Latitude: 46°2'24"N
Longitude: 71°20'45"W
Formerly: Black Lake Mine, now British Canadian mine (B.C. 1 & B.C. 2 mines), Black Lake, Mégantic Co., Québec, Canada
One of the largest, now inactive, open pit chrysotile asbestos mine in the area, that through pit expansion consolidated a number of adjacent mines. It will take some research to sort out the names (multiple names) of the absorbed mines.
Dominant rock is rodingite, but calcalkaline biotite granite, herzbergite, and peridolitite are also present in the pit.
References
- Poitvin, E. and Graham, R., 1918, Contributions to the Mineralogy of Black Lake Area, Quebec, Canada Dept of Mines, Museum Bulletin 27, pp. 103.
- Parsons, A. L., 1935, Trisoctahedral Garnet from West Thetford Mines, P. Q., Contributions to Canadian Mineralogy (University of Toronto Studies Geological Series, 38), p. 33-36.
- Taner, M. F. and Laurent, R., 1984, Iron-rich Amesite from the Lake Asbestos Mine, Black Lake, Quebec, Canadian Mineralogist, v. 22, p. 437-442.
- GAUDARD, S. (1993) Voyages au coeur des Appalaches. Published by: Musée Minéralogique et Minier de la région de l’amiante, Thetford Mines, Québec, 178 p.
- Wilson, B. S. and Wight, Willow, 1999, Gem Andardite Garnet from Black Lake, Quebec, Canadian Gemologist, V. 20, p. 19-20.
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