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Microcline from
Falconbridge Mine, Falconbridge Township, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Microcline
Formula:K(AlSi3O8)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Microcline data
Locality Data:Click here to view Falconbridge Mine, Falconbridge Township, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:65227
Long-form Identifier:1:3:65227:4
GUID (UUID V4):e473cdbc-d9e7-4f9f-a933-110243e47ca9
Nearest other occurrences of Microcline
63.0km (39.2 miles) ⓘFrench River occurrence, Bigwood Township, Killarney, Sudbury District, Ontario, Canada
88.5km (55.0 miles) ⓘBesner Mine, Henvey Township, Parry Sound District, Ontario, Canada
89.2km (55.4 miles) ⓘAmbeau Mine, Henvey Township, Parry Sound District, Ontario, Canada
92.3km (57.3 miles) ⓘT.B.Tough property, McConkey Township, Parry Sound District, Ontario, Canada
92.4km (57.4 miles) ⓘKelcey Mine, McConkey Township, Parry Sound District, Ontario, Canada
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
NORANDA, QUEBEC, CANADA C. D. A. COMB^, Texasgulf Inc., P.O. Box 1140, Timmins, Ontario, P4N 7H9 H. L...L. GIBSON, AND A. LICHTBLAU Corporation Falconbridge Copper, P.O. Box 2000, Noranda, Quebec,]9X 5B4 Introduction...identified in the flows, and contain appreciable microcline. field in 20 percent of the drill intersections...drilling any single one is 10 m. With chastel Township, 2 km southeastof the O and the exception of the...replaces aegirine (dark gray) from right to left. Microcline is the predominant (light gray) interstitial
Journal (issue)
Rocks and Minerals of Ontario -- H f ONTARIO DEPARTMENT OF MINES AND NORTHERN AFFAIRS Honourable...and Minerals of Ontario By D. F. HEWITT Chief, Industrial Mineral Section Ontario Department of Mines... (Courtesy The International Nickel Company of Canada, Limited). Centre left: Eurypterus lacustris, an...about 400 m.y. ago; Welland County. (Courtesy Shell Canada Ltd.). right: left: — — — Centre right: Archaeocrinus...are common in Paleozoic limestones throughout Ontario. A large crinoid reef extended along presentday
Report (issue)
Publications Committee 270 Brock Street Peterborough, Ontario K9H 2P9 Editorial committee: Michael Peterman,...Standen Cover photo: Mountain Lake and the Nephton mine, October 1951. Photo by Archie Cameron. I remember...almost a household name. Everyone at the Nephton mine knew he had been the spark that drew attention to...large deposit of nepheline syenite in Methuen Township, a few miles north of the east end of Stoney Lake...Lakefield. Ultimately, some of the profits of the mine were to be reinvested in more than a half dozen
Report (issue)
COLLECTOR Ann P. Sabina Sudbury to Winnipeg I.I Energy, Mines and Resources Canada E:nergie, Mines et...et Ressourees Canada Canada THE ENERGY OF OUR RESOURCES THE POWER OF OUR IDEAS COVER Left: Amethyst...Amethyst - Thunder Bay, Ontario. Specimen measures 4.5 cm across the base. National Mineral Collection specimen... Geological Survey of Canada Miscellaneous Report 49 ROCKS AND MINERALS FOR THE COLLECTOR Sudbury to Winnipeg... © Minister of Supply and Services Canada 1991 Available in Canada through authorized bookstore agents
Report (issue)
GOVERN YOUR USE OF THIS DOCUMENT Your use of this Ontario Geological Survey document (the “Content”) is governed... copyright is held by the Queen’s Printer for Ontario. It is recommended that reference to the Content...and Scenery, North Shore of Lake Huron Region; Ontario Geological Survey, Geological Guide Book 4, 224p...670-5691 Toll-Free: 1-888-415-9845, ext. 5691 (inside Canada, United States) Pubsales.ndm@ontario.ca The Purchase...670-5691 Toll-Free: 1-888-415-9845, ext. 5691 (inside Canada, United States) Pubsales.ndm@ontario.ca Crown
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mineralization, and Emplacement of the Foy Offset Dike, Sudbury Impact Structure* M. G. TUCHSCHERER AND J. G. SPRAY†...Bailey Drive, Fredericton, New Brunswick E3B 5A3, Canada Abstract The Foy offset dike is the longest of...known radial dikes associated with the 1.85 Ga Sudbury Igneous Complex. The Foy dike extends for at least...Archean and Proterozoic footwall rocks of the Sudbury impact structure. The dike ranges in width from...from 400 m, where it connects to the Sudbury Igneous Complex, to 50 m at its most distal known exposure
Report (issue)
Geological Survey of Canada Miscellaneous Report 57 Cobalt – Belleterre – Timmins Ontario and Quebec Ann...Ann P. Sabina 2000 Geological Survey of Canada Miscellaneous Report 57 ROCKS AND MINERALS FOR THE COLLECTOR...Timmins Ontario and Quebec Ann P. Sabina 2000 ©Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada, 2000 Catalogue...Available in Canada from Geological Survey of Canada offices: 601 Booth Street Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0E8 3303-33rd...for reference in selected public libraries across Canada Cette publication est aussi disponible en français
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Batholith, northern flank of the Sudbury Structure, Ontario, Canada A. Meldrum a,, A . - F . M . A b...University, 3450 University Street, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 2A 7 b Department of Geology, American University...Geological Survey of Canada, 601 Booth Street, Ottawa Ontario, Ontario, Canada K1A OE8 Received 15 March...Batholith, exposed about 50 km northwest of Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, is a late Archean K-rich granitic batholith...it forms the footwall of the North Range of the Sudbury Igneous Complex. The Cartier Batholith, dominantly
Corporate Document
Management P.O. Box 40, Commerce Court West Toronto, Ontario M5L 1B4 MARSH A. COOPER Executive Office President...Vice-President 365 Bloor Street East Suite 200 Toronto, Ontario M4W 1H7 R. LAVERTU Senior Vice-President, Minerals...MARSH A. COOPER President & Managing Director Falconbridge Nickel Mines Limited G.E. DALE Vice-President...Vice-President, Finance T*W.E. CURRY Waterloo, Ontario Chairman, Department of Business Sir Wilfrid Laurier University...R. ROBERTSON Secretary Group Vice-President Falconbridge Nickel Mines Limited N.H. WITHERELL F. DONALD
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2720 m.y. old rocks of the Superior Province in Canada. On the other hand, ores and rocks younger than...the Grenville Province rock ages are slightly greater (by about 50 m.y.) than the model ages and in the...a shield-wide basis by the Geological Survey of Canada (see, for example, WANLEss, 1967), in addition...the Churchill Province (based on Geol. Survey of Canada, Map No. 895A). The dominant structural trend is...this area are (1) post-tectonic Phantom Lake microcline granite; (2) the boundary intrusions (serpentine
Journal (issue)
to the following: Canada: Mrs. J. W. Peat, 36 Deepwood Crescent, Don Mills, Ontario M3C1N8 England: Dr...were not as fortunate. Collectors would realize a greater abundance of fine minerals by evolving a positive...from V.7, No. 3 Carl Francis Long Hill Tungsten Mine Trumbull, Connecticut The Long Hill tungsten deposit...produced good crystals, is located in Trumbull’s Old Mine Park. Mining was never very prof­ itable and the...drinking water, a comfort station, and parking lot Old Mine Park is today an attractive and popular recrea­
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
com/locate/precamres The formation of the Sudbury breccia in the North Range of the Sudbury impact structure Bruno Lafrance...University, Ramsey Lake Road, Sudbury, ON P3E 2C6, Canada Geological Survey of Canada, 601 Booth Street, Ottawa...Ottawa, ON K1A 0E8, Canada a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received 18 October 2007 Received in...June 2008 Accepted 6 June 2008 Keywords: Sudbury breccia Sudbury impact structure Cataclasite Trace element...Range of the ca. 1.85 Ga Sudbury impact structure, massive bodies of Sudbury breccia cut across the Archean
Report (issue)
GOVERN YOUR USE OF THIS DOCUMENT Your use of this Ontario Geological Survey document (the “Content”) is governed... copyright is held by the Queen’s Printer for Ontario. It is recommended that reference to the Content... . ; Ontario Geological Survey, ...670-5691 Toll Free: 1-888-415-9845, ext. 5691 (inside Canada, United States) Local: (705) 670-5691 Toll Free:...(inside Canada, United States) Local: (416) 326-2678 Toll Free: 1-800-668-9938 (inside Canada, United
Report (volume)
Survey of Canada Miscellaneous Report 77 Kirkland Lake – Rouyn-Noranda – Val-d’Or, Ontario and Quebec...Quebec Ann P. Sabina 2003 Geological Survey of Canada Miscellaneous Report 77 ROCKS AND MINERALS FOR THE...Val-d’Or, Ontario and Quebec Ann P. Sabina 2003 ©Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada, 2003 Catalogue...Available in Canada from Geological Survey of Canada offices: 601 Booth Street Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0E8 3303-33rd...for reference in selected public libraries across Canada Cette publication est aussi disponible en français
Journal (issue)
with the printers ... Gem topaz from the Sakangyi mine, Myanmar; 5.1 cm high. M. Zinn collection. INTRODUCTION...in the big pocket in Sakangyi mine, Myanmar. New sperrylites from Canada Bradley S. WILSON INTRODUCTION...in 2011 at the Broken Hammer zone near Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. Fine crystals as large as 15 mm were...deposit, located in the Sudbury region, that is currently being considered for mine development by Wallbridge...camp as old and as heavily explored and mined as Sudbury, an important new mineral discovery can still be
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
A STUDY ALFRED OF THE WANDKE SUDBURY AND ORE ROBERT DEPOSITS. HOFFMAN. ß CONTENTS. INTR0rVdCTION...CaptainRoscoeof the ‱Mur- raymine,to Mr. Eagerof theLevack mine,to Mr. Carmichael of the W.orthingtonmineand particularlyto...investigation. GeneralGeolo#y.--The Sudburydistrictof Ontario, Canada, made classicalby the careful study of severalmembersof...rock' of x "The Nickel Industry," I913. " THE SUDBURY' ORE D‱POSITS. ' 17I granitic composition characterized...LaurenIianage and sediments, called by Colemanthe "Sudbury series,"consistinglargely of crystallinelimestone
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Flora Lake Stock, Lake of the Woods Region, Ontario, Canada Abstract: The Flora Lake stock is a concordant...Kenora, northern Ontario, Canada 2. Geologic setting of the Flora Lake stock, Ontario 12 3. Geologic map...map of the Flora Lake stock, Ontario . 12 4. Isomagnetic map of the Flora Lake stock, On12 tario 12 5...Specimen locations within the Flora Lake stock, 17 Ontario Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 76... R. A. HEIMLICH—PETROLOGY OF FLORA LAKE STOCK, ONTARIO 6. Comparison of plagioclase composition with rock
Book
Published in the United States and Canada by St James Press, 233 East Ontario Street, Chicago 60611, Illinois...447 467 491 Company Index 503 Tables: World Mine Production of Gold, Silver and Base Metals 5A2...work of reference on the mining industry. The greater part of this book aims to provide narrative, production...Mining OFFICES: 5011 Meadowood Way Paradise Peak Mine Suite 300 (100% FMC Gold) * Sales Reno, Nevada...Elko, Nevada (303) 292-7500 Royal Mountain King Mine (100% FMC Gold) Copperopolis, California Beartrack
Report (issue)
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA CANADA PAPER 73-30 ROCKS AND MINERALS FOR THE COLLECTOR, KIRKLAND LAKE...LAKE - NORANDA - VAL D'OR; ONTARIO AND QUEBEC Ann P. Sabina DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY, MINES AND RESOURCES...by mail from Information Canada, Ottawa from the Geological Survey of Canada 601 Booth St., Ottawa and...and Information Canada bookshops in HALIFAX - 1683 Barrington Street MONTREAL - 640 St. Catherine Street...available for reference in public libraries across Canada Price: $3. 00 Catalogue No. M44-73-30 Price
Journal (issue)
The ultramafic plutons were intruded into the "microcline granites of Sermersoq-Tasermiut" (ALLAART, 1964...essentially of oligoclase, very finely perthitic microcline, quartz, myrmekite and relatively large crystals...Thaba Putsoa C:=::J Sekhameng Hololo Kimberly Mine : Pipe areas relative to 100 m level. Surface plans...(Fro") Dawson, 1962) Plan of Roberts Victor Diamond Mine. Scale 1: 8400 (From Wagner, 1914) Fig. 6. Plans...medium-grained in outcrop, this reflecting their greater relative proportion of secondary I Layered hornblende
Report (issue)
PAPER 69-45 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY, MINES AND RESOURCES A CATALOGUE OF...MINERALS R. J. Traill ' GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA CANADA PAPER 69-45 A CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN MINERALS...n's Printer, Ottawa from the Geological Survey of Canada 601 Booth St., Ottawa and Canadian Government bookshops...to change without notic e Queen ' s Printer for Canada Ottawa 1970 A CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN MINERALS...has elapsed since T . Sterry Hunt in Geology of Canada, 1863 , presented the first descriptive list of
Book
in 1-m-thick grey shale layers at the Klein Aub Mine (2% copper, 50 ppm silver, up to I ppm gold and...copper-silver deposit of the now abandoned Oamites mine {HohewarteMetamorphic Complex) (Lee and Glenister...Tutura), mid fluorite (Miiller's Mine) midvolcanogeniccopper(Ubib Mine)occur in the Abbabis Metamorphic...with very minor beryl and li1hium(Tantalite Valley Mine). Rose quartz occurs on the farms Mikberg 262 and...SandamapErongo, Nainais-Kohero and Cape Cross-Uis (Uis Mine - 60 million t, 0.13% tin). A belt of post-tectonic
Report (issue)
Saskatchewan; Flin Flon Thompson, Manitoba Canada Geological Survey of Canada Miscellaneous Report 42 ROCKS AND... © Minister of Supply and Services Canada 1987 Available in Canada through authorized bookstore agents...Supply and Services Canada Hull, Quebec, Canada KIA OS9 and from Geological Survey of Canada offices: 601 Booth...Booth Street Ottawa, Canada KIA OE8 3303-33rd street N. W. Calgary, Alberta T2L 2A 7 A deposit copy of...public libraries across Canada Cat. No. M41-8/42E ISBN 0-660-11797-5 Canada: $7.50 Other countries:
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
number of earth scientists from Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Finland, and the United States of America...laths of albite (e.g., center of phenocryst), microcline and polylithionite (fine-grained flakes, yellowish...assemblage of albite laths and sparsely perthitic microcline, along with quartz, pyrochlore (which appears...FINEP, Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (Vale), and Falconbridge Company. We trust that the articles in this
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
-Honor6, P. Qu6., Canada, G0V 1L0 2 Universit6 du Qu6bec & Chicoutimi, P. Qu6., Canada a Maintenant & Falconbridge...Falconbridge Nickel, Qu6bec D~s sa formation au tout d~but du Cambrien, le complexe alcalin de St-Honor6...temperature (barytine et calcite dans les g~odes de la mine NIOBEC), a permis la naissance d'un nouveau drainage...Copperfield Mining, conduit ~ l'ouverture, en 1976, de la mine NIOBEC exploitant une zone niobifgre localis~e dana...ordoviciennes. Rectangle noir - chevalement de la mine NIOBEC. I- anorthosite. 2- s&rie charnockitique
 
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