Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Waterbury, New Haven Co., Connecticut, USA

mindat Locality ID: 49940
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-49940.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Waterbury, New Haven Co., Connecticut, USA": 5
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 4

Number of Child Localities: 4
Child Localities:
Blue Stone Quarry
East Main Street Construction Site
Municipal Stadium
Progress Lane Construction Site

Latitude: 41°34'17"N
Longitude: 73°'23"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 41.571388888889,-73.006388888889

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.

Amorphous	Apatite	Arsenopyrite	Calcite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Epidote	Feldspar	Fluorite	Garnet
Mica	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Pyroxene	Quartz	Rocksalt	Titanite	Tourmaline	Vesuvianite

Albite ()*	Almandine ()*	Anhydrite ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*	Calcite ()*
Clinozoisite ()*	Diopside ()*	Dravite ()*	Fluorapatite ()*	Fluorite ()*
Galena ()*	Grossular ()*	Kyanite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Opal ()*
Orthoclase ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Schorl ()*	Titanite ()*
Vesuvianite ()*

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 As B C Ca F Fe H K Mg Na O P Pb S Si Ti

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al B Ca F Fe H Mg Na O Si

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amorphous Apatite Arsenopyrite Calcite Clay Clinozoisite Epidote Feldspar Fluorite Garnet
Mica None Not in a structural group Pyrite Pyroxene Quartz Rocksalt Titanite Tourmaline Vesuvianite

21 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	1	199264	8803
Almandine ()*	Garnet	Fe²⁺₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	1	199264	2353
Anhydrite ()*	Not in a structural group	Ca(SO₄)	1	199264	1588
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	1	199264	9052
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	3	199264,199267,199268	27770
Clinozoisite ()*	Clinozoisite Epidote	Ca₂Al₃[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	0		1025
Diopside ()*	Pyroxene	CaMgSi₂O₆	0		4135
Dravite ()*	Tourmaline	NaMg₃Al₆(Si₆O₁₈)(BO₃)₃(OH)₃(OH)	0		648
Fluorapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃F	1	199264	2740
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	1	199267	9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	199264	24243
Grossular ()*	Garnet	Ca₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	0		1544
Kyanite ()*	Not in a structural group	Al₂OSiO₄	1	199268	1507
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	4	199264,199265,199267,199268	17380
Opal ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂·nH₂O	1	199264	2994
Orthoclase ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	1	199267	2349
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	3	199264,199267,199268	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	2	199264,199267	61156
Schorl ()*	Tourmaline	NaFe²⁺₃Al₆(Si₆O₁₈)(BO₃)₃(OH)₃(OH)	1	199267	2705
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	1	199265	4899
Vesuvianite ()*	Vesuvianite	(Ca,Na)₁₉(Al,Mg,Fe)₁₃(SiO₄)₁₀(Si₂O₇)₄(OH,F,O)₁₀	0		1395

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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