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| Ann Arbor, MI Andrew C. Roberts Geol. Surv. of Canada Ottawa George W. Robinson Seaman Mineral Museum...Famous mineral localities: The Francon Quarry, Montréal, Québec, Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....annual FM-MSA-TGMS Tucson Mineralogical Symposium: CANADA! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Chairman:...crystal, 4 cm, on matrix, from the Francon quarry, Montréal, Québec, Canada. (See the article in this issue...localities: The Francon Quarry, `ÉÇàÜ°tÄ? dâ°uxv Peter Tarassoff 91 Lakeshore Road Beaconsfield, Québec, Canada |
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| Sites "Re miniets Aitus du Canada Joel D. Grice A # ds. «< RE « "1 é+ Le: . 0 7, 22 L # ... SITES MINIERS CANADA CÉLÈBRES DU “Joel D. Grice L'ouvrage Sites miniers célèbres du Canada est un heureux...s'étend sur près de la moitié de la superficie du Canada et constitue l’une des régions minières les plus...zinc, de cuivre et d’or. Sites miniers célèbres du Canada est un ouvrage passionant et d’érudition rédigé... Sites miniers célèbres du Canada Gites miniers célèbres du Canada Joel D. Grice Musée national |
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| © Minister of Supply and Services Canada 1983 Available in Canada through authorized bookstore agents...and Services Canada Hull, Québec, Canada K1A 0S9 and from Geological Survey of Canada 601 Booth Street...Street Ottawa, Canada K1A 0E8 A deposit copy of this publication is also available for reference in public...public libraries across Canada Cat. No. ISBN Price M41-8/32E 0-660-11547-6 Canada: $7.50 Other countries:...without notice $9.00 PlateI Mont St-Hillaire quarry. (GSC 138741) CONTENTS ix | Abstract l Introduction |
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| Geological Survey of Canada by Ann P. Sabina). Quebec Francon Quarry The Francon quarry in Montreal is famous...dis covered what appears to be a first for the quarry—cube faces on analcime. This mineral almost always...shows a trapezohedron with a cube modification. CANADA Newfoundland Hematite Ms. Brenna Lorenz of Syracuse..."dresserite" examined. It was identified in the quarry by an "expert." On the specimens were gray botryoids...also available as tiny, loose crystals. Jeffrey Quarry, Asbestos The following note comes from D r . Steve |
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| W o r l d News on Mineral Occurrences CANADA V A N D A L L T. KING Ward's Natural Science Establishment...sylvite, and anhydrite. Quebec Francon quarry The large Francon quarry in Montreal is located in a residential...little or no land available for expanding the quarry. The economics of dig ging deeper for the construction-grade...of mining offsets transportation costs. The Francon quarry is world-famous for being the first (or only)...are found at the Francon quarry. Dawsonite was first found in a quarry near the Francon. The city of Montreal |
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| MINERALS FOR THE COLLECTOR Geological Survey of Canada Miscellaneous Report 58 Îles de la Madeleine,...Labrador Ann P. Sabina 2003 Geological Survey of Canada Miscellaneous Report 58 ROCKS AND MINERALS FOR...in Right of Canada, 2003 Catalogue No. M41-8/58E ISBN 0-660-18932-1 Available in Canada from Geological...Geological Survey of Canada offices: 601 Booth Street Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0E8 3303-33rd Street N.W. Calgary...for reference in selected public libraries across Canada Cette publication est aussi disponible en français |
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| MINERALS FOR THE COLLECTOR Geological Survey of Canada Miscellaneous Report 32 Kingston, Ontario to Lac...1983 COVER Left: Weloganite crystals from Francon Quarry, Montreal. Specimen measures 3 cm from tip...Collection specimen (No. 36384). National Museum of Canada photo. Right: Serandite with analcime and mangan-neptunite...mangan-neptunite crystals from Mont St-Hilaire quarry. Specimen 22 is cm long. National Mineral Collection...Collection specimen (No. 37124). National Museum of Canada photo. Miscellaneous Report 32 ROCKS AND MINERALS |
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| MINERALS FOR THE COLLECTOR Geological Survey of Canada Miscellaneous Report 48 Ottawa to North Bay and...Natural Resources Canada Ressources naturelles Canada Geological Survey of Canada Miscellaneous Report...Queen in Right of Canada 2007 Catalogue No. M41-8/48E ISBN 0-660-19556-9 Available in Canada from the Geological...Geological Survey of Canada Bookstore (see inside front cover for details) A copy of this publication is...available for reference by depository libraries across Canada through access to the Depository Services Program's |
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| MINERALS FOR THE COLLECTOR Geological Survey of Canada Miscellaneous Report 77 Kirkland Lake – Rouyn-Noranda...Quebec Ann P. Sabina 2003 Geological Survey of Canada Miscellaneous Report 77 ROCKS AND MINERALS FOR...in Right of Canada, 2003 Catalogue No. M41-8/77E ISBN 0-660-19062-1 Available in Canada from Geological...Geological Survey of Canada offices: 601 Booth Street Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0E8 3303-33rd Street N.W. Calgary...for reference in selected public libraries across Canada Cette publication est aussi disponible en français |
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| obvious lustrous cylinders about half inch in Wurtzite lx2 inch £40 Mina Santa Cruz, Poopo Oruro Dept...Ystrad Mine, Betws Garmon, Gwynedd Wales Nant Francon formation small 2x3 inch £15 32 MUSCOVITE variety...attractive, rich yellow platy mass in quartz La Bosse Quarry, Echassieres Allier France 2x3 inch £10 33 MAGNESITE...arfvedsonite cleavages. Strange Lake Deposit, Quebec, Canada 2x2 £15 40 FLUORAP ATITE deep blue, translucent... orange coating on Feldspar about 2.5cm Tuften Quarry, Tvedalen Norway £6 CHENEVIXITE green masses on |
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| found in nature. Its crystal structure is of the wurtzite type (space group P63mc) which is non-centrosymmetric... IWATA 385 Fig. 1. Crystal structure of the wurtzite type. described in detail in a paper by the present...the differential interference microscope of the Francon-Yamamoto type. 386 Surface structures Table...the wurtzite type such as BeO. The morphology of the T-type (1) crystal is common for the wurtzite type...a long-range disordered structure based on the wurtzite lattice with mirror planes of sym metry perpendicular |
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| 287 288 293 353 A hornfels unit in the Poudrette quarry .................................................and J.Van Velthuizen Figure 1. The Poudrette quarry in the summer of 1988. Photo by L. Horvath. 284...associations are listed with the descriptions. Quarry maps have not been included because the precise...of many past finds in the quarry were never recorded, and because the quarry has changed so much over...very close to and clearly visible from the Trans-Canada highway. The picturesque farming and commuter village |
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| km east of Montreal, in the Province of Quebec, Canada. The quarries are on the 182 ROCKS AND MINERALS...fay j£*SJ Richelieu River \\ \r Rte. 229 U Quarry Mont Saint-Hilaire i ^ ^ m i Rte. 116 j\ ;...difficult. It was not until 1959, when the first quarry opened up on the northeast face of the mountain...right and the market available, he began work. The quarry produced its first load of stone for road metal...metal in 1959. A s Figure 6 shows, the Poudrette quarry was opened at the upper left of the working area |
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| Very nice! ••• $75.00 81B02 URANINITE, Kinkel Quarry, Bedford, N.Y. (a) Excellent micro (to 3 mm) octahedral...masses(3 x 4 cm),.$5.00 81B04 RUTILE, Lengenbach Quarry, Binn, Switzerland.m/m single, black, bipyramid...00 (L) 81B25 WURTZITE, Llallagua, Bolivia. (a) very large and sharp individual wurtzite crystals (to...(Ni, Fe) s , Creighton Mine, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. Extra9 ordinary for the species! Bro~zy pentlandite...section~) 81B49 URANINITE, (Western Russell Brothers Quarry), near Standpipe Hill, Topsham, Sagadahoc County |
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| Mineralogical Association of Canada Association mineralogique du canada 14 Also in this series Encyclopedia...(1998) J. Delvigne Mineral Species Discovered in Canada and Species Named after Canadians Special Publication...F. Martin c 2019 Mineralogical Association of Canada All rights reserved. No part of this publication...publishers. Printed in Canada on acid-free paper Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication...(1962-) Published by the Mineralogical Association of Canada ISBN: 978-0-921294-61-0 1. Mont Saint-Hilaire, |
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| MINES AND RESOURCES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA CANADA PAPER 67-51 ROCKS AND MINERALS FOR THE COLLECTOR...Queen's Printer, Ottawa, from Geological Survey of Canada, 601 Booth St., Ottawa, and at the followin$ Canadian...of Stationery Ottawa, Canada 1968 - iii - Plate I. Mont St-Hilaire quarry, (GSC 135741) - v -...Kingston - Island of Montreal Kingston township quarry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . McFarland quarry .. . . . ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . .'. . . . . . |
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| Ann Arbor, MI Andrew C. Roberts Geol. Surv. of Canada Ottawa George W. Robinson Seaman Mineral Museum...Tetrahedrite Cu3SbS3 Tetradymite Bi2Te2S Troilite FeS Wurtzite ZnS Zinkenite Pb9Sb22S42 Chlorides, Fluorides...graphite, usually in association with marcasite and wurtzite. Vuggy masses of franckeite lined with drusy franckeite...franckeite is associated with pyrite, arsenopyrite, wurtzite and rare cylindrite. It also occurs abundantly...be perpetrated on him again, and he ran away to Canada. Before escaping from Bolivia, he entrusted his |
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| specimen, Jesse La Plante photo. Moving north to Canada, many of us are familiar with the siderite coming...from a silicocarbonate sill exposed at the Francon quarry and from the alkali syenite complex notably...of siderite after serandite from the Poudrette quarry, measuring 22.5 cm high (fig. 7). (Katherine Dunnell...River phosphate locality, in the Yukon Territory of Canada, has produced some of the most aesthetic associations...analcime from Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec Province, Canada. The specimen is 9 × 8.5 × 6 cm. Royal Ontario |
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| MINERALS FOR THE COLLECTOR Geological Survey of Canada Miscellaneous Report 57 Cobalt – Belleterre –...Quebec Ann P. Sabina 2000 Geological Survey of Canada Miscellaneous Report 57 ROCKS AND MINERALS FOR...in Right of Canada, 2000 Catalogue No. M41-8-57E ISBN 0-660-17726-9 Available in Canada from Geological...Geological Survey of Canada offices: 601 Booth Street Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0E8 3303-33rd Street N.W. Calgary...for reference in selected public libraries across Canada Cette publication est aussi disponible en français |
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| few pieces to the Field Museum - brochantite, wurtzite, and agatized bone, probably from Utah and opalized...S. addresses are $35.00 per year; addresses in Canada and Mexico are $48.00 per year; all other foreign...of his diamond micrographs that he took using a Francon-Yamamoto differential interference attachment,...the founding chairman of the Science Council of Canada, Dr. O.M. Solandt. Figure 2 – The inside of the...prolific state! Figure 1 – One of Julius Weber’s Francon-Yamamoto differential interference images of a |
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| MINERALS FOR THE COLLECTOR Geological Survey of Canada Popular Geoscience 97 Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick...career in mineralogy at the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC) in 1952, working in the new field of mineral...for the Collector”, which covers 14 regions of Canada, from Newfoundland and Labrador to the Yukon-Alaska...treasurer for the Mineralogical Association of Canada. After her retirement in the late 1990s, Ann continued...shortly before her death. Geological Survey of Canada Popular Geoscience 97 ROCKS AND MINERALS FOR THE |
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| Uni-Mix quarry later became known as the De-Mix quarry. A third operation, the Desourdy quarry, also became...quarries were amalgamated and renamed the Demix quarry. The quarries were extremely active during the...More important for the science of mineralogy, the quarry operators allowed collectors to visit the quarries...was Mr. Frank Melanson. He visited the Poudrette quarry shortly after it started operation and continued...at a meeting of the Mineralogical Association of Canada, and, at about the same time, Mr. Melanson and |
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| Hilaire, Quebec with Fluorescent orange Sodalite .Canada Very’ rich mass of black crystals, some Mount Malosa...Arizona Pure green cleavage AMAZONITE Landsverk quarry, Evje, Norway Ixl 50p lx2£l 11 felspar group____________...£3 7 Pure black mica plate new Analysis , Saga Quarry, Tvedalen near ANNITE Mica__________ paper available...Chrysotile, pale grey-green Ixl £1 County Bridge Quarry,Lizard Mg Fe SiO_______ massive. _________ .Cornwall...Columbia masses m Andesite .Collected personally! , Canada Terminated single brownish -grey crystal "'Madagascar' |
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| fluorescing minerals. The field—mine, mine dump, or quarry—can be richly rewarding in its production of...Berge, and Kurt Ediarn (Norway); Gilles Haineault (Canada); Markku Lehtinen (Finland); Bob Smith (South Africa);...syenite batholith at Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada. Mont Saint- Hilaire provides a large variety...mine at Grafton, New Hampshire, and the Strickland quarry in Portland, Connecticut. Fluorapatite, which fluoresces...comes from the Millington quarry in Rocky Hill. From the Chimney Rock quarry near Somerville, there is |
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| Diablo, Arizona. 12 x 13 cm. (Geological Survey of Canada specimen) By studying meteorites such as this one...(Photograph by Michael Hamilton, Geological Survey of Canada) Diffirentiation of magma caused compositional...occurrences I have ever visited was exposed by the Francon quarry on Montreal P L AT E 1 4 Pyrochlore crystals...space-age technology. P L AT E I S Weloganite. Francon quarry, Montreal, Quebec. 4.s-cm crystal. Named for...Quebec. Unlike most carbonatites, those in the Francon quarry occur assills. A sill is a flat, sheetlike |
Francon quarry, Montréal, Québec, Canada