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


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Uraninite
Formula:UO2
Comments:very small irregular masses are embedded in fluorapatite, isolated crystals in pegmatite matrix with halos of secondary minerals.
Habit:crudely octahedral
Colour:black
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Quartz1 photo of Uraninite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Microcline1 photo of Uraninite associated with Microcline at this locality.
Albite1 photo of Uraninite associated with Albite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Uraninite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Bordonaro Quarry, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:689626
Long-form Identifier:1:3:689626:3
GUID (UUID V4):40548ee6-b74f-4a1a-a72a-06ade98db877
Nearest other occurrences of Uraninite
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
1.0km (0.6 miles) Andrews Quarry (old Hale Quarry; Grandfather Andrews 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
2.9km (1.8 miles) Pelton's Quarry, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
3.3km (2.0 miles) Schoonmaker Mine, Strickland pegmatite, Collins Hill, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
3.4km (2.1 miles) Strickland Quarry, Strickland pegmatite, Collins Hill, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
5.5km (3.4 miles) State Forest Quarry No. 1 (State Forest #1 Quarry; Clark Hill Quarry), East Hampton (Chatham), Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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)
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
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)
AND OF CONNECTICUT. VINCENT E. SHAININ. • ABSTRACT. In 1942 4•., about 120 Connecticut pegmatites...investigatedmany beryl-bearingpegmatites.In Connecticut, betweenOctober1942and January 1944,about 120...a partial appraisalof the beryl resources of Connecticut. The investigations were carriedon by Cameron...studieddomesticpegmatitesduring the war.2 PEGiVfATITES IN CONNECTICUT. Most pegmat{res{n Connecticutthat have been...the igneous and metamorphicrocks east of the Connecticut River,andlie withina district14 mileslongand9
Report (issue)
___ _ Geology of the pegmatite districts of Connecticut ___ _ Geology of the Middletown district ___________...Androscoggin County ______________________ _ Berry feldspar quarry __________________ _ Cumberland County ___...LaChance mines _______________________ _ Oxford County ____________________________ _ Barrett beryl prospect...prospect __________________ _ Bennett feldspar quarry ________________ _ Black Mountain area ___________________...Brown-Thurston beryl prospect __________ _ Bumpus feldspar quarry ________________ _ Donahue mica prospect _________________
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
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
Journal (issue)
Contents for January - February, 1950 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY ........................................................... THE OAKS CORNERS, N. Y ., LIMESTONE QUARRY By Claude H . S1nith ............................AND MINERALS 2 ---~;~------~-~ CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY ..,...,..,..,_--...,-, w,..,.......,.., ,..,_____...town is located near the western edge of Morrill County which is in western Nebraska. Flowing south of...collected are very similar to those from Sweetwater County, Wyoming. These are dear chalcedony with small
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 fifth-ranked
Journal (volume)
Marseille, France; F. B. Van H outen, Princeton, USA; R. T. Watkins, Cape Town, South Africa; J. A. Weir...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)...their Surro1111di11g Host Rock in the Oke D. 0 . Quarry. l!e- lfe. Unpublished B . Sc. Thesis. University...genthelvite gargarinite apatite chevkinite wiikite uraninite f cassiteri te wolfran1ite zircon c0Ju1nbite
 
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