| Locality type: | Park |
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| Species: | Cuprite var: Chalcotrichite |
| Formula: | Cu2O |
| Habit: | acicular |
| Abundance at site: | Very Rare |
| Confirmation |
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| Validity: | Confirmed |
| Confirmation Methods: | Visually Identified |
| Data |
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| Mineral Data: | Click here to view Chalcotrichite data |
| Locality Data: | Click here to view Dyke Park, Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA |
| Data Identifiers |
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| Mindat Occurrence Record ID: | 850432 |
| Long-form Identifier: | 1:3:850432:6 |
| GUID (UUID V4): | e89d73ba-720d-4f5a-bffb-b63e45b50f5d |
| Nearest other occurrences of Chalcotrichite |
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| 99.9km (62.1 miles) | ⓘChimney Rock Quarry, Bridgewater Township, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA |
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| Reference Search (possible matching items) |
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 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Ridge Re d, Stamford, Conn. 06903 While collecting English flint in my home town of Stamford, Conn., I...I could be collecting English flint in Connecticut. Dyke Park, where the material was found, faces Long...Island Sound. At one end of the Park, muck dredged from the Stamford harbor is being dumped. Besides...found. None of these minerals is similar to Connecticut material, and most of them are dead ringers for...holds of ships. It was dumped on the bottom of Stamford harbor where most of the chalk, being limestone |
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