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Microcline from
Demix-Varennes quarry, Saint-Amable sill, Varennes & St-Amable, Lajemmerais RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Microcline
Formula:K(AlSi3O8)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Aegirine127 photos of Microcline associated with Aegirine at this locality.
Eudialyte Group49 photos of Microcline associated with Eudialyte Group at this locality.
Calcite33 photos of Microcline associated with Calcite at this locality.
Elpidite30 photos of Microcline associated with Elpidite at this locality.
Catapleiite29 photos of Microcline associated with Catapleiite at this locality.
Zakharovite28 photos of Microcline associated with Zakharovite at this locality.
Serandite24 photos of Microcline associated with Serandite at this locality.
Nenadkevichite24 photos of Microcline associated with Nenadkevichite at this locality.
Kupletskite Group24 photos of Microcline associated with Kupletskite Group at this locality.
Yofortierite23 photos of Microcline associated with Yofortierite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Microcline data
Locality Data:Click here to view Demix-Varennes quarry, Saint-Amable sill, Varennes & St-Amable, Lajemmerais RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
Photo GalleryView Gallery (4 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:12354
Long-form Identifier:1:3:12354:1
GUID (UUID V4):578bb82d-f1c3-457a-9b36-60274b747d41
Nearest other occurrences of Microcline
19.5km (12.1 miles) Poudrette quarry (De-Mix quarry; Demix quarry; Uni-Mix quarry; Carrière Mont Saint-Hilaire; MSH), Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
23.2km (14.4 miles) Francon quarry, Montréal, Québec, Canada
25.0km (15.5 miles) Miron Quarry, Montréal, Québec, Canada
27.3km (17.0 miles) Corporation (Forsyth's) quarry, Mont Royal, Montréal, Québec, Canada
54.5km (33.9 miles) Oka Rare Metals mine, Saint-Joseph-du-Lac, Deux-Montagnes RCM, Laurentides, Québec, Canada
57.6km (35.8 miles) Manny zone, Oka, Deux-Montagnes RCM, Laurentides, Québec, Canada
77.3km (48.0 miles) Mont Rigaud, Vaudreuil-Soulanges RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
77.8km (48.3 miles) Saint-André carbonatite complex, Argenteuil RCM, Laurentides, Québec, Canada
99.0km (61.5 miles) Orford Nickel mine, St-Denis-de-Brompton, Le Val-Saint-François RCM, Estrie, Québec, Canada
99.6km (61.9 miles) Autoroute 50 roadcut No. 1, Grenville-sur-la-Rouge, Argenteuil RCM, Laurentides, Québec, Canada
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University 859 Sherbrooke Street West Montreal, Québec, Canada H3A 0C4 peter.tarassoff@mail.mcgill.ca LÁSZLÓ...Heights, Québec, Canada J0P 1J0 laszlo.horvath@sympatico.ca SERANDITE Mont Saint-Hilaire, Montérégie, Québec...Québec, Canada F or many mineral collectors, serandite is synonymous with Mont Saint-Hilaire. This extraordinary...abundance to those from Mont Saint-Hilaire. For this reason a Mont Saint-Hilaire serandite has been chosen...longtime mineral collector with a focus on Mont Saint-Hilaire. He is honorary curator of mineralogy at
Journal (issue)
kristalle.com j* f| E-mail: leicht@kristalle.com w St -L i" " - Editor & Publisher Wendell E. Wilson...Ann Arbor, Ml Andrew C. Roberts Geol. Surv. of Canada Ottawa George W. Robinson Seaman Mineral Museum... Articles Mineralogy of the Saint-Amable Sill, Varennes and Saint-Amable, Q u e b e c .................Pfenninger-Horvath 594 Main Road Hudson, Quebec, Canada JOP 1H0 Robert A. Gault Research Division Canadian...Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K IP 6P4 Peter Tarassoff 91 Lakeshore Road Beaconsfield, Quebec, Canada H9W 4H8 A
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
cope LÁSZLÓ HORVÁTH 594 Main Road Hudson, Quebec Canada J0P 1H0 Downloaded by [University of Chicago Library]...group, was first described from Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada (Chao, Chen, and Baker 1980; Ghose,...catapleiite, natrolite, eudialyte, kentbrooksite, microcline, aegirine, astrophyllite, fluorite, ancylite-(Ce)...contributions to the research on the mineralogy of Mont Saint-Hilaire. He was born in Montreal, Quebec, 11 April...in Egypt and Turkey, he ultimately immigrated to Canada in 1923. Between 1925 and 1928 he worked as a miner
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University 859 Sherbrooke Street West Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 0C4 Well-crystallized dawsonite, a species...the Francon quarry has produced some of the world’s best dawsonite specimens, and Mont Saint-Hilaire has...campus of McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Its full characterization took almost a century...the Francon quarry has produced some of the world’s best dawsonite specimens, and Mont Saint-Hilaire has...chemist and mineralogist to the Geological Survey of Canada. As Harrington was a mineral collector1 as well
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
PHONOLITE, NAMIBIA, MONT SAINT-HILAIRE AND THE SAINT-AMABLE SILL, QUEBEC, CANADA Paula C. PIILONEN§ Research...Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, Ontario K1P 6P4, Canada Andrew M. McDONALD Department of Earth Sciences...Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario P3E 2C6, Canada Joel D. Grice, Ralph ROWE, Robert A. GAULT and...Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, Ontario K1P 6P4, Canada Mark A. COOPER Department of Geological Sciences...University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 2N2, Canada Uwe KOLITSCH Mineralogisch-Petrographische Abt
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 2N2, Canada 2 ABSTR ACT Sazhinite-(La) is a new mineral from...late-stage hydrothermal fluids: natrolite, aegirine, microcline, apophyllite, sphalerite, analcime, fluorite...reported from the Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Québec, Canada * E-mail: camara@crystal.unipv...from the Demix-Varennes quarry, SaintAmable sill, Varennes, Verchéres Co., Québec, Canada (Horváth...Windhoek, Namibia. Samples were collected from a quarry being mined for road and railway ballast. The phonolite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Maine Mineral and Gem Museum, PO Box 500, 99 Main St., Bethel, ME 04217. The garnet line is a primary...2Maine Mineral and Gem Museum, PO Box 500, 99 Main St., Bethel, ME 04217. Potrero Chico, a well-known rock-climbing...24467; 4218 Fairhaven, Hudson, Quebec JOP 1HO, Canada; 5519 Sequoia Dr., Pittsburgh, PA 15236; 6 Canadian...Gatineau, Quebec K2P 2R1, Canada; 732 Rykert Crescent, Toronto, Ontario M4G 2S9, Canada. Rockingham, Augusta...Collections, 3140 CEC, Albany, NY 12230; 2Geology Dept., St. Lawrence University, Canton NY 13617; 3Rensselaer
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
12th St. N., Wisconsin Rapids, WI 54494; 2Maine Mineral and Gem Museum, PO Box 500, 99 Main St., Bethel...Ravine pegmatite on the west side of the old Dehnel quarry (confirmed via EMP [electron microprobe], XRD [X-ray...aegirine from the Summit prospect and the Dehnel quarry consistently contains about 0.9 wt. % Li2O. Arfvedsonite...Li2O, and riebeckite from the Ravine Dike, Dehnel quarry, contains 1.2 wt. % Li2O. Finally, analyses of...Maine Mineral and Gem Museum, PO Box 500, 99 Main St., Bethel, ME 04217. The Havey pegmatite is a gem
Journal (issue)
S. addresses are $30.00 per year; addresses in Canada and Mexico are US$48.00 per year; all other foreign...photographs, handsomely bound and oversewn in two gold-st~mped volumes of royal blue buckram with acid-free...Freiberg, 34-11 :8 p Achalaite: Argenrina, Cordoba, Canada de! Pueno, La Cnlandria. 34-10:6 Adrianire: Mc::...California. Kem, Mojave. Ella. 34-7:l p Amazonite (Microcline): USA. Colorado, Teller. Clystal Peak. 34-7:7...:9 p Clinochlore: Russia. 34--8:10p Coldwellite: Canada, Ontario. Coldwell complex. Marathon. 34-2'7 Concretion:
Book (volume)
29 Mn2+BO2(OH) Locality: Gonzen mine, Sargans, St. Gallen, Switzerland. Description: Pink fibrous aggregate...Strontioginorite (Sr,Ca)2B14O23·8H2O Locality: Kohnstein Quarry, Niedersachswerfen, Nordhausen, Harz, Thuringia...Description: Brown crystals to 1 mm growing on microcline. Low-symmetry variety, space group Pmc21. The...Associated minerals are gonnardite, eudialyte, microcline and aegirine. Low-symmetry variety, space group...Poudrette (Demix) quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Rouville RCM (Rouville Co.), Montérégie, Québec, Canada (type
Book (edition)
(Switzerland). Daniel Atcncio (Brazil). Malcolm Back (Canada), Henry L. Barwood (USA). Dmitriy Belakovskiy (Russia)...Burke (Netherlands), L.J. Cabri (Canada). Anton R. Chakhmouradian (Canada), Pierre-Jacques Chiappero (France)...Ercit (Canada). Alexander Falster (USA). Jeffrey de Fourestier (Canada). Robert Gault (Canada), Joel...Joel D. Grice (Canada). L.A. Groat (Canada). Alessandro Guastoni (Italy), William A. Henderson. Jr. (USA)...(USA). D.D. Hogarth (Canada). J.L. Jam bor (Canada), Anthony R. Kampf (USA). Pave! M. Kartashov (Russia)
Book (edition)
All rights reserved. Published simultaneously in Canada. Reproduction or translation or any part of this...compelation of the American Geological Institute, 4220 King St., Alexandria, VA, 22302-1502. However, without the...Ercit: Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Richard C. Erd: U.S.G.S., Menlo Park, California...INFORMATION The United States, from east to west Canada Mexico Central America and the Caribbean Greenland...Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming WA WV WI WY Provinces, Canada AB Alberta BC British Columbia NF Labrador (part
 
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