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Smithsonite from
Old lead mine, Brookfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Smithsonite
Formula:ZnCO3
Comments:Shepard (1837) uses the term "calamine" but describes it as a zinc carbonate.
Habit:impalpable powder, pulverulent, and in cellular, bone-like masses
Colour:white
Quality for species:Poor for species, only of interest for locality collectors. (#)
Abundance at site:Common
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Smithsonite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Old lead mine, Brookfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:131293
Long-form Identifier:1:3:131293:5
GUID (UUID V4):f03d99fa-8477-414d-8d27-cece2beb85c4
Nearest other occurrences of Smithsonite
24.4km (15.2 miles) Old Mine Plaza construction site, Long Hill, Trumbull, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
38.0km (23.6 miles) Thomaston Dam railroad cut, Thomaston Dam, Thomaston, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
54.1km (33.6 miles) State Route 22 roadcut, Millerton, Town of North East (Northeast), Dutchess County, New York, USA
66.9km (41.6 miles) Middletown lead mines (Middletown Mine), Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
72.1km (44.8 miles) State Forest Quarry No. 2 (State Forest #2 Mica Mine; Carini Quarry), Cobalt, East Hampton (Chatham), Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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 (volume)
Colorado.........Prof. R. D. George, Boulder. Connecticut..... .Prof. William N. Rice, Middletown. Prof...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;...following localities: Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20, Pv. 7 E.; Jefferson...Jefferson County, at Elyton; Lee County, at Chewacla lime works; St. Clair County, at Gfeensport; Shelby
Report (volume)
........................................... Connecticut................................................1888, vol. 1, 1888. Branner, J. C., The zinc and lead region of north Arkansas: Arkansas Geol. Survey...See Bauxite and Halloysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;...following localities : Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20 S., R. 7 E.;
Book (volume)
instance, a single Spodumene crystal from the Etta Mine near Keystone on the east side of the Mount Rushmore...minerals, principally Gold, Silver, Copper, Iron, Lead, Manganese and Zinc, along with lesser amounts of...are recognized: the Northern Section, centered in lead and Deadwood in Lawrence Co.; and a Southern Section...beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm...gray Barite rosette up to 5 or 6 inches. CAMPBELL COUNTY MOUND CITY, W to the Missouri R., regional hillsides
Book (volume)
ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA
Book (volume)
ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University] at 01:02 21 December 2014 79 Mine, Gila County, Arizona E veryone likes blue minerals....interest, including malachite, azurite, cuprite, smithsonite, hemimorphite, hydrozincite, and rosasite. A...including the Harborside mine at Brooksville, Hancock County, and the Lubec lead mine and prospects at Pembroke...Washington County. It has also been found at the old lead mines at Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut;...the Mahan lead mines (Loudville mines), Easthampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts; the old Gorham (Mascot
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
specimen was found in a Joplin, Missouri, district mine in the late 1800s and was donated to the Carnegie...specimens of minerals traditionally known from the lead, zinc, and barite mines of Missouri’s several world-class...developed crystals. Despite the enormous tonnage of lead and zinc produced from Missouri, the state is not...secondary minerals of these metals, such as smithsonite, hemimorphite, cerussite, and anglesite. However...crystal morphology and color were recovered from a mine in the Joplin area. The best known of these specimens
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
location a~ included at the end of each entry. Adair County Chariton River (40-04-05N 92-4 I -23W). septarian...septarian concretions about 2 miles north of the Macon county line. CALCITE crystals enclosing bundles of acicular...hematite, quartz (Broadhead 1873b, 1877). Audrain County Mexico, in fire clay pits and spoil piles: PYRITE...University Library] at 19:58 29 October 2014 Barton County McKarrow’s coal bank (37-37N 94-28W), 2.5 miles...PICKERINGITE, pyrite, siderite (Broadhead 1873b). Bates County Panther Creek, northwest of Rockville in coal deposits:
Book (volume)
America. Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the...600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods
Book (volume)
America. Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the...600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods
Report (issue)
Cover Smithsonite slice and egg, 5.8 and 2.7 cm tall Masua Mine, Carbonia-lglesias, Sardinia, Italy...Title page Smithsonite, 9.2 cm wide 400 Foot Level, Kelly Mine, Magdalena District Socorro County, New Mexico...Minette) Both photos are by Jeff Scovil. No. 13: Smithsonite Think Zinc! ISBN 978-0-9790998-6-1 Publisher...Publisher Lithographie, LLC Denver, Colorado, USA Design and Layout Gloria Staebler Gunther Neumeier Nancy Stevens...Lithographie, LLC P.O. Box 11613 • Denver, C O 80211 • USA Phone 1.303.495.5521 • Fax 1.303.482.1238 www.lithographie
Journal (issue)
mineral localities: The Rush Creek District, Marion County, Arkansas .......................................CHALCOPYRITE on TETRAHEDRITE, 15 cm, from the Herodsfoot mine, Liskeard, Cornwall, England. Collection of the...Forcenturies, the copper and tin mines in Cornwall County, England, have proved to be as rich as any in the...the lives and times of its miners. The Botallack mine was selected as the example to feature because of...CORNISH MINING Cornwall is the southwesternmost county in England, with an area of 1,356 square miles
Book (volume)
Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and  the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59...along adjoining Co. linerock crystal. BARROW COUNTY WINDER, along rd. to Jefferson and 1½ mi. inside...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States BARTOW COUNTY AREA, Saltpeter Cave, as floatjasper. CARTERSVILLE:...agate, (banded, various colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY MACON:  at Holton Quarry, 7½ mi. NWagate;  N
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
spectacular minerals, including azurite, malachite, smithsonite, wulfenite, pyromorphite, and mimetite. Of these...mineral in the oxidized zones of a wide variety of lead deposits that contain associated arsenopyrite or...include cerussite, anglesite, pyromorphite, smithsonite, hemimorphite, wulfenite, willemite, vanadinite...Hill mine near Garland, Maine; the old lead mine near Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut; Sterling...Sterling Hill, New Jersey; and the Perkiomen mine, Montgomery County, and the well-known Wheatley and nearby
Book (volume)
.........................................94 Connecticut ..............................................................548 Table of Maps Page Alabama County Map ...................................................................................4 Alaska County and Stream Map ......................................................................22 Arizona County Map ..................................................................45 Arizona – Yuma Co. Hull Mine Site Map ......................................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ALABAMA—Cherokee County is' in northeastern Alabama. In the central part of Cherokee County is the little...in Centre we have a 10-yr. old subscriber, Buddy Stewart. "Cherokee County has a wide variety of minerals...mica, quartz. Limestone also occurs. Cherokee County is full of minerals, so Buddy informs us, and to...around Rock Run, in the southeastern part of the county, and was mined extensively in recent years. The...over Cherokee County. "Lots of Indian relics are found too." A map of Cherokee County, prepared by Buddy
Report (issue)
County_______________________________________________ Beaver Creek lead-zinc mine________________________________ Park City...__________________________________ _:________ Millard County _______________ .:._______________________________...Beaver County. 5. Map showing oxidized zinc deposits in the Park City district, Summit County. 6. Sketch...central-eastern part of the Lakeside mining district, Tooele County. 7. Map and longitudinal profile of ore bodies...Springs district, Juab County. 9. Geologic map and section of the Redmond silver mine, Redmond. 1. Finely
Book
commercial ores and secondary minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification...the Eastern '‘Schoolmarm” Mining Camps of the Old West I I a s I \ h K 4 I CONTENTS Preface...61 232 PART The Making 43 II 5 7 3 III Mine PART 267 IV Glossary 279 Bibliography 291...extraordinary extent and richness. share of interesting old others of holes, Legendary tales of fabulous bonanzas...cities, and many of today’s prosperous western county seats began as mining-boom camps. trating sand
Book (volume)
chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...townagate, chalcedony, jasper, petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville...chalcedony, jasper, fossils. CHERRY COUNTY VALENTINE, in the Sandhills county along the Niobrara R. and Minnechaduza...gem qualityagatized and opalized wood. DAWES COUNTY CHADRON, in N part of Co. and as far W as Crawford...woods, etc. DAWSON COUNTY GOTHENBURG, in sand pitspetrified palm wood. DEUEL COUNTY CHAPPELL, all regional
Report (volume)
...................................... 17 Smithsonite........................................................ 51 Relations to the different kinds of lead carbonate and mixed sulphide ore bodies...........Brown zinc carbonate ore with fine druses of smithsonite; B, Photomicrograph of specimen shown in A ........ %.. 3. Plan and sections of lead-silver stopes in Belgian mine............ 4. Diagrams illustrating...oxidized zinc ore bodies to lead carbonate stopes in the Oro La Plata mine..................... 5. Plan
Report (issue)
the Valles Mines...............................21 Lead Mining..........................................................................21 Development of Lead Mining.........................................................................................25 Lead Mining, Processing, and Smelting Methods.......................................................30 Lead and Zinc Production and Losses During Processing...Valles Mines, Franklin County Mines, and subdistricts of the Southeast Missouri Lead District ..........
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...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a...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...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a...deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy
Journal (issue)
manager Famous mineral localities: the Broken Hill mine, Zam bia..............................................351 Famous mineral localities: the Cruzeiro mine, past and present ................................906 Kitwe, Zambia HISTORY The Broken Hill lead-zinc mine is located near the town of Kabwe, 140 km north...the Rhodesia Copper Company, who was searching for old copper workings reported to exist in the area. One...at once recognized as cerussite or carbonate of lead. Prom this point to the summit of the kopje, I did
 
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