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Limonite from
Pyrite locality, East Hampton (Chatham), Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA


Classification
Species:'Limonite' (not an IMA approved species)
Habit:Limonite after pyrite
Abundance at site:Common
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Limonite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Pyrite locality, East Hampton (Chatham), Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:861427
Long-form Identifier:1:3:861427:8
GUID (UUID V4):257f9d88-22d6-4d46-b55f-0efe29ad2c64
Nearest other occurrences of Limonite
1.0km (0.6 miles) Linkpot cut, Airline Railroad, East Hampton (Chatham), Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
6.3km (3.9 miles) Markham Mica Quarry, Hog Hill, East Hampton (Chatham), Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
6.6km (4.1 miles) Great Hill cobalt mines, Cobalt, East Hampton (Chatham), Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
6.6km (4.1 miles) Reeb Mica Quarry, Hog Hill, East Hampton (Chatham), Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
6.8km (4.2 miles) State Forest Quarry No. 2 (State Forest #2 Mica Mine; Carini Quarry), Cobalt, East Hampton (Chatham), Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
6.9km (4.3 miles) Worth and Selden Quarries (Victoria Quarry), East Hampton (Chatham), Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
9.3km (5.8 miles) Pelton's Quarry, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
9.9km (6.1 miles) Hale-Walker prospects, Collins Hill, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
10.3km (6.4 miles) Strickland Quarry, Strickland pegmatite, Collins Hill, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
10.7km (6.7 miles) Case Quarries, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
more. "The Glove Mine is located in Santa Cruz County, Arizona, near the little town of Amado, on the...taken some of these specimens back with me on a trip east and they went like hot cakes. Everyone was delighted...inches in length. They come from Mt. Antero, Chaffee County, Colorado (altitude of pocket where found over...inches in size, comes from Devil's Head, Douglas County, Colo. Microcline {feldspar). Nice loose xls, averaging...received. These come from Devil's Head, Douglas County, Colo. Garnet (spessartite). Small but gemmy, deep
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineral has been mined quite extensively in Clay County, Alabama, from one end to the other. It is quite...wulfenite xls with drusy rock xls in a dark brown limonite matrix. "From a claim I own about 20 miles S.E...south of Antimony Peak, near Hollister, San Benito County, California. While it might sound like exaggeration...will contain all the above, and I almost forgot, pyrite xls. On Sultan Mt. the dumps yield the same thing...tiny brownish fluorite cubes, tiny brassy-yellow pyrite cubes, small brownish stilbite xls in dark gray
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
small hand in forming a mineral club in Nassau County, New York now called the Nassau Mineralogists....when I visited Branchville and Ridgefield, in Connecticut, while my parents were visiting relatives in...boulder which contained very large phlogopite plates, pyrite, pyrrhotite, small rutile xls., and apatite xls...apatite. Collecting in Connecticut My next field trip during March was to the Connecticut River Valley dinosaur...dinosaur footprint locality, which is mentioned in the Jan.-Feb. R & M issue of 1956. While there we made
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
there I found some amethyst xls., gray quartz, pyrite xls, and hematite. On my next trip that month I...Mine-Sec. 15, T.37N., R.8W., Rolla Quadrangle, Phelps County. It consists of a few shallow pits with hematite...the ground. Did find a specimen of hmonate after pyrite xls. My last trip that month was to Granny Baker...decided to go to Gillette Quarry at Haddam Neck, Connecticut. Did not find much this time—a couple of gemmy...Island, New York pyrite locality and collected some nice xls. Also a couple of large limonite géodes containing
Journal (issue)
................................... 401 A PYRITE LOCALITY IN SAYREVILLE, N. J. By Vincent Giordr;no ...Leon B. Bailey 406 TIN DEPOSITS OF NORTHERN LANDER COUNTY, NEVADA 409 CALIFORNJA FIELD TRIP. By Uoyd M. D........................... 410 A NEW TOURMALINE LOCALITY IN NEW YORK. By Peter Z odac ...................ccountries, visited Yosemite National Park in Mariposa county, California, enjoying its unrivaled grandeur and...other part of the world. Yosemite Valley, 100 miles east of San Francisco, contains 8 square miles, being
Journal (issue)
and Howard Campbell, III The Crystal Forms of Pyrite .................................................and collectors Write: P.O. Box 366 Windsor, Connecticut 06095 T e le p h o n e —(203) 247 -1 3 8 4 ...Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee. Relatively little top-qualitymaterialfrom this locality i commercial...kilometers east of Nashville and 48 km south of the Kentucky-Tennessee border. The ter­ rain east of Nashville...stone units are well-developed in parts of Smith County and adjoining areas. The average thickness of the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
PYRITE AGGREGATES FROM GUERNSEY LIMESTONE QUARRY Washington County, Ohio W. B . BOND 101 Hillside Way...E Q U A R R Y is in Adams Township, Washington County, Ohio, on the first un­ named tributary to Cat...of sandstone followed by a series of mudstones. Pyrite is found in a 6-foot section of mudstone about...wall ex­ cept in regard to the shale strata. East of the pyrite-rich mudstone are four purple shale layers...layers pinch out from the bottom upwards. At the pyrite site, only the top and bottom shale layers re­
Journal (issue)
crystals to come our of this locality. Pyromorphite from on old locality—rhe Sherman mine, Burke, Idaho...Korowski and C. W. Notebart Quartz & Pyrite from King County, Washington..............................form a {100}, present on other habits from this locality, is not shown here. Note the elongation along...ends, are encountered more frequently in this locality. Another type consisting of a tapering base of...for Area E, which indeed is restricted to this locality, is illustrated in Figure 17. The crystals are
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Denver Show Figure I (above). Pyrite, Alice Glory Hole, Clear Creek County. Cluster of intergrown crystals...specimen. Figure 2 (right). Pyrite, Mountain Spring mine, Rico, Dolores County. Cluster of modified cubes;...Muntyan specimen. C*O*L*O*R*A*D*O PYRITE BARBARA L. MUNTYAN Ouray County Museum Ouray, Colorado 81427 Mineral...Mineral photographs by John R. Muntyan PYRITE, IRON SULFIDE, one of Nature’s most common minerals, is...foreign localities. In the United States, fine pyrite specimens have been found at Butte, Montana; Park
Book (edition)
mine, Si/County, Arizona. Smithsonian Institution. Fornzer!y in...The Bisbee District, Cochise County 64 The Tombstone District, Cochise County 70 The Mammoth-St. Anthony...Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal County 78 Uranium and Vanadium Deposits 80 Monument Valley 81 - • Vll The Cameron... Apache County 435 Cochise County 436 Coconino County 437,438 Gila County 439 Graham County 440 Greenlee...Greenlee County 441 La Paz County 442 Maricopa County 443 Mohave County 444 Navajo County 445 Pima County
Journal (issue)
a very able field leader on a Society meeting in East Cornwall in 1980. He was highly respected by both...midway between Wirksworth and Matlock Bath, just east of the B5023 . The geological location is on the...under the scarp edge of the Millstone Grit to the east and the limestone to the west. Nomenclature The...The two minerals have, within the context of the locality, always been referred to as an associated pair...de Bournon (for whom Bournonite was named). The locality is given as 'Cromford Level'. A very adequate
Book (edition)
Co\·er photo: \\ 7 ulfenite, Rowley Mine, Maricopa County, 4 cm high specimen, Evan and Melissa Jones Collection...previous edition used mining districts as part of the locality description. These political and geographic district...the metallic mineral district for each mineral locality is given for the mineral occurrence in chapter...gemandmineralmuseum.arizona.edu) is located in the old Pima County Courthouse building at 115 North Church Avenue...on the market. The mines at Bisbee, in Cochise County, have produced large quantities of gem-quality
Book (edition)
mine, Silver district, Trigo Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona. Smithsonian Institution. Formerly in...Bisbee District, Cochise County 64 70 The Tombstone District, Cochise County The Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine...Mine, Tiger, Pinal County Uranium and Vanadium Deposits 80 Monument Valley 81 63 78 il S: The Cameron...Apache County — 435 Cochise County 436 Coconino County 437, 438 Gila County 439 Graham County Greenlee...Greenlee County 440 441 LaPaz County 442 Maricopa County 443 Mohave County 444 Navajo County 445 Pima County
Report (volume)
_________________________________________ Rocks east of the Eightmile Creek fault__________________________..._____________________________________ Structure east of the Eightmile Creek fault___________________...Geochemical exploration-Continued Geochemical results east of the Eightmile Creek fault__________ Geochemical...West side of Lost River____________________________ East side of Monument Creek_______________________ Lake..._______________ Locality 1 (Caledonian claim) ____._______________________ Locality 2 (Horseshoe Basin
Thesis/Dissertation
of place and the epidote-bearing metabasalts at locality 11003 nay in fact represent such a tectonic block...te- (mainly pyrite). ca1c i te -ma gne s i te -opa gue s of carbonates and, large pyrite cubes strongry...quartz-albite-paragonite-chlorite-rawsoniteNa-amphibole-sphene-pyrite. As mentioned above paragonite appears identical...apatite tvarious sulphide phases (e.9. chalcopyrite, pyrite). Modal percentages of mineral- phases at Balade...rare or absent except for occasional grains of limonite, and large dark brown patches of sphene occur
Journal (issue)
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...Fe(As04)«2H20 Iron disulfide, (Marcasite), FeS2 (Pyrite), FeS2 Iron (11) sulfate (1:1) heptahydrate, (Melanterite)...Lithium aluminium silicate, (Spodumene), LiAlSi20 6 Limonite, hydrous iron oxides Magnesium carbonate, (Magnesite)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineralogically simple.The primarysulfideminerals, pyrite, chalcopyrite,sphalerite,andgalena,occurat all...cobaltitc 1. A thin stratiformbut sporadiczone of pyrite of uncertainorigin(Heyl andBozion,1979; Epsteinand...Cornwall,1945; Tan, 1967; AlvordandDrake, 1971). 4. Pyrite and minor galena form diagenetic(?) nodulesin shaleand...NearNapanoch, New York,a horizonofsiderite and limonite as thick as 1.5 m in the Devonian Bakoven Shale...Shawangunkmine. Calcite occursas crystalswith quartz, pyrite, and ducedthermochemically,then the resultingaqueous
Book
suffix signified a quality, constituent, use, or locality of the stone. Because it appeared desirable to...monzonite (Monzoni, Tyrolean Alps), nelsonite (Nelson County, Virginia), nevadite, norite (Norway), pacificite...American Indian Arabic Celtic Cornish Danish Dutch East Prussian Ecuadoran Egyptian English Einnish Erench...International (augite). [Norge (Norway), original locality) Union of Geological Sciences (Esmark in 1823)...sodie-plagioclase rock (perthosite). [Ach-uaine, Scottish locality] (Read and Phemister in 1925) acidic rock acidite
Book
the creator of MinDat- the on line mineral and locality database (http://www.mindat.org/index.pbp), to...onNewMinerals,Nomenclature andClass::ication. Co. County. EMPElectronmicroprobe - an instrument usedto ...history ofbeing economical with the truth regarding locality information. The most common reason for this is...reasons be vague with locality information or, more seriously, change the locality details of a specimen...with older fluorite specimens from Weardale in County Durham being a case in point. Many of these specimens
Journal (issue)
• 2.00 Cacoxenite, Beartown, Pa. Xld. tufts on Limonite. 3 x 21/2. Very toOcf. 5.00 Hematite, Urals. Large... . . 2.00 Artentite, Butte. Xld. on Quartz w . Pyrite. 2 x 2. . . . . . . . . . • • • • . • • 2.50 Preirinite...Andrews, Jr ; " Famous Mineral Localities (Renfrew County, Ont., Canada)", by Jerome M. Eisenberg; "Ao Alaskan...Western with a vengeance. What is the matter with the East? Ralph F. Hills, Bloomfield, Conn. Jan. 16, 1947...From Yuma Co., Colo. What is believed to be a new locality for moss opal is an area 20 miles north of Burlington
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
SOCIETY OF AMERICA No. 2 FEBRUARY. 1934 THE PYRITE-MARCASITE RELATION M. J. Bunncrn, M assachusetts...echnolo Ansrnacr The control of the precipitation of pyrite and marcasite by chemical environment suggests...study of all available analyses indicates that pyrite corresponds very closely to ideal FeS2, but that...iron-rich than FeAsz. The phase boundary between pyrite and marcasite is, therefore, analogous to a phase...temperatures, the boundary between marcasite and pyrite is close to the composition FeSz, which gives rise
Journal (issue)
one-off field trip to the McAfee area of Sussex County that focused on stromatolites, oolites, breccia...crystallized at Gilman, which was a great pyrite locality. It is Gilman pyrite that might turn up in Franklin material...basement of the Company’s Franklin main office. Gilman pyrite came in both octahedra and pyritohedra, without...Mine. The matrix is limonite in two such specimens, one of them with altered pyrite crystals. Large cahnite...(NoJMS), the Rock and Mineral Club of Lower Bucks County, the Delaware Mineralogical Society, the Delaware
Journal (volume)
HAVEN, SERIES NUMBER, CLXXXVJ]j. PLATES. CONNECTICUT. noelSs. £2 Cet THE TUTTLE, MOREHOUSE & TAYLOR...doe. es Re ee XIX.—Meteoric Iron from Paulding County, Georgia ; by T. L. WATSON 2. 0). eee a8 fe oe...New Trilobites from the Maquoketa Beds of Fayette County, lowa: New Paleontologic Periodical— Palaeontologische...Carnotite. Prices 75¢ to $2.00. PSEUDOMORPHS OF LIMONITE AFTER MARCASITE. These remarkable Pseudomorphs...of the discoyery. Now that I have visited the locality where the material was collected, the problem
Report (volume)
Wis. Condor, vols. 42, 43. Berkeley, Calif. Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences Transactions, vol...vol. 34. (pp. 1-118). New Haven, Conn. Connecticut Geological and Natural History Survey Bulletins 61..., and Lee, Wallace). Oil and gas in Montgomery County, Kans.: Kansas Univ. Bull. 31, pp. 5-29, 2 pis...Chattanooga shale in Chetopa oil pool, Labette County Kans.: Am. Assoc. Petroleum Geologists Bull., vol...also Hake, B. F., 1. 1. Buckeye oil field, Gladwin County, Mich.: Am. Assoc. Petroleum Geologists Bull.,
 
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