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Hematite from
McLay Avenue, East Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA


Locality type:Construction Site
Classification
Species:Hematite
Formula:Fe2O3
Comments:Coatings and small blebs on micro crystals of calcite and quartz.
Colour:dark red
Abundance at site:Common
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Quartz3
- var Smoky Quartz2
Calcite2
Goethite2
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Hematite data
Locality Data:Click here to view McLay Avenue, East Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:760047
Long-form Identifier:1:3:760047:0
GUID (UUID V4):0
Nearest other occurrences of Hematite
0.1km (0.1 miles) Cinque Quarry, East Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA
2.1km (1.3 miles) High Street and Interstate 95 interchange, East Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA
5.9km (3.7 miles) Farm River Rock Quarry, East Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA
6.2km (3.8 miles) Mill Rock, Hamden, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA
10.6km (6.6 miles) Woodbridge Mall (Amity Shopping Center), Woodbridge, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA
13.1km (8.1 miles) York Hill, Hamden, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA
16.0km (9.9 miles) Tallman Mine (Tallman's Mine), Hamden, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA
20.1km (12.5 miles) Arsenic and nickel mine (Nickel Mine Brook), Seymour, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA
21.6km (13.4 miles) Reed's Gap Quarry (New Haven Trap Rock quarry; Tilcon Durham quarry), Durham, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
28.2km (17.5 miles) Pillow lava locality, Meriden, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA
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