| Locality type: | Hill |
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| Species: | Almandine |
| Formula: | Fe32+Al2(SiO4)3 |
| Comments: | In the gneiss, but separate from the grossular-vesuvianite veins. |
| Colour: | red |
| Abundance at site: | Common |
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| Validity: | Confirmed |
| Confirmation Methods: | Visually Identified |
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| Mineral Data: | Click here to view Almandine data |
| Locality Data: | Click here to view Hungry Hill, Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA |
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| Mindat Occurrence Record ID: | 1015929 |
| Long-form Identifier: | 1:3:1015929:9 |
| GUID (UUID V4): | c5177c7c-0ddf-459f-a397-557002c91c02 |
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| 14.4km (8.9 miles) | ⓘMica Hills pegmatites and prospects, Durham, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA |
| 18.5km (11.5 miles) | ⓘDurham, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA |
| 20.5km (12.7 miles) | ⓘJohn Salak Quarry, Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA |
| 20.9km (13.0 miles) | ⓘState Route 9 Interchange 13 - Beaver Meadow Road, Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA |
| 21.6km (13.4 miles) | ⓘHewitt Gem Quarry (Herb's Gem Quarry; Sawmill Quarry), Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA |
| 21.8km (13.5 miles) | ⓘCivilian Conservation Corps prospect (CCC prospect; Cook columbite prospect), Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA |
| 21.8km (13.6 miles) | ⓘLong Hill prospects (Turkey Hill prospects), Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA |
| 23.0km (14.3 miles) | ⓘJail Hill Road locality (Jail Hill Quarry), Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA |
| 23.2km (14.4 miles) | ⓘAlmandine schorl and sillimanite locality, Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA |
| 23.3km (14.5 miles) | ⓘForest Ridge Road, Higganum, Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA |
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 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | CONNECTICUT Mineral Locality Index Although many sites in Connecticut are no longer open to collectors...MARCELLE H. WEBER 1172 West L a k e Avenue Guilford, Connecticut 06437-1342 E A R L E C. SULLIVAN 17 R o...c k y R i d g e D r i v e T r u m b u l l , Connecticut 06611-5326 T his locality index is meant to...collectors. More often than not, collecting in Connecticut is no longer per mitted. Many of the localities...effort has been made to list a l l localities in Connecticut, a small state that is big on mineralization |  | | Book (edition) | | topaz and spodumene. crystals, Areas in Maine, Connecticut and California, and Madagascar, are famous for...which can be traced through have been retained. New gem locations are found every season, and to this...material can be found at that locality; and that new while of dubious merit have been dropped. Appearance...Museum, the American Museum of Natural History, New York, or Tom Robert's Rock the caption. All photographs...in color. Turquoise from Los Cerillos mines, New Mexico. Note turquoise vein cutting diagonally |  | | Report (volume) | | Group_________________________________________ Spencer Hill Volcanics_ _ _ ___ __ ________ ____ __________ __...Hill_________________________________ Mafic dike at Hungry Hill__________________________________ Structu...Greenwich Group of Mississippian(?) age includes Spencer Hill Volcanics, Cowesett Granite, and gray perthitic...quadrangle, fine-grained gneiss, diorite, Spencer Hill Volcanics at the east margin, Pennsylvanian sedimentary...Schist which overlies the quartzite, and the Hunting Hill Greenstone, which includes various intrusive and |  | | Book (edition) | | describes sites under of the nearest town and county. and the many maps included book contain such...collector of gem minerals RUSSELL P. Thomas NEW YORK MACFALL Y. Crowell Company / ESTABLISHED...Shop and Herbert Grand Girard, both of Santa Fe, New Mexico, Ken Kyte of Covington, Louisiana, Merton...Indiana, George E. Lambert of Wappingers Falls. New York, and D. L. Hathaway of Cosmopolis, Washington...in the dike. Such pegmatite dikes in Maine, Connecticut, New Hampshire, North Carolina, South Dakota, liquid |  | | Book (edition) | | THE MINERAL LOCALITIES OF CONNECTICUT AND SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK * «-• r ** K* ysf^ :' •'’S >- n... iBooks by Ronald Everett Januzzi CONNECTICUT MINERALS ON PARADE NEW YORK STATE MINERALS ON PARADE Recommended...THE MINERALOGICAL PRESS 83 Elm Street Danbury. Connecticut IIOIPW MINERALS ON PARAt>E F.tMSTltIP* THREE...W*T H COlO* * • TfXT COMF11 MINERALS ON PARADE A New Series of Teaching Filmstrips in Full Color. A Valuable...to enrich our knowledge of the mineralogy of Connecticut: James Dwight Dana Samuel L. Penfield Edward |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | BROKEN HILL -- A PRECAMBRIAN HOT SPOT? MICHAEL B. KATZ School of Applied Geology, University of New South...April 11, 1975) ABSTRACT Katz, M.B., 1976. Broken Hill -- A Precambrian hot spot? Precambrian Res., 3:...the Precambrian granulite facies terrain of Broken Hill has revealed that these high-grade rocks are most...found in an elliptical zone known as the Broken Hill Basin. The density distribution of these granulite...association of high-grade metamorphism and Broken Hill type mineralization is thought to be significant |  | | Report (volume) | | to continue the compilation of geologic names as new names or re.. visions of old names appeared in the...pertinent geologic publications for preparation of a new lexicon. After the review had been brought up to...publish quickly some of the essential data concerning new names that had been published since 1935, the cutoff...Wilmarth Lexicon. Bulletin 1056-A listed about 5,000 new names introduced for use in North America, the Pacific...given in the Wilmarth Lexicon has been replaced by a new usage, which is given in the present lexicon. Thus |
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