Mineral Evolution Database

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

mindat Locality ID: 3703
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-3703.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Farmington, Hartford Co., Connecticut, USA": 3
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 3

Number of Child Localities: 3
Child Localities:
Farmington Trap Rock Quarry
State Route 4 Road Cut
Tomasso Quarry (Tilcon Tomasso Quarry; Tilcon Quarry; Arborio Quarry)

Latitude: 41°43'7"N
Longitude: 72°48'50"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 41.718611111111,-72.813888888889

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	Amorphous	Aragonite	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Corundum	Gadolinite	Gypsum	Malachite
None	Not in a structural group	Pectolite	Prehnite	Quartz	Sphalerite

Anhydrite ()*	Aragonite ()*	Baryte ()*	Calcite ()*	Celestine ()*
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chrysocolla ()*	Datolite ()*	Gypsum ()*	Hematite ()*
Lechatelierite ()*	Malachite ()*	Pectolite ()*	Prehnite ()*	Quartz ()*
Sphalerite ()*

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 Na O S Si Sr Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: O Si

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Allophane Amorphous Aragonite Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Corundum Gadolinite Gypsum Malachite
None Not in a structural group Pectolite Prehnite Quartz Sphalerite

16 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	198848	1588
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	1	198846	3250
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	1	198846	11547
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	3	198846,198847,198848	27770
Celestine ()*	Baryte	Sr(SO₄)	1	198847	1252
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	2	198846,198847	27198
Chrysocolla ()*	Allophane	(Cu_2-xAl_x)H_2-xSi₂O₅(OH)₄·nH₂O	2	198847,198848	3531
Datolite ()*	Gadolinite	CaB(SiO₄)(OH)	3	198846,198847,198848	498
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	1	198847	6890
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	2	198846,198847	14640
Lechatelierite ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂	0		62
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	198847	12537
Pectolite ()*	Pectolite	NaCa₂Si₃O₈(OH)	1	198848	363
Prehnite ()*	Prehnite	Ca₂Al(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	3	198846,198847,198848	1898
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	3	198846,198847,198848	61156
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	198848	21482

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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