| Locality type: | Quarry |
| Classification |
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| Species: | Marialite |
| Formula: | Na4Al3Si9O24Cl |
| Comments: | Crystals to 15m or so, translucent, but look like mechanical pencil lead lying in fine-grained, gray dolomite-phlogopite-tremolite-sulfide rock. Crystals mostly first order prisms with square cross-sections modified by minor second order prisms. Poorly terminated. |
| Habit: | subhedral elongated prisms, square cross-section |
| Colour: | gray to dark gray |
| Luminescent properties: | pale yellow |
| Abundance at site: | Rare |
| Confirmation |
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| Validity: | Confirmed |
| Confirmation Methods: | Raman Spectroscopy |
| Data |
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| Mineral Data: | Click here to view Marialite data |
| Locality Data: | Click here to view Conklin Limestone Company quarry (Falls Village Quarry), Falls Village, Canaan, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA |
| Photo Gallery | View Gallery (3 photos) |
| Data Identifiers |
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| Mindat Occurrence Record ID: | 813807 |
| Long-form Identifier: | 1:3:813807:1 |
| GUID (UUID V4): | 1cd8a207-68b0-4ff9-9a5d-f1b428763af2 |
| Nearest other occurrences of Marialite |
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| 68.4km (42.5 miles) | ⓘTilly Foster Iron Mine, Town of Southeast, Putnam County, New York, USA |
| 77.9km (48.4 miles) | ⓘCorporate Drive, Long Hill, Trumbull, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA |
| 78.3km (48.6 miles) | ⓘOld Mine Plaza construction site, Long Hill, Trumbull, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA |
| 78.5km (48.8 miles) | ⓘOld Mine Park (Old Tungsten Mine), Long Hill, Trumbull, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA |
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Conklin Limestone Company quarry, Falls Village, Canaan, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA