| Locality type: | Industrial Site |
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| Species: | Fluorite var: Chlorophane |
| Formula: | CaF2 |
| Comments: | As cleavable masses in the quartz-fluorite veins. Unless collected right after exposure to daylight, the fluorescence is lost. |
| Habit: | massive |
| Colour: | colorless to light smoky, rarely pale red |
| Luminescent properties: | blue-green with green phosphorescence |
| Quality for species: | Good crystals or rich for species - important (!) |
| Abundance at site: | Common |
| Confirmation |
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| Validity: | Confirmed |
| Confirmation Methods: | Visual (Fluorescence) |
| Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data: |
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| Fluorapatite | ⓘ3 photos of Chlorophane associated with Fluorapatite at this locality. |
| Marialite | ⓘ3 photos of Chlorophane associated with Marialite at this locality. |
| Albite | ⓘ3 photos of Chlorophane associated with Albite at this locality. |
| Data |
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| Mineral Data: | Click here to view Chlorophane data |
| Locality Data: | Click here to view Corporate Drive, Long Hill, Trumbull, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA |
| Photo Gallery | View Gallery (3 photos) |
| Data Identifiers |
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| Mindat Occurrence Record ID: | 823178 |
| Long-form Identifier: | 1:3:823178:9 |
| GUID (UUID V4): | 3477d0e8-75b0-4176-be52-bf75bcb90ec7 |
| Nearest other occurrences of Chlorophane |
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| 0.6km (0.4 miles) | ⓘOld Mine Plaza construction site, Long Hill, Trumbull, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA |
| 0.7km (0.4 miles) | ⓘOld Mine Park (Old Tungsten Mine), Long Hill, Trumbull, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA |
| 1.0km (0.6 miles) | ⓘState Route 111 construction site, Long Hill, Trumbull, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA |
| 18.1km (11.2 miles) | ⓘFillow Quarry (Branchville Quarry; Branchville Mica Mine; Smith Mine), Branchville, Redding (Reading), Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA |
| 59.5km (37.0 miles) | ⓘRiverside Quarry (Western Quarry), White Rock Mining District, Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA |
| 62.2km (38.6 miles) | ⓘHewitt Gem Quarry (Herb's Gem Quarry; Sawmill Quarry), Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA |
| 63.5km (39.5 miles) | ⓘGillette Quarry (J-J Mine; Haddam Neck Quarry), Haddam Neck, Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA |
| 65.6km (40.8 miles) | ⓘHollister prospects, South Glastonbury, Glastonbury, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA |
| 68.2km (42.4 miles) | ⓘSlocum prospect, East Hampton (Chatham), Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA |
| 69.4km (43.1 miles) | ⓘLinkpot cut, Airline Railroad, East Hampton (Chatham), Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA |
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 | | Book (edition) | | House, Jordan Hill, Oxford OX2 8DP, UK 30 Corporate Drive, Suite 400, Burlington MA 01803, USA First published...Canada, Germany, Thailand, Vietnam, the UK and the USA, making this a truly international collaboration...grew to such an imposing stature was planted as long ago as 1953 as a joint project from the London Gem...comprehensive scale, and to that end contributed long serial articles to The Gemmologist on the microscope...additions to the text in a book which was already amply long for a single volume, a number of cuts have been |
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Corporate Drive, Long Hill, Trumbull, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA