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Dolomite from
Canaan, North Canaan, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA


Classification
Species:Dolomite
Formula:CaMg(CO3)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Pyrite5 photos of Dolomite associated with Pyrite at this locality.
Calcite4 photos of Dolomite associated with Calcite at this locality.
Rutile3 photos of Dolomite associated with Rutile at this locality.
Sphalerite2 photos of Dolomite associated with Sphalerite at this locality.
Quartz2 photos of Dolomite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Adularia2 photos of Dolomite associated with Adularia at this locality.
Chalcopyrite1 photo of Dolomite associated with Chalcopyrite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Dolomite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Canaan, North Canaan, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:814003
Long-form Identifier:1:3:814003:6
GUID (UUID V4):081787fb-c48e-40b2-8b4b-65e2f92f8cf3
Localities for Dolomite in this Region
Pfizer Company Marble Quarry (New England Lime Co. quarry; NELCO quarry; Specialty Minerals Inc.; Minerals Technologies Inc.; Canaan Limestone Quarry; Connecticut Lime Company; Canaan Lime Company; Lewis Quarry), Canaan, North Canaan, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
Nearest other occurrences of Dolomite
1.9km (1.2 miles) Pfizer Company Marble Quarry (New England Lime Co. quarry; NELCO quarry; Specialty Minerals Inc.; Minerals Technologies Inc.; Canaan Limestone Quarry; Connecticut Lime Company; Canaan Lime Company; Lewis Quarry), Canaan, North Canaan, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
3.7km (2.3 miles) Allyndale Limestone Corp. quarry, East Canaan, North Canaan, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
4.7km (2.9 miles) Conklin Limestone Company quarry (Falls Village Quarry), Falls Village, Canaan, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
5.2km (3.3 miles) Redwing Quarry, Falls Village, Canaan, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
18.8km (11.7 miles) Copake Mine (Ore pit; Copake Iron Works), Copake Falls, Copake Township, Columbia County, New York, USA
20.4km (12.6 miles) Cornwall, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
30.1km (18.7 miles) Lee Lime mine (Lee Lime quarry), Lee, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, USA
41.4km (25.7 miles) State Route 179 road cut (State Route 4 road cut Collinsville), Burlington, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
47.9km (29.8 miles) Bristol Copper Mine, Bristol, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
49.0km (30.5 miles) Higley Mine, Simsbury Mines, East Granby, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
CONNECTICUT Mineral Locality Index Although many sites in Connecticut are no longer open to collectors...H. WEBER 1172 West L a k e Avenue Guilford, Connecticut 06437-1342 E A R L E C. SULLIVAN 17 R o c k y...y R i d g e D r i v e T r u m b u l l , Connecticut 06611-5326 T his locality index is meant to serve...collectors. More often than not, collecting in Connecticut is no longer per­ mitted. Many of the localities...effort has been made to list a l l localities in Connecticut, a small state that is big on mineralization
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)
MASSACHUSETTS AND PARTS OF EASTERN NEW YORK AND WESTERN CONNECTICUT BY T. NELSON DALE WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING...quadrangles...................................... North Adams and Adams...................................and Tyringham ................................. Canaan, New Lebanon, and Austerlitz....................... Granular calcitic limestone and associated dolomite ........................ 1 2 4 4 4 5 6 7 8 9...Relations of dolomite and calcite in the Stockbridge limestone as bearing upon the origin of dolomite .....
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
THE IRON ORES OF THE OF CONNECTICUT, SALISBURY NEW YORK DISTRICT AND MASSACHUSETTS. WII.LIA:M...limonite oresmined in northwestern Litchfield County, Connecticut;Berkshire Co., Mass., and portionsof...beenobtainedat mines situatedwithin the town of Salisbury,Connecticut. No geological report seemsto have beenmade upon...elevatedmass situatednear the commonboundariesof Connecticut,Massachu- settsand New York, andgenerallyknownas...have beensituatedat Lime Rock, Falls Village, East Canaan, Chapinville,CornwallBridge,Huntsville,Amenia,SharonVal-
Report (issue)
Ashley Falls quadrangle, Massachusetts a and Connecticut . 1011 By c/^vv ! Nicholas M. Ratcliffe and...Department of Public Ce ot+9 f* %vv^ Works and the Connecticut State Natural History Survey *. 1975 19 ^ ...Mountain Alum Hill-Rattle snake Hll- | Clayton and Canaan Valley faults. 20- y These low angle thrusts...underlying 21 .0 autochthon at latitude 42°15' north (Ratcliffe, 1975a). 22 23 24 25U. S. GOVERNMENT...Formation above ! | the June Mountain fault, and Canaan Mountain Schist above the Ca naan i . ; Mountain
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Horizons Represented. Their Lithological Character. Canaan Limestone. Riga Schist. Egremont Limestone. Everett...breadth, lying in the states of Massachusetts, Connecticut and New York. It occupies the entire township...Massachusetts; about one-third of Salisbury in Connecticut; and portions of Northeast, Ancram, Copake and...is the highest point of land in the state of Connecticut. The main summit plain is situated to the northward...of the mountain, this plain is compressed at the north and south, so that its length is about three miles
Book
and New members vicinity, honorary Addison County, and corresponding members out of it. Meetings...their publication as all tire towns of Addison County, with a view to soon as prepai-ed. tuted for...that of Middlebury, with a preliminary Addison County, introductory to the The 1855. in SOCIEl'V....signalized display of specimens ob- localities north, all distinctly char- and their colloquial explanations...beyond. The South Massachusetts line in Berkshire county, which extends northerly across the State, and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
are : (I) a lower dolomitic limestone-the Canaan Dolomite; (2) a lower schist member containing usually...staurotides and garnets, occurs especially in the north part of the ridge bounding, on the west, the valley...general surface of the valley, in the north part of Salisbury, in Canaan, and in the adjoining part of Massachusetts...extends a series of Mica Slate ridges, continued north from the ridge bounding the valley at Weed's Quarry...Quarry (Kl.) on 'Report on the Geology of Connecticut, by 1842, pp. 124-130. 2 Of the Housatonic Valley
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mortal injuries. A newly arrived grdup from Connecticut were chased when a child of one of the party...Mineral Society, Richmond Hill, N.Y. 592 Fulton County Mineral Club At the meeting held July 29 '57,...fossilized algae and Stark's Knob, a few miles north of Schuylerville, has an interesting history. Before...Plan To Organize Litchfield County Mineral Club A meeting to organize a Litchfield County Mineral Club and...Secretary, ROCKS AND MINERALS John A. Ryan, 280 New Litchfield St., both of Torrington. Conn A rirotrrnm commet™"
Report (volume)
WALCOTT, DIRECTOR THE GEOLOGY EASTERN BERKSHIRE COUNTY MASSACHUSETTS BY BENJAMIN KENDALL EMERSON WASHINGTON........................................... 63 North Canaan and West Norfolk areas........................ 101 101 Mineral lexicon of eastern Berkshire County .... .... ....'.......... .......... 103 Albite........................... .............. 108 Dolomite ................................................-CONTENTS. Mineral lexicon of eastern Berkshire County Continued. Page. Opal.........................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Monument, Bureau of Land Management, Kanab, UT 84741, USA 7 8 Corresponding Author 9 Tegan Beveridge 10...19 Address: 669 S. Highway 89A, Kanab, UT 84741 USA -1- 20 ABSTRACT 21 Lithostratigraphic investigation...is 31 largely gradational with the overlying Canaan Peak Formation. Lithological changes documented...early 36 Maastrichtian – units across western North America and represents the capping member one of...truncating low angle unconformity with the overlying Canaan Peak Formation (Bowers 1972, Eaton 1991, 50 Roberts
Report (volume)
Mineral Resources of the Canaan Mountain and The Watchman Wilderness Study Areas, Washington and Kane...* ^ s CHAPTER A Mineral Resources of the Canaan Mountain and The Watchman Wilderness Study Areas...Cataloging-in-Publication Data Mineral resources of the Canaan Mountain and the Watchman Wilderness Study Areas...adjacent Mohave County, Arizona ; ch. A) Bibliography: p. 1. Mines and mineral resources Utah Canaan Mountain...mineral resources Utah Watchman Wilderness. 3. Canaan Mountain Wilderness (Utah). 4. Watchman Wilderness
Book
CONNECTICUT mmES MINERALS V Tourmaline Crystal from Haddam, Connecticut John Hiller, Jr. Hillers CryctaLShop...- CRYSTALS NOT PISTOLS K c^oi c3— A r CONNECTICUT MINES AND MINERALS published privately l i...Shelton, Connecticut I DEDICATION This book is dedicated to the mineral clubs of Connecticut, Continued...1971, John Hiller, Jr, 3 Peters Lane Shelton, Connecticut II CONTENTS 3. 5, l i 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11...24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. Connecticut Mineral Clubs Cleaning and Trimming Oxalic Acid
Report (issue)
Bedrock geology of the New London quadrangle /" \Connecticut: U.S. Geol. Survey Geol. Quad. Map GQ-574. '~~~i:24...Surficial geology of the New London quadrangle, Connecticut-New York: U.S. Geol. Survey Geol. Quad. Map GQ-176...geology of the Niantic quadrangle, New London County,^Connecticut: U.S. Geol. Survey Geol. Quad. Map GQ-575...Surficial geology of the Niantic quadrangle, Connecticut: U.S. Geol. Survey Geol. Quad. Map GQ-329. 1:24...bedrock geology of the Old Lyme quadrangle: Connecticut Geol. and Nat. History Survey Quad. Rept. 21
Report (issue)
the state, and the Preliminary Geologic Map of Connecticut at 1:253,440 for 1956 compiled by John Rodgers.... and in western Conn, is comprised of: c) Litchfield mafic intrusives d) Paleozoic Hornblende Gneiss...Gneiss Unit, including the Mount Tom body to north and Long Hill body to south e) Paleozoic Brpokfield...Cambrian and Lower Ordovician either Briarcliff Dolomite or Pine Plains Formation of dolomites, shales...dioritic but commonly quartz-monzonitic gneiss to north, and mostly medium-grained poorly-foliated gneiss
Catalog/List
rich silvery in half inch Kernville, California USA £6 40. CUPRJAN MELANTERITE rich bluish-green mass...about Icm £7 (Gold Bluff Prospect Maquette County Michigan, USA) 42. KAMMERERITE pale pinkish mauve coating...calcite, about half and half. Canaan, Lichfield County Connecticut USA large 3x4 inch £25 48. HYDROZINClTE...matrix. I mile east of Camp Verde Yavapai County Arizona USA £10 lx2 £5 lxl £3 SO. STIBNITE rich dull...inch matrix Crestmore Quany, Riverside County, California USA £12 2 2. TOPAZ small crystal group, crystal
Journal (volume)
the Vallee-Poussin and Renard 3 made a thorough north of Italy. examination of the plutonic rocks of Belgium...gabbro variety still Adams 4 and by Lawson 5 North America. This consists essentially of plagioclase...Microscopical Examination of eleven rocks from Ashland County, : Lawson Ueber das Norian oder ober-Laurentian...and the "anorthite rock" of Irving 2 from the north shore of Lake Superior. But if we are to regard..." he writes, "that my observations on 1 these north Wisconsin gabbros bear out the conclusions reached
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
entrance and arch of the Palermo mine, North Groton, Grafton County. Rob Lawrence photo, courtesy Bob Whitmore...at 15:01 05 January 2015 LOCATIONS BY COUNTY Belknap County Alton area: arsenopyrite, galena, quartz...occurrence is particularly noteworthy for Carroll County Albany, Blackberry Crossing (includes the Moose...6.6 cm tall, Government Gravel pit, North Conway, Carroll County. Jeff Scovil specimen and photo. Downloaded... 4.7 cm tall, Middle Moat Mountain, North Conway, Carroll County. Canadian Museum of Nature specimen
Catalog/List
DICKITE rich white coating on lx l matrix, minor dolomite crystals, possible Dickite micros too. Panteg-y-Gaseg...2x1.5 inch Prospect Park, Patterson, New Jersey USA £ 18 18. CAVANSITE small blue crystals scattered...about I to 2mm thick. Tip Top Mine, South Dakota USA large 2x3 £30 27. TITANJTE very unusual £20 yellow-brown...of the vein. Crestmore Quarry, Riverside County, California USA £17 35. SODALITE good solid orange fluorescent...quartz. FLUORESCENT green short wave, (Shanagolden. County Limerick Ireland) I x2 inches £7 2x2 £12 46. SPODUMENE
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Chondrodite TILLY FOSTER MINE, BREWSTER AREA PUTNAM COUNTY, NEW YORK F ew minerals are commonly or uniquely...specimens from the Tilly Foster iron mine, Putnam County, New York, can be seen in many American and foreign...limestone at Coles Brook in Middlefield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts. It is also known from the Bolton...Bolton or Whitcomb quarry at Bolton, Worcester County, where it occurs in densely packed, yellowbrown, rounded...Hinsdale, and Lee, Berkshire County; and at Chelmsford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. It is reported
Report (issue)
GEOLOGY OF SMITHSONIAN BUTTE QUADRANGLE, WASHINGTON COUNTY, UTAH David W. Moore and Edward G. Sable OPEN-FILE...the north edge of the Uinkaret Plateau, 24 mi east of St. George in southeastern Washington County. Hildale...eroded, forms Smithsonian Butte itself. A few miles north, cliffs of the sandstone are the scenic marvel of...intense precipitation. Horse Valley Wash near the north boundary of the map area was the only drainage observed...perennial stream is the Virgin River, two miles north of the quadrangle. Its tributaries cut numerous
Catalog/List
radial groups on limonile ........... Utah Toelle County, Gold Hill, Gold Hill mine ~ransparent micro crystals...lapis AJOITE Copper aluminum silicate Arizona Pima County, Ajo, New Cornelia mine Sky blue micro xls and...cerium aluminum silicate California Los Angeles County, Pacoirna Canyon Large black tabular crystals in...basic sulfate of aluminum and potassium Utah .Piute County, Tushar Mountains, Marysvale ----i'>ink crystalline...crystal vugs ALTAITE Lead telluride Colorado Saguache County, Klondike mine Cleavage plates in quartz with pyrite
Report (issue)
State of Connecticut State Geological and Natural History Survey Bulletin No. 13 THE LITHOLOGY OF...OF CONNECTICUT By JOSEPH BARRELL, E.M., Ph.D. Professor of Structural Geology in Yale University...State Geological and Natural History Survey of Connecticut. 1. First Biennial Report of the Commissioners...Hymeniales of Connecticut 3. by Edward Albert White. The Clays and Clay Industries of Connecticut by Gerald...or Smuts, of Connecticut by George 5. Perkins Clinton. Manual of the Geology of Connecticut by William
Report (issue)
....................... 19 Cannery Lane-Putnam County......................................................................22 Berkeley Springs-Morgan County......................................................................22 LeFevre Spring-Berkeley County...............................................................23 Harpers Ferry Spring-Jefferson County..................................................................23 Pipestem State Park-Summers County ..............................................
Report (issue)
Hybrid-conventional oil and gas Cedar Valley, Canaan–Wayne, and Madisonburg gas fields 8 10 12 16...1 Provost 34–151–24040 No. 3 Ohio Power-Stark County Comm. 34–151–24649 No. 3 Natale 34–151–23844 ...3000 3400 Silurian 2900 3100 3000 Lockport Dolomite 3000 4000 3500 3300 Irondequoit Limestone...Lockport Dolomite Lockport Dolomite 5200 4600 3700 3500 2400 4600 4200 Lockport Dolomite 2600 ...A–1 Walls 47–077–00086 No. 1374 USA N–1 47–077–00099 No. GW–1466 USA Q–1 47–077–00119 10,700 EXPLANATION
 
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