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


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Silver
Formula:Ag
Comments:"in researching this article only one specimen showing native silver was seen (in the Smithsonian collection)" Jones (2001)
Quality for species:Poor for species, only of interest for locality collectors. (#)
Abundance at site:Extremely Rare
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Silver data
Locality Data:Click here to view Bristol Copper Mine, Bristol, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:41251
Long-form Identifier:1:3:41251:5
GUID (UUID V4):8e03c3bc-aed7-48b6-9ba4-1d13dc95effc
Nearest other occurrences of Silver
49.9km (31.0 miles) ⓘLane's Mine (Lane's Lead and Silver Mine; Elm Street), Monroe, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
54.1km (33.6 miles) ⓘOld Mine Park (Old Tungsten Mine), Long Hill, Trumbull, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
56.3km (35.0 miles) ⓘState Route 25 road cuts, Trumbull, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
64.5km (40.1 miles) ⓘLoudville Lead Mines (Manhan Lead-Silver Mine; Southampton Lead Mine; Northampton Lead Mine), Easthampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA
86.2km (53.6 miles) ⓘBetts Manganese Mines (Anson Betts Mine; Plainfield Manganese Mines; Taconic Manganese Mines), Plainfield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA
99.7km (62.0 miles) ⓘOssining (Sing Sing), Westchester County, New York, 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 (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 (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 (issue)
covering works available for the rare book collector, mine ral and fossil collector, historian and researcher...MINERAL FEATURE The Chalcocite Crystals of Bristol, Connecticut: The History of a Classic American Mineral...THE COVER Chalcocite crystal cluster [rom the Bristol Copper 1'v1inc, Brist0l, CT. Specimen 4.4 cm. high...mineral location-the chal­ cocite occmrence near Bristol, Con­ necticut. During the research phase of this...this story, the authors learned of an event at Bristol which occurred ail too frequently throughout mining
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...all known Mesozoic occurrences of copper, gold, iron, lead, silver, zinc, barite,and fluorite. Detailed
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University Auburn, Alabama 36849-5305 COPPER RAY MINE, PINAL COUNTY, ARIZONA Downloaded by [University...Whether uncombined or alloyed with other metals, copper has played a major role in the development of our...and widely used nonferrous metals. Consequently, copper deposits have been sought by prospectors and geologists...Tucson Gem and Mineral Show, an h i zona native copper specimen has been chosen for this issue’s Connoisseur’s...(fig. I). For an in-depth description of Arizona copper and its most famous localities, the reader is referred
Journal (issue)
l-3620-932-6214, or via email at: koorszag@koorszag.hu New Silver Series New Curator at the Weinman By Jose Santamaria...currently preparing a series of articles about silver and silver minerals. While the emphasis will be new finds...Holiday Inn - Costa Mesa ♦ Bristol Plaza ♦ 3131 S. Bristol St., (Exit Bristol So. from 405 fwy) ·······••...John WayneAirport! Take the Bristol Street Exit (south) from I-405. On Bristol Just South of the South Coast...excaliburmineral.com Micromineralogy of the Blue Monster Mine, California Paul M. Adams 126 South Helberta Ave
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...checking a report of mercury associated with native silver in Michigan, had two samples analyzed from White
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.............
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...precipitated. Next came calcite, marcasite, galena, and copper. The final stage of crystallization produced malachite...fresh orthoclase, muscovite, and plagioclase. Minor copper mineralization occurs in veins found in both the
Journal (issue)
8 RED CLOUD MINE WULFENITE Rockhounds enjoy the products of this amazing Arizona mine. By Bob Jones...SAWTOOTH QUARTZ 40 ROCK & GEM KIDS 46 THE BRISTOL COPPER MINE 50 COOL SUMMER ROCKHOUNDING 54 NATIVE...AMERICAN ROCKS AND MINERALS 60 DANBURITE: A TRUE CONNECTICUT YANKEE 64 Club members collect on Topaz Mountain... Find jagged quartz crystals at the Wall Street mine. By Robert Beard Regular Columns Field Notes ....Wulfenite from the Red Cloud (photo credit)mine (La Paz County), Arizona, is world famous. (3.9 cm high)
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...example, the commodity keywords "coal," "gold," and "silver" are always accompanied by the "economic geology"...[refers to water] Climate* Coal [economic geology]* Copper [economic geology]* Diabase [rock type]* Economic...Sediment [rock type] Seismic profiles [geophysics]* Silver [economic geology]* SLAR 1 [geophysics]* Stratigraphy*
Report (issue)
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Bulletin 57 Geologic Series Copper Mines and Mining in New Jersey by HERBERT P. WOODWARD...of a new report on the copper ores of New Jersey and the many attempts to mine them. The report is particularly...them to supplement the supply of copper from the dwindling western copper deposits in the present emergency...during the preparation of a college thesis on the "Copper Deposits of New Jersey". I take pleasure in recommending.............................................. 10 Copper localities ...................................
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pieceshowsthat fingers a McLaughlin, D. H.: Gilpin County, Colorado. 4 Overbeck, R. M.: A Ecoa. Gv.oL., •:...Evergreen Mine, Ecoa. Gv.o•,.,x4: Fig. o, Plate 22, x9x9. metallographiestudy of the copper ores of Marylam:l...bornite by chalcocitefollowing cracks. Old Dominion Mine. Globe, Ariz. X 65. Fig. 2. Bornite inclusionsin...Graton, L. C. and Murdoch,J.: The sulphideoresof copper. A.I.M.E. 45: 26-8x, x9x3. Trans., BORNITE-CHALCOCITE...intergrowthof chalcocite in bornite(Fig. • 5), from Bristol,Connecticut,is illustratedin whichthe cleavageis only
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)
mineral resources of a property in St. Lawrence County, New Y o r k , in 1840 at the age of 18. At the...24 he became manager of the Bristol Copper mine in Bristol, Connecticut. A t the age of 27, in 1849,... In 1851 Wheatley broke ground for the Wheatley mine and ultimately owned or managed most of the mines...district. Wheatley also ran a copper smelting business and leased and mined copper ore at the Jones, Hopewell...potential of the Wheatley mine, William P . Blake's "Report on the Wheatley Silver-Lead Mines" which ap­
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.;
Book (volume)
Claim, Teller Co., Colorado, 43 Apatite Golconda Mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil, 13 Laghman, Nuristan, Afghanistan...Pakistan, 33 (with Schorl), 47 Jos, Nigeria, 15 Medina Mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil, 36 Teofilo Otoni, Minas Gerais... (with Malachite) Copper Queen Mine, Bisbee, Cochise Co., Arizona, 12 Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia, 16...Claim, Wah Wah Mtns., Utah, 3 Bournonite Yaoganxian Mine, Yizhang Co., Hunan Prov., China, 31 Calcite (on...Xuebaoding Mine, Pingwu, Sichuan Prov., China, 26 Chalcocite Bristol Copper Mine, Bristol, Connecticut, 12 Copper
Show/Event (guide)
private appointments Topaz, Cleavelandite Mokrush Mine, Russia Thomas Spann Photo 2 3 CONTENTS 06...written by Bryan Swoboda. 12 Väyrynenite. Lolu Dahku mine, Roundu Valley, Skardu District, Gilgit-Baltistan...specimens from the mim museum Stibiotantalite. Urandu mine, Shigar Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan... James Elliott photo 14 Malachite. Kalukuluku mine, Lubumbashi, Katanga, D.R. Congo. 60 x 48 x 26 cm...quality similar to the best specimens from the Shilu mine in China with the same ‘chatoyant’ effect. And being
Journal (issue)
row, from left: Euclase, 2.3 cm, from the GachalĂĄ mine, GuaviĂł-GuatĂŠque mining district, BoyacĂĄ 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 (article/letter/editorial)
suggesteda possiblehypogeneorigin for it at the National Mine, National Mining district, Nevada; R.ans•)me describes...--Somespecimens collectedby the writer from the Michigan mine dump and others collectedfrom the Free American...carbonatevein in center of one. Michigan Mine, Kokomo, Colorado. X 60. Friday Mine, SanDie9o, Cal?ø•Tolmanand Rogersdescribe...stringers cutting all the other minerals. National Mine, Nevada.•Lindgren • describesthis occurrence as...is believed to be later than the silver minerals. Iron Queen Mine, Jerome, and Bradshaw Mountains Quad-'
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.
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...Handsome specimens of barite, quartz, rhodochrosite, silver, and numerous other species have been found, many...the Butte mining camp, especially in the Kelley mine, was just full of vug holes . . . the holes, some
 
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