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Zircon from
Chrysoberyl locality, Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA


Locality type:Outcrop
Classification
Species:Zircon
Formula:Zr(SiO4)
Comments:referred to by Shepard as "calyptolite" in small or minute crystals
Habit:square prisms with pyramidal terminations
Colour:grayish brown, dark brown
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Columbite-(Fe)3 photos of Zircon associated with Columbite-(Fe) at this locality.
Chrysoberyl3 photos of Zircon associated with Chrysoberyl at this locality.
Fahlunite2 photos of Zircon associated with Fahlunite at this locality.
Spessartine2 photos of Zircon associated with Spessartine at this locality.
Albite2 photos of Zircon associated with Albite at this locality.
Smoky Quartz1 photo of Zircon associated with Smoky Quartz at this locality.
Talc1 photo of Zircon associated with Talc at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Zircon data
Locality Data:Click here to view Chrysoberyl locality, Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:660297
Long-form Identifier:1:3:660297:0
GUID (UUID V4):71f2d8fa-758c-47ec-8f33-a4a3995ae848
Nearest other occurrences of Zircon
2.8km (1.7 miles) Rock Landing Quarry (Capt. Rohrback Quarry), Haddam Neck, Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
2.9km (1.8 miles) Civilian Conservation Corps prospect (CCC prospect; Cook columbite prospect), Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
3.5km (2.2 miles) Hewitt Gem Quarry (Herb's Gem Quarry; Sawmill Quarry), Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
3.7km (2.3 miles) Anderson No. 1 Mica Mine (Swanson Mine; Swanson Lithia Mine; Old Lithia Mine; Chatham Lithia Mine), East Hampton (Chatham), Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
4.4km (2.8 miles) Arnold Quarry, Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
5.2km (3.2 miles) Worth and Selden Quarries (Victoria Quarry), East Hampton (Chatham), Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
7.0km (4.3 miles) Slocum prospect, East Hampton (Chatham), Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
7.4km (4.6 miles) John Salak Quarry, Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
9.2km (5.7 miles) Tollgate Quarry (Tollgate Mine; Bidwell Quarry; China-stone Quarry), Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
9.6km (6.0 miles) Vespa stone quarry, East Hampton (Chatham), Middlesex 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...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 as a guide...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...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)
a I The history of chrysoberyl discoveries helps document the growth of mineralogy as a science and...a hobby in the United States. United States chrysoberyl localities appear to number a handful and have...only minute quantities of gem-quality material. Chrysoberyl is probably not as rare as believed, since its...observed crystal forms. Mineral Varieties The name chrysoberyl comes from the transliterated Greek words xpuods...described and named by Werner in 1789 as krisoberil. Chrysoberyl as a gemstone is known for its two varietiesalexandrite
Journal (issue)
Gonnnc'ron. THE MINERALS OF HADDAM, CONN. Br jamss W. DAVIS. PART I. THE town of Haddam, famous the world over...location. is central in Middlesex County, of which it is the half shire town, and the county is central in the...that lies on the east side of the river is called Haddam Neck. The surface of the town, on both sides of...calcite, cassiterite, chalcopyrite, clevelandite, chrysoberyl, citrine, cobalt, cyanite, cooke ite, chlorophane...montite, pyrite, quartz, torbernite, tourmaline, and zircon. The above named minerals were mostly discovered
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ALABAMA—Cherokee County is' in northeastern Alabama. In the central part of Cherokee County is the little...10-yr. old subscriber, Buddy Stewart. "Cherokee County has a wide variety of minerals ranging from those...mica, quartz. Limestone also occurs. Cherokee County is full of minerals, so Buddy informs us, and to...around Rock Run, in the southeastern part of the county, and was mined extensively in recent years. The...over Cherokee County. "Lots of Indian relics are found too." A map of Cherokee County, prepared by Buddy
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Francisco' The speaker described the benitoite locality in the town of Hollister and outlined some of...Batchellerville, told of the relocating of the chrysoberyl locality to the north of Saratoga, known as "Greenfield"..."Greenfield" and of a hitherto unrecorded locality for large black tourmaline at Fort Ann. Further to the...location of the Old Roe Spar Bed on Towner Pond, the locality which furnished the remarkable "skeleton" crystals...crystals of tourmaline, and told of a zircon locality near the lake shore just south of Crown Point. Coming
Report (edition)
CHAPTER l. INTRODUCTION . . . . .I .I Format of locality descriptions How to use the maps . . . . . . ...11 11 11 11 12 12 13 13 13 CHAPTER 3. MINERAL LOCALITY DESCRIPTIONS AND MAPS . . 21 CHAPTER 4. CHECKLIST...INDEX . . .. . .. . . 105 105 106 Locality index (by town) Locality index (by name of site) . ACKNOWLEDGMENTS...much information on collecting sites in Oxford County. Numerous other collectors of Maine minerals also...CleaveIand's portrait. As istance in identifying locality photographs and supplying other information was'
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University] at 07:55 02 December 2014 Figure 1. County map of New York State, prepared by William Besse... but for some of these occurrences, the exact locality is unknown to us. Please note that most of these...We have followed the format of earlier mineral locality articles by using an alphabetical listing of counties;...07:55 02 December 2014 also categorized each locality by geological mode of occurrence as described...of occurrence is indicated at the end of each locality listing with the following code: S = stratabound
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pegmatite in New York is at Bedford in Westchester County. Its complex zoning and mineralogy are approached...by the pegmatite at Batchellerville in Saratoga County. The McLear pegmatite in the St. Lawrence Lowlands...with a metallic luster and foliated texture. Chrysoberyl, BeAl2O4, occurs at two main localities in New...Batchellerville and Greenfield, both in Saratoga County. Another occurrence was mentioned by Levinson in...Ostrom 1951). Troost (1824) recognized that the chrysoberyl occurred in pegmatite in association with “black
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
covered. We were unable, however,to give to each locality visited time and attention necessaryto make other...speeimens. After lunch we journeyed on to the chrysoberyl locality in the Witt liill region in the northeast...years before by George Howe and specimens of chrysoberyl, gahnite and zrrcon were uncovered. There was...obtaining a good supply of small crystals of chrysoberyl of a thin flattened form showing thc repeated...habit. A few coarse garnets and minute crystals of zircon in square prisms were also obtained. The next morning
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
preparation of the hall. W I T T HILL CHRYSOBERYL LOCALITY The chrysoberyl crystals to be found at see them...but the I was there last summer and had trouble locality is one of the few places in Maine in locating...are garnet, fibro- producer. lite, spinel, and zircon ; these last two C. F. Marble are really micros
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
preparation of the hall. W I T T HILL CHRYSOBERYL LOCALITY The chrysoberyl crystals to be found at see them...but the I was there last summer and had trouble locality is one of the few places in Maine in locating...are garnet, fibro- producer. lite, spinel, and zircon ; these last two C. F. Marble are really micros
Book
useful and correct information in regard to the locality and value of Gems in the present state of scientific... James R. Chilton for the use of his beautiful Zircon and American marbles. The I artists, Messrs. Robertson... . . . . . . ............... . . . . . . .. Chrysoberyl, Cymophane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Zircon, Hyacinth, Jargon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2'084 Zircon . . . . . . . . . . . . ....... .. . . . . . .
Book (edition)
Clerk's office, of the District Court of CHARLES Connecticut. Printed by Hezekiah Howe. PREFACE. THE to...Crystals of the present form are seen in the species Zircon, An- . atase, &c. 38. THE OCTAHEDRON WITH...square Prism; a result of frequent occurrence in Zircon crystals. The Octahedron with a rectangular base...through the edges are in one instance a square, and Zircon and Tungsten. in the others, rhombs. Ex- amples...regular composition of three which occur in Chrysoberyl. The individual 1 forms individuals with 2
Book (volume)
Duane L. Leavitt The Bennett Pegmatite, Oxford County, Maine . .............................................. 341 Neil A. Wintringham Maine Mineral Locality Index ..........................................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...Bennett pegmatite, agreed to write about that locality. Carl Francis, curator of minerals and meteorites
Book (edition)
the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Connecticut. OX OK LIBRAR LEN NEW YORK PRE FACE . The...place . (See a figure of a compound crystal of chrysoberyl.) It is very possible that twins of the first...angles of 120° and 60° . Such is the case in chrysoberyl. 2. Postnatal Compound Crystals. 78. Postnatal...with yellow and some brown . Hyacinth varietyof zircon , garnet. 3. Brick-red : polyhalite , somevarieties...ore . Spi H. Brown. 1. Reddish-brown : garnet, zircon. 2. Clove -brown : brown with red and some blue
Field Trip Notes
decreases, falling to the chlorite zone along the Connecticut River. Further east it increases, and the rocks...inplace theory for the southern part, as in Dutchess County, New York. Whether such a combination of theories...(1914) Geology of the North Creek quadrangle, Warren County, New York, New York State Mus., Bull. 170. (1919)...Geology of the Schroon Lake quadrangle, Warren County, New York, New York State Mus., Bull. 213-214....complex^, domical anticlines just west of the Connecticut river » The largest of these, the Chester dome^
Report (volume)
aquifers of the upper James River Valley, Brown County, South Dakota [abs.]: Geol. Soc. America Bull....pitchblende deposits in Golden Gate Canyon, Jefferson County, Colorado: U. S. Geol. Survey Bull. 1030-G, p....1890-1956. Cretaceous section, Medina County, Texas, to Val Verde County, Texas, in San Angelo Geol. Soc....Titaniferous Cretaceous beach placer in McKinley County, New Mexico [abs.]: Geol. Soc. America Bull., v...Summit and Daggett Counties, Utah, and Sweetwater County, Wyoming [abs.]: Dissert. A.bs., v.16, no. 3, p
Report (volume)
described. Div. Mines, 1; Jenkins, O. P., Choctaw County, Highway 17 area: 3. Toulmin, L. D., Jr., 3. Minor:...analysis: KelH. D., 5. ler, W. D., 3. Talladega County, hematiteOklahoma, potash agstone, granite magnetite...ground water: Powham, C. E. ell, W. J., 4. Marengo County: Newton, J. G., 1. Core-drilling program, ChattanooMica:...J.,4. Excursion, Tertiary type-localiMontgomery County: Reade, ties: Rainwater, E. H. , 1. H. L. , Jr...Harris, H. B. trolled: Braunstein, J., 3. Escambia County: Cagle, J. W. ,Jr. Pollard field: Jones, W. B.
Report (volume)
are as follows: COLORADO. Mineralogy. Montrose County, uranium-vanadium deposits: Weeks, A. D., 13R....Iron, Cook County, titaniferous magnetite: Grout, F. F., 5. IRON. Minnesota, Cook County, titaniferous...Journal. Birmingham, Ala. Ala. Geol. Survey Bull.; County Rept.; Inf. Ser.; Map; Mus. Paper; Special Rept...Rept. Alabama Geological Survey Bulletin; County Report; Information Series; Map; Museum Papers; Special... 12 SERIALS Conn. Acad. Arts Sci. Trans. Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences Transactions. New
Book (volume)
summarized in their specific gravity were Euiopean locality, country of Traube in 1886 found another subject...jade Geneva, obtained from the bed European locality, some had his attention thus called to the ...block of of several feet, buried in depth a locality believed to be from this angular, smooth-faced...presented was published by Kashgar, which names locality. interesting Way Thither,” Buddha, is related...mentioned 140-87). prevailing to be reported locality already down to modern to be much River in
 
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