 | | Report (issue) | | Price 75 cents 1963 GEOLOGICAL SUR VEY CANADA OF CANADA PAPER 63-18 ROCKS AND MINERALS FOR THE COLLECTOR:... DEPARTMENT MINES AND OF TECHNICAL SURVEYS CANADA - i - CONTENTS Page Introduction . . . . ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Falcon gold mine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . McMillan Mine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Massey mine .. .. . . . . . . . ..... ... .. . . . . . . . |  | | Report (issue) | | Energy, Mines and Resources Canada E:nergie, Mines et Ressourees Canada Canada THE ENERGY OF OUR RESOURCES...POWER OF OUR IDEAS COVER Left: Amethyst - Thunder Bay, Ontario. Specimen measures 4.5 cm across the base...no. 17206. GSC 204971-1 Geological Survey of Canada Miscellaneous Report 49 ROCKS AND MINERALS FOR... © Minister of Supply and Services Canada 1991 Available in Canada through authorized bookstore agents...bookstores or by mail from Canada Communication Group - Publishing Ottawa, Canada KIA OS9 and from. Geological |  | | Report (issue) | | GOVERN YOUR USE OF THIS DOCUMENT Your use of this Ontario Geological Survey document (the “Content”) is governed... copyright is held by the Queen’s Printer for Ontario. It is recommended that reference to the Content... . ; Ontario Geological Survey, ...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 |  | | Report (issue) | | The following analysis of "chrome ore" from Wood's mine by Garrett (1852: 45) lies may be taken as an example...C. Cooke, Gabbros of East Sooke and Rock Point: Canada Dept. Mines C. F. Tolman, Jr., and Austin F. Rogers...and Chester Counties, at Wood's mine, the Line Pit, and Scott's mine. At a number of lite, ; localities...rare-earth: zircon, titanite; Phosphates: Fluorides: fluorite; Oxides: rutile, andradite, wernerite; micas:...siderite, rhodochrosite; Sulfates: barite; Fluorides: fluorite. Gold Minerals PRIMARY: Elements: gold; Tellurides: |  | | Report (Issue volume) | | ieod ad 11tt~ e~ i# {1anada Volume II ONTARIO and QUEBEC Ann P. Sabina MISCELLANEOUS REPORT 8 Issued...Issued by THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA Department of Mines and Technical Surveys, Ottawa $1.65 © Crown...Queen's Printer, Ottawa, the Geological Survey of Canada, 601 Booth St., Ottawa, and at the following Canadian...available for reference in public libraries across Canada. Price $ l.65 Catalogue No . M41-8 / 8-2 Price...Queen's Printer and Controller of Stationery Ottawa, Canada 1964 Page • INTRODUCTION 2 • A note on Canadian |  | | Book | | acknowledges with thanks the Canada Council for the Arts. and the Ontario Arts Council for their support...acknowledge the financial suppo1t of the Government of Canada through the Book Pubbshing lndus!Jy Development...publishing activities. Canada Council for the Arts Conseil des Arts du Canada PA ONTARIO ARTS COUNCIL JI-I\...CONSEIL DES ARTS DE L'ONTARIO Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Grice, Joel Beginner's...Key How to Tdentify a Rock Geological Regions of Canada 6 6 6 7 7 8 10 11 12 13 14 Metallic Minerals |  | | Report (issue) | | PAPER 69-45 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY, MINES AND RESOURCES A CATALOGUE OF...MINERALS R. J. Traill ' GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA CANADA PAPER 69-45 A CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN MINERALS...n's Printer, Ottawa from the Geological Survey of Canada 601 Booth St., Ottawa and Canadian Government bookshops...to change without notic e Queen ' s Printer for Canada Ottawa 1970 A CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN MINERALS...has elapsed since T . Sterry Hunt in Geology of Canada, 1863 , presented the first descriptive list of |  | | Book | | enOLOGIOAT SURVEY OF CANADA. AALFRED R C.SELWYN, C. M. G., LL.D. F.RS., Director GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...17 20 v1 GEOLOGICAL TABLE OF SURVEY OF CANADA. CONTENTS— Continued. OXYGEN saLTs—Continued... TABLE METALS oe AND OF THEIR SURVEY OF CANADA. CONTENTS—Continued. ORES—Continued. . Tron...and silver ores—above). Silver ores from the Thunder Bay mining region, Lake: Superior) Ontapioas aah...sory wb AS 113 SURVEY GEOLOGICAL MINERALS CANADA. CONTENTS—Continued. OF TABLE OF AND TO COMMON |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | lecturing to the group on the site of the Levant mine. JANUARY/FEBRUARY 1985 21 Figure 4: Leroy Vargas...Phil Scalisi. at Crown, containing the "Black Prince's R u b y " (a ruby spinel), a 2-inch uncut stone...India, has been known since 1304, and the Black Prince's Ruby has been known since 1367. J U N E 26: Tuesday...see drawer after drawer of superb specimens of fluorite, calcite, bournonite, liroconite, and others....College. the at Figure 5: Bournonite, Herodsfoot mine, Liskeard, Corn wall, England. Specimen is 3 by |  | | Book (edition) | | a thou- sand localities in the United States, Canada, and Mexico where gems have been and can be found...Indian legend about God grew seems that the Thunder the rainbow. Maddened, he struck fragments of...Maine and Florida. Still others are to be found in Canada and Mexico. What you cannot collect in person you...length and at right angles to one another. Cubic fluorite, octahedral diamond, and trisoctahedral garnet...flame will color the flame How to identify Fluorite (calcium fluoride) gem minerals / when heated |  | | Journal (issue) | | Quartz. 4 x 2 ½ x 2. • . • • • . 4.00 Niccolite, Ontario. Intimate mixture w. Smaltite. 3 x 2 ½ . . . ....in specimen 4 x 2 ½ x 2. . • • • • • • • 6.00 Fluorite, Cumberland. Very fine lilac & yellow banded twin...Famous Mineral Localities (Renfrew County, Ont., Canada)", by Jerome M. Eisenberg; "Ao Alaskan gold deposit'...which was found in 1881 at Chilkoot Inlet, Portage Bay. Ir consisted of one mass (iron) of 43 kgs {94.6...second known meteorite, Cold Bay, was found in June, 1921, at Cold Bay, on the Alaskan Peninsula. It |  | | Book (edition) | | permission of the publisher. Published simultaneously in Canada by Fitzhenry & Whiteside Limited, Toronto. Manufactured...to Maine and Florida. Still others are found in Canada and Mexico. Every state, as a glance at the list...Gypsum 7. Quartz 3. Calcite 8. Topaz 4. Fluorite 9. Corundum 5. Apatite 1. 10. Diamond ...length and at right angles to one another. Cubic fluorite, octahedral diamond, and trapezohedral garnet...in the same system, takes a barrel-like shape; fluorite is almost always a cube, while diamond is more |  | | Book | | Ian Coulson, University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada . NOTE The author and publishers have made every...'dogtooth spar' calcite (left centre), 'blue john' fluorite (right centre) and pyrite (bottom), also known...out of the water first. , .2.t'l UNDERSTAN DING MINE RALS HOVV MINERALS FORM Minerals are the natural...variety of interesting silicate minerals. Above: Fluorite 1s one of many m inerals that form as hot hydrothermal...dodecanedrons. E.g. Galena, halite, silver, gold, fluorite, pyrite (shown), garnet, spinel, magnetite, copper |  | | Book (edition) | | revision of the list of cal Survey. localities in Ontario and Quebec. JAMES D. DANA. NEW HAVEN, Dec. 15...directions parallel to the faces of the cube ; in fluorite (p. 227), in four directions parallel to the faces...striations in Fig. 64. Octahedral crystals of fluorite often occur with the faces made up of evenly projecting...across a mineral, it is impressed as easily as fluorite, the hardness is said to be 4; if as easily as... as experiment has ascertained, is 1-335 ; of fluorite, 1-434; of rock-salt, T557 ; of spinel, 1*764; |  | | Book (edition) | | Cerussite 200 Prehnite 188 Chrysocolla 200 Fluorite 198 Cassiterite Petalite Serpentine 202 188...stone above "Cullinan II." is the so-called "Black Prince's Ruby." Once thought to be a ruby, it is, in fact...jade 12 Correct Mineralogical Almandine Green fluorite Rock crystal Green vesuvian Name American ruby...Kunzite Fabulite Emerald Greenockite Jeremejewite Fluorite Milarite Celestite Legrandite Malachite Mesolite...fingernail Can be scratched with copper coin 4 Fluorite Easily 5 Apatite Orthoclase Can be scratched |  | | Book | | or iodine) combined with a metal or semimetal. Fluorite is fluorine and calcium combined. Hydroxides...a metal. In diaspore, aluminum is the metal. FLUORITE DIASPORE Carbonates The carbonate radical, carbon...definition of ruby. One such example is the Black Prince's “Ruby” in the British crown jewels, which is actually...FELDSPAR (6-67) GYPSUM (2) : = CALCITE (3) FLUORITE (4) QUARTZ (7) BERYL (7%-8) Mohs scale of hardness...(pyrite) will feel “heavy.” , | pyritohedron FLUORITE PYRITE x | CLEAVAGE gems have cleavages |  | | Report (issue) | | …………………………………18 2 Chalcopyrite crystals from the San Pedro mine ……………………………......33 0 PLATES 1. Topographic map...Pedro mine ……………………………….....31 10.Unusually large chalcopyrite crystal from the San Pedro mine ……………...and contact metasomatic deposits. The San Pedro mine has been the most important and has produced more...partly within the Ortiz Mine Grant and entirely within the New Placers mining district. The mountains lie...droppings indicate that they often sleep in abandoned mine tunnels. Unfortunately, rattlesnakes are numerous |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | specimens in the Pinch collection, such as this fluorite and dolomite specimen from Penfield quarry, near...Golden brown barite crystals, Villamassargia, near mine, Guanajuato, Mexico (8.5 cm). Iglesias, Sardinia...Enna, Sicily (6 cm). West 800 Level, White Capps mine, Man- 11: Dark grey stibnite crystals, (variety...Figure 16: Light purple fluorite crystals on grey galena crystals, Elmwood mine, Carthage, Tennessee (5... dark blue-green vivianite crystals, Montserrat mine, Pazna, Bolivia (12 cm). Figure Figure 19: Transparent |  | | Book (edition) | | sphene 194, kyanite, scheelite, variscite 196, fluorite, hemimorphite, smithsonite 198, sphalerite, cerussite... The English Imperial State Crown with the Black Prince's Ruby and the sparkling Cullinan ll. Terminology...after Mount Vesuvius in Italy) are found today in Canada, the U.S. and Russia. Because of this drawback...Almandine Andradite Chromite Cuprite Demantoid Diamond Fluorite Gahnite Garnet Gold Grossular Hauynite Hessonite...Cutting hardness (Rosiwal) Talc Gypsum Calcite Fluorite Apatite Orthoclase Quartz Topaz Corundum Diamond |  | | Book (edition) | | Macmillan of Canada Canada Publishing Corporation 164 Commander Boulevard Agincourt, Ontario MIS 3C7, Canada...Canada Division of 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication...3. Calcite 7. Quartz Corundum Diamond 4. Fluorite 10. may be both hard and brittle, as in the...natural or synthetic but also to indicate the very mine from which it came! Inclusions are the most powerful...Royal Ontario Canada) Academy of Sciences (San Francisco) Museums of Canada (Ottawa, Ontario) California |  | | Book (edition) | | New York, N.Y. 10020 Published simultaneously in Canada by Van Nostrand Reinhold Ltd. 15 14 13 12 II 10...2. Gypsum 6. Feldspar 3. Calcite 7. Quartz 4. Fluorite 8. Topaz In reality, diamond is very much harder...natural or synthetic. but. also to indicate the very mine f ram which it came! I nclusions are the most powerful... Alberta. Canada); AMNH: American Museum of Natural History(New York); ROM : Royal Ontario Museum (Toronto...(Toronto, Ontario, Canada); PC: Private Collection. STONE SIZES This section of the book will, perhaps |  | | Journal (issue) | | famous spinels, such as the Timur Ruby and Black Prince's Ruby, possibly originated there. The second part...mines is on the right bank of the Oxus, in the district of Ish Kashrn and on the borders of SHIGNAN, the...RUBY Persian: lot; HINDU: manik? or lal. T h e mine of this gem was not discovered until after a sudden...it remains today (Yevdokimov, 1991). The Black Prince's Ruby is perhaps the most famous balas ruby in...Ranjit Singh, the 'Lion of the Fig. 4. The Black Prince's Ruby, a historic red spinel set in the Imperial |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Britton reported a successful field meeting at Prince's Bay, 8. I., on April 25th, it being the first of...hornblende, titanite, zircon, apatite and primary fluorite. This composition allies the rock closely to the |  | | Book | | citrine, calcite, rhodochrosite, kunzite, and fluorite; varying from 14. 91. to 454 cts. W H A T...MoHs HARDNESS 1 Talc 2 Gypsum 3 Calcite 4 Fluorite SCALE '. 5 Apatite 6 Orthoclase 7 Quartz...and the Agnes Sorel, the mistress of , Kimberley mine began proKing Charles VII (1422-1450) duction in...place in rough dian1ond output. The giant Premier Mine has yielded many of the finest and most famous of...1496, but indirect evidence suggests 1nuch earlier mine operation. The m ines' p resent output is limited |  | | Journal (issue) | | datolite dickite dolomite epidote florencite fluorite galena galenobismutite garnet goethite gold graphite...paragenesis with chlorite, apatite, titanite, fluorite, aid kainosite. Representatives of the tungstate...tremolite-asbestos, adularia, epidote, apophyllite, fluorite, apatite, datolite, titanite, and calcite. Axinite...mineralogical department of St. Petersburg University. The prince's passion for the natural sciences influenced his...Academy of Arts, which he remained until 1872. The prince's accomplishments include illustrations to books |
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