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Zircon from
Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA


Classification
Species:Zircon
Formula:Zr(SiO4)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Schorl2 photos of Zircon associated with Schorl at this locality.
Elbaite2 photos of Zircon associated with Elbaite at this locality.
Albite2 photos of Zircon associated with Albite at this locality.
Smoky Quartz2 photos of Zircon associated with Smoky Quartz at this locality.
Quartz1 photo of Zircon associated with Quartz at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Zircon data
Locality Data:Click here to view Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1003702
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1003702:1
GUID (UUID V4):f19bb1e7-aee9-4fc7-95bc-de84dfd1d1e5
Localities for Zircon in this Region
Tollgate Quarry (Tollgate Mine; Bidwell Quarry; China-stone Quarry), Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
Riverside Quarry (Western Quarry), White Rock Mining District, Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
White Rocks Quarry (Consolidated Quarry), White Rock Mining District, Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
Nearest other occurrences of Zircon
4.0km (2.5 miles) Riverside Quarry (Western Quarry), White Rock Mining District, Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
4.3km (2.7 miles) White Rocks Quarry (Consolidated Quarry), White Rock Mining District, Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
4.7km (2.9 miles) Tollgate Quarry (Tollgate Mine; Bidwell Quarry; China-stone Quarry), Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
5.9km (3.7 miles) Strickland Quarry, Strickland pegmatite, Collins Hill, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
7.5km (4.7 miles) Pelton's Quarry, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
7.8km (4.8 miles) Walden Gem Quarry, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
8.3km (5.1 miles) State Forest Quarry No. 2 (State Forest #2 Mica Mine; Carini Quarry), Cobalt, East Hampton (Chatham), Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
8.7km (5.4 miles) Hale Quarry (Andrews Quarry; Glastonbury Quarry), Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
8.7km (5.4 miles) Andrews Quarry (old Hale Quarry; Grandfather Andrews Quarry), Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
8.8km (5.5 miles) John Salak Quarry, Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
CONNECTICUT Mineral Locality Index Although many sites in Connecticut are no longer open to collectors...H. WEBER 1172 West L a k e Avenue Guilford, Connecticut 06437-1342 E A R L E C. SULLIVAN 17 R o c k y...y R i d g e D r i v e T r u m b u l l , Connecticut 06611-5326 T his locality index is meant to serve...collectors. More often than not, collecting in Connecticut is no longer per­ mitted. Many of the localities...effort has been made to list a l l localities in Connecticut, a small state that is big on mineralization
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)
Granite, near Red Stone quarry, Conway, Carroll County, New Hampshire. Henry Minot specimen and photo...Teller and Park counties, CO, USA Crystal Park–Bear Creek, El Paso County, CO, USA Pikes Peak Granite NYF... 3 Mount Antero and Mount White, Chaffee County, CO, USA Mount Antero Granite NYF Miarolitic beryl...Mountains, Boise, Custer and Elsmore counties, ID, USA Sawtooth Granite in the Idaho batholith NYF Miarolitic... Moat Mountain and related areas, Carroll County, NH, USA Conway Granite in White Mountain intrusive
Report (volume)
Pegmatites of the Middletown Area Connecticut GEOLOGICAL SU R V EY BULLETIN This report concerns work...ECONOMIC GEOLOGY PEGMATITES OF THE MIDDLETOWN AREA, CONNECTICUT By FREDERICK STUGARD, JR. ABSTRACT ... The pegmatites of the Middletown area in Connecticut have been mined almost continuously for feldspar...pegmatites in an area of about 58 square miles near Middletown. The primary objectives of the mapping were to...to determine beryllium resources of the Middletown area and to ascertain relations of beryl-bearing pegmatites
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
bornite. MINERAL LOCALITIES IN THE VICINITY TOWN, CONNECTICUT OF MIDDLE- W. G. Fol'e, Wesleyan Unhersity...of the pegmatite quarries in the vicinity of Middletown, from which minerals have been taken in the past...prospect-holes opened in Middlesex and adjacent portions of Hartford counties, Connecticut, fourteen may be selected...Wesleyan University (Locality 18, Fig. 1). The Connecticut pegmatite dikes are composed of predominating...Bolton schist, and four others lie within the Middletown series of metamorphic sediments which are closely
Report (issue)
MAP OF THE MIDDLE RADDAM QUADRANGLE, MIDDLESEX COUNTY, CONNECTICUT By Gordon P. Eaton and John.L. Rosenfeld...quartz diorite gneiss containing minor sphene, zircon, and garnet. Includes some possible -xenolithic...also biotite, locally with minor sphene, garnet, zircon, allanite, and magnetite and sparse calcic scapolite... graphite, pyrrhotite, ilmenite, allanite, and zircon. Outcrops are characteristically fluted and pitted...Contains subordinate Ryanite, tourmaline, rutile, and zircon. Garnet in schist commonly occurs as thin wafers
Book (edition)
LAZULI TURQUOISE GARNET ONYX • PERIDOT* • ZIRCON • CARNELIAN TOURMALINE OPALS • AOATI • ...SPINEL STAUROLITE •^^ VESUVIANITE WILLEMITE ZIRCON CRYSTALS Crystal forms 5 velopment of one face...topaz and spodumene. crystals, Areas in Maine, Connecticut and California, and Madagascar, are famous for...mine, Racooche Valley, White Co. 1866 Vs White County Daniel Light form, % mi. NE Less than 1887 ...Alabama has yielded a 4i%4 carat diamond from Shelby County, 30 miles south of Birmingham, found about 1900
Report (issue)
P. Ambers and R. P. Wintsch hole, Moodus, Connecticut 171 Geochemical and geological criteria for...A. Bernitz, and J. S. Fout origin, eastern Connecticut 187 Thrust napping versus fold napping in the...of the Boston Basin . 235 of southeastern Connecticut Nicholas Rast and James W. Skehan Index . ...suggests that the mid(?)- to late Proterozoic Middlesex Fells Volcanics consist of alkalic to transitional...are from a 1.5-k-deep core drilled at Moodus, Connecticut. Based on their findings, the authors suggest
Report (issue)
Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of Connecticut ......... 6 Table 3 Uranium occurrences in...Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of Connecticut...................................11 Figure 4...deposit occurs as a thin seam in graphitic Cleburne County. The property is, about 11.2 SINE phyllite which...Location No. Source of information Fairfield County. Short distance northeast of East Village, on a...beyond the old canal. Schairer, 1931. Fairfield County. Proceed up hill Cameron, et on Portland Ave. from
Report (issue)
South-central Massachusetts and North-central Connecticut; Geochemistry, Petrogenesis, and Isotopic Age...South-central Massachusetts and North-central Connecticut: Geochemistry, Petrogenesis, and Isotopic Age...south-central Massachusetts and northcentral Connecticut. (Geological Survey professional paper ; P-1295)...Domes (Geology) Connecticut. 2. Domes (Geology) Massachusetts. 3. Gneiss Connecticut. 4. GneissMassachusetts...rare-earth-element patterns 14. Concordia diagram for zircon from Glastonbury and Monson Gneisses 15. Rb-Sr
Report (volume)
R. D. George, Boulder. Connecticut..... .Prof. William N. Rice, Middletown. Prof. H. E. Gregory, Sheffield...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;...following localities: Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20, Pv. 7 E.; Jefferson...Jefferson County, at Elyton; Lee County, at Chewacla lime works; St. Clair County, at Gfeensport; Shelby
Report (volume)
SMITH, DIRECTOR BULLETIN 484 THE GRANITES OF CONNECTICUT BY T. NELSON DALE AND HERBERT E. GREGORY Prepared...the Geological and Natural History Survey of Connecticut WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1911 ...discussion____________________._____._ Salient features of Connecticut geology, by Herbert E. Gregory___ Origin, nature...rocks________________.__ __ Granites and granite gneisses of Connecticut, by Herbert E. GregoryName, mineral content,...granitic intrusions_________ ____ 24 Age of the Connecticut granites________ __ _ __ 25 Structure, rock variations
Book
CONNECTICUT mmES MINERALS V Tourmaline Crystal from Haddam, Connecticut John Hiller, Jr. Hillers CryctaLShop...- CRYSTALS NOT PISTOLS K c^oi c3— A r CONNECTICUT MINES AND MINERALS published privately l i...Shelton, Connecticut I DEDICATION This book is dedicated to the mineral clubs of Connecticut, Continued...1971, John Hiller, Jr, 3 Peters Lane Shelton, Connecticut II CONTENTS 3. 5, l i 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11...24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. Connecticut Mineral Clubs Cleaning and Trimming Oxalic Acid
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
at 23:49 05 October 2014 Daybreak Mine, Spokane County, Washington T he naming of minerals that contain...autunite aggregates from the Daybreak mine, Spokane County, Washington; John Lucking specimen, Jeff Scovil...autunite crystals on matrix from the Apex mine, Lander County, Nevada; Scott Kleine specimen, Jeff Scovil photo...Hill prospect at Lovell and several other Oxford County sites, including the well190 ROCKS & MINERALS...Acworth, Sullivan County; the Parker Mountain mica mine near Center Strafford, Strafford County; and various
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
formed almandite garnets have been noted from Middletown, Concord, Leiperville, and Newlin, Pennsylvania;...Pennsylvania; Upper Merryall and Haddam, Connecticut; Russell and Westfield, Massachusetts ; from Bedford, New...Lode pegmatite near the Royal Gorge in Fremont County, Colorado. Common in the pegmatites of Yavapai...Augustin Peak, Organ Mountains, New Mexico; in Connecticut, and Pennsylvania; and especially in San Diego...Mountain in the Crested Butte region of Gunnison County, Colorado, in good gem crystals. ANDRADITE, calcium-iron
Report (volume)
................................. Androscoggin County............................................. Auburn......................................... Lincoln County ............................................................-...:.....-................. Oxford County........................;............................................................. Sagadahoc County.. '...... ......................................... 23 23 23 26 26 27 27 28 28 31 31 33 41 Connecticut, i..........................................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Portland, Connecticut. To proceed to the locality, follow U.S. Route 6A from Middletown, Connecticut across...across the Connecticut River over the high bridge and into Portland and continue eastward from Portland along...of the lithium pegmatites to be opened up in Connecticut and anyone visting this locality after a blast...pegmatites suggest that the pegmatites of the Middletown, Connecticut area; of which this is only one of many...at the Brown Derby Mine near Ohio City, Gunnison County, Colorado; the pegmatites are quite similar in
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
New Hampshire Greenfield, New York Middletown district, Connecticut Southern Black Hills district, South...chrysoberyl locality is just north of Haddam, Connecticut. From the Amer­ ican Journal of Science (1825)...volume 9, Plate II. Historical Occurrences Connecticut The first chrysoberyl specimens reported from...the United States were collected at Haddam, Connecticut, in 1810 by Archibald Bruce, M.D., who mistook...miles north of Haddam on the west side of the Connecticut River. Twinned and single crystals, some up to
Report (volume)
........................................... Connecticut................................................Boulder. Connecticut_ Prof. William N. Rice, Middletown. Prof. H. E. Gregory, Sheffield Scientific School...See Bauxite and Halloysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;...following localities : Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20 S., R. 7 E.;
Report (volume)
natural pink topaz. In a similar manner a colored zircon may be heat-treated and thereby become colorless...(emerald, aquamarine), spodumene (kunzite, hiddenite), zircon, and gem varieties of feldspar, topaz, and quartz...Del Norte County; Trinity River, Trinity County; Spanish Creek and Gopher Hill, Plumas County; Placerville...Dorado County; Cherokee Flats, Yankee Hill,and Oroville, Butte County; French Corral, Nevada County; Indian...Indian Gulch and Volcano, Amador County; and Alpine Creek, Tulare County. Other western localities are:
Report (issue)
South-central Massachusetts and North-central Connecticut: Petrology, Geochemistry, and Origin by Gerhard...south-central Massachusetts and north-central Connecticut, consists of a northern, silicic and potashpoor................. 10 Ammonoosuc Volcanics and Middletown Formation ............. 11 Monson Gneiss ....trending north-northeast for about 65 km through Connecticut and Massachusetts along the west side of the...Massachusetts to the vicinity of Mlddletown, Connecticut (figs. 1 and 2). Figures 1 and 2 near here.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
manganotantalite, béhierite, and hafnium-rich zircon. Equant isometric crystals range from a few millimeters...his sophomore year at Wesleyan University in Connecticut that his interests turned to geology. Experimental...new-found interest by collecting at localities in the Middletown and Portland areas, especially at pegmatites...Geologic Division based in Boston and then in Middletown doing field mapping and sample compilation. From...value. He began collecting at the Ray mine in Pinal County and soon was helping Wayne Thompson, who had the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Department of Geology, University of Connecticut, Starrs, Connecticut Mineral Compositions of Selected...equivalent(P) granites, 14; Westerly granite, 3; Middletown and Monson gneisses, 10; Glastonbury and Maromas...Introduction Numerous geologic investigations in Connecticut (and neighboring New England states) have involved...problems. Some of these studies, such as those in Connecticut by Brookins and Hurley (1965) and Zartman and...Science Foundation (GF-4148) and the University of Connecticut Research Foundation (No. 103). Also, the 1 Information
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
geochronology of zircon and polygenetic titanite from the Glastonbury Complex, Connecticut, USA: an integrated...80225, USA b Department of Geological Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA c Research...ages for zircon and titanite from a granodioritic gneiss in the Glastonbury Complex, Connecticut, have been...shows simple concentric oscillatory zoning. The zircon TIMS age [weighted average of 207 Pb/206Pb ages...60 ppm U; Th/U of 0 – 0.17). In contrast to the zircon U – Pb age results, SHRIMP U – Pb data from titanite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
collections of several mineralogists of Delaware County, the writer found included t'sphene" (titanite)'...Weskyan Uniuerdty The granite pegmatitesof Connecticut have yielded a large numberof interestingmineralsin...productive, but other quarriesin the vicinity of Middletown and portlandespeciallythe Strickland quarry,...1 Rice and Gregory, Manual of the Geology of Connecticut, Ct. Geol. Nat. Hist. Suruey, Bull,6,73; Professor...Professor Rice has recently added molybdenite and zircon to this list,
 
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