Canada Marble and Lime Quarry, L'Annonciation, Antoine-Labelle RCM, Laurentides, Québec, Canada
Massive yellow-green serpentine.
Light pink and white wilsonite, with some amber muscovite. Self collected in 2007.
Bright orange chondrodite, with white granular diopside. Small mica flakes are scattered through the specimen. Self collected in 2012.
Serpentine in cream white marble - polished slab. Self collected, cut and polished.
Blueish wilsonite, with green serpentine and some tiny grains of orange chondrodite, and compact white tremolite. Blue wilsonite is a rarity. 7 cm X 2.8 cm X 1.3 cm Self collected in 2008
Muscovite, with some white calcite. I collected this specimen in 2007.
Prismatic tremolite crystal, with some white massive diopide. Self collected in 2007.
Massive scapolite, partly altered to purplish and pink wilsonite, with some amber colored muscovite. A thin rim of dark green tremolite can be seen between the scapolite and muscovite. I collected this specimen in the summer of 2012.
Massive chondrodite, photographed in-situ in one of the quarry walls. Photo taken in 2013.
Polished sample of orange chondrodite, with white massive tremolite. Self collected in 2008.
Beautiful amber colored serpentine, collected in the mine dumps, in the summer of 2007.
Blueish-grey serpentine, with silver muscovite. Self collected in 2007.
Here is a picture of the foundations of an old mine building; the foundations are made of marble from the quarry.
A view on one of the three pits (central pit). Photo taken in 2013.
Old remnants of a truck scale. Photo taken in 2008.