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Albite from
Interstate 84 road cuts (Route 6A bypass), Newtown, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA


Locality type:Road Cutting
Classification
Species:Albite
Formula:Na(AlSi3O8)
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Rutile2
Anatase1
Quartz1
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Albite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Interstate 84 road cuts (Route 6A bypass), Newtown, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:887241
Long-form Identifier:1:3:887241:8
GUID (UUID V4):0
Nearest other occurrences of Albite
4.3km (2.7 miles) Grace Feldspar Mine, Newtown, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
5.8km (3.6 miles) Sky Ridge railroad cut, Hawleyville, Newtown, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
6.6km (4.1 miles) Cook Quarry on Harry Wiley Farm, Newtown, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
7.8km (4.9 miles) New England Materials quarry, Monroe, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
8.0km (5.0 miles) Captain Cook's Quarry (Purdy Station Quarry), Newtown, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
8.7km (5.4 miles) Biermann Quarries (Bethel quarries; Codfish Hill Quarry), Bethel, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
9.3km (5.8 miles) Ilmenite locality, Bridgewater, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
9.4km (5.9 miles) U. S. Route 7 Expressway (Danbury line to Iron Works District), Brookfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
10.2km (6.4 miles) Curtis Quarry, Southford, Southbury, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA
10.4km (6.5 miles) Berry Road kyanite locality, Roxbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
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