| Locality type: | Mine |
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| Species: | Chalcopyrite |
| Formula: | CuFeS2 |
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| Validity: | Believed Valid |
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| Mineral Data: | Click here to view Chalcopyrite data |
| Locality Data: | Click here to view Dorion Amethyst Mine, Mineral Lot A, McTavish Township, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada |
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| Mindat Occurrence Record ID: | 145469 |
| Long-form Identifier: | 1:3:145469:7 |
| GUID (UUID V4): | 84b9aed3-2211-4ac0-a338-e431934812fc |
| Nearest other occurrences of Chalcopyrite |
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| 2.7km (1.7 miles) | ⓘEnterprise Mine, McTavish Township, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada |
| 4.2km (2.6 miles) | ⓘBlue Point Amethyst Mine, McTavish Township, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada |
| 5.1km (3.2 miles) | ⓘDetroit-Algoma Mine, McTavish Township, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada |
| 6.2km (3.8 miles) | ⓘGagnon Falls occurrence (Noyes North occurrence), McTavish Township, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada |
| 10.9km (6.8 miles) | ⓘSilver Lake occurrence, McTavish Township, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada |
| 25.5km (15.9 miles) | ⓘThunder Bay North deposit (Current Lake zone), Greenwich Lake Area, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada |
| 28.2km (17.5 miles) | ⓘ7Z Mine, MacGregor Township, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada |
| 34.0km (21.1 miles) | ⓘSilver Harbour Mine (Beck Mine; Three A Mine; 3 A), MacGregor Township, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada |
| 34.8km (21.6 miles) | ⓘEdward Island, Porphyry Island Township, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada |
| 35.0km (21.8 miles) | ⓘCurrent River Mines, McIntyre Township, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada |
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 | | Report (issue) | | durable wall facing is a popular use of amethystine rock as shown in this picture of a highway restaurant...Sibley. (ii) AMETHYST DEPOSITS OF ONTARIO by M.A. Vos Geological Guidebook No. 5 ONTARIO DIVISION OF...is to give an account of amethyst, describing its properties, lore, uses as a gemstone, and decorative...learn more about Ontario’s official mineral. Purple has been considered a royal colour for centuries. T h...h e ancient Greeks and Romans used a purple dye to colour cloth for garments. T h e colour was obtained |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | INERALOGY of the AMETHYST MINES in the Thunder Bay Area Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada Figure 1 View of...of the North Shore of Lake Superior in Thunder Bay from Amethyst Harbour. DANIEL E. KILE 5176 Black Bear...Figure 2. Amethyst with minimal subsurface inclusions of hematite from the Thunder Bay Amethyst mine, collected...town of Thunder Bay and nearby mines; map prepared by William Besse. T he Thunder Bay district in Ontario...Ontario, Canada, is noted for spectacular amethyst clusters that are often distinctive due to microscopic |  | | Journal (issue) | | N u m b er Two M arch-A p ril 1982 $4 V \ \ * \ \ y 1W *3* , J ; a- « £*<*' S # 2v,...i ’ - agjfc L jR H '' £ , ,r %• . Av I : 4M a - ] / P f l C n iA Cn v% 5rc ; s£ 4 " T r 171...Mamaroneck, New York Articles Amethyst from the Thunder Bay region, Ontario .............................................87 by F. Melanson and G. Robinson A re-examination of the Madoc sulfosalts .............LaFlamme and D. A. Walker Bytownite —a legacy of early Ottawa, a Montreal medical doctor and a Royal Engineer |
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