Tellurium from
Lane's Mine (Lane's Lead and Silver Mine; Elm Street), Monroe, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
| Locality type: | Mine | |
| Classification | ||
|---|---|---|
| Species: | Tellurium | |
| Formula: | Te | |
| Comments: | A careful reading of Silliman (1819a, 1819b, 1819c) indicates the tellurium was not native but chemically extracted from ferberite, which was also not from Monroe, but from the unique ferberite after scheelite deposit in Trumbull also worked by Ephraim Lane. Their origin was cleared up by Hitchcock and Silliman (1826). Januzzi misreads Silliman and mentions "tellurides" in his publications. Because the ferberite crystals from Lane's Mine of Trumbull have the shape of scheelite crystals (they are pseudomorphs with which he had no experience and was quite perplexed by) he thought he had a new mineral with tellurium in it. Silliman never mentions tellurides and his extraction of tellurium from ferberite has never been replicated. | |
| Confirmation | ||
| Validity: | Erroneously Reported | |
| Data | ||
| Mineral Data: | Click here to view Tellurium data | |
| Locality Data: | Click here to view Lane's Mine (Lane's Lead and Silver Mine; Elm Street), Monroe, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA | |
| Data Identifiers | ||
| Mindat Occurrence Record ID: | 131613 | |
| Long-form Identifier: | 1:3:131613:1 | |
| GUID (UUID V4): | 4aebbdb6-78f1-4821-9309-c2abe27e6b22 | |
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