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Albite from
Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA


Classification
Species:Albite
Formula:Na(AlSi3O8)
Comments:"The coarse grained, red feldspar-granite of Greenwich (8), includes large individuals of albite." Shepard (1837). "in cavities in granite or granite gneiss" Schairer (1931).
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Molybdenite1 photo of Albite associated with Molybdenite at this locality.
Quartz1 photo of Albite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Albite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:810874
Long-form Identifier:1:3:810874:6
GUID (UUID V4):2e003ce9-08b1-42bb-aefa-68396d94f675
Localities for Albite in this Region
Ritch Quarry, Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
Unnamed construction site, Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
Voorhis Quarry, Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
Nearest other occurrences of Albite
2.2km (1.4 miles) Voorhis Quarry, Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
2.4km (1.5 miles) Ritch Quarry, Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
9.9km (6.2 miles) Lake Street Quarry, Harrison, Westchester County, New York, USA
13.4km (8.3 miles) Valhalla, Mount Pleasant, Westchester County, New York, USA
14.8km (9.2 miles) Darien, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
17.9km (11.1 miles) Baylis Quarry (Bayliss Quarry), Bedford, Westchester County, New York, USA
19.8km (12.3 miles) Bedford, Westchester County, New York, USA
20.9km (13.0 miles) Norwalk, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
28.4km (17.7 miles) Schorl locality, Wilton, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
30.4km (18.9 miles) State Route 57 zeolite occurrence (Georgetown locality; Connerie's store), Redding (Reading), Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (volume)
SMITH, DIRECTOR BULLETIN 484 THE GRANITES OF CONNECTICUT BY T. NELSON DALE AND HERBERT E. GREGORY Prepared...the Geological and Natural History Survey of Connecticut WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1911 ...discussion____________________._____._ Salient features of Connecticut geology, by Herbert E. Gregory___ Origin, nature...rocks________________.__ __ Granites and granite gneisses of Connecticut, by Herbert E. GregoryName, mineral content,...granitic intrusions_________ ____ 24 Age of the Connecticut granites________ __ _ __ 25 Structure, rock variations
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.............
Report (volume)
granite porphyry._______________________ East Greenwich Group...----___--_--_-_.-_-_-_____________ Spencer...volcanic, hypabyssal, and plutonic rocks of the East Greenwich Group. This group and the Quincy Granite of northern...quadrangles that are mostly in Massachusetts or Connecticut. Officers in the cooperating State agencies who...some of the geological features of southeastern Connecticut, as well as the radiometric ages there, may be...corner of the State have been correlated with Connecticut formations and assigned to the Cambrian and the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
additional information. Pollucite on a matrix of albite and elbaite, 25.5 cm high, from Paprook, Afghanistan;...with a large crystal of pollucite on a matrix of albite and green elbaite from Paprook, Afghanistan. The...the Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, in Greenwich, Connecticut, had a gala opening for a temporary exhibit...of the ninetieth anniversary of the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History and the twentyfifth anniversary...Obodda post lsojc 51 S h o ~ bitns, t N] 07078 USA CCC1-973-4G7-0212 OFpce b .1-973-467-3577 €ina.it
Report (issue)
Baveno law, some with patches of epitactic white albite. 4 =========================================...Fluorapatite, 5.1 cm, from Mt. Mica, Paris, Oxford County, Maine. Trinity Minerals specimen; John Veevaert...the venerable locality of Mt. Mica, Paris, Oxford County, Maine, which Leonard Himes latched onto and carried...than 1 cm lightly implanted on matrix with white albite crystals—a significant “what’s new” item for Mt...on the web. The Linwood mine at Buffalo, Scott County, Iowa was opened initially as a limestone quarry
Report (volume)
.................................... Worcester County, Mass....................................... Westboro....................... 40 Berkshire Hills and Connecticut Valley............................ 40 Hoosac.......... The Triassic fauna and flora of the Connecticut Valley, by R. S. Lull. Environment.............Continued. The Triassic fauna and flora of the Connecticut Valley Continued. Page. The fauna................................................. 139 The Connecticut Valley lakes................................
Report (volume)
Pegmatites of the Middletown Area Connecticut GEOLOGICAL SU R V EY BULLETIN This report concerns work...GEOLOGY PEGMATITES OF THE MIDDLETOWN AREA, CONNECTICUT By FREDERICK STUGARD, JR. ABSTRACT The pegmatites...pegmatites of the Middletown area in Connecticut have been mined almost continuously for feldspar and muscovite...characteristics are usually richer in perthite, albite, muscovite, or quartz. The grain size increases...pegmatites by the addition of tourmaline, muscovite, albite, and beryl. The total resources of beryl, sheet
Report (issue)
............................ 22 Spinel, Orange County, N. Y..................................................................... 37 37 Feldspar, var. Albite, Bedford, N. Y...................................of the southwesterly section of the State of Connecticut, the southeasterly portion of New York State...depression, extending from the present Bockland County, New York, through New Jersey toward the southwest...operations of this kind are now under way in Westchester County. 16 M'liLKTIX NF.W YORK MINKRALOCJICAT; CLUB
Report (volume)
___ Groton____________________________ Oriinge County __________________________ Topsham___________________________..._ Randolph ___________________________ Orleans County- _______________________ Derby Barton _ _________...granite and finished product Continued. Washington County _____________________ 121 Barre and Williamstown________________...______ Windham County ___. .________ ± ________ Dummerston___ ____ ____________ Windsor County __._.____________________...granite and finished product___'.___ 164 Carroll County ___________ ______________ 164 Con way ______
Book (volume)
Lee's farm, S. E. of Friedensand in Windsor, Greenwich townships, Berks Co. Doubly terminated crystals...at Noll's mine, Fleetwood, Berks Co. In the same county small crystals are found at Fritz Also near Buffalo...found in the vicinity of Hellertown, Northampton County. Crystals also occur in Bethel and Upper Darby...farm three miles north of Bethlehem, Northampton County. 44. BIOTITB. (83; found at many localities...99 100.62 Sp. gr. 2.528. 53. ALBITB. (91.) Albite from Lenni, Delaware Co., has been analyzed by
Report (volume)
Granite___________________________________________ East Greenwich Group_________________________________________...Gneiss underlies most of the quadrangle. The East Greenwich Group of Mississippian(?) age includes Spencer... The eastward trend carries it into the East Greenwich quadrangle and to the margin of the Narragansett...the continuation of the schist into 'the East Greenwich quadrangle to the east (Quinn, 1952). The schist...pink microcline and microperthite, white or gray albite-oligoclase, quartz, dark greenish to dark brownish-green
Report (volume)
or younger granite that extends westward into Connecticut and eastward beyond the shore o£ Narragansett...the gneiss and schist formations of eastern Connecticut or to a heretofore unrecognized formation. The...medium-gray, medium-grained; east side of South County Trail, 600 feet north of Pawcatuck River. 5. Gneiss...Gneiss, light-gray, fine-grained; east side of South County Trail 0.27 mile south Kingston Road. T T ------_______...of the intersection of Kingston Road and South County Trail is like that mapped as Ten Rod in the Hope
Report (volume)
letterdesignations of Dale (1904) for his Rensselaer County sequence, have not been listed as such in the compilation...continuously to near the south boundary of Dutchess County, N.Y. All these rocks, at one time or another,...Nassau (Dale, 1892; Ruedemann, 1930; Balk, 1963) ; Greenwich (Ruedemann, in Cushing and Ruedemann, 1914); Ghent...Ruedemann, 1914) to be Units A-E of Dale's Rensselaer County succession). Points that require discussion, as...western Vermont, western Massa- chusetts, western Connecticut. and eastern New York. ;s The outline of the
Journal (issue)
Photo: 5.1.Pekov. The Baringer Hill Pegmatite Llano County, Texas Art Smith artsmithite@msn.com Introduction...the specimens is meager usually giving just Llano County or 5 miles south of Bluffton. However, when reading...were few other pegmatites recognized in the Llano County area so Baringer Hill can be accepted as their...Baringer Hill pegmatite is located in eastern Llano County about 22 miles to the northeast of the town of..."Baringer Hill'' on them. Most just say: "Llano County'' or ''5 miles south of Bluffton''. The 4 Mineral
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
"Specimen comes from a mine somewhere in Yuma County, Arizona."—on label. ARKANSAS—In the March-April...(west of the city). That would be in Jefferson County."—letter dated—June 31, 1956, from Marie Kennedy...masses of brassy-yellow pyrite are also present. CONNECTICUT—The following letter, dated June 18, 1956, comes...are being made on the new Connecticut Turnpike which will run from Greenwich on the New York line to Killingly...of a fish. Nokomis, in the S.W. part of Sarasota County, is on the Gulf of Mexico. GEORGIA—The following
Journal (issue)
2) Recent Finds from the Sante Fe Mine Mineral County, Nevada Tony Nikischer Excalibur Mineral Corp....Fe/Calvada) Mine in the Gabbs Valley Range of Mineral County. Nevada. There are numerous mines and prospects...principal minerals of the skarn occurrence are albite, diopside, fluorapatite, titanite, and wollastonite...with back-scattered electrons. The dark areas are albite (anti-perthite). The gray areas are " hi-Si thorite"...library@ $195.00 plus $15.00 Priority shipping (USA). We accept all major credit cards, PayPal, c hecks
Report (issue)
Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of Connecticut ......... 6 Table 3 Uranium occurrences in...Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of Connecticut...................................11 Figure 4...deposit occurs as a thin seam in graphitic Cleburne County. The property is, about 11.2 SINE phyllite which...Name Location No. Source of information Fairfield County. Short distance northeast of East Village...just beyond the old canal. Schairer, 1931. Fairfield County. Proceed up hill Cameron, et on Portland Ave
Report (volume)
Carboniferous conglomerate on the breccia of the East Greenwich group....................'......................of Woodworth............................ East Greenwich group ....... ............:.....................rocks that extend westward from the town of East Greenwich. The field work occupied three summers and covered...porphyry. Microgranite. Hornblende granite. ^ East Greenwich group. Granite. Granite porphyry. Blue-quarts...into a "Emerson, B. K., Geology of old Hampshire County: MOD. U. S. Geol. Survey, vol. 29, 1898, p. 18
Book
Mineral-Rhodochrosite Rock-Yule Marble 22 22 Zo 24 * Connecticut OG G& BY WW * Alaska Mineral-Gold Gem-Jade ...Delaware Mineral]-Sillimanite Fossil-Belemnite Soil-Greenwich Loam Series 29 30 31 * District of Columbia...made the “Magic City” of Birmingham, Jefferson County “The Pittsburgh of the South” during the turn of...feet thick, occurs near Sylacauga, in Talladega County, being fine-grained and mostly white, ofexceptional...white Sylacauga marble from Sylacauga, Talladega County, is considered among the finest white marble in
Report (volume)
northward into Massachusetts and westward into Connecticut. This crystalline area is bordered on the east...Victory Highway just north of the Providence-Kent county line, and along the south shore of Quidnick Reservoir...some contain almost as much plagioclase (probable albite) as microcline, whereas the microcline of the groundmass...Some phenocrysts enclose small grains of quartz, albite or oligoclase, biotite, and other groundmass minerals...phenocrysts are cut by veinlets of fine-grained albite or oligoclase, quartz, 81nd microcline; along the
Report (issue)
P. Ambers and R. P. Wintsch hole, Moodus, Connecticut 171 Geochemical and geological criteria for...A. Bernitz, and J. S. Fout origin, eastern Connecticut 187 Thrust napping versus fold napping in the...of the Boston Basin . 235 of southeastern Connecticut Nicholas Rast and James W. Skehan Index . ...are from a 1.5-k-deep core drilled at Moodus, Connecticut. Based on their findings, the authors suggest...southeastern Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and eastern Connecticut, U.S.A., in Rast, N., and Delany, F. M., eds
Journal (issue)
after mineral from the Magnet Cove, Hot Spring County, Arkansas' intrusive ring-dike complex are the...inclusions of host rock minerals (i.e .. quartz, pyrite, albite). the emeralds also contain three-phase inclusions...emerald (beryl) in the clear green areas. but an albite-emerald mixture in the white material (Nassau and...Nassau and Jackson. 1970 interpret the t\ o-phase (albite-beryl) grO\vth as simultaneous deposition, rather...descriptive mineralogy. Just $45 plus $8.50 s/h USA Minerals and their Localities Over 800 pages, 8500
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Staurolite Stilbite Zoisite BRISTOL COUNTY The major portion of Bristol County shows sedimentary rocks consisting...similar to the Diamond Hill area of Providence County. The Bristol area, in the vicinity of portsmouth...druses. KENT COUNTY Fringes of sedimentary rocks are found in the east section of this county in contact...Moosup Valley,which runs northward into Providence County, in this discussion.. The rocks of this extreme...from highway 6 mi. S. W. of Clayville N. of W. Greenwich Chlorite Cyanites Ilmenite Labradorite Microclines
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the University of Greenwich, UK. method [14]method at the University of Greenwich, UK. Table1.1.Composition...hereafter) consisted of αspodumene, and quartz and albite as gangue minerals, Figure 2. Quantification of...of 57.8% of α-spodumene, 40.4% quartz and 1.8% albite. Based on the literature, it is known that during...annotated for clarity. Abbreviations: alb = albite; albite; α-spd = α-spodumene; β-spd = β-spodumene;...2θ) with annotated peaks. Abbreviations: alb = albite; α-spd = α-spodselected angles (18 to 24 2θ) with
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(Geology and Min era I Resources o f White Pine County. 1evada). it later enlarged the facility to 150-to...(Tungsten Deposits in the Minerva District. White Pine County. evada), it was opined that extending the upper...conditions at the time of deposition. The Washoe County thinolites are found around Pyramid L ake and north...were found in the Blue Lizard mine, San Juan County, Utah, USA. where they occur together as secondary alteration...the Himalaya Pegmatite Mine (Part VI) San Diego County, California Mark Ivan Jacobson 1714 S. Clarkson
 
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