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Muscovite from
Abbeville Mine, Rouyn-Noranda TE, Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Québec, Canada


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Muscovite
Formula:KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Muscovite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Abbeville Mine, Rouyn-Noranda TE, Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Québec, Canada
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:884227
Long-form Identifier:1:3:884227:5
GUID (UUID V4):19cff0b3-5b34-4e67-839e-4d753404612f
Nearest other occurrences of Muscovite
2.3km (1.4 miles) Senator Rouyn Mine, Rouyn-Noranda TE, Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Québec, Canada
3.0km (1.9 miles) Durbar (Huronian Belt) Mine, Rouyn-Noranda TE, Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Québec, Canada
3.6km (2.2 miles) Stadacona Mine, Rouyn-Noranda TE, Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Québec, Canada
3.9km (2.4 miles) Astoria Mine, Rouyn-Noranda TE, Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Québec, Canada
4.0km (2.5 miles) Solidor Mine, Rouyn-Noranda TE, Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Québec, Canada
4.1km (2.5 miles) Don Rouyn Mine, Rouyn-Noranda TE, Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Québec, Canada
4.8km (3.0 miles) Powell Rouyn Mine, Rouyn-Noranda TE, Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Québec, Canada
6.0km (3.7 miles) Horne Smelter, Rouyn-Noranda TE, Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Québec, Canada
6.4km (4.0 miles) Horne Mine (Noranda Mine), Rouyn-Noranda TE, Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Québec, Canada
9.1km (5.7 miles) Wasamac Projkect (Wasa Lake mine; Wasamac No. 1 mine), Rouyn-Noranda TE, Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Québec, Canada
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (volume)
Geological Survey of Canada Miscellaneous Report 77 Kirkland Lake – Rouyn-Noranda – Val-d’Or, Ontario...Survey of Canada Miscellaneous Report 77 ROCKS AND MINERALS FOR THE COLLECTOR: Kirkland Lake – Rouyn-Noranda...in Right of Canada, 2003 Catalogue No. M41-8/77E ISBN 0-660-19062-1 Available in Canada from Geological...Geological Survey of Canada offices: 601 Booth Street Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0E8 3303-33rd Street N.W. Calgary...for reference in selected public libraries across Canada Cette publication est aussi disponible en français
Book
E. Harlow Joseph J. Peters A T INY FOLIOnt ABBEVILLE PRESS PUBLISHERS New York • London • Paris Front...crystal 10.5 cm (41/i in. ) high from Tourmaline Queen Mine, San Diego County, Pala, California. Back Cover:...placement of text and images, copyright © 1994 Abbeville Press. All rights reserved under international...the publisher. Inquiries should be addressed to Abbeville Publishing Group, 488 Madison Avenue, New York...also) 146-147 Hodgkinsornte MnZn 2(SiO.)(OH)i 148 Hum,te group Chondrodite (Mg,Fe>s(SiO,)z(F,OH), 149 Norberg1te
Report (volume)
Argillite__________________________________________ Muscovite schist___________________________________ Qua...Cherryville Quartz Monzonite_______________________ Muscovite pegmatite_______________________________ Unnamed...Whiteside Granite_________________________________ Muscovite-perthite pegmatite_______________________ Rocks...ages-Continued Age of specific rock units-Continued Muscovite-perthite pegmatite_______________________________...rocks-·of which the most distinctive are granite, muscovite pegmatite, gabbro, syenite, and diabase-:are found
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
photo March/April: Fluorite, Dow Scar vein, Hilton mine, Scordale, Cumbria, England; Jesse Fisher specimen... quartz, and albite, Kestral Pocket, Smoky Hawk mine, Teller County, Colorado; Martin Zinn specimen,...September/October: Gold and quartz, Colorado Quartz mine, Mariposa County, California; Scott Rudolph specimen...Brazil, spessartine, 42–45 Brochantite, Blanchard Mine, Bingham, New Mexico, R. B. Cook, 48–53 Buchholz... C Calcioancylite-(Ce), New York, 226 Calcite, Canada, 166; Michigan, 39; New York, 226, 235, 329, 451;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
tions of these rocks. of the distance across Abbeville County, and These same studies present data on...between crystalline limestone and concordantly muscovite schists plus pegmatite and alaskite layered silicate...mineral grains were unfractured. In ward beyond Abbeville County. 12 sections, about 20 percent of the grains...1970, Position of the Kings Mountain belt in Abbeville County, South Carolina: Southeastern Geol., v...Price, Vaneaton, Jr., 1969, Notes on a fault in Abbeville County, South Carolina: South Carolina Div. Geology
Report (issue)
North CarQlina F . A. Wilson • 28 Mine r alogy of the Foote mine , Kings Mo,mta i n , NorLh Carolina...of kyaalte, staurollte, and garnet , growth of muscovite, margarite, and chlorite and probably still later...metascdimen t n,·y rocks s uch ea quartzi ce , conglomer~te , and -.arble associated wtth mica schist• that are...Mountala belt section . Their age is inferred to be l a te Proterozoic Z on the basis of preliminary uranium-lead...and Ragland, 1969; Pullagar, 1971) and mecatonall te bodies identical with those of the Kin&" Mountain
Report (issue)
to the Little River, Anderson 5- County and Abbeville County, S, £.' *....*.. .V -3 2* Descriptions...Saluda River, Ander- 11 12 13 son, Greenwood, Abbeville, and Laurens Counties, 14 s. c. . ; ... ......the Saluda River, Anderson, 17 .Greenville, Abbeville, and .Laurens Counties, S. C. 18 v » 111* Descriptions...tributaries to the Little River, Anderson County and Abbeville County, S. C« ,2. Descriptions of sediments sampled...tributaries to the Saluda River, Anderson,'Greenwood, Abbeville, and ' ^^T, Laurens Counties, S..C. 13. Descriptions
Report (issue)
reaches the Savannah Biver between the town of Abbeville and the AbbevilleAnderson County line. At the...anticlinorium. Hornblende gneiss, associated with biotite-muscovite schist and local layers of marble, occupies zones...manganese-rich magnetite, in Greenville, Laurens, and Abbeville Counties, is at the kyanitestaurolite subfacies...distribution to copper-bearing deposits. The Graham gold mine, reported by Pardee and Park (1948, p. 76) to contain...drainage basins numbered 262 and 264. The Cameron lead mine, reported by Keith and Sterrett (1931, p. 12) to
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pebbles of dark gray mica schist—the mica is muscovite with some quartz. Montgomery County is in central...morning this summer hunting at Leib's Moonstone Mine between Saranac Lake and Bloomingdale. Gem grade...Heald, Westbury Road, Red Creek, N. Y. The moonstone mine appears to be located near the N / W corner of Essex...States becomes available." Due West, in northern Abbeville County, is in western South Carolina. ROCKS AND...but Putnam County is in western West Virginia. CANADA — Sean A. Lochnan, 792 Byron Ave., Ottawa 13, Ont
Report (issue)
Cuba------------------------------------Dominion of Canada _______________________ _ British Columbia_------...Anderson, Abbeville, Greenwood, Oconee, and Laurens Counties_ Parts of Anderson, Abbeville, and Oconee...rocks ranging in composition from diorite to muscovite granite, and in associated pegmatite, greisen...in biotite quartz monzonite, two-mica granite, muscovite granite, and cassiterite-bearing granite. Monazite...to carbon, has been reported from pegmatite in Canada, a stream in Korea, and the beaches of Taiwan.
Report (issue)
terrane rocks is exposed. Quartz-potassium feldspar-muscovite (rather than biotite) pegmatites are typically...Metamorphic minerals present include sillimanite, muscovite, and garnet. Amphibolite boudins and pods are...includes marbles, calc-silicates, sillimanite-muscovite schist, and garnet-quartzites (Horkowitz, 1984)...Appalachian-Caledonian Orogen: Geological Association of Canada Special Paper 41, in press. Dennis, A.J. and Shervais...CAROLINA TERRANE IN NORTHWESTERN SOUTH CAROLINA of Canada Special Paper 41, in press. Horkowitz, J.P., 1984
Report (volume)
Hog Rock mine _____________ Roda mine____________________ Woodrow, Haywood County___________ Mine of the...County______-_ 35 AVilson mine________ 35 Wyatt mine __________ 35 Toecane, Yancey County_____ 36 Job...Sprucepine, Mitchell County __ 36 Sprucepine mine- ____-_ 36 Sparks mine 39 Franklin, Macon County___-__ 41 Porter...Smith___________ Lincolnton, Lincoln County_____________ Mine of the United States Tin Co_____ 58 58 59 59 60...South Carolina, by W. S. Bayley________________ Abbeville County _____ Georgia _________________________________
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
really appears to be the start of a quickly abandoned mine and is located near Huntsville (Madison Co.), Alabama...mining operation is a barite mine operated by the National Lead Co. The mine is easily seen from Highway...in the dump of the old open pit Sodium Sulphate mine in Imperial County near BertROCKS AND MINERALS ...summer of 1957 in the area of the old Calumet iron mine. You will note the quartz xls have inclusions and...epidote. This specimen came from the old Calumet iron mine area in Chaffee Co., Colo. No. 4—A group of dark
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
quartz and mica (biotite with frequently some muscovite), much microcline and some acid plagioclase (oligoclase)...general. They are prevailingly biotite granites. Muscovite, in association with biotite, is a subordinate...tabulation: I. Biotite granite 40 I II. Muscovite granite 8 III. Muscovite-bearingbiotite granite.............granite......... 14 V. Biotite granite-gneiss. VI. Muscovite-bearingbiotite granite-gneiss.... 4 The feldspars...granite-gneisses, including Ware Shoals, Laurens and Abbeville counties, Beverly Quarry, Pickens County, Pendleton
Book (edition)
Fayette Court-house, Fayette county, and near Gold Mine in Marion county. These localities are at a distance...ties. Gold. 692 MINERAL RESOURCES. ALABAMA — Mine d — Continued. Mineralogical name. Common name...Eldridge, Walker county. Mica.. . Randolph county. Muscovite. Red ocherof good quality is found nnar Burksville...Wood's mine, Cleburne county, a bedded lode with pyrite, copper ore. in mica schist; Smith's mine, near...Coosa counties. Smelting works erected at wood's mine, Cleburne county j not now in operation. Emery.
Book (volume)
2 mi. E of Angora Hill on ranch rd., abandoned mine dumpfluorescent moss opal nodules (in limestone...recognizing the individual mineral species on the old mine dumps from the names of their principal metals....Silver. TOY (Browns), 2 mi. S of RR section house, mine with veins in contact metamorphic zone of sediments...PLAINS (Huxley Sta.), SW 8 mi., Desert (White Plains) Mine, rich ore Gold in Hematite gangue. CLARK COUNTY...nearby, at the Carlin Mine (opened in 1965)Gold;  NW 10 mi. at Copper King mine in Tuscarora Mts.Turquoise
Report (issue)
layered impure met-, sands tone, inter layered with muscovite biotite schist, and meta conglonerate; Cp, Persimmon...plagiaclase, muscovite, K spar, am.d biotite as principal nineralsj schist contains muscovite, biotite,...that weather out as buttons; contains quartz,muscovite, biotite,plagioclase, garnet and chlorite as principal...medium to dark f?ray, banded, containing biotite, muscovite, quartz, plagioclase, wicrocline and epidote ...scaly : iotite oligoclase scnist and biotite muscovite oligoclase schist, with thin layers of l.iotite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
hornblende, kyanite, magnetite, microcline, muscovite, olivine, pyrite, quartz, sillimanite, topaz,...drusy quartz; the locality is the Aurora Quicksilver Mine in San Benito Co., Calif. A new occurrence for scheelite...on altered monzonite have been found in the Bell Mine (copper), Butte, Silver Bow Co., Mont. 362 NEBRASKA—Kaolin...grayish limestone have been found at the Riccon Gold Mine, Golden, Santa Fe Co., New Mexico. N E W YORK —...corundum have been found at the Buck Creek corundum mine, Buck Creek, Clay Co., N . C. N O R T H DAKOTA —
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
feet above water level. Site: Arizona's Hillside mine, producer of gold, silver, lead, and zinc. The source... found at the Hillside mine at the same time. (Editor's Note: The above mine is at Hillside, Yavapai...matched emerald-cut amethysts from the old amethyst mine near the new waterworks dam at Mountain Ciy, Rabun...corundum mine, Rabun County. The prize of the lot is opalescent rose quartz from the Kell mica mine in Rabun...most interesting article on the Morton Salt Co. mine at Weeks, La. Excerpts from the article are as follows:
Report (volume)
Formation__ E10 2. Sketch of east end of the Griffin mine (Alcoa Mining Co.), NE^ sec. 4, T. 8 N., R. 27 ...____--_---_ 20 1. Part of the Roan Bak'er No. 3 mine (Alcoa Mining Co.), SE>. sec. 27, T. 9 N., R. 27...27 E________ 21 8. Part of the Sam Smith No. 5 mine (Alcoa Mining Co.), NEW sec. 18, T. 9 N., R. 28 E...E__-____-___--_____--22 9. Part of the Crawford Scott mine (Bauxite Co. of Alabama), NEtf sec. 35, T. 9 N.... is several miles northwest of the district; Abbeville, the county seat of Henry County, is 8 miles south
Report (volume)
Ma-ages typical of the Grenville province of eastern Canada and elsewhere in the Appalachian orogen (Rankin...feldspathic metasandstone (locally conglomeratic), thin muscovite-schist beds, some garnet-diopside-plagioclase-quartz...Smoky sheet range from garnet to sillimanite-muscovite zones (Shellebarger, 1980; Gillon, 1982). In the...rocks appear to be mostly in the sillimanite-muscovite zone (Gillon, 1982; Nelson and Zietz, 1983), although...rocks ranging from the kyanite to sillimanite-muscovite zones (Hatcher, 1976; Roper and Dunn, 1970). Southeast
Report (issue)
Appalachians of the United States and mainland Canada; An assessment .......... 0c ccc cece ce cece...Appalachians of the United States and mainland Canada; An assessment Nicholas Rast, Department of Geological...of the northeastern United States and mainland Canada. These include: (1) olistostromes and olistostromal...of the Morgan Run Formation (of debated age) and Mine Run Complex, some of which contain possible ophiolite...each may be indeterminable. In the Appalachians of Canada, the term mélange was gradually adopted in the
Journal (issue)
Arbor, Ml George W. Robinson Natl. Museums of Canada Ottawa, Ontario Abraham Rosenzweig Tampa, FL Associate...changes to: 7413 N. Mowry Place COVER: BERYL with muscovite, 14.6 cm, from near Dusso, Gilgit division, Pakistan...4 9 5 6 S. Frazier RPR #1608 Windsor Quebec Canada Appalachians Chamberlain et al. (1989) *Some...collectibles, and miscellaneous subjects such as mine bell signal signs, scales, m useum reports, and...feldspar (orthoclase?) and large crystals of muscovite are found as float in the vicinity. The quality
Report (issue)
-------__3. Photographs of the Lemmons monazite mine-__-__________-__---_-_-----_-____-____ 10 4. Map...or parts of the following counties: Greenwood, Abbeville, Anderson, Oconee, Pickens, Greenville, Laurens...Cleveland County, unsuccessful efforts were made to mine monazite from the crystalline rock. Five geologic...SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES B FIGURE 2. The Downs monazite mine, 1 mile northwest of Carpenter Knob, Cleveland County...Geological Survey. FIGUEE 3. The J. M. Lemmons monazite mine, 4 miles northwest of Gaffney, Cherokee County,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
extensive and striking anatectie effects near Abbeville, S. C. Typical lithologies are amphibole gneiss...breccias. Schist containing chlorite and buttons of muscovite flakes is widespread in this belt, along with...lithologies: biotite gneiss, biotite schist, muscovite schist, biotite granite gneiss, with minor hornblende...graphitie schist and amphibolite. Northeast of Abbeville, near the eastern edge of the map in Fig. 8, the
 
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