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Almandine from
Pelton's Quarry, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Almandine
Formula:Fe32+Al2(SiO4)3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Almandine data
Locality Data:Click here to view Pelton's Quarry, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:131834
Long-form Identifier:1:3:131834:0
GUID (UUID V4):1ff21fd7-f1f1-4592-a93e-257172401050
Nearest other occurrences of Almandine
1.6km (1.0 miles) Schoonmaker Mine, Strickland pegmatite, Collins Hill, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
1.6km (1.0 miles) Strickland Quarry, Strickland pegmatite, Collins Hill, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
2.0km (1.2 miles) Hale-Walker prospects, Collins Hill, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
2.5km (1.6 miles) Walden Gem Quarry, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
2.7km (1.7 miles) Case Quarries, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
2.9km (1.8 miles) Bordonaro Quarry, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
3.0km (1.9 miles) State Forest Quarry No. 1 (State Forest #1 Quarry; Clark Hill Quarry), East Hampton (Chatham), Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
3.2km (2.0 miles) Nathan Hall Quarry (Clark Hill Quarry), East Hampton (Chatham), Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
3.3km (2.0 miles) Clark Hill prospect, East Hampton (Chatham), Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
3.4km (2.1 miles) Great Hill cobalt mines, Cobalt, East Hampton (Chatham), Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
homogeneous. Sp. gr. = 5205-25; locality, Pelton's Quarry, Portland, Conn. (2.j Picked grains from the monazite...atomic weight of the oxides obtained from the Portland specimen was 140.1, which number was also used...easily before the blowpipe, thus indicating the almandine variety. The minerals accompanying it are felspar...rich in soda, also with biotite, amphibole, and almandine. The author employs a new method of distinguishing
Book (edition)
or orange. A massive fluor, from Huntington, Connecticut, shows beautifully the emSome kinds of white...near Clear Lake, in California; Inferno, Humboldt County, and Rabbit Hole Mines, Nevada; near Evanston,...Y.; Greenville, N. C.; near Attleboro, in Bucks County, Pa.; Wake, N. C. ; on Tyger River, and at Spartanburg...the eastward of Halifax; GOLD. 125 in Beauce County, Canada; also, north of Lake Superior; and in the...North Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, formerly in the County of Wicklow, where a nugget of 22 ounces was found;
Book (volume)
Minerals of Franklin and Sterling Hill, Sussex County, New Jersey," by Charles Palache. U. S. Geol. Sur...(1931). " The Minerals of Connecticut," by John Frank Schairer. Connecticut State Geological and Natural...Oregon. Placer County, Calif. Breckenridge, Oolo. Breckenridge, Colo. Placer County, Calif. Habit...of the Sierra Nevada and stretches from Mariposa County for more than 100 miles toward the The veins occur...chiefly from the Homestake mine at Lead in Lawrence County. In Alaska the most important lode mines are in
Book (edition)
LIBRARY Connecticut Agricultural College Vol. Class No. Cost 1^ . £. Ji^o JLcL^^M^ RRITL 5490191T...made use of: 1, stibnite ; 2, natrolite ; 3, almandine garnet; 4, actinolite 5, ortlioin lielow), to...and other parts of North Wales in Scotland in the county of Wicklow, Ireland ; in Sweden, at Edelfors. In...the sands of the Rhine ; at St. Aray, val du Drac county of Wicklow, Ireland; on the river Jocky, St. Domingo...the eastern United States, in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and more abundantly in New Jersey, where it
Book (edition)
is made use of 1, stibnite 2, natrolite ; 3, almandine garnet ; 4, actinolite 5, ortho: clase A ;...and other parts of North Wales in Scotland in the county of Wicklow, Ireland ; in Sweden, at Edelfors. In...sands of the Rhine; at St. Aray, val du Drac ; county of Wicklow, Ireland ; on the river Jocky, St. Domingo...the eastern United States, in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and more abundantly in NCM No known locality...and other places. In Vermont, at Thetford. In Connecticut, at Middletown. In Massachusetts, at Newburyport
 
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