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Halite from
Somerset, Niagara County, New York, USA


Classification
Species:Halite
Formula:NaCl
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Halite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Somerset, Niagara County, New York, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:117551
Long-form Identifier:1:3:117551:6
GUID (UUID V4):d5df0385-c57e-43fa-88ff-924367d269d4
Nearest other occurrences of Halite
41.8km (26.0 miles) Kendall, Orleans County, New York, USA
65.3km (40.6 miles) Lehigh Mining Company Mine, Le Roy, Genesee County, New York, USA
68.8km (42.8 miles) Wyoming, Wyoming County, New York, USA
76.5km (47.5 miles) Warsaw, Wyoming County, New York, USA
78.0km (48.5 miles) Greigsville Mine, Greigsville, Livingston County, New York, USA
79.4km (49.3 miles) Retsof Mine (Retsof salt mine), Retsof, Livingston County, New York, USA
82.1km (51.0 miles) Rock Glen, Wyoming County, New York, USA
85.4km (53.1 miles) Sterling Salt Company Mine, Cuylerville, Livingston County, New York, USA
85.8km (53.3 miles) Silver Springs, Wyoming County, New York, USA
93.1km (57.8 miles) Livonia Salt Mining Company Mine, Livonia, Livingston County, New York, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (chapter)
paper summarizes the distribution and nature of halite (rock salt) deposits in England and Northern Ireland...all of the UK salt fields are suitable, with the halite beds being too shallow, thin or impure. The UK...stability and security of supply. Gas imports via new pipelines and liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals...in nature as solid rock salt (halite) or in solution as brine. Halite is present in massive bedded deposits...Cameron et al. 1992). The physical properties of halite make it a very good storage medium with solution-mined
Report (issue)
Keuper saliferous strata in the Larne borehole, County Antrim 10 V Page Fig 6. Use of salt produced...nature either in the solid form as rock-salt or halite, or in solution as brine. It is a raw material...produced from deposits in Lancashire and Durham and in County Antrim in Northern Ireland. Other deposits which...Worcestershire, Staffordshire, the Isle of Man and Somerset. Rock-salt is widely distributed in England and...destined chiefly for Sweden, Nigeria, Finland and the USA. Imports were nearly 140,600 tonnes valued at about
Book (edition)
channels of trade, transportation and consumption, new utilizations, and recent discoveries, have, to a...most part, have been progressive. In addition to new finds of valuable deposits, many of the occurrences...has therefore seemed advisable to pre sent such new information as may bring the whole subject more nearly...gas fields occur in almost every State except in New England and a few Southern States, but the discoveries...mmed at Broken Arrow aud Trout creek, in Sc. Clair county. The strata in this field are more faulted und
Report (issue)
Total Petroleum System in the Appalachian Basin of New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia By Robert...total petroleum system in the Appalachian basin of New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia, chap....reservoirs in the Appalachian basin of Kentucky, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia Correlation...Ordovician through Upper Devonian rocks in Kentucky, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia showing...from the samples; and the extent of Salina Group halite deposits Tables [Tables 1–2 as separate files;
Catalog/List
Brein Lecanvie Prospect, Co Mayo Copiapo, Chile New Cliffe Hill, Leicester Whitby, Yorkshire Yakutia... Coldberrv Mine Corsica A2 A2 £2 sop Nevada, USA Unknown The Knipe, S. Scotland Masson Hill, Derbyshire...Nenthead A3 A3 A3 £3 £1.50 £2 Haxis, Arizona, USA A3 £1 A3 A3 £1 £3 A3 A3 A3 A3 £1 £1 £1 £1.50...Arsenoovrite Colorado USA Enaraite Minas Gerais Brazil Pyrrhotite Pitcher, Oklahoma, USA Chalcopyrite on Dolomite...Belstone Qy, Devon Arsenopyrite & Garnet Colarado, USA Covellite & Chalcopyrite Whitesmiths Mine, Strontian
Report (issue)
Wairakei Research Centre, Private Bag 2000, Taupo, New Zealand. 1994 Lffl!?Af?Y MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY...highlighted by black, which represents standing water and halite crust in the basin center, surrounded by orange...Back cover: Left: Ephemeral water dissolving the halite crust on Bristol Dry Lake, California. Right: Badwater...the driest regions of the world. Center: These halite tepee structures form due to groundwater discharging...Stable-Isotope Geochemistry of Fluid Inclusions in Halite, Qaidam Basin, Western China: Implications for
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
TRIASSIC MERCIA MUDSTONE GROUP), TAUNTON DEANE (SOMERSET), S. ENGLAND A. RUFFELL 1, M. BENTON 2, M.J. SIMMS...Taunton Deane (Somerset), S. England. Geoscience in South-West England, 14, 188–193. Four new outcrops of...unusual facies including dissolution breccias and halite crystal pseudomorphs. These features appear to...evaporites, palaeoclimate INTRODUCTION We report on new exposures of the late Triassic North Curry Sandstone...Mudstone Formation) west and east of Taunton (Somerset). This sandstone and grey mudstone unit interrupts
Report (chapter)
Salt-related structures on the Bristol Channel coast, Somerset (UK) James Trude, Rod Graham and Robin Pilcher...service click here to receive free e-mail alerts when new articles cite this article Permission request click...Salt-related structures on the Bristol Channel coast, Somerset (UK) JAMES TRUDE1*, ROD GRAHAM2 & ROBIN PILCHER1...Hess Corporation, 1501 McKinney, Houston, TX 77010, USA 2 Hess Ltd., The Adelphi Building, 1-11 John Adam...trude@hess.com) Abstract: This paper presents a new interpretation of well-known outcrops on the south
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geoscience in south-west England THE DISTRIBUTION OF HALITE (ROCK-SALT) IN THE MERCIA MUDSTONE GROUP (MID TO...GALLOIS Gallois, R.W. 2003. The distribution of halite (rock-salt) in the Mercia Mudstone Group (mid to...variations within the group. Prominent among these are halite-rich beds that are almost wholly confined to the...to 30 m of halite is present within the Dunscombe Mudstone Formation in the Central Somerset Basin between...Mendip Hills structural highs, and up to 130 m of halite is present in the Wessex Basin on the south side
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
fluorite, 82o Blue Anchor point to StolJbrd rocks, Somerset, calcite, baryte, celestine, sphalerite, pyrite...hydrobasaluminite, basaluminite, 931 Merebead quarry, Somerset, mendipite, chloroxiphite, 9o i St. Austell granite...Konya basin, burkeite, halite, trona, 34 I Sfibren-kalaalan Eskisehir county, deerite, 25i Iraq Sinjar...737 Kenya Lake Turkana, Loiengalani, burkeite, halite, thenardite, 341 Zaire Kambowe and Shinkolobwe...lO83 Sterling Hill mine, Ogdensburg, Sussex county, New Jersey, sarkinite, 68 I Victory mine, Custer
Report (volume)
Prof. H. E. Gregory, Sheffield Scientific School, New Haven. Delaware.........Prof. B. L. Miller, Lehigh...Tangier Smith, Berkeley, Cal. New Jersey...... .Dr. H. B. Kummel, Trenton. New York.........Mr. D. H. Newland...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
Book
common minerals in everyday life is halite. There is probably halite in your kitchen. You will find it...it in the saltshaker. If you look closely at halite through a magnifying glass, you will see that most...angles. This is the shape that halite crystals and broken fragments of halite naturally form, reflecting...the arrangement of the atoms in their structure. Halite is composed of two chemical elements, sodium (which...cubic pattern within the structure of halite. When a piece of halite is broken, it usually breaks in the
Catalog/List
Fairfield County, Branchville White xlline with cymatolite, good study ... New Mexico Taos County, near Dixon...cerium aluminum silicate California Los Angeles County, Pacoima Canyon Large black tabular crystals in...iron silicate ACTINOLITE California San Bernardino County, Wrightwood Green prismatic crystalline mass ....CROSSITE Sodium iron silicate California San Benito County, Gem mine Compact blue-gray mass with natrolite...sodium potassium alumino-silicate Arizona Final County, Christmas Dark green cleavages in andesite ..
Catalog/List
this means a recent adilition .Two squares arc new entry for this list ANALCIME Dean Quarry, Lizard...E 501 ANDALUSITE Andalucia Spain. Type Location New East Whcal Russell mine, Devon ,England 140 grey...Newhaven Sussex, England ANDRADITE Franklin New Jersey USA SO 12 Pure hard white sphere shaped nodule...ANGLESITE Broken Hill, NSW. Australia Marysvale, Piule County, Utah 1152 15 Good coverage of small grey crystals...£6 ATACAMITE Cork,lrcland Doonecn Minc ,Alhhics,County 3 ANTIGORITE Snarum, Vikcrsund Norway 0 75 10 Thick
Catalog/List
Keweenaw Domeykite (Cu As) and Native Copper, County Michigan USA 4x2.5 £33 8 CHAMBERSITE four single 1.5 mm...crystals unusual Mn Borate . Venice Dome Louisiana USA £28 17 GANOPHYLLITE light brown micaeous all over...fragments/chips in glass bottle 6cm high Franklin New Jersey USA, this material was originally imported by Gregory...mass 1cm ____, Skouriotissa Mine Cyprus £6 6 98 HALITE cubic crystals replaced by siltstone. Aust Cliff...2x3 with old label stuck to the back - Bergen Hill new Jersey £20 l 04 MENDrPITE pale pinkish white .fibrous
Report (volume)
...... New Hampshire........................................................... 190 201 New Jersey............ New Mexico............................................................. New York. ...........F. C. Schrader: Besides giving several thousand new localities of mineral deposits and adding more than...especially from those of Arkansas, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Texas;... S. Geol. Survey Bull. 126, 1895. Jones, F. A., New Mexico mines and minerals, World's Fair edition,
Catalog/List
means a recent addition .Two squares are new entry for this list New Customers, You can pay with a limiting...Al SO/4 767 ■ AJOITE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona USA 14 ALUMINITE Railway cutting near Creston...£3 2x2 £4.50 2x3 £6.50 Feldspar 963 ALBITE Maine USA 811 ANATASE Tysse, Hardanger,Norway variety CLEA...ANCYLITE Ce Mt Yukspor, Kola Russia 501 ALLOPHANE New East Wheal Russell mine, Devon ,England grey bleby...lx2£5 2x2£10 2x3£15 Gamet 50 ANDRADITE Franklin New Jersey USA Quite rich orange mass in matrix.. Minor willemitc
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
distinctive and characteristic mineral for each county? We tried for a short time, but ran into trouble...and even fossils to the list. In that manner each county was given recognition. As was to be expected, considerable...which county would one designate for quartz? This mineral is found in each Pennsylvania county. In another...very rare mineral is found in one Pennsylvania county, at one place. Should that mineral be selected...selected, or a mineral far more typical of the county? Such decisions are difficult to reach. Finally, one of
Report (chapter)
Spa Federation in Luke (1919). Horwood Spa in Somerset, Nottington Spa in Dorset and Witherslack Spa...prohibition was therefore revised. Under Elizabeth I, a new more secular and scientific approach was adopted...haunt of the young who increasingly turned to the new seaside resorts for their entertainment. Their place...mid-19th century, the practice of hydropathy injected new life into some of the spa resorts. Hydropathy involves...Malvern Llandrindod Droitwich Leamington Matlock Shaft New Bath St Anne’s Pittville Pewtriss Rock Park Well
Book
north-east England Introduction Crime Rigg Quarry, County Durham The Permian red beds of west Cumbria Introduction...Penarth Group of Gloucestershire, Avon and north Somerset Wainlode Cliff, Gloucestershire Westbury Garden...Avon Hapsford Bridge, Vallis Vale, near Frome, Somerset Barnhill Quarry, Chipping Sodbury, Avon Wetmoor...Group of west Somerset St Audries Bay, near Watchet, Somerset Blue Anchor Point, Somerset The Penarth...educational field resource and as training grounds for new generations of geologists on which to hone their
Journal (issue)
index. This is organised hierarchically by country, county or state, then site name. To avoid the confusion...century boundary changes in the British Isles, the county boundaries defined by the Local Governmant Act...are simply referred to as Glamorgan. The new counties and county boroughs brought in by the Lieutenancies...19:18-23 CLARK, A.M. (1998) Earth's Treasury: A new exhibition in the Earth Galleries of the Natural...Wales 17:7-14 MASON, J.S. (1998) Tucekite, a mineral new to Britain, & other rare ore minerals from the Central
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Almandine, Israel, anal., opt., cell-size, 385; New South Wales, anal., opt., X-ray, 561; Rajasthan,... Hyalophane, Kasoite. Barium-orthoclase, Japan, New Jersey, and Sweden, opt. 508. Barwell meteorite,...ternperature, formation of secondary minerals, 408; New South Wales, anal. of glass in, 847. BASDEN (I~.)...of, 250. Beryllonite, Devon, lvii. Beudantite, Somerset, anal., d.t.a., 1013. ALPHABETICAL INDEX BHATTACHERJ...of decomposition of serpentine, 189. Broken Hill, New South Wales, plagioclase, 488. Bromellite, crystallization
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
occurrence of brucite at Merehead quarry, Cranmore, Somerset, 4o0 ALEXANDER (P. O.) and PAUl, (D. K.), Geochemistry...Hastingsite, Hornblende, Fluor-richterite Analcime, New Zealand, 398; Isle of Arran, mode of formation, stability...Aphthitalite, Western Australia, 33 Apophyllite, Somerset, 41o Appinite, Jersey, mode, anal., petrogenesis...53 I Big Bend National Park, Texas, darapskite, halite, 548 BIGGAR (G. M.), Disadvantages of Pt95Au5...), MI4 BLAUER (H. M.), anals, by, 506 Blixite, Somerset, 4o6 BOCCHIO (R.), 3T muscovite from a staurolite-zone
Catalog/List
cl"ystals from Scotland PAULIHGITEfrom N.Ir~land,new stock Qf ZUSSMANITE fl"om U.S.A. Very rich KARIBIBITE...GOLDllnUSLlal location froøi Zaire. CERVANDOMI1.E new Mineralr GR~RITE fro~ ~cotland, HECTORIT~and BEIDELLITE...mas'= (Tushar Mts, ne2r ~1.:w 7;·1il.le F'ilut·e County, Utah, U.S.A) 1x1 fl.30 lx2 f?.40 15 AMAZ0NITE...rich yellow masses with minor quartz. County, NevadaU.S.A) lxl BOp 55 BINDHEIMITE quite rich...massive. (sharon heights~ M2nloPark· Santaclara County, Caifornia U.S.A) 1x1 !4 77 BUSTAMITE pink massive
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
stokesite, 411 Wheal Cock Zawn, stokesite, 41 I Somerset Mendips, chloroxiphite, 357 Merehead quarry, Cranmore...National Park, Texas, darapskite, halite, 548 Carter's mine, Madison County, North Carolina, kerolitc, 443...Maryland, chromian dravite, 4o8 Franklin Furnace, New Jersey, willemite, 7 I Hot Springs, Arkansas, quartz...Santa Cruz County, Arizona, luethite, cornubite, chenevixite, 27 Sultan Basin, Snohomish County, Washington...smolyaninovite, 385 Mt. Colin, pentlandite, 345 NEW SOUTH WALES Broken Hill, gneisses, 469, M2o; plagioclase
 
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