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Amethyst from
Osmun Mine, McIntyre Township, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Quartz var: Amethyst
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Amethyst data
Locality Data:Click here to view Osmun Mine, McIntyre Township, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:655502
Long-form Identifier:1:3:655502:3
GUID (UUID V4):8f4804fa-f591-40bc-8912-f8611870cbc6
Nearest other occurrences of Amethyst
2.6km (1.6 miles) ā“˜Emmons mine, McIntyre Township, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada
3.4km (2.1 miles) ā“˜Shuniah Mine (Duncan), McIntyre Township, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada
5.1km (3.2 miles) ā“˜Current River Ward, Thunder Bay (City), Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada
7.1km (4.4 miles) ā“˜Terry Fox Memorial access road cut, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada
9.2km (5.7 miles) ā“˜Mt Baldy occurrence (David Galley occurrence), MacGregor Township, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada
13.0km (8.1 miles) ā“˜Neepatyre Mine, Neebing Township, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada
20.8km (12.9 miles) ā“˜Silver Harbour Mine (Beck Mine; Three A Mine; 3 A), MacGregor Township, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada
22.1km (13.8 miles) ā“˜Paresseux Rapids occurrence, Paipoonge Township, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada
23.4km (14.5 miles) ā“˜Parsons Mine (Lily of the Valley Mine), Paipoonge Township, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada
23.7km (14.7 miles) ā“˜MacKenzie River Locality, MacGregor Township, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
Sibley. (ii) AMETHYST DEPOSITS OF ONTARIO by M.A. Vos Geological Guidebook No. 5 ONTARIO DIVISION OF...purpose of this guidebook is to give an account of amethyst, describing its properties, lore, uses as a gemstone...wear the purple coloured robes. Ontario has recently1 chosen amethyst, the purple variety of quartz, to...has been designated as part of the symbolism of Ontario, for this province has had a long association with...establishment of many settlements in northern Ontario and the development of the arterial transportation
Report (Issue volume)
ieod ad 11tt~ e~ i# {1anada Volume II ONTARIO and QUEBEC Ann P. Sabina MISCELLANEOUS REPORT 8 Issued...Issued by THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA Department of Mines and Technical Surveys, Ottawa $1.65 Ā© Crown...Queen's Printer, Ottawa, the Geological Survey of Canada, 601 Booth St., Ottawa, and at the following Canadian...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 ā€¢ INTRODUCTION 2 ā€¢ A note on Canadian
Report (issue)
characterized by M etaseqiwia occidentale (as at the Birch Bay type locality) and into beds containing floras that...Paskapoo f06Sil plant localities of Alberta: Roy. Soc. Canada, Trans., 3d ser., vol. 20, sec. 4, 183-188, 1 text-f...Vermont, in the Museum of Geological Survey of Canada: Ottawa Naturalist, vol. 20, 16--17, 1906. Andrews...by G. S. Hume in the l\,lackenzie river basin: Canada Geol. Survey, Summ. Rept., 1921, 76, 1922. - -...Cretaceous and Paleocene Floras of Western Alberta: Canada., Dept. Mines and Res., Geol. Survey Bull. No.
Report (volume)
America-specifically, the United States, the Dominion of Canada and Newfoundland, the Arctic regions north of the...lorado congress onue ticut co unti on tributions District of olumbia Delawar d utsch , etc. d i rtation...occasional papers Okla ... .. . Oklahoma Ont ...... Ontario Oreg ..... Oregon P ......... papers P E I .. ...ewport, Vt. Ariz St Bur M ines, B Arizona Bureau of Mine , Bulletin. Tu on. Ark G S Arkan as, Geological...Report; Bulletin; Brit! h olumb:a Mini terĀ· o f Mine , Annua l RepotĀ·t. B Sc N at Bulletin de Ā·c:cnce
Book
It rs set wath stones from the New Mine Sapphire Syndicate mine in Montana. 70 Three American Art...pearl are generally regarded as ā€˜preciousā€™, while amethyst, aquamarine, topaz, tourmaline, peridot, zircon...coloured sapphires, zircon, spinel, cairngorm and amethyst, within a border of small rose-cut diamonds. ...Simeto river was much prized in this period. 84 Amethyst see Quartz Aquamarine see Beryl Aventurine ...widely used for nineteenth-century jewellery are amethyst, citrine, rosequartz, rock-crystal, catā€™s eye
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semiprecious substances as lapis lazuli, turquoise, amethyst, carnelian, obsidian and quartzā€”a use carried...seven stones and pearls set in gold and three amethyst pendants on gold wires, each with a green glass...and silver. Top right: Hat buckle of cabochon amethyst and faceted diamond paste, mounted in silver....Umbrian Marches, Santā€™ Angelo in Vado, a remote district of the Apennines. Craftsmen from this region were...Jewelry @ Fans. New York: Dover Publications, 1973. Osmun, WiLtuiAmM R. Nineteenth Century Jewelry: From the
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pure gold As this was,ā€”such mere oozings from the mine, Virgin as oval tawny pendant tear At beehive-edge...grazing, one of them resting on the ground. Roman. Amethyst intaglio of a horse near a palm tree, with inscription...further decorated with pearls and hung with an amethyst. It was originally conceived to be worn by Icarus...chrysolite, beryl, topaz, chrysophrase, jacinth, amethyst and pearls. Each stone is identified (Pl. 142)...simulation of Saxon garnet work; the centre set with an amethyst and four garnets. Height: 7.5 cm. Signed with
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bracelet with her picture and Miss Hamiltonā€™s and mine are of enamel with a little buckle of pearls by...Charlemont, with green leaves in our hair, only mine were sham, and the Queenā€™s and the Duchessā€™s were...on which I had my dearest Albertā€™s head put above mine, and a brooch containing a miniature of him set...but on the whole I preferred taking less ā€” merely mine and the sistersā€™. What I shall do if they are stolen...mainly eighteenth-century.'ā€ The Duchess of Kentā€™s amethyst suite, one of the few pieces to survive from the
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Netherlands Distributors for the United States and Canada: ELSEVIER SCIENCE PUBLISHING C O M P A N Y INC...London, England; K.A. Pirozynski, National Museum of Canada, Ottawa, Ont.; George O. Poinar, Jr., University...History), London, England; Glenn B. Wiggins, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, O n t ; Mark V.H. Wilson, University...or commonly solitary individuals. We must deterĀ­ mine if the spacing characteristic of various taxa observably...the Wenlock age Rochester Shale of New York and Ontario have individuals of Naticonema fixed on or near
 
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