| Locality type: | Mine |
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| Species: | Gold |
| Formula: | Au |
| Comments: | "Native gold, generally as micron sized grains, is found, along with pyrite and chalcopyrite, in a network of thin fractures and veins cutting the arsenopyrite. Although much of the gold is very fine grained and is difficult to see, even with a strong hand lens, grains up to a mm are present" Gray (2005) |
| Habit: | micron to mm-sized grains |
| Quality for species: | Poor for species, only of interest for locality collectors. (#) |
| Abundance at site: | Common |
| Confirmation |
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| Validity: | Confirmed |
| Confirmation Methods: | Visually Identified |
| Data |
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| Mineral Data: | Click here to view Gold data |
| Locality Data: | Click here to view Great Hill cobalt mines, Cobalt, East Hampton (Chatham), Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA |
| Data Identifiers |
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| Mindat Occurrence Record ID: | 102011 |
| Long-form Identifier: | 1:3:102011:3 |
| GUID (UUID V4): | 7b53fef8-ffe8-4d92-a860-d5818480bf22 |
| Nearest other occurrences of Gold |
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| 36.7km (22.8 miles) | ⓘProspect, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA |
| 44.5km (27.6 miles) | ⓘLead Mine brook, Thomaston, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA |
| 65.0km (40.4 miles) | ⓘOld Mine Park (Old Tungsten Mine), Long Hill, Trumbull, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA |
| 75.2km (46.7 miles) | ⓘDurfee Hill Gold mine, Glocester, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA |
| 85.7km (53.3 miles) | ⓘRidgefield, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA |
| 92.8km (57.7 miles) | ⓘTilly Foster Iron Mine, Town of Southeast, Putnam County, New York, USA |
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