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Greenockite from
State Route 25 road cuts, Trumbull, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA


Locality type:Road Cutting
Classification
Species:Greenockite
Formula:CdS
Formation:Secondary
Comments:yellow encrustations in the veins with galena, quartz, sphalerite, fluorite commonly labeled greenockite are not confirmed. SEM-EDS on one came back as “Probably a mixture of Fe, Mn, and Zn oxides/hydroxides and/or carbonates. Maybe goethite, hydrozincite, and a Mn mineral(s)? Definitely not greenockite or and any other sulfide. We checked another spot and got similar results, except no Mn.” Perhaps impure smithsonite.
Habit:crusts and films on schist, free standing micro crystals on quartz and sphalerite
Colour:yellow
Quality for species:Poor for species, only of interest for locality collectors. (#)
Abundance at site:Rare
Confirmation
Validity:Unconfirmed/Questioned
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Greenockite data
Locality Data:Click here to view State Route 25 road cuts, Trumbull, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
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Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:414788
Long-form Identifier:1:3:414788:6
GUID (UUID V4):fa4483f1-f9a7-4f66-adc5-163afb54fc87
Nearest other occurrences of Greenockite
19.4km (12.0 miles) Fillow Quarry (Branchville Quarry; Branchville Mica Mine; Smith Mine), Branchville, Redding (Reading), Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
26.4km (16.4 miles) U. S. Route 7 Expressway (Danbury line to Iron Works District), Brookfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
28.4km (17.6 miles) Old lead mine, Brookfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
36.2km (22.5 miles) Roxbury Iron Mine (Shepaug Iron Company Mine; Shepaug Spathic Iron and Steel Company Mine), Mine Hill (Ore Hill), Roxbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
50.1km (31.1 miles) Thomaston Dam railroad cut, Thomaston Dam, Thomaston, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
59.8km (37.2 miles) Middletown lead mines (Middletown Mine), Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
62.9km (39.1 miles) Haverstraw, Rockland County, New York, USA
63.3km (39.3 miles) Strickland Quarry, Strickland pegmatite, Collins Hill, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
85.9km (53.4 miles) Canaan, North Canaan, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
88.5km (55.0 miles) Prospect Park Quarry, Prospect Park, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA
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