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Kyanite from
Newtown, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA


Classification
Species:Kyanite
Formula:Al2(SiO4)O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Muscovite3 photos of Kyanite associated with Muscovite at this locality.
Damourite2 photos of Kyanite associated with Damourite at this locality.
Fluorapatite2 photos of Kyanite associated with Fluorapatite at this locality.
Rutile2 photos of Kyanite associated with Rutile at this locality.
Albite1 photo of Kyanite associated with Albite at this locality.
Quartz1 photo of Kyanite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Sillimanite1 photo of Kyanite associated with Sillimanite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Kyanite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Newtown, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (2 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:559237
Long-form Identifier:1:3:559237:1
GUID (UUID V4):11ded42b-570c-4375-849c-0eac99bc6c99
Localities for Kyanite in this Region
Interstate 84 road cuts (Route 6A bypass), Newtown, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
Nearest other occurrences of Kyanite
1.6km (1.0 miles) ⓘInterstate 84 road cuts (Route 6A bypass), Newtown, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
8.3km (5.2 miles) ⓘU. S. Route 7 Expressway (Danbury line to Iron Works District), Brookfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
8.9km (5.5 miles) ⓘIlmenite locality, Bridgewater, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
10.4km (6.5 miles) ⓘGreen's Farm locality (Roxbury garnet mine; Roxbury Falls garnet mine; Garnet Hill), Roxbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
10.5km (6.5 miles) ⓘBerry Road kyanite locality, Roxbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
10.9km (6.8 miles) ⓘSouthbury, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA
15.7km (9.7 miles) ⓘTwin Bridges, Easton, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
16.2km (10.0 miles) ⓘLittle Laurel Lime Park, Seymour, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA
19.3km (12.0 miles) ⓘNonnewaug River Industrial Park, Woodbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
19.6km (12.2 miles) ⓘBarrett Brothers Quarry (D and J Quarry), Beacon Falls, 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
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)
correlations between western Massachusetts and Connecticut are suggested UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING...recent mapping in the eastern part of western Connecticut. The Hoosac Formation, the Rowe Schist, and the...are probably Middle Ordovician and overlie the Newtown Gneiss and the Prospect and Orange Formations of...Dieterich, The Straits is Goshen and overlies the Fairfield and Prospect Formations. We generally agree with...indicates that the Goshen equivalents in western Connecticut occupy highly contorted isoclinal synclines that
Report (issue)
the Berkshire Massif, Western Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Vermont A. Blastomylonites Associated With...at the Western Edge of the Berkshire Massif, Connecticut and Massachusetts-A Preliminary Report B. Chronology...Domes of Southwestern Massachusetts and Western Connecticut G. Minor Folds and Derived Orientations of...the Berkshire Massif, Western Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Vermont A. Blastomylonites Associated With...at the Western Edge of the Berkshire Massif, Connecticut and Massachusetts-A Preliminary Report, by Nicholas
Book
CONNECTICUT mmES MINERALS V Tourmaline Crystal from Haddam, Connecticut John Hiller, Jr. Hillers CryctaLShop...- CRYSTALS NOT PISTOLS K c^oi c3— A r CONNECTICUT MINES AND MINERALS published privately l i...Shelton, Connecticut I DEDICATION This book is dedicated to the mineral clubs of Connecticut, Continued...1971, John Hiller, Jr, 3 Peters Lane Shelton, Connecticut II CONTENTS 3. 5, l i 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11...24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. Connecticut Mineral Clubs Cleaning and Trimming Oxalic Acid
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University Auburn, Alabama 36849 cookrob@auburn.edu Kyanite Downloaded by [Laurentian University] at 02:10...times quite beautiful rock-forming minerals is kyanite. It is one of a triad of aluminosilicates that...and described from many hundreds of localities, kyanite is particularly well known as a valuable industrial...especially familiar to collectors because the kyanite-rich “quartzite” once exploited at Graves Mountain...2008). Surprisingly attractive, reasonably priced kyanite specimens are traditionally available from several
Book (edition)
CHIASTOLITE a\ DIAMOND CRYSTALS DIOPSIDE EMERALD KYANITE LAZULITE t^^*l IDOCRASE lOLITE k:^ RUBY /^^...topaz and spodumene. crystals, Areas in Maine, Connecticut and California, and Madagascar, are famous for...mine, Racooche Valley, White Co. 1866 Vs White County Daniel Light form, % mi. NE Less than 1887 ...Alabama has yielded a 4i%4 carat diamond from Shelby County, 30 miles south of Birmingham, found about 1900...Siding in St. Clair County, 20 miles northeast of Bir- mingham. One found in Lee County in 1901 weighs 4^
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
581; spectrochemical determination of, 790; Amelia County, anal., 796 ALIAS (L. J.), see DE CASTRO(A. HoYos)...A., 404 Deltaite, a mixture, 260 Diabantite, Connecticut, Utah, & Virginia, anal., D.T.A., 404 Diamond...polytypes, structure, relation to Granodiorite, Ghana, kyanite in, 804 taafeite, stability, paragenesis, 563;..., D.T.A., 404 Kozhanovite = karnasurtite, 260 Kyanite, Ghana, 804 - - Labradorite, spectrochemical...Cornwall, dehydration mechanism, 467 LOBJOI~ (W. M.), Kyanite in a granitic aureole, 804 LOPES-VIEIRA (A.), see
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
gorceixite, 281 1163 GHANA Bibiani: granodiorite, kyanite, 804 Bonsa river: gorceixite, 281 NIGERIA Danalite...and Trooper Lake, Glamorgan Township, Halliburton County: nepheline, 114 Munro mine: chrysotfle, 467 QUEBEC...forsterite, 730 United States Amelia County, Virginia: albite, 581 Bedford County, Virginia: chevkinite, perrierite...chevkinite, 42 Dona Ana County, New Mexico: aphrosiderite, 404 Eldorado County, Colorado: rhodophyL lite...Goose Creek, Virginia: diabantite, 404 Hartford County, Maryland: sheridanite, 404 Hiawassee, Georgia:
Report (issue)
investigation. It has already proven of value in Fannin County and will, it is anticipated, prove equally useful...quadrangle lies mainly in Fannin County, Georgia, but includes part of Cherokee County, North Carolina, and part...exploitation are marble, talc, iron ore, staurolite, kyanite, refractory schist, quartz, slate, quartzite, conglomerate..._________________ ,. ______________ -------------------Quartz-kyanite schist ---------------------- _ ---------------...53 54 54 54 54 54 55 56 METAIGNEOUS ROCKS The Newtown sill Thickness and distribution____________ --
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
that found on Ridley and Crum Creeks in Delaware County, contained segregated masses of coarse orthocl...northwesterly line between Philadelphia and Mont(romery County, it has been largely quarried for over a century...radiated masses is abundant, also staurolite and kyanite in the mica schists, in poor specimens, and garnets...in great quantity but poor. Very recently fine kyanite was obtained. Where the steatite belt crosses,...Vanartsdalen's quarry near Feasterville, in Bucks County, where a small bed of limestone is exposed and
Book (volume)
ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA
Book (volume)
ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA
Journal (issue)
Mayo Atlanta, Georgia Neal Yedlin New Haven, Connecticut Rocks& Minerals Official magazine of the Eastern...Godshalk Minerals from Thomaston Dam, Thomaston, Connecticut Joseph Molon Peter Zodac FEATURES Managing...EASY-TO-BUILD iViSCROMOUNT CABINET by C. C. RICH Boot Road Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 Necessary Materials...publication of the Tuscarora Lapidary Society, Delaware County, Penn­ sylvania 446 ROCKS AND MINERALS Can be...MINERALS FROM THE THOMASTON DAM, THOMASTON, CONNECTICUT By JOSEPH MOLON 84th Arty Det APO N. Y. 09046
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
post-glacial submerged forest. Behind this at Newtown there appears to be an older beach at twenty-five...correspondingly high in the depression behind Newtown. Rogers (1909, ST. ERTH BEDS-AN ALTERNATIVE EXPLANATION...observes with regard to the pebble deposits at Newtown that when telephone cables were being laid in trenches...staurolite, epidote, biotite, leucoxene, zircon, kyanite, rutile, topaz, andalusite and cassiterite. The...The relative abundance of staurolite and kyanite (both minerals foreign to the rocks of the locality),
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
378 is undoubtedly the Hahns Peak area in Routt County, northern Colorado. It is not usually especially...a foundation of ancient granite and schist." CONNECTICUT: A recent visit to the famous essonite (garnet)...(garnet) locality at Redding Station, Fairfield Co., Conn., disclosed an astonishing large amount of broken...success. He has cabochons of moonstone from Stephens County, which are unusually good ; also, rutilated rose...near the new waterworks dam at Mountain Ciy, Rabun County, Ga. He has a yellow cabochon of unusual beauty
Journal (issue)
R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur...localities: the mineralogy of Graves Mountain, Lincoln County, G eorgia........................................ from the Sweetwater mine, Ellington, Reynolds County, Missouri. Collection of Maudine and Bob Sullivan;...localities: the mineralogy of Graves Mountain Lincoln County, Georgia Robert B. Cook, Jr. Department of Geology...large, multiply twinned rutile crystals. Active kyanite mining over the past several decades has resulted
Journal (issue)
Locality for Chapmanite Red Bird Mine, Pershing County, Nevada Bob Werner werner@lcturbonet.com The Red...camps. (Bolivia was then officially allied with the USA, although this was opposed by some political factions...Maureen G., Geology and Mineral Deposits of Pershing County, Nevada, Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, Bull...5mm, minor hematite, and unusual paramorphs of kyanite and sillimanite after andalusite (see figure 3)...1986. Although andalusite was known from Campbell County for years before, the new find produced some of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the road is very straight over the plateau of Newtown Common; but in the undulating topography of the...well-records) seems to underlie at least a part of Newtown Common. The correlation downwards was far more...beds is persistent, the bulk of the sandy area of Newtown Common may consist of Barton (rather than Bagshot)...Chloritoid, Monazite, Muscovite. Triclinic. Axinite I. Kyanite, FeIspar. Throughout the whole series there is...resemblance can be carried even further to t he kyanite gra ins, which in both regions have a "che wed"
Book
Silurian Rochester and McKenzie Shales, Morgan County, West Virginia: Jour. Sed. Petrology, v. 32, p...origin of the Triassic sedimentary rocks of Connecticut: Conn. Geol. and Nat. History Survey Bull., no...XN 0.06 mm Upper Ti iassic New Haven Arkose Connecticut A seinicomposite quartz grain with slightly undulose...1 5 mm 6 Upper Triassic New Haven Arkose * Connecticut A detrital grain of composite or polycrystalline...fragment. XN 0.15 mm Ordovicianf.') kyanite schist Connecticut Composite or polycrystalline quartz in
Report (issue)
Silurian Rochester and McKenzie Shales, Morgan County, West Virginia: Jour. Sed. Petrology, v. 32, p...origin of the Triassic sedimentary rocks of Connecticut: Conn. Geol. and Nat. History Survey Bull., no...XN 0.06 mm Upper Ti iassic New Haven Arkose Connecticut A seinicomposite quartz grain with slightly undulose...1 5 mm 6 Upper Triassic New Haven Arkose * Connecticut A detrital grain of composite or polycrystalline...fragment. XN 0.15 mm Ordovicianf.') kyanite schist Connecticut Composite or polycrystalline quartz in
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Occurrence in Carroll County, Georgia" (November/December 1988). Banks County 184 ROCKS & MINERALS...Bentley provided many of the photographs. Baldwin County Milledgeville district—between the State Sanitarium...pit—east of S.R. 243 near the Baldwin-Wilkerson County line: kaolinite (Martin and Stafford, 1972). Cheatham...property—Route 3, Commerce, 4.8 km from the Jackson County line, 8 km east of Commerce on S.R. 59, and 0.8...district—Standridge property, about 7.0 km east of Lula: kyanite, sericite, vermiculite (Furcron, 1960c). Maysville
Book (volume)
chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...townï‚Ÿagate, chalcedony, jasper, petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville...chalcedony, jasper, fossils. CHERRY COUNTY VALENTINE, in the Sandhills county along the Niobrara R. and Minnechaduza...gem qualityï‚Ÿagatized and opalized wood. DAWES COUNTY CHADRON, in N part of Co. and as far W as Crawford...woods, etc. DAWSON COUNTY GOTHENBURG, in sand pitsï‚Ÿpetrified palm wood. DEUEL COUNTY CHAPPELL, all regional
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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