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Dolomite from
Bristol Copper Mine, Bristol, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Dolomite
Formula:CaMg(CO3)2
Quality for species:Poor for species, only of interest for locality collectors. (#)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Chalcopyrite1 photo of Dolomite associated with Chalcopyrite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Dolomite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Bristol Copper Mine, Bristol, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:41246
Long-form Identifier:1:3:41246:3
GUID (UUID V4):1c55d57d-4a39-4318-986c-8f9ecac2dad0
Nearest other occurrences of Dolomite
9.8km (6.1 miles) State Route 179 road cut (State Route 4 road cut Collinsville), Burlington, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
13.3km (8.3 miles) State Route 9 & State Route 71 Interchange, New Britain, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
13.9km (8.6 miles) Arute Field, New Britain, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
14.5km (9.0 miles) The Woodlands, Newington, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
14.6km (9.1 miles) State Route 9 - Ellis Street and State Route 72 interchanges (State Route 72 roadcut), New Britain, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
16.0km (9.9 miles) Hart's Lead Mine, Berlin, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
18.8km (11.7 miles) State Routes 9 and 372 interchange, Berlin, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
28.4km (17.6 miles) Higley Mine, Simsbury Mines, East Granby, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
36.4km (22.6 miles) Cornwall, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
38.1km (23.7 miles) Silver mine, Seymour, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
CONNECTICUT Mineral Locality Index Although many sites in Connecticut are no longer open to collectors...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...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 serve...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
Journal (issue)
Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Articles Famous mineral localities: The Bristol copper mine, Connecticut.....................................in the U.S.A. notesfrom th r EDITORS OLD YUMA MINE Another great mineral locality has now been closed...longfamous Old Yuma mine near Tucson (see R. L. Jones, “Famous mineral localities: the Old Yuma mine,” in vol....period of activity, access to the mine was cut off in 1984. In 1996 the mine area was absorbed into the Saguaro
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Washington, DC 20013 pohwatp@si.edu Bornite Dzhezkazgan Mine, Dzhezkazgan Karagandy Province, Kazakhstan S ...rarity is bornite, a common mineral found in many copper deposits as massive lumps. The scarcity of bornite...collector community, especially the keen collector of copper minerals. The chemical formula for bornite is Cu5FeS4...metallic luster. On fresh surfaces, bornite’s color is copper-red to pinchbeck-brown, but it will quickly tarnish...found that pinchbeck is the name of an alloy of copper and zinc that is used as imitation gold, so I assume
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Although the occurrence was not unique for Connecticut, this type is seldom found outside of the northeastern...New Britain, Connecticut, on both sides of the extension. The area, in central Connecticut, can be located...Extension, 0.75 mile north of Route 72, New Britain, Connecticut. Figure 3. Chalcopyrite, 2.5 cm across. Jeffrey...Before barite deposition ceased, a hydrocarbon, dolomite, second-generation Herkimer-like quartz, then...4. Galena, with marcasite and chalcopyrite on dolomite and quartz; field of view 6 mm. precipitated
Report (issue)
Site Number, Site Name ...................... 6 County, State, Quadrangle, Latitude, Longitude .........A. Section A: Occurrences located north of the Hartford basin, New Hampshire ...................... .67...67 B. Section B: Occurrences located in the Hartford basin and vicinity, Massachusetts ................C: Occurrences located in the Hartford basin and vicinity, Connecticut ..................... .79 D. Section...information on all known Mesozoic occurrences of copper, gold, iron, lead, silver, zinc, barite,and fluorite
Report (volume)
mineral district ____________ _ 3. Sketch of Faircloth mine adit showing location of limestone samples and amount...limestone samples from the Faircloth vein, Woodford County, Ky _. 5. Mercury content of limestone wallrock...wallrock from the Hoover vein, shaft 1, Cannon County, Tenn _____ 6. Mercury content of a wallrock suite along...Triassic border-zone deposits in Pennsylvania and Connecticut are similar in trace-element content to the Appalachian... B. Strow in a freshly dug basement in Kanawha County, W. Va. Subsequent examination by the U.S. Bureau
Book (edition)
THE MINERAL LOCALITIES OF CONNECTICUT AND SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK * «-• r ** K* ysf^ :' •'’S >- n...250 SPECIES iBooks by Ronald Everett Januzzi CONNECTICUT MINERALS ON PARADE NEW YORK STATE MINERALS ON...THE MINERALOGICAL PRESS 83 Elm Street Danbury. Connecticut IIOIPW MINERALS ON PARAt>E F.tMSTltIP* THREE...to enrich our knowledge of the mineralogy of Connecticut: James Dwight Dana Samuel L. Penfield Edward...Minerals from the Principal Localities in Western Connecticut and Southeastern New York State.............
Report (volume)
Luttrell Continuity of strata in the Newark and Hartford basins 6 By Paul E. Olsen A cored stratigraphic...Lower Jurassic Portland Formation, Suffield, Connecticut 24 By Nicholas G. McDonald and Peter M. LeTourneau...Robbins and Robert E. Weems Thermal histories of the Hartford and Newark basins inferred from maturation indices...Burruss Source of kerogen in black shales from the Hartford and Newark basins, Eastern United States 63 By...and phytoclasts of the Newark Supergroup in the Hartford basin 68 By R.K. Kotra, R.M. Gottfried, E.C. Spiker
Report (volume)
covering early Mesozoic geology of M assachusetts, Connecticut, New jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia , Maryland...offshore early Mesozoic geology of Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland...[refers to water] Climate* Coal [economic geology]* Copper [economic geology]* Diabase [rock type]* Economic...appropriate, the applicable early Mesozoic basin, State, county, or 7 1/2minute USGS topographic quadrangle covered...the State are cited. More than one basin, State, county, or quadrangle may appear for an entry. A State
Book (edition)
mmed at Broken Arrow aud Trout creek, in Sc. Clair county. The strata in this field are more faulted und...prong of Canoe creek, in St. Clair county, to Ha\sop creek, in Bibb county, a distance of 60 miles. Down to...to Helena, in Shelby county, the field has an average width of 5 or 6 miles. Below that point the width...miles being in the latitud" of Blocton, in Bibb county. The south ern end of this field has a greater...Jefferson county; Helena, Montevallo, and Brierfield, Shelby county; and at Blocion. Bibb county. The Warrior
Report (volume)
especial interest or value. Some minerals, such as the copper ores of Pennsylvania, are included in the list...Colorado.........Prof. R. D. George, Boulder. Connecticut..... .Prof. William N. Rice, Middletown. Prof...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;...following localities: Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20, Pv. 7 E.; Jefferson
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
FROM TWO PEGMATITES OF THE MIDDLETOWN AREA, CONNECTICUT. S. L. Hanson’, B. M. Jarnotz,A. U. Faker?, W...located in the Middletown pegmatite district of Connecticut and are hosted by Ordovician Glastonbury Gneiss...samarskite group minerals from two Middletown, Connecticut, pegmatites. ciosamarskite, and ishikawaite...1848 and worked as a chemist at the Bristol Copper mine in Connecticut. He studied at the Sheffield Scientific...the end of the century. THE RED LAKE MINE-THE RICHEST GOLD MINE IN THE WORLD, RIGHT HERE IN ONTARIO.
Report (volume)
........................................... Connecticut................................................especial interest or value. Some minerals, such as the copper ores of Pennsylvania, are included in the list...See Bauxite and Halloysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;...following localities : Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20 S., R. 7 E.;
Report (issue)
THE MOUNT CARMEL AND SOUTHIJOTON QUADRAM3LES, CONNECTICUT by Crawford E. Fritts New data concerning the...approximately 111-square miles in south-central Connecticut were obtained in the course of detailed geologic...the mirror-image of metamorphic zones in Dutchess County, New York. However, garnet appeared before biotite...across other formations in the map area. Barite and copper minerals were deposited along dikes and in fault................................ 138 i Barite and copper...................................... 138 vi TABLE
Journal (issue)
row, from left: Euclase, 2.3 cm, from the Gachalá mine, Guavió-Guatéque mining district, Boyacá Department...twin, 5.5 cm, from the Amo tin deposit, Ximeng County, Yunnan, China. Wally Mann collection; Joe Budd...Budd photo. Tanzanite, 7.6 cm, from the Merelani mine near Arusha, Tanzania. Barry & Beth Kitt collection;...2.2 cm, from the Pulsifer quarry, Androscoggin County, Maine. Kyle Kevorkian collection; Jordan Root...Fluorite on quartz, 13 cm, from the Yaogangxian mine, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province, China. The
Journal (issue)
Minerals 12 Part II: Massive quartz and crystallized copper species Clean Cutter 56 Give an old rock saw...com/east_coast.html 7-9—HOUGHTON, MICHIGAN: Annual show; Copper Country Rock and Mineral Club, Houghton Elementary...Wholesale and retail show; Gem Faire Inc, Alameda County Fairgrounds; 4501 Pleasanton Ave; Fri. Noon-6 pm...Northwest Wisconsin Gem & Mineral Society, Barron County Fair Grounds; Hwy. 48 North; Sat. 10:00 am-5:00...Germany) PART II: Massive Quartz and Crystallized Copper Species Story by Bob Jones I n contrast to the
Journal (issue)
Rhodochrosite- Marc & Janis Countiss collection, page 76; Copper-Paul Bordovsky collection, page 33; Elbaite-Jeremy...coUection, page 271; Scheelite-David and Marcie Bristol collection, page 42; Wulfenite-Gail and Jim Spann...& Sigrid Stewart Paul Bordovsky Dave & Marcie Bristol Kevin & Mark Brown Keith & Diane Brownlee Joe Budd...Foote also made several collecting visits to the mine in 1890-1891, and brought back many good specimens...chemist and physicist). In 1895 Niven purchased the mine from its owner, on behalf of Thomas Edison. In the
Report (issue)
/ Historical Sketches of Copper and Lead Mining in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania by F. Harold Evans... - Historical Sketches of Copper and Lead Mining in Montgomery County, Pennsyl­ vania. Copyright ©...second and third drafts and Glen Taylor, Montgomery County Re­ corder of Deeds, for his kind help in searching...Sciences of Philadelphia, Montgomery County and Chester County Historical Societies, and the Franklin...compiled. FOREWORD Seventeenth century European copper technology was brought to the new world with the
Journal (issue)
COVELLITE crystal cluster, 3 cm across, From the Leonard mine, Butte, Montana. Frederick H. Pough collection;...Treasure of Butte Hill and Development of the Great Copper Industry” by C. P. Connolly in McClure’s Magazine...species have been recorded from Butte. Specimens of copper sulfides and sulfosalts like bornite, chalcocite...the Butte mining camp, especially in the Kelley mine, was just full of vug holes . . . the holes, some...located in Butte, at the site of the old Orphan Girl mine. . . . So wrote a trainee miner, Jerry Dolph, concerning
Book (volume)
.........................................94 Connecticut ..............................................................548 Table of Maps Page Alabama County Map ...................................................................................4 Alaska County and Stream Map ......................................................................22 Arizona County Map ..................................................................45 Arizona – Yuma Co. Hull Mine Site Map ......................................
Report (issue)
Copper Deposits in Sedimentary and Volcanogenic Rocks GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 907-C COVER...14 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Asbestos ore Lead ore. Balmat mine, N . Y. Chromite-chromium ore, Washington Zinc ore...rhodochrosite 8. Aluminum ore, bauxite, Georgia 9. Native copper ore, Keweenawan Peninsula, Mich. 10. Porphyry molybdenum...Springs, Colo . 14. Tungsten ore, North Carolina Copper Deposits in Sedimentary and Volcanogenic Rocks...TOURTELOT and JAMES D. VINE GEOLOGY AND RESOURCES OF COPPER DEPOSITS GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER
Report (volume)
Bulletin nos. 26, 27; Museum Paper no. 7; County Report no. 1 (Clay County). Montgomery, Ala. Alberta, Scientific...of: Studies, vols. 13 and 14. Boulder, Colo. Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences: Transactions, vol...Conn. Connecticut State Geological and Natural History Survey: Bulletin, nos. 34 and 35. Hartford, Conn...Boletin de Minas, no. 7. Habana, Cuba. Delaware County Institute of Science: Proceedings, vol. 9, no....111. West Virginia Geological Survey: County Reports, Tucker County, Mineral and Grant Counties. Morgantown
Book (volume)
.........................................80 Connecticut ...............................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a...deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy
Book (volume)
.........................................80 Connecticut ...............................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a...deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy
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