NephelineDavis Hill Locality, Davis Hill, Dungannon Township, Hastings Co., Ontario, Canada
Photo: Van King Latitude: 45°4'5"N
Longitude: 77°48'20"W
Precambrian metapyroxenite containing nepheline vein mineralization. Davis Hill is the locality for giant nepheline crystals of Moyd (1990). The Davis Quarry is NOT the locality of the giant nepheline crystals and is located near the York River Skarn Zone to the south.
References
Moyd, Louis, 1990, Davis Hill near Bancroft, Ontario: An Occurrence of Large Nepheline, Biotite and Albite-Antiperthite Crystals in Calcite-Cored Vein-dikes, Mineralogical Record (1990) 21:235-248.
Bancroft & District Mineral Collecting Guidebook
Tschernich, R. (1992): Zeolites of the World, p.51, 100, 124, 184, 192, 255, 282, 414, 458, 492
Rocks&Min 66:44-45
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