 | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | University 859 Sherbrooke Street West Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 0C4 Well-crystallized dawsonite, a species...relatively rare. In the Montreal region, the Francon quarry has produced some of the world’s best dawsonite...campus of McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Its full characterization took almost a century...dawsonite localities in the Montreal region, the Francon quarry has produced some of the world’s best dawsonite...chemist and mineralogist to the Geological Survey of Canada. As Harrington was a mineral collector1 as well |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | The MARCO AMABILI COLLECTION Montreal Québec Canada PETER TARASSOFF Redpath Museum, McGill University...University 859 Sherbrooke Street West Montreal, Québec, Canada H3A 0C4 peter.tarassoff@mail.mcgill.ca All photos...chief geologist, in the Jeffrey mine, Asbestos, Québec, 1 August 1999. Peter Tarassoff photo. 434 ROCKS...Asbestos–Thetford Mines–Black Lake region of Québec, Canada. In his professional life Dr. Marco Amabili...at McGill University in Montreal, Québec, where he holds a Canada Research Chair in mechanical engineering |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | MACROCRYSTS IN GABBRO, MONT ROYAL, MONTREAL, QUEBEC, CANADA ANDREI Y. BARKOV§ AND ROBERT F. MARTIN Department...3450 University Street, Montreal, Quebec H3A 0E8, Canada ABSTRACT We document unusual zones of Cr enrichment...crystallization, Mont Royal intrusive center, Montreal, Canada. INTRODUCTION Although Mont Royal, the prominent...limestone. These sills are well exposed in the Francon quarry, located within the city limits 8 km north...sector-zoned clinopyroxene: diopside (Ca, Mg, and Si), albite (Na), synthetic Fe2O3 (Fe), TiO2 (Ti), orthoclase |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | this quarry. Ms. Sabina's paper notes that Dresserite has its only known occurrence at the Francon Quarry...photo of Albite as Dresserite. The incorrectly Conducted by JOHN R E I N E R labelled Albite as shown...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...as Albite which appears as micro-drusy coatings on the floor of some of the cavi FRANCON QUARRY ties |  | | 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 |  | | Report (issue) | | 980(2) X-ray Powder Pattern: Mont Saint-Hilaire, Canada; minor preferred orientation. 4.794 (100), 2.360...99.72 [100.00] 100.00 1− (1) Mont Saint-Hilaire, Canada; H2 O by TGA, (OH) confirmed by IR. (2) Do.; by...electron microprobe, H2 O from (1). (3) Francon quarry, Canada; by electron microprobe, average of four...Saint-Hilaire, Canada); in vugs within silicocarbonatite sills intruding limestones (Francon quarry, Canada); in...Saint-Amable, Canada). Association: Calcite, albite, pyrite (Mont Saint-Hilaire, Canada); weloganite, |  | | Report (issue) | | 359(4) β = 92.24(6)◦ X-ray Powder Pattern: Francon quarry, Canada. 11.0 (10), 5.55 (7), 4.73 (6), 3.18 (6)...20 21.45 Total [100.0] 99.9 100.00 (1) Francon quarry, Canada; by electron microprobe, H2 O by difference...dawsonite-bearing sill in a limestone deposit (Francon quarry, Canada); in cavities in altered pegmatite dikes...Saint-Hilaire, Canada). Association: Hochelagaite, weloganite, calcite, quartz (Francon quarry, Canada); burbankite...burbankite, muscovite, albite, microcline, chlorite, calcite, strontianite, natrolite (Vishnevogorsk complex |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 856 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, Quebec, Canada 2 Department of Geological Sciences, McGill University...University, 3450 University Street, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3A 2A7 Received January 7, 1992/Accepted August...1992 Abstract. Ordovician limestones in the Francon quarry on the island of Montreal, Quebec, are host...hydrous carbonate, first identified in the Francon quarry. Four types of inclusions have been recognized...reported from the Montreal area including the Francon quarry where it is a major mineral in three felsic |  | | Report (issue) | | 958(3) X-ray Powder Pattern: Mont Saint-Hilaire, Canada. 8.96 (100), 3.251 (50), 2.990 (50), 2.017 (45)... 19.79 Total 99.57 [99.11] 100.00 (1) Francon quarry, Canada; by electron microprobe, TiO2 , ZrO2 ,...Ti0.94 O4.14 (CO3 )3.86 . (2) Mont Saint-Hilaire, Canada; by electron microprobe, average of five analyses...mineral in vugs in a silicocarbonatite sill (Francon quarry, Canada); in cavities in sodalite syenite associated...alkalic gabbro-syenite complex (Mont Saint-Hilaire, Canada). Association: Calcite, dawsonite, weloganite, |  | | 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) | | 1 27.7 11.5 24.6 4.8 Total 98.1 (1) Francon quarry, Canada; by electron microprobe, CO2 and H2 O by...cavities in a silicocarbonate sill. Association: Albite, strontiodresserite, calcite, quartz, dawsonite...Distribution: From the Francon quarry, Montreal Island, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Name: For the Monteregian...Hill, Mont Royal, prominent landmark in Montreal, Canada, from which the city’s name was derived. Type Material:...Material: Canadian Geological Survey, Ottawa, Canada, 64261–64265. References: (1) Roberts, A.C., A |  | | 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...found some interesting specimens of pale redbrown albite pseudomorphs after a scapolite group min eral...terminated crystals up to 1 0 x 3 x 3 cm occur. The albite is a fine-grained replacement, and, as such, no...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 |  | | 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...000 kg. Apatite, beryl, columbite-group minerals, albite and various minerals were also being found. Mining...apatite, colorless and citrine quartz, platy white albite, and lepidolite—to name only a few. Of special |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | buddingtonite is much rarer than the species microcline and albite.) The word specie is not the singular of species...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 | | | 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 |  | | Catalog/List | | - ·MINERALS 200 Napier Street, Barrie, Ontario, Canada. Telephone: 1 (705) 726-~713 o LIST #3 - APRIL...ACTINOLITE: Gooderham, Ontario, Canada. crystals ACTINOLITE: St. Hilaire. Qu0bec, Canada, acicular sprays and tufts...tufts ACTINOLITE: Bull Run Quarry, Loudon County, Virginia, USA. sprays and tufts ACTINOLITE,variety...sections AS /\BOVE AEGERINE: St. Hilaire, Quebec, Canada. acicular sprays and tufts, crystal sections AEGERINE...AEGERINE,ALBIT~: St. Hilaire, Quebec, Canada. crystal sections, sprays and tufts AENIGMATITE, varfoty |  | 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) | | hydrothermal quartz veins with minor amounts of albite, orthoclase, muscovite, fluorite, rhodochrosite...Elisabeth adit. Hydrothermal quartz veins with albite, muscovite, fluorite, carbonates, sulfides and...to phosphates they also contain minor amounts of albite, orthoclase, muscovite, fluorite, carbonates (Mn-rich...Mg2SiO4 (Mg Kα), SrSO4 (Sr Lα), barite (Ba Lβ), albite (Na Kα), topaz (F Kα), and The morphology of minerals...massive quartz and minor Fe-rich rhodochrosite, albite, muscovite, fluorite and sulphide minerals. Fluorapatite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | granite formation, 1 Albite, experimental study of the equilibrium between poUucite, albite and hydrothermal...Norway, 145 CANADA,contrasting parageneses in a Grenvillian granitoid pluton, 355; Francon quarry, Montreal...Hercynian Au veins, 231 Francolite, 508 Francon quarry, see Montreal, Canada FUKUOKA, M., see DASGUPTA,S., 511...in kimberlites from Pakistan, 559 Montreal, see Canada ALPHABETICAL INDEX MORAND, V. J., black slate...Australia New York, see U.S.A Newfoundland, see Canada NICOLLET, C., grandidierite, serendibite and tourmaline |  | | 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...a photo of Albite as Dresserite. The incorrectly Conducted by JOHN REINER labelled Albite as shown in...Star Rt. 62, Box 370 pedia is also present in the quarry. Al Center Harbor, N.H. 03226 though the Canadian |  | | Catalog/List | | crystal about 2cm tall and one cm across. Francon Quarry, Quebec Canada £50 2. BERYLLONITE translucent to...Ontario, Canada £30 4. CUBANITE two intergrown brassy crystals about 8mm overall size Quebec Canada) £20...slightly pink on 1,5 x 1,5 matrux Jeffery Mine, Quebec Canada £20 9. DANBURITE very large single crystal about...salmon-pink Barite in the matrix (not fluorescent) Crich Quarry Derbyshire £ I 0 21. HYDROZINCITE visible with...colourless glassy crystals on large Ixl inch rock osa quarry near Rome Italy £8 Fluorescent green with short |
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Francon quarry, Montréal, Québec, Canada