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Purpurite from
Strickland Quarry, Strickland pegmatite, Collins Hill, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Purpurite
Formula:Mn3+(PO4)
Comments:Rare alteration of lithiophilite. Parent lithiophilite has Mn/Mn + Fe = 0.97 (Moore, 2000).
Habit:encrustation
Colour:purple
Quality for species:Poor for species, only of interest for locality collectors. (#)
Abundance at site:Very Rare
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Purpurite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Strickland Quarry, Strickland pegmatite, Collins Hill, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:96231
Long-form Identifier:1:3:96231:1
GUID (UUID V4):156dde08-2221-46d0-9086-fae587665578
Nearest other occurrences of Purpurite
79.3km (49.3 miles) Fillow Quarry (Branchville Quarry; Branchville Mica Mine; Smith Mine), Branchville, Redding (Reading), Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
References
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Book (edition)
THE MINERAL LOCALITIES OF CONNECTICUT AND SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK * «-• r ** K* ysf^ :' •'’S >- n...250 SPECIES iBooks by Ronald Everett Januzzi CONNECTICUT MINERALS ON PARADE NEW YORK STATE MINERALS ON...THE MINERALOGICAL PRESS 83 Elm Street Danbury. Connecticut IIOIPW MINERALS ON PARAt>E F.tMSTltIP* THREE...to enrich our knowledge of the mineralogy of Connecticut: James Dwight Dana Samuel L. Penfield Edward...Minerals from the Principal Localities in Western Connecticut and Southeastern New York State.............
Report (issue)
Pattern: Outpost mine, White Picacho district, Arizona, USA. 2.548 (100), 3.051 (89), 3.516 (71), 4.313 (56)...0] 100.00 (1) Buckfield, Maine, USA. (2) Foote mine, North Carolina, USA; by electron microprobe, total...Sicklerite, purpurite, huréaulite, numerous Fe–Mn phosphates and oxides. Distribution: In the USA, from Branchville...Fairfield Co., and in the Strickland quarry, Portland, Middlesex Co., Connecticut; at several places in Maine...Manitoba. From the Mangualde pegmatite, near Mesquitela, and the Bendada pegmatite, near Guarda, Portugal.
Report (issue)
Pegmatite Investigations 1942-45 New England By EUGENE N. CAMERON and OTHERS GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL...______________________________________ _ Location of pegmatite districts ___________________ _ Previous work...Acknowledgments ______________________________ _ History of pegmatite mining inN ew England _______ _ Mica mining _...deposits _______________________ _ Geology of the pegmatite districts of Maine __ :. . _____ _ Metamorphic...________________________________ _ Geology of the pegmatite districts of New Hampshire_ Rock units ______
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
A Checklist Minerals of Connecticut Although perhaps best known for its garnet, chalcocite, and tourmaline...tourmaline, Connecticut also boasts many other mineral species. BRUCEJARNOT R O . B o x 627 M a r t i n...e , N e w J e r s e y 08836 T he study of Connecticut minerals has enjoyed a long peri­ od of attention...reviews of this mineral list. Dr. Bruce Jarnot, a Connecticut native, has avidly collected both minerals and...collections of Connecticut gems and minerals in existence. 386 R O C K S & MINERALS Two Connecticut localities
Journal (issue)
Richard A. Bideaux M ineralogist feature articles Pegmatite Phosphates: Descriptive Mineralogy and Crystal...hiddenite specimens in his collection from Alexander County, North Carolina, and those superb quartz crystal...Directors of the Foundation of the Los Angeles County Natural History Museum. It was my pleasure, and... New York; the exhibition of the New Haven, Connecticut, Mineral Society; or the Annual meeting of the...interpenetrating twin cubes of thorianite from Hud­ dersfield County, Quebec. Their addresses: Vickery — 4 Brendon Road
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
torbernite, garnet, and emerald crystals from Mitchell County, North Carolina, and large crystallized pyrite...tourmaline crystal from Bachelor's Ridge, Saratoga County, N. Y. Meeting oJ Nor. 5, 1941 Mr. E. A. Maynard...excursion to the Strickland and Schoonmaker quarries on Collins Hill near Portland, Conn. The usual minerals...bertrandite from Greenwood; pollucite, triphyllite and purpurite-heterosite from Nervry: Iarge lepidolite crystals...Minot; as weII as biotite crystals from Standpipe hill. These specimens were exhibited along with other
Journal (issue)
~ COVER STORY: BIGGS JASPER from Jack Beer's Quarry in Biggs Junction, Oregon. This picture jasper...B. M. Shaub 63 Heterosite-Purpurite Locality in Litchfield, Connecticut William Brunet FEATURES 64...Prairie Creek j ust 10uth of Murfree• boro, Pike County, Arkansas. The near-oval shaped area is an enclosed...diatreme (volcanic pipe) near Murfreesboro, Pike County, Arkansas (The Crater of Diamonds State Park)....bodies. These are difficult and expensive to mine or quarry due to the large amount of hard tough rock that
Journal (issue)
o,,/.,,/4 '°'1, /"'", l9J/.3 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY .................................................Y., whose very interesting article, "The Pekin Quarry at Lockport, N. Y." appeared in last month's issue...highway 36, between SusanvilJe and W estwood, Lassen County, Calif. Above highway at this point several different...of the Feather River bridge, at Oroville, Butte County, Calif. West of Highway 39, between Oroville and...Bear River, near Colfax, on highway 49, Ne~ada County, Calif. One piece of petrified wood was all that
Book (volume)
publisher. Cover photograph: Fluorapatite, Pulsifer quarry, Auburn, Maine (2.2 cm specimen), Harvard Mineralogical...greater variety of minerals are found in Oxford County, alone, than anywhere else on Earth of comparable...than Maine's, as well. An area smaller than Oxford County in Murmansk Ob last, Kola Peninsula, Russia, has...gem-producing areas in the United States, admittedly. Connecticut has produced a few tourmalines, aquamarines,...However, San Diego County, California, is arguably the most important gem-pegmatite district in North
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 ..........................................
Book (edition)
1_� Cv1,_1'--A� __, SECOND EDITION 1955 HOLIDAY HILL PRESS 1485 FORCE DRIVE, MOUNTAINSIDE, N. �- Copyright...week collecting in the pegme.tite area ot Oxford county, !!Bine, Neil Wintr:lnghal'!l, a pa.st-president...characterized the evenings spent with members of the Oxford County Mineral & Gem Association. N. A. W. Mountainside... James L. Faulkner {Ridlonville) of the Oxford County Mineral & Gem Association, Mr. John E. Duffy and...and help received during past visits to Oxford county. Special thanks must be given above all to those
Report (volume)
........................................... Connecticut................................................lists. Twenty-five years ago the annual imports of Portland cement were four times the domestic production...combined production and imports of Portland cement. To-day the Portland cement industry is distributed generally...Albany. North Carolina_.Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, Chapel Hill. North Dakota_.Dr. A. G. Leonard, Grand Forks. Mr...See Bauxite and Halloysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found
Journal (issue)
R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur...Moun­ tain Pass. South from here it is all down hill to Silverton. Backtracking about 600 meters (2000...of the National Belle mine, Red Mountain, Ouray County, San Juan Mountains, Colorado. GEOLOGY The National...On the largest of the fissures intersecting the hill on the northeast side the original National Belle...Longfellow mine just across the pass in San Juan County show a zonation from the center of the deposit
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...well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a bed deposit⎯yellow...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...well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a bed deposit⎯yellow...deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy
Report (volume)
General features____________________________ Coosa County _________ ____________________ Randolph County...Litchfield County____________________________ Middlesex County__________________________ Hartford County_______...Cherokee County_____________________________ 72 Elbert County _____________________________ 75 Hall County__...County_______________________________ 76 Hart County. ___ __ __________________ 77, Lumpkin and Union counti...___________ S3 Pickens County _______-______________________ 83 Rabun County-_____________________________
Journal (issue)
Contents for November-December, 1948 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY .................................................····························905 VESUVIANITE CRYSTALS FROM ESSEX COUNTY, N. Y. By E. B. Rou iey 906 MONAZITE OCCURRENCE.........................................912 ONYX QUARRY AT TOLENAS SPRINGS, CALIF. By R. F. Henley ...... 882 R OCKS AND ~ l lNl'.HAI.~ CHlPS FROM THE QUARRY Grieger'• Encyclopedia and Super- Catalog of his...reach the locality Robinson Mountain is a lo'>'' hill of n1etamorphosed limestone intruded by a pegmatitic
Book
phosphorus handbook. Wiley. New York Moore PB (1982) Pegmatite minerals ofP(V) and B(III). Mineral Assoc Can...evaporitic rocks at the Incline, Mariposa County and Big Creek, Fresno County, California. The associated minerals...large masses in pegmatite at several mines in the Custer-Pringle area, Custer County, and at the Etta...Etta mine, Pennington County, South Dakota. Also found in pegmatite at Chanteloube, France; Buranga, Ruanda;...Sukula and Lemnas, Finland; and in several other pegmatite deposits Amblygonite Optical Constants: IX
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
determined calorimetrically by the method Of STRICKLAND and PARSONS (1972). In solutions containing more...Mineralogically. this represents the heterosite-purpurite series (NKI,UX’ and MOORE. 1984): from a chemical...cycle. Amet J. Ser. 282. 474-5 --T- 020 d I I. HILL T. P.. WERNER M. A. and HORTON M. I‘. (1967) Chemical...limestones containing ~1% A&O,. Sources of data: a. HILL ef al. (1967); b. and d. VEIZER(I 97 I): c. and
Journal (issue)
SWEDEN 5 Cover 1. Hambeigite. Ranglad 'skoye pegmatite field, E. Pamirs. 8x 4 cm. Specimen:A.M. Skrigitil'...popularity in the world, while it is the leader in the USA. Recently, well known jewelry stones have been joined...Robert W. Jones (USA) and Michael Leybov (Russia) BOX 51 SHORT HILLS NEW JERSEY O 7 O 7 8 USA FAX: 2 0 1 -...and most interesting pegmatites of the Rangkul' pegmatite field are distributed over the area of the Muzkol-Rangkul'...with gemstones are distinguished in the Rangkul' pegmatite field. The first type comprises miarolitic pegmatites
Journal (issue)
591 593 602 614 618 619 634 562 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY .................................................7-3185) ROCKS AND MINERALS i 561 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY A CALIFORNIA FIRST! GOLD: Official state mineral...and Mineral Fair will be held at the Jefferson County Fair Grounds west of Denver, Colo., on U. S. 6...1965—5th Annual Swapping Bee and Picnic of the Fulton County Mineral Club will be held at John Boyd Thacher...International Rock Swap sponsored by the Jefferson County Rock & Mineral Club on the ranch of Leslie Rose
Journal (issue)
Fluorite Crystals with Galena Crystals, Socorro County, N. Mex. A very fine selection in stock. Crystals.................... MISCELLANEOUS CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY..................................................7-3185) ROCKS AND MINERALS 401 9 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY 15th Eastern Federation Gem & Mineral Show New...(chalcedony pseudomorph after coral) from Hamilton County, Florida, near the famous Suwannee River. This...and Mineral Fair will be held at the Jefferson County Fair Grounds west of Denver, Colo., on U. S. 6
Journal (issue)
1947 Contents for November, 194 7 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY .................................................Miller ....................1023 A TRIP TO COPPER MINE HILL, R. I. By A. J"\tl. Dixon ........................Association 1002 R OCKS AND MIN ERA LS CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY IT HAPPENED IN DETROIT! It was che night of the...environment of the topaz areas of the Thomas Range, Juab County, Utah, are here described, with a brief outline...Salt Lake City, go to Simpson Springs, Tooele, County, by any convenient route. lhe best road, at the
Field Trip Notes
decreases, falling to the chlorite zone along the Connecticut River. Further east it increases, and the rocks...formation on the west and the highly deformed Snake Hill shale or slate on the east (all Middle Ordovician);...is lost in a wide expanse of Canajoharie or Snake Hill shale covered by late-glacial lake and marine clay...under stratigraphically higher shale (the Snake Hill shale), also highly deformed, which forms most of...Taconic mass of slate comes to an end at Government Hill in Sudbury town, 5 miles west of Brandon, Vermont
Book (edition)
abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture), dept...always included in text, except in the cases of the USA, UK, and the provinces Ontario and Quebec in Canada...Uintah County. Utah. and m (2.B. acanthite group). Monoclinic, C2/m, a,b,c Rio Blanco County. Colorado...Rare-with scorodite in U-bearing lignite in the Caves Hill and Slim Buttes areas, both Harding Co .. South...Menzenschwand Scbwarzwald Mts., in the Sailauf quarry, Spessart Mts., Bavaria. both Germany, and from
 
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