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Calcite from
Schoonmaker Mine, Strickland pegmatite, Collins Hill, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Calcite
Formula:CaCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Pyrite1 photo of Calcite associated with Pyrite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Calcite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Schoonmaker Mine, Strickland pegmatite, Collins Hill, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:612294
Long-form Identifier:1:3:612294:2
GUID (UUID V4):b465f35e-bd5a-4f70-91e6-c3e14ef55ea5
Nearest other occurrences of Calcite
0.1km (0.1 miles) Strickland Quarry, Strickland pegmatite, Collins Hill, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
0.6km (0.4 miles) Carr Brook Waterfall, Collins Hill, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
4.1km (2.6 miles) Middletown lead mines (Middletown Mine), Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
6.9km (4.3 miles) Tollgate Quarry (Tollgate Mine; Bidwell Quarry; China-stone Quarry), Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
9.7km (6.0 miles) Rocky Hill Quarry, Rocky Hill, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
11.0km (6.9 miles) Interstate 91 and Interstate 291 interchange, Wethersfield, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
12.5km (7.8 miles) State Routes 9 and 372 interchange, Berlin, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
13.1km (8.1 miles) Gillette Quarry (J-J Mine; Haddam Neck Quarry), Haddam Neck, Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
13.9km (8.6 miles) State Route 9 and State Route 81 Interchange, Higganum, Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
14.1km (8.8 miles) Hawthorne Drive, Berlin, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (issue)
brown jarosite crystals on matrix from the McLean Mine, Esmeralda Co., Nevada. The Martian material was...manufacturer’s standards. NIST Price: $556.00 Hard Rock Mine Waste (SRM 2780a) This Standard Reference Material...analysis used to determine elements in hard rock mine waste and materials of a similar matrix. SRM 2780a...material collected from waste piles of abandoned mine sites in the mountains of central Colorado. A unit...Figure 6 (Right) - Sheet Copper – Flambeau Mine (Rusk County, WI) Figure 2—Dr. Weis’s Personal Memorabilia
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MINERALS FROM 1 CONNECTICUT HILL By Richard Schooner P. O. Box 215 East Hampton, Conn. Collins Hill, in the...the town of Portland, undoubtedly represents the most remarkably mineralized area, of its size, in southern...southern New England. The hill is not especially large, but several different formtions are present, and...work has been done on the giant pegmatite at the summit. The Strickland Quarry is enormous, consisting...of an open pit and extensive chambers. The Schoonmaker Mine is actually a part of the same subterranean
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.............
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............................ Minerals of the Strickland Quarry. By Peter Zodac ........................Members ............ Some Mineral Localities Near Portland, Conn. .................................... The.......................................... A Paint Mine Near Palmerton, Penn. By A. Joseph Stanley .......of the district and also to the famous hiddenite mine at Hiddenite. We regret to advise that Mr. C. L...ASSOOIATIO!II }8 WHOLE No. 70 MINERALS OF THE STRICKLAND QUARRY By PETER ZODAC Editor "Rocks and Minerals"
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PEGMATITE MINERALS OF THE UNITED STATES DAVID M. SEAMAN American Museum of Natural History, New York...the most part uncommon or rare in pegmatite. Only fluorite, calcite and siderite are at all common while...mineral in a few pegmatites at Atolia, San Bernardino County, California and also in pegmatites north of the...the most common fluoride mineral occurring in pegmatite. It is often associated with cassiterite, tourmaline...amount in the rare earth type of pegmatite as at Barringer Hill, Llano County, Texas where large masses weighing
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years ago. This is due to the yearly crushing of mine dumps for logging road construction, road repairs...industrial projects. Posting of privately owned mine sites also had increased due to liability concerns...field trip is held to the Wolverine #2 mine, Kearsarge, Houghton County, Michigan. The collecting guides for...13 July 2022. Kyanite from Balsam Gap, Buncombe County, North Carolina Tony Nikischer tony@excaliburmineral...Tristan Jordan Feldspar Mining Topsham pegmatite field, Sagadahoc County, Maine Mark Ivan Jacobson 1714 S.
Book (edition)
"scratched" scratch was Many which is area, Wet is calcite, a pocket knife blade tests, make sure that...topaz and spodumene. crystals, Areas in Maine, Connecticut and California, and Madagascar, are famous for...grained that its as well as in Brazil their pegmatite gems. same material as granite, but so fine...gravel pits, feldspar quarries in pegmatite deposits, mines and mine dumps, and from "float" deposits...should always ask permission it may be un- or a mine dvmip. Cleanliness around a camp site and removal
Journal (issue)
Mineralogical clubs which subscribe for Rocks and Mine rals also become affiliated members of the Rocks.......... RECENT FINDS OF MINERALS IN CENTRAL CONNECTICUT . 1 270 271 276 276 277 278 279 By L. W. Li1tle...LODESTONE EXPOSED . By Peter Zodac ........ THE MINE IN THE ATTIC. By H orace 111/. Sloc111n ..........consists of the following in ascending order: the Middlesex black shale, the Cashaqua shale the Rhinestreet...found in the Cashaqua but th.ey occur in the Middlesex and the Hatch beds and in immense numbers particularly
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Institute of Mineralogy dba Mindat.org 1113 Cambridge Hill Lane, Keswick, VA 22947 info@hudsonmineralogy.org...full year (12 color issues) is just $35.00 in the USA. Mineral News 1885 Seminole Trail—Ste 202—Charlottesville...News —————————————————Page Page 3 The Tenderfoot Mine: Mining Myth or Lost Subterranean Treasure Fred...are located near the town of Corona in Lincoln County. Since 1881, the area has seen sporadic mining... and rare earths. The best known mine is the Red Cloud Copper mine, located on the southern portion of
Journal (issue)
................. 161 THE ANDREWS QUARRY NEAR PORTLAND, CONN. By Peter Zodac ........................... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CONNECTICUT VALLEY MINERAL CLUB . . . . . . . . . . . . ...edge of the valley is Park Avenue, while Hudson County Boulevard East occupies the east side of the valley...spanning Park Avenue and another crossing Hudson County Boulevard East. This latter bridge carries the...the valley, with another bridge crossing H udson County Boulevard East, which was relocated . The approach
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. . . . . . . . . . . . 359 SCOTT ROSE QUAR1Z MINE. By Mrs. Edna M. Seo/I ................ 360 TECHNICAL...Bartsch .... TIN AND TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS OF SILVER HILL, WASH. .... 370 371 FIELD FABLES OF "ROCKY" MOORE...southeast of San Juan. At one time a small copper mine was operated there in a very inaccessible section...hurricane the cliff slid down and no trace of the mine now exists except for a little malachite visible...of the town of Jayuya, center of Island, in a calcite vein associated with a small amount of chalcopyrite
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Colorado 80210 markivanjacobson@gmail.com No pegmatite mineral collection is complete without octahe-...Fluorite is almost always a late-stage mineral in pegmatite cavities, forming a colorful, attractive icing...Granite, near Red Stone quarry, Conway, Carroll County, New Hampshire. Henry Minot specimen and photo...training, with a long-term specialty in collecting pegmatite minerals. He currently works in Chengdu, Sichuan...13 August 2013 2 Locality Parental Granite Pegmatite Class Mineral associates of significance Crystal
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surmise on my part. We departed from the North Creek mine with a number of specimens and the recollection...in contact with a rather earthy, iron saturated calcite. Here and there were evidences of former workings...fluorite add color to the mass. It is not necessary to "mine" the wall. Recross the bridge. On the same side...on indefinitely, both collecting in St. Lawrence County and writing about it. Let it suffice that we obtained...specimens with those collected in St. Lawrence County years ago. (.And I, for one, didn't do so badly
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fairly pure, averaging 35 per cent Mn. The Emma mine at Butte has been in the limelight recently. H ere...rosite occurs so that it has been profitable to mine it for at least 25 years. The tonnages have never...present a different problem. The story of the Emma mine is not the story of a laboratcry process still being...effervesced in hydrochloric acid because of the calcite between the talc plates which was a mean trick...pyroxenes again with good results. SERPENTINE AFTER CALCITE! have put side by side three slickinsided specimens
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The Purple Fox Hole Empire State Mine, Balmat, St. Lawrence County, New York Michael Walter, mwalter9@twcny...Mining District. The Empire State mine in Balmat, St. Lawrence County, New York was previously known as...). When under Z.C.A. ownership it was the No. 4 mine. It is now owned by Titan Mining Corporation, has...source of exceptional specimens of sphalerite and calcite. Over 90 species of minerals are known from the...how many came from the No. 4, now the Empire State mine, is unclear, but as many as possible have been included
Journal (issue)
White Horse Ranch to the Blitzen Valley, (Harney County, Oregon} and on the way I picked up some pieces...looked like slag from a furnace. This was in Grant County, Oregon, about 5 miles from Seneca. I was on a...granite pegmatites are the most common type of pegmatite. They are igneous dikes or \Teins essentially...The largest crystal in the world ·was found in pegmatite. It was a perthitic microcline crystal measuring...tourmaline crystal 3x3x8 feet in the Luella Mine near Avon, Latah County, Idaho ; and etc. Origin The crystals
Journal (issue)
Trinidad, in the southwestern part of Las Animas County, is the coal mining center of southern Colorado...side canyons which flow into the main canyons. Each mine has a camp with st~res, garages, and houses for...either side of the dikes. Jeffries Coal Mine The Jeffries Coal Mine is 3 miles south of Trinidad on Raton...coal, all of which are from 4 to 7 feet thick. This mine is worked by the double entry system with the main...the manway or air course running parallel into the mine. Going into the main slope 300 feet, we come to
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and retzian-(La) are typically embedded into calcite-rhodochrosite veinlets (Ushkatyn-III deposit) vs...9/4835351/am-2019-7028.pdf by University of Connecticut user on 09 January 2020 1470 VERESHCHAGIN...of the continental crust as a whole (Li and Schoonmaker 2003; Maynard 2003). More than half of all discovered...deposits in Franklin/Sterling Hill, U.S.A.; Långban, Sweden, and Moss Mine, Sweden. Both Långban, Sweden...Sweden, and Franklin/Sterling Hill, New Jersey, are represented by strongly metamorphosed Precambrian rocks
Journal (issue)
NW to 8O°NW. The schist is intruded by several pegmatite bands which run parallel to the foliation. These...caisson. On the northeast side of the caisson the pegmatite just described I If sea level is con sidered zero...coarser-grained pegmatite dike about 14 inches wide, with salmon-colored feldspar. The older aplitic pegmatite near...very prominent in the schist but common in the pegmatite. Details of the N orth River Shaft. This was sunk...Most of the rock was found to be a gray aplitic pegmatite, an igneous member intrusive into the Manhattan
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
material worthwhile cutting by the amateur. Connecticut has produced some splendid faceting material...property and another which I will soon discuss. The mine is located roughly north of Andover, N . J., and...to Lake Lenape. About a mile or so up this road a hill completely wooded is seen on the right, a woods...level as the tar road plunges into the base of the hill. This road leads directly into the workings. The...with reserve. In the dump heaps of the garnet ore mine were found the rather large chunks of pyrite-magnetite
Journal (issue)
yellow banded twin xis. about 1 ¼" with Quartz & Calcite. 3 x 2½ x 2 ½ . Very choice. • • • • • . 7.50 Asurite......................................131 COLLINS HILL (PORTLAND, CONN.) DESERTED By Richard Schoon,r 135...Andrews, Jr ; " Famous Mineral Localities (Renfrew County, Ont., Canada)", by Jerome M. Eisenberg; "Ao Alaskan...Republican River (South Fork), in southern Yuma County, Colorado, and there is quite a sprinkling of the...which the land is located- in this case, Grand County, Colo.- rather than to refer to the index parallel
Journal (issue)
some nice specimens which ha been put aside at a mine. The superintendent had saved these for a friend...they got as our exhibits are only labeled as to county, or section. Exact localities are reserved for...sugar carbon and molten iron) in an abandoned coal mine located in New Jersey. Here the author is in error;...595, and came from two properties in Los Angeles County and one each in Inyo, Monterey, San Benito, and...figures, was a tonnage of dolomite from Tuolumne County that was burnt for lime ; there£ore combined with
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the southern Worcester Mountains in parts of Middlesex and Waterbury as part of a Vermont Geological...hills to the east and south and drained south via Middlesex Notch. The present-day elevation of the shoreline...described here may correlate with the 11.9 ka 14C Middlesex Readvance described by Fred Larsen in the Montpelier...Trip to Highgate Falls Gorge, to be led by Adam Schoonmaker, was cancelled due to high water and submerged...Annual Meeting. 1. Steve Howe reported that Adam Schoonmaker was willing to run his Highgate Falls Gorge field
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in conodont biodiversity corresponding to the Middlesex anoxic event of the Frasnian Stage of the Upper...isotopes, conodonts, biofacies, Upper Devonian, Middlesex. 1. Introduction The variations in carbon isotopic...material and are often encrusted with 1–3 mm thick calcite. Most of the bioclasts also contain fine-grained...or completely filled with encrustations of late calcite and ferruginous–aluminous material (colmatation...average shale composition was used from Li & Schoonmaker (2003). The isotopic composition of oxygen and
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............................................ PEGMATITE MINERALS OF THE PALERMO QUARRY, NORTH GROTON,..., dip vertical co 80°SW . west side of H udson County Boulevard These interecting joi nt systems made...which may be mentioned: Benitoite, scheelite, calcite, hyalite opal, semi-opal, travertine, English fluorite...Bigelow Pond, in Union, Tolland County, Conn. (See Three Connecticut Localities, by Wilbur J. EJ. well...Development Commission and Mr. Gregg of the Connecticut D evelopment Commission. The rerort of this investigation
 
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