| Locality type: | Road Cutting |
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| Species: | Zoisite |
| Formula: | (CaCa)(AlAlAl)O[Si2O7][SiO4](OH) |
| Formation: | Primary |
| Comments: | Mass of elongated crystals with quartz labeled as "diopside" from this location, but looks more like zoisite. Some edges of the specimen show rounding and weathering suggesting the original find was a glacial cobble rather than rock taken from the road cut. This could be from the find by William Brunet described in King (1986). |
| Habit: | subhedral elongated prismatic |
| Colour: | light gray |
| Abundance at site: | Very Rare |
| Confirmation |
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| Validity: | Confirmed |
| Confirmation Methods: | XRD |
| Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data: |
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| Quartz | ⓘ1 photo of Zoisite associated with Quartz at this locality. |
| Data |
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| Mineral Data: | Click here to view Zoisite data |
| Locality Data: | Click here to view State Routes 8 and 222 interchange, Thomaston, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA |
| Data Identifiers |
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| Mindat Occurrence Record ID: | 1242248 |
| Long-form Identifier: | 1:3:1242248:1 |
| GUID (UUID V4): | 6fe321a0-2f59-4ff6-8f88-a6ca168b90f4 |
| Nearest other occurrences of Zoisite |
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| 3.4km (2.1 miles) | ⓘReynolds Bridge, Thomaston, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA |
| 18.2km (11.3 miles) | ⓘState Route 179 road cut (State Route 4 road cut Collinsville), Burlington, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA |
| 37.5km (23.3 miles) | ⓘSky Ridge railroad cut, Hawleyville, Newtown, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA |
| 37.5km (23.3 miles) | ⓘU. S. Route 7 Expressway (Danbury line to Iron Works District), Brookfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA |
| 40.7km (25.3 miles) | ⓘMonroe, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA |
| 40.7km (25.3 miles) | ⓘSchoonmaker Mine, Strickland pegmatite, Collins Hill, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA |
| 40.8km (25.3 miles) | ⓘStrickland Quarry, Strickland pegmatite, Collins Hill, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA |
| 45.8km (28.4 miles) | ⓘOld Mine Park (Old Tungsten Mine), Long Hill, Trumbull, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA |
| 47.2km (29.3 miles) | ⓘState Route 2 roadcut, Marlborough, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA |
| 50.0km (31.0 miles) | ⓘThulite locality, Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA |
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State Routes 8 and 222 interchange, Thomaston, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA