 | | Journal (issue) | | 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 |  | | Report (issue) | | © 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | MACROCRYSTS IN GABBRO, MONT ROYAL, MONTREAL, QUEBEC, CANADA ANDREI Y. BARKOV§ AND ROBERT F. MARTIN Department...3450 University Street, Montreal, Quebec H3A 0E8, Canada ABSTRACT We document unusual zones of Cr enrichment...crystallization, Mont Royal intrusive center, Montreal, Canada. INTRODUCTION Although Mont Royal, the prominent...limestone. These sills are well exposed in the Francon quarry, located within the city limits 8 km north...in trace amounts in three cases out of four. Magnetite, ilmenite, biotite, and fluorapatite are also present |  | | Report (issue) | | 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 |  | | Report (volume) | | 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 |  | | Report (issue) | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Thumbnails-FranForghani, Abdol-Hossein. The Apatite of con Quarry. Nov., p. 455 Hormuz Island, Iran. March, p. 85...Frederick H. Molybdenite — (MoS2). April, p. 154; Magnetite. The Micromounters Corner-Why Col July-Aug.,... 298; Thumbnails. Oct., p. 405; Thumbnails—Francon Quarry. Nov., p. 455 Rich, Carter C. An Easy-To-Build...Special Gemstone Ex hibit at the National Museums of Canada. July-Aug., p. 288 Wood, Simone. Tips for Preparing...Vonsen. Dec, p. 511 Canada—Special Gemstone Exhibit at the National Museums of Canada. Willow Wight. July-August | | | Report (issue) | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | have been given names sounding like minerals. CANADA Quebec Monoclinic is clearly the champion. Don't...mantle as well). 180 ROCKS AND MINERALS Francon Quarry "Collecting hasn't been this unbelievable for...Y o r k . It is a matter of time before the Francon quarry in Montreal is reclaimed as a sanitary land...land fill by the city, but until that time, the Francon Company has allowed a schedule of collecting at...luck would have it, that part of the enormous Francon quarry is where the action should be. In mid-September |  | Martin, Robert F., Alarie, Éric, Minarik, William G., Wáczek, Zsófia, McCammon, Catherine A. (2016) Titanium-Rich Magnesio-Hastingsite Macrocrysts In A Camptonite Dike, Lafarge Quarry, Montreal Island, Québec: Early Crystallization In A Pseudo-Unary System. The Canadian Mineralogist, 54 (1) 65-78 doi:10.3749/canmin.4359 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | MAGNESIO-HASTINGSITE MACROCRYSTS IN A CAMPTONITE DIKE, LAFARGE QUARRY, MONTREAL ISLAND, QUÉBEC: EARLY CRYSTALLIZATION...3450 University Street, Montreal, Quebec H3A 0E8, Canada ZSÓFIA WÁCZEK G}ozhajó Utca 9, HU-2000 Szentendre...Trenton Group in the MontréalEst quarry operated by Lafarge Canada Inc. The ‘‘Lafarge’’ dike is strikingly...titanium-rich magnesio-hastingsite, Lafarge quarry, Montreal Island, Canada. INTRODUCTION The Monteregian Hills...located in the Montréal-Est § ¶ quarry operated by Lafarge Canada Inc., about 13 km north of Mont Royal |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | singular and plural will be used in this column. magnetite, pyrrhotite, copper, silver, sphalerite, maucher...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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Ann Arbor, MI Andrew C. Roberts Geol. Surv. of Canada Ottawa George W. Robinson Seaman Mineral Museum...Vietnam . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225 by D. Blauwet Francon revisited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...price of $475 postpaid in the United States and Canada (write or e-mail for the shipping surcharge to...chance? Within minutes I was at the base of the quarry, but I quickly noticed large square blocks of numbered...ruby in a matrix that appeared to consist of magnetite. I was able to purchase it without too much bargaining |  | | Report (issue) | | 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 |  | | Report (issue) | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | CANMET, 555 Booth Street,Ottawa, Ontario KIA OGl, Canada EnNsr A. J. Bunxn Instituut voor Aardwetenschappen...National Museum of Natural Sciences,Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. J.L.J. 2023 insolublein water,D-"n.: 2.67(2)...002),3.474(l 00,006),3. I 86( I 5, Nature. Ottawa. Canada. J.L.J. 224),2.867(r3,24r), 2.789(10,226),2.606(40...translucentor nepheline syenite at the Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint- transparent,H : 4.5, brittle, conchoidal...xenoliths in nepheline syenite at the Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec.Type material is in |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 242 A note on pyrosmalite from Nant Francon, North Wales. By P. E. B~owN, B.Sc., Ph.D., F.G.S. Department...in contact with intrusive rhyolite in the Nant Francon area of North Wales. p YROSMALITE has been found...found in a metasomat~zed slate from Nant Francon. The rock containing the mineral was first described...geology of the country between Nant Peris and Nant Francon. In this paper Williams briefly described the metamorphic...which form the country rocks. Near the old Nant Francon road, north-west of Blaen-y-Nant, where the slate |  | | Journal (issue) | | may be made in local currency to the following: Canada: Mrs. J.W . Peat. 36 Oeepwood Crescent. Don Mills...Brannerite Chromite Goethite Hematite Heterogenite Magnetite Pyrolusite 72 Figure 6. Magenta-pink roselite...Mineralogist, 40, 828-833. GAUDEFROY, C. (1953) Magnetite et oligiste d’Irhtem. Notes et memoires du Service...Blount Little Rock, Arkansas 72209 The Jeffrey quarry, near North Little Rock, Arkansas, has produced...to come from the Arkan sas quartz region. The quarry is now closed but specimens of quartz, ankerite |  | | Catalog/List | | mass nearly lxl inch with Hydrocerussite. Merehead Quarry Mendips £35 9. SIMPSONITE Orange cleavage mass...5mm across on lxl with small quartz crystals Francon Quarry Montreal Quebec £25 14. VESUVIANITE lxl inch...inch matrix Pancake Bay, lake Superior Ontario Canada £10 £12 2x3 18. BERYLLONITE (pictured left)...(Henderson# 2 mine, 3250 level, Chibugamu, Quebec Canada) £12 24. CUPRIAN MELANTERITE rich bluish-green...brownish metallic area in magnetite Whitehorse Mine, Whitehorse, Yukon Canada 2xl.5 inch £18 30_ PALYGORSKITE |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | tamarugite(?), thenardite, 172 Blaen-y-Nant, Nant Francon, Caernarvonshire, North Wales: chlorite, gar- ...azurite, olivenite, 428; coronadite, 343 Embleton quarry, Cockermouth: alunite, dickite, thaumasite, zunyite...scheelite, 921 Meldon aplite quarry, Okehampton: bavenite, 577 Meldon limestone quarry, Okehampton: scheelite...nah' Achlaise, Ledmore: cromaltite, 767 Lettermore quarry, Loch Loyal: nordmarkite, 389 Loch Bad ham Ban...nordmarkite with pegmatite veins, amazonite, magnetite, sphene, allanite, montmorillonite, stilbite, |  | | Report (issue) | | Mont-Laurier Grenville, Québec; Hawkesbury - Ottawa, Ontario Geological Survey of Canada Miscellaneous Report... @ Minister of Supply and Services Canada 1986 Available in Canada through authorized bookstore agents...Supply and Services Canada Ottawa, Canada K I A OS9 and from Geological Survey of Canada offices: 601 Booth...Booth Street Ottawa, Canada KIA OE8 3303-33rd Street N.W., Calgary, Alberta T2L 2A7 A deposit copy of this...reference in public libraries across Canada Cat. No. M41-8/33E Canada: $7.50 ISBN 0-660-11941-2 Other countries: |  | | Catalog/List | | Ystrad Mine, Betws Garmon, Gwynedd Wales Nant Francon formation small 2x3 inch £15 32 MUSCOVITE variety...attractive, rich yellow platy mass in quartz La Bosse Quarry, Echassieres Allier France 2x3 inch £10 33 MAGNESITE...arfvedsonite cleavages. Strange Lake Deposit, Quebec, Canada 2x2 £15 40 FLUORAP ATITE deep blue, translucent...£35 c) one inch piece £7 Varutrask Sweden 44 MAGNETITE good display piece of lustrous black , octahedral... orange coating on Feldspar about 2.5cm Tuften Quarry, Tvedalen Norway £6 CHENEVIXITE green masses on |  | | Report (issue) | | rosette-shaped aggregates of platy crystals of magnetite on skarn matrix of epidote/andradite/quartz. In...seen a few—only a few—Prince of Wales Island magnetite specimens of this description, unearthed by Doug...Weinrich exceed all past ones I’m aware of. The magnetite rosettes reach 5 cm, and the matrix specimens...Dan’s site range from thumbnail to cabinet size. Magnetite, 10 cm, from Green Monster Mountain, Prince of...com) has again come up with something new from Canada, his native country. This time Ray offers seven |  | | Catalog/List | | 3x2i-x1t,.", £4. 50p 37. DRESSERITE. Francon Qry., Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Specimen A: Creamy-white silky...40. FERRIERITE. Kaloomps Lake, British Columbia, Canada. Specimen A: Pale rsddish to creamy coloured radiated...green assive Chrysocolla. 2tx1-}X1", £4. 50p 62. MAGNETITE. Traversella, Pieemont, Italy. Specimen A: Select...over 1 cm in size lining cavities 1n crystalline magnetite with a little calcite. 4x2~x1t-", £8.00. Specimen...to i" in size lining cavities in crystalline magnetite with creamy calcite in places. 2~x2x1~", £2.75p |  | | Report (issue) | | MINES AND RESOURCES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA CANADA PAPER 67-51 ROCKS AND MINERALS FOR THE COLLECTOR...Queen's Printer, Ottawa, from Geological Survey of Canada, 601 Booth St., Ottawa, and at the followin$ 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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