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Identity HelpAutunite/meta-autunite/autunite group?
22nd May 2012 23:36 UTCMichael Otto
23rd May 2012 01:42 UTCReiner Mielke Expert
23rd May 2012 08:03 UTCMichael Otto
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> May just be uranyl ions in calcite or opal, green
> fluorescence does not necessarily mean it is
> autunite.
I should have mentioned Autunite is listed for this locality, Calcite and Opal are not. I should have it's radioactivity checked.
23rd May 2012 19:10 UTCRob Woodside 🌟 Manager
23rd May 2012 19:13 UTCDon Saathoff Expert
Don
24th May 2012 11:59 UTCFred E. Davis
24th May 2012 15:36 UTCRonald John Gyllenhammer Expert
This is almost certainly Opal-AN, as Reiner and Don suggested.
Ron
28th May 2012 12:36 UTCMichael Otto
28th May 2012 15:56 UTCDonald Peck
Is your quartz crystal from the East Morris Dam quarry pit? A number of large smokey quartz crystals have come from there and there significant uranium minerals in that area. Most of it is carnotite, but I see no reason that others that fluoresce would not be there also.
12th Jun 2012 13:06 UTCHarold Moritz 🌟 Expert
Little or nothing has been written about this quarry other than a few lists in guidebooks or club bulletins without supporting data. Even the bedrock quadrangle map done by Gates in 1951 does not show the Nonewaug (aka Woodbury) Granite extending into the hill where the quarry is (which is shown by the topo lines) even though it clearly does (he shows it nearby though). The accompanying text gives only a general description of the petrology and mineralogy of this formation, with no mention of uranium minerals. As far as I know, carnotite in Connecticut is restricted to the sandstones of the Hartford basin, well documented at the Old Newgate Mine in East Granby.
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