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Almandine from
Bordonaro Quarry, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Almandine
Formula:Fe32+Al2(SiO4)3
Comments:crystals typically <5 mm.
Habit:dodecahedral
Colour:burgundy
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Almandine data
Locality Data:Click here to view Bordonaro Quarry, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:662171
Long-form Identifier:1:3:662171:1
GUID (UUID V4):fa823202-dd8e-470f-9c45-0ab863d12240
Nearest other occurrences of Almandine
0.4km (0.2 miles) ⓘWalden Gem Quarry, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
0.8km (0.5 miles) ⓘHale Quarry (Andrews Quarry; Glastonbury Quarry), Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
1.4km (0.9 miles) ⓘCase Quarries, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
1.9km (1.2 miles) ⓘSimpson Quarry (Wiarda Quarry), South Glastonbury, Glastonbury, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
1.9km (1.2 miles) ⓘHowe Quarry (Howe #1 Quarry; Huspband Quarry), South Glastonbury, Glastonbury, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
2.3km (1.4 miles) ⓘGriswold Quarry, South Glastonbury, Glastonbury, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
2.4km (1.5 miles) ⓘHollister prospects, South Glastonbury, Glastonbury, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
2.5km (1.5 miles) ⓘGas pipeline excavation, South Glastonbury, Glastonbury, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
2.5km (1.6 miles) ⓘUnnamed pegmatite prospects, South Glastonbury, Glastonbury, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
2.6km (1.6 miles) ⓘEureka Quarries, South Glastonbury, Glastonbury, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Dayton Road District SOUTH GLASTONBURY, CONNECTICUT JOHN H. BETTS 215 West 98 Street, Apt. 2F New...of the most promising forgotten locations in Connecticut is an area of old pegmatite quarries in South...article are the northernmost in the Middletown-Portland pegmatite district (fig. 1). They are in South...miles north-northeast of Portland, Connecticut, just north of the Portland-South Glastonbury town line...the Simpson quarry on the south, the Hollister quarry on the east, and the Howe No. 4 quarry on the north
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)
Pegmatites of the Middletown Area Connecticut GEOLOGICAL SU R V EY BULLETIN This report concerns work...GEOLOGY PEGMATITES OF THE MIDDLETOWN AREA, CONNECTICUT By FREDERICK STUGARD, JR. ABSTRACT The pegmatites...pegmatites of the Middletown area in Connecticut have been mined almost continuously for feldspar and muscovite...pegmatites of the Middletown area of central Connecticut have been mined almost continuously since about...(fig. 59). 73" 72' FIOTTBE 59. Index map of Connecticut showing Mlddletown area. The Middle Haddam quadrangle
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Silurian and Devonian terranes (Huvelin, 1977; Bordonaro et al., 1979). Thus, the eastern Jebilet belong...with the eastern part (Bordonaro et al., 1979; Gaillet, 1980; Gaillet and Bordonaro, 1981). The outcropping...equivalent of the Kharrouba Flysch (Bordonaro et al. 1979; Gaillet and Bordonaro, 1981). The Sarhlef series have...epidote (Tr-Act, Ep) in mafic rocks (Huvelin, 1977; Bordonaro, 1983); (3) The main tectonic phase (D2) dated...metacarbonates (Huvelin, 1977; El Hassani, 1982; Bordonaro, 1983; Essaifi et al., 2013). Moreover, Lahfid
Journal (issue)
mineral localities: the G illette quarry, Haddam Neck, Connecticut ....................................Tuolumne County; 3.18 cm (36) Tuolumne County; 2.54 cm, 1.9 cm (39) Seaton mine, Amador County; 12.07 cm...Dorado County; 1.5 cm (55) Grit mine, El Dorado County; 8.26 cm (60) Grit mine, El Dorado County; 4.76...Dorado County; 4.29 cm (62) Grit mine, El Dorado County; 2.22 cm (63) Grit mine, El Dorado County; 2.54... Figure 3. Gold from the Grit mine, El Dorado County, California: shown on the facing page as no. 60
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(titanite), Cr (chromite), Mn (spessartine), Fe (almandine), Zn (gahnite), Sr (SrSO4), Zr (zircon), and Ba...silicic magmas. Master’s Thesis, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, United States. CAROFF, M...pegmatites from Gordon Butte, Crazy Mountains (Montana, USA): comparisons between potassic and sodic agpaitic...9(9), 1229–1236. CUERDA, A., CINGOLANI, C., & BORDONARO, O. (1993) Las secuencias sedimentarias eopaleozoicas
Book
States for each, further in of “spirit a Connecticut, patriotism.” the gem considered October,...and weighs 235.5 carats, morganite rough Diego County, California, weigh Lea Collection), and from...Properties be the largest a was story Angeles County and photographs prepared from a 6,021- International...35 x while etching cleavage etched green County, California; 138 The basal face is has cracks...11 Superb, doubly Photo No. terminated Diego County, and c {oool} several Harold & with The
Book
Project 233 IU S UNES 0 (I R.D. DALLMEYER, Athens, USA J.D. KEPPlE, Halifax, Canada (Directors) ~ Terranes...of Geology University of Georgia Athens, Ga 30602 USA Dr. J. P. LECORCHE Laboratoire de Geophysique et...Geology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA 2 Faculte des Sciences et Techniques de St. Jerome...Mauritania, abstracts and program, Univ Georgia (USA), pp 27-37 Black R, Caby R, Moussine-Pouchkine A...anatomy of mountain ranges. Princeton Univ Press, USA Caen-Vachette M (1988) Le craton ouest-africain et
Book
Resource Reviews Series editor John Slack, Reston, VA, USA More information about this series at http://www...John F. Slack U.S. Geological Survey Farmington, ME USA ISSN 2365-0567 (electronic) ISBN 978-3-319-31733-5...National Center, Mail Stop 954, Reston, VA 20192, USA © Springer International Publishing Switzerland...with VHMS deposits of the Iberian Pyrite Belt (Bordonaro et al. 1979) and integrated into a global genetic...Major deposits occur in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, USA, and Niger. In 2010, Niger was the world’s ïŹfth-ranked
Report (issue)
73-80. Jennings, I. B., and Burns, K. L., 1958, Middlesex, Tasmania: partment of Mines Geological Atlas...urseg ‘(se{snoq) ‘p SINQZILBULID} ‘UOIToI ‘9 aIg—usa|seayiioUEMYUe,—UwWo} JOATY samATTeNjow) INoyWM SoyeIGOJOAUT...p. 21 and 91) described a megaplant fossil in a quarry 5 km west of Port St Johns (Lock, 1973; Kent, 1980...(HM) Le Roux, 1969, fide Theron, 1975 Garnet (almandine-spessartite) Turner, 1975, p. 199 “from granites... M., 1991, Cuenca Baldis, B., Beresi, M., Bordonaro, O., and Vaca, A., 1982, Sintesis evolutiva de
Book (volume)
Department of Geology, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA, USA S. Zamora Instituto GeolĂłgico y Minero de España...porphyroblasts with andradite, grossular and almandine components have been described (Ribeiro 1987a;...461: 215–227 Álvaro JJ, Ahlberg P, Babcock LE, Bordonaro OL, Choi DK, Cooper RA, Ergaliev GKH, Gapp IW...boundary. In: Wones DR (Ed), The Caledonides in USA. Virginia Polytech Inst State Univ Mem 2:15–18 Paris...2006a, b; Oliveira et al. 2013). The Engenharia quarry (near Montemor-o-Novo) contains calciturbidites
Journal (volume)
Marseille, France; F. B. Van H outen, Princeton, USA; R. T. Watkins, Cape Town, South Africa; J. A. Weir...Garnets from Al-Mg granulite are mainly pyrope-almandine solid solutions characterized by very low CaO...plagioclase- orthopyroxene intergrowths, while the almandine and spessartine contents increase (Table 3). 4c...description (for localities cf. Figure 1): Iflmb = lfe quarry , fsp-qu-mobilizates in bi-gne iss (2) Os/ma =...Mbata ( 1978) IGn ( 9) basement gneisses, l fe quarry IP ( 11) concordant pegmatites in IGn ( 9) ( 9)
 
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