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Talc from
Francon quarry, Montréal, Québec, Canada


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Talc
Formula:Mg3Si4O10(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Talc data
Locality Data:Click here to view Francon quarry, Montréal, Québec, Canada
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:357759
Long-form Identifier:1:3:357759:2
GUID (UUID V4):a65053e2-e957-435a-bc36-533cd5339a7c
Nearest other occurrences of Talc
6.4km (4.0 miles) Canadian National Railway tunnel, Mont Royal, Montréal, Québec, Canada
81.3km (50.5 miles) Kilmar mine, Kilmar, Grenville-sur-la-Rouge, Argenteuil RCM, Laurentides, Québec, Canada
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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
Book
Sites "Re miniets Aitus du Canada Joel D. Grice A # ds. «< RE « "1 é+ Le: . 0 7, 22 L # ... SITES MINIERS CANADA CÉLÈBRES DU “Joel D. Grice L'ouvrage Sites miniers célèbres du Canada est un heureux...s'étend sur près de la moitié de la superficie du Canada et constitue l’une des régions minières les plus...zinc, de cuivre et d’or. Sites miniers célèbres du Canada est un ouvrage passionant et d’érudition rédigé... Sites miniers célèbres du Canada Gites miniers célèbres du Canada Joel D. Grice Musée national
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
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
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)
Gelnica Group 300 magnesite and dolomite with talc 200 topaz–zinwaldite leucogranite albitite 100...driving of Elisabeth adit at the Gemerská Poloma talc deposit, located about 10 km north-west of Rožňava...magnesite. The latter have been recently exploited as a talc deposit near Gemerská Poloma (Kilík 1997). Several...from alkali silicocarbonatites in Francon quarry, Montréal, Canada does not contain any detectable Mn...Kilík J (1997) Geological characteristic of the talc deposit in Gemerská Poloma–Dlhá dolina. Acta Montan
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
sulphur, tachhydrite(?),talc, tamarugite(?), thenardite, 172 Blaen-y-Nant, Nant Francon, Caernarvonshire, North...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...nah' Achlaise, Ledmore: cromaltite, 767 Lettermore quarry, Loch Loyal: nordmarkite, 389 Loch Bad ham Ban...contact, xlvii; vaterite, 535; calcite, 609 Belshaw's quarry, White Mountain: laumontite, 516 Bengore Head:
Journal (issue)
may be made in local currency to the following: Canada: Mrs. J.W . Peat. 36 Oeepwood Crescent. Don Mills...chalcopyrite in a calcite gangue with dolomite, quartz, talc and chlorite. In certain veins nickel minerals are...Sulfides Garnierite Alloclasite Quartz Arsenopyrite Talc Bornite Chalcocite Arsenates Chalcopyrite Annabergite...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
Report (issue)
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...Numéro sans frais : 1 888 415-9845, poste 5691 (au Canada et aux États-Unis) Local : (705) 670-5691 Numéro...(au Canada et aux États-Unis) Local : 416 326-2678 Numéro sans frais : 1 800 668-9938 (au Canada et aux...COMMERCIAL STONE TERMS Riprap. Large angular blocks of quarry stone from l cubic foot (about 200 pounds) up to
Catalog/List
mass nearly lxl inch with Hydrocerussite. Merehead Quarry Mendips £35 9. SIMPSONITE Orange cleavage mass...5mm across on lxl with small quartz crystals Francon Quarry Montreal Quebec £25 14. VESUVIANITE lxl inch...inch matrix Pancake Bay, lake Superior Ontario Canada £10 £12 2x3 18. BERYLLONITE (pictured left)...(Henderson# 2 mine, 3250 level, Chibugamu, Quebec Canada) £12 24. CUPRIAN MELANTERITE rich bluish-green...in magnetite Whitehorse Mine, Whitehorse, Yukon Canada 2xl.5 inch £18 30_ PALYGORSKITE, creamy coloured
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
CANMET, 555 Booth Street,Ottawa, Ontario KIA OGl, Canada EnNsr A. J. Bunxn Instituut voor Aardwetenschappen...National Museum of Natural Sciences,Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. J.L.J. 2023 insolublein water,D-"n.: 2.67(2)...002),3.474(l 00,006),3. I 86( I 5, Nature. Ottawa. Canada. J.L.J. 224),2.867(r3,24r), 2.789(10,226),2.606(40...translucentor nepheline syenite at the Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint- transparent,H : 4.5, brittle, conchoidal...xenoliths in nepheline syenite at the Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec.Type material is in
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...observe any groove produced. You 6. orthoclase 1. talc can look at the scratch with a hand lens 7. quartz...apatite Recently, the Vicker’s scale of hardness Talc, number one on the scale, is the is being increasingly...this quarry. Ms. Sabina’s paper notes that Dresscrite has its only known occurrence at the Francon Quarry
Journal (issue)
Ann Arbor, MI Andrew C. Roberts Geol. Surv. of Canada Ottawa George W. Robinson Seaman Mineral Museum...Vietnam . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225 by D. Blauwet Francon revisited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...price of $475 postpaid in the United States and Canada (write or e-mail for the shipping surcharge to...chance? Within minutes I was at the base of the quarry, but I quickly noticed large square blocks of numbered...Convention Center, the “main show,” where Minerals of Canada was the theme this year. All of these productions
Journal (issue)
(F ) 17-18 Knoydart Scotland (GB ) 19 Coldstones Quarry (GB ) 20 Brussels mineral Show (B ) 21-22 Post-mining...17-19 Connaitre les macle s 21-23/42 Un gisement de talc : Trimoun s (Ariège, F ) 24-30 L ' apale précieuse...Der Aufschiuss 38(1), 01 .8 7 4-9 Un gisement de talc : Trimouns (F ) 18-19 Anciennes carrières souterraine...Hochelagaite, a new Ca-Nb oxid e mineral from Montréal, Québe c 455-459 Nontroyalite, a new hydrated...hydrated Sr-A 1 hydroxycarbonate from the Francon Quarry , Mantrëal, Québe c 469-474 A comparative study af some
Report (issue)
MINES AND RESOURCES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA CANADA PAPER 67-51 ROCKS AND MINERALS FOR THE COLLECTOR...Queen's Printer, Ottawa, from Geological Survey of Canada, 601 Booth St., Ottawa, and at the followin$ 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)
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
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:
Journal (issue)
BREWSTERITE Brewsterite-Ba Type locality: Gouverneur Talc Co. #4 wollastonite mine, Harrisville, Lewis Co...localities: Yellow Lake, Ollala, British Columbia, Canada Burpala Pluton, North Baikal Region, Siberia, Russia...(near Liena), Tasmania, Australia Nova Scotia, Canada Kazakov Hill, northeast of Turnov, Bohemia, Czech...Republic Yerandowana, Poona, India Osa Quarry, Rome, Italy San Venanzo Quarry, Terni, Italy Chabazite-K Type...Ercolano Naples, Italy. Other localities: Vallerano Quarry, Rome, Italy Chabazite-Na Type locality: biggest
Book
Diablo, Arizona. 12 x 13 cm. (Geological Survey of Canada specimen) By studying meteorites such as this one...(Photograph by Michael Hamilton, Geological Survey of Canada) Diffirentiation of magma caused compositional...occurrences I have ever visited was exposed by the Francon quarry on Montreal P L AT E 1 4 Pyrochlore crystals...space-age technology. P L AT E I S Weloganite. Francon quarry, Montreal, Quebec. 4.s-cm crystal. Named for...Quebec. Unlike most carbonatites, those in the Francon quarry occur assills. A sill is a flat, sheetlike
Catalog/List
association. 2xltxl". £24.00. BISMUTHINITE. Shap Quarry, Shap, Westmoreland. Select, silvery grcy , bladed... £3.25. LAZULITE. Big Fish River, Yukon Terr., Canada. select, bright, inky blue sharp crystals to 1...2xl~-xlt". 0.25. PHLOGOPITE. Wilberforce, Ontario, Canada. well formed shining light brown hexagonal crystal... -£1.25. 74. PVROXENE. WilberForce, Ontario, Canada. Select sharp terminated dark olive green elongated...of this mineral, clear crystals being very rare. TALC. Zillertal, Tyrol, Austria. Pale green soapy foliated
Report (issue)
MINES AND RESOURCES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA CANADA PAPER 68-51 ROCKS AND MINERALS FOR THE COLLECTOR...Queen's Printer, Ottawa, from Geolo1ical Survey of Canada, 601 Booth St., Ottawa, and at the followin1 Canadian...chan1e wi1hout notice The Queen's Printer Ottawa, Canada 1969 - iii CONTENTS Abstract . . . . . . . .... . . ... . . . . . . . . . . ... .. . Feldspar quarry . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . .. . .... . ....... . . . . . . . . . . ...... Cadieux quartzite quarry . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... ... . . ... .. .
 
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