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


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Arsenolite
Formula:As2O3
Comments:Schooner (1955): "as yellowish powdery incrustations on decomposed arsenopyrite at the Strickland Quarry. One rather large mass of the unusual material was taken out of the pegmatite which adjoins the schist in the cut above the main pit. Pyrite is associated, in all the specimens."
Habit:powder
Colour:yellowish
Confirmation
Validity:Unconfirmed/Questioned
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Arsenolite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Strickland Quarry, Strickland pegmatite, Collins Hill, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:96183
Long-form Identifier:1:3:96183:5
GUID (UUID V4):0430de75-3d2f-44cd-9a50-9806eca4f6bc
Nearest other occurrences of Arsenolite
3.8km (2.4 miles) Great Hill cobalt mines, Cobalt, East Hampton (Chatham), Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
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
4.2km (2.6 miles) State Farm Quarry (Road Metal Quarry), Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
47.5km (29.5 miles) Arsenic and nickel mine (Nickel Mine Brook), Seymour, 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.............
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
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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.........................................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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........................................... Connecticut................................................lists. Twenty-five years ago the annual imports of Portland cement were four times the domestic production...combined production and imports of Portland cement. To-day the Portland cement industry is distributed generally...Albany. North Carolina_.Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, Chapel Hill. North Dakota_.Dr. A. G. Leonard, Grand Forks. Mr...See Bauxite and Halloysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found
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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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.........................................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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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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
scorodite, hematite, bukovskyite, pitticite, kankite, arsenolite and amorphous hydrated ion oxides and arsenates...dissolution at the edges x 35. Scale bar I mm. Sansu quarry. (b) Relict arsenopyrite (asp) replaced by goethite...thermodynamically more stable than scorodite and arsenolite (Boyle and Jonasson, 1973) but are kinetically...gold-rich areas on the hypogene gold surface (Strickland and Lawson, 1973). The gold ions in solution...(1986) Corrosion Engineering. (Third Edition). McGraw-Hill, New York, 353 p. Freise, F. W. (1931) The transportation
Report (issue)
................................ Canada Cement quarry . . . . . . • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . ............................................ Cote quarry . . . . . . . . . . . . • . . . . . . . . . . ... . • . . . . . . . . . . • . . . . . Wakefield quarry..................................... . .... Breckin... . . . . . . • . . . . . . . . . . . Templeton quarry.. . . . . . . . . . • . . . . . . . • . . • . ...• . . . . . . . • . . . St-Pierre-de-Wakefield quarry............................. McGlashan Mine .
Report (issue)
COVER Phlogopite mica showing asterism. Top: Portland Township, Quebec. National Mineral Collection...McCloskey Field feldspar occurrence Canada Cement quarry Forsyth Mine Baldwin Mine Headley Mine Cantley...Blanche Mine Blackburn Mine McLelland Mine Cote quarry Dacey Mine Horseshoe Mine Kitty Lynch, Kodak mines...Caverns Lake Girard Mine Wakefield quarry Breckin Mine Templeton quarry Seybold Mine Gemmill Mine Deziel...Mine St-Pierre-de-Wakefield quarry McGlashan Mine Leduc Mine Lachaine quarry Evans-Lou Mine Old Chelsea-Gatineau
Journal (issue)
heat realgar and reduce it into highly toxic arsenolite (chemical formula As2O3), consuming low amounts...Meetings/AGM/ Speaker Coordinator 講座 Anthea Strickland Leo Tang Shing Tung Chan Chi Keung Edward Liu
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
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the lithological and geochemical controls on pegmatite formation, to explore the mechanisms of fractionation...Re-examination of the Broken Hill gossan: applications in exploration for Broken Hill-type mineralisation R...*Corresponding author, email grtj1@le.ac.uk The Broken Hill sediment-hosted Pb–Zn–Ag deposit, New South Wales...type example of the middle-lower Proterozoic Broken Hill type of stratiform base metal mineralisation (BHT)...geochemical characterisation of the gossan at Broken Hill has been carried out since early studies (van Moort
Book
magmatic or hydrothermal origins of elbaite in the pegmatite cavities; the mctamorphic or hydrothermal origins...copper are in the Keweenaw Peninsular. Lake Superior, USA, the largest being 15 x 7 x 3m (approx. 50 x 23 x...occurred in the Ray mine and in Bisbce, Arizona, USA. Very fine spincl-law twins up to 5 cm in size and...Keweenaw Peninsula near Lake Superior, Michigan, USA. Wires, up to 100 mm (4 in) long, come also from...many localities in California, USA (Colorado Quartz mine. Nigger Hill and others). Fine leaf gold comes
Journal (issue)
Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...mineral localities: The Bristol copper mine, Connecticut........................................ 433 by...Creek, Arizona 85331 T h e Bristol m ine in Connecticut has produced world-class specimens o f crystallized...the city of Bristol, in Hartford County, north-central Connecticut. After some tentative beginnings,...c a r i Quarry kHARTFORD Bristol Mine o * ^ i ^ •t K -x \ Portland Strickland Quarry • W ATERBURY
Corporate Document (Series)
a broad reference such as 'Pieman River' or 'Middlesex' has been retained due to a lack of more specific...least one sample so-labelled is probably from Broken Hill, NSW. Catalogues of the major mineral finds have...Cleveland tin deposit, Avebury nickel mine, Colebrook Hill copper-bearing axinite skarn and Mt Ramsay tungsten...in the 1880s and 1890s, including the Colebrook Hill copper mine south of Rosebery and the Balfour copper...clinochlore), based on specimens from Stichtite Hill,near the Adelaide mine at Dundas. AS. Wesley, the
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University Station, Box X, Austin, TX 78713-8924, USA. Fax: +1 512 471 0140. E-mail address: abhijit.mukherjee@beg...Fe CHEMets field kits (Chemetrics, Calverton, VA, USA). Sulfide was also tested by odor and taste (both...SupelcoÒ (Supelco/ Sigma–Aldrich, Bellefonte, PA, USA) anionexchange resin cartridges (after Gallagher...to those seen in the Appalachian basin of Ohio, USA (Lahm et al., 1998). 878 A. Mukherjee, A.E. Fryar...Foster, 1950; Fogg and Kreitler, 1982; Lee and Strickland, 1988). 5. Redox conditions in groundwater Consistent
Book
magmatic or hydrothermal origins of elbaite in the pegmatite cavities; the metamorphic or hydrothermal origins...copper are in the Keweenaw Peninsular, Lake Superior, USA, the largest being I 5 x 7 x 3m (approx. 50 x 23...occurred in the Ray mine and in Bisbee, Arizona, USA. Very fine spinel-law twins up to 5 cm in size and...Keweenaw Peninsula near Lake Superior, Michigan, USA. Wires, up to 100 mm (4 in) long, come also from...fine gold wires come from Farncomb Hill near Breckenridge, Colorado, USA. Fine crystals were also found in
Book
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
Journal (issue)
Three mine pegmatites, Ramona district, San Diego County, California ............................101 by...Three property in the Ramona district, San Diego County, California. This mine, strictly speaking, is developed...the Little Three main dike, one of five major pegmatite dikes on the property. All five dikes have been...been mined for gem-quality and specimen-quality pegmatite minerals. The Little Three property is world-famous...(Sinkankas, 1959). The Lookout mine, further up the hill from the Hercules mine, produced some excellent
Book (edition)
Co\·er photo: \\ 7 ulfenite, Rowley Mine, Maricopa County, 4 cm high specimen, Evan and Melissa Jones Collection...six other special lists of minerals, such as pegmatite minerals, contact-metamorphic minerals, and secondary...gemandmineralmuseum.arizona.edu) is located in the old Pima County Courthouse building at 115 North Church Avenue...on the market. The mines at Bisbee, in Cochise County, have produced large quantities of gem-quality...mineral stamp issued in 1992. At Morenci, in Greenlee County, gem-quality azurite was also commercially recovered
Book (edition)
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,
Report (volume)
6. L. R. , 6. Mineralogy, chemical, problems: Pegmatite phosphates, problems: Fleischer, M., 6. Fisher...Reading: Military Service Pub. Co. Texas, Tordilla Hill area, color: Shale nomenclature: Clark, T. H. ,6...described. Div. Mines, 1; Jenkins, O. P., Choctaw County, Highway 17 area: 3. Toulmin, L. D., Jr., 3. Minor:...analysis: KelH. D., 5. ler, W. D., 3. Talladega County, hematiteOklahoma, potash agstone, granite magnetite...ground water: Powham, C. E. ell, W. J., 4. Marengo County: Newton, J. G., 1. Core-drilling program, ChattanooMica:
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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