| Locality type: | Road Cutting |
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| Species: | Diopside |
| Formula: | CaMgSi2O6 |
| Formation: | Primary |
| Comments: | In a calc-silicate lens in the schist with intergrown albite, actinolite, axinite-(Fe), clinozoisite, epidote, titanite, rutile. |
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| Validity: | Believed Valid |
| Data |
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| Mineral Data: | Click here to view Diopside data |
| Locality Data: | Click here to view State Routes 8 and 222 interchange, Thomaston, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA |
| Data Identifiers |
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| Mindat Occurrence Record ID: | 1370318 |
| Long-form Identifier: | 1:3:1370318:9 |
| GUID (UUID V4): | 0 |
| Nearest other occurrences of Diopside |
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| 1.6km (1.0 miles) | ⓘThomaston Dam railroad cut, Thomaston Dam, Thomaston, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA |
| 3.4km (2.1 miles) | ⓘReynolds Bridge, Thomaston, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA |
| 9.4km (5.9 miles) | ⓘPegmatite quarry and ultramafic rock, Harwinton, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA |
| 11.9km (7.4 miles) | ⓘHurley Hill, Bristol, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA |
| 16.6km (10.3 miles) | ⓘWoodhaven, Waterbury, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA |
| 16.7km (10.4 miles) | ⓘMountain Top Trucking quarry, Torrington, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA |
| 18.2km (11.3 miles) | ⓘState Route 179 road cut (State Route 4 road cut Collinsville), Burlington, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA |
| 19.7km (12.2 miles) | ⓘHuckleberry Hill, Avon, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA |
| 30.6km (19.0 miles) | ⓘMine Mountain graphite prospect, Cornwall, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA |
| 30.6km (19.0 miles) | ⓘMine Mountain, Cornwall, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA |
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