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Corundum from
Cairns Mine, Monteagle Township, Hastings Highlands Municipality, Hastings County, Ontario, Canada


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Corundum
Formula:Al2O3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Corundum data
Locality Data:Click here to view Cairns Mine, Monteagle Township, Hastings Highlands Municipality, Hastings County, Ontario, Canada
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1093271
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1093271:7
GUID (UUID V4):c0831a19-15b4-4bdb-b906-c225b69556e0
Nearest other occurrences of Corundum
6.7km (4.1 miles) Welsh Corundum mine, Monteagle Township, Hastings Highlands Municipality, Hastings County, Ontario, Canada
9.5km (5.9 miles) York River corundum occurrence, York River area, Dungannon Township, Town of Bancroft, Hastings County, Ontario, Canada
10.8km (6.7 miles) Robertson Hill, Dungannon Township, Town of Bancroft, Hastings County, Ontario, Canada
12.3km (7.7 miles) Egan Chute occurrences, York River area, Dungannon Township, Town of Bancroft, Hastings County, Ontario, Canada
12.8km (8.0 miles) Golding-Keene Quarry, York River area, Dungannon Township, Town of Bancroft, Hastings County, Ontario, Canada
15.4km (9.6 miles) Burgess Mine, Carlow Township, Hastings County, Ontario, Canada
17.2km (10.7 miles) Logan Corundum occurrence, Carlow Township, Hastings County, Ontario, Canada
21.1km (13.1 miles) Croft Mine, Cardiff Township, Highlands East Township, Haliburton County, Ontario, Canada
21.3km (13.2 miles) Menzies Pond, Carlow Township, Hastings County, Ontario, Canada
21.5km (13.4 miles) Highland corundum occurrence, Cardiff Township, Highlands East Township, Haliburton County, Ontario, Canada
References
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Report (issue)
Survey of Canada Miscellaneous Report 39 Bancroft - Parry Sound area and Southern Ontario Ann P. Sabina...Sabina L 1*1 Natural Resources Canada Ressources naturelles Canada 1986 CanadZ L COVER Left: Betafite...Betafite crystals, Silver Crater Mine, Cardiff. Specimen measures 6 cm by 4 cm by 3 cm. National Mineral...Collection specimen No. 42584. National Museum of Canada photo No. 1168B. Note: actual specimen is dark...Collection specimen No. 36463. National Museum of Canada photo No. 1361. Note: actual specimen is grey with
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2- -'/ % • / • '• f • ' * * ' < €•"••- Ontario Geological Survey Mineral Deposits Circular 23...Governments of Canada and Ontario 1981 Ministry of Hon James A c Au|d - - - Minister Ontario Natural..._ x «0MNR-OGS1981 Printed In Canada Publications of the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and...Whitney Block, Queen's Park, Toronto, and the Ontario Government Bookstore, 880 Bay Street, Toronto....cheque or money order, payable to the Treasurer ol Ontario. ISSN 0706-4551 ISBN 0-7743-4920-4 The work reported
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GOVERN YOUR USE OF THIS DOCUMENT Your use of this Ontario Geological Survey document (the “Content”) is governed... copyright is held by the Queen’s Printer for Ontario. It is recommended that reference to the Content... . ; Ontario Geological Survey, ...670-5691 Toll Free: 1-888-415-9845, ext. 5691 (inside Canada, United States) Local: (705) 670-5691 Toll Free:...(inside Canada, United States) Local: (416) 326-2678 Toll Free: 1-800-668-9938 (inside Canada, United
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PAPER 69-45 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY, MINES AND RESOURCES A CATALOGUE OF...MINERALS R. J. Traill ' GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA CANADA PAPER 69-45 A CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN MINERALS...n's Printer, Ottawa from the Geological Survey of Canada 601 Booth St., Ottawa and Canadian Government bookshops...to change without notic e Queen ' s Printer for Canada Ottawa 1970 A CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN MINERALS...has elapsed since T . Sterry Hunt in Geology of Canada, 1863 , presented the first descriptive list of
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273-336 ARIZONA-IV ] 1-102 [ 17 / 1986 [ ONTARIO] NEVADA] [ 16 / 1985 [ 65-128 265-328 261-336...On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298...Iron-manganese phosphates of the Williams pegmatites, Coosa County, Alabama (by P. B. Leavens & T. A. Simpson) 6:66-73
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Limonite and hematite are stripped mined in Crenshaw County, Alabama, and specimens collected are very interesting..."Limonite and hematite are to be found on most any county road south of Montgomery (Montgomery Co.), Ala...Crenshaw County—Davenport, Highland Home, Bradenton and Petrey are all small towns in Crenshaw County near...entrance to the old abandoned Leona Heights Pyrite Mine in Oakland, Calif125 ornia. By going far back...which was first discovered in the mine. In the next few weeks, the mine entrance will be blasted shut, so
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Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...expressed in clase. 7 - quartz. 8 - topaz, 9 - corundum, 10 - dia- percentage. The collected data on optics...abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture), dept...cases of the USA, UK, and the provinces Ontario and Quebec in Canada, generally well known to readers. However...gold-bearing "greenstone" in Abitibi province in northern Ontario and Quebec. Some genetic problems still remain
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Kissy, Wellington, the Orugu Valley, Kosso Town, Hastings,, Rokell, Waterloo, Benguema, Macdonald, John...and more elevated areas are: (a) The Timbekundu Highlands: This is a granite plateatt near the Anglo-French...main mass of the Tingi Hills and the Timbekundu Highlands, and some 10 miles to their south-west the bare...northern end of the Gori Hills and the Timbekundu Highlands. (f) The JoJ·ima Hills: These hills near Kailahun...792 ft. (g) The Saionya Scarp: The extensive highlands of the F outa Jallon I. J?L.'.\ TE SAION\-A
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about % In. • ••••.•••• •• •••• $15.00 G01 0. Ibex Mine, Colorado. Fine xld. mass about %. no pnaue . ....wires In Riker mount • • • • 25.00 GOLD, Bullfrog Mine, Nevada. Finely disseminated In Quartz encloslnt...inch xi. in Albite. 1 ½xl . . . . ..... . 1.50 CORUNDUM, No. Carolina. Pink xlline. mass, bright fl. under...gangue, rare ... . 20.00 FLUORITE v. ANTOZONITE, Canada. Dark purple xlline. mass. 3x2 ... . 1.25 PSEUOOMALACHITE..................... 502 THE STIJRBRIDGE GRAPHITE MINE. By Prof. Charles Pa/ache .................... 503
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electrical insulators, etc., has been opened in Cairns, North Queensland. 31 I h a d been guaranteed...a large tract of barren wasteland not far from Cairns. I also h a d markets for all the opal and sapphires...I n Central Queensland, near the Southern Cross Mine, these "yowah n u t s " as they are called were...lump of agate from North Queensland. 40 Using Cairns, in tropical North Queensland, as a base, I acquired...colourful grades, load the truck a n d drive to Cairns. T h e each-way journey took two days, during which
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by William Besse. D eep under the eastern highlands of Australia, along a 2,000-mile (3,200-kilometer)...mineral corundum. Along with other gem minerals such as zircon and more prosaic grades of corundum, this...prospect and mine for their cargo of gem-grade sapphires (fig. 1). Luckily, the eastern highlands have a long...out the trapped heavy minerals, which go to the mine office for processing. Magnetic minerals and “ironstone”...(whole-stone model). Queensland produces a run-of-mine sapphire-grade that is approximately AU$90/cubic
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Podosek, St. Louis, MO E.J. Reardon, Waterloo, Ontario R.L. Rudnick,’ Canberra, Australia R.A. Schmitt...McMaster, Ontario D.W.G. Se.ars,t Fayettevilie, AR J.T. Senftle, Plano, TX D.M. Shaw, McMaster, Ontario E.R...Toronto, Ontario G. Sposito, Berkeley, CA N.C. Sturchio,’ Argonne, IL B.E. Taylor, Ottawa, Ontario S.R. Taylor...Butterfield Robert H. Byrne Louis J. Cabri A. G. Cairns-Smith George Calas Edward Callender Stephen E....potential importance layers in inactive sulfide mine tailings of cemented 965 T. G. FERDELMAN, T. M
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Treatment of Gem-Quality Zircon from the Central Highlands of Vietnam By Le Thi-Thu Huong, Bui Sinh Vuong...Groat, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada; Thomas Hainschwang, GGTL Laboratories, Balzers...p. 400). Clinohumite from Vietnam The Cổng Trời mine in northern Vietnam is a wellknown producer of various...been mining this material since 2008 in Milford County, south-central Utah, but it has yet to be gemmologically...mid-1990s, but since the late 2000s facet-grade gem corundum has become rare (Huong et al., 2012). This is
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Scovil photo. Vanadinite, 2.4 cm, from the Apache mine, Arizona. Collected by Evan Jones; Jeff Scovil photo...Miglioli photo. Fluorite, 7.4 cm, from the La Barre mine, France. Collected by Aubin Cosson; Niels Brouwer... from left: Caledonite, 1.1 cm, from the Reward mine, California. Collected by Jeff Lines; Ben DeCamp...Thrill of Discovery by Wendell Wilson Epilog: On Mine Safety UThe Field-CollectorsV Anthony J. Albini...the words of the original discoverers. Adelaide Mine, Tasmania, 1971, 2012 Albert Chapman wrote one such
Report (issue)
Cuba------------------------------------Dominion of Canada _______________________ _ British Columbia_------..._________ _ Nova Scotia ____ ----------------------Ontario _____ -------- ___ ------ _____ ---Quebec ____...Perce Counties __________ _ Idaho CountY-----------------Valley CountY-----------------Adams, Payette,...and Gem Counties ________________________ _ Boise County ___ --------------Ada, Owyhee, Elmore, and Custer...Spruce Pine district ____________ Madison County and Haywood County _____________________ _ Zirconia district
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the Izok Lake Cu–Zn–Pb–Ag VMS Deposit, Nunavut, Canada H. Donald Lougheed 1, *, M. Beth McClenaghan 2...University, 36 Union St., Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada; dlayton@queensu.ca (D.L.-M.); m.leybourne@queensu...L.) Geological Survey of Canada, 601 Booth St., Ottawa, ON K1A 0E8, Canada; beth.mcclenaghan@canada.ca...University, 64 Bader Lane, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada Correspondence: 5hdl@queensu.ca Received: 15 February...important facet of modern mineral exploration in Canada and northern Europe. Till heavy mineral concentrate
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Earth Sciences, James Cook University, PO Box 6811, Cairns, QLD 4870, Australia ABSTR ACT Slag dumps occur...nepheline, vivianite, melilite, garnet, spinel, corundum, apatite, sulphides and other minerals that occur...Chillagoe smelter site is located 140 km west of Cairns at 236300 mE, 8102800 mN. The derelict Chillagoe...other Ž elds including the Cape York Peninsula, Cairns, Charters Towers, Bowen, Mackay, Rockhampton, Gladstone...Molloy smelter site is located 50 km northwest of Cairns at 321200 mE, 8155400 mN. Ore supplies came from
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Geological Survey of Canada, 601 Booth Street, Ottawa, Ontario K1A OE8, Canada 3 Department of Geosciences...graphite Osbornite TiN Nierite α-Si3N4 Rutile TiO2 Corundum Al2O3 Spinel MgAl2O4 Hibonite CaAl12O19 Forsterite...1998; MacPherson 2007) Name Formula Major phases Corundum Spinel Perovskite Grossite Hibonite Ca-Al-oxide...for the ancient anorthositic crust of the lunar highlands. The oldest known tangible pieces of evidence...Acasta Gneiss from the Slave Craton, northwestern Canada, the oldest known rock unit on Earth, is crosscut
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microprobe analyses show that the peraluminous (corundum-bearing) anorthoclasites comprise light rare earth...(LREE)-enriched alkali feldspars together with corundum and Nbrich oxides (ilmenorutile, samarskite, yttro-niobate...from the felsic melts. KEY WORDS: anorthoclase; corundum; mantle; megacrysts; Scotland ∗Corresponding...compositions were peraluminous, containing modal corundum. There are some 70 localities in northern Britain...from NE Scotland, around the Hebrides and West Highlands and across the Scottish Midland Valley and Southern
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Geography, University of Alberta. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Am. Antiquity- American Antiquity. Society for...Arctic Institute of North America. Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and Washington, D. C. Arctic Anthropology- Arctic...North America Research Paper. Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and Washington, D. C. IX BIBLIOGRAPHY OF NORTH...Resources Annual Report. Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. British Columbia Dept. Mines and Petroleum Resources...Mines and Petroleum Resources Bulletin. Columbia, Canada. British Columbia Victoria, British British Columbia
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paper. Teramae, Hirata and Soeda, colleagues of mine at Central Gem Laboratory, are thanked for their...Association tour: lab, gem collection • Steinkaulenberg mine tour • Historic and modern gem cutting workshop... and a 'topaz diffusion' treatment applied to corundum is described. Pearls Non-nucleated cultured pearls...hence furthering the belief that the stone was a corundum. The RI of the stone was over the 1.79 limit imposed...more rounded facet edges. Diffusion treatment of corundum Two sapphires, weighing 1.86 ct and 3.02 ct, were
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mineralogy analyses. Subsamples were also mixed with corundum (20 wt%) to quantify the mineralogical composition...precipitates by Rietveld refinement and internal corundum standard method (Bish and Howard, 1988; Bish and...the weights of all crystalline phases including corundum were first estimated with Rietveld refinement and...of all crystalline phases were corrected using corundum refined and added weights. Finally, the content...and UV-photooxidation (Jortner and Stein, 1962; Cairns-Smith, 1978). Based on laboratory acidic akaganeite
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Mineralsfrom the MidstateQuarry Magnet Cove, Hot Spring County, Arkansas Art Smith 9118 Concho Houston, Texas...mmlong, Midstate Quarry, Magnet Cove, Hot Spring County, Arkansas, photo by the author. Middle& PolarUrals...ankerite were described in the Magnet Cove Titanium Mine. This may be from a similar one, though I did not...material, Midstate Quarry, Magnet Cove, Hot Spring County, Arkansas, photo by the author. these came from...year surface, $32.00 per year air, First Class to Canada and Mexico $25.00, rates include sales taxes as
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• 2. North Lowlands District • • 3. Scottish Highlands and Islands • D. Geological Survey of Northern...Lowlands Unit - North Lowlands Unit - Scottish Highlands and Islands Unit - Geological Survey of Northern...solid a11d drift ; in the Lower Cretaceous of the Hastings (320) Sheet area, as in tl1e glacial deposits...computer was used 011 this work. I n the Scottish Highlands, the prima1·y survey of l\!Ioinian strata i n...Permo-Carboniferous minor intrusions in the Northern Highlands, the Armorican granites of south-west England
 
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