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


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Tremolite
Formula:◻Ca2Mg5(Si8O22)(OH)2
Formation:Secondary
Comments:Microcrystals in voids in amphibolite with adularia.
Habit:needles
Colour:white
Abundance at site:Very Rare
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Adularia1 photo of Tremolite associated with Adularia at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Tremolite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Strickland Quarry, Strickland pegmatite, Collins Hill, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1238132
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1238132:4
GUID (UUID V4):79b48944-1723-4dfc-a8d5-c2f9a26400c8
Nearest other occurrences of Tremolite
10.2km (6.3 miles) State Route 2 roadcut, Marlborough, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
12.0km (7.5 miles) Slocum prospect, East Hampton (Chatham), Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
43.7km (27.1 miles) Watertown, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
44.6km (27.7 miles) Barrett Brothers Quarry (D and J Quarry), Beacon Falls, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA
45.5km (28.2 miles) Pegmatite quarry and ultramafic rock, Harwinton, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
49.7km (30.9 miles) Torrington (Wolcottville), Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
50.5km (31.4 miles) Mountain Top Trucking quarry, Torrington (Wolcottville), Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
51.3km (31.9 miles) Derby, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA
52.6km (32.7 miles) Stevenson Mine (Burke's Copper Mine), Oxford, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA
53.7km (33.4 miles) Baldwin Quarry (Milford Quarry), Milford, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA
References
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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.............
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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 per­ 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
Report (volume)
Pegmatites of the Middletown Area Connecticut GEOLOGICAL SU R V EY BULLETIN This report concerns work...GEOLOGY PEGMATITES OF THE MIDDLETOWN AREA, CONNECTICUT By FREDERICK STUGARD, JR. ABSTRACT The pegmatites...pegmatites of the Middletown area in Connecticut have been mined almost continuously for feldspar and muscovite...morphic and .igneous.rock units in the area near Great Hill. .The pegmatites are composed essentially of perthite...similar to the main part of the body. This type of pegmatite is of limited economic value. About 25 percent
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CONNECTICUT mmES MINERALS V Tourmaline Crystal from Haddam, Connecticut John Hiller, Jr. Hillers CryctaLShop...- CRYSTALS NOT PISTOLS K c^oi c3— A r CONNECTICUT MINES AND MINERALS published privately l i...Shelton, Connecticut I DEDICATION This book is dedicated to the mineral clubs of Connecticut, Continued...1971, John Hiller, Jr, 3 Peters Lane Shelton, Connecticut II CONTENTS 3. 5, l i 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11...24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. Connecticut Mineral Clubs Cleaning and Trimming Oxalic Acid
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They are sometimes found in town libraries or county buildings. Occasionally club members in a community...Artifacts Society, Rock Hill, scheduled a trip to the smoky quartz 10eation near Liberty Hill. RHODE ISLAND A...MillROCKS AND MINERALS eral Club of Lower Bucks County, Fallsington, when they travelled there for corundum...attended by 209 collectors who showed up at the Eureka Quarry. Specimens found were smoky quartz crystals, calcite...at one of their meetings. NEW YORK The ROckland County Mineral and Gem Society, Suffern, enjoyed an informative
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community of Talucah near Vahlermoso Springs, in Morgan County, north Alabama. A large portion of this cave had...of Mines, I heard of an active uranium mine or quarry a couple of miles from town. Following the highway...stopped to collect specimens of malachite in a pegmatite which had been blasted through during construction...at the contact between an otherwise ordinary pegmatite and soft schist. There were solid masses of uraninite...which I'd ever seen from a United States pegmatite." CONNECTICUT—In his letter, dated Jan. 15, 1956, Richard
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cadmium sulfide. They are both found at Sterling Hill and Franklin (New Jersey) almost exclusively as...well-known Ukrainian heliodor occurrence and its many pegmatite minerals. Like its predecessor locality issues...history, geology, mineralogy and a discussion of pegmatite origins, all with exceptional photography of many...is interesting and well diagramed. Chapter 4, Pegmatite Minerals, extends 72 pages and is further divided...Huizing, 534 I Thrasher Dr, Cincinnati OH 45247 USA Please, make checks payable to Mineralogical Almanac
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I; X Contents for August, 1947 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY .................................................714 NORTH JERSEY MINERAL SOCIETY FIELD TRIP TO CONNECTICUT. By K atherine B . Kanth ......................·························731 REMINISCING ON COLLINS HILL, CONN. By David H . Seaman ................... A. 702 R OCKS AND MINERALS CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY NORTHWEST FEDERATION OF MINERAL SOCIETIES CONVENTION...oilwell located 5 miles north of Fort Cobb, in Caddo County, of western Oklahoma, reached a depth of 17,823
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.........................................94 Connecticut ..............................................................548 Table of Maps Page Alabama County Map ...................................................................................4 Alaska County and Stream Map ......................................................................22 Arizona County Map ................................................................................49 Arkansas County Map ..........................................
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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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include chromite, diopside, bronzite, olivine, tremolite, and serpentine minerals. Measurements of the...contained in one or more of the minor minerals, tremolite, serpentine, talc, and chromite: that is, serpentine...rocks is concentrated hi the late-stage minerals tremolite, talc, and kammerite. Petrographic descriptions...lepidolite-bearing pegmatite dikes, in schists, in the Ohio City area, Gunnison County, Colo. The microlite...from pegmatite within a few feet of the pegmatite-schist contact in the Strickland quarry, Portland, Conn
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PETER ZODAC Contents for June, 1940 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY .................................................collect specimens of the world's largest garnets. The quarry is atop Gore Mountain ( a certified slci run in...miles from DeKalb Junction is an abandoned feldspar quarry. Investigation showed extensive dum ps and a fine...sharp green, translucent monoclinic crystals of tremolite, one of which, broken from a mass of quartz, measured...on indefinitely, both collecting in St. Lawrence County and writing about it. Let it suffice that we obtained
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members and friends of M.S.P. acsection met at the Quarry Garden Farm, home cepted the invitation of the...to arrange a proand Light Company to visit their quarry, power gram for the coming year. installation and...MEMORIAM Member, Frank Hall was called to the Upper Quarry on August 19th. The Greatest Collector needed a...good in heaven. Rockland County Mineral & Gem Society The Rockland County Mineral & Gem Society meets...Members of the Society journeyed to the Gillette Quarry in Haddam Neck, Conn. Those attending the trip
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.........................................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...well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a bed deposit⎯yellow...deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy
 
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