| Locality type: | Construction Site |
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| Species: | Albite var: Oligoclase |
| Formula: | (Na,Ca)[Al(Si,Al)Si2O8] |
| Comments: | Mostly as white to green rock forming massive material, though some quite coarse-grained. Rare striated micro-crystals, some in parallel growth, to several cm lining open fissures with gypsum, fluorite, clinochlore. |
| Habit: | Tapered with large rhombic 010 face. |
| Colour: | white, pale to medium green to gray-green |
| Abundance at site: | Extremely common |
| Confirmation |
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| Validity: | Confirmed |
| Confirmation Methods: | Raman Spectroscopy |
| Data |
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| Mineral Data: | Click here to view Oligoclase data |
| Locality Data: | Click here to view Old Mine Plaza construction site, Long Hill, Trumbull, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA |
| Data Identifiers |
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| Mindat Occurrence Record ID: | 819076 |
| Long-form Identifier: | 1:3:819076:5 |
| GUID (UUID V4): | e1f3c64c-c0e3-4880-874d-52682315d47d |
| Nearest other occurrences of Oligoclase |
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| 0.4km (0.2 miles) | ⓘOld Mine Park (Old Tungsten Mine), Long Hill, Trumbull, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA |
| 0.6km (0.4 miles) | ⓘCorporate Drive, Long Hill, Trumbull, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA |
| 17.6km (10.9 miles) | ⓘFillow Quarry (Branchville Quarry; Branchville Mica Mine; Smith Mine), Branchville, Redding (Reading), Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA |
| 22.0km (13.7 miles) | ⓘDanburite type locality, Danbury, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA |
| 24.5km (15.2 miles) | ⓘNorwalk, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA |
| 36.7km (22.8 miles) | ⓘClover Hill Mine, Croton Falls, Somers Township, Westchester County, New York, USA |
| 36.9km (22.9 miles) | ⓘTilly Foster Iron Mine, Town of Southeast, Putnam County, New York, USA |
| 40.8km (25.3 miles) | ⓘStony Creek Quarry (Norcross Granite Gneiss Rock Quarries; Castellucci Quarry), Branford, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA |
| 47.2km (29.3 miles) | ⓘThomaston Dam railroad cut, Thomaston Dam, Thomaston, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA |
| 51.5km (32.0 miles) | ⓘValhalla, Mount Pleasant, Westchester County, New York, USA |
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