Quartz Rock Quarry No. Ek-023

Past Producer in Fairfield county in Connecticut, United States with commodity Quartz
Sections on this page
  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. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10068192
MRDS ID W001140
Record type Site
Current site name Quartz Rock Quarry No. Ek-023
Related records 10143057

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -73.12565, 41.3036 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Fairfield(county)

Connecticut(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Long Hill(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Bridgeport(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Hartford(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Housatonic(hydrologic unit)

Connecticut Coastal(hydrologic accounting unit)

Connecticut Coastal(hydrologic subregion)

New England(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Connecticut Fairfield

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Quartz Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • INFORMATION LACKING.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Garnet Gangue
Microcline Gangue
Muscovite Gangue
Plagioclase Gangue
Quartz Unknown

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite > Diabase
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Pegmatite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss

Nearby scientific data

(1) -73.12565, 41.3036

Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Quartz Body In Metamorphosed Granite And Sediment Layers.

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: SHELTON FELDSPATHIC GNEISS FACIES EQUIVALENT TO METAMORPHOSED ANSONIA GRANITE IN ADJACENT QUAD TO EAST; METAMORPHOSED SEDIMENT MEMBER NAMED NORTHWESTERN FACIES.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No
Production years UNKNOWN

Mining district

District name Shelton

Comments on the production information

  • INFORMATION LACKING. PROBABLY ONLY SMALL AMOUNT OF HIGH QUALITY QUARTZ PRODUCED.

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • FIGURES LACKING, PROBABLY ONLY SMALL AMOUNT OF QUARTZ AVAILABLE.

Comments on development

  • TOTAL$: US

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CROWLEY, W. P., 1968, "BEDROCK GEOL. LONG HILL QUAD.", CONN. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, QUAD REPORT NO. 24, MAP, TEXT, PG. 73

  • Production

    CROWLEY, 1968

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit CROWLEY'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

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.