| Locality type: | Quarry |
| Classification |
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| Species: | Triphylite |
| Formula: | LiFe2+PO4 |
| Comments: | At least one 12 x 15 mm crystals, collected by Ronald Januzzi and certainly visually appears to be a triphylite, though rather mottled within, and he considered it pseudomorphed by alluaudite. In Januzzi (1994) he writes: "Alluaudite, collected and recently identified by the author as occurring at Branchville (confirmation by Kampf, Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History), is evidently a pseudomorph after euhedral crystals of triphylite." Needs confirmation. |
| Habit: | blocky |
| Colour: | blue-gray |
| Abundance at site: | Extremely Rare |
| Confirmation |
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| Validity: | Confirmed |
| Confirmation Methods: | Visually Identified |
| Data |
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| Mineral Data: | Click here to view Triphylite data |
| Locality Data: | Click here to view Fillow Quarry (Branchville Quarry; Branchville Mica Mine; Smith Mine), Branchville, Redding (Reading), Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA |
| Data Identifiers |
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| Mindat Occurrence Record ID: | 883125 |
| Long-form Identifier: | 1:3:883125:5 |
| GUID (UUID V4): | acbafe25-02a0-47db-af6d-506286e0fe5d |
| Nearest other occurrences of Triphylite |
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| 20.7km (12.9 miles) | ⓘU. S. Route 7 Expressway (Danbury line to Iron Works District), Brookfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA |
| 24.0km (14.9 miles) | ⓘBrookfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA |
| 60.8km (37.8 miles) | ⓘState Routes 8 and 118 interchange, Harwinton, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA |
| 80.8km (50.2 miles) | ⓘAndrews Quarry (old Hale Quarry; Grandfather Andrews Quarry), Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA |
| 81.0km (50.3 miles) | ⓘRock Landing Quarry (Capt. Rohrback Quarry), Haddam Neck, Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA |
| 81.4km (50.6 miles) | ⓘAnderson No. 1 Mica Mine (Swanson Mine; Swanson Lithia Mine; Old Lithia Mine; Chatham Lithia Mine), East Hampton (Chatham), Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA |
| 81.4km (50.6 miles) | ⓘState Forest Quarry No. 2 (State Forest #2 Mica Mine; Carini Quarry), Cobalt, East Hampton (Chatham), Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA |
| References |
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Fillow Quarry, Branchville, Redding, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA