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Pegmatite Prospect No. Di-002

Past Producer in Hartford county in Connecticut, United States with commodities Feldspar, Quartz
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Controls for ore emplacement
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Workings at the site
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10068068
MRDS ID W000992
Record type Site
Current site name Pegmatite Prospect No. Di-002
Related records 10167430

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -72.86813, 41.98304 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Hartford(county)

Connecticut(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Tariffville(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Hartford(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Hartford(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Farmington River(hydrologic unit)

Lower Connecticut(hydrologic accounting unit)

Connecticut(hydrologic subregion)

New England(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Connecticut Hartford

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Feldspar Primary
Quartz Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • INFORMATION LACKING. PEGMATITE BODY ABOUT 400 FEET LONG NORTH TO SOUTH, 100 FEET WIDE EAST TO WEST.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Feldspar Ore
Biotite Gangue
Microcline Gangue
Muscovite Gangue
Oligoclase Gangue
Quartz Unknown

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Pegmatite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Permian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Pegmatite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -72.86813, 41.98304
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Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Pegmatite Dikes

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: AREA ADJACENT TO WEST WALL OF CONN. VALLEY BASIN WHICH IS ZONE OF NUMEROUS PEGMATITE SWARMS, WITH INDIVIDUAL PEGMATITE DIKES OF SMALL SIZE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Granby

Comments on the production information

  • INFORMATION LACKING; NOT KNOWN IF PROSPECT PRODUCED FELDSPAR AND QUARTZ.

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • INFORMATION LACKING; PROBABLY ONLY SMALL AMOUNT OF FELDSPAR AVAILABLE FROM EACH OF SMALL PEGMATITE DIKES.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Unknown
    Overall length 121.92M
    Overall width 30.48M

Comments on development

  • TOTAL$: US

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SCHNABEL, R. W., 1965, "BEDROCK GEOL. TARIFFVILLE QUAD.", USGS, GQ 370

  • Production

    SCHNABEL, 1965

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SCHNABEL'S MAP AT 1:24000 LOCATES QUARRY BY SYMBOL. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1972 D'Agostino, John P. U.S. Geological Survey

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