Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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Locality Name:
Plainville, Hartford Co., Connecticut, USA

mindat Locality ID: 230049
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-230049.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Plainville, Hartford Co., Connecticut, USA": 4
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 4

Number of Child Localities: 4
Child Localities:
North Mountain Road
Plainville Trap Rock Quarry (Tilcon New Britain Quarry)
State Route 372 Construction Site
Trap Rock Quarry

Latitude: 41°40'20"N
Longitude: 72°49'54"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 41.672222222222,-72.831666666667

A	This mineral is Anthropogenic.
G	This mineral is directly dated.
B	This mineral is reported as having this age.
Y	This mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
O	This mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
R	The age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
P	The age displayed for this mineral is the range of ages for this mineral at all of this locality's children.
	This mineral's age has not yet been recorded.

Allophane	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Copper	Corundum	Gadolinite	Malachite	None
Not in a structural group	Prehnite	Pyrite	Quartz	Rhodonite	Sphalerite	Talc

Anhydrite ()*	Babingtonite ()*	Baryte ()*	Bornite ()*	Calcite ()*
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chrysocolla ()*	Copper ()*	Cuprite ()*	Datolite ()*
Hematite ()*	Malachite ()*	Prehnite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*
Sphalerite ()*	Talc ()*

This Mineral list contains entries from this locality, including sub-localities. Minerals in bold are reported by mindat.org as occurring directly at this locality, and do not occur at any children (sublocalities) of this locality.

Elements at this locality, including sub-localities: Al B Ba C Ca Cu Fe H Mg O S Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Allophane Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Copper Corundum Gadolinite Malachite None
Not in a structural group Prehnite Pyrite Quartz Rhodonite Sphalerite Talc

17 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Anhydrite ()*	Not in a structural group	Ca(SO₄)	1	198898	1588
Babingtonite ()*	Rhodonite	Ca₂Fe²⁺Fe³⁺Si₅O₁₄(OH)	1	198899	161
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	3	198898,198899,198900	11547
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	1	198899	5516
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	4	198898,198899,198900,198901	27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	3	198898,198899,198901	27198
Chrysocolla ()*	Allophane	(Cu_2-xAl_x)H_2-xSi₂O₅(OH)₄·nH₂O	1	198899	3531
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	1	198899	3846
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	1	198899	2970
Datolite ()*	Gadolinite	CaB(SiO₄)(OH)	2	198899,198900	498
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	1	198900	14640
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	2	198898,198899	12537
Prehnite ()*	Prehnite	Ca₂Al(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	4	198898,198899,198900,198901	1898
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	2	198899,198900	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	4	198898,198899,198900,198901	61156
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	198901	21482
Talc ()*	Clay Talc	Mg₃Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂	1	198899	3337

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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