Latitude: 45°45'35"N
Longitude: 75°42'17"W
Formerly: Evans-Lou Mine, St-Pierre-de-Wakefield, Portland Township, Papineau Co., Québec, Canada
A abandoned feldspar quarry located 2 km NNE of Wakefield Lake (subsequently renamed Lac Saint-Pierre), 40 km North of Ottawa. A rare-earth bearing granite pegmatite high in Y,U,Th,Bi,and V mined for feldspar between 1949 and 1951 by Canada Flint and Spar Company.
Coordinates extrapolated from topographic map.
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References
Spence, Hugh and Muench, O. B., 1935, Monazite from West Portland Township, Quebec, American Mineralogist, v 20, p. 724-732.
Miles, N. M., Hogarth, D.D. & Russell, D.S. (1971): Wakefieldite, yttrium vanadate, a new mineral from Quebec. American Mineralogist. 56, 395-410
Hogarth, D.D. (1972): The Evans-Lou pegmatite, Quebec: a unique yttrium-niobium-bismuth-vanadium mineral assemblage. Mineralogical Record, 3 (2), 69-77.
Hogarth, D. D.; Chao, G. Y. & Harris, D. C. (1972): New data on hellandite. Canadian Mineralogist 11: 760-776
Traill, R.J. (1983) Catalogue of Canadian minerals GSC Paper 80-18, 432p.
Hogarth, D.D., Chao, G.Y., Plant. G.A. & Steacy, H. R. (1974): Caysichite, a new silico-carbonate of yttrium and calcium. Canadian Mineralogist.12: 293-298.
- Canadian Mineralogist. 24, 665-673
Sabina, A.P. (1986) Rocks & Minerals for the collector; Buckingham - Mont-Laurier - Grenville, Quebec Hawkesbury - Ottawa, Ontario. GSC Misc. Report 33, 27,30-31 p.
Miyawaki, Ritsuro, Kuriyama, Junko, and Naki, Izumi, 1993, The redefinition of tengerite- (Y) , Y2(CO3)3.2-3H2O, and its crystal structure, American Mineralogist, 78: 425-432.
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