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Galena from
Wilton, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA


Classification
Species:Galena
Formula:PbS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Galena data
Locality Data:Click here to view Wilton, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:81603
Long-form Identifier:1:3:81603:0
GUID (UUID V4):c9c014ae-efc0-4c36-a8d1-0eb76c26cfdb
Localities for Galena in this Region
Wilton Silver Mine, Wilton, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
Nearest other occurrences of Galena
4.5km (2.8 miles) ⓘWilton Silver Mine, Wilton, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
6.0km (3.7 miles) ⓘNorwalk Silver Mine, Norwalk, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
11.8km (7.4 miles) ⓘRidgefield Silver Mine, Ridgefield, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
17.2km (10.7 miles) ⓘBedford, Westchester County, New York, USA
19.6km (12.2 miles) ⓘDyke Park, Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
20.4km (12.7 miles) ⓘOld Mine Plaza construction site, Long Hill, Trumbull, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
20.5km (12.7 miles) ⓘOld Mine Park (Old Tungsten Mine), Long Hill, Trumbull, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
20.6km (12.8 miles) ⓘState Route 25 road cuts, Trumbull, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
23.3km (14.5 miles) ⓘLane's Mine (Lane's Lead and Silver Mine; Elm Street), Monroe, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
23.8km (14.8 miles) ⓘLane's Copper Mine (Fan Hill Road), Monroe, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in the same area and found pyrite, chalcopyrite, galena and sphalerite. 142 xline—crystalline xled—crystallized...and aurichalcite at Theba. "Theba is in Maricopa County on Route 80, 5 miles S / W of Gila Bend and the...country for dumortierite is near Dehesa, San Diego County, California, where beautiful specimens, violet...Lowry AFB 30, Colorado. ROCKS AND MINERALS CONNECTICUT — The following item was sent in by Al Browne...limited scale, a simple pegmatite near BranchviUe (Fairfield Co.), Conn. To reach the spot follow the old maps
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Anderson and Fullagar? 1977 Schrader et al., 1977 Wilton pluton Granville Co., North Silns (Connor) Wilson...Liberty Hill pluton Kershaw, Lancaster, and Fairfield Co., North North Carolina Carolina South...vein-disseminated South Carolina Winnsboro pluton Fairfield Co., Lithoniag.neiss DeKalbCo., pegmatites...molybdenite;cp, chalcopyrite;py, pyrite; sph, sphalerite;ga, galena;bn, bornite. Reference for age of pluton. Ages...Fullagar, P. D., 1977, Geochronology leaf, Brown County, North Carolina: SoutheasternGeolof the Boy Sc
Report (volume)
Colorado.........Prof. R. D. George, Boulder. Connecticut..... .Prof. William N. Rice, Middletown. Prof...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;...following localities: Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20, Pv. 7 E.; Jefferson...Jefferson County, at Elyton; Lee County, at Chewacla lime works; St. Clair County, at Gfeensport; Shelby
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)
the Cape Ray Fault Zone of Southwestern D. H. C. WILTON Newfoundland AND D. F. STRONG Departmentof Earth...gold-bearingmassivesulfidedeposits. The mineralspresentare galena,sphalerite,chalcopyrite,pyrite, electrum,and rare...the result of intense,localizedductileshearing(Wilton, 1983). The Windsor Point Group is divisible into...WindowglassHill Granite,indicatingan ageof 369 ___ 12 m.y. (Wilton, 1983). This Late Devonianage overlapsthat determined...geophysicalstudiesindicate that some an age of 362 ___ 15 m.y. (Wilton, 1983). mineralization also occurs in narrow
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Gem, Lapidary and Mineral Society of Montgomery County. Her subject was pointers on collecting and collecting...Gordon, Jr. and John Garvin . . . . To hunt for galena, sphalerite, and a variety of materials the Central...Mineral Society journeyed to West Hartford, Connecticut . . . . The Northern Berkshire Mineral Club had...a student of earth science at the Danbury Fairfield County Youth Museum to be used for a collection of...Society, the Rock and Mineral Club of Lower Bucks County, went to two locations on a recent field trip,
Book
CONNECTICUT mmES MINERALS V Tourmaline Crystal from Haddam, Connecticut John Hiller, Jr. Hillers CryctaLShop...- CRYSTALS NOT PISTOLS K c^oi c3— A r CONNECTICUT MINES AND MINERALS published privately l i...Shelton, Connecticut I DEDICATION This book is dedicated to the mineral clubs of Connecticut, Continued...1971, John Hiller, Jr, 3 Peters Lane Shelton, Connecticut II CONTENTS 3. 5, l i 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11...24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. Connecticut Mineral Clubs Cleaning and Trimming Oxalic Acid
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
inclusion gas analyses J. Conliffe a,⁎, D.H.C. Wilton b, N.J.F. Blamey b,c, S.M. Archibald d a Geological...Environmental Science, New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM 87801, USA d Aurum Exploration Services Canada, Whitby, ON,...secondary porosity, with dark-brown sphalerite, galena and pyrite with gangue quartz, dolomite, calcite...31.8‰ for late stage pyrite, 16.7 to 32.9‰ for galena and 23.2 to 33.8‰ for sphalerite. The relatively...thermochemical sulfate reduction. Pb isotope data from galena separates suggests that the Pb was derived from
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineral has been mined quite extensively in Clay County, Alabama, from one end to the other. It is quite...south of Antimony Peak, near Hollister, San Benito County, California. While it might sound like exaggeration...Byram and Old Greenwich are in the S.W. tip of Fairfield Co., Conn. "In the late summer of 1956 I was...river (the mine is near the east bank of the Connecticut River) I found a clear 3Sx 2 inch smoky quartz...microscopic cubes to striated cubes % inch in diameter. Galena was noted as traces in but few specimens. Some
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
IsotopeData for Galena Separatesfrom the Labrador Central Mineral Belt DEREK H. C. WILTON Departmentof...unconformably overliesArcheantrondhjemitesof the 1984; Wilton, 1991) consistsof six Proterozoicsu- Kanairiktokintrusivesuite...caniclasticsedimentaryunits and minor maficunits 1984; Wilton et al., 1988) the ArcheanNain province (Gower et...Lake on the coastand the inland Michelin zone (Wilton anorthositecomplex (Emslie, 1980). The Central...0361-0128/91/1293/1721-16 $3.00 1721 1722 DEREKH. C. WILTON Hopedale GENERAL GEOLOGY OF THE CENTRAL MINERAL
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2184 DISCUSSIONS S.M., 1984,Leadisotopedatingof galena-bearing veinsin 1986, Uraniumin earlyProterozoicAillik...two-stagemodel:EarthPlanet. Sci. Letters, v. 26, p. 207-221. Wilton, D. H. C., 1991, Metallogenicandtectonicimplications...ISOTOPE DATA FOR GALENA CENTRAL MINERAL BELT--A SEPARATES REPLY DEaEIC H. C. WILTON Department of...incorrectly implicationsof galenalead isotopedata (Wilton, insistingthat I view such determinationsas exact...polyphasestrainfabricwith well-definedF1, S‱, and F2 (North and Wilton, 1988). The BruceRiver Group was unconformably
Report (volume)
........................................... Connecticut................................................See Bauxite and Halloysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;...following localities : Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20 S., R. 7 E.;...; Jefferson County, at Ely ton; Lee County, at Chewacla lime works"; St. Clair County, at Greensport;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
IMPLICATIONS LABRADOR OF Pb ISOTOPE DATA FOR GALENA CENTRAL MINERAL BELT--A SEPARATES DISCUSSION...believe that someof the age calculation methodsusedby Wilton (1991), and thushis interpreted ages(e.g., in the...interpretedGrenvillianage),cannotbe justified. The mannerin which Wilton has picked and chosenbetweenStacey-Kramers (1975)...interpretationsof someof the lead isotope data. In his abstract,Wilton refers to t‱ and t2 agesof 2473 and 1163 Ma that...evolution models(e.g.,CummingandRichards,1975). Wilton Hence, becauseof their inherent nature, the crustal
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Central Mineral Belt, Labrador, Canada D. H. C. Wilton t and R. J. Wardle 2 1 Department of Earth Sciences/Centre...separated from each subsystem and mobilized to form the galena mineralization). The t2 age is approximately the...carbonate galena, sphalerite, fluorite, barite, pyrite and chalcopyrite. Wardle and Wilton (1985) have...cm thick) of carbonate-quartz, with intergrown galena-sphalerite-pyrite, transect metafelsic volcanic...small areas of disseminated galena and pyrite in the host rocks. Galena has also been found as small
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
situ microanalyses of pyrite, chalcopyrite and galena yield a wide range of 34S values (-6.4 to +15...deposit formation. Lead isotope compositions of galena show little variability with style of mineralization... 1984; Goodfellow and Peter, 1996; Pollock and Wilton, 2001; Pollock, 2004). There are even fewer in...dominated by sphalerite and pyrite, with lesser galena, chalcopyrite, tetrahedrite-tennantite, and bornite...Ag-bearing sulphosalts; trace Ag is also present in galena (Gill et al., 2016). Gold contents in electrum
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
gypsum-anhydrite-pyrite-chalcopyrite-sphalerite-galena-quartz-clay minerals, (3) pyrite ore (ryukako)...sphalerite), (5) black ore (kuroko) of sphalerite-galena-chalcopyrite-pyrite-barite, (6) barite ore (barite...calcite, Cpy = chalcopyrite, Crd = cordierite, Gn = galena, Grt = garnet, Hbl = hornblende, Hem = hematite...Black (kuroko) galena-sphalerite-rich ore Pyrite (ryukako) ore Black (kuroko) galena-sphalerite-rich...with 100 ml deionized water (Nanopureℱ, Barnstead, USA); 12 ml SnCl2 solution (14 wt %) was added to promote
Book (edition)
mmed at Broken Arrow aud Trout creek, in Sc. Clair county. The strata in this field are more faulted und...prong of Canoe creek, in St. Clair county, to Ha\sop creek, in Bibb county, a distance of 60 miles. Down to...to Helena, in Shelby county, the field has an average width of 5 or 6 miles. Below that point the width...miles being in the latitud" of Blocton, in Bibb county. The south ern end of this field has a greater...Jefferson county; Helena, Montevallo, and Brierfield, Shelby county; and at Blocion. Bibb county. The Warrior
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1 & JosĂ© PerellĂł 2 & Robert A. Creaser 3 & John Wilton 4 & Alan J. Wilson 5 & Toby Dawborn 6 Received:...Robert A. Creaser robert.creaser@ualberta.ca John Wilton john.wilton.uk@gmail.com Alan J. Wilson awilson@aminerals...Hardy L (2009) ReOs dating of arsenopyrite from the Galena mine—evidence for Mesoproterozoic age of the Ag-Pb-Zn...Bagdad porphyry Cu–Mo deposit, northern Arizona, USA. Mineral Deposita 38:585–596 Barra F, Broughton D... Ore Geol Rev 86:856–866 PerellĂł J, Cornejo P, Wilton DHC, Creaser RA, Winter L, Smith R (2017b) Grenvillian
Report (issue)
............................ 22 Spinel, Orange County, 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...few miles north of New York City in Westchester County. One of these mines at Bedford has been in continuous
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
comprehensive listing, including detailed spot locations on county road maps, refer to this publication, which can...The price is $5.00 plus 4% sales tax. Individual county road maps can be obtained from the North Carolina...Carolina 27611 B. J . M C K E N Z I E Alamance County Pyrophyllite, cacoxenite, diaspore, sericite, pyrite...hill, 0.2 mile from the road. Alexander County Alexander County is a renowned mineral collecting area in...following are mineral collecting sites in Alexander County: 1) Emerald, rutilated quartz, smoky quartz, and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-2812, USA John Clifford johnaclifford@aminerals.cl 3 Antofagasta...and chalcocite, although bornite, chalcopyrite, galena, and sphalerite also occur as fine- to medium-grained...delicate wormy textures together with earlier-formed galena, which it replaces partially to completely (Fig...overall paragenetic sequence from chalcopyrite and galena through bornite to chalcocite. Pyrite is present...in minor amounts, commonly in chalcopyrite- and galena-sphalerite zones, where it typically is the earliest
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
was some hexagonal brucite crys­ tals The Bergen County Mineral­ ogy and Paleontology Society, Paramus...This is written on a beautiful Indian of the Connecticut Valley and illustrated Summer day for the December...Jewelers, was guest speaker Nine members of the Wayne County Gem and Mineral Club, Marion, made a field trip...apatite, rare earth minerals and mica The Tompkins County Gem and Mineral Club, Ithaca, presented a slide...Syracuse for its part in helping to restore the Cayuga County Historical Museum Why are continents where they
Report (issue)
. . ALAMANCE COUNTY 5 5 Pyrophyllite ...... f .......... 5 ALEXANDER COUNTY ................. 9 ALLEGHANI COUNTY 1± Manganese ....... f 11 Barite , 11 Copper . 11 ASHE COUNTY. . . . Copper...Staurolite AVERY COUNTY . . ......... 13 13 13 . 13 Iron and Epidote BUNCOMBE COUNTY Garnet ...........13 Moonstone and Associated Minerals 15 BURKE COUNTY 15 Corundijin 15 Itacolumite 15 Toiirmaline...Amethyst f . , 4 .18 CABARRUS COUNTY 18 Minerals of the Cabarms County Mines 18 CALDWELL COUNT! 18 Pyrite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
barite carries some galena. Nearby are the "Old Lead Mines" of Civil War times where galena has been mined...About 18 miles northeast near Jamestown in Cherokee County is another lead mine." ARIZONA—A letter dated Sept...Reservation north of this community (in Apache County) with "high hopes" of finding the legendary diamond...localities as South Africa and Arkansas. ARKANSAS—Galena has been mined near Blakely Creek, Garland Co....look of abandsilver, chalcopyrite, chalcocite, galena, onment to it. The pit is slowly filling bornite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
framboidal pyrite, anhedral chalcopyrite, pyrrhotite, galena and euhedral arsenopyrite) by secondary ion mass...immediately associated with massive sulphides. Galena Pb isotopic compositions by SIMS microanalysis...et al. 2003). Determining Pb isotopic ratios in galena hosted in the Lemarchant metalliferous exhalites...Exploits subzones (Swinden 1988, 1991; Pollock and Wilton 2001) (Fig. 1a). The Exploits Subzone is composed...addition to typical VMS sulphides (pyrite, sphalerite, galena and chalcopyrite), the massive sulphides also contain
 
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