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| Species: | Albite |
| Formula: | Na(AlSi3O8) |
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| Validity: | Confirmed |
| Confirmation Methods: | Visually Identified |
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| Mineral Data: | Click here to view Albite data |
| Locality Data: | Click here to view Schorl locality, Wilton, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA |
| Data Identifiers |
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| Mindat Occurrence Record ID: | 851337 |
| Long-form Identifier: | 1:3:851337:3 |
| GUID (UUID V4): | eff12494-0fca-4822-ae78-c11898fe77c3 |
| Nearest other occurrences of Albite |
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| 2.5km (1.6 miles) | ⓘState Route 57 zeolite occurrence (Georgetown locality; Connerie's store), Redding (Reading), Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA |
| 4.3km (2.7 miles) | ⓘFillow Quarry (Branchville Quarry; Branchville Mica Mine; Smith Mine), Branchville, Redding (Reading), Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA |
| 7.6km (4.7 miles) | ⓘRedding Glen (Redding Ridge), Redding (Reading), Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA |
| 10.3km (6.4 miles) | ⓘWest Redding grossular locality, Redding (Reading), Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA |
| 10.5km (6.6 miles) | ⓘCasey Quarry (Ridgefield pegmatite), Ridgefield, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA |
| 10.6km (6.6 miles) | ⓘTiticus Mica Quarry, Ridgefield, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA |
| 12.5km (7.8 miles) | ⓘNorwalk, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA |
| 13.0km (8.1 miles) | ⓘWeston meteorite (incl Easton; Trumbull; Fairfield), Easton (Weston), Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA |
| 14.2km (8.8 miles) | ⓘThe Cascades, Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA |
| 15.1km (9.4 miles) | ⓘBiermann Quarries (Bethel quarries) and tourmaline ledge, Bethel, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA |
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 | | Report (issue) | | International, LLC P.O. Box 263, East Hampton, CT 06424, USA Phone 1.860.267.1512; fax 1.860.267.7225 www.lapisint...microcline from Pakistan's world famous Gilgit area. The schorl is 4. 7 cm high. Photo Jeff Scovil; private collection...CHRISTIAN WEISE VERLAG, GERMANY AND LAPIS INTERNATIONAL, USA Tourmaline ♦ History ♦ Mineralogy • Tourmaline...name is attributed to Erker (1595) who named schorl (schorl). Then, mineral names were based on each individ...species. Modern historians are uncertain as to what schorl actually was in Erker's time, except that the intervening |  | | Journal (issue) | | R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur...COVER: Tourmaline crystal group 9 cm long, with albite and lepidolite, mined recently at the Himalaya...postpaid): Locality —Minas Gerais, Brazil (by J. S. White) [1970, vol. 1, no. 2, p. 73.] Locality —Minas...p. 22-25.] Newry, Maine, a pegmatite phosphate locality (by V. T. King) [1975, vol. 6, no. 4, p. 189-204...vol. 8, no. 6, p. 475.]* The best of San Diego County (by W. Larson) [1977, vol. 8, no. 6, p. 507-515 |  | | Book | | long (Marty, 2004 ). AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins...region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites between the towns...crystals of edingtonite were first found in 1978. The locality has yielded lustrous, tabular crystals of ilmenite...5 cm (Grice and Gault, 1981). CONNECTICUT Litchfield, Litchfield County. Ilmenite masses and crystals...crystals from somewhere near Washington, Litchfield County, were described in print by Charles Upham Shephard |  | | 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 |
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