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Opal from
Saint-Amable sill, Varennes & St-Amable, Lajemmerais RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada


Locality type:Sill
Classification
Species:Opal
Formula:SiO2 · nH2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Microcline13 photos of Opal associated with Microcline at this locality.
Aegirine12 photos of Opal associated with Aegirine at this locality.
Ranciéite4 photos of Opal associated with Ranciéite at this locality.
Birnessite4 photos of Opal associated with Birnessite at this locality.
Nenadkevichite Group2 photos of Opal associated with Nenadkevichite Group at this locality.
Calcite2 photos of Opal associated with Calcite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Opal data
Locality Data:Click here to view Saint-Amable sill, Varennes & St-Amable, Lajemmerais RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:856080
Long-form Identifier:1:3:856080:3
GUID (UUID V4):1e02a49e-624f-4367-a27b-37a7a4496e12
Localities for Opal in this Region
Demix-Varennes quarry, Saint-Amable sill, Varennes & St-Amable, Lajemmerais RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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kristalle.com j* f| E-mail: leicht@kristalle.com w St -L i" " - Editor & Publisher Wendell E. Wilson...Ann Arbor, Ml Andrew C. Roberts Geol. Surv. of Canada Ottawa George W. Robinson Seaman Mineral Museum... Articles Mineralogy of the Saint-Amable Sill, Varennes and Saint-Amable, Q u e b e c .................Pfenninger-Horvath 594 Main Road Hudson, Quebec, Canada JOP 1H0 Robert A. Gault Research Division Canadian...Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K IP 6P4 Peter Tarassoff 91 Lakeshore Road Beaconsfield, Quebec, Canada H9W 4H8 A
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kjemi og paragenese, er Saint-Amabel sill (DemixVarennes-steinbruddet, Quebec, Canada), Point of Rocks fonolitten...fonolitten (New Mexico), Mont Saint-Hilaire (Quebec, Canada) og noen lokaliteter i Lovozero-massivet på...Aris, Namibia, Mont Saint Hilaire (MSH) og Saint-Amable sill (STA), Quebec, Canada. Mineralet ble første..., Conlon, R.P. & Velthuizen, J.V. (1990): Mont Saint-Hilaire unknowns. Mineralogical Record 21, 363-368...Mineralogy of the SaintAmable Sill, Varennes and Saint-Amable, Québec. Mineralogical Record 29, 83-118
Journal (issue)
Ann Arbor, MI Andrew C. Roberts Geol. Surv. of Canada Ottawa George W. Robinson Seaman Mineral Museum...mineral localities: The Francon Quarry, Montréal, Québec, Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 by...annual FM-MSA-TGMS Tucson Mineralogical Symposium: CANADA! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Chairman:...matrix, from the Francon quarry, Montréal, Québec, Canada. (See the article in this issue on this famous...the Perth Mint, and over a magnificent Queensland opal specimen, the “Galaxy,” the fate of which remains
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
PRELIMINARY REPORT ON THE MINERALOGY OF THE SAINT-AMABLE SILL, VARENNES, QUEBEC. R. A. Gaul?, Mineral Sciences...The Saint-Amable sill forms a low buttelike topographical feature between the villages of Varennes and...and Saint-Amable just east of the Saint Lawrence River and north of Mont Bruno, near Montreal, Quebec.... The sill is well exposed in the Varennes quarry, which has been operated continuously for crushed rock...alkaline composition and close proximity to Mont Saint-Hilaire and Mont Bruno suggest it is related to
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Österreich • Die Mineralien -........~ des Saint-Amable Sill, Kanada (2) • Neues aus Norwegen • Kurios...über die Mineralien der kanadischen Fundstelle Saint-Amable. Ab Seite 45 folgt nun der abschließende Teil...Eifel und aus Italien Die Mineralien vom Saint-Amable Sill, Quebec, Kanada (Teil 2) Impressum, Das Letzte...Such-Hinweis auf seine zukünftigen Schwerpunkte „West Canada Lokal", BC/Yukon und „Pacific Northwest", US-damit...Racko-Giebfried Rapp, Reiner Reimann, Bernhard Rolf's Opal (Fa. Küns~inl Stätzel, Norbert Süper, Michael Tutt
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Kärnten und Lanzarote Die Mineralien des Saint-Amable Sill, Kanada • Norwegen-Neufunde '98 2/99 15...neuen Mineralien . Wir berichten über den Saint-Amable Sill ab der Seite 53. In bewährter Weise geht...Joachim Hoßfeld S3 64 Die Mineralien des Saint-Amable Sill, Quebec, Kanada (Teil 1) Impressum Das Titelbild...Lokalität SaintAmable Sill, geografisch ganz in der Nachbarschaft des Klassikers Mt. Saint-Hilaire gelegen...B11gstld1n . Nonk B11gvelbmlJ$tUm h,1Nml1t det m,st, ,v byem: histori,, og Mn by pJ ,n rikholdig meny
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alkalirich pegmatites of agpaitic Mont SaintHilaire complex in Quebec, Canada. It associates here with gaidonnayite...syenite, which makes part of the nearby Saint Amable sill (Horvath et al., 1998). This mineral in late...part of Strange Lake complex (QuebecLabrador, Canada). However, the data on chemistry of the mineral...Karnasurt Mountain, hilairite was found as pink opallike grains up to 1 cm in dense finegrained albite...paragenesis in cavities of nepheline syenite in Saint Amable as several beige and white prismaticrhombohedral
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Phoenix mil near Que Que, Zimbabw 4.5 inches. St i b n i t e left) crystals on matrix, rom the X ikuangshan...from Spania Dolina, Czech Republic; 2.25 inches. St o l z it e crystals from the Sainte-L ucie mine,...Order Our Video Catalogs for $15.00 Outside U.S. & Canada, $25.00 Photos Sent Upon Request. *WE PURCHASE...SPECIMENS AND COMPLETE COLLECTIONS #203 Sullivan St., Wurtsboro, NY 12790 Shop: (914) 888-4411 Home:...cover, high quality art printing from Sweden, ju st $74.95 plus shipping. We are the exclusive North
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
York, J. L. Davis, 251-53 Huttonite, 367 Hyalite opal, Colorado, 307 Falster, A. U., see Media Reviews...Preliminary Report on the Mineralogy of the Saint-Amable Sill, Varennes, Quebec, R. A. Gault, L. Horvath, 116;
Book
MONT SAINT-HILAIRE: HISTORY, GEOLOGY, MINERALOGY About the cover The striking specimen shown on...specimens collected at Mont Saint-Hilaire; it features the species that made Mont Saint-Hilaire so well known...feature two species originally described from Mont Saint-Hilaire; they remain unique to that locality. On...named after the Monteregian Hills, of which Mont Saint-Hilaire is a member; carletonite is named after...University, where much of the early work on Mont Saint-Hilaire minerals was carried out. The monteregianite-(Y)
Journal (volume)
veins in syenite from the southern Yukon Territory, Canada, dark blue beryl and aquamarine occur (Groat et...western Moravia, western Bohemia, Austria, Italy and Canada. This survey 27 shows that blue o-beryls are...aquamarine from the True Blue showing, Yukon Territory, Canada. The Canadian Mineralogist 48, 597-613. Husdal...from fenitized metasediments in Cantley, Quebec, Canada. The second occurrence of the mineral was reported...a 1-2 km wide and more than 15 km long gabbroic sill emplaced within the Proterozoic Seljord group metasediments
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Ann Arbor, MI Andrew C. Roberts Geol. Surv. of Canada Ottawa George W. Robinson Seaman Mineral Museum...from the “very top of the highest point of Mount St. Gothard” and presented it to the Duchess at Bern...Higgins’ lectures at his School of Chemistry in Greek St., Soho (Wright, 1989). The chemist and physician...often en route. Hart stayed for several weeks in St. Petersburg and was much struck by the beauty of...some that Dr. Creighton assisted me in procuring at St. Petersburg, where I gave some Derbyshire and Cornwall
Report (issue)
Ohio's Findlay Arch District BY JASON MCDONALD 69 Canada BY MARK MAUTHNER & FRANK MELANSON 114 Fluid Inclusions...pyrrhotite. / * Whitehea ••••·• Allenheads/Beaumint St. Peter's Bolt's Law ... 540 * Redburn �ope...Heights Qua * C) ;,::�;:�<--IP-::�::� }i}j,er 9 St. Johns Cha I : Greenlaws C) Cement Quarry HIii...sphalerite, until it closed in 198 1. The nearby St. Peter's mine (closed 1946) is famous for limpid...31 Above: 8. 1 cm high fluorite and dolomite from St. Peter s mine in Northumberland county Collection
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(OH)·2H2O] from Rapid Creek area, Yukon Territory, Canada (c). The spectra were obtained by N.V. Chukanov...mine, near Penobsquis, Kings Co., New Brunswick, Canada (type locality). Description: White massive from...Springs potash deposit, Sussex, New Brunswick, Canada (type locality). Description: Crystals from the...Springs potash deposit, Sussex, New Brunswick, Canada (type locality). Description: Crystals from the...Division) mine, Penobsquis, Kings Co., New Brunswick, Canada (type locality). Description: Pale yellow, vitreous
Book
Pezzotta and Zorzi (2008). ILMENITE UNITED STATES and CANADA BRITISH COLUMBIA Ice River complex. The Ice River...(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...(Philippe Beiley, personal communication, 2010). Mont Saint-Hilaire. Ilmenite is relatiYelycommon in miarolitic...miarolitic cavities in the nepheline syenite of Saint-Hilaire, but specimen-grade crystals are seldom larger
Book (edition)
All rights reserved. Published simultaneously in Canada. Reproduction or translation or any part of this...compelation of the American Geological Institute, 4220 King St., Alexandria, VA, 22302-1502. However, without the...Ercit: Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Richard C. Erd: U.S.G.S., Menlo Park, California...extent of producing diffraction patterns (e.g., opal), (2) metamict materials that were crystalline at...few materials by X-ray diffraction order (e.g., opal). Lattice constants are generally derived es be
Journal (volume)
Andersen (Norway), Adrian A. Finch (UK), John Gittins (Canada), Jens Konnerup-Madsen (Denmark), Raymond Macdonald...(Kola Peninsula, Russia), and Mont Saint-Hilaire (Quebec, Canada) are among the areas in the world which...localities for 127 minerals (Pekov 1998) and Mont Saint-Hilaire holds the type localities for 38 minerals...(Andersen et al. 1969) and later found at Mont Saint-Hilaire and given the name tetranatrolite (Chen...T.T. & Chao, G.Y. 1980: Tetranatrolite from Mont St-Hilaire, Quebec. Canadian Mineralogist 18, 77–84
 
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