PO4)2 · 8H2O
O TitaniteCaTi(SiO4)O
O FerrimolybditeFe2(MoO4)3 · nH2O
O Rutile var. Strüverite(Ti,Ta,Fe)O2
O ApatiteCa5(PO4)3(Cl/F/OH)
O RutileTiO2
O Microcline var. AmazoniteK(AlSi3O8)
O MagnetiteFe2+Fe23+O4
O ThoriteTh(SiO4)
O Grayite(Th,Pb,Ca)(PO4) · H2O
O Meta-autuniteCa(UO2)2(PO4)2 · 6H2O
O Pollucite(Cs,Na)2(Al2Si4O12) · 2H2O
O Allanite Group(A12+REE3+)(M13+M23+M32+)O[Si2O7][SiO4](OH)
O Uranmicrolite (of Hogarth 1977)(Ca,U,Na)2-x(Ta,Nb)2(O,OH)7
O NacriteAl2(Si2O5)(OH)4
O Xenotime-(Y)Y(PO4)
O MonaziteREE(PO4)
O HematiteFe2O3
O IshikawaiteU4+Fe2+Nb2O8
O Quartz var. Rose QuartzSiO2
O PyrolusiteMn4+O2
FFluorine
F FluorapatiteCa5(PO4)3F
F Fluorapatite var. Manganese-bearing Fluorapatite(Ca,Mn2+)5(PO4)3(F,Cl,OH) or Ca5([P,Mn5+]O4)3(F,Cl,OH)
F ApatiteCa5(PO4)3(Cl/F/OH)
F FluoriteCaF2
F Fluorite var. ChlorophaneCaF2
NaSodium
Na ElbaiteNa(Li1.5Al1.5)Al6(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3(OH)
Na AlbiteNa(AlSi3O8)
Na SchorlNaFe32+Al6(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3(OH)
Na DraviteNaMg3Al6(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3(OH)
Na Albite var. CleavelanditeNa(AlSi3O8)
Na Pollucite(Cs,Na)2(Al2Si4O12) · 2H2O
Na Uranmicrolite (of Hogarth 1977)(Ca,U,Na)2-x(Ta,Nb)2(O,OH)7
MgMagnesium
Mg DraviteNaMg3Al6(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3(OH)
AlAluminium
Al ElbaiteNa(Li1.5Al1.5)Al6(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3(OH)
Al Beryl var. MorganiteBe3Al2(Si6O18)
Al Beryl var. AquamarineBe3Al2Si6O18
Al Beryl var. GosheniteBe3Al2(Si6O18)
Al BerylBe3Al2(Si6O18)
Al AlmandineFe32+Al2(SiO4)3
Al StauroliteFe22+Al9Si4O23(OH)
Al MuscoviteKAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Al Epidote(CaCa)(AlAlFe3+)O[Si2O7][SiO4](OH)
Al OrthoclaseK(AlSi3O8)
Al AlbiteNa(AlSi3O8)
Al SchorlNaFe32+Al6(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3(OH)
Al DickiteAl2(Si2O5)(OH)4
Al DraviteNaMg3Al6(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3(OH)
Al SillimaniteAl2(SiO4)O
Al GahniteZnAl2O4
Al SpessartineMn32+Al2(SiO4)3
Al Cookeite(LiAl4◻)[AlSi3O10](OH)8
Al Beryl var. HeliodorBe3Al2(Si6O18)
Al MicroclineK(AlSi3O8)
Al AnniteKFe32+(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Al Albite var. CleavelanditeNa(AlSi3O8)
Al KaoliniteAl2(Si2O5)(OH)4
Al Microcline var. AmazoniteK(AlSi3O8)
Al Pollucite(Cs,Na)2(Al2Si4O12) · 2H2O
Al NacriteAl2(Si2O5)(OH)4
SiSilicon
Si ElbaiteNa(Li1.5Al1.5)Al6(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3(OH)
Si Beryl var. MorganiteBe3Al2(Si6O18)
Si Beryl var. AquamarineBe3Al2Si6O18
Si Beryl var. GosheniteBe3Al2(Si6O18)
Si BerylBe3Al2(Si6O18)
Si Opal var. Opal-ANSiO2 · nH2O
Si AlmandineFe32+Al2(SiO4)3
Si StauroliteFe22+Al9Si4O23(OH)
Si MuscoviteKAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Si Epidote(CaCa)(AlAlFe3+)O[Si2O7][SiO4](OH)
Si OpalSiO2 · nH2O
Si OrthoclaseK(AlSi3O8)
Si AlbiteNa(AlSi3O8)
Si SchorlNaFe32+Al6(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3(OH)
Si Garnet GroupX3Z2(SiO4)3
Si QuartzSiO2
Si Quartz var. Smoky QuartzSiO2
Si DickiteAl2(Si2O5)(OH)4
Si DraviteNaMg3Al6(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3(OH)
Si SillimaniteAl2(SiO4)O
Si SpessartineMn32+Al2(SiO4)3
Si ZirconZr(SiO4)
Si Cookeite(LiAl4◻)[AlSi3O10](OH)8
Si Beryl var. HeliodorBe3Al2(Si6O18)
Si MicroclineK(AlSi3O8)
Si UranophaneCa(UO2)2(SiO3OH)2 · 5H2O
Si Zircon var. CyrtoliteZr[(SiO4),(OH)4]
Si AnniteKFe32+(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Si Albite var. CleavelanditeNa(AlSi3O8)
Si KaoliniteAl2(Si2O5)(OH)4
Si TitaniteCaTi(SiO4)O
Si Microcline var. AmazoniteK(AlSi3O8)
Si ThoriteTh(SiO4)
Si Pollucite(Cs,Na)2(Al2Si4O12) · 2H2O
Si Allanite Group(A12+REE3+)(M13+M23+M32+)O[Si2O7][SiO4](OH)
Si NacriteAl2(Si2O5)(OH)4
Si Quartz var. Rose QuartzSiO2
PPhosphorus
P Monazite-(Ce)Ce(PO4)
P TorberniteCu(UO2)2(PO4)2 · 12H2O
P FluorapatiteCa5(PO4)3F
P StrengiteFePO4 · 2H2O
P AutuniteCa(UO2)2(PO4)2 · 10-12H2O
P Fluorapatite var. Manganese-bearing Fluorapatite(Ca,Mn2+)5(PO4)3(F,Cl,OH) or Ca5([P,Mn5+]O4)3(F,Cl,OH)
P MetatorberniteCu(UO2)2(PO4)2 · 8H2O
P ApatiteCa5(PO4)3(Cl/F/OH)
P Grayite(Th,Pb,Ca)(PO4) · H2O
P Meta-autuniteCa(UO2)2(PO4)2 · 6H2O
P Xenotime-(Y)Y(PO4)
P MonaziteREE(PO4)
SSulfur
S MolybdeniteMoS2
S PyriteFeS2
S ChalcopyriteCuFeS2
S SphaleriteZnS
S BismuthiniteBi2S3
ClChlorine
Cl Fluorapatite var. Manganese-bearing Fluorapatite(Ca,Mn2+)5(PO4)3(F,Cl,OH) or Ca5([P,Mn5+]O4)3(F,Cl,OH)
Cl ApatiteCa5(PO4)3(Cl/F/OH)
KPotassium
K MuscoviteKAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
K OrthoclaseK(AlSi3O8)
K MicroclineK(AlSi3O8)
K AnniteKFe32+(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
K Microcline var. AmazoniteK(AlSi3O8)
CaCalcium
Ca Epidote(CaCa)(AlAlFe3+)O[Si2O7][SiO4](OH)
Ca FluorapatiteCa5(PO4)3F
Ca AutuniteCa(UO2)2(PO4)2 · 10-12H2O
Ca UranophaneCa(UO2)2(SiO3OH)2 · 5H2O
Ca Fluorapatite var. Manganese-bearing Fluorapatite(Ca,Mn2+)5(PO4)3(F,Cl,OH) or Ca5([P,Mn5+]O4)3(F,Cl,OH)
Ca TitaniteCaTi(SiO4)O
Ca ApatiteCa5(PO4)3(Cl/F/OH)
Ca FluoriteCaF2
Ca Grayite(Th,Pb,Ca)(PO4) · H2O
Ca Meta-autuniteCa(UO2)2(PO4)2 · 6H2O
Ca Fluorite var. ChlorophaneCaF2
Ca Uranmicrolite (of Hogarth 1977)(Ca,U,Na)2-x(Ta,Nb)2(O,OH)7
TiTitanium
Ti TitaniteCaTi(SiO4)O
Ti Rutile var. Strüverite(Ti,Ta,Fe)O2
Ti RutileTiO2
MnManganese
Mn SpessartineMn32+Al2(SiO4)3
Mn Fluorapatite var. Manganese-bearing Fluorapatite(Ca,Mn2+)5(PO4)3(F,Cl,OH) or Ca5([P,Mn5+]O4)3(F,Cl,OH)
Mn PyrolusiteMn4+O2
FeIron
Fe Samarskite-(Y)YFe3+Nb2O8
Fe Columbite-(Fe)Fe2+Nb2O6
Fe AlmandineFe32+Al2(SiO4)3
Fe StauroliteFe22+Al9Si4O23(OH)
Fe Epidote(CaCa)(AlAlFe3+)O[Si2O7][SiO4](OH)
Fe SchorlNaFe32+Al6(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3(OH)
Fe StrengiteFePO4 · 2H2O
Fe Goethiteα-Fe3+O(OH)
Fe PyriteFeS2
Fe AnniteKFe32+(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Fe ChalcopyriteCuFeS2
Fe FerrimolybditeFe2(MoO4)3 · nH2O
Fe Rutile var. Strüverite(Ti,Ta,Fe)O2
Fe MagnetiteFe2+Fe23+O4
Fe HematiteFe2O3
Fe IshikawaiteU4+Fe2+Nb2O8
CuCopper
Cu TorberniteCu(UO2)2(PO4)2 · 12H2O
Cu ChalcopyriteCuFeS2
Cu MetatorberniteCu(UO2)2(PO4)2 · 8H2O
ZnZinc
Zn GahniteZnAl2O4
Zn SphaleriteZnS
YYttrium
Y Samarskite-(Y)YFe3+Nb2O8
Y Xenotime-(Y)Y(PO4)
ZrZirconium
Zr ZirconZr(SiO4)
Zr Zircon var. CyrtoliteZr[(SiO4),(OH)4]
NbNiobium
Nb Samarskite-(Y)YFe3+Nb2O8
Nb Columbite-(Fe)Fe2+Nb2O6
Nb Uranmicrolite (of Hogarth 1977)(Ca,U,Na)2-x(Ta,Nb)2(O,OH)7
Nb IshikawaiteU4+Fe2+Nb2O8
MoMolybdenum
Mo MolybdeniteMoS2
Mo FerrimolybditeFe2(MoO4)3 · nH2O
SnTin
Sn CassiteriteSnO2
CsCaesium
Cs Pollucite(Cs,Na)2(Al2Si4O12) · 2H2O
CeCerium
Ce Monazite-(Ce)Ce(PO4)
TaTantalum
Ta Microlite GroupA2-mTa2X6-wZ-n
Ta Rutile var. Strüverite(Ti,Ta,Fe)O2
Ta Uranmicrolite (of Hogarth 1977)(Ca,U,Na)2-x(Ta,Nb)2(O,OH)7
PbLead
Pb Grayite(Th,Pb,Ca)(PO4) · H2O
BiBismuth
Bi Bismutite(BiO)2CO3
Bi BismuthiniteBi2S3
ThThorium
Th ThoriteTh(SiO4)
Th Grayite(Th,Pb,Ca)(PO4) · H2O
UUranium
U TorberniteCu(UO2)2(PO4)2 · 12H2O
U UraniniteUO2
U AutuniteCa(UO2)2(PO4)2 · 10-12H2O
U UranophaneCa(UO2)2(SiO3OH)2 · 5H2O
U MetatorberniteCu(UO2)2(PO4)2 · 8H2O
U Meta-autuniteCa(UO2)2(PO4)2 · 6H2O
U Uranmicrolite (of Hogarth 1977)(Ca,U,Na)2-x(Ta,Nb)2(O,OH)7
U IshikawaiteU4+Fe2+Nb2O8

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