Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Monroe, Fairfield Co., Connecticut, USA

mindat Locality ID: 3709
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-3709.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Monroe, Fairfield Co., Connecticut, USA": 7
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 7

Number of Child Localities: 7
Child Localities:
Booth's Mine (Booth's Bismuth Mine; Booth-Hurd's Bismuth Mine)
Cambridge Street Business Park (Pepper Street Business Park)
East Village Pegmatite
Garder Road Quarry
Lane's Copper Mine (Fan Hill Road)
Lane's Mine (Lane's Lead And Silver Mine; Elm Street)
New England Materials Quarry

Latitude: 41°20'49"N
Longitude: 73°13'12"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 41.346944444444,-73.22

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.

Acanthite	Amphibole	Apatite	Arsenic	Arsenopyrite	Beryl	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Chlorite	Clay
Clinozoisite	Epidote	Feldspar	Fluorite	Garnet	Malachite	Marcasite	Mica	Nickeline	None
Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Scheelite	Sphalerite	Stibnite	Sulphur	Topaz

Acanthite ()*	Actinolite ()*	Albite ()*	Almandine ()*	Annite ()*
Arsenopyrite ()*	Beryl ()*	Bismite ()*	Bismuth ()*	Bismuthinite ()*
Calcite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Clinochlore ()*	Epidote ()*	Fluorapatite ()*
Fluorite ()*	Galena ()*	Graphite ()*	Malachite ()*	Marcasite ()*
Microcline ()*	Muscovite ()*	Nickeline ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*
Quartz ()*	Scheelite ()*	Scorodite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Sulphur ()*
Topaz ()*	Uranophane-α ()*	Zoisite ()*

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: Ag Al As Be Bi C Ca Cu F Fe H K Mg Na Ni O P Pb S Si U W Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Ag Al As Ca F Fe H Ni O S Si

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Amphibole Apatite Arsenic Arsenopyrite Beryl Calcite Chalcopyrite Chlorite Clay
Clinozoisite Epidote Feldspar Fluorite Garnet Malachite Marcasite Mica Nickeline None
Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Scheelite Sphalerite Stibnite Sulphur Topaz

33 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Acanthite ()*	Acanthite	Ag₂S	0		2793
Actinolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_4.5-2.5Fe²⁺_0.5-2.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	2	198744,198745	3419
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	2	198741,198745	8803
Almandine ()*	Garnet	Fe²⁺₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	0		2353
Annite ()*	Mica Clay	KFe²⁺₃(AlSi₃O₁₀)(OH)₂	1	198741	356
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	3	198743,198744,198745	9052
Beryl ()*	Beryl	Be₃Al₂Si₆O₁₈	1	198741	4286
Bismite ()*	None	Bi₂O₃	1	198739	214
Bismuth ()*	Arsenic	Bi	2	198739,198744	1966
Bismuthinite ()*	Stibnite	Bi₂S₃	1	198739	1935
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	2	198743,198745	27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	198741	27198
Clinochlore ()*	Chlorite Clay	Mg₅Al(AlSi₃O₁₀)(OH)₈	1	198745	1756
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	198745	8173
Fluorapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃F	1	198741	2740
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	1	198745	9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	2	198743,198744	24243
Graphite ()*	None	C	1	198739	2812
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	198745	12537
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	1	198744	5674
Microcline ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	3	198741,198743,198745	4924
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	2	198741,198745	17380
Nickeline ()*	Nickeline	NiAs	0		633
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	2	198743,198744	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	2	198739,198744	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	4	198741,198743,198744,198745	61156
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)	1	198739	4894
Scorodite ()*	None	Fe³⁺(AsO₄)·2H₂O	1	198739	1153
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	2	198739,198744	21482
Sulphur ()*	Sulphur	S	1	198744	2045
Topaz ()*	Topaz	Al₂SiO₄F₂	0		1476
Uranophane-α ()*	None	Ca(UO₂)₂(SiO₃OH)₂·5H₂O	1	198741	890
Zoisite ()*	Epidote	Ca₂Al₃[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	0		1025

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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