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Milky Quartz from
Palisades Mine, Lybster Township, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Quartz var: Milky Quartz
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Milky Quartz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Palisades Mine, Lybster Township, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:655451
Long-form Identifier:1:3:655451:4
GUID (UUID V4):5801fac7-0c3f-444e-93ea-60b6e0bb717d
Nearest other occurrences of Milky Quartz
5.5km (3.4 miles) ⓘWoodside's Vein (Partridge Rock occurrence), Lybster Township, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada
9.7km (6.0 miles) ⓘScripture Mine, Lismore Township, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada
10.7km (6.7 miles) ⓘClimax Mine (Keystone), O'Connor Township, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada
10.8km (6.7 miles) ⓘSilver Creek Mine, Gillies Township, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada
14.0km (8.7 miles) ⓘRabbit Mountain Junior Mine, Scoble Township, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada
15.9km (9.9 miles) ⓘRothwell Mine, Paipoonge Township, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada
23.9km (14.9 miles) ⓘParesseux Rapids occurrence, Paipoonge Township, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada
33.2km (20.6 miles) ⓘNeepatyre Mine, Neebing Township, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada
45.9km (28.5 miles) ⓘOsmun Mine, McIntyre Township, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada
66.1km (41.0 miles) ⓘSilver Harbour Mine (Beck Mine; Three A Mine; 3 A), MacGregor Township, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Book (volume)
Limited 1410 Birchmount Road Scarborough, Ontario M1P 2E7, Canada Van Nostrand Reinhold Australia Pty. Ltd... 5 = fii? i a j — » ya y _— ’* : i mine in. q)! Y eit iia -...variety and wealth of locality information concerning quartz gemstones are recognized in a separate chapter...and Technical Surveys of the Geological Survey of Canada, while specific Canadian locality information was...was supplied by Dr. Victor Ben Meen of the Royal Ontario Museum, Carl B. Gerber of Arlington, Virginia,
Journal (issue)
............................ 348 FLUORESCENT PALISADES HY ALITE. By S. B. B111/er..................................... :..................... 350 East Bay Mineral Society ............... .... ..............Location ...IS¡ he Ith Buck Hill is in Barrett Township, Monroe County, eastern Pennsylvaniaone mile west...visitors had their origin in the Adirondacks, Ontario, and Labrador. In many places at higher elevations...containing the flags of nine American republics and Canada, which he half-buried on the peak as a symbol of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Inc. The Coral Geode, Ted Richardi, Editor, Tampa Bay Mineral and Science Club. Inc. Rochland Nuggets,...SOCIETY EXHIBITS Place A-l MIXED DISPLAY Tampa Bay Mineral and Science Club, Ine Monmouth Mineral and...Washington, D.C, Ine Mineralogieal Society of the District of Columbia Westchester Mineral and Gem Society...calcite, jasper, chlorite nodules and amethystine quartz, plus a few nice pieces of blue agate. At Whales...cliffs to cleave into stone columns similar to the Palisades. On a side trip amygdaloidal lava and agate was
Report (issue)
Broadwav’and 218th Street, Manhattan Island. 4—Quartz, var. Amethyst (purple), West Paterson. N. J. 5—Garnet...7—Datolitc (pale green), West Paterson* N J 8— Quartz, var. Smoky (brown), Broadway and 162nd Street...several lists covering various sections of the district which have been published from time to time in...lists, and the names of many others, new to the district, and discovered in recent years, have been added...technical matters relating to tho mineralogy of the district from the following: S. G. Gordon, A. C. Hawkins
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
94)00220-7 Lead isotopes as a provenance tool for quartz: Examples from plutons and quartzite, northeastern...1994) Abstract-The U-Pb isotope system in plutonic quartz samples approximates the crystallization age of...for de&al quartz grains. We present lead isotopic data and U and Pb concentrations of quartz from three...all in northeastern Minnesota. Lead in granitic quartz is considerably more radiogenic than in its associated...thorogenic than its host. Pb-Pb ages obtained from quartz whole-rock-leached feldspar from the Late Archean
Book
AMERICA BY W. F. HUMPHREY PRESS, INC., GENEVA, NY Quartz, "Herkimer diamonds" Herkimer Co. Dedicated........................... Tilly Foster magnetite mine near Brewster, Putnam County......................of Jefferson and St. Lawrence Counties.. Sterling mine, near Antwerp, Jefferson County............................................ Hematite mines near Ontario, Wayne County.................. Lead-Zinc Mines...................................... Rossie lead mine, St. Lawrence County...........................
Journal (issue)
net Famous Mineral Localities: The Berezovsk District, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia .....................Recent finds of ajoite-included quartz in the Artonvilla mine, Messina District, Limpopo Province, South Africa...know, we supplied a DVD on the famous Pederneira mine with the May-June issue. This DVD is a supplement...minrecord@comcast.net For 2 5 0 years the Berezovsk mining district near Ekaterinburg in the Ural Mountains has been...northeast ofEkaterinburg in the central Urals Federal District (Longitude 57.855 East, Latitude 60.735 North)
Book
farm above Keuka Lake in New York's Finger Lakes district. After attending Penn Yan Academy in nearby Penn...0974 , J453rn S. F. PUBLIC LIBRARY Herkimer Co. Quartz, "Herkimer diamonds" . ,,. , Dedicated to ,ny......................... . Tilly Foster magnetite mine near Brewster, Putnam County .....................Jefferson and St. Lawrence Counties .. Sterling mine, near Antwerp, Jefferson County ......... . Clinton.......................... . Hematite mines near Ontario, Wayne County ........... • Lead-Zinc Mines .
Book
Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins in a variety of metamorphic, plutonic and...Litchfield, where a mass of white quartz on a ridge had once been mined for quartz, and large ilmenite masses...ilmenite crystals to 7 .5 cm in matrix of massive quartz from these dumps-adding that, in his judgment,...Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series of incompletely...Pezzotta and Zorzi (2008). ILMENITE UNITED STATES and CANADA BRITISH COLUMBIA Ice River complex. The Ice River
Journal (issue)
............... MARK M. FOSTER BUYS FAMOUS OPAL MINE ........................ KIBBLEHOUSE QUARRY, PERKIOMENVILLE...Goethite, Restormel Iron Mine, Lanlivery, Cornwall, England; T etrahedrite, Gottesg~be Mine, Roth, Nassau, Germany...Germany ; Celesttte, Giona Mine, Girgenti, Sicily, Italy. We wish that some of the amateur mineral dealers...information regarding the source of the specimens-name of mine or quarry if possible but at least the town, village...under the river. vated in the diabase of the Palisades. When this tunne:l is mentioned, most Where the
Journal (issue)
.............................. 390 BIHAR MICA DISTRICT MOST IMPORTANT IN INDIA ............ 391 MT. PICO...Bottom Samples, by K . 0 . Emery; A Montana Corundum Mine, by H. E. Murdock; Some Minerals of the Galapagos...Easter Vacation, by B. M. Brehm; Amethyst-Smoky Quartz-Topaz in northern New Hampshire, by Harold J. Verrow...45 pages for the United States and 7 pages for Canada. The third edition marks Dana's break with the...Forthcoming volumes are to include the silicates with quartz in volume III and all other minerals in volume
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
215 Comparison with other areas 217 Purpose 217 Palisades sill 217 Whin sill 218 Conclusions 219 References...lighter-colored rock containing mainly plagioclase, quartz, muscovite, biotite, chlorite, and clino.,- Harbor...feldspar, quartz, and phlogopite. The contact aure;rv-gray, well-foliated rock containing quartz, ole, formed...talc, magnetite, and sphalerite; and (2) •rite, quartz, and chlorite; and (2) an outer an outer zone,...of tl ed Judging from published accounts, the Palisades diabase of New Jersey and New York, like the Safe
Journal (issue)
....................... 300 SOUDAN, MINN., IRON MINE ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡-...the mine examination work. The Potino Mines and Enterprises Consolidated, Inc., is in the district of...which is the site of the local government of the district. The first mill built for treating the tin ores...Miraflores which is about one mile from Uncia. As the mine was worked to greater depths, an adit was drilled...an Indian woman off of the sorting tables at the mine. She had cooked for another white man at some former
Journal (issue)
x 1 ½ Olttloch 11. Baveno. Small twin xis. with Quartz on rock. 3 ½ x 2 •• •• Ci■:, ..•. Mt. Avala. Xld...••• • ••• Woffr••ite. Cornwall. Xlline. masses in Quartz. 3 x 2 .....•.••• ••. Unarite, Cumberland. Xld...x 3 ..... . NttaciniN, S.W . Africa. On massive Quartz. 3 x 2 x 1 ½ . .••• •••.. Ull4p ■nll-. Chile. Coating.... rock. 5 x 3 x 2 ½ .• Chry91til• ("Aabutus'), Canada. Solid mass of 5 Inch (!) fiber. Very choice. 5...Hole may be reached from Salt From the Four Metals Mine, the road Lake City by several roads, all passing
Journal (issue)
father through the serpentine barrens of Willistown Township, Chester County, Pa. The country was rugged and...Brunswick,” and will not be repeated here.) The Palisades, First and Second Mountain, Rocky Hill, and many...of ice was carried across the present Chesa peake Bay, and was stranded at Nottingham, in Prince George...to something like the present climate of Hudson's Bay, and Greenland; the former south of New Jersey and...region over New York and Pennsylvania into Chesapeake bay and the Potomac river—flowed northeast into the St
Book (volume)
chalcedony, occasionally with pale Amethysts, or Quartz crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite... W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY...banks of Mason Cr.⎯fossils; d Coal City, on area mine dumps from sedimentary overburden⎯oval concretions...States EAST BROOKLYN (SE of Gardner), area coal mine dumps⎯Marcasite, Pyrite. HANCOCK COUNTY DALLAS...Jarosite, Marcasite, Malachite, Pyrite, Pyrolusite, Quartz, Selenite, Smithsonite and Sphalerite in any combination)
Book (volume)
chalcedony, occasionally with pale Amethysts, or Quartz crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite... W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY...banks of Mason Cr.⎯fossils; d Coal City, on area mine dumps from sedimentary overburden⎯oval concretions...States EAST BROOKLYN (SE of Gardner), area coal mine dumps⎯Marcasite, Pyrite. HANCOCK COUNTY DALLAS...Jarosite, Marcasite, Malachite, Pyrite, Pyrolusite, Quartz, Selenite, Smithsonite and Sphalerite in any combination)
Journal (issue)
Two and three generations ago, the Tilly Foster Mine was at its height of fame as a source of rich magnetic...minerals of this locality are my specialty. The mine is only a few miles from my Summer home. My chauffeur...Museum where I saw the labe's; "Tilly Foster Iron Mine at Brewster's, New York, U.S.A." under chondrodite...i . I have spent about 100 hours all to:d at the mine and have carried away hundreds of specimens of which...turn up". The re is a good reason. This is an old mine which reached its peak of production about 1870
Report (volume)
Summary of literature- _ _ _ _ Section 4. Part of Ontario northwest, north, and northeast of Lake Superior...Wisconsin___ Central and eastern Minnesota r Mesabi district _____________________-__ Vermilion district__...the Woods and Rainy Lake___________ Michipicoten district _,___________________ 108 108 108 178 ITS 196...series__________________________ 335 Marquette district _____________________ 335 Crystal Falls distr...Superior ____________________^_________ Michipicoten district _______________________ Keweeuawan series _________________
Book (edition)
50, 51a & b, 56; Beautiful British Columbia 1; Ontario Ministry of Industry & Tourism 2, 45, 49, 155,...home or in other parts of the United States or Canada—a person can go to for a certain vacation activity...directory to each region of the United States and Canada, indicating the outstanding outdoor vacation possibilities...and colleagues throughout the United States and Canada can recommend. You'll find a brief account of each...for outdoor vacations, and across the border in Canada other vast areas await the camper, backpacker,
Book
All rights reserved Published simultaneously in Canada by McClelland & Stewart, Ltd. Manufactured in the...Rocks 1 A Mountain of Bugs 3 9 2 Hunting for Thunder Eggs 15 3 Free Gold 23 29 4 Desert Roses 5...for sending material on Herkimer diamonds. To District Ranger Donald Schmidtlein of Buffalo Gap National...used for carving good luck charms. Quartz—Have you picked up a milky-white stone? Does it have the slick...of quartz. Quartz is sometimes stained different colors, or it may have stripes of color. Quartz occurs
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
kilometers (18 miles) to Piermont, being known as the Palisades' The Bergen Hill region has long been noted as...datolite, and of common occurrence with these were quartz, calcite, pyrite, chalcopyrite, sphalerite and...the chalcopyriteembeddedin clusters of small milky quartz crystals attached to the vein wall. vein materia...about 7 cm. in diameter. of most Qu.r,nrz: While quartz is plentiful in the crevices then and locality...veins filled with be would quartz crystals the calcite, clusters of small milky exposed. -Co"a*tt Calcite
Book
was m e r e l y p a r t o f t h e waste o f t h e mine. W h a t t h e y needed was h i g h grade ore o...streams and rivers f o r epidote, unakite, blue quartz, agate, chalcedony, petrified wood and other gemstones...Washington D.C. area visit Virginia's noted Rutherford Mine. Photograph by Dr. Virginia Lee Blackford. ical...Field trippers visited the well known old Rutherford mine in Amelia County, Virginia, and found bright spessartine...deposits have come to light in Alabama and Tennessee. Quartz gems have been discovered in Florida and Mississippi
Report (issue)
kilometers (18 miles) to Piermont, being known as the Palisades. The Bergen Hill region has long been noted as...datolite, and of common occurrence with these were quartz, calcite, pyrite, chalcopyrite, sphalerite and...the chalcopyrite embedded in clusters of small milky quartz crystals attached to the vein wall. Vein material...specimen measured about 7 cm. in diameter. QUARTZ: While quartz is plentiful in the crevices of most New...By etching out the calcite, clusters of small milky quartz crystals would be exposed. CALCITE: Calcite
Report (volume)
Deposits of minerals of wide distribution, such as quartz and calcite, have been omitted, except those that...working in pure white clay at Eureka V ALABAMA. 7 mine 4 miles northeast of Valley Head. Etowah County...County, Blue and Rock creeks. x Clay County, Idaho district. Cleburne County, Arbacoochee, Chulafinnee, Kemp...Pinetucky district. Talladega County, near Waldo. Tallapoosa County, Goldville, Hog Mountain district, Silver...iron ore of State; 1 to 5 beds. Greatest mining district, Jefferson County between Bessemer and Birmingham;
 
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