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


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Moraesite
Formula:Be2(PO4)(OH) · 4H2O
Formation:Secondary
Comments:Merged sprays of acicular crystals forming a white crust on massive beryl, with hydroxylherderite.
Habit:Acicular, encrustations
Colour:white
Abundance at site:Very Rare
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:SEM-EDS
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Beryl4 photos of Moraesite associated with Beryl at this locality.
Hydroxylherderite1 photo of Moraesite associated with Hydroxylherderite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Moraesite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Strickland Quarry, Strickland pegmatite, Collins Hill, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1073096
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1073096:0
GUID (UUID V4):a4c3456e-a09d-4143-8674-5936b6742e59
Nearest other occurrences of Moraesite
3.8km (2.4 miles) State Forest Quarry No. 2 (State Forest #2 Mica Mine; Carini Quarry), Cobalt, East Hampton (Chatham), Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
References
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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.............
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 peri­ 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
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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 Hud­ dersfield County, Quebec. Their addresses: Vickery — 4 Brendon Road
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Queen’s Park Toronto, Ontario Canada M5S 2C6 Moraesite: Lucian0 Jacques de Moraes (1896-1968), wellknown...Publishing Co. 0 CONNECTICUT! Collector searching for fine mineral specimens from Connecticut,localities ... ... Strickland Quarry Gillette Quarry Roebling Mine Roncari Quarry Thomaston Dam and all othem ..
Report (issue)
Alexander Falster, pegmatite specialists from the University of New Orleans in Louisiana (USA), with the lowdown...pegmatites. Most ore beryl occurs in massive pegmatite zones where crystals may reach considerable size...can be found adjacent to the core margin of the pegmatite and in Suggested Chromophores for Beryl Color-generating...crystal has been recorded from the Alger quarry in New Hampshire (USA). The crystal weighed 455 kilograms... 8.4m: The largest beryl crystal at the Bumpus quarry in Maine was 8.4 meters long, 1.9 meters in diameter
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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
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SWEDEN 5 Cover 1. Hambeigite. Ranglad 'skoye pegmatite field, E. Pamirs. 8x 4 cm. Specimen:A.M. Skrigitil'...popularity in the world, while it is the leader in the USA. Recently, well known jewelry stones have been joined...Robert W. Jones (USA) and Michael Leybov (Russia) BOX 51 SHORT HILLS NEW JERSEY O 7 O 7 8 USA FAX: 2 0 1 -...and most interesting pegmatites of the Rangkul' pegmatite field are distributed over the area of the Muzkol-Rangkul'...with gemstones are distinguished in the Rangkul' pegmatite field. The first type comprises miarolitic pegmatites
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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
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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
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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
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Sabelli & G. Brizzi Osarizawaite from the Silver Hill mine, Arizona ........................ 311 by C... Mira Loma, Cali- RED CLOUD MINE SITE, YU M A COUNTY. ARIZONA WULFENITE, Red Ckud M m 7 JTQ MINERAL... From Rhode Island-am ethyst scepters; from Connecticut-dinosaur tracks from M assachusetts-the alpine...(1st in USA) of this rare sodium phosphomolybdate! Rich yellow in schorl/moly matrix. Gold Hill, Utah....Wilton, CT 06897 (203) 762-0796 • Dept. MR Gold Hill, Utah. Over 750 Mineral Listings — Send three stamps
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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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ians Mr. Atkins and Mrs. Brunton; Dr. or Morgan Hill, William Larson, CA; R. Fallbrook, W. Dr....always is Theophrastus Theophrastus. gazing John Hill by and J. F. Caley make it doubtful whether...gold links National Museum of Naples. McGraw Hill Book Co., After emerald The and and necklace...Baptiste V. J.-B. Ball 1676. 2nd ed. don: Oxford Hill, Caley, E. R., ence, on Press. 238 ed. in...Science. University Museum pp. 343 1971. McGraw-Hill Thorndike, facts University the Islip. 1855-57
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........................ 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]
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Mexico (#2, column 1) and TENNANTITE, Dresser quarry, Walton, Nova Scotia, Canada (13, column 2). ...Memoir 122. "Clay Mineralogy," by R. E. Grim (McGraw-Hill, 1968). "Crystal Data: Determinative Tables," Third...of weakness caused by deformation or twinning. pegmatite Very coarse-grained granitic rock representing...the Fuernrol 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. BEST REF. IN ENGLISH: Thompson,
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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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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;
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prospecting within the limits of the beryl-bearing pegmatite field, Prospecting for non-pegmatitic beryllium...Paragenesis Beryl is equally characteristic of the pegmatite and of the hydrothermalpneumatolytic deposits...Hurlbutite CaBe2[PO,] Herderite Vayrynenite Moraesite Kolveckite —_ CaBe[PO,](OH,F) MnBe[{PO,](OH)...modifications of silica (Beus, 1956c; Brandenberger, 1932; Hill, 1934). At present three polymorphs of ВеЁ» are...with the common association of extensive beryl pegmatite fields with intrusions of biotite granites characterized
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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...M. J. Buerger (1958), The Powder Method, McGraw Hill, New York. (B) Bunn, C. W. (1961), Chemical Crystallography
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charindustrial resources such as abrasive materials and Portland cement. A directory will guide traveling mineralogists...Mineralogy ; Human and Vertebrate Minerals; Metallurgy; Portland Cement Mineralogy; Resin and Amber; and Synthetic... P fen to f atto a m= nm= 1 10 A (see Portland Cement Minerion-exchange properties of Zeolites...Publishing Scripta Company, Washington, DC 20005 USA. Acta Chemica Scandinavica, 1947-, Munksgaard, Noerre...Ohio 43214, USA. American Chemical Society, Journal, 1879-, Washington, DC 20036, USA. American Crystallographic
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REE-rich fluorapatite, Pajarito, Otero County, New Mexico, USA (Roeder et al. 1987; Hughes et al. 1991b)...1968) 5: hydroxylapatite, Holly Springs, Georgia, USA (Mitchell et al. 1943; a, including 0.15 wt % insoluble)...Drexler 1991) 10: alforsite, Big Creek, California, USA (Newberry et al. 1981) 11: strontium-apatite, Inagli...(Welin 1968) 16: johnbaumite, Franklin, New Jersey, USA (Dunn et al. 1980) 17: hedyphane, Långban, Sweden...sodalite foyaite and quartz-bearing peralkaline pegmatite reflect progressively increasing importance of
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Mackenzie Gordon, jr., Robert R. Hessler, Dorothy Hill, Erie G. Kauffman, Robert V. Kesling, Porter M....White. Engineering geology and rock mechanics: Mary Hill, Eugene Kojan, and David J. Varnes. Geochemistry:...Francis J. Pettijohn, and J.W. Pierce. Soils: Mary Hill, Charles E. Kellog, and Arnold C. Orvedal. Statistical...are, for the most part, restricted to those of the USA. Old and obsolete terms are defined when possible...with it. ported. Syn: gap [marine geol], abyssal hill A common low-relief feature of the ocean floor,
 
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