 | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | University 859 Sherbrooke Street West Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 0C4 Well-crystallized dawsonite, a species...relatively rare. In the Montreal region, the Francon quarry has produced some of the world’s best dawsonite...campus of McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Its full characterization took almost a century...dawsonite localities in the Montreal region, the Francon quarry has produced some of the world’s best dawsonite...chemist and mineralogist to the Geological Survey of Canada. As Harrington was a mineral collector1 as well |  | | Book | | 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 |  | | 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 |  | | 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 (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) | | this quarry. Ms. Sabina's paper notes that Dresserite has its only known occurrence at the Francon Quarry...Star Rt. 62, Box 370 pedia is also present in the quarry. Al Center Harbor, N.H. 03226 though the Canadian...C I M E N T H A T Plagioclase a mineral at the quarry, pri vate communique identifies this mineral W...cavi FRANCON QUARRY ties. by The most spectacular specimen to be Norman B. Biggart found at Francon in...cacite, pyrite, anatase, know just where to start. marcasite, celestite, cryolite, dawsonite Perhaps the recent |  | | 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) | | 1 27.7 11.5 24.6 4.8 Total 98.1 (1) Francon quarry, Canada; by electron microprobe, CO2 and H2 O by...smythite, marcasite, pyrite, halloysite, doyleite. Distribution: From the Francon quarry, Montreal Island...Quebec, Canada. Name: For the Monteregian Hill, Mont Royal, prominent landmark in Montreal, Canada, from...Material: Canadian Geological Survey, Ottawa, Canada, 64261–64265. References: (1) Roberts, A.C., A...new hydrated Sr–Al hydroxylcarbonate from the Francon quarry, Montreal, Quebec. Can. Mineral., 24, 455–459 | | | 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 |  | | Catalog/List | | - ·MINERALS 200 Napier Street, Barrie, Ontario, Canada. Telephone: 1 (705) 726-~713 o LIST #3 - APRIL...ACTINOLITE: Gooderham, Ontario, Canada. crystals ACTINOLITE: St. Hilaire. Qu0bec, Canada, acicular sprays and tufts...tufts ACTINOLITE: Bull Run Quarry, Loudon County, Virginia, USA. sprays and tufts ACTINOLITE,variety...sections AS /\BOVE AEGERINE: St. Hilaire, Quebec, Canada. acicular sprays and tufts, crystal sections AEGERINE...AEGERINE,ALBIT~: St. Hilaire, Quebec, Canada. crystal sections, sprays and tufts AENIGMATITE, varfoty |  | | 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) | | 856 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, Quebec, Canada 2 Department of Geological Sciences, McGill University...University, 3450 University Street, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3A 2A7 Received January 7, 1992/Accepted August...1992 Abstract. Ordovician limestones in the Francon quarry on the island of Montreal, Quebec, are host...hydrous carbonate, first identified in the Francon quarry. Four types of inclusions have been recognized...reported from the Montreal area including the Francon quarry where it is a major mineral in three felsic |  | | 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...contact, xlvii; vaterite, 535; calcite, 609 Belshaw's quarry, White Mountain: laumontite, 516 Bengore Head: |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Minerals-Hardness Vandall T. King Thumbnails-Francon Quarry Norman D. Biggarl and John Reiner Chips and...Add $3.00 for subscriptions outside the U.S. and Canada. All orders by indi viduals should be paid in...this quarry. Ms. Sabina’s paper notes that Dresscrite has its only known occurrence at the Francon Quarry...Star Rt. 62, Box 370 pedia is also present in the quarry. Al Center Harbor, N.H. 03226 though the Canadian...ANY SPECIMEN THAT Plagioclasc a mineral at the quarry, private communique identifies this minera WILL |  | | 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...in magnetite Whitehorse Mine, Whitehorse, Yukon Canada 2xl.5 inch £18 30_ PALYGORSKITE, creamy coloured |  | Robinson, George W., Dix, George R., Richards, R. Peter, Picard, Michel (2011) Minerals of the Beekmantown Group, Southeastern Ontario, Southern Quebec, and Northwestern New York. Rocks & Minerals, 86 (6) 546-562 doi:10.1080/00357529.2011.622227 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | famous localities as Mont Saint-Hilaire and the Francon quarry in southern Quebec, or classics such as Pierrepont...Ordovician siliciclastic- Figure 1 (below). The Marcil quarry near Ste-Clotilde-de-Châteauguay, Quebec, as it...University 1125 Colonel By Drive Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1S 5B6 gdix@ccs.carleton.ca R. PETER RICHARDS...Nature PO Box 3443, Station D Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1P 6P4 mpicard@mus-nature.ca Figure 2 (left)...mineralized stratum exposed in the St-Eustache quarry, St-Eustache, Quebec (October 1994). Michel Picard |  | | 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: |  | | 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...Convention Center, the “main show,” where Minerals of Canada was the theme this year. All of these productions |  | | 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...banding to best effect. 3tx 2-t-x 2" , £11.00 MARCASITE. Brvnyrafr r~ine, nr. Talybont, Carding8nshire...crystals to 8 mm in size thickly covering massive marcasite matrix. 4x3" , £7.00 65. ~ METITE. Santa Eulalia...2x1fx1 " , £4.50p WELOGANITE. Francon Qry., ~ontreal, Q ebec, Canada. Specimen A: Choice lustrous cre:Jmy |  | | Catalog/List | | in size, £7.00. 32. DAWSONITE. Francon Qry., Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Small glassy needly crystals scattered...wollElstonite hornfels. 2,zx1-tx1t", £5. SOp 55. MARCASITE. EJaxter Springs, Cherol'G13 Co., Kansas, U.S...the back of the specimen. 3x2tx1i;", £14.00 56. MARCASITE. Shakespeare Cliff, Folkestone, Kent. Select light...78. NATIVE SILVER. Silver Isle, Lakc Superior, Canada. Rich silvery hackly masses in quartz matrix. 1fx1fx1"...2tx1-}", £2.2Sp 93. WELOGANITE. Francon Qry., Montreal, ~uebec, Canada. Sharp translucent creamy crystals |  | | Journal (issue) | | may be made in local currency to the following: Canada: Mrs. J.W . Peat. 36 Oeepwood Crescent. Don Mills...“gold bear” nuggets. And I was shown a mask-like marcasite specimen consisting of two con nected hemispheres...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...Arkansas, and south of Camp Robinson. The quarry, known as Jeffrey quarry, is just north of McArthur Drive (Conway |
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Francon quarry, Montréal, Québec, Canada