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Actinolite from
Connecticut Yankee atomic power plant, Haddam Neck, Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA


Classification
Species:Actinolite
Formula:◻Ca2(Mg4.5-2.5Fe0.5-2.5)Si8O22(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Actinolite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Connecticut Yankee atomic power plant, Haddam Neck, Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:657066
Long-form Identifier:1:3:657066:8
GUID (UUID V4):4fe74e0f-5dbf-45c6-b3f1-f56652ccb92c
Nearest other occurrences of Actinolite
1.3km (0.8 miles) Arnold Granite Quarry (General Brainerd Quarry; Great Hill Quarry; Hazelton Quarry; Haddam Quarry; Brookes Quarry), Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
1.5km (1.0 miles) Gillette Quarry (J-J Mine; Haddam Neck Quarry), Haddam Neck, Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
1.6km (1.0 miles) Jail Hill Road locality (Jail Hill Quarry), Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
2.3km (1.5 miles) Thulite locality, Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
3.7km (2.3 miles) State Route 9 Interchange 13 - Beaver Meadow Road, Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
4.3km (2.7 miles) Anderson No. 1 Mica Mine (Swanson Mine; Swanson Lithia Mine; Old Lithia Mine; Chatham Lithia Mine), East Hampton (Chatham), Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
5.1km (3.2 miles) Ultramafic rock bodies, Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
5.9km (3.6 miles) Worth and Selden Quarries (Victoria Quarry), East Hampton (Chatham), Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
6.1km (3.8 miles) Slocum prospect, East Hampton (Chatham), Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
10.9km (6.7 miles) Tollgate Quarry (Tollgate Mine; Bidwell Quarry; China-stone Quarry), Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
References
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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
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assemblages have been mapped in exposed basaltic rock in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, and eastern Iceland....seawater followed faults along the eastern coast of County Antrim and was the fluid in the cavities that produced...transform into feldspar, prehnite, pumpellyite, and actinolite that are anhydrous or contain (OR) ions that...lowesttemperature minerals further away. EPIDOTE - ACTINOLITE ZONE (280-390°) HORNBLENDE -BIOTITE ZONE (390-600°)...smokestack-gas emissions from oil and coal burning power plants and chemical plants (Hayhurst, 1978). The
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assemblages have been mapped in exposed basaltic rock in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, and eastern Iceland....seawater followed faults along the eastern coast of County Antrim and was the fluid in the cavities that produced...transform into feldspar, prehnite, pumpellyite, and actinolite that are anhydrous or contain (OR) ions that...lowesttemperature minerals further away. EPIDOTE - ACTINOLITE ZONE (280-390°) HORNBLENDE -BIOTITE ZONE (390-600°)...smokestack-gas emissions from oil and coal burning power plants and chemical plants (Hayhurst, 1978). The
 
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