| Locality type: | Road Cutting |
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| Species: | Pyromorphite |
| Formula: | Pb5(PO4)3Cl |
| Formation: | Secondary |
| Comments: | Fine green crystals, some of which comprise radiating groups. Schooner (1961) describes "beautiful specimens...These are equally small, compared with pyromorphite from classical localities, but they are clean and quite attractive. Some show the mineral, associated with wulfenite crystals, in vugs of pegmatite, near ore veins; others have pyromorphite filling seams in green and purple fluorite." |
| Habit: | radiating groups of elongated prismatic |
| Colour: | green |
| Quality for species: | Good crystals or rich for species - important (!) |
| Abundance at site: | Very Rare |
| Confirmation |
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| Validity: | Believed Valid |
| Data |
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| Mineral Data: | Click here to view Pyromorphite data |
| Locality Data: | Click here to view Thomaston Dam railroad cut, Thomaston Dam, Thomaston, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA |
| Data Identifiers |
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| Mindat Occurrence Record ID: | 96379 |
| Long-form Identifier: | 1:3:96379:0 |
| GUID (UUID V4): | 22fd5120-8a0c-479b-a312-df6afc474e32 |
| Nearest other occurrences of Pyromorphite |
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| 18.6km (11.6 miles) | ⓘHuckleberry Hill, Avon, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA |
| 20.1km (12.5 miles) | ⓘCanton Lead Mines (Cherry Brook lead mine; Dyer Farm zinc mine), Rattlesnake Hill, Canton, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA |
| 37.1km (23.1 miles) | ⓘBrookfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA |
| 38.0km (23.6 miles) | ⓘOld lead mine, Brookfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA |
| 38.6km (24.0 miles) | ⓘU. S. Route 7 Expressway (Danbury line to Iron Works District), Brookfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA |
| 40.9km (25.4 miles) | ⓘMiddletown lead mines (Middletown Mine), Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA |
| 44.8km (27.9 miles) | ⓘBiermann Quarries (Bethel quarries) and tourmaline ledge, Bethel, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA |
| 50.1km (31.1 miles) | ⓘState Route 25 road cuts, Trumbull, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA |
| 51.8km (32.2 miles) | ⓘTrumbull, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA |
| 56.9km (35.4 miles) | ⓘFillow Quarry (Branchville Quarry; Branchville Mica Mine; Smith Mine), Branchville, Redding (Reading), Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA |
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