 | | Journal (issue) | | ........ p. 12 Galena on pyrite Brushy Creek Mine, Oates, Viburnum Trend District, Reynolds County...(across from Skyline Towers), 3548 South Jefferson St. (intersecting Leesburg Pike), Falls Church, VA Phone:...Newsletter Galena, Petrovitsa deposit, Borieva Mine, Madan orefield, Rhodope Mountains, Smolyan Oblast...only in the MVT deposits. Galena, Brushy Creek Mine, Oates, Viburnum Trend District, Reynolds County...and squeezed the rocks. All galena deposits in Canada are hosted by metamorphic rocks; the crystals are |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Jeffrey Mine, Asbestos, Les Sources Municipalité Régional de Comté Estrie, Québec, Canada A lthough...Jeffrey mine, Asbestos, Les Sources Municipalité, Régional de Comté, Estrie, Québec, Canada. The stepped-growth...grossular dodecahedra is commonly observed on Jeffrey mine specimens. This particular specimen is one of the...crystal of grossular from the Jeffrey mine, Asbestos, Québec, Canada. The Arkenstone specimen, Joe Budd...group of grossular crystals from the Jeffrey mine, Québec, Canada. Formerly in the Charles Key collection |  | | Journal (issue) | | photo by Harold and Erica Van Pelt, Los Angeles MINE [RaL OG MANUEL Ol) MIN£RAl ° C Editor & Publisher...Roberts Geol. Surv. of Canada Ottawa George W. Robinson Natl. Museums of Canada Ottawa, Ontario Abraham...Articles Famous mineral localities: The Orford nickel mine, Quebec, Canada....................................coveted—the super flashy crystal specimens, la creme de la creme, those that often hide under dealers’ beds...91 Lakeshore Road Beaconsfield, Quebec H9W 4H8 Canada Robert A. Gault Research Division Canadian Museum |  | | Report (issue) | | Geological Survey of Canada Miscellaneous Report 46 ROCKS AND MINERALS FOR THE COLLECTOR Estrie and Gaspesie... © Minister of Supply and Services Canada 1992 Available in Canada through authorized bookstore agents...bookstores or by mail from Canada Communication Group - Publishing Ottawa, Canada K1A OS9 and from Geological...Geological Survey of Canada offices: 601 Booth Street Ottawa, Canada KlA OE8 3303-33rd Street N.W., Calgary...available for reference in public libraries across Canada Cat. No. M41-8/46E ISBN 0-660-14391-7 Price subject |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Institution Washington, DC 20013 pohwatp@si.edu Diopside MERELANI, ARUSHA REGION, TANZANIA Most silicates... and, for pyroxenes, diopside is an exception (spodumene is another). Diopside crystals are monoclinic...point group 2/m; hence it is a clinopyroxene. Diopside crystals are commonly prismatic with a square...as simple and multiple twins on {100} or {010}. Diopside displays parting on {100} and possibly on {010}...attributed to planar exsolution lamellae (Nesse 2012)]. Diopside has a hardness of 5.5–6.5 and a specific gravity |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | University 859 Sherbrooke Street West Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 0C4 peter.tarassoff@sympatico.ca M CGILL...longtime mineral collector with a focus on Mont Saint-Hilaire. He is honorary curator of mineralogy at...Pinch Medal from the Mineralogical Association of Canada. VISITOR INFORMATION Address: Redpath Museum,...Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, Quebec H3A 0C4, Canada Hours: Monday–Friday, 9 a.m.–5 p.m.; Sunday, 11...Montreal founded in 1827, and the Geological Survey of Canada established in 1842. All three museums were available |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | HUNTING FOR UVAROVITE GARNETS AT THE ORFORD NICKEL MINES, QUEBEC, CANADA By GARDINER E. GREGORY Director,...location to find uvarovite garnets is near little Brompton Lake a few miles west of the city of Sherbrooke...Assays showed that the ore contained 1 percent nickel. In spite of the low grade, an attempt was made...difficulty locating the mine from the map given to us by a friend. The mine road begins on the left at...Camp. About 300 yards from the beginning of the mine road, it passes through a grown over field. Beyond |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | through Denver mineral dealer Heinz Eckert. Today the mine at Outokumpu is reportedly closed, and the surface...source has historically been the now-closed copper mine at Outokumpu, Finland, and most museums’ uvarovites...are not rare. It has been found at Wood’s chrome mine, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and is reported...been reported from the vicinity of the well-known nickel occurrence at Riddle, Oregon. California boasts...crystals from the Calavaras mine, Alpine County; with kammererite at the Brown mine, Del Norte County; at the |  | | Report (issue) | | cm tall andradite on hematite is from the Wessels Mine near Hotazel in northern Cape Province, South Africa...Grossular on diopside; 7.1 cm tall Jeffrey Mine, Asbestos, Richmond County, Quebec, Canada Paul Stahl specimen...Childeric 's bees (page 16); photo© Bibliotheque National de France, Paris Left: Grossular from the Republic of... Right: Grossular on vesuvianite from the Sierra de Cruces Range in Mexico; 3.1 cm tall; ex Blue Sky...chromophore of "raspberry" grossular from the Sierra de Cruces Range in Mexico) imparts pink, and chromium |  | | | | in the field ~“ Various geological locations iin Canada© Physical properties of minerals and rocks, and...surrounded ce ne white calcite, from!iheBluebell Mine; Riondel, Digitized by the Internet Archive...Fitzhenry & Whiteside Canadian Museum of Musée canadien de la Saad @./ NATURE Beginner’s Guide to Rocks and...Fitzhenry & Whiteside acknowledges with thanks the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Ontario Arts Council...acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | now be as low as a few parts per million H2O (e.g., Le Voyer et al. 2015). As a mass spectrometry technique...Clinopyroxene compositions are generally chrome diopside with some variation in the amount of calcium incorporated...the exception of one diopside, SMC31139. This mineral specimen is from a nickel mine bordering a hydrothermally...Gault 1994, for a summary of the geology of the mine) and is a 4:1 diopside:hedenbergite solid solution...Kimberlite, Transvaal, Africa Kimberlite chrome diopside megacryst Cpx PR-7-5 117322-245 Premier Kimberlite |  | | Book | | © 2011 Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. All rights reserved. No part of this publication...Cataloging-in-Publication Data (U.S.) Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Tait, Kimberly. Tait...States by Firefly Books (U.S.) Inc. Published in Canada by Firefly Books Ltd. PO. Box 1338, Ellicott Station...at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Photography: Brian Boyle, MPA, FPPO, and Miguel...publishing program by the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund as administered by the Department |  | | Report (Issue volume) | | MISCELLANEOUS REPORT 8 Issued by THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA Department of Mines and Technical Surveys, Ottawa...Printer, Ottawa, the Geological Survey of Canada, 601 Booth St., Ottawa, and at the following Canadian...Building, 36 Adelaide St. East MONTREAL £terna-Vie Building, 1182 St. Catherine St. West or through your...available for reference in public libraries across Canada. Price $ l.65 Catalogue No . M41-8 / 8-2 Price...Queen's Printer and Controller of Stationery Ottawa, Canada 1964 Page • INTRODUCTION 2 • A note on Canadian |  | | Book | | On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...from Mont St. Hilaire, Quebec 2: 141-142 AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona...22:303-308 ALBERTA Mineral occurrences in western Canada [British Columbia and Alberta] (by A. Ingelson)...ALLEN, GEORGE B. --and W. Hunt: The Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County, Arizona 19:139-144 ALLGOOD, GENNE...Allgood, C. Williams: Ramsdellite from the Mistake mine [Arizona] 14:333-335 ALLGOOD, ROBERT W. -with G |  | | Book | | enOLOGIOAT SURVEY OF CANADA. AALFRED R C.SELWYN, C. M. G., LL.D. F.RS., Director GEOLOGICAL SURVEY... Ae aw ndeees as Se ey Caed, = tIGAM ALCS: Gis LE iaach auatiis vin;Aualin bpsdibse alere’ Ame | ...17 20 v1 GEOLOGICAL TABLE OF SURVEY OF CANADA. CONTENTS— Continued. OXYGEN saLTs—Continued...silver ores from the province of British Columbia. de aser eCOOtanie CString s vis. huts wteriey ba GeyvieNurdor... es Og 1a ee het oe pa yee east hay WiTb re, le! olny. eh a fel a sreUe/ jer ial al‘ahey (er eliei |  | | Book | | canadien de la nature Text copyright © 1994 by Canadian Museum of Nature/ Musee canadien de la nature...Ltd The Orion Publishing Group Orion House SUpper St Martin's Lane London WC2H 9EA A catalogue record... C The devastating blasts of Krakatoa or Mount Saint Helens, cataclysmic earthquakes in Italy or California...volcanos in Iceland, or black smokers along the Juan de Fuca ridge beneath the Pacific Ocean, also provide...AT E 1 Nickel-Iron meteorite. Canyon Diablo, Arizona. 12 x 13 cm. (Geological Survey of Canada specimen) |  | | Show/Event (guide) | | and B.J. Flyer. 2:00 T h e Red Lake mine—the richest gold mine in the world, right here in Ontario by...B. Simmons. 5:45 Y a o g a n g x i a n Tungsten mine byB. Ottens. 6:00 N e w data of roscherite-group...Sweet Home mine, at the Colorado Quartz Gold mine, at the Red Cloud mine, at the Benitoite mine, at the...the Amazonite mine, at the Twin Creeks mine, and the Morro Rodundo mine. He will also comment on the future...from an abandoned mine one mile south of Talcville, New York. Talcville is located in St. Lawrence County |  | | Journal (issue) | | Ann Arbor, Ml Andrew C. Roberts Geol. Surv. of Canada Ottawa George W. Robinson Seaman Mineral Museum...by U. Burchard Recent discoveries at the Jeffrey mine, Asbestos, Quebec . .. ................. . . .....COVER: CATAPLEIITE on feldspar, 2.5 cm, from Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec. Martin Zinn collection; photo by...Scovil. For more on this famous deposit see the Mont Saint-Hilaire special issue, vol. 21, no. 4 Guly-August...Native American collections in New York City and St. Joseph, Missouri will not replace their war bonnets |  | | Book | | .,a~ ,:::- • Canadian Museum of Musee canadien de la \..,~ NATURE Fitzhenry & Whiteside •"""'liir... •"""'liir. ,::- • Canadian Museu m of Mu see canadien de ta (...,~ NATURE Beginner's Guide to Rocks and...20 I O Canadian Museum of Nature Photographs by O le Johnsen copyright © 2010 Ole Johnsen All righls reserved...Fitzhenry & Whiteside acknowledges with thanks the Canada Council for the Arts. and the Ontario Arts Council...acknowledge the financial suppo1t of the Government of Canada through the Book Pubbshing lndus!Jy Development |  | | Journal (issue) | | Scovil photo. Vanadinite, 2.4 cm, from the Apache mine, Arizona. Collected by Evan Jones; Jeff Scovil photo...Miglioli photo. Fluorite, 7.4 cm, from the La Barre mine, France. Collected by Aubin Cosson; Niels Brouwer... from left: Caledonite, 1.1 cm, from the Reward mine, California. Collected by Jeff Lines; Ben DeCamp...Thrill of Discovery by Wendell Wilson Epilog: On Mine Safety UThe Field-CollectorsV Anthony J. Albini...the words of the original discoverers. Adelaide Mine, Tasmania, 1971, 2012 Albert Chapman wrote one such |  | | Journal (issue) | | Ann Arbor, Ml Andrew C. Roberts Geol. Surv. of Canada Ottawa George W. Robinson Seaman Mineral Museum...dumps, about 30 meters from the Sankt Goransgruvan mine. The zone contained many cerium minerals, as well...I (Gustav Vasa). The last active iron and copper mine, Biickegruvan, was closed by its owner, Fagerstabruk...district one of the oldest in Sweden. Though the mine was mainly worked for iron ore, copper ore production...important for the gun-making foundries. The Falu mine in the northern Bergslagen area was Europe's most |  | | Journal (issue) | | Mineralogical Record Inc. Articles The Bunker Hill mine, Kellogg, Shoshone County, Id a h o 339 by N....by R. S. W. Braithwaite Barite from the Niobec mine, Chicoutimi, Quebec .....................355 by...Kennedy and G. Gagnon Minerals of the Yates uranium mine, Pontiac County, Quebec . 359 by D. L. Leavitt ...2 Wellsic Lane, Rothley Leicestershire LE7 7Qb Canada: Mrs. J. W. Peat 36 Deepwood Crescent Don Mills...inches tall, is from the Jules Sauer Col lection, Rio de Janerio. Photo by Harold and Erica Van Pelt, from |  | | Book | | Pezzotta and Zorzi (2008). ILMENITE UNITED STATES and CANADA BRITISH COLUMBIA Ice River complex. The Ice River...Springfield show ( 1995: 582). Madawaska [Faraday] mine near Bow Lake, Hastings County. Some of the world's...property of, the old Madawaska uranium mine (called the Faraday mine before 1964). The mineral assemblage...(2006: 240). J r ILMENITE QUEBEC Girardville, Lac Saint-Jean area. Just northwest of the town of Girardville...Girardville, itself 40 km northwest of Lac Saint-Jean in south-central Quebec, very large and sharp ilmenite |  | | Journal (issue) | | with Mimetite on Barite 5.1 cm, from the Rowley mine, Maricopa County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection;...explore literally thousands of mineral occurrences, mine dumps and abandoned mines in the public domain administered...Heintzelman (1805-1880) shipped ore specimens from his mine to be exhibited at the Cincinnati Merchant's Exchange...later when Edwin Over paid a visit to the Red Cloud mine and made one of history's most spectacular wulfenite...discovery at tbe Red Cloud mine, Ed Over moved on in 1939 to investigate tbe Hilltop mine in Cochise County. |  | | Journal (issue) | | by Harold and NOTE: P le a s e call a h e a d for ou r travel s c h e d u le - w e w o u ld h a te to...Ann Arbor, Ml Andrew C. Roberts Geol. Surv. of Canada Ottawa George W. Robinson Seaman Mineral Museum...site, a n e w cop p er m o ly b d a te from Inca de Oro, A tacam a, C h ile ...........................many fluorites, especially from the W illiam Wise mine in Westmoreland, New Hampshire. A woodworker since...years, and was caretaker of 362 the famous Kelly mine, M agdalena district (see vol. 20, no. 1, p. 13-24) |
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Orford Nickel mine, St-Denis-de-Brompton, Le Val-Saint-François RCM, Estrie, Québec, Canada