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Celestine from
Roncari Quarry, East Granby, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Celestine
Formula:SrSO4
Comments:Crystals typically small, <1.5 cm.
Habit:tabular
Colour:colorless to very pale blue
Abundance at site:Rare
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Quartz3 photos of Celestine associated with Quartz at this locality.
Calcite2 photos of Celestine associated with Calcite at this locality.
Gypsum1 photo of Celestine associated with Gypsum at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Celestine data
Locality Data:Click here to view Roncari Quarry, East Granby, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
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Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:857787
Long-form Identifier:1:3:857787:0
GUID (UUID V4):b31e04c4-ffb1-449d-96eb-40f869ba55df
Nearest other occurrences of Celestine
24.5km (15.2 miles) State Route 4 road cut, Farmington, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
79.6km (49.5 miles) Agstone Company Limestone Quarry, Danbury, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
References
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quartz twin, 2 cm high, from the PC mine, Jefferson County, Montana. Figure 10. A: Quartz twin after the...have been found in the Minerva No. 1mine, Hardin County, Illinois. Figure 13. Rutile often occurs as “sagenite...Arkansas. Fine twins come from the PC mine, Jefferson County, Montana (fig. 1l), and from Washington Camp, near...have never been known to form twins-for example, celestine, barite, and anglesite, or members of the apatite...in November CONNECTICUT! Collector searching for fine mineral specimens from Connecticut localities
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Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...micromounter. Following her first visit to that famous quarry in the mid-1960’s, she missed few opportunities...Cannon (Cannon Micro­ probe, Seattle, Washington, USA) provided some preliminary microprobe work. 219 ...situated along the Brandywine Creek road 1.0 km east of the adit at a point 1.0 km northwest of Highway... The Brownley H ill mine is situated about 4 km east o f the market town o f Alston in the historic lead
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Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...gabbro cone-sheet of its outer rim, measures 48 km east to west. Following caldera subsidence, the volcano...Hohenstein (peak on the right), looking towards the east. The gorge on the right side, whose rock face is...Species 2004. Mineralogical Record, Inc., Tucson, AZ, USA, 309 p. MARTIN, H. (1965) The Precambrian geology...sandstone quarries, one of them called the Massabé quarry, near the village of Sils, La Silva, Girona, Spain
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MineralogicalRecord.com I IIMORIITE-(Y) EUROPE FRANCE Trimouns quarry, Luzenac, Ariege. Operated for talc since the beginning...beginning of the 20th century, the Trimouns quarry became well known to collectors around 1990 for the...long (Marty, 2004 ). AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins...region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites between the towns...5 cm (Grice and Gault, 1981). CONNECTICUT Litchfield, Litchfield County. Ilmenite masses and crystals
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accretions, collided with the South China plate in the east and with the Paleo-Tethyan plate in the west, resulting...kilometers from the city of Gongcheng, in Gongcheng County. The other, smaller workings are known as the Yangshuo...the mountain ridge, northeast of Yangshuo, in the county of the same name. Both of these mines produce massive...Daoping mine is by Gongcheng, capital of Gongcheng County, which is reached by a good road from Yangshuo...Location of the Daoping and Yangshuo mines. Note the county line passing between the mines. HISTORY Mining
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Yale University. Eugene Alexandrov: Hamden, Connecticut. Eric Asselborn, M.D.: Montrevel-en-Bresse, Ain...and Geophysics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. James A. Ferraiolo: Bowie, Maryland. Michael...Geology Library, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. Luiz A. D. Menezes: Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais...Sheldon Thompson: R. T. Vanderbilt Co., Norwalk, Connecticut. Kenneth M. Towe: Dept. of Paleobiology, Smithsonian...LOCALITIES INFORMATION The United States, from east to west Canada Mexico Central America and the Caribbean
 
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