Theft from Rene-Bureau Museum of Geology, Quebec
1st Oct 2015 12:07 UTCPeter Davidson
Hello,
I am the curator of the René-Bureau Museum of Geology at Laval University in Quebec city. A robbery was perpetrated last week end at the Museum. The lock on four display cases were cut and eleven mineral specimen have been taken. These specimen include samples of tourmaline (dravite, rubellite), rhodocrosites, phosgenite, Bismuthinite, anxinite and two high quality pieces that seem to have been selected by robbers with great knowledge in mineralogy. I am sending out pictures of these two samples in the hope that they may turn out somewhere. The first is a cubanite specimen from the Henderson 2 mine in Chibougamau (Qc), it an exceptional specimen and the first to be identified from this locality. It has a sample number glued on it : 2.6.6.2 and may show traces of silicone on its back. The second is an opal specimen form Australia, sample number 51.5.11.
Thank you for sending out the information to your contacts. Please inform me if any of you have recommendations concerning measures that
could be taken to help find these specimens.
Sincerely,
Olivier Rabeau
olivier.rabeau@ggl.ulaval.ca
I hope someone may be approached or hear something to enable the recovery of these specimens.
