Locality type: Construction Site Classification Species: Calcite Formula: CaCO3 Comments: Many occurrences - as massive vein filling with green fluorite, clinchlore, gypsum, sulfides, beryl, phlogopite; as discrete crystals (red-orange-fluorescing) that look like little trigonal discs piled in fractures in amphibolite with pyrite and purple fluorite; as dogteeth filling little pockets in brecciated marble - these are creamy colored and fluoresce pink. Short hexagonal prisms to 1.7 cm. Very rarely found as pinkish botryoidal to 8 mm from a calcite vein associated with pyrite. Salmon-colored massive is uncommon. Habit: hexagonal prisms, trigonal tabular overgrown around a tiny central rhomb, scalenohedral, botryoidal Colour: white to creamy. pink to salmon Luminescent properties: orange-red, pink Quality for species: Good crystals or rich for species - important (!) Abundance at site: Very common Confirmation Validity: Believed Valid Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data: Fluorite 50 Grossular 22 Quartz 20 Beryl 19 Pyrite 17 Marialite 14 Diopside 13 Phlogopite 12 Pyrrhotite 5 Magnesio-hornblende 4 Clinozoisite 3 Albite 3 Epidote 2 Gypsum 2 Actinolite 2 Clinochlore 1 Aragonite 1 Scheelite 1 Ilmenite 1 Data Mineral Data: Click here to view Calcite data Locality Data: Click here to view Old Mine Plaza construction site, Long Hill, Trumbull, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA Photo Gallery View Gallery (35 photos) Data Identifiers Mindat Occurrence Record ID: 347326 Long-form Identifier: 1:3:347326:9 GUID (UUID V4 ): 0 Nearest other occurrences of Calcite
0.4km (0.2 miles) ⓘ Old Mine Park (Old Tungsten Mine), Long Hill, Trumbull, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA 0.6km (0.4 miles) ⓘ Corporate Drive, Long Hill, Trumbull, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA 4.0km (2.5 miles) ⓘ State Route 25 road cuts, Trumbull, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA 6.2km (3.8 miles) ⓘ Lane's Copper Mine (Fan Hill Road), Monroe, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA 7.3km (4.5 miles) ⓘ New England Materials quarry, Monroe, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA 11.1km (6.9 miles) ⓘ Little Laurel Lime Park, Seymour, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA 11.8km (7.3 miles) ⓘ Lord Chamberlain Nursing and Rehabilitation Center (7003 Main Street; 7003 State Route 110), Stratford, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA 12.8km (7.9 miles) ⓘ Stevenson Mine (Burke's Copper Mine), Oxford, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA 14.9km (9.3 miles) ⓘ Interstate 84 road cuts (Route 6A bypass), Newtown, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA 16.1km (10.0 miles) ⓘ Sandy Hook gold mine (Blackwell's mine), Sandy Hook, Newtown, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA References Search for references including Calcite Old Mine Plaza construction site, Long Hill, Trumbull, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
Old Mine Plaza construction site, Long Hill, Trumbull, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA