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Zoisite from
Jeffrey Mine, Val-des-Sources, Les Sources RCM, Estrie, Québec, Canada


Locality type:Open-Cast Mine
Classification
Species:Zoisite
Formula:(CaCa)(AlAlAl)O[Si2O7][SiO4](OH)
Habit:elongate plates, radiating
Colour:pink
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Lizarditeⓘ1 photo of Zoisite associated with Lizardite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Zoisite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Jeffrey Mine, Val-des-Sources, Les Sources RCM, Estrie, Québec, Canada
Photo GalleryView Gallery (3 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:22024
Long-form Identifier:1:3:22024:2
GUID (UUID V4):72720980-218f-4de7-a4bc-a3e010173733
Nearest other occurrences of Zoisite
12.1km (7.5 miles) ⓘSterrett mine, Saint-Cyr, Canton de Cleveland, Le Val-Saint-François RCM, Estrie, QuĂ©bec, Canada
54.0km (33.6 miles) ⓘMine Lac d'Amiante (Lake Asbestos Mine; "LAB Mine"; "Black Lake Mine"), Saint-Joseph-de-Coleraine, Les Appalaches RCM, ChaudiĂšre-Appalaches, QuĂ©bec, Canada
56.7km (35.3 miles) ⓘUnion mine (Southwark mine), Black Lake, Thetford Mines, Les Appalaches RCM, ChaudiĂšre-Appalaches, QuĂ©bec, Canada
60.8km (37.8 miles) ⓘBell mine, Thetford Mines, Les Appalaches RCM, ChaudiĂšre-Appalaches, QuĂ©bec, Canada
60.9km (37.8 miles) ⓘJohnson mine, Thetford Mines, Les Appalaches RCM, ChaudiĂšre-Appalaches, QuĂ©bec, Canada
74.9km (46.5 miles) ⓘLake Memphremagog Mine (Smith's Mine; Patton Mine), Potton, MemphrĂ©magog RCM, Estrie, QuĂ©bec, Canada
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
GROSSULAR Jeffrey Mine, Asbestos, Les Sources Municipalité Régional de Comté Estrie, Québec, Canada A lthough...the Jeffrey mine, Asbestos, Les Sources Municipalité, Régional de Comté, Estrie, Québec, Canada. The...grossular dodecahedra is commonly observed on Jeffrey mine specimens. This particular specimen is one of...single crystal of grossular from the Jeffrey mine, Asbestos, Québec, Canada. The Arkenstone specimen, Joe Budd...group of grossular crystals from the Jeffrey mine, Québec, Canada. Formerly in the Charles Key collection
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
carats, from Baicheng. Diopside from the Handan iron mine, Wu’an County, Handan Prefecture, Hebei Province...An unusual locality in the collection is the Posu mine, Changbak, Hangyong, North Korea. The lone specimen...pale green crystals to 1.5 cm come from the Horado mine, Gifu Prefecture. These are bladelike crystals with...diopside also occur at the Kamaishi mine, Iwate Prefecture, and the Yaguki mine, Fukushima Prefecture. Specimens...diopside variety schefferite have come from the Kuga mine, Yamaguichi Prefecture, and from Sarukabeyama, Iwate
Report (issue)
Geological Survey of Canada Miscellaneous Report 46 ROCKS AND MINERALS FOR THE COLLECTOR Estrie and Gaspesie... © 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
Book
Sites "Re miniets Aitus du Canada Joel D. Grice A # ds. «< RE « "1 Ă©+ Le: . 0 7, 22 L # ... SITES MINIERS CANADA CÉLÈBRES DU “Joel D. Grice L'ouvrage Sites miniers cĂ©lĂšbres du Canada est un heureux...collectionneur amateur saura mettre Ă  profit. L'auteur dĂ©crit les divers sites miniers de façon trĂšs dĂ©taillĂ©e, ce...pierre des pharaons (le lapis-lazuli). Il n'oublie non plus l'aspect pratique de l’utilisation des minĂ©raux...l'identification des minĂ©raux. Ce dernier Ă©lĂ©ment devrait particuliĂšrement intĂ©resser les jeunes collectionneurs
Journal (issue)
Foote also made several collecting visits to the mine in 1890-1891, and brought back many good specimens...chemist and physicist). In 1895 Niven purchased the mine from its owner, on behalf of Thomas Edison. In the...dozen mines were opened, one of which (the Mariposa mine) produced a wider variety of mercury minerals than...Morgenstern photo. Calcite, 5.8 cm, from the Mariposa mine, Terlingua; Roh Lavinsky (The Arkenstone) specimen...Calomel crystals on terlinguaite, 3 mm, Mariposa mine, Terlingua. Celestine, 4.5 cm, Burnet, Burnet County;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
thermodynamically. The calculations yield best‑fit val‑ ues of ∆fH° = –6627.0 kJ/mol and S° = 258.8 J/(mol⋅K)...garnets from the well‑known Jeffrey mine locality of Asbestos, Quebec, Canada (Allen and Buseck 1988; Rossman...(Gr‑)82‑112 Jeffrey Mine, Asbestos, Quebec Natural Gr (Hessonite); CMNMC (Gr‑)44091 Jeffrey Mine, Asbestos...S(ξS) are Debye, Einstein, and Schottky functions (DES), respectively, and m, n, ns, ξD, ξE, and ξS are...aggregates. The natural grossular samples from the Jeffrey mine are opti‑ cally complex and notably anisotropic
Journal (issue)
1978.] 512 J.Oemm., 1979, XVI, 8 BLUISH-GREEN ZOISITE FROM MERELANI, TANZANIA By Dr K. SCHMETZER and...Since the first publication on the blue variety of zoisite, called tanzanite, from Merelani, Tanzania (Bank...crystal structure of zoisite (Hurlbut 1969). The absorption spectra of this blue zoisite have led various...ions (Schmetzer 1978). The colour change of the zoisite crystals from Merelani through heat treatment to...reddish-purple blue blue yellowish-brown blue Green zoisite from Longido in Tanzania, which is coloured by
Book
© 2011 Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. All rights reserved. No part of this publication...Cataloging-in-Publication Data (U.S.) Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Tait, Kimberly. Tait...States by Firefly Books (U.S.) Inc. Published in Canada by Firefly Books Ltd. PO. Box 1338, Ellicott Station...at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Photography: Brian Boyle, MPA, FPPO, and Miguel...publishing program by the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund as administered by the Department
Journal (issue)
Design Articles Famous mineral localities: The Jeffrey Mine, Asbestos, Q u ebec...........................people: telephone: COVER: ADAMITE from the Ojuela mine near Mapimi, Durango, Mexico. Collection of Wayne...2 Wellsic Lane, Rothley Leicestershire LE7 7Qb Canada: Mrs. J. W. Peat 36 Deepwood Crescent Don Mills...JeffreyAsbestos, Mine Quebec by J. D. Grice and R. Williams The National Museums of Canada The National Museum...Grossular crystals of exceptional quality from the Jeffrey mine at A s b e s t o s ,Qare to be found in collections
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
vesuvianite crystals to about 1 cm tall from Bellecombe, Val d’Aosta, Italy. from this. Based on their optical...referred to as the Goodall quarry, the Goodall farm mine, and the Webster quarry. The long, productive history...perhaps the classic American vesuvianite locale. The Jeffrey quarry, Asbestos, Quebec, has yielded fine vesuvianite...examples of these specimens through commercial sources. Robert J. Lauf is a materials scientist who recently... Figure 4 (above). Manganoan vesuvianite from Jeffrey quarry, Asbestos, Quebec. Specimen is about 3 cm
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University, 859 Sherbrooke St. West, Montreal, QuĂ©bec H3A 0C4, Canada; to order redpath. museum@mcgill.ca. 96...the campus of McGill University in Montreal, QuĂ©bec, Canada. It is a companion volume to that reviewed...outlines the distinctive geologic provinces making up QuĂ©bec, setting the stage for the following sections that...Province—New York, Ontario, and QuĂ©bec by George W. Robinson, Jeffrey Chiarenzelli, Michael Bainbridge...acanthite on page 26 and ending on page 114 with zoisite. Particularly nice treatments are given to albite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
aerial view of the Ruberoid Corporation Asbestos mine, ca. 1960. Frank L. Forward photo. A Belvidere...postcard of the initial three-story mill at the Eden mine that opened in May 1902 but closed later in the... we and our colleagues, being familiar with the mine, decided that it is important to document this famous...terrain in this region of Vermont. Drainage from the mine site follows either the Burgess Branch north to...developers. 512 ROCKS & MINERALS drains into Québec then southwest to Lake Champlain) or the Hutchins
Journal (issue)
Renato Pagano Joe Polityka Associate Photographers Jeffrey A. Scovil Harold and Erica Van Pelt SEPTEMBER–OCTOBER...Famous mineral localities: The Königskrone topaz mine, Schneckenstein, Saxony, Germany . . . . . . . ... Famous Mineral Localities: The Konigskrone Topaz Mine Schneckenstein, Saxony, Germany Helmut Leithner...property in 1727 and granted permission for others to mine topaz there, provided that they turned over to him...Schneckenstein ). mst ndliche eschreibung des Schnec enstein, oder des s chsischen Topasfelsens E carmosier
Journal (issue)
2009 Articles Famous mineral localities: The Sapo mine, Ferruginha district, Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais...localities: The Lac d’Amiante mine, Black Lake, Thetford Mines, QuĂ©bec . . . . . . . . . . ...July–August, 2009 Famous Mineral Localities: The Sapo Mine Ferruginha District, Conselheiro Pena Minas Gerais...30410-080 Email: lmenezesminerals@uol.com.br The Sapo mine exploits a thick sub-horizontal pegmatite that was...“apatite” specimens recently found at Brazil’s Sapo mine, near Goiabera, in Minas Gerais. The specimens show
Journal (issue)
is initially used to divide the incoming "run-of-mine" shipments of diamonds into two groups called smalls...the Novello Prospect a n d the abandoned Twin Star Mine, both of which are located about 17 km N W . of...located some 6 km north of the famous Bikita lithium mine about 80 km east of Fort Victoria. Details of the...Shamvaian age (2,650 m. years). T h e Twin Star mine is only 6 or 7 km distant from the Novello Prospect...about 90 km eastward, near the Bikita pegmatite mine. Novello Prospect : T h e discovery of emerald and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
identification of the geological and geographical sources of the main productive areas from northern and...left side). Crystals of tsavorite from the Nadan I mine in the Voi mining district (Kenya). The width of...surrounded by kelyphitic rims of scapolite, vanadian zoisite, or tsavorite and quartz, clinopyroxene and spinel;...Pezinok in Slovakia (Uher et al. 2008) and at Jeffrey mine in Quebec (Wight and Grice 1982). Samples and...crystal scale as exemplified by a crystal from Kikuyu mine (19.0±0.1‰, n=2) with no significant variation between
Show/Event (guide)
private appointments Topaz, Cleavelandite Mokrush Mine, Russia Thomas Spann Photo 2 3 CONTENTS 06...across all cultures, because Tanzanite (variety zoisite). Merelani mines, Merelani Hills, Lelatema Mountains...#1313: An enormous brute of a Tanzanite crystal (zoisite variety), lustrous and very transparent, with hardly...written by Bryan Swoboda. 12 VĂ€yrynenite. Lolu Dahku mine, Roundu Valley, Skardu District, Gilgit-Baltistan...James Elliott photo Organizer: SPL ÉvĂ©nementiel en Val d’Argent I Photo: Cassiterite, beryl & muscovite
Journal (issue)
address Articles Famous mineral localities: The Jeffrey Mine, Asbestos, Quebec ............................2 Wellsic Lane, Rothley Leicestershire LE7 7Ob Canada: Mrs. J. W. Peat 36 Deepwood Crescent Don Mills...Ontario M3C 1NB COVER: ADAM ITE from the Ojuela mine near Mapimi, Durango, Mexico. Collection of Wayne...JeffreyAsbestos, Mine Quebec by J. D. Grice and R. Williams The National Museums of Canada The National Museum...Grossular crystals of exceptional quality from the Jeffrey mine at Asbestos, Quebec, are to be found in collections
Report (issue)
cm tall andradite on hematite is from the Wessels Mine near Hotazel in northern Cape Province, South Africa...diopside; 7.1 cm tall Jeffrey Mine, Asbestos, Richmond County, Quebec, Canada Paul Stahl specimen Jeff...and laser rods (page 80); photo Lothar Ackerman Jeffrey and Lac d'Amiante: Two of Quebec's Great Gamet-Bearing...defects in the crystal structure are frequently sources of color in minerals. But color is imparted to...Spessartine, schorl, and a/bite from the Little Three Mine in San Diego County, California; 6. 6 cm tall; Bryant
Journal (issue)
localities like the Sweet Horne mine, Breckenridge, Mount Antero, the Sunnyside mine, Creede, Cripple Creek,...Collection" labels list the name of the lade or mine, the mining district and county, and the assay results...thread, some taken from the surface of the American mine and some from its deepest workings indicating that...that depth does not change the character of the mine. One is impressed by the money as well as the scientific...quartz, interspersed with gold, but the owner of the mine, Mr. Walker, seeing the cabinet, said that the piece
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
JEFFREY A. SCOVIL Downloaded by [Monash University Library] at 01:33 12 December 2015 PO Box 7773 Phoenix...malachite, 7 cm across, Khanong open pit, Sepon mine, Vilabouly district, Laos. Irv Brown specimen. ... TUCSON (Dis) Plays All photos by Jeffrey A. Scovil the Blues Figure 2 (left). Corundum, variety...Amelia mine, Santa Rosalia, Boleo district, Baja California, Mexico. Irv Brown specimen. Jeffrey A. Scovil...(above). Aurichalcite, field of view 7.6 cm, 79 mine, Dripping Springs, Pinal County, Arizona. John Cesar
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
A Visit to the Jeffrey Open Pit Mine in Asbestos, Quebec, Canada Second Edition is a feature which reruns...I N E R A L S ' history. This article on the Jeffrey mine originally appeared in the October 1967 issue...Chamberlain on new minerals dis­ covered at the Jeffrey mine (page 188 of this issue). GARDINER E. GREGORY...now the site o f the open pit Jeffrey mine, the largest asbestos mine i n the Free World. It is presently...average o f 550,000 tons of asbestos fiber a year. The mine is owned and operated by the Canadian Johns-Mansville
Journal (issue)
Groat, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada; Thomas Hainschwang, GGTL Laboratories, Balzers...Pezzotta, Natural History Museum of Milan, Italy; Jeffrey E. Post, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC...(ProQuest), Scopus and the Thomson Reuters’ Emerging Sources Citation Index (in the Web of Science). Copyright...100 × 65 mm and operates on a variety of power sources, including battery, making it readily portable...sessions (click the News button). CMS Diamonds in Canada: 25th Anniversary In November 2016, the 25th anniversary
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Ann Arbor, Ml George W. Robinson Natl. Museums of Canada Ottawa, Ontario Abraham Rosenzweig Tampa, FL Associate...0026-4628 ‘Continued on p. 247 Articles The Outlaw mine, Nye County, Nevada ..............................Valley Road Watsonville, California 95076 The Outlaw mine has long been known as an occurrence o f rare and...benjaminite, fo r which it is the type locality. The mine has been idle fo r more than 60 years, and because...More than 30 minerals have been identified from the mine and studies continue on the sulfosalt mineralogy
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
not impor­ tant specimen producers: Newgate copper mine, which was used for a prison; the Allyndale quarry...believed that it may have come from the Tollgate mine or elsewhere in the Middletown area. D a n a (Palache...bismuth mine, but efforts to trace it to that locality have failed; it has been found at O l d Mine Park...is the author o f History and Minerals of O l d Mine Park (Saganawamps) (1985). A chemist, he was chairman...in schist: dravite. B o o t h ' s b i s m u t h mine, Monroe, B a r n H i l l near junction with Route
 
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