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Galena from
Roncari Quarry, East Granby, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Galena
Formula:PbS
Comments:A single 12mm skeletal cuboctahedral crystal is known, associated with datolite and yellow calcite.
Habit:skeletal cuboctahedral
Colour:gray
Abundance at site:Extremely Rare
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Calcite8 photos of Galena associated with Calcite at this locality.
Chalcopyrite4 photos of Galena associated with Chalcopyrite at this locality.
Quartz4 photos of Galena associated with Quartz at this locality.
Datolite2 photos of Galena associated with Datolite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Galena data
Locality Data:Click here to view Roncari Quarry, East Granby, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (3 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:893738
Long-form Identifier:1:3:893738:4
GUID (UUID V4):ebca0013-4a0a-41ee-a7a2-92fbe7b005d1
Nearest other occurrences of Galena
18.3km (11.4 miles) Canton Lead Mines (Cherry Brook lead mine; Dyer Farm zinc mine), Rattlesnake Hill, Canton, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
19.6km (12.2 miles) Huckleberry Hill, Avon, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
20.7km (12.8 miles) Lane & Son traprock quarries (Lane's Quarry), Westfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts, USA
22.0km (13.7 miles) Hampden quarry, West Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts, USA
28.0km (17.4 miles) 2368-2384 Berlin Turnpike (Former Hartford Drive-In), Newington, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
28.7km (17.8 miles) Bristol Copper Mine, Bristol, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
31.5km (19.6 miles) State Route 9 - Ellis Street and State Route 72 interchanges (State Route 72 roadcut), New Britain, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
34.3km (21.3 miles) Hart's Lead Mine, Berlin, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
35.4km (22.0 miles) Clark farm (Holler's Mine), Southington, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
38.1km (23.7 miles) Thomaston Dam railroad cut, Thomaston Dam, Thomaston, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
and quartz/calcite specimens from Lowville, Lewis County, New York—an occurrence, 95 miles or so north of...is $1,500. Quartz, 5.2 cm, from Lowville, Lewis County, New York. Geologic Desires specimen; Mike Walter...Walter photo. Calcite, 9 cm, from Lowville, Lewis County, New York. Geologic Desires specimen; Mike Walter...babingtonite from the Roncari quarry, East Granby, Hartford County, Connecticut. Yes, I’ve noted earlier...like it—but I must say that it’s hard to imagine Roncari babingtonites that are better than Ed’s new ones
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
parts in the figure 4B drawing example, spinel and galena can form spinel-law twins, meanbelong to one of...quartz twin, 2 cm high, from the PC mine, Jefferson County, Montana. Figure 10. A: Quartz twin after the...have been found in the Minerva No. 1mine, Hardin County, Illinois. Figure 13. Rutile often occurs as “sagenite...Arkansas. Fine twins come from the PC mine, Jefferson County, Montana (fig. 1l), and from Washington Camp, near...in November CONNECTICUT! Collector searching for fine mineral specimens from Connecticut localities
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Lake Superior in the western part of Ontonagon County, Michigan. The area is accessible by Michigan Highway...famous nativecopper deposits that are situated to the east and northeast of the mine. The host rock for the...Photo courtesy Ruth Ristola. White Pine Mine gon County, Michigan Volume 74, MaylJune 1999 161 Downloaded...of conglomerate along the Mineral River 2 miles east of the Nonesuch mine on land owned by the St. Mary’s...of ore. Three additional shafts were sunk to the east Of the No’ and a Of 28,000 tons Of Ore was On hand
Book (volume)
.........................................94 Connecticut ..............................................................548 Table of Maps Page Alabama County Map ...................................................................................4 Alaska County and Stream Map ......................................................................22 Arizona County Map ................................................................................49 Arkansas County Map ..........................................
Catalog/List
Sodium aluminum silicate CLEA VE LANDITE Connecticut Fairfield County, Branchville White xlline with cymatolite...cymatolite, good study ... New Mexico Taos County, near Dixon Nearly pure white xlline lamellar mass . MOONSTONE...cerium aluminum silicate California Los Angeles County, Pacoima Canyon Large black tabular crystals in...iron silicate ACTINOLITE California San Bernardino County, Wrightwood Green prismatic crystalline mass ....CROSSITE Sodium iron silicate California San Benito County, Gem mine Compact blue-gray mass with natrolite
Book (volume)
.........................................80 Connecticut ...............................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a...deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy
Book (volume)
.........................................80 Connecticut ...............................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a...deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy
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
Journal (issue)
............................... p. 14 Manassas quarry geology, pt. 2 ................. p. 15 Upcoming...2019 Datolite crystal from Prospect Park, Passaic County, NJ. Photo: Bob Cooke. 2 vugs in the basalt...pseudomorph after anhydrite, Prospect Park, Passaic County, NJ. Photo: Bob Cooke. Initially, datolite nodules...Passaic County and in Hudson and Somerset Counties as well. The Roncari Quarry in Connecticut and the...the Lane Quarry in Massachusetts produced well-formed, attractive crystals. At all of these locations, datolite
Journal (issue)
Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...micromounter. Following her first visit to that famous quarry in the mid-1960’s, she missed few opportunities...Cannon (Cannon Micro­ probe, Seattle, Washington, USA) provided some preliminary microprobe work. 219 ...situated along the Brandywine Creek road 1.0 km east of the adit at a point 1.0 km northwest of Highway...crystals. The best sulfosalt specimens come from galena veins in the quartz-rich rhyodacite. These veins
Catalog/List
PHOTOGRAPH: _ VANADINITE Apache mine, near Globe, Gila County, Arizona. Sharp hexagonal barrel-shaped crystal...calcium hydroxy-silicate. Ca lifornia Riverside County, Crestmore. White prismatic crystalline on merwinite...QUARTZ AJOITE Copper aluminum silicate. Arizona Pima County, Ajo, New Cornelia mine. Sky-blue micro xls and...and coatings on monzonite .. Arizona Pima County, Ajo, New Cornelia mine. Sky-blue crystals and masses...aluminum silicate. CLEAVELANDITE California San Diego County, Himalaya mine. White crystalled aggregates; some
Catalog/List
specimen from the Apache mine, near Globe, Gila County, Arizona GLOBES AND ATLASES ...... . 79 Sharp...calcium hydroxy-silicate. California Riverside County, Crestmore. White prismatic crystalline on merwinitegehlenite... AJOITE Copper aluminum silicate. Arizona Pima County, Ajo, New Cornelia mine. Sky- blue micro xls and...and coatings on monzonite . Arizona Pima County, Ajo, New Cornelia mine. S.ky-bJue crystals and masses...aluminum silicate. CLEAVELANDITE California San Diego County, Himalaya mine. White crystalled aggregates; some
Journal (issue)
Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...silicate minerals from Trumbull Peak, Mariposa County, California......................................area, Fresno County, California (Alfors et al., 1965); Chickencoop Canyon, Tulare County, California (Franke...Yosemite National Park. To reach Trumbull Peak, travel east on State Highway 120 to Berkeley Toulumne camp and...discovered by Anthony Marsh of Incline, Mariposa County, sometime before 1930 (the exact date is not given)
Book
figures and plates: i:ubic Pl. 5 tetrahedrite, Pl. 6 galena, Pl. 8 pyrite, Pl. 10 halite, Pl. 11 fluorite,... It is therefore usual to speak of octahedral (galena, Fig. 3 and Pl. 6), tetrahedral (tetrahedrite group...crystallizing in them. Halite (rock sal.t), sylvite, galena, and a host I , "" b C C ,, ,yTP , , C, ... forming the rock granite; in mineral deposits galena is almost invariably accompanied by sphalerite...contact with an intruding magma. The Galena Large crystals of galena with brown rhombohedrons of siderite
Journal (issue)
accretions, collided with the South China plate in the east and with the Paleo-Tethyan plate in the west, resulting...kilometers from the city of Gongcheng, in Gongcheng County. The other, smaller workings are known as the Yangshuo...Yangshuo, in the county of the same name. Both of these mines produce massive galena and sphalerite ore...Daoping mine is by Gongcheng, capital of Gongcheng County, which is reached by a good road from Yangshuo...Location of the Daoping and Yangshuo mines. Note the county line passing between the mines. HISTORY Mining
Report (Issue volume)
as six reports: Mineral Industries of the Middle East, Mineral Industries of Africa, Mineral Industries...State mineral production and mineral production by county were prepared in the Division of Statistics and...Geological Survey. Connecticut: State Geological and Natural History Survey of Connecticut, Department of.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Connecticut, by Donald K. Harrison and Robert J . Altamura...this report. Name State____________ SECTION 2. County _ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ Stocks. production, end
Book
MineralogicalRecord.com I IIMORIITE-(Y) EUROPE FRANCE Trimouns quarry, Luzenac, Ariege. Operated for talc since the beginning...beginning of the 20th century, the Trimouns quarry became well known to collectors around 1990 for the...long (Marty, 2004 ). AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins...region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites between the towns...5 cm (Grice and Gault, 1981). CONNECTICUT Litchfield, Litchfield County. Ilmenite masses and crystals
Journal (issue)
Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...vermiform schorl; elongate, twinned orthoclase, galena Jeremejevite The Mineralogical Record, volume...gabbro cone-sheet of its outer rim, measures 48 km east to west. Following caldera subsidence, the volcano...Hohenstein (peak on the right), looking towards the east. The gorge on the right side, whose rock face is...communication, 2005). Figure 150. Goethite-coated galena, 3.2 cm. Erongo Mountains, Namibia. Uli Bahmann
Book (edition)
at the outstanding shows of the annual San Diego County Fair at Del Mar, California. In addition, the collections...looks like brass that has discolored a bit, while galena resembles tarnished lead. On the other hand, bornite...purple crystals, 5" by 4", Iron Station, Lincoln County, North Carolina. CRYSTAL GROWTH 73 light from...photograph. Another type of parallel growth appears in galena when for some reason, cube crystals stop gro,-ving...illustrates several crystals marred by offsets, the galena showing faces of great roughness although the general
Book (edition)
the out- standing shows of the annual San Diego County Fair at Del Mar, California. In addition, the collections...purple crystals, 5” by 4”, lron Station, Lincoln County, North Carolina. CRYSTAL GROWTH 73 light from...photograph. Another type of parallel growth appears in galena when for some reason, cube crystals stop growing...illustrates several crystals marred by offsets, the galena showing faces of great roughness although the general...in nearly parallel position. peak TOURMALINE GALENA A composite crystal showing numerous offsets.
Book (edition)
the outstanding sho,vs of the annual San Diego County Fair at Del Mar, California. In addition, the collections...l so1netric Systeni Cubes and cube-octahedrons, galena: cubes, fluorite; octahedrons, magnetite; trapezohedrons...cavity lining), calcite. G ranu lar Granite, marble, galena, sphalerite. Fibrous Serpentine (asbestos), pectolile...Growths Quartz (amethyst), calcite, fiuorite , galena. C RYSTA L I NCLUSIONS SUITE Phantoms Quartz,...serpentine. Hackly Fracture Copper. Cubic Cleavage Galena. Octahedral Cleavage Fluorite. Dodecahedral Cleavage
Book (volume)
Kobuk jade locality. Descriptions of San Diego County, California, gemstones and the mines in which they...the generous assistance of many residents of that county. My special thanks are extended to Elbert H. McMacken...Mt. Mica Largest crystal from Mt. Mica Eh Towne Quarry 180 Tourmaline Queen Mountain IgI Tourmaline crystal...Stibiotantalite crystal Apatite crystal . Greenlaw Quarry 272 279 281 282 289 296 297 298 299 300 301...423 X1V List of Illustrations 116. Pulsifer Quarry pocket Die: A Roebling apatite crystal 118. A Durango
Report (Issue volume)
Kuklis ---------------------- --- ------- 169 Connecticut, by Robert A. Clifton __ _____ __ ___ __ ___...__________ California ___ ______ Colorado__________ Connecticut ______ _ Delaware______ ___ _ Florida... _.....; .... ► t' w V, w ~ ~ ~ > ;,:i o< CONNECTICUT Clays __ . _______________ ____ . ____ ___________...the yearly average price of Prime Western slab, East St. Louis market. Represents value established after...that of 55.76 in 1970. In Hawaii, Kentucky, and Connecticut, the mineral industries had respective frequency
Book (edition)
Yale University. Eugene Alexandrov: Hamden, Connecticut. Eric Asselborn, M.D.: Montrevel-en-Bresse, Ain...and Geophysics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. James A. Ferraiolo: Bowie, Maryland. Michael...Geology Library, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. Luiz A. D. Menezes: Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais...Sheldon Thompson: R. T. Vanderbilt Co., Norwalk, Connecticut. Kenneth M. Towe: Dept. of Paleobiology, Smithsonian...LOCALITIES INFORMATION The United States, from east to west Canada Mexico Central America and the Caribbean
 
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