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Pyrite from
Thompson, Windham County, Connecticut, USA


Locality type:Village
Classification
Species:Pyrite
Formula:FeS2
Formation:Secondary
Comments:1mm crystals pseudomorphed by goethite in voids with stilbite, chlorite, actinolite.
Habit:cubic
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pyrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Thompson, Windham County, Connecticut, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1101624
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1101624:7
GUID (UUID V4):0c863185-224d-4d99-9c9a-eeeaee609282
Nearest other occurrences of Pyrite
12.9km (8.0 miles) Durfee Hill Gold mine, Glocester, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
15.1km (9.4 miles) Killingly, Windham County, Connecticut, USA
16.8km (10.4 miles) Spring Lake, Harrisville, Burrillville, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
22.7km (14.1 miles) Cordierite locality (Bigelow Pond), Union, Tolland County, Connecticut, USA
23.8km (14.8 miles) Wauregan Quarry, Wauregan, Plainfield, Windham County, Connecticut, USA
24.7km (15.4 miles) Sturbridge Graphite Mine (Tantiusques Mine; Winthrop Lead Mine), Sturbridge, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
26.3km (16.3 miles) Interstate highway 295 & State Route 7 intersection, Smithfield, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
26.5km (16.5 miles) Interstate 84 (I-84; I-86; State Route 15; Wilbur Cross Highway), Union, Tolland County, Connecticut, USA
31.7km (19.7 miles) Manville Quarry (Riverview Quarry; CQC Quarry; Forte Brothers Quarry; Todesca Quarry), Cumberland, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
32.0km (19.9 miles) Ballard Quarry, Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts, 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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
quartz. Clora May Mine, Trout Creek Pass, Chaffee County, Colo." The locality is described in Prof. Richard...to 223 pages). Chaffee County is in the central part of Colorado. CONNECTICUT—"I am sending the enclosed...xled—crystallized fl—fluoresces ph—phosphoresces Thompson, Conn., abou: 1 to 3 miles north of U.S. Route...astringent metallic taste. Thompson, in N / E Windham County, is in N / E Connecticut. FLORIDA—"I am mailing...brown, l.w. Belle Glade, in western Palm Beach County, is in southern Florida. I N D I A N A — "The enclosed
Report (issue)
rocks of the Connecticut Valley Belt, Brattleboro and Newfane quadrangles, Windham County, Vermont By...Newfane 7.5 by 15 Minute quadrangles, in Windsor County, Vermont. Specifically, this includes rocks of...these two quadrangles generally lies along the Connecticut River, separating Vermont from New Hampshire...study, along with reconnaissance mapping by J.B. Thompson and J.L. Rosenfeld, was integrated into the 1961...the Vermont Silurian-Devonian sequence (the Connecticut Valley Belt) and the Ordovician-Devonian New
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
occurs as a dense, eggshell-like veneer over the County (in Eastern California), is 12 porous and fragile...Lake. interior. The blade-like crystals were CONNECTICUT—"Thought I would shown by chemical and X-ray...diatomaceous sediments containing County, is in southern Connecticut. these specimens. ILLINOIS—"Enclosed...some large, fine calcite crystals that have small pyrite cubes on the calcite. No. 6—This is an extremely... In between the small quartz crystals are some pyrite cubes and on top of the quartz are dolomite crystals
Report (edition)
much information on collecting sites in Oxford County. Numerous other collectors of Maine minerals also...Railroad : multiple track .. State. Bridge ...... county, parish, municipio .... Power transmission line...Bedrock geologic map of Maine (from Marvinney and Thompson, in prep.; modified from Osberg and others, 1985)...staurolite. The Cook Road staurolite locality in Windham is an example of this kind of deposit. Schists...Rockland-Thomaston, Rockport, and Union areas in Knox County. They once supported a booming industry based on
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Princeton University, Princeton, New jersey 08544, USA ABSTRACT The western metamorphic belt of the Coast...Sphalerite compositions of grains in direct contact with pyrite and pyrrhotite in chlorite-muscovite zone rocks...plagioclase-biotite-garnet-muscovite assemblages adjacent to the Windham Bay pluton about 15 km away. A pressure of 4.8...silicate mineral chemistry when pyrrhotitesphalerite-pyrite assemblages are used. Key words: Sphalerite geobarometry;...University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-1945, USA. Kraus & Hollister, 1979; Crawford & Hollister,
Report (issue)
the 7.5 x 15 Minute Bellows Falls Quadrangle, Windham and Windsor Counties, Vermont By Thomas R. Armstrong1...metasedimentary and metavolcanic rocks of the Connecticut Valley sequence (or trough, after Hatch, 19885)...James B. Thompson, Jr., that has been compiled and published in several guidebook articles (Thompson and Rosenfeld...Rosenfeld, 1979; Thompson and others, 1993b), and the 1961 State Geologic Map of Vermont (Doll and others...succession marked by an unconformity, separating the Connecticut Valley sequence from New Hampshire sequence,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Ohio, painting by Stephen F. Greb. July/August: Pyrite, quartz, and galena, Camp Bird mine, Ouray, Colorado...November/December: Gold on quartz, Eagle's Nest mine, Placer County, California. Wayne and Dona Leicht specimen, Harold...Discovery on Deer Hill, Stow, Oxford County, Maine, W. B. Thompson, 44-51 Anatase, Colorado, 302 Anderson...Walker Vein, Caldwell Stone Company Quarry, Boyle County, Kentucky, 254-58 Andorite, 27 Andradite, Arkansas...Mineralogical Bookplates, J. Sinkankas, 108-11 Colorado Pyrite, Featured Mineral at the 1994 Denver Show, B. M
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
talked on minerals and mineral collecting in Connecticut. A motion picture entitled " Nickel Mining, Smelting...July 8th, 1951, to French Creek Mines, in Chester County, Penn. When sixty-one rockhounds pounded the old...of Sayreville and Parlin, New Jersey, to collect Pyrite and Marcasite nodules. W e arrived at the Sayreville...Roxbury and the Kyanite diggings at Judd's bridge, Connecticut. Progress was slow in the Saturday traffic and...were: Newfane, Chester, Gassetts, Grafton and Windham. The New Hampshire localities were: the Ruggles
Report (issue)
SE, Lake Tuscaloosa North, Townley, Wiley and Windham Springs 7 1/2' quadrangles, Townships 12 through... 75m - lOOm Gwin Group Om—10m 37m — 49m GWIN THOMPSON MILL UPPER COBB LOWER COBB J— Cobb Group 3m—...m thick. (5) Gwin coal group - contains the Thompson Mill and the Gwin coal beds in a stratigraphic...thick, which occurs 37-49 m above the Cobb. The Thompson Mill coal bed is commonly too thin for mining...8/12/80 Berry, SE Windham Springs Berry, SE Windham Springs Windham Springs Windham Springs 1 2 3 4 5
Report (volume)
Colorado.........Prof. R. D. George, Boulder. Connecticut..... .Prof. William N. Rice, Middletown. Prof...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 (issue)
Natural Resources, Mont pelier, Vermont, Zadock Thompson ........................................... lJ......................................... Zadock Thompson ...........................................10...geology in 1816. Amos Eaton had surveyed Rensselaer County, N. Y., and the route of the Erie Canal; further...This work was followed in New England by the Connecticut survey under J. G. Percival in 1835; the Maine...geologist. He selected as his head assistant Zadock Thompson of Burlington; Denison Olmsted, Jr. and T. Sterry
Report (issue)
zones in the central part of the State are the Connecticut Valley and Merrimack "belts" of primarily Silurian...Mesozoic "basins" unconformably overlie the Connecticut Valley belt. For some packages, all aspects of...^^--^-^ .~~^ ^ - 8 - IH M i D DEVONIAN Connecticut Volley belt Merrimack belt ^ chapter G -f 3...and others (1984, fig. 1). PREFACE | 1 | CONNECTICUT VALLEY BELT . . J^ 1. . Conn. Valley belt above...Norman L. Hatch, Jr. (B) Stratigraphy of the Connecticut Valley belt, by Norman L. Hatch, Jr., Peter Robinson
Journal (issue)
(Pb2Sb2O6(O,OH)), and the stibnite-bearing veins near Thompson Falls have shown to Figure 1: Sketch map of part...Montana, showing most locations noted in the text. Thompson Falls is off the map to the NW; Hecla is off the...stibnite, with valentinite (yellow). Antimony Gulch, Thompson Falls, MT. Field of view ~ 1 cm. Sample 402-1... Ewing, Rodney C., 1976, The Harding Mine Taos County New Mexico, New Mexico Geological Society Guidebook...630-464-1947. March 5 and 6, 2022 – Meriden, Connecticut 50th Annual Mineral, Gem, & Jewelry Show and
Report (issue)
Oakman, Berry SE, Lake Tuscaloosa North, Wiley and Windham Springs 7 1/2' quadrangles, Townships 12 through...BROOKWOOD MILLDALE CARTER JOHNSON UNNAMED GWIN THOMPSON MILL Brook wood Group 30m 40m 6O/n 9O/n r-Utley...6 m thick. (5) Gwin coal group - contains the Thompson Mill and the Gwin coal beds in a stratigraphic...occurs 37-49 m above the Cobb. for mining. The Thompson Mill coal bed is too thin The Gwin coal bed is... DRILL HOLE LOG Hole* County Stofa* Tuscaloosa, Alabama Geophysical Log Date: >. Windham Springs, 7^'quadj
Book (volume)
Collectors Guide to Maine Mineral Localities by Thompson et al. ( 1991) contains detailed maps only to...greater variety of minerals are found in Oxford County, alone, than anywhere else on Earth of comparable...than Maine's, as well. An area smaller than Oxford County in Murmansk Ob last, Kola Peninsula, Russia, has...gem-producing areas in the United States, admittedly. Connecticut has produced a few tourmalines, aquamarines,...clear to slightly blue topazes. However, San Diego County, California, is arguably the most important gem-pegmatite
Report (issue)
sulphide deposits of the Elizabeth mine, Orange County, Vermont ... . .............. 4l J.F. SLACK, M...sulphide deposits of the Davis mine, Hampshire County, Massachusetts ........... . .... . . .. ........the manganese ores of the Betts mine, Hampshire County, Massachusetts . .. ......... . ....... . , .....the depos its cons i st of concordant masses of pyrite, sphalerite, galena, chalcopyrite and in places...fine-~rained, massive pyrite containing parts rich in sphalerite-galena and/or chalcopyrite-pyrite (and/or pyrrhotite)
Book
Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...Iron-manganese phosphates of the Williams pegmatites, Coosa County, Alabama (by P. B. Leavens & T. A. Simpson) 6:66-73...ALICE GLORY HOLE The Alice glory hole, Clear Creek County, Colorado (by T. A. Hanson & W. B. Craft) 18:185187...--and W. Hunt: The Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County, Arizona 19:139-144 ALLGOOD, GENNE MYERS --and...Allgood, J. Pradenas: Gold occurrences in Tuolumne County, California 18:41-45, 18:62-64 --with W. H. Wilkinson
Journal (volume)
Geophysical, structural and petrological study of the Windham ultramafics, Vermont . 1 Joseph DiPietro: The geology...of lime-mud with dolomite laminae and traces of pyrite. The lime-mud is a horizontally burrowed pelmicrite...east-dipping narrow bands of lead/zinc ore, comprised of pyrite, chalcopyrite, galena, sphalerite and pyrrhotite...and petrology steatized serpentinite bodies in Windham are studied. They lie in the Appalachian ultramafic...Goldman and Albee (1977) , Perchuk (1970), and Thompson (1976) garnet-biotite methods in Australia, and
Show/Event (guide)
Spinelli Prospect, Glastonbury, Hartford County, Connecticut - A. J. Albini & H. Moritz. 2:30 Chernikovite...warwickite, and dissakisite-(Ce) from New York State, USA - M. V. Luoulescu. R. Rowe, D. G. Bailey, & M. Hawkins...crystals in the Lockport Dolostone, Cicero, Onondaga County, NY - S. C. Chamberlain. D. G. Bailey, & R. Lyons...Lyons. 3:00 The Lowville quartz occurrence, Lewis County, NY - M. Walter & S. C. Chamberlain. 3:15 Rh...Rhodonite-axinite-(Mn) vein assemblages, Franklin, New Jersey, USA. V. King & J. Nemetz. 3:30 Coffee Break 4 3:45
Book
including gold in a state forest in central Connecticut last spring. Moreover, similar gold deposits...11ne 2; ••• Amph1bo1ite--see Bolton, Worcester County M1nera1 Loca11t1es. page 85 ••• 11.8 3~ter cerium...•••••••••••••••••'.' •.••.•••• 2--6 Barn.table County ro •• il Localiti ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••...Localit1e•••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 21 Br1.tol County Mineral Localit1 ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••...24--25 Dukes County Mineral Loeal1tiea •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 26--21 Duk •• County Fo.sil Loeal1tie
Book (edition)
mmed at Broken Arrow aud Trout creek, in Sc. Clair county. The strata in this field are more faulted und...prong of Canoe creek, in St. Clair county, to Ha\sop creek, in Bibb county, a distance of 60 miles. Down to...to Helena, in Shelby county, the field has an average width of 5 or 6 miles. Below that point the width...miles being in the latitud" of Blocton, in Bibb county. The south ern end of this field has a greater...Jefferson county; Helena, Montevallo, and Brierfield, Shelby county; and at Blocion. Bibb county. The Warrior
Book (volume)
beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm...gray Barite rosette up to 5 or 6 inches. CAMPBELL COUNTY MOUND CITY, W to the Missouri R., regional hillsides...gravels, etc.petrified wood, wood opal. CORSON COUNTY LITTLE EAGLE:  area ridges, slopes, stream beds...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States CUSTER COUNTY AREA: The November Mine, 1.2 mi. SE of the Needles...crystals of Metastrengite, showy black and gold Pyrite, and Reddingite;  at Beecher Lode 4.9 mi. SEAmblygonite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
from the Devil’s Den Locality Mount Tabor Rutland County Vermont DOUGLAS ROBINSON Figure 1. Locality map...Additionally, calcite, ilmenite, pyrite, and goethite pseudomorphs after pyrite occurred at the locality. Because...Minerals was titled “The Carlton Quarry, Chester, Windham County, Vermont” and was coauthored with Robert Clements...the Locality The town of Mount Tabor, in Rutland County, Vermont, is situated along the crest of the Green...soproterozoic time (1,600 to 1,000 mya) (Woodrow Thompson, pers. comm., 2017). The tectonic conditions at
Report (issue)
the Saxtons River 7.5 x 15-minute quadrangle, Windham and Windsor Counties, Vermont By Nicholas M. Ratcliffe1...epidote-ilmenite-sphene-chlorite-hornblende-plagioclase-pyrite ± calcite amphibolite, too thin to portray on the...of the Connecticut Valley Belt, Brattleboro and Newfane 7.5xl5-minute quadrangles, Windham County, Vermont:...000, and related text. Doll, C.G., Cady, W.M., Thompson, J.B., Jr., and Billings, M.P., 1961, Centennial...Hepburn, J.C., Trask, N.J., Rosenfeld, J.L., and Thompson, J.B., Jr., 1984, Bedrock Geology of the Brattleboro
 
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