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


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Fairfieldite
Formula:Ca2Mn2+(PO4)2 · 2H2O
Comments:radiating fans of micro crystals in altered lithiophilite, with hureaulite, hydroxylapatite.
Habit:radiating
Colour:white
Abundance at site:Very Rare
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Hureauliteā“˜3 photos of Fairfieldite associated with Hureaulite at this locality.
Hydroxylapatiteā“˜1 photo of Fairfieldite associated with Hydroxylapatite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Fairfieldite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Strickland Quarry, Strickland pegmatite, Collins Hill, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (2 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:96198
Long-form Identifier:1:3:96198:7
GUID (UUID V4):cd22c49c-121c-452f-abb3-79cc3ee9918d
Nearest other occurrences of Fairfieldite
11.0km (6.8 miles) ā“˜Rock Landing Quarry (Capt. Rohrback Quarry), Haddam Neck, Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
79.3km (49.3 miles) ā“˜Fillow Quarry (Branchville Quarry; Branchville Mica Mine; Smith Mine), Branchville, Redding (Reading), Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Book (edition)
THE MINERAL LOCALITIES OF CONNECTICUT AND SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK * Ā«-ā€¢ r ** K* ysf^ :' ā€¢'ā€™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.............
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
CONNECTICUT Mineral Locality Index Although many sites in Connecticut are no longer open to collectors...H. WEBER 1172 West L a k e Avenue Guilford, Connecticut 06437-1342 E A R L E C. SULLIVAN 17 R o c k y...y R i d g e D r i v e T r u m b u l l , Connecticut 06611-5326 T his locality index is meant to serve...collectors. More often than not, collecting in Connecticut is no longer perĀ­ mitted. Many of the localities...effort has been made to list a l l localities in Connecticut, a small state that is big on mineralization
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MINERALS FROM 1 CONNECTICUT HILL By Richard Schooner P. O. Box 215 East Hampton, Conn. Collins Hill, in the...the town of Portland, undoubtedly represents the most remarkably mineralized area, of its size, in southern...southern New England. The hill is not especially large, but several different formtions are present, and...has been done on the giant pegmatite at the summit. The Strickland Quarry is enormous, consisting of...treats it as a northern continuation of the Strickland Quarry. The accompanying map should furnish whatever
Report (issue)
Powder Pattern: Stewart mine, Pala, California, USA. (ICDD 34-146). 3.152 (100), 8.09 (70), 2.992 (65)...heterosite, rockbridgeite, cacoxenite, vivianite, fairfieldite, dickinsonite, eosphorite, stewartite, strengite...in the La Vilate quarry, near Chanteloube, Haute-Vienne. At the Mangualde pegmatite, near Mesquitela...HuĢˆhnerkobel, near Zwiesel, Bavaria. In the VarutraĢˆsk pegmatite, 15 km northwest of SkellefteaĢŠ, VaĢˆsterbotten...Viitaniemi pegmatite, near EraĢˆjaĢˆrvi, Finland. In the USA, from the Strickland quarry, Portland, Middlesex
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 periĀ­ 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)
Institute of Mineralogy dba Mindat.org 1113 Cambridge Hill Lane, Keswick, VA 22947 info@hudsonmineralogy.org...full year (12 color issues) is just $35.00 in the USA. Mineral News 1885 Seminole Trailā€”Ste 202ā€”Charlottesville...are located near the town of Corona in Lincoln County. Since 1881, the area has seen sporadic mining...buyer may be a Col. Griffin of Santa Fe (Lincoln County Leader, September 1, 1883), but the collectionā€™s...wrote the following description in the Lincoln County Leader, Aug. 11,1883: Vol. 39 No. 9 September
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 HudĀ­ dersfield County, Quebec. Their addresses: Vickery ā€” 4 Brendon Road
Journal (issue)
R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur...MounĀ­ 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
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)
mineral is TOURMALINE. TOURMALINE is best found in pegmatite environments, though it does occur in schists...the pegmatite itself but we always found fruitful digging in the wall zone enclosing the pegmatite since...since the heat of the encroaching pegmatite usually forced gases into the wall rock altering it, enriohing...not as large as free grown crystals from the pegmatite nor are they striated as deeply or at all. The...TOURMALINE is often common in the schist surrounding a pegmatite. Another interesting facet of TOURMALINES is their
Journal (issue)
etHCk.Hld /o1t, ,A149u41, 19112. CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY ........................................................ RECENT FINDS OF MINERALS IN CENTRAL CONNECTICUT . 1 270 271 276 276 277 278 279 By L. W. Li1tle...Auociatlo11 270 ROCKS AND MINERALS Chips From Tlte Quarry ROCKS AND M I NERALS IS CENSORED FOR FOREIGN DISTRIBUTION...consists of the following in ascending order: the Middlesex black shale, the Cashaqua shale the Rhinestreet...found in the Cashaqua but th.ey occur in the Middlesex and the Hatch beds and in immense numbers particularly
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
Journal (issue)
,,/en,U jQUARRY .............................................................................. PEGMATITE MINERALS OF THE PALERMO QUARRY, NORTH GROTON, N. H . By H arold..., dip vertical co 80Ā°SW . west side of H udson County Boulevard These interecting joi nt systems made...Bigelow Pond, in Union, Tolland County, Conn. (See Three Connecticut Localities, by Wilbur J. EJ. well...Development Commission and Mr. Gregg of the Connecticut D evelopment Commission. The rerort of this investigation
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
LOCALITY AT DANBURY, CONNECTICUT, 1837-1965 By RONALD EVERETT JANUZZI Danbury, Connecticut One of the most...mineralogical literature had its beginning at New Kaven, Connecticut on the 15th day of June, 1835 A.D. It was on...and Padanaram Road) in the village of Danbury, Connecticut. It was within this restricted area that Shepard...ago while engaged in the geological survey of Connecticut. It was collected in the town of Danbury near...dumortierite, are new to the mineralogical records of Connecticut. The following is a description of these minerals
Book (edition)
1_ļæ½ Cv1,_1'--Aļæ½ __, SECOND EDITION 1955 HOLIDAY HILL PRESS 1485 FORCE DRIVE, MOUNTAINSIDE, N. ļæ½- 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
Book
ADULARIA Adu Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...Iron-manganese phosphates of the Williams pegmatites, Coosa County, Alabama (by P. B. Leavens & T. A. Simpson) 6:66-73...localities: Baveno, Italy 14:157168 ALBITE Davis Hill near Bancroft, Ontario: an occurrence of large nepheline...ALICE GLORY HOLE The Alice glory hole, Clear Creek County, Colorado (by T. A. Hanson & W. B. Craft) 18:185187...18:185187 ALLACTITE AJlactite from Franklin and Sterling Hill, New Jersey (by P. J. Dunn) 14:251-252 ALLCHAR Famous
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
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 (volume)
........................ 83 The History of Lord Hill, Black Mountain, Mount Apatite, and Nathaniel H...... 315 Duane L. Leavitt The Bennett Pegmatite, Oxford County, Maine . ...............................permanent photographic exhibits in the northeastern USA. The Shaubs have been active in ornithological research...gratefully dedicated. Gene Foard (right) at Swamp #1 quarry, Topsham. Gene Foard speaking with Frank Perham...Gene Foard with Yan King, 1994 (left) at Nevel quarry, Newry. In Memoriam Gene Foord Gene [Eugene Edward]
Book
fluorescing minerals. The fieldā€”mine, mine dump, or quarryā€”can be richly rewarding in its production of...Stanford University, Marcelle Weber of Guilford, Connecticut, and Richard Bostwick of Bloomfield, New Jersey...the AutoCAD program. Helen Brumbaugh of the Cherry Hill, New Jersey, Library managed to obtain a seemingly...lampā€”the fluorescent blue of benitoite from San Benito County, California; the lemon yellow of esperite from... or the intense green of autunite from Spokane County, Washington. The color and beauty of minerals under
Book
fluorescing minerals. The fieldā€”mine, mine dump, or quarryā€”can be richly rewarding in its production of...Stanford University, Marcelle Weber of Guilford, Connecticut, and Richard Bostwick of Bloomfield, New Jersey... AutoCAD program. Helen Brumbaugh of the Cherry Hill, New Jersey, Library managed to obtain a seemingly...lampā€”the fluorescent blue of benitoite from San Benito County, California; the lemon yellow of esperite from...or the intense green of autunite from Spokane County, Washington. The color and beauty of minerals under
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
Journal (issue)
barium strontium m em ber of the pyro- ā€¢ Panda Hill, T an za n ia chlore-m icrolite series l x l $....... 203 J. Douglas Scott Hidalgoite from Gold Hill, U t a h .........................................Wayne C. Leicht Crandallite from Gore, Frederick County, V irg in ia .................. 223 Richard S....ille r a n S e c ti o n , ann. mtg. Mar, 22-24 Portland, Oregon Amer. Fed. of M in. Societies & Eastern...Texas D ept, of Earth Sciences Portland State University, Box 751 Portland, Oregon 97207 A1 L ewis, P.O
Book (edition)
Lincoln. Encyclopedia of minerals Sagiiache County Pu blic Library Saguache , Colorado DEMCO For...Photo Editor: Wendell E. Wilson Library Saguache County Public Saguache, Colorado VAN NOSTRAND REINHOLD...of Canada. Clay Mineralogy, by R. E. Grim (McGraw-Hill, 1968). Crystal Chemical Classification of Minerals...of weakness caused by deformation or twinning. pegmatite Very coarse-grained granitic rock representing...oil shale of the Green River Formation, Uintah County, Utah, associated with authigenic orthoclase, pyrite;
Book (edition)
Willard Lincoln. Encyclopedia of minerals ~~cbe County Public Library Saguache, Colorado OEMCO For Refere...of weakness caused by deformation or twinning. pegmatite Very coarse-grained granitic rock representing...the Fuemrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely disseminated in uraniferous...in the Cave Hills and Slim Buttes areas, Harding County, South Dakota. SELECTED REFERENCES: Thompson, M...oil shale of the Green River Formation, Uintah County, Utah, associated with authigenic orthoclase, pyrite;
 
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