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Thorite from
Tilly Foster Iron Mine, Town of Southeast, Putnam County, New York, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Thorite
Formula:Th(SiO4)
Comments:A single orange, microscopic anhedral mass in hornblende has been reported
Habit:anhedral
Colour:orange
Abundance at site:Extremely Rare
Confirmation
Validity:Unconfirmed/Questioned
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Thorite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Tilly Foster Iron Mine, Town of Southeast, Putnam County, New York, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:102092
Long-form Identifier:1:3:102092:2
GUID (UUID V4):c57cb97c-50a2-4b95-88df-26986f11df21
Nearest other occurrences of Thorite
15.5km (9.6 miles) North Street mall, Danbury, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
15.8km (9.8 miles) Danburite type locality, Danbury, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
85.6km (53.2 miles) Trotter Mine, Franklin Mine, Franklin, Sussex County, New Jersey, USA
85.6km (53.2 miles) Double Rock pegmatite, Franklin Mine, Franklin, Sussex County, New Jersey, USA
85.7km (53.2 miles) Buckwheat pit, Franklin Mine, Franklin, Sussex County, New Jersey, USA
85.9km (53.4 miles) Buckwheat dump mineral collecting site, Franklin Mine, Franklin, Sussex County, New Jersey, USA
90.7km (56.4 miles) Simpson Quarry (Wiarda Quarry), South Glastonbury, Glastonbury, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
95.6km (59.4 miles) Connecticut Yankee atomic power plant, Haddam Neck, Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
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THE MINERAL LOCALITIES OF CONNECTICUT AND SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK * «-• r ** K* ysf^ :' •'’S >- n...Everett Januzzi CONNECTICUT MINERALS ON PARADE NEW YORK STATE MINERALS ON PARADE Recommended for Children...COlO* * • TfXT COMF11 MINERALS ON PARADE A New Series of Teaching Filmstrips in Full Color. A Valuable...memory of the following scientists who did much to enrich our knowledge of the mineralogy of Connecticut:...2nd Edition 1972 II TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Part I Enumeration of the Minerals Discussed in the
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2014 MINERALS FROM THE IRON DEPOSITS OF NEW YORK STATE T he principal goal of this article is to present...present the important minerals from the New York State iron deposits. Not all the minerals identified in...others are not aesthetically impressive, making them of limited collector interest. In general, these will...descriptions. To write an article about the iron deposits of New York State and their minerals is a difficult... There are also some excellent papers about some of the deposits, and I do not want to repeat what those
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BULLETIN OF THE NEW YORK MINER.ALOGICAL CLUB Volume 3, No. 1. THE MINERALS of NEW YORK CITY and ITS...ITS ENVIRONS BY JAMES G. MANCHESTER NEW YORK PUBLISHED BY THE CLUB January, 1931 Copyright, 3931...AFFERTON PRESS NEW YORK I AUTHOR’S NOTE Since his boyhood days the author has been a student of the rocks...or more has spent many of his recreational hours collecting minerals in New York City and its environs...environs. A record lias been personally kept of the min­ erals collected or which have been authoritatively reported
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