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Quartz from
Sky Ridge railroad cut, Hawleyville, Newtown, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA


Classification
Species:Quartz
Formula:SiO2
Comments:massive in the pegmatites, "and a few, elongated milky quartz crystals" in a clinochlore matrix (Lapham 1956)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Quartz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Sky Ridge railroad cut, Hawleyville, Newtown, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:752299
Long-form Identifier:1:3:752299:4
GUID (UUID V4):562aa29c-cc5c-4116-8e11-e470b3e0de5f
Nearest other occurrences of Quartz
2.1km (1.3 miles) Danbury beryl prospect, Brookfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
3.5km (2.2 miles) Grace Feldspar Mine, Newtown, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
3.9km (2.4 miles) Cook Quarry on Harry Wiley Farm, Newtown, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
4.0km (2.5 miles) U. S. Route 7 Expressway (Danbury line to Iron Works District), Brookfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
4.4km (2.7 miles) Agstone Company Limestone Quarry, Danbury, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
5.8km (3.6 miles) Interstate 84 road cuts (Route 6A bypass), Newtown, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
6.5km (4.0 miles) Ilmenite locality, Bridgewater, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
6.7km (4.2 miles) Sandy Hook gold mine (Blackwell's mine), Sandy Hook, Newtown, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
8.1km (5.0 miles) Biermann Quarries (Bethel quarries) and tourmaline ledge, Bethel, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
8.2km (5.1 miles) North Street mall, Danbury, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
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