| Locality type: | Road Cutting |
| Classification |
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| Species: | Wulfenite |
| Formula: | Pb(MoO4) |
| Formation: | Secondary |
| Comments: | "Here and there small microscopic wulfenites occur both as pseudocubic (similar to the Loudville, Massachusetts, material only considerably smaller) as well as bipyramidal crystals (Marcelle Weber, personal communication, 1984)." (Segeler & Molon, 1985). At least one former Ron Januzzi specimen of a platy orange mineral in crude micro-crystals turned out to be calcite. |
| Habit: | peudocubic, bipyramidal |
| Colour: | orange-red |
| Abundance at site: | Very Rare |
| Confirmation |
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| Validity: | Believed Valid |
| Data |
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| Mineral Data: | Click here to view Wulfenite 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: | 96388 |
| Long-form Identifier: | 1:3:96388:8 |
| GUID (UUID V4): | bb5ee04b-8848-4676-ad2c-e6839aab1fb1 |
| Nearest other occurrences of Wulfenite |
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| 10.3km (6.4 miles) | ⓘSouth Main Street construction site, Torrington (Wolcottville), Litchfield 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 |
| 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 |
| 50.5km (31.4 miles) | ⓘLinkpot cut, Airline Railroad, East Hampton (Chatham), Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA |
| 51.8km (32.2 miles) | ⓘTrumbull, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA |
| 54.4km (33.8 miles) | ⓘAncram Lead Mines (Ancram Mine: Livingston's Mine), Boston Corners, Ancram Township, Columbia County, New York, USA |
| 56.9km (35.4 miles) | ⓘFillow Quarry (Branchville Quarry; Branchville Mica Mine; Smith Mine), Branchville, Redding (Reading), Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA |
| 70.6km (43.9 miles) | ⓘLoudville Lead Mines (Manhan Lead-Silver Mine; Southampton Lead Mine; Northampton Lead Mine), Easthampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA |
| 89.0km (55.3 miles) | ⓘOssining (Sing Sing), Westchester County, New York, USA |
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