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Triphylite from
Rock Landing Quarry (Capt. Rohrback Quarry), Haddam Neck, Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Triphylite
Formula:LiFe2+PO4
Comments:Reported by Schooner (circa 1980s) as occurring in pieces from the Charles Thomas collection, along with graftonite, scorzalite, siderite, fairfieldite, augelite. Possible they could have come from the Palermo mine.
Abundance at site:Very Rare
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Triphylite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Rock Landing Quarry (Capt. Rohrback Quarry), Haddam Neck, Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:830456
Long-form Identifier:1:3:830456:8
GUID (UUID V4):0c470a02-6457-482a-9178-50f803891b5a
Nearest other occurrences of Triphylite
0.9km (0.6 miles) Anderson No. 1 Mica Mine (Swanson Mine; Swanson Lithia Mine; Old Lithia Mine; Chatham Lithia Mine), East Hampton (Chatham), Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
7.8km (4.8 miles) State Forest Quarry No. 2 (State Forest #2 Mica Mine; Carini Quarry), Cobalt, East Hampton (Chatham), Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
15.1km (9.4 miles) Andrews Quarry (old Hale Quarry; Grandfather Andrews Quarry), Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
56.5km (35.1 miles) State Routes 8 and 118 interchange, Harwinton, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
73.0km (45.3 miles) U. S. Route 7 Expressway (Danbury line to Iron Works District), Brookfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
73.9km (45.9 miles) Brookfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
81.0km (50.3 miles) Fillow Quarry (Branchville Quarry; Branchville Mica Mine; Smith Mine), Branchville, Redding (Reading), Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
82.3km (51.2 miles) Blandford mica mines, Blandford, Hampden County, Massachusetts, USA
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