| Locality type: | Hill |
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| Species: | Grossular var: Hessonite |
| Formula: | Ca3Al2(SiO4)3 |
| Habit: | good crystals occur in quartz and calcite |
| Colour: | cinnamon brown, yellow-brown |
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| Validity: | Believed Valid |
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| Mineral Data: | Click here to view Hessonite data |
| Locality Data: | Click here to view Joppa Hill, Amherst, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA |
| Photo Gallery | View Gallery (2 photos) |
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| Mindat Occurrence Record ID: | 178595 |
| Long-form Identifier: | 1:3:178595:1 |
| GUID (UUID V4): | 5796174f-6d94-4570-8175-ec4f21fb42f7 |
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| 60.0km (37.3 miles) | ⓘDevil's Den (Devil's Den lime pit), Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA |
| 74.7km (46.4 miles) | ⓘMillstone Hill Quarry, Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA |
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 | | Book | | long (Marty, 2004 ). AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins...exist in the region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites between...Litchfield County. Ilmenite masses and crystals from somewhere near Washington, Litchfield County, were described...Lake Road occurrence, Faraday Township, Hastings County. In fall 1994, Dan and Shelley Lambert extracted...Madawaska [Faraday] mine near Bow Lake, Hastings County. Some of the world's finest ilmenite specimens |
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Joppa Hill, Amherst, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA