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Spinel from
Norfolk, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA


Classification
Species:Spinel
Formula:MgAl2O4
Comments:"Mr. Cornish states that the limestone ledge is on the land of Mr. Ralph Crissy, near a spring southeast of his house, associated with hard gneiss, granite and some hornblendic rocks, which have in general a high eastward dip; and that it afforded him octahedrons of spinel (some of them half an inch across), together with a little chondrodite. The outcrop is only 15 yards long and 20 wide"
Habit:octahedral
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Spinel data
Locality Data:Click here to view Norfolk, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:488372
Long-form Identifier:1:3:488372:2
GUID (UUID V4):ff8d9deb-bac2-4d31-b46a-17d04ec0feff
Nearest other occurrences of Spinel
28.8km (17.9 miles) Mount Prospect complex (Prospect Hill complex; Prospect Mountain complex), Litchfield, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
68.1km (42.3 miles) North Street mall, Danbury, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
74.2km (46.1 miles) Tilly Foster Iron Mine, Town of Southeast, Putnam County, New York, USA
81.0km (50.3 miles) Mahopac Mines, Town of Carmel, Putnam County, New York, USA
85.6km (53.2 miles) Ultramafic rock bodies, Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
95.5km (59.4 miles) Bog Meadow Pond, Town of Highlands, Orange County, New York, USA
98.5km (61.2 miles) Peekskill, Westchester County, New York, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
wonderful > job they did. "Rockland Nuggets", Rockland County Mineral and Gem Society, Inc., Editor, Marvin Klibonoff;...collected rocks! The words Division of the Rockland County Mineral "Founded 1886" following the name of and...graphite,, New Haven Mineral Club, Editors, Mr. spinel, scapolite, gahnite, sphene, tourand Mrs. Charles...showed slides on the Jamesville Quarry. The Rockland County Mineral and Gem Society. Inc., SufFern, heard Tim...MacCarry speak on "The Palisades Formation of Rockland County". Miss Jessie Weinberger spoke on "The Geology
Report (volume)
WALCOTT, DIRECTOR THE GEOLOGY EASTERN BERKSHIRE COUNTY MASSACHUSETTS BY BENJAMIN KENDALL EMERSON WASHINGTON....................... 63 North Canaan and West Norfolk areas............................ 65 Limestone... 101 101 Mineral lexicon of eastern Berkshire County .... .... ....'.......... .......... 103 Albite...-CONTENTS. Mineral lexicon of eastern Berkshire County Continued. Page. Opal.......................................................................... Spinel...............................................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
by a question and answer period. Connecticut The Litchfield County Mineral Club, Torrington, held its...nice memories of wonderful people."—The VitUon County Mineral Club, Gloversville, wrote a summarizing...microphotographs and Field Trips for tourmaline crystals, spinel crystals, pyrite nodules, blue calcite, scapolite...bulletin of the Junior Division of the Rockland County Mineral and Gem Society. Inc., Suffern, was received...and best wishes.—Rockland Nuggets of the Rockland County Mineral and Gem Society, Inc.. Suffern, told of
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)
Chondrodite TILLY FOSTER MINE, BREWSTER AREA PUTNAM COUNTY, NEW YORK F ew minerals are commonly or uniquely...variety of quartz certainly comes to mind, as do spinel from Amity, uvite from Pierrepont, and diopside...specimens from the Tilly Foster iron mine, Putnam County, New York, can be seen in many American and foreign...Associated minerals include phlogopite, magnetite, spinel, grossular, forsterite, monticellite, diopside...limestone at Coles Brook in Middlefield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts. It is also known from the Bolton
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
write to W.J. Acord, show chairman, R.F.D. #2, Litchfield, Me. 04350. Should you be passing by my area...from the California Federation." VIRGINIA The Norfolk Gem and Mineral Asso­ ciation plans to visit the... that the committee can plan trips. - Lawrence County for many kinds of - - The Gem, Lapidary and Mineral...- - - Curt Segeler spoke Society of Montgomery County, Rockwith the New York Mineralogical Club ville...workshop on casting. - - - - The the Frederick County Rock and Mineral Nassau Mineral Club, Mineola,
Report (volume)
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...Jefferson County, at Elyton; Lee County, at Chewacla lime works; St. Clair County, at Gfeensport; Shelby
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Crest Quarry, Lime <~r?st, Newton, New Jersey, for spinel, fluorite, norbergite, chondrodite, allanite, ROCKS..."Herkimer Diamonds". Morris Dam, East Morris, Connecticut, for smoky quartz crystals, columnar beryl and...South River Mine (Kelly Bank), Augusta — Rockbridge County, the minerals to be found are pyrolusite, manganite...MINERALS Road to Cold Springs Clay Mine, Augusta County can be found kaolinite bauxite, limonite and chert...his "bragging" pieces of petrified wood. — The Norfolk Gem and Mineral Association were host to Mr. Boyce
Journal (issue)
VIRGINIA MINERALS RICHMOND METEORITE, CHESTERFIELD COUNTY . I The first recorded meteorite in Virginia fell...of a letter written from Bremo Bluff, Fluvanna County, August 4, 1828 to the editor of the American Journal...instance of this sort that occurred in Chesterfield County, Virginia about 7 miles southwest of Richmond,...cabinet which was part of a stone that fell in Connecticut many years ago, an account of which is published...vol. 6, p. 411. BOTETOURT METEORITE, BOTETOURT COUNTY Shepard (1866) gave the following account of this
Book
including gold in a state forest in central Connecticut last spring. Moreover, similar gold deposits...would. Indeed, except for filing a claim in the Norfolk Registry of Deeds, he kept his find secret for...11ne 2; ••• Amph1bo1ite--see Bolton, Worcester County M1nera1 Loca11t1es. page 85 ••• 11.8 3~ter cerium...•••••••••••••••••'.' •.••.•••• 2--6 Barn.table County ro •• il Localiti ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••...Localit1e•••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 21 Br1.tol County Mineral Localit1 ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••
Report (issue)
John Oleksyshyn Early Pennsylvanian age of the Norfolk basin, southeastern Massachusetts, based on plant...Prehnite-pumpellyite facies metamorphism in central Aroostook County, Maine eee re il. C20 ea Tt Dorothy A. Richter... Borns Nickeliferous pyrrhotite deposits, Knox County, southeastern Maine Er it atte era (Seale 8 George... prehnite and apophyllite from East Granby, Connecticut: Am. Mineralogist, v. 45, p. 443-447. (and Swarzenski...Neuropteris obliqua-Lonchopteris floral zone in the Norfolk basin is reported by Lyons and others. This work
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Gem and Min­ eral Show sponsored by the Jefferson County Rock and Mineral Club. Fair Grounds, Watertown...of Mineralogical and Geological Societies. West County Imposition Center, 9785 St. Charles Rock Road....Annual Macon County C.em-Borce sponsored by the Franklin Area Chamber of Commerce. Macon County Fairgrounds..."Jewelry, Gem and Mineral Show," sponsored by the Norfolk Gem and Mineral Association. Virginia Beach Civic...Meral Howard, P. O. Box 9531, Wright Station, Norfolk, V a . 23505 August 14, 15,1976-Altamont,New York
Report (volume)
........................................... Connecticut................................................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.;...; Jefferson County, at Ely ton; Lee County, at Chewacla lime works"; St. Clair County, at Greensport;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Southwest orebody, White Pine mine, Ontonagon County, Michigan. Lance Hampel specimen, Jeff Scovil photo...Sphalerite with pyrite and calcite, Portland mine, Ouray County, Colorado. Barbara Muntyan specimen, Jeff Scovil...Novemberficember: Gold, Ten Mile district, Humboldt County, Nevada. Coogan Gold specimen, Jeff Scovil photo...I Aguilar, P., 44 AkaganCite, Norfolk, England, 269 Albite, Connecticut, 121; Maine, 188; New York. 240...240 Allanite, Connecticut, 121 Almandine, Connecticut, 12 1 ; Maine, 188 Amphibole group, New York. 246
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
West Norfolk. So far as Norfolk is concerned this Memoir completes the description of that county by the...appended the records of numerous well-sections in Norfolk and Lincolnshire. BEPOBTS -A-IsnD PBOCBEDIITGS...Drifts accumulated. 2. " A Critical Junction in the County of Tyrone." By Professor Grenville A. J. Cole,...corresponding structures in the Chalk. 3. " On Spinel and Forsterite from the Glenelg Limestone." By...Glenelg limestone. Neither forsterite nor true spinel has been previously recorded from the limestone
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Jersey Mineralogical Society ( New Jersey), Oxford County Mineral and Gem Association (Maine) and the Newark...with a talk by Francis Beardslee on "Synthetic Spinel"; a movie of the Club's Field Trip to Pierrepont...will discuss and experiment with one mineral. Connecticut Mr. Richard Bambach of the Yale University Geology...Gem, Lapidary and Mineral Society of Montgomery County, Wheaton, report their January meeting was one...blue quartz at a place called Blue Knob in Henry County that produces a four rayed star. Margaret Israel
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Hubbard St., Montpelier, Vermont 05602. NEW-Connecticut Mineral Collectors Field Guide by Bud Webster-$3...from John Hiller, 62 Lourmel St., Bridgeport, Connecticut 06606 EQUIPMENT U L T R A V I O L E T LAMPS...967-4719. FINE MICROMOUNTS-Zunyite, Africa 750, Spinel, Burma 750, Silver, Mexico 500, Perovskite, Arkansas...insurance). From the Famous Christ­ mas Mine, Gila, County, Arizona. Direc­ tions: Careful breaking of rock...Mt. Spring Road, Tolland, Connecticut. Tel. 875-5339 in Rockville, Connecticut for appointment. Mrs. Bruce
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
page Aberdeenshire, Mill of Boddam, orthonorite, spinel xenoliths ... 65 AGER , D. V. & P. WALLACE. Environmental...their relation to Pleistocene tills, Mundesley, Norfolk BARRATT, M . S. & G. R . PARSLOW. Device for the...Group Mill of Boddam, Insch, Aberdeenorthonorite, spinel shire, xenoliths Grit succession, Millstone Brynmawr-Blorenge...raised strandlines, main end- moraines Mundesley, Norfolk, till pebble lineations Nature Conservancy. Reunion...dykes, New Red Sandstone, Tor Bay area, Devonshire Norfolk, Mundesley, till pebble Lineations NE. Lancashire
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
bredigite, merwinite, melilite (gehlenite), calcite, or spinel; and wollastonite, melilite, hibschite and quartz...following prograde minerals: larnite, bredigite, spinel, melilite (pure gehlenite; Sabine et ah, 1982)...the Chalk on core from a borehole at Trunch in Norfolk, England, and four samples of flint The petrography...section through the Chalk in a borehole at Trunch in Norfolk (the thickest proven succession in the United Kingdom)...Borehole 'C\ 284-285 ft deep, CERN site, Mundford, Norfolk. IGS Lab. No. 2143. Anal. R. L. Clements, spect
Journal (issue)
The Norfolk Gem & Mineral Association PRESENTS yth ANNUAL JEWELRY GEM &MINERAL SHOW Featuring Virginia...Speer Minerals from the Old Sulphur Mine, Louisa County, Virginia Richard S. Mitchell and Arthur S. Katz...CRYSTALLIZED TURQUOISE from near Lynch Station, Campbell County, is Virginia's unique contribution to the mineral...Specimens from the Rutherford pegmatites, in Amelia County, are famous for the per­ fection of their thin...the same county. It also has been observed in pegmatites in Powhatan County, Spotsylvania County, and elsewhere
Report (issue)
zones in the central part of the State are the Connecticut Valley and Merrimack "belts" of primarily Silurian...Mesozoic "basins" unconformably overlie the Connecticut Valley belt. For some packages, all aspects of...^^--^-^ .~~^ ^ - 8 - IH M i D DEVONIAN Connecticut Volley belt Merrimack belt ^ chapter G -f 3...and others (1984, fig. 1). PREFACE | 1 | CONNECTICUT VALLEY BELT . . J^ 1. . Conn. Valley belt above...Norman L. Hatch, Jr. (B) Stratigraphy of the Connecticut Valley belt, by Norman L. Hatch, Jr., Peter Robinson
Catalog/List
Moldavite.New stock of Chaoite.Talc from Egypt, Spinel crystals from madgascar.Mottramite from England...Mohave Ixl £9 'A x A £3 1 xA Pb SiO/3_____________ County. Arizona, U.S.A £5___ Rich orange-red masses with...OH__________ magnification there are small crystals County, Arizona Pure green cleavage AMAZONITE Landsverk...grained mass in calcite Dark Star Mine.Ravalli County, lx!4 £2.50 Ixl £4 37 Ce Sr CO/3 Montana U.S.A...mixture with Chrysotile, pale grey-green Ixl £1 County Bridge Quarry,Lizard Mg Fe SiO_______ massive.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
paper occupy the eastern parts of the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk and the northern part of Essex. The...nearly northsouth line fromWeyboume on the coast of Norfolk to near Ipswich at the head of the estuary of the...Charles Lyell included the glacial deposits of the Norfolk cliffs in the Pliocene, and though in the revised...sinuous course from Aldeburgh in Suffolk to Burgh in Norfolk, Clement Reid and H. B. Woodward failed to see...smaller amounts of monazite, andalusite, magnetite, spinel, anatase (blue and yellow), sillimanite, hornblende
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University] at 07:55 02 December 2014 Figure 1. County map of New York State, prepared by William Besse...listed. L O CA L I T I E S B Y C O U N T Y Albany County Indian Ladder: brookite; F. Old Callanan quarry:...11 August 1859: olivinebronzite chondrite. Bronx County Various excavations: chabazite, harmotome, quartz...quartz (amethyst), stilbite; F. Clinton County Au Sable Forks, iron mines north of: microcline (sunstone)...stilbite, titanite, zircon, others; F, C. Columbia County Ancram lead mines: barite, galena, sphalerite,
Journal (issue)
Washington DC (USA), who made a particular study of the geology of Crestmore in Riverside County, California...foshagite is at Crestmore in Riverside County, California (USA)—it is against specimens from here that...Durango (Mexico) and at Bingham Pit, Salt Lake County, Utah (USA). Other small deposits have been recorded...(California, USA). Left: A compact mass of creamy to brilliant white foshagite (California, USA). 4 1111...examples — which are found mainly i n South Dakota (USA) — may be up to 30cm Ludlamite is a member of the
 
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