Editing Redding, Connecticut (section)

===Mining===
[[File:Garnet_rock_near_Redding,_CT.jpg|thumb|right|Cinnamon colored garnet rock near the train station in Redding.]]
In 1876, after A.N. Fillow began extracting [[mica]] in the [[Branchville, Connecticut|Branchville]] section of Redding, two [[Yale University]] mineralogists noted the presence of previously undiscovered minerals lodged in [[pegmatite]] there and furnished funds to expand the operation. Historians say the mine produced between seven<ref>{{cite web|url=https://connecticuthistory.org/the-industrial-might-of-connecticut-pegmatite/|title=The Industrial Might of Connecticut Pegmatite|last=Pawlowski|first=John A Sr. |date=2010|website=Connecticut History|access-date=August 14, 2019}}</ref> and nine minerals until then unknown, including one that was named [[reddingite]]. Over time, the mine would produce quantities of [[quartz]], [[feldspar]], mica, [[beryl]], [[spodumene]] and [[columbite]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Shainin|first=Vincent E.|date=August 1, 1946|title=The Branchville, Connecticut, Pegmatite|url=http://www.minsocam.org/msa/collectors_corner/arc/cnbranchville.htm|journal=American Mineralogist|language=en|volume=31|issue=7–8|pages=329–345|issn=0003-004X}}</ref>

Another unique geological feature is the bedrock close to the train station. It is composed of nearly pure and massive garnet.<ref name="AgarKrieger1932">{{cite journal|last1=Agar|first1=W. M.|last2=Krieger|first2=P.|title=Garnet rock near West Redding, Connecticut|journal=American Journal of Science|volume=s5-24|issue=139|year=1932|pages=68–80|issn=0002-9599|doi=10.2475/ajs.s5-24.139.68|bibcode=1932AmJS...24...68A}}</ref>