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Jeffrey Mine (Johns-Manville Mine), Asbestos, Les Sources RCM, Estrie, Québec, Canada

Latitude: 45°46'11"N
Longitude: 71°57'0"W
Formerly: Jeffrey mine (Johns-Manville Mine), Asbestos, Asbestos RCM, Estrie, Québec, Canada

Formerly: Jeffrey Mine (Johns-Manville Mine), Asbestos, Shipton Township, Richmond Co., Québec, Canada. "Jeffrey quarry" in earlier locality strings has no trace in the literature and should not be propagated.

A huge open pit asbestos mine in ultrabasic, serpenitized rocks. For many years owned and operated by Canadian Johns-Manville Co., Ltd., it is now owned by a local consortium. The mine has been mostly inactive since 2008 and the lower levels are filling with water (2012).

Mineral List

Acanthite
Actinolite
Albite
Allanite-(Ce)
Almandine
Andalusite
Andradite
Annite
Anthophyllite
Antigorite
'Apophyllite'
Apophyllite-(KF)
Aragonite
Artinite
Atacamite
Augite
Awaruite
Baryte
'Biotite'
Bornite
Brucite
'Brugnatellite'
Calcite
Celestine
Chalcocite
Chalcopyrite
Chamosite
'Chlorite Group'
Chromite
Chrysotile
Clinochlore
Clinochrysotile
Clinozoisite
Coalingite
Copper
Corundum
Cubanite
Cummingtonite
Cuprite
Diaspore
Diopside
Dolomite
Elbaite
Enstatite
'Epidote Group'
Fluorapatite
Galena
Goethite
Gold
Graphite
Grossular
var: Hessonite
Groutite
'Halloysite'
Heazlewoodite
Hedenbergite
Hematite
Hydromagnesite
Hydrotalcite
Hydroxylapatite
var: Carbonate-rich Hydroxylapatite

Ilmenite
Iowaite
Jeffreyite (TL)
Kaolinite
Laurionite
Lizardite
Löllingite
Magnesiochromite
Magnesite
Magnetite
Malachite
Manganite
Margarite
Maucherite
Microcline
Moissanite
Molybdenite
Monazite-(Ce)
Montmorillonite
Muscovite
Nickeline
Nisnite (TL)
Okenite
'Orthochrysotile'
Orthoclase
Palygorskite
Paratacamite
Pectolite
Phlogopite
Prehnite
Pumpellyite-(Mg)
Pyrite
Pyrochroite
Pyrrhotite
Quartz
Rutile
Schorl
Scolecite
Shandite
Silver
Spertiniite (TL)
Spessartine
Sphalerite
Stilpnomelane
Tacharanite
Talc
Theophrastite
Thomsonite-Ca
Titanite
Tochilinite
Tremolite
Uvarovite
'Uvite'
Vesuvianite
Wollastonite
Xonotlite
Zircon
Zoisite


118 entries listed. 108 valid minerals. 3 type localities (valid minerals).

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References

AKIZUKI, M. (1989) Growth structure and crystal symmetry of grossular garnets from the Jeffrey mine, Asbestos, Quebec, Canada. American Mineralogist, 74, 859-864.

AMABILI, M. and MIGLIOLI, A. (2000) Granati: nuovi ritrovamenti nelle miniere di Asbestos e Thetford Mines, Quebec, Canada. Rivista Mineralogica Italiana, 24(2), 80-86.

AMABILI, M., MIGLIOLI, A., and SPERTINI, F. (2004) Recent Discoveries at the Jeffrey Mine, Asbestos, Quebec, Canada. Mineralogical Record 35,123-135.

AMABILI, M., and SPERTINI, F. (2004) La Miniera Jeffrey, Asbestos, Canada. Rivista Mineralogica Italiana, 28 (2), 67-76.

AMABILI, M., SPERTINI, F. and AUGUSTE, M.B. (2008) Jeffrey and Lac d’Amiante: Two of Québec’s great garnet-bearing mines. In: Garnet – Great balls of fire. Lithographie, LLC (Extra Lapis) publication, 38-43.

CHAMBERLAIN, J.A. (1966) Heazlewoodite and awaruite in serpentinites of the Easten Townships, Quebec. Canadian Mineralogist, 8, 519-522.

CHAMBERLAIN, S. C. (1980) Wollastonite, vesuvianite, native copper and diopside from Jeffrey mine, Asbestos, Quebec, Canada. Rock & Minerals, 55, 188-191.

DE, A. (1972) Petrology of dikes emplaced in the ultramafic rocks of southeastern Quebec and origin of the rodingite. Geological Society of America, Memoir 132, 489-501.

DUNN, P.J. (1978) On the composition of some Canadian green garnets. Canadian Mineralogist 16, 205-206.

FITZGERALD, S., RHEINGOLD, A., and LEAVENS, P.B. (1986) Crystal structure of a non P4/nnc vesuvianite from Asbestos, Quebec. American Mineralogist 71, 1483-1488.

GRICE, J.D., and GASPARRINI, E. (1981) Spertiniite, Cu(OH)2 a new mineral from Jeffrey Mine, Quebec. Canadian Mineralogist, 19, 337-340.

GRICE, J.D., and ROBINSON, G.W. (1984) Jeffreyite, (Ca,Na)2(Be,Al)Si2(O,OH)7, a new mineral species and its relation to the melilite Group. Canadian Mineralogist, 22, 443-446.

GRICE J. D., and WIGHT, W. (1982) Correlation of colour and chemistry in grossular and vesuvianite from the Jeffrey mine, Quebec, Canada. Proceedings IMA XIII General Meeting, Varna, 433-440.

GRICE, J.D., and WILLIAMS, R. (1979) The Jeffrey Mine, Asbestos, Quebec. Mineralogical Record, 10, 69-80.

HORVÁTH, L. and SPERTINI, F. (2008) Die Jeffrey Mine, in Asbestos, Québec, Kanada. Teil 1. Mineralien Welt, Jg.19(5), 42-67 (in German)

HORVÁTH, L. and SPERTINI, F. (2009) Die Jeffrey Mine, in Asbestos, Québec, Kanada. Teil 2. Mineralien Welt, Jg.20(1) 64-83 (in German)

LALIBERTÉ, R. (1972): The Jeffrey Mine, Asbestos, Quebec. Association des Mines d’Amiante du Québec. Geol. Guide to the Asbestos mining region of southeastern Quebec, 19-26.

LALIBERTÉ, R., SPERTINI, F. and HÉBERT. R. (1979): Engineering geology at the Jeffrey mine, Canadian Johns Manville, Asbestos. Guidebook, Excursion B-3. GAC/MAC Joint Annual meeting.

NICKEL, E.H. (1959) The occurrence of native nickel-iron in the serpentine rocks of the Eastern Townships of Quebec Province. Canadian Mineralogist 6, 307-319.

NORMAND, C. (2001) Experimental and field investigations of serpentinization and rodingitization. Unpublished Ph.D. Thesis, McGill University, Montréal, 2 vols. 545 pp.

NORMAND, C. and WILLIAMS-JONES, A.E. (2007) Phisiochemical conditions and timing of rodingite formation: evidence from rodingite-hosted fluid inclusions in the JM asbestos mine, Asbestos, Quebec. Geochemical Transactions, 8(11), 1-19.

PAN, Y., MAO, M., and LIN, J. (2009) Single crystal EPR study of Fe3+ and VO2+ in prehnite from the Jeffrey mine, Asbestos, Quebec. Canadian Mineralogist, 47, 933-945.

RIORDON, P.H. (1975): Geology of the asbestos deposits of southeastern Quebec. Ministère des Richesses Naturelles du Québec, ES-18, 100 p.

RIORDON, P.H. and LALIBERTÉ R. (1972) Asbestos deposits of southern Québec. 24th International Geological Congress, Guidebook, Excursion B-08, 21 pp.

ROSSMAN, G.R. and AINES, R.D. (1986) Spectroscopy of a birefringent grossular from Asbestos, Quebec, Canada. American Mineralogist, 71, 779-780.

ROWE, R., GRICE, J.D., POIRIER, G., STANLEY, C.J. and HORVÁTH, L. (2011) Nisnite, Ni3Sn, a new nickel mineral species from the Jeffrey mine, Asbestos, Quebec. Canadian Mineralogist 49, 651-656.

SMITH, V.C. (2010) Relationship of optical anomalies, zoning, and microtopography in vesuvianite from the Jeffrey mine, Asbestos, Quebec. Unpublished M.Sc. Thesis, McGill University, Montreal. 171p.

SMITH, V.C. and PAQUETTE, J. (2010) Relationship between optical anomalies, growth topography, and zoning in vesuvianite from Asbestos, Quebec. Abstract, Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Research Symposium, McGill University March 25-26, 2010.

SPERTINI, F. (2001) La Mine Jeffrey d'Asbestos, Québec. Le Règne Minéral 37, 10-34 (in French).

WARES, R.P., and MARTIN, R.F. (1980): Rodingitization of granite and serpentinite in the Jeffrey Mine, Asbestos, Quebec. Canadian Mineralogist 18, 231 240.

WIGHT, W., and GRICE, J.D. (1981): Colourless grossular and green vesuvianite gems from the Jeffrey Mine, Asbestos, Quebec. Canadian Gemmologist (2), 2-6.

WIGHT, W., and GRICE, J.D. (1982): Grossular garnet from Jeffrey Mine, Asbestos, Quebec, Canada. Journal of Gemmology 18 (2), 126-130.

WIGHT, W., and GRICE J. D. (1983): Canadian vesuvianite gems. Journal of Gemmology 18 (8), 738-744.
WILLIAMS-JONES, A.E., NORMAND, C., CLARK, J.R., VALI, H., MARTIN, R.F., DUFRESNE, A., and NAYEBZADEH, A. (2001). Controls of amphibole formation in chrysotile deposits: evidence from the Jeffrey mine, Asbestos, Quebec. Canadian Mineralogist, Special Publication 5, 89-104.


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