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Almandine from
Garnet locality, Weston, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA


Classification
Species:Almandine
Formula:Fe32+Al2(SiO4)3
Comments:Crystals to about 5-6 mm.
Habit:trapezohedral
Colour:maroon
Quality for species:Good crystals or rich for species - important (!)
Abundance at site:Common
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Almandine data
Locality Data:Click here to view Garnet locality, Weston, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:850608
Long-form Identifier:1:3:850608:5
GUID (UUID V4):7a8a10ac-2cf9-416b-aece-873d666ee198
Nearest other occurrences of Almandine
6.1km (3.8 miles) ⓘFillow Quarry (Branchville Quarry; Branchville Mica Mine; Smith Mine), Branchville, Redding (Reading), Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
6.6km (4.1 miles) ⓘCurtis prospect, Redding Glen (Redding Ridge), Redding (Reading), Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
7.6km (4.7 miles) ⓘRedding Glen (Redding Ridge), Redding (Reading), Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
8.6km (5.3 miles) ⓘRedding (Reading), Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
11.4km (7.1 miles) ⓘThe Cascades, Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
14.7km (9.1 miles) ⓘBiermann Quarries (Bethel quarries) and tourmaline ledge, Bethel, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
15.3km (9.5 miles) ⓘOld Mine Plaza construction site, Long Hill, Trumbull, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
15.4km (9.6 miles) ⓘOld Mine Park (Old Tungsten Mine), Long Hill, Trumbull, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
19.4km (12.1 miles) ⓘMonroe, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
20.5km (12.7 miles) ⓘKinkel Quarry, Bedford, Westchester County, New York, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Jirrwowwux/ lot* llMt UK* U'A VERMONT Mineral Locality Index VANDALL T. K I N G P.O. Box 90888 Rochester...Mountain quarry, Low­ ell (Orleans County) is the most signifi­ cant locality in the state for collectors....Eden Mills (Lamoille County) is the commonly given but incorrect name for the locality; it is near­ er to...set­ tlement seen when approaching the mineral locality from the south. The Belvidere Mountain quarry...pyrite crystals (to over 2 cm). Chester is the type locality for three rare minerals: chesterite, clinojimthompsonite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
FERBERITE-HÜBNERITE FROM THE NINE MILE PLUTON, MARATHON COUNTY, WISCONSIN. T. W. Buchholz1, A. U. Falster2, and...from Nova Scotia. Because these lack specific locality documentation, they are of limited scientific...PEGMATITE POCKETS IN THE WAUSAU COMPLEX, MARATHON COUNTY, WISCONSIN. S. L. Hanson1, A. U. Falster2, J. W...Proterozoic intrusive complex exposed in Marathon County, Wisconsin. Modestsized pegmatites occur throughout...be related mechanistically. GEM ALMANDINE FROM COLCHESTER, CONNECTICUT. B. M. Jarnot and M. D. Jarnot
Report (issue)
Garnet Great Balls of Fire ISBN 978-0-9790998-4-7 Publisher Lithographie, LLC East Hampton, Connecticut...Connecticut, USA © 2008 by Lithographie, LLC P.O. Box 263 ‱ East Hampton, CT 06424 ‱ USA Phone 1.860.267 .1512...diopside; 7.1 cm tall Jeffrey Mine, Asbestos, Richmond County, Quebec, Canada Paul Stahl specimen Jeff Scovil...meter relay at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. Garnet Great Balls of Fire Contributors Lothar Ackermann...LLC ‱ Connecticut From the Editor In April 2008, I attended the John Sinkankas Symposium on garnet at
Report (edition)
CHAPTER l. INTRODUCTION . . . . .I .I Format of locality descriptions How to use the maps . . . . . . ...11 11 11 11 12 12 13 13 13 CHAPTER 3. MINERAL LOCALITY DESCRIPTIONS AND MAPS . . 21 CHAPTER 4. CHECKLIST...INDEX . . .. . .. . . 105 105 106 Locality index (by town) Locality index (by name of site) . ACKNOWLEDGMENTS...much information on collecting sites in Oxford County. Numerous other collectors of Maine minerals also...CleaveIand's portrait. As istance in identifying locality photographs and supplying other information was'
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
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.............
Book (volume)
traced, however, and the search still continues. Locality reports for already established Maine species...town where a find was made. The reader will note locality and species reports, gemstone records, etc., in...in various journals concerning the species and locality lists of Maine, prompting a few individuals to...greater variety of minerals are found in Oxford County, alone, than anywhere else on Earth of comparable...than Maine's, as well. An area smaller than Oxford County in Murmansk Ob last, Kola Peninsula, Russia, has
Show/Event (guide)
pegmatite pockets in the Wausau Complex, Marathon County, Wisconsin byS.L. Hanson, A U. Falstei; J. W Nizamoff...ferberite-hiibnerite from the Nine Mile Pluton, Marathon County, Wisconsin by T. W. Buchholz; A U Falstei; and...and Win. B. Simmons 4:00 Gem almandine from Colchester, Connecticut by B. M. Jarnot and M. D. Jarnot...tracking, from acquisition t o deaccession. T h e locality page holds a vast array o f information pertaining...visible gold from Nova Scotia. Lacking specific locality documentation, they are o f limited scientific
Journal (issue)
mineral localities: the Gold Hill mine, Tooele County, Utah ...........................................Wise The Wagon Wheel Gap fluorspar mine, Mineral County, Colorado .......................................41 by J.-M . Fourcault FMrTGMS-MSA Symposium on Garnet: Abstracts ....................... 61 Colum ns...sto s, Q u e b e c . See th e article o n th is locality in vol. 10, n o . 6 (still av ailab le fro m th...important locality fo r secondary zinc, copper, bismuth, lead and iron minerals. It is the type locality fo
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Montana Mineral Locality Index Downloaded by [University of Nebraska, Lincoln] at 20:00 09 April 2015...Indian Queen mine ca. 1905 at Farlin, Beaverhead County. 208 ROCKS & MINERALS Downloaded by [University...mines at Butte in Silver Bow County and the Black Pine mine in Granite County have produced many fine crystal...Beaverhead County, the pegmatites of Jefferson County, and the Snowbird mine in Mineral County continue...Highlands Centennial Nugget in 1989 in Silver Bow County. The seventh largest gold nugget found in Montana;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
minerals makes collectors sit up and take notice. The garnet group has great popularity with collectors, due...stones looked like glowing coals. The Romans called garnet carbunculus (from the Latin meaning “little charcoal”)...and color (Gilg 2008). The first use of the name garnet was by Albrecht von BollstĂ€dt (1193–1280), who...pomegranate that garnet resembles (Galoisy 2013). There are also a few myths associated with garnet, some of...of which I’ll mention. One has it that wearing a garnet from birth will make the wearer impervious to being
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MINERALOGIST, VOL. 49, SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER, THE GARNET ISOGRAD IN PELITIC ITS RELATION TO METAMORPHIC...and lower garnet zone of Barrow in the Dalradian shows that: (a) most rocks carrying garnet have chlorite...biotite zone rarely carry biotite. comparison of garnet analyses on the isograd from the Dalradian and...assemblages.Particular interest here is centered on the garnet isograd,its relation to the incoming of biotite...rocks studied lie in a broad belt, including the garnet isograd, which runs southwestfrom Dunkeld to Loch
Book
amounts of quartz, feldspars, micas, sillimanite, and garnet. Schist is a lower metamorphic grade rock type...andalusite (including chiastolite), kyanite, and garnet. Amphibolite is a black to dark green rock comprising...quartz-magnetite-apatite-garnet rocks), lode horizon (quartz-gahnite-garnet-feldspar) and sulphide rocks...micas, quartz, fluorite, silli­ manite, kyanite, garnet, gypsum, and limestone. Broken Hill is best known...(a dark-coloured garnet-biotite­ feldspar-quartz gneiss commonly with small garnet crystals rimmed by
Report (edition)
Brief geological summaries are given for each locality which provide useful information concerning the...but have not been recognized from that specific locality. If you are just getting started in this fascinating...their clues. v Please note that the listing of a locality does not constitute permission to enter a property...particular site, remember it is possible to visit the county courthouse in which the site is located, and trace...Explanation for collecting locality section 18 20 21 22 23 23 28 Adams County Native copper localities
Journal (issue)
Symposium proceedings|Colour-change glass imitating garnet rough| M2M diamond-origin tracking service|More...Munich, Germany) is set with thin, doubly polished garnet plates of up to 2.8 cm long and 1 mm thick. The...to India. A provenance study focusing on Indian garnet beads appears on pages 598–627 of this issue. Photo...Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; Edward Boehm, RareSource, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA; Maggie Campbell Pedersen...Emmett, Crystal Chemistry, Brush Prairie, Washington, USA; Emmanuel Fritsch, University of Nantes, France;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
KUNZITEBEARING PEGMATITE IN THE PALA DISTRICT, SAN DlEGO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA. J. Fisher, 380 Pennsylvania Ave.,...Katerina mine, Hiriart Mountain, Pala, San Diego County, California. J. Fisher specimen and photo. Heavy-mineral...MINERALIZATION OF PEGMATITES IN THE WAUSAU COMPLEX, MARATHON COUNTY, WISCONSIN. S. L. Hanson', A. U. FalsterZ, W B...crystals up to 1 mm in size from Indian Ladder, Albany County, New York, were reported in a calcite vein in limestone...AND GOLD FROM THE FLAMBEAU MINE, LADYSMITH, RUSK COUNTY, WISCONSIN. J. Motti', T. W. Buchholz2,A. U. Falster'
Journal (issue)
Mineralogical notes Carbonate-fluorapatite from near Fairfield, Utah ..................................33 by...Inesite, a new U.S. occurrence near Creede, Mineral County, C o lo ra d o ..................................austinite, and plumbian conichalcite from La Plata County, Colorado .......................................Complete crown is 6 cm long. From Mississippian locality near Crawfordsville, Indiana. Want to receive...California 94403 W rite: P.O. Box 366 W indsor, Connecticut 06095 T e le p h o n e —(203) 247-1 3 8 4 available
Book (edition)
Frances Creek Flematite Locality ‱ Rum Jungle Mineral Locality ‱ Daly River Agate Locality ‱ Edith River Topaz...Topaz Locality 20 2. Victoria River Downs Region............................................. ‱ Kalkaringi...Kalkaringi (Wave Hill) Locality ‱ Glenarro Bore Zebrastone Localities 23 3. Barkly Tableland.............Amethyst Locality ‱ Moonlight Rock Hole Locality ‱ Tennant Creek Government Battery Gold Locality 27 5....... ‱ Alice Springs Amethyst Locality ‱ Glen Helen Amethyst Locality ‱ Harts Range Mineral Localities
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MINERALOGIST, VOL. 49, SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER, THE GARNET ISOGRAD IN PELITIC ITS RELATION TO METAMORPHIC...and lower garnet zone of Barrow in the Dalradian shows that: (a) most rocks carrying garnet have chlorite...biotite zone rarely carry biotite. comparison of garnet analyses on the isograd from the Dalradian and...assemblages.Particular interest here is centered on the garnet isograd,its relation to the incoming of biotite...rocks studied lie in a broad belt, including the garnet isograd, which runs southwestfrom Dunkeld to Loch
Book
appear after page numbers. () Reported from this locality; no further information b Book review c Crystal...Historical information m A map of the locality or a map on which the locality appears n Brief descriptive note... etc.) s Specimen locality attribution only; no information about the locality itself In the case...22:65-69 [Abstracts of the] FM-TGMS-MSA Symposium on Garnet (chairman: K. J. Wenrich) 24:61-68 Abstracts of...Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN
Book (volume)
Duane L. Leavitt The Bennett Pegmatite, Oxford County, Maine . .............................................. 341 Neil A. Wintringham Maine Mineral Locality Index ..........................................permanent photographic exhibits in the northeastern USA. The Shaubs have been active in ornithological research...tourmalinebearing Himalaya pegmatite at Mesa Grande, San Diego County, California. Most recently, Gene was gratified...Bennett pegmatite, agreed to write about that locality. Carl Francis, curator of minerals and meteorites
Journal (issue)
those in the literature and recorded in Table II. Locality and amount of heat treatment were the only known...various tests failed to establish the existence of locality specific criteria. Whilst there is evidence to...to support a correlation between fluorescence, locality and degree of heat treatment, the anomalies dictate...should be used neither as a clear-cut test for locality assignment nor, because of the anomaly shown by...refining views on fluorescence as a potential locality or heat treatment indicator. Whilst the extent
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA Institute of Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Mineral... Type I consists of spinel and garnet peridotite, is devoid of garnet pyroxenite or eclogite layers,...abundance of garnet pyroxenite layers. Type III consists of garnet peridotite, contains garnet pyroxenite...fragment of the Cadomian Orogen (Franke, 2000), but garnet peridotite occurs only in the Gföhl Nappe (Machart...Evans, 1997). Elsewhere in the Variscan Orogen, garnet peridotite occurs in the Moldanubian zone in the
Book
Yeryfine, rare, pink diamonds. Emerald, alexandrite, garnet, and tourmaline are all significantly present....finds, and is fueling interest. Rare and unusual garnet and chrome tourmaline are widely identified with...34.60-carat malaya garnet, a 28.41-carat tanzanite, a 9. 73-carat tsavorite garnet, and a 22.69-carat...of the 'Irelawney Collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History. ♩ Figures vii Foreword...76 Tsavorite Garnets 76 The Pyrope-Spessartine-Almandine Garnets from Umba, Tanzania 86 Chapter 7. Tourmaline
Journal (issue)
............................ A NOTE ON AN OLD LOCALITY IN PENN.— Glenn Wayebunas D. G. MITCHELL APPOINTED...there on a short visit. But don't get upset — this locality is not what you think it is. This Hell is a beautiful...San Antonio Rock & Lapi­ dary Society and Bexar County Mineral Hobby Club. Chairman; Fred Stevenson, P...Monroe, Peru, Indiana. April 30, May 1. 1966—Dallas County' Rock Club will hold its Rock Club Showcase at...Federation of Mineralogical Societies. Host: Clark County Gem Collectors, Las Vegas Convention Center, Las
 
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