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Garnet Group from
Salisbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA


Locality type:Town
Classification
Species:'Garnet Group' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:X3Z2(SiO4)3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Garnet Group data
Locality Data:Click here to view Salisbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:249612
Long-form Identifier:1:3:249612:2
GUID (UUID V4):179f446f-12ed-4fd6-a9b6-86e2ae09ca69
References
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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
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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)
Ford died on March 23, 1939, in New Ilaven, Connecticut, at the age of sixty-one. His sudden, unexpected...was born in Westville, a suburb of New lfaven, Connecticut, on February 18, 1878.He prepared for collegein...other physical properties of the members of the garnet group. This study established that the index of refraction...refraction and specific gravity of any garnet depend in a simple way on its chemical composition. The...physical properties found by Ford to exist in the garnet group.l The last of these studies, published in
Report (issue)
Almandine HS114 Garnet Almandine WS475 Garnet Almandine WS476 Garnet Almandine WS477 Garnet Almandine WS478...WS478 Garnet Almandine WS479 Garnet Alunite GDS84 (K) Alunite GDS83 (Na) Alunite GDS82 (Natroalunite) Alunite...Andradite GDS12 Garnet Andradite HS111 Garnet Andradite NMNH113829 Garnet Andradite WS487 Garnet Andradite...Andradite WS488 Garnet Anhydrite GDS42 Annite WS660 Biotite Annite WS661 Biotite Anorthite GDS28 Plagioclase Anorthite...Grossular HS113 Garnet Grossular NMNH155371 Garnet Grossular WS485 Garnet Grossular WS483 Garnet Grossular
Report (issue)
var. Amethyst (purple), West Paterson. N. J. 5—Garnet, var. Spessartite (orange-red), Haven Avenue nnd............................... 22 Spinel, Orange County, N. Y....................................................................................... 40 Garnet, var. Almanditc, Bedford, N. Y'............................................................. 47 Garnet, var. Almanditc, Manhattan Island, New York City...lTiATU NO. Garnet, var. Almandite, Redding, Conn............................................ Garnet, Tar.
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prize the fire and colour of demantoid garnet. Demantoid garnet, as gemmologists will know, is a special...special variety of andradite, the calcium-iron garnet which in its black opaque form is known as melanite...signal the appearance of another transparent green garnet, in this case belonging to the calcium-aluminium...so few samples. T h e dispersion for grossular garnet is 0-027 for the B-G r a n g e : m u c h lower..."olivine" or "olivene" in the trade for demantoid garnet seems fortunately to have died out, and demantoid
Report (volume)
anonymous papers, placed at the end of Part I Co. county cos. · counties CORPORATE AUTHORS. Am G American...Branch Can Pari Canada, Parliament Conn G S Connecticut Geological and Natural History Survey Hawaiian...men in geology: Bain, 08d Geology in education: Salisbury, 18b Outlook of geologist in America: Walcott...Post-Eocene formations: Smith (E A), 94d 06a Ripley group: Johnson (L C), 84 Rome quadrangle: Hayes, 02 ....C), 45, 45a Bourgueticrinus alabamensis, Ripley group: De Loriol, 82 Calyptraphorus: Conrad, 57b Cambrian
Book
BUTTERWORTHS GEM BOOKS GARNET JOHN DROUSE ♦ BUTTERWORTHS ◊ Butterworths Gem Books Edited by Peter...Peter G. Read Beryl John Sinkankas Garnet John D. Rouse Pearls, natural, cultured and imitation Alexander...Darragh Topaz D. B. Hoover Butterworths Gem Books Garnet John D. Rouse Butterworths London Boston Durban...Letchworth, Herts Preface Only a few books on garnet gemstones have been published up to the present...to answer all the questions one might have about garnet, but rather to stimulate the readers to explore
Book (edition)
1. 2. 3. 4. II. Sulphur Group Boron Group Arsenic Group Carbon Group 104 106 109 110 115 MINERALS...Amphibole Group 274 275 277 278 Beryl, etc 2. Unisilicates Chrysolite Group Garnet Group Zircon Group...Axinite 282 Danburite, lolite 286 Mica Group Scapolite Group 287 292 293 286 Nephelite, Sodalite,... Leucite 296 302 303 304 306 Feldspar Group 8. Subsilicates Chondrodite Tourmaline Andalusite, Fibrolite...Chlorite 337 IV. 1. 2. 3. 332 Hydromica Group Group HYDROCARBON COMPOUNDS. Simple Hydrocarbons
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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...arranged alphabetically: P. B. Goodsell, Hartford, Connecticut, 44 p. Hentschel, G., 1983, Die mineralien der
Journal (issue)
it moved upward. Eclogite: A rock that contains garnet and pyroxene as its primary constituents. Eclogites...and titanium. A kimberlite cousin. Melilite: A group of silicate minerals found in igneous rocks that...mostly olivine. Pyrope: An end member of the garnet group of minerals containing magnesium and aluminum...solid rock. Uvarovite: An end member of the garnet group of minerals containing calcium and chromium...Associated Xenoliths.” The authors defined 12 groups of garnet compositions in kimberlites and discussed, among
Journal (issue)
rhodolite garnet and almandine garnet from Umba, Tanzania, as well as in an almandine garnet from Sri... C. Solid inclusions in corundum and almandine garnet from Ceylon, identified by x-ray powder photographs...photographs. J. Gemm., 1967, X , 7, 224-234. Zwaan, P. C. Garnet, corundum and other gem minerals from Umba, Tanzania...by the small table facets, but scapolite is like garnet in being a member or part of an isomorphous series...red stone did not look like a ruby, a spinel or a garnet, nor for that matter did it look like a red tourmaline
are classified according to the chief ion (or ion group) which serves as a mineral’s fundamental unit. The...Michigan. Found in Colorado at Aspen and in Boulder County; also in several mining areas in Arizona. Good...Missouri. Fairly large crystals in Clear Creek County, Colorado. Very fine crystals in dolomite from...Darwin district, Inyo County, California; also at Antimony Peak, San Benito County, California; and large...district, San Bernardino County. Long crystals at Manhattan Mines, Nye County, Nevada. Excellent needle-like
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etc 252 251 Fjiisilicales Cbrysoliie Croup Garnet Grou]) 25 (> 259 Zircon (D'oyj) JdocTMiue E])i(lo(e...Zeolites Section 'riioiusonit(\ b. 1 2h\S Group 1 i singcrite Chlorite Gi\>uj> . 397 310 312...Pyroxene and Sodadirne Feldspar 7. Pyroxene, Garnet, Epidote, and Clirysolite Rocks, S. Hydrous Magnesian...that the gonal that are nearly cubic. same natural group of minerals may include both trimetrio and monoclinic...monoclinic species, as is true of the Hornblende group ; or monoclinio and triclinic, as is the fact with
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chief ion minerals (or ion are classified group) which according serves to the as a mineral’s...Michigan. Found in Colorado at Aspen and in Boulder County; also in several mining areas in Arizona. Good...Missouri. Fairly large crystals in Clear Creek County, Colorado. Very fine crystals in dolomite from...Darwin district, Inyo County, California; also at Antimony Peak, San Benito County, California; and large...district, San Bernardino County. Long crystals at Manhattan Mines, Nye County, Nevada. Excellent needle-like
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searching for silver near Lake Sanford in Essex County discovered magnetite in 1826, but an excess of...tourmaline group have expanded the occurrences of uvite, a little known member of the group to the brown...been identified as other members of the tourmaline group (Dunn et al.-1977). A century and a half ago there...Rochester; the main Public Library of Buffalo and Erie County; and the Crandall Public Library (Holden Research...ciifce—Westchester County.................. Tne McLear pegmatite—5t. Lawrence County..................
Report (issue)
Spectra of Minerals: First Edition by John W. Salisbury . U.S. Geological Survey1 Louis S. Walter NASA...alphabetically and by mineral class, subclass and group at the beginning of the appendix. 7.0 Appendix 2...compounds published prior to 1975. Only Hunt and Salisbury (1975, 1976), Vincent et al. (1975), and Ferraro...scattering (Salisbury et al., 1987). Only the works of Lyon (1963, 1964), Hunt and Salisbury (1974, 1975...Other samples were obtained from the Hunt and Salisbury collection in Denver or from individuals. Most
Book
school at the University of Rochester, he joined a group of Dr. Harold L. Alling's geology students on a...searching for silver near Lake Sanford in Essex County discovered magnetite in 1826, but an excess of...tourmaline group have expanded the occurrences of uvite, a little known member of the group to the brown...been identified as other members of the tourmaline group (Dunn et al.-1977). A century and a half ago there...Rochester; the main Public Library of Buffalo and Erie County; and the Crandall Public Library (Holden Research
Book (edition)
regular, isometric, tesseral, or tessular system. group. 14 Termed by Dana the normal CUBIC SYSTEM 15...Figure 79, d = (a :a op a), {110} i on combination 3 garnet (R "R2'"Si4Oi2). frequent = (a coa coa), {100};...85, d = (a a a), {110};* /// times observed on garnet (R 3 // R2 Si 4 Oi2). : Ob- O) and argentite...a) or {ill} and {ill} : 1 The : tetrahedral group of Dana. CUBIC SYSTEM 23 hedrons possible and...Vertical Intermediate = 7 Planes. 1 The normal group of Dana. MINERALOGY 32 (b) lateral Axes.
Report (edition)
particular site, remember it is possible to visit the county courthouse in which the site is located, and trace...23 23 28 Adams County Native copper localities Teeter quarry zeolite Allegheny County Wittmer wurtzite...wurtzite Bedford County New locality 31 31 locality Paris fluorite locality Sherman Valley cryptomelane...locality Berks County Dyer quarry zeolite locality Frystown fetid barite locality Blair County Altoona barite.... 33 33 35 38 38 42 45 45 47 50 Page Butler County East Unity Church Sedwicks Mill 54 54 54 57
Book (edition)
Crystallography and Physical Mineralogy. By Edward Salisbury Dana, Professor Emeri¬ tus of Physics and Curator...solution will by the laws of molecular attraction group themselves together and gradually build up a definitely...state. As the lava cools these elements gradually group themselves into different mineral molecules, which...of the substance. It must therefore consist of a group of atoms sufficiently large to show all the properties...structure of the crystal, or a chemical molecule, or a group of molecules. For instance in quartz the structural
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progress equally slowly particles of tion will group themselves shaped solid which Crystals can also...state. As the lava cools these elements gradually group themselves into different mineral molecules, which...example, has a cubic, magnetite an octahedral and garnet a dodecahedral habit. By the meant that, although...the resulting The crystals intergrow accord- group is said to be a twin members, ordinarily two...chromite. Dodecahedron: Magnetite, garnet. Trapezohedron: Leucite, garnet, analcite. Pyritohedral Class
Report (issue)
Topographic and Geologic Survey was able to respond to county health officials with details down to the level...zones at a house in Colebrookdale Township, Berks County, which came to the authorities’ attention as having... . . . . . . . . . . . . Quarry L, Northampton County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...C. K. Williams quarry, north part, Northampton County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Granitic.... . . . . . . . . . Chapel Hill anomaly, Berks County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Book (volume)
Duane L. Leavitt The Bennett Pegmatite, Oxford County, Maine . ........................................Moore Electron Microprobe Analyses for Crandallite-Group Minerals from Maine Pegmatites ...................permanent photographic exhibits in the northeastern USA. The Shaubs have been active in ornithological research...tourmalinebearing Himalaya pegmatite at Mesa Grande, San Diego County, California. Most recently, Gene was gratified...opportunity to study megascopic pieces of the same group which came from Maine pegmatites and discovered
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minerals reported but not yet validated, synonyms and group names, and various ill-defined substances of local...City, given to Trinity College of Hartford, Connecticut, in 1911, also should be men¬ tioned. Among the...from the Franklin marble occurrences in Orange County, New York, was purchased in 1914 by the New York...mining activities in the area now called Sussex County were for iron. The earliest of the five iron furnaces...on magnetite ores began much earlier in Morris County, and the bog-iron deposits of the Pine Barrens
 
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