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Steatite from
Fraser Mine, East Broughton, Les Appalaches RCM, Chaudière-Appalaches, Québec, Canada


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Talc var: Steatite
Formula:Mg3(Si4O10)(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Steatite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Fraser Mine, East Broughton, Les Appalaches RCM, Chaudière-Appalaches, Québec, Canada
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:551087
Long-form Identifier:1:3:551087:0
GUID (UUID V4):c090c4bd-9a91-4844-baaa-4feeba977c35
Nearest other occurrences of Steatite
12.6km (7.8 miles) Federal Mine, Robertsonville, Thetford Mines, Les Appalaches RCM, Chaudière-Appalaches, Québec, Canada
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Book
enOLOGIOAT SURVEY OF CANADA. AALFRED R C.SELWYN, C. M. G., LL.D. F.RS., Director GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...17 20 v1 GEOLOGICAL TABLE OF SURVEY OF CANADA. CONTENTS— Continued. OXYGEN saLTs—Continued...EA Clay iron-stone es Og 1a ee het oe pa yee east hay WiTb re, le! olny. eh a fel a sreUe/ jer ial... TABLE METALS oe AND OF THEIR SURVEY OF CANADA. CONTENTS—Continued. ORES—Continued. . Tron...sory wb AS 113 SURVEY GEOLOGICAL MINERALS CANADA. CONTENTS—Continued. OF TABLE OF AND TO COMMON
Report (issue)
(left) and Three Springs talc (right) The talc mine at Three Springs sits comfortably amongst recently...Department of Minerals and Energy 100 Plain Street EAST PERTH Western Australia 6004 Telephone (09)222 3459............................... Three Springs talc mine .......................................................................... Historical background Mine geology ......................................................................................... Mine operation .....................................
Report (issue)
Geological Survey of Canada Miscellaneous Report 46 ROCKS AND MINERALS FOR THE COLLECTOR Estrie and... © Minister of Supply and Services Canada 1992 Available in Canada through authorized bookstore agents...bookstores or by mail from Canada Communication Group - Publishing Ottawa, Canada K1A OS9 and from Geological...Geological Survey of Canada offices: 601 Booth Street Ottawa, Canada KlA OE8 3303-33rd Street N.W., Calgary...available for reference in public libraries across Canada Cat. No. M41-8/46E ISBN 0-660-14391-7 Price subject
Report (volume)
furthermore, neither usage is entirely consistent. "Steatite," as a geologic term, denotes a rock composed...It varies widely in mineral composition, from steatite (in the geologic sense of the term) to talcose..."block talc," both industrial types of massive steatite. Most commercial talc deposits are associated...mineral talc is of importance only in industrial steatite and in tales for a few other ceramic uses. Though...fabricators often require a small percentage of CaO in steatite, and tremolitic talc is in demand for some paints
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Thomp­ son and Fraser Rivers, in southern British Columbia. Below Lytton the Fraser River breaks through...Dawson are in the Museum of the Geological Survey of Canada. _ dition In July, 1897, the Jesup North Pacific...found along a terrace between the canons of the Fraser and Thompson Rivers and iIllmediately t(1 the north...the area. and the government road bounds it on the east. No definite age can he assigned to any of the remains...wind, which sweeps stron�ly up the canon of the Fraser Ri\'er, is contmually !lhiftin� the light, dry
Report (edition)
GRAPHITE-�10LYBDENITE­ OHROMIT_E - 'l'.ALC AND STEATITE ...GRAPHITJl�-tt10LYBDENITE­ CHltOJ\i1ITE - TALC AND STEATITE -DIATO;\,IITE...but the mines are now closed. Veins of talc and steatite a:re not uncommon in • the serpentine of Cornwall...some additional information on potash-felspars, steatite and diatomite. 'l'he ox-periments on the making...OR MOLYBDENITE. CHROMIC I:aoN-ORE. TALC .4.ND STEATITE (Soapstone, Soap-rock and Potstone), DIATOMITE
Report (Issue volume)
MISCELLANEOUS REPORT 8 Issued by THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA Department of Mines and Technical Surveys, Ottawa...Queen's Printer, Ottawa, the Geological Survey of Canada, 601 Booth St., Ottawa, and at the following Canadian...Rideau TORONTO Mackenzie Building, 36 Adelaide St. East MONTREAL £terna-Vie Building, 1182 St. Catherine...available for reference in public libraries across Canada. Price $ l.65 Catalogue No . M41-8 / 8-2 Price...Queen's Printer and Controller of Stationery Ottawa, Canada 1964 Page • INTRODUCTION 2 • A note on Canadian
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Jacobsen’s collection is also an elbow pipe made of steatite, (fig. 74) ; there is a hole broken in the bowl...of the river. Steatite pipes have been found in the lower FIG.73.- C h i p p e d Fraser valley’ and at...part IV, 2 N. Smith, Shell-heaps of the Lower Fraser, Mem. Am. Mus. Nut. Hist., vol. IV, figs. 48...glance distinguish them from the coast FIG.74. -Steatite pipe from Bellapeoples. coola, British Columbia
Journal (volume)
long, and ranges in width from a minimum of 7 miles east of Shaver Summit to a maximum The base maps used...Springs and Indio in the west, and Blythe in the east. Palm Springs is a famous desert winter resort....the most varied and extensive bedrock formations. Fraser 's 1 geologic report on the San Jacinto quadrangle...terms. No geologic map accompanies the paper. 1 Fraser, Donald M., Geology of San Jacinto quadrangle south...by J. S. Brown some of it from the work of D. M. Fraser and the mapping of principal faults is credited
Book
Paleo-Indians—Canada, Eastern. 2. Paleo-Indians—Northeastern States. 3. Indians of North America—Canada, Eastern—Antiquities...North America—Northeastern States—Antiquities. 5. Canada, Eastern— Antiquities. 6. Northeastern States—Antiquities...States—Antiquities. 7. Antiquities, Prehistoric—Canada, Eastern. 8. Antiquities, Prehistoric—Northeastern States...States. 9. Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric—Canada, Eastern. 10. Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric—Northeastern...Chapdelaine, Claude. II. Association des archéologues du Québec. E78.E2L35 2012 971.3'01—dc23 2012004370 con
Book
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 6.3 Steatite and Soapstone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... . . . . . . . . . . . 42 3.1 Granite grinder, Mine Dunquash, Egyptian Eastern Desert . . . . . . ..... . . 87 Basalt hand axe from unnamed wadi near Mine Mueilha, Egyptian Eastern Desert . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . 90 Hafted granite hammer from a mine near Bir Al Alam, Egyptian Eastern Desert. Pharaonic.... . . . . . . . . 90 Hafted granite hammer from Mine Dunquash, Egyptian Eastern Desert, Old Kingdom
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
( d ) t o learn if the shellheaps of the lower Fraser have analogy with those of this area. In British...composed resembles that of like remains on the lower Fraser, and skeletons are almost as frequently obtained...art as those found in the shell-heaps near the Fraser, but are similar to, although more abundant than...due to the fact that in the region of the lower Fraser the culture of its inhabitants was more highly...cairn builders. A fragment of a tubular pipe of steatite and a short tubular pipe of the same material
Book (volume)
Cultural Art Santa Ana, California + GEMSTONES OF EAST AFRICA by Peter C. Keller + GEMSTONES OF AFGHANISTAN...cushion cut rhodochrosite (25.56 ct), Sweet Home Mine, Colorado; colorless scheelite (19.66 ct), Kern...promising diamond fields being vigorously explored in Canada and the United States. Experts agree that in several...diamond-bearing kimberlite bodies, most likely in Canada. Systematic large-scale mining of sapphire-bearing...densely populated regions, the Appalachians of the East, and the Sierras and Cascades of the West, for examples
Book (volume)
Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program (BPIDP). Canada Cover design...Printed and bound in Canada Orca Book Publishers PO Box 5626, Station B Victoria, BC Canada V8R 684 01 00... 9.3 Howe Sound — Whistler Valley 9.4 Fraser Valley 9.5 Fraser River 9.6 Thompson River 9.7 Cariboo...9.9 Upper Bridge River 9.10 Hope — Merritt 9.11 East of Merritt 9.12 North of Merritt 9.13 Hope — Princeton...1959 The centre of Canada is made up of rocks of the Canadian Shield. On the east and west it is flanked
Report (Issue volume)
Printer, Ottawa, from the Geological Survey of Canada, 601 Booth St., Ottawa, and at the following Canadian...Rideau TORONTO Mack enzie Building, 36 Adelaide St. East MONTREAL &terna-Vie· Building, 1182 St. Cath erin...available for reference in public libraries across Canada. Price $1.30 Catalogue No. M41-8/8-1 Price subject...Queen's Printer and Controller of Stationery Ottawa, Canada 1964 Page 1 e INTRODUCTION 2 3 4 4 5 6 6 7 11...general equipment Care of specimens Collecting in Canada Mineral and rock sets Abbreviations used in references
Report (Issue volume)
MISCELLANEOUS REPORT 8 Issued by THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA Department of Energy, Mines and Resources, Ottawa...mail from information Canada, Ottawa, and at the following information Canada bookshops: HALIFAX i 735...equipment 5 • Care of specimens 6 • Collecting in Canada 6 • Mineral and rock sets 7 • Abbreviations used...89 • Additional reading 93 • Amateur clubs in Canada 102 • Addresses 104 e INDEX TO MINERALS Cover-Labradorite...country that it has been referred to as the 'gem of Canada'. Its potential as a gemstone was recognized soon
in the field ~“ Various geological locations iin Canada© Physical properties of minerals and rocks, and...surrounded ce ne white calcite, from!iheBluebell Mine; Riondel, Digitized by the Internet Archive...Fitzhenry & Whiteside acknowledges with thanks the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Ontario Arts Council...acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development...publishing activities. Ss Canada Council for the Arts Conseil des Arts du Canada vw ONTARIO ARTS COUNCIL
Book
authority of the Hou, J. A. BARTRUM. WILLIAM FRASER, Minister of Mines. Of WELLINGTON, BY AUTHORITY...authority of the Hon. J. A. BARTRUM. WILLIAM FRASER, WELLINGTON. Minister of N.Z. BY AUTHORITY:...: all the intermediate to basic Old Champion Mine, Te Aroha (Park 1912). Mount Jumbletop and elsewhere...and Skey, Lab. 10); Waitaki and Oamaru district East Cape, from hot springs (Skey, Lab. 5 and 13, and... in some quantity. Arsenic (Metallic) Kapanga Mine, Coromandel (Hector 1864, and Skey, Lab. 14) Thames
Book (volume)
Institute of Gemmology, Robert Carman, CGL-GRS Lab Canada, Sarah Canimlro, Loretta Castoro, Skip Colflesh...additional message she would like to send you and it is mine as well. May this book provide you with valued knowledge...According to Branko Deljanin from CGL-GRS lab in Canada, some natural jade could have a weak blue fluorescence...According to Branko Deljanin from CGlrGRS lab in Canada, after microscopic examination, it's very useful...color distnbution. It's mined in Russia, India, Canada, Madagascar, Brazil, Norway, Tanzania, Kenya, and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
whence it came, it grew louder and in 1852 Major Fraser, using Mailiefert's system of of tin. The primitive...feet of him, and although it buried itself in The East River makes a right angle at Hallett's twentyto...pillars and the water in the lowest part of the mine. A wooden degrees. Together with Mr. E. L. McNair...small oblong pieces of wood placed at roof of the mine. Austin, also of the engineer corps, they made an...was of an and is thus also taken away out of the mine and con­ average thickness of 15 feet and an area
Book (volume)
Cultural Art Santa Ana, California GEMSTONES OF EAST AFRICA by Peter C. Keller GEMSTONES OF AFGHANISTAN...promising diamond fields being vigorously explored in Canada and the United States. Experts agree that in several...dia1nond-bearing kimberlite bodies, most likely in Canada. Systematic large-scale mining of sapphire-bearing...densely populated regions, the Appalachians of the East, and the Sierras and Cascades of the West, for examples...operators, Morefield Mine, Amelia, VA; Max & Suzy Berchtold, Royal Rainbow Mine, Laytonville, CA; Ralph
Book
MINERAL RESOURCES OF CANADA PUBLISHED BY The Canadian Mining Journal Confederation TO BRITISH AND...Ont. THE MINING CANADA ENGINEERS IN 1908. AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF CANADA To The Visit...Continental Mining Engineers and Metallurgists to Canada in of the Summer 1908 PUBLISHED THE CANADIAN...auspices the the completeness Visiting engineers, Canada. many for the purpose organized of the extent...persons It certain the on by engineers. of Canada, mineral and mining industry pseudo-mining
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
thorogummite, e m e r a l d ; dozxls and gems. D. Fraser, 26 Peppertree, Portuguese Bend, Calif. EXCHANGE—Small...LOUIS, 14, MO. OPALS, BRILLIANT COLORS-Direct from mine, 15 for (5.00. 10 ringsize cabochons (opal, amethyst...franklinite from the famous Franklin, N.J., zinc mine. Pieces 2 " to 3 l / 2 " , total w t . approx. 5...for sphere 1 " , larger up to 8 " on request. Steatite, honey with blue fern-like inclusions 4 " APACHE...the occurrence of 150 minerals in the Portland, East Hampton, Middletown, Haddam area, with geological
Journal (issue)
The Bank has 500 Branches and Agencies in South, East and Central Africa, and Agents and Correspondents...and others wishing to develop trade with South, East and Central Africa. ----------------------' BANKING...outcrop extending for about 30 miles from north-east to south-west and is emplaced within sediments of...p1·esumably also underlie the Singo plains to the nortl1-east of the area. l THE l{ARAGWE-ANI{OLEAN SYSTEM...of the area to N-S in the south. In the extreme east of the area the structures show an abrupt change
Report (issue)
MINERALS FOR THE COLLECTOR Geological Survey of Canada Miscellaneous Report 58 Îles de la Madeleine,...Labrador Ann P. Sabina 2003 Geological Survey of Canada Miscellaneous Report 58 ROCKS AND MINERALS FOR...in Right of Canada, 2003 Catalogue No. M41-8/58E ISBN 0-660-18932-1 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
 
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