| Locality type: | Prospect |
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| Species: | Opal |
| Formula: | SiO2 · nH2O |
| Comments: | Typically as bright green fluorescing coatings invisible in daylight. "Rarely...this hyalite is of a three-dimensional sort, with a bubbly surface" Schooner (1961) |
| Habit: | coatings, botryoidal |
| Colour: | colorless |
| Luminescent properties: | green |
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| Validity: | Believed Valid |
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| Mineral Data: | Click here to view Opal data |
| Locality Data: | Click here to view Slocum prospect, East Hampton (Chatham), Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA |
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| Mindat Occurrence Record ID: | 987463 |
| Long-form Identifier: | 1:3:987463:3 |
| GUID (UUID V4): | 3776b4ce-8495-4e30-bea5-b88a4a5ab27a |
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| 4.6km (2.8 miles) | ⓘAnderson No. 1 Mica Mine (Swanson Mine; Swanson Lithia Mine; Old Lithia Mine; Chatham Lithia Mine), East Hampton (Chatham), Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA |
| 4.8km (3.0 miles) | ⓘWorth and Selden Quarries (Victoria Quarry), East Hampton (Chatham), Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA |
| 5.1km (3.1 miles) | ⓘRock Landing Quarry (Capt. Rohrback Quarry), Haddam Neck, Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA |
| 7.4km (4.6 miles) | ⓘHaddam Volunteer Fire Station, Higganum, Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA |
| 7.4km (4.6 miles) | ⓘForest Ridge Road, Higganum, Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA |
| 7.6km (4.7 miles) | ⓘJail Hill Road locality (Jail Hill Quarry), Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA |
| 8.3km (5.1 miles) | ⓘGreat Hill cobalt mines, Cobalt, East Hampton (Chatham), Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA |
| 8.9km (5.6 miles) | ⓘNathan Hall Quarry (Clark Hill Quarry), East Hampton (Chatham), Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA |
| 9.4km (5.9 miles) | ⓘHewitt Gem Quarry (Herb's Gem Quarry; Sawmill Quarry), Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA |
| 11.0km (6.8 miles) | ⓘWhite Rocks Quarry (Consolidated Quarry), White Rock Mining District, Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA |
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 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the Dayton Road District SOUTH GLASTONBURY, CONNECTICUT JOHN H. BETTS 215 West 98 Street, Apt. 2F New...of the most promising forgotten locations in Connecticut is an area of old pegmatite quarries in South...of Portland, Connecticut, just north of the Portland-South Glastonbury town line and east of Route 17...quarry on the south, the Hollister quarry on the east, and the Howe No. 4 quarry on the north. This district...Hollister prospect 3. Hale q u a r r y 4. Case prospeel 6. Bordonaro prospeel 6. Gotta Waldcn prospect 7. Strickland |  | | Report (issue) | | ___ _ Geology of the pegmatite districts of Connecticut ___ _ Geology of the Middletown district ___________...Androscoggin County ______________________ _ Berry feldspar quarry __________________ _ Cumberland County ___..._______________________ _ Oxford County ____________________________ _ Barrett beryl prospect __________________ _...Brown-Thurston beryl prospect __________ _ Bumpus feldspar quarry ________________ _ Donahue mica prospect _________________...and prospects-Continued Maine-Continued Oxford County-Continued George Elliot mica mine ________________ |
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Slocum prospect, East Hampton, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA