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Galena from
State Route 25 road cuts, Trumbull, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA


Locality type:Road Cutting
Classification
Species:Galena
Formula:PbS
Comments:in rough cubes up to a few cm, or massive, associated with sphalerite, quartz, fluorite and secondary lead minerals, which formed in cubic cavities left by weathered galena.
Habit:cubic
Colour:gray
Abundance at site:Common
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Quartz13 photos of Galena associated with Quartz at this locality.
Sphalerite9 photos of Galena associated with Sphalerite at this locality.
Adularia1 photo of Galena associated with Adularia at this locality.
Cerussite1 photo of Galena associated with Cerussite at this locality.
Siderite1 photo of Galena associated with Siderite at this locality.
Pyrite1 photo of Galena associated with Pyrite at this locality.
Fluorite1 photo of Galena associated with Fluorite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Galena data
Locality Data:Click here to view State Route 25 road cuts, Trumbull, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (6 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:561867
Long-form Identifier:1:3:561867:5
GUID (UUID V4):40a62734-e7bf-4a89-886e-a56299489d7b
Nearest other occurrences of Galena
3.7km (2.3 miles) Old Mine Park (Old Tungsten Mine), Long Hill, Trumbull, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
4.0km (2.5 miles) Old Mine Plaza construction site, Long Hill, Trumbull, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
8.3km (5.2 miles) Lane's Mine (Lane's Lead and Silver Mine; Elm Street), Monroe, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
10.0km (6.2 miles) Lane's Copper Mine (Fan Hill Road), Monroe, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
16.6km (10.3 miles) Arsenic and nickel mine (Nickel Mine Brook), Seymour, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA
18.5km (11.5 miles) Wilton Silver Mine, Wilton, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
19.4km (12.0 miles) Silver mine, Seymour, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA
19.5km (12.1 miles) Lambert's Mine (Maltby Lakes Mine), West Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA
20.0km (12.4 miles) Sandy Hook gold mine (Blackwell's mine), Sandy Hook, Newtown, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
20.6km (12.8 miles) Wilton, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
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