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Rutile from
Southbury, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA


Classification
Species:Rutile
Formula:TiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Fluorapatite1 photo of Rutile associated with Fluorapatite at this locality.
Clinochlore1 photo of Rutile associated with Clinochlore at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Rutile data
Locality Data:Click here to view Southbury, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (8 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1575252
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1575252:3
GUID (UUID V4):daf48e22-e3e7-4ccb-9377-2b194f7629f7
Nearest other occurrences of Rutile
9.6km (5.9 miles) Interstate 84 road cuts (Route 6A bypass), Newtown, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
9.8km (6.1 miles) Berry Road kyanite locality, Roxbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
11.8km (7.3 miles) Ilmenite locality, Bridgewater, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
13.5km (8.4 miles) Sky Ridge railroad cut, Hawleyville, Newtown, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
14.0km (8.7 miles) Rockside Quarry (Mine Hill Quarry), Mine Hill (Ore Hill), Roxbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
15.3km (9.5 miles) U. S. Route 7 Expressway (Danbury line to Iron Works District), Brookfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
15.7km (9.7 miles) Watertown, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
16.3km (10.1 miles) Unnamed quartz prospects, Washington, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
18.0km (11.2 miles) Washington, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
18.1km (11.2 miles) State Route 8 exit 37, Watertown, Litchfield 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... iBooks by Ronald Everett Januzzi CONNECTICUT MINERALS ON PARADE NEW YORK STATE MINERALS ON PARADE Recommended...THE MINERALOGICAL PRESS 83 Elm Street Danbury. Connecticut IIOIPW MINERALS ON PARAt>E F.tMSTltIP* THREE...W*T H COlO* * • TfXT COMF11 MINERALS ON PARADE A New Series of Teaching Filmstrips in Full Color. A Valuable...to enrich our knowledge of the mineralogy of Connecticut: James Dwight Dana Samuel L. Penfield Edward
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
BRUNET Roxbury Road Washington, Connecticut 06793 Litchfield County, the largest, most beautiful, and...are known to have been reported from Litchfield County, 63 from the town of Litchfield alone, according...area of CONNECTICUT Middlesex County or the BranchvilleRidgefield region of Fairfield County. However...the best in Middlesex County is located in North Woodbury. Furthermore, the county was the loca­ tion of...for their production, while the marble quarries of New Preston (a part of Washington), five or six in num­
Report (volume)
dyeing. Only the ruby, sapphire, spinel, emerald, rutile, and quartz of gem quality have been synthesized...spinel, emerald, sapphire, star sapphire, star ruby, rutile, and quartz are gem stones that have been successfully...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:
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(Malagasy) Cordierite, hydroxyapatite, dolomite, rutile, 48I AMERICA Greenland Gardiner Plateau, Kangerdlugssuaq...Columbia, stilpnomelane, 361, M37 St. George pluton, New Brunswick, orthoclase, microcline, 391 U.S.A. Black... kidwellite, I37 Palermo no. I mine, N. Groton, New Hampshire, xanthoxenite, 309 Reading, Vermont, talc... io7 Rockford, Alabama, tapiolite, 477 Southbury, Connecticut, tholeiite, 417 Truckee River, Washoe Co...QUEENSLAND Ban Ban, ilvaite, 85 Mount Perry, rutile, 255 NEW SOUTH WALES Broken Hill, ilvaite, rhodonite
Catalog/List
your labels or send back for an exchange. f _ New Minerals in this list; • • •• • Olivine,Cetineite...CeYFeSiO Quite attractive blue-grey botryoidal on New East Wheal Russell , ALLOPHANE £4 FLUORESCENT ½ x...SO/4 OH magnification there arc small crystals County, Arizona -------------"'--------'-'--'----'--____;;...grey cleavable massive Crystal peak, Park County, Colorado, USA Keystone, South Dakota U.S.A. 1" £4 2x3...grained mass in calcite Dark Star Mine,Ravalli County, Ix½ £2.50 lxl £4 ANCYLITECe CeSr CO/3 Montana
Catalog/List
these ones should be available.---- Give me a ring ! New Minerals in this list; Aenigmatite,Atacamite from...Tacharanite and Tobermorite from Ireland . Five new rocks. This catalogue cancels No 79 Also available...Mohave Ixl £9 'A x A £3 1 xA Pb SiO/3_____________ County. Arizona, U.S.A £5___ Rich orange-red masses with...Ce Y Fe SiO__________ grey botryoidal on matrix New East Wheal Russell, £4 ALLOPHANE 501 A x A ins rock...OH__________ magnification there are small crystals County, Arizona Pure green cleavage AMAZONITE Landsverk
Catalog/List
email; richard.tayler@minerals.freeserve.co.uk New or recent minerals are marked with a diamond. This...236 217 44 658 23 25 7 18 168 27 502 N AME new or rt•ccnt minera ls ABHURITE Sn O O1-l Cl ACANTHITE...Amphibole 2cm £8 3cm £ 15 Near Chelan. E.Washington USA !x i £3 ½" £3 Ix½ £5 Rich fi ne grained black crystalline...wh ite crusts on matrix. Rawhide Mine, Moh ave County, ½ x ½ Arizona, U.S.A £3 Kragero Norway l x2 50p... Jx2 £6 2 x2 £1.20 2x2 £1 2 Ix ! £4 l x2 £8 New East Wheal Russell mine, Devon ,Eng land Madagascar
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
Catalog/List
means a recent addition .Two squares are new entry for this list New Customers, You can pay with a limiting...- - · . 767 AJOITE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona USA 17 ANAL CITE Talisker Bay, Skye, Scotland...ANCYLITE Ce Dark Star Mine.Ravalli County. Montana U.S.A 963 ALBITE Maine USA Rich pinkish line grained mass...1009 ANDALUSITE Ultevis,North Sweden 501 ALLOPHANE New East Whcal Russell mine, Devon ,England variety VIRIDINE...Crcslon . Wyoming ,U .S.A 50 ANDRADITE Franklin New Jersey USA white nodule. Unusual location Quite rich orange
Report (issue)
Hampton, Connecticut, USA © 2008 by Lithographie, LLC P.O. Box 263 • East Hampton, CT 06424 • USA Phone...diopside; 7.1 cm tall Jeffrey Mine, Asbestos, Richmond County, Quebec, Canada Paul Stahl specimen Jeff Scovil...Joachim Zang and Gary Zito Lithographie, LLC • Connecticut From the Editor In April 2008, I attended the...participated in the dialogue as we launched this new policy. Thanks also to all of you for your patience...Almandine BY GLORIA STAEBLER AND PAUL POHWAT 28 New England Garnet BY RUSS BEHNKE 30 Idaho's "Star"
Catalog/List
ones should be available. ----- Give me a ring ! New Minerals in this list Acanthite, Axinite from Devon...ALSiO ALMANDINE garnet group AlS0/4 Al S0/4 ✓ New East Whcal Russell mine, Devon .England Madagascar...group ANNITE ANORTHITE Pure black mica plate new Analysis . paper available. Rich grey crystalline...Scotland mixture wilhChrysotile, pale grey-green ✓ County Bridge Quarry.Lizard C . ornwall massive. Stitchtitc...Norway for this location. Dooneen M ine,Allihies,County lliick rich green mass as coating all over Cork
Catalog/List
ones should be available. ----- Give me a ring ! New Minerals in this list Armenite,Axinitefrom Cornwall...\IOSITE Rich white cruslS on matrix. £5 PbSiO/3 County. Arizona. U.S.A 2x2 1x2 sop Kragero Norway Rich...£6 IX½ grey bleby small botryoidal with possible New East Wheat Russell mine, ½x½ 501 ALLOPHANE £4 -·-·....maenification there are small crystals · - · .County. A:fiZC>i:i--=a=--- 60 AMAZONITE Attractive green...grained mass in calcite Dark Star Mine.Ravalli County. Ix½ £2.50 Ixl £4 37 ANCYLITE Cc CeSr CO/3 ·. __
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Plymouth Road, Baltimore, Maryland. 21214. BRAND NEW FOSSIL BOOK! Just off the press! "Fossil Shark and...Gerard R. Case, 225 St. Pauls Ave., Jersey City, New Jersey. 07306 Put your duplicate minerals to work...Radiant Ultra Violet Products, Cambria Heights, New York 11411 FLUORESCENT HOUSE, 12 Beach Place, Branford...Minerals, 42C Mohawk Drive, North Babylon, Long Island, New York. 11703. FLUORESCENT MINERALS— 10 for $2.00...sample baroque. Roger's Minerals, Box 53, Southbury, Connecticut. 06488. FRANKLINITE, GREEN AND ORANGE
Book
had access to many quarries in the state of Connecticut. Gem-quality tourmaline crystals had been found...and dealer. Today, in 2008, the only place in Connecticut where such finds can be easily collected is Green’s...Mine, which is on the border between Roxbury and Southbury. A garnet in matrix 2.75 inches tall is shown...mineral itself. I hope my photos will inspire a few new collectors and please the old-timers, and that is...COVER: gold on quartz, 4.5 inches tall, Placer County, California Dedication This book is dedicated
Journal (issue)
.................................... 12 5 N ew Haven Mineral Club .....................................remainder FeWO, .... Ferberite hlgh country of Boulder County, Color20-80 % Mn WO., ado, near the town of Nederland...Colorado Geological Sun1c7 Interior of Boulder County Tunnd . Th is tunnel has tapped veil\5 of tungsten... ROCKS and MINERALS Quartz Ripidolit~ Rose Quartz Rutile Sanidine Satin Spar (gypsum ) Scapolite Rcorodite...But in regard to the que~tion of <'Oll l in Connecticut, Shepard snys: "It is an obsernltion as well
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
BOURNE C-O ROCKS A N D MINERALS, BOX 29 PEEKSKILL, NEW YORK 10566 Downloaded by [University of Florida]...price list by writing Roger's Minerals, Box 53, Southbury, Conn. 06488. 850 Don't forget a very useful...favor are Crack hammers, Chipping hammers, New gem scoop, New gad pry-bar. Sold by all good dealers everywhere...purchased from Philip F. Murray, 258 South Main St., New Gty, New York 10956. The petrified wood, in lovely color...Tanglewood amethyst coated with fantastic micro xls of rutile, goethite, hematite, etc. While they last. Write:
Book
Establishment 84-102 Cpllege Avenue Rochester, New York DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF A Petrographic...Establishment 84-102 College Avenue Rochester, New York QE55 05 Copyrighted 1916 by Ward's Natural...series of rocks teacher for study. met a many new Even when such a series has been chosen, he has...Granite Mass. Hornblende-Granite Mass. Pegmatite New York. Trachyte-Syenite Series: HI. 21. 22. Sanidine-Trachyte...Dacite 33. 34. Granodiorite New York 24. 25. 26. Quartz-Syenite New York Hornblende-Syenite Vermont
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
localities, and authors mentioned in the 3oth List of new mineral names are not included in this Index, nor...Alabandine, I.R. spectrum, 277 and MI7 ALABASTER(C.), A new wulfenite locality near Bristol, 298 Albite, Greenland...determination in pumice by X-ray diffractometry, io3; New South Wales, sedimentary, partial anal., cell-size...transformation to mullite and silica, 195 Andradite, New Zealand, anal., M 14; stannian, from a tin slag,...Biotite, Urals, deformation by shock-loading, 41" New Zealand, anal., MI4 "~ Grand Canyon, Arizona, anal
Catalog/List
addition .•Two squares arc new entry for this iist Sizes mainly in INCHES New Customers, You can pay with...SiO F 7fJ 7 ■ AJOITE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona USA Blue veinlets in matrix some with micro botryoidal...£12 7.x2 £24 Hydrocarbon 963 6 ✓ ALBITE Maine USA variety CLEAVELANDITE, pure white sheafy, masses...feldspar 37 ANCYLITE Ce Dark Star Mine,Ravalli County, Montana U.S.A Rich pinkish fine grained mass in...with saffiorite micros £7.50 Ag Sb 501 ALLOPHANE New East Wheal Russell mine, Devon ,England grey bleby
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Sheridanite Miles City, Montana 5 Clinochlore Brewster, New York Wards U.S.N.M. 94515 Wards 6 Diabantite Bingham...Wards Newington, Connecticut 17 Ripidolite (Prochlorite) Wards Southbury, Connecticut 18 Aphrosiderite...Fine-grained (microns), dark metallic green aggregate with rutile, ilmenite, and feldspar. Light metallic green,
Catalog/List
~ f(j'" ~I ~I ~ ~~ li ' Ii ~! ~~ r. ~4 ~ New Minerals in this list; Annite, Chaoite, Hibingite...Richpinkishlinegnincdmassincalcite DarkStarMine,Ravalli County, Jx½ f2.50 lx I L4 MontanaU.S.A -Whitcphcnoaysls...ALlJl'fITT Richorangemassesin quartz,under ½x½ f2 l County,Arizona K AlSOl4OH -~ification lhcrcarc small tals...AMAZONITE FcllpSGroap taminationbut not disp Colorado,USA AM,UONITt PuregTCC11clcavagc Landsvctkquarry,Evjc...Excellentblackmicrocrystalsin vughs 0 & G Quarry,Southbury, withpossibleCalcitecrystals ConnecticutU.S.A
Catalog/List
ones should be available. ----- Give me a ring ! New Minerals in this list From Russ;a, Cafetite,Shafranovskite...Magniotriplite, Normandite. Native Elements, Two new Gold locations and Copper after Aragonite. Metallic...ALLOPHANE grey bleby small botryo i dal with poss i ble New East Wheal Russell m ine, ½ x ½ Ixl £6 I x 1/, ALSiO..._ _ magnification there arc small cr stals _ __ County. _ AI1zona 60 AMAZO:-;ITE 2x3i nch£5 Madagascar...IxI£4 TiO --- - 37 ANC\'LITE Cc Ix1/, £2.50 Ix I£4 County. Rich pinkish fine grai ned mass in calc i te Dark
Catalog/List
means a recent addition .Two squares are new entry for this list New Customers, You can pay with a limiting...minerals of the world" and costs 1mly £10 plus post New arrangement of this catalogue into four sections;...in Syenite 1x I £2 I x2£4 Ca Na ZJ:!i Si~-~ 1044 RUTILE Horrsjoberg,Wermland, Sweden Dark red-brown mass...-·- - - -- - - - - - - 41 BARYfES 501 ALLOPHANE New East Whcal Russell mine, Devon ,England Winster Derbyshire...Feldspar lxl £3 lx2 £5 small 2x2 £9 502 ANTIGORITE County Bridge Quany,Lizard ,Cornwall 172 BEEKITE Tor Bay
 
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