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Zoisite from
U. S. Route 7 Expressway (Danbury line to Iron Works District), Brookfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA


Locality type:Road Cutting
Classification
Species:Zoisite
Formula:(CaCa)(AlAlAl)O[Si2O7][SiO4](OH)
Comments:A pink mass of crystals in quartz could be thulite (or the clinothulite variety of the locally much more common clinozoisite).
Colour:pink
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Zoisite data
Locality Data:Click here to view U. S. Route 7 Expressway (Danbury line to Iron Works District), Brookfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:656995
Long-form Identifier:1:3:656995:2
GUID (UUID V4):0
Nearest other occurrences of Zoisite
4.0km (2.5 miles) Sky Ridge railroad cut, Hawleyville, Newtown, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
22.8km (14.2 miles) Old Mine Park (Old Tungsten Mine), Long Hill, Trumbull, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
34.6km (21.5 miles) Reynolds Bridge, Thomaston, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
37.5km (23.3 miles) State Routes 8 and 222 interchange, Thomaston, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
41.2km (25.6 miles) Croft Mine, Oscawana Corners, Town of Putnam Valley, Putnam County, New York, USA
55.6km (34.6 miles) State Route 179 road cut (State Route 4 road cut Collinsville), Burlington, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
57.4km (35.7 miles) Stony Creek Quarry (Norcross Granite Gneiss Rock Quarries; Castellucci Quarry), Branford, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA
68.7km (42.7 miles) Schoonmaker Mine, Strickland pegmatite, Collins Hill, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
68.7km (42.7 miles) Strickland Quarry, Strickland pegmatite, Collins Hill, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
72.5km (45.1 miles) Thulite locality, Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
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