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Calcite from
Black Rock, Truro, Colchester Co., Nova Scotia, Canada


Classification
Species:Calcite
Formula:CaCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Calcite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Black Rock, Truro, Colchester Co., Nova Scotia, Canada
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:312414
Long-form Identifier:1:3:312414:7
GUID (UUID V4):4f22536a-901c-421c-b3e7-84cf8550aa42
Nearest other occurrences of Calcite
20.8km (12.9 miles) Londonderry mines (Acadia mines), Colchester Co., Nova Scotia, Canada
28.9km (18.0 miles) Wentworth plutonic complex, Cumberland Co., Nova Scotia, Canada
33.4km (20.8 miles) Tennycape mine (Teny Cape mine), Hants Co., Nova Scotia, Canada
33.7km (21.0 miles) Gays River deposit, Hants Co., Nova Scotia, Canada
33.8km (21.0 miles) Economy, Colchester Co., Nova Scotia, Canada
34.3km (21.3 miles) West Gore, Hants Co., Nova Scotia, Canada
35.5km (22.1 miles) West Gore mine, West Gore, Hants Co., Nova Scotia, Canada
36.3km (22.6 miles) Tennecape (Tenecape; Tennycape; Teny Cape), Hants Co., Nova Scotia, Canada
36.5km (22.7 miles) Renfrew gold district, Hants Co., Nova Scotia, Canada
42.0km (26.1 miles) Whale Cove, Walton, Hants Co., Nova Scotia, Canada
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
Survey of Canada Popular Geoscience 97 Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia; South Shore, Nova Scotia...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...(Na4TiZr2O4(CO3)4), which was named in her honour. She was also co-founder of the Canadian Gemmological Association...treasurer for the Mineralogical Association of Canada. After her retirement in the late 1990s, Ann continued
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
WaltonCu-Pb-Zn-Ag-Ba Deposit, Nova Scotia, Canada D. F. SANGSTER, Lø Geological Surveyof Canada,601 BoothStreet,Ottawa...M. D. BUnTT, P.O. Box 156 North Gower, Ontario, Canada KOA 2TO ANDD. J. KONTAK NovaScotiaDepartment of...HantsCounty, hadbeenconducted ontheWaltondeposit since Nova Scotia, about 70 km northwest of Halifax and 3.5 km...parameters of largestproducer of groundbaritein Canada(Boyleand (Sangster andSavard,1998). Jambor, 1966)...Thestudycommineralization within basal Windsor carbonates of Nova Sco- 840analyses of geology basedondrillintertia
Report (Issue volume)
Volume III NEW BRUNSWICK NOVA SCOTIA PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND NEWFOUNDLAND Ann P. Sabina MISCELLANEOUS...MISCELLANEOUS REPORT 8 Issued by THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA Department of Energy, Mines and Resources, Ottawa...mail from information Canada, Ottawa, and at the following information Canada bookshops: HALIFAX i 735...Care of specimens 6 • Collecting in Canada 6 • Mineral and rock sets 7 • Abbreviations used in references...references 11 • NEW BRUNSWICK 31 • NOV A SCOTIA and PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND 67 • NEWFOUNDLAND 89 e APPENDICES
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
DESCRIPTIVEGEOLOGY Stratigraphy Grand Manan Split Rock Quaco Martin Head Waterside Advocate Harbour Cape...POWERS PART II Gerrish Mountain Gerrish Mountain-Truro Truro-Wolfville Wolfville-Scots Bay Scots Bay-Bennetts...extends from the southwest end of Grand Manan to Truro, a distance of 195 miles. The width of the Bay of...the Nova Scotia shore, the Triassic appears: in New Brunswick on Grand Manan Island, at Split Rock (Gardner's...Creek), Quaco, Martin Head, and Waterside; in Nova Scotia on the island of Isle Haute, and in a quite continuous
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
KennetcookSub-basin,Nova Scotia,Canada* MARTINEM. SAVARD, • Geological Surveyof Canada-Quebec, CentreG•oscientifique...CanadaGIV 4C7 D. F. SANGSTER, Geological Surveyof Canada,601BoothStreet,Ottawa,Ontario,CanadaKiA OE8 AND...MARTIN D. BURTT Box 156, North Gower, Ontario, Canada KOA 2TO Abstract Although sideritized limestone...TheWaltondeposit wasthelargestmineof groundbaritein Canada, producing approximately 4.5 million metrictons(Mt)...limestone. It wasthe largestgroundbariteminein Canada, continental in some cases, as a product of burialdiagenesis
Report (issue)
Queen's Printer, Ottawa, from Geological Survey of Canada, 601 Booth St., Ottawa, and at the following Canadian...available for reference in public libraries across Canada Price 75 cents Catalogue No. ~44.64110 Price...Queen's Printer and Controller of Stationery Ottawa, Canada 1964 CONTENTS Page ...........................Introduction Section 1: St . 1 4 . Stephen .Nova Scotia B o r d e r ............................... ...d e p o s i t 'Black granite' q u a r r y Grand M a n a n I s l a n d Atlantic Black Granite Company
Book (edition)
mm :a) SCO CO 1^«3» |r#« ACAD I AN GEOLOOy THE GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURE, OliGANIC KEMAINS, NOYA...NOYA SCOTIA, NEW AND MINERAL RESOURCES BRUNSWICK, AND PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND. JOHN WILLIAM DAWSON,...M I L L A N AND ITonbon: M EDINBURGH HALIFAX : CO. OLIVER AND BOYD. MONTREAL DAWSON BROTHERS. NEW...Geology of the Maritime Provinces of the Dominion of Canada and thus the book has been, requirements of the...peculiarities Nova in Devonian periods, many examples. the nature and age of the Auriferous Scotia. The
Catalog/List
thick hair like growths on matrix associated with calcite, hemimorphite and other minerals: 1 to 2 inch specimens:...radiating acicular and botryoidal crystals with calcite on limonite: 1X1 to 2X2 inch specimens: $2.00 each...blue crystals on hemimorphite, smithsonite and calcite. From one of the worlds finest locations, very...Institute and often are associated with minor epidote, calcite, specular hematite and other minerals. This locality...Priced at $15.00 each and in very limited supply. CALCITE - BISBEE: Southwest Mine, Cochise County, Bisbee
Report (issue)
AND MINERALS FOR THE COLLECTOR: NORTHEASTERN NOVA SCOTIA, CAPE BRETON, AND PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND (Report...SURVEY OF CANADA PAPER 65-10 ROCKS AND MINERALS FOR THE COLLECTOR: NORTHEASTERN NOVA SCOTIA, CAPE BRETON...Queen's Printer, Ottawa, from Geological Survey of Canada, 601 Booth St., Ottawa, and at the following Canadian...available for reference in public libraries across Canada Price 75 cents Cat. No. M44-65/10 Price ,yubject...Queen's Printer and Controller of Stationery Ottawa, Canada 1965 - iii ' - CONTENTS Page Abstract . . .
Book (edition)
couleur Coloured ink (i.e. other than blue or black)/ Encre de couleur (i.e. autre que bleue ou noire)...aenerositv of: Library of the Public Archives of Canada itails i L'exemplaire film6 fut reproduit grdce...de: La bibliothdque des Archives publiques du Canada du odifier une mage The images appearing here... ORGANIC REMAINS, k^^ MINERAL RESOURCES OK NOVA SCOTIA, NEW BRUNSWICK, AND PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND...ILLUSTRATIONS. MACMILLAN AND EDINBURGH HALIFAX: A. CO. OLIVER AND BOYD, TWEEDDALE COURT. AND W. MACKINLAY
Report (issue)
Recent development of manganese deposits in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick----------Comparison of the...the veins of the Maritime Provinces of Canada with those of the Southwestern United States --------------Areas...Maritime Provinces of Canada -----3. Spectrographic analyses of hollandite from the Black Canyon (Gianera)...explorations of a manganese-bearing vein of barite in Nova Scotia fortify these speculations. In ordertotest this...contain veins of black calcite, which is calcite containing several percent of dispersed black manganese oxides
Report (issue)
' Native gold, Goldenville Mine, Sherbrooke, Nova Scotia. Specimen measures 18 mm from top to bottom....Arsenopyrite crystal, Goldenville Mine, Sherbrooke, Nova Scotia. Crystal measures ! 6 mm from top to bottom....Photo by H. Gary Ansell. Geological Survey of Canada Miscellaneous Report 51 ROCKS AND MINERALS FOR...FOR THE COLLECTOR ., '1'· Northeastern Nova Scotia~~·Cape Breton Island, and Prince Edward Island Ann...Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources Canada 1994 Available in Canada through authorized bookstore agents
Report (volume)
Geological Survey, Federal Center, Box 25425, Denver, CO 80225 CONTENTS Page Abstract....................of the Fundy basin at Maces Bay, St. Martins, Nova Scotia, and Chedabucto Bay. . . . . . . . . . . . ....Mesozoic age, which extends from South Carolina to Nova Scotia and follows the grain of the Appalachian Mountains...extend discontinuously from South Carolina to Nova Scotia and are oriented parallel to the Appalachian...Fundy basin, New BrunswickNova Scotia 30. Chedabucto Bay, Nova Scotia I \ \ ( 100 100 FIGURE 200
Catalog/List
including our regular jobs, home remodelling, the summer rock show schedule and other things, that It has been...Pebble Peddler workshop, and It is stuffed full of rock, mineral and fossil specimens. To make life easier...each silvery M.§ENOPYRITE: Wine Harbor, Nova Scotia, Canada: from a for�er gold �ine, th�se are very_...QUARTZ: Moose Point, Nova Scotia, Canada; Attractive groupings of shiny bright black crystalline hematite...only $3.00 each. HETEROSITE: Black Hills, South Dakota: A find from a Black HIiis Miner: deep lustrous
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...Concluding division..........+.s++++) 26, 33 ees ek. aes Co Rivama-silicates .jaettouke 26 apeieeeeeeele ee ¢... TABLE METALS oe AND OF THEIR SURVEY OF CANADA. CONTENTS—Continued. ORES—Continued. . Tron...105 105 tate a 105 Bituminous shale and sand-rock.......-....... PATS eRbL Late tuted ait Meta G Sich
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
investigationof manganeseoccurrencesin the Maritime Provinces,Canada. • Complementary to the main text of this paperthereis...permissionoœthe Director oœthe GeologicalSurveyof Canada. • Doctoratethesis,Massachusetts •rnstituteof Technology...etchesblack. Producesexcessive etching. Washesand rubs to black deeplyetchedsurface. FeCl•--similarto SnCI• but...blue tinge. Hardness--very hard. Streak--black or a brownish black. Powder slightly magnetic. HC1 (dil....denseore showingconcentriclayersof varying shadesof black; here and there minute veinletsand specksof crystallineore
Catalog/List
Magnet Co1Je 1 Arkansas: Nice quality lustrous black brooklte crystals as eingfe dipyramidal crystals...plastic perky boxes: $3.00 each BROWN DOG-TOOTHED CALCITE: Chihuahua. Mexico: I Know, there's a lot of thla...GARNET CALCITE: Chihuahua, Mexico: OK, I know what you are thinking, what the heck la "Garnet Calcite"? My...what they really are is specimens of near total calcite twinning • The cofor Is clear to dark brown, and...fluorescent sections (orange) LARGE COMBINATION CALCITE: Chihuahua, Mexico: Another one I just couldn't
Book
@ ’ ay AY t Se AM ; , fu ‘ ) ; ‘ CANADA DEPARTMENT OF Hon. ALBERT SEvicNy, AcTING Minister;...MINES PH.D., DIRECTOR. Occurrences Eis in ; Canada ‘IN TWO VOLUMES COMPILED Ww BY E. Lindeman,...Brunswick— BEE OERUR EET ELLITICS te hr a, Veg Nova Scotia— Nueechon Kano Wartime miinesamerie SUPPLEMENT...Utilized in Canada during the Years 1887-1916,” read, Iron Ore Produced, Utilized in Canada, 1887-1916...” 68 — line 24 from top, read, Ennis & Co., not “Ennison Co?’ 69 — 69 — 0 — 69 orem » 3 » » » ~~
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
manganitealso forms by super- many). In hypogeneveins in Nova Scotia,lar[ genealterationof suchmineralsas rhodochrosite...1, DFH-284. wMe. See sp•ctrographic Fro. 2. Black areas are aggregatesof small crystals • manganite...rhodochrosite wi• drusy cavities, New Ross mine, Lunenburg, Nova Scoti The specimen is ten centimeters wide. Spectrograph...well-terminated crystals are Cove mine, Hants, Nova Scotia (Fig. 5); and the vein depositsof the Batesville...knowledge, the forms fine-graineddark brown to black masses. The largest crystalsknown in the United
Journal (volume)
RAND DRILL THE CANADIAN SHEEBEOOKE, QUE., C^.3ST^3D^Rock Working Machinery than has ever heen Hade DUPLEX...WITH POSITIVE MOTION AIR VALVES. 14 x 22 in Canada. STEAM AIR COMPRESSOR. The fourth Machine of...BALBACH MANUFACTURERS OF DRILLS, SMELTING STEAM ROCK Manufacture IIOISTINU ENGINES, GUNPOWDER, EDWARD...distributing points in Canada. all ING-EHSOLL HOCK DRILL BACON'S REVERSIBLE CO., N. J. Buena Pe Sampling...Liberty Street, New JENCKES MACHINE CO., for the Dominion Canada. Slierbrooke, Que,, Manufacturers Reterences-G
Report (volume)
.......................................... 168 Canada......................................................................................... 169 Nova Scotia................................................K,Ba)0. nH20; orH4Mn08) is a bluish or grayish-black mineral occurring in the amorphous form with a tendency...generally containing a little H20) is a grayish-black to black mineral with crystalline or granular structure...MnSi03) is a heavy, shiny, brownish or grayish-black mineral, either massive or crystalline, but generally
Report (volume)
from the region beyond Maine to the east. In Nova Scotia the Arisaig and Nictaux series present -another...problem. Hitchcock, Shaler, and others, and, in Canada, Billings, Bailey, Mclnnes, Ells, and Ami, have...and those described from the eastern provinces of Canada, and also as a means of comparing the American...referred to in Parts I, II, and III. The small black rectangle in the midst of the shaded area is the...far as we have observed them. The belts of similar rock have a general northeastsouthwest trend. The Aroostook
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
structure cleaner in line and, like the Bank of Nova Scotia, often employing colourful, highly polished panels...buildings have introduced quite exotic and exciting rock types to the fabric of urban areas. overturning...effectively identify the rock as DE 226 E R IC R OBI N SO N Bank of No"," Scotia Haw Stod< Ex Eoqle Star... Banca Nazio,!:" &ulldln9 Co-~roti~ Ila"k 1~·lo Lavor.. UnIOn Di«ount Co~ nlan Bu ild'"q) N..ti onol...stmmster c.erhnCj Glabol Rc &ank (Co,"";II) Trust... SoY . Insurance Co 0 t.5 0 ~nk ,n9" 0 Cornh.1I
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
gold in them thar hills'. Since I have become a rock hound, and one of the kind that likes to explore...of the other minerals of Alabama to aid visiting rock hounds to our state."—letter from James Miller Davis...specimen is a pale grayish-green diopside. Tiny black spots on it are manganese oxide. ARIZONA—"Recently...Sacaton Mountains, 10 miles north of Casa Grande (Pinal Co.), Ariz. The corundum deposit is a small lens in...with the corundum. It occurs as reddish brown to black anhedra up to half inch in length. The poorly formed
 
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