 | | Journal (issue) | | Ann Arbor, MI Andrew C. Roberts Geol. Surv. of Canada Ottawa George W. Robinson Seaman Mineral Museum...Famous mineral localities: The Francon Quarry, Montréal, Québec, Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....annual FM-MSA-TGMS Tucson Mineralogical Symposium: CANADA! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Chairman:...crystal, 4 cm, on matrix, from the Francon quarry, Montréal, Québec, Canada. (See the article in this issue...localities: The Francon Quarry, `ÉÇàÜ°tÄ? dâ°uxv Peter Tarassoff 91 Lakeshore Road Beaconsfield, Québec, Canada |  | | Report (issue) | | © Minister of Supply and Services Canada 1983 Available in Canada through authorized bookstore agents...and Services Canada Hull, Québec, Canada K1A 0S9 and from Geological Survey of Canada 601 Booth Street...Street Ottawa, Canada K1A 0E8 A deposit copy of this publication is also available for reference in public...public libraries across Canada Cat. No. ISBN Price M41-8/32E 0-660-11547-6 Canada: $7.50 Other countries:...without notice $9.00 PlateI Mont St-Hillaire quarry. (GSC 138741) CONTENTS ix | Abstract l Introduction |  | | Report (issue) | | MINERALS FOR THE COLLECTOR Geological Survey of Canada Miscellaneous Report 48 Ottawa to North Bay and...Natural Resources Canada Ressources naturelles Canada Geological Survey of Canada Miscellaneous Report...Queen in Right of Canada 2007 Catalogue No. M41-8/48E ISBN 0-660-19556-9 Available in Canada from the Geological...Geological Survey of Canada Bookstore (see inside front cover for details) A copy of this publication is...available for reference by depository libraries across Canada through access to the Depository Services Program's |  | | Report (volume) | | MINERALS FOR THE COLLECTOR Geological Survey of Canada Miscellaneous Report 77 Kirkland Lake – Rouyn-Noranda...Quebec Ann P. Sabina 2003 Geological Survey of Canada Miscellaneous Report 77 ROCKS AND MINERALS FOR...in Right of Canada, 2003 Catalogue No. M41-8/77E ISBN 0-660-19062-1 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | University 859 Sherbrooke Street West Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 0C4 peter.tarassoff@sympatico.ca M CGILL...Pinch Medal from the Mineralogical Association of Canada. VISITOR INFORMATION Address: Redpath Museum,...Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, Quebec H3A 0C4, Canada Hours: Monday–Friday, 9 a.m.–5 p.m.; Sunday, 11...Montreal founded in 1827, and the Geological Survey of Canada established in 1842. All three museums were available...scientific endeavor. In 1877 the government of Canada decided to move the Geological Survey and its museum |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | this quarry. Ms. Sabina's paper notes that Dresserite has its only known occurrence at the Francon Quarry...Star Rt. 62, Box 370 pedia is also present in the quarry. Al Center Harbor, N.H. 03226 though the Canadian...C I M E N T H A T Plagioclase a mineral at the quarry, pri vate communique identifies this mineral W...cavi FRANCON QUARRY ties. by The most spectacular specimen to be Norman B. Biggart found at Francon in...micros from the Francon varieties at a time sprinkled over a cavity, Quarry in Montreal, Canada will interest |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Thumbnails-FranForghani, Abdol-Hossein. The Apatite of con Quarry. Nov., p. 455 Hormuz Island, Iran. March, p. 85...Microscopes? July-Aug., p. 294; Howell, Frederick H. Molybdenite — (MoS2). April, p. 154; Magnetite. The Micromounters... 298; Thumbnails. Oct., p. 405; Thumbnails—Francon Quarry. Nov., p. 455 Rich, Carter C. An Easy-To-Build...Special Gemstone Ex hibit at the National Museums of Canada. July-Aug., p. 288 Wood, Simone. Tips for Preparing...Vonsen. Dec, p. 511 Canada—Special Gemstone Exhibit at the National Museums of Canada. Willow Wight. July-August |  | | 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 | | | Report (issue) | | MINERALS FOR THE COLLECTOR Geological Survey of Canada Miscellaneous Report 32 Kingston, Ontario to Lac...1983 COVER Left: Weloganite crystals from Francon Quarry, Montreal. Specimen measures 3 cm from tip...Collection specimen (No. 36384). National Museum of Canada photo. Right: Serandite with analcime and mangan-neptunite...mangan-neptunite crystals from Mont St-Hilaire quarry. Specimen 22 is cm long. National Mineral Collection...Collection specimen (No. 37124). National Museum of Canada photo. Miscellaneous Report 32 ROCKS AND MINERALS |  | Hazen, Robert M., Hummer, Daniel R., Hystad, Grethe, Downs, Robert T., Golden, Joshua J. (2016) Carbon mineral ecology: Predicting the undiscovered minerals of carbon. American Mineralogist, 101 (4) 889-906 doi:10.2138/am-2016-5546 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Poudrette Quarry within the nepheline syenite complex of Mont Saint-Hilaire, Québec, Canada, holds the...there, 12 of which are unique to the Poudrette Quarry. This remarkable diversity of rare minerals arises...Zaitsev et al. 1996); and the Francon Quarry, Montréal, Québec, Canada (21 species; type locality for...carbonate elements minerals Poudrette Quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Québec, Canada 78 Alkaline intrusion, nepheline...Cu-Ag-Au-Pb-Zn B, Bi, Cu, Pb, Zn ore body Francon Quarry, Montréal, Québec, Canada 21 Alkali intrusive complex Ba |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | The National Museum of Natural Sciences OTTAWA, CANADA JOEL D. GRICE Mineral Sciences Division National...Science and Technology, and the National Gallery o f Canada. This Crown Corporation comes under the respon...of Communications in the federal government of Canada. History of the National Museum of Natural Science...the Geological Survey of Canada and founder of the National Museum of Canada in 1842. Sir William Logan...Parliament buildings). In 1968 the National Museums of Canada Corporation was created and was comprised of the |  | | Journal (issue) | | may be made in local currency to the following: Canada: Mrs. J.W . Peat. 36 Oeepwood Crescent. Don Mills...locally reported. Other associations include molybdenite, brannerite, pyrite and gold. One paragenetic...Linnaeite Pharmacosiderite Roselite Loellingite Molybdenite Talmessite Vladimirite Pentlandite Pyrite Borates...Blount Little Rock, Arkansas 72209 The Jeffrey quarry, near North Little Rock, Arkansas, has produced...to come from the Arkan sas quartz region. The quarry is now closed but specimens of quartz, ankerite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | W o r l d News on Mineral Occurrences CANADA V A N D A L L T. KING Ward's Natural Science Establishment...sylvite, and anhydrite. Quebec Francon quarry The large Francon quarry in Montreal is located in a residential...little or no land available for expanding the quarry. The economics of dig ging deeper for the construction-grade...of mining offsets transportation costs. The Francon quarry is world-famous for being the first (or only)...are found at the Francon quarry. Dawsonite was first found in a quarry near the Francon. The city of Montreal |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Geological Survey of Canada by Ann P. Sabina). Quebec Francon Quarry The Francon quarry in Montreal is famous...dis covered what appears to be a first for the quarry—cube faces on analcime. This mineral almost always...shows a trapezohedron with a cube modification. CANADA Newfoundland Hematite Ms. Brenna Lorenz of Syracuse..."dresserite" examined. It was identified in the quarry by an "expert." On the specimens were gray botryoids...also available as tiny, loose crystals. Jeffrey Quarry, Asbestos The following note comes from D r . Steve |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | gypsum, halite, ilsemannite(?), lepidocrocite, molybdenite(?), pyrite, sulphur, tachhydrite(?),talc, tamarugite(...tamarugite(?), thenardite, 172 Blaen-y-Nant, Nant Francon, Caernarvonshire, North Wales: chlorite, gar- ... 1 Treburland mine, Altarnun: genthelvite, molybdenite, 921 Treore mine, St. Teath: beudantite, carminite...azurite, olivenite, 428; coronadite, 343 Embleton quarry, Cockermouth: alunite, dickite, thaumasite, zunyite...scheelite, 921 Meldon aplite quarry, Okehampton: bavenite, 577 Meldon limestone quarry, Okehampton: scheelite |  | | Report (issue) | | MINERALS FOR THE COLLECTOR Geological Survey of Canada Miscellaneous Report 57 Cobalt – Belleterre –...Quebec Ann P. Sabina 2000 Geological Survey of Canada Miscellaneous Report 57 ROCKS AND MINERALS FOR...in Right of Canada, 2000 Catalogue No. M41-8-57E ISBN 0-660-17726-9 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 |  | | Report (issue) | | MINERALS FOR THE COLLECTOR Geological Survey of Canada Popular Geoscience 97 Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick...career in mineralogy at the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC) in 1952, working in the new field of mineral...for the Collector”, which covers 14 regions of Canada, from Newfoundland and Labrador to the Yukon-Alaska...treasurer for the Mineralogical Association of Canada. After her retirement in the late 1990s, Ann continued...shortly before her death. Geological Survey of Canada Popular Geoscience 97 ROCKS AND MINERALS FOR THE |  | Števko, M., Uher, P., Sejkora, J., Malíková, R., Škoda, R., Vaculovič, T. (2015) Phosphate minerals from the hydrothermal quartz veins in specialized S-type granites, Gemerská Poloma (Western Carpathians, Slovakia) Journal of GEOsciences, 60 (4) 237-249 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | and Broska 2005, 2010). Recent zircon U–Pb and molybdenite Re–Os isotopic dating indicate emplacement of...from alkali silicocarbonatites in Francon quarry, Montréal, Canada does not contain any detectable Mn...71–80 (in Slovak) Kohút M, Stein H (2005) Re–Os molybdenite dating of granite-related Sn–W–Mo mineralisation...Roberts AC, Dunn PJ (1983) Viitaniemiite from the Francon quarry, Montreal, Quebec. Can Mineral 21: 499–502 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | CANMET, 555 Booth Street,Ottawa, Ontario KIA OGl, Canada EnNsr A. J. Bunxn Instituut voor Aardwetenschappen...of kesterite. tion at the Geological Survey of Canada,Ottawa. J.L.J. Steelgray, metallic luster, black...ocal Mineral Collection at the GeologicalSurvey of Canada, curs as opaque, subhedral to anhedral grains up...Mineral Collection at the Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa. J.L.J. JAMBOR AND BURKE: NEW MINERAL...the grains contain inclusions of pyrite and molybdenite, and others form rims on rutile, all in a matrix |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | toys. Francon is primarily layered lime stone that has been intruded with a car bonate rich sill of...there are: galena, molybdenite, graphite and baddeleyite. Two articles on this quarry are found in Paper...Paper 76-1B of the Geological Survey of Canada. Many Micromount-Thumbnail mineral CHIPS and BITS from...the mineral localities and specimens available in Canada. I have for a long time slowly added a number of...other localities recently visited— St. Eustache Quarry and Oka Rare Metals Mine. Permission must be obtained |  | | Journal (issue) | | Minerals-Hardness Vandall T. King Thumbnails-Francon Quarry Norman D. Biggarl and John Reiner Chips and...Add $3.00 for subscriptions outside the U.S. and Canada. All orders by indi viduals should be paid in...this quarry. Ms. Sabina’s paper notes that Dresscrite has its only known occurrence at the Francon Quarry...Star Rt. 62, Box 370 pedia is also present in the quarry. Al Center Harbor, N.H. 03226 though the Canadian...ANY SPECIMEN THAT Plagioclasc a mineral at the quarry, private communique identifies this minera WILL |  | | Report (issue) | | MINES AND RESOURCES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA CANADA PAPER 67-51 ROCKS AND MINERALS FOR THE COLLECTOR...Queen's Printer, Ottawa, from Geological Survey of Canada, 601 Booth St., Ottawa, and at the followin$ Canadian...of Stationery Ottawa, Canada 1968 - iii - Plate I. Mont St-Hilaire quarry, (GSC 135741) - v -...Kingston - Island of Montreal Kingston township quarry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . McFarland quarry .. . . . ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . .'. . . . . . |  | | Report (issue) | | Mont-Laurier Grenville, Québec; Hawkesbury - Ottawa, Ontario Geological Survey of Canada Miscellaneous Report... @ Minister of Supply and Services Canada 1986 Available in Canada through authorized bookstore agents...Supply and Services Canada Ottawa, Canada K I A OS9 and from Geological Survey of Canada offices: 601 Booth...Booth Street Ottawa, Canada KIA OE8 3303-33rd Street N.W., Calgary, Alberta T2L 2A7 A deposit copy of this...reference in public libraries across Canada Cat. No. M41-8/33E Canada: $7.50 ISBN 0-660-11941-2 Other countries: |  | | Catalog/List | | places, Itxlxl". £11.' 4-. APATITE, Colcerrovl Quarry, Luxulyan, Cornwall. A sharp, well. formed, doubly...sample. 4x]xli". £13. CROCIDOLITE. ThEtford, QUEbec, Canada. Select, silky, fibrous, pure vein section. 2xltxlt"...GOLD. McIntyre-Porcupine ine, Timmins, Ontario, Canada. Rich, golden, platy masses scattered on and through...length, thickly encrusting matrix. 3xlixlt". £7. MOLYBDENITE. Carrock Mine, C)lc1bcck, Clmberland. Bright...2~-x2xlt". £8. S~AR~ITE. Desourdy Quarry, Mont - st.- Hilaire, Quebec, canada. Salmon pink, pure bladed crystaline |  | | Catalog/List | | in size, £7.00. 32. DAWSONITE. Francon Qry., Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Small glassy needly crystals scattered...5Op. Speci en C: 2x1", £1.25p MI~ETITE 60. MOLYBDENITE. Kingsgate, N.S. Wales, Australia. Rich metallic...78. NATIVE SILVER. Silver Isle, Lakc Superior, Canada. Rich silvery hackly masses in quartz matrix. 1fx1fx1"...2tx1-}", £2.2Sp 93. WELOGANITE. Francon Qry., Montreal, ~uebec, Canada. Sharp translucent creamy crystals |
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