| Locality type: | Hill |
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| Species: | Diopside |
| Formula: | CaMgSi2O6 |
| Formation: | Primary |
| Comments: | Associated with grossular in quartz. |
| Colour: | lime green |
| Confirmation |
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| Validity: | Confirmed |
| Confirmation Methods: | Visually Identified |
| Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data: |
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| Quartz | ⓘ3 photos of Diopside associated with Quartz at this locality. |
| Grossular | ⓘ2 photos of Diopside associated with Grossular at this locality. |
| Garnet Group | 1 photo of Diopside associated with Garnet Group at this locality. |
| Data |
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| Mineral Data: | Click here to view Diopside data |
| Locality Data: | Click here to view Huckleberry Hill, Avon, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA |
| Data Identifiers |
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| Mindat Occurrence Record ID: | 859101 |
| Long-form Identifier: | 1:3:859101:2 |
| GUID (UUID V4): | e2905859-7168-441c-871e-b7a2071a97c6 |
| Nearest other occurrences of Diopside |
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| 1.8km (1.1 miles) | ⓘState Route 179 road cut (State Route 4 road cut Collinsville), Burlington, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA |
| 15.1km (9.4 miles) | ⓘHurley Hill, Bristol, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA |
| 16.0km (9.9 miles) | ⓘPegmatite quarry and ultramafic rock, Harwinton, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA |
| 17.3km (10.7 miles) | ⓘMountain Top Trucking quarry, Torrington (Wolcottville), Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA |
| 18.1km (11.2 miles) | ⓘTorrington (Wolcottville), Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA |
| 18.6km (11.6 miles) | ⓘThomaston Dam railroad cut, Thomaston Dam, Thomaston, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA |
| 19.7km (12.2 miles) | ⓘState Routes 8 and 222 interchange, Thomaston, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA |
| 22.8km (14.1 miles) | ⓘReynolds Bridge, Thomaston, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA |
| 24.3km (15.1 miles) | ⓘColebrook Dam and Colebrook River Lake, Colebrook, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA |
| 29.5km (18.3 miles) | ⓘWoodhaven, Waterbury, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA |
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| Reference Search (possible matching items) |
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 | | Book (volume) | | ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA |  | | Book (volume) | | ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA |  | | Book (volume) | | chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...townagate, chalcedony, jasper, petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville...chalcedony, jasper, fossils. CHERRY COUNTY VALENTINE, in the Sandhills county along the Niobrara R. and Minnechaduza...gem qualityagatized and opalized wood. DAWES COUNTY CHADRON, in N part of Co. and as far W as Crawford...cuts, cut banks, breaks, draws and washes, gullies, hill slopes, etc.chalcedony roses, Celestite crystals |  | | Book | | dollars at the noted locality of Cowee Valley, Macon County, North Carolina. An enthusiastic family found and...visited the well known old Rutherford mine in Amelia County, Virginia, and found bright spessartine garnets...green gem spodumene, was discovered in Alexander County, North Carolina, in 1880 and named for one of its...Hidden. The rose-pink rhodo lite garnet of Macon County was discovered in the late 19th century and named...the Jackson club with its successful shows. Macon County, North Carolina, has a wide awake Chamber of Commerce |
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