Lithiophilite from
Strickland Quarry, Strickland pegmatite, Collins Hill, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
| Locality type: | Quarry | |
| Classification | ||
|---|---|---|
| Species: | Lithiophilite | |
| Formula: | LiMn2+PO4 | |
| Comments: | Specimens up to 8 inches are known, but most are nearer to an inch or two. Much is altered. Slight alteration shows a yellowish, granular, glassy mineral that may be stewartite. More heavily altered material is typically pinkish hureaulite, brown rhodochrosite, a rind of granular to earthy and opalescent hydroxylapatite, fairfieldite, sicklerite as a very thin brown crust, groutite as a thick black crust. These can occur in microcrystallized vugs. Schairer (1926) found it be fairly pure and Moore (2000) found an Mn/Mn + Fe ratio of 0.97. | |
| Habit: | nodules | |
| Colour: | orange through salmon-pink to light brown | |
| Abundance at site: | Rare | |
| Confirmation | ||
| Validity: | Believed Valid | |
| Associated Minerals: | ||
| Associates: | Dickinsonite-(KMnNa) Hureaulite | |
| Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data: | ||
| Albite | 5 | |
| - var Cleavelandite | 5 | |
| Natrophilite | 4 | |
| Hydroxylapatite | 3 | |
| Quartz | 3 | |
| - var Smoky Quartz | 1 | |
| Wodginite | 2 | |
| Muscovite | 2 | |
| Microlite Group | 1 | |
| Dickinsonite-(KMnNa) | 1 | |
| Fairfieldite | 1 | |
| Elbaite | 1 | |
| Data | ||
| Mineral Data: | Click here to view Lithiophilite data | |
| Locality Data: | Click here to view Strickland Quarry, Strickland pegmatite, Collins Hill, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA | |
| Photo Gallery | View Gallery (6 photos) | |
| Data Identifiers | ||
| Mindat Occurrence Record ID: | 96211 | |
| Long-form Identifier: | 1:3:96211:7 | |
| GUID (UUID V4): | 0 | |
| Nearest other occurrences of Lithiophilite | ||
| 0.1km (0.1 miles) | ⓘSchoonmaker Mine, Strickland pegmatite, Collins Hill, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA | |
| 68.7km (42.7 miles) | ⓘU. S. Route 7 Expressway (Danbury line to Iron Works District), Brookfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA | |
| 79.3km (49.3 miles) | ⓘFillow Quarry, Branchville, Redding, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA | |
| References | ||
Strickland Quarry, Strickland pegmatite, Collins Hill, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA