Laurentides, Québec, Canada - Site Photo Gallery

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A colourful quarry
	Scotstown Granite Quarry, Grenville-sur-la-Rouge, Argenteuil RCM, Laurentides, Québec, Canada This picture was taken November 15, 2011. It clearly shows no work has been done for a number of years in this quarry !
	Photo ID: 434155    View Count: 212
A difficult access, at times...
	White Road roadcut (Mathilda Lake roadcut), Harrington, Argenteuil RCM, Laurentides, Québec, Canada Unfortunately, the space between the foot of the road cut and the road berm tends to get flooded. This is particularly true at springtime, due to the melting of the snow. Understandably, good rubber boots will be required. However, at mid-summer, if the weather has been dry for a few weeks, only a few humid spots will remain, and ...
	Photo ID: 428640    View Count: 112
A North-facing view
	ABC Rive-Nord Quarry, Mirabel TE, Laurentides, Québec, Canada This picture was taken November 3rd, 2010, and shows a global view of the quarry.
	Photo ID: 434253    View Count: 100
Cavities in a block
	Foucault Quarry, Brownsburg-Chatham, Argenteuil RCM, Laurentides, Québec, Canada This picture was taken November 15th, 2011. Further to a large blast, dozens of small blocks such as this one were scattered all around the surface of the blast pile. The crowbar in this picture is only 40 cm (16 inch) long, so the rock specimen is around that size. It shows multiple cavities, the largest on at bottom left showing a broken ...
	Photo ID: 433626    View Count: 131
Looking towards East
	Canadian Red Granite quarry, Grenville-sur-la-Rouge, Argenteuil RCM, Laurentides, Québec, Canada This picture was taken on November 15th, 2011. One can see the blast pile has been partly utilized, and gravel was crushed on-site (upper right).
	Photo ID: 434161    View Count: 120
North part of the roadcut
	Unnamed roadcut (Locality 48 of Van Velthuizen et al), Laurel, Wentworth, Argenteuil RCM, Laurentides, Québec, Canada This picture was taken June 14, 2012. This section of the road cut is less mineralized. The main pocket zone would be at the extreme right in the picture. Note : This image can be compared to the Google Street view. Starting with Google Maps, locate the "Camping du Grand lac noir", and trace a route exactly 3.1 km South, then zoom in to ...
© J.Y. Lamoureux	Photo ID: 514300    View Count: 16
One of the rock piles on the site.
	St Lawrence Columbium Mine, Oka complex, Oka, Deux-Montagnes RCM, Laurentides, Québec, Canada This photo was taken on October 26, 2011. It shows one of the numerous rock piles which can be prospected for minerals. There are hundreds of boulders, some of fairly large size, many bearing calcite veins which are host to minerals. On that day, decent specimens of well-formed pyrochlore and latrappite (or perovskite ?) were found, within ...
	Photo ID: 428325    View Count: 329
Quarry entrance
	Foucault Quarry, Brownsburg-Chatham, Argenteuil RCM, Laurentides, Québec, Canada The quarry is easily located, on the right side of a country road named montée Wert, less than a kilometer North of the small village of Ogdensburg.
	Photo ID: 433571    View Count: 98
Ruins of an old mine building
	Canada Marble and Lime Quarry, L'Annonciation, Antoine-Labelle RCM, Marchand Township, Laurentides, Québec, Canada Here is a picture of the foundations of an old mine building; the foundations are made of marble from the quarry.
	Photo ID: 391900    View Count: 169
St. Lawrence Columbium Mine headframe
	St Lawrence Columbium Mine, Oka complex, Oka, Deux-Montagnes RCM, Laurentides, Québec, Canada Partially demolished headframe of the mine in September 1991. All mine structures were demolished in 1992. © László Horváth
© László Horváth	Photo ID: 504799    View Count: 26