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Calcite from
Ontario Gem Mine, McTavish Township, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Calcite
Formula:CaCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Fluorite3 photos of Calcite associated with Fluorite at this locality.
Quartz3 photos of Calcite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Baryte2 photos of Calcite associated with Baryte at this locality.
Galena1 photo of Calcite associated with Galena at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Calcite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Ontario Gem Mine, McTavish Township, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:357484
Long-form Identifier:1:3:357484:3
GUID (UUID V4):63da8a48-ce95-4a68-a0cb-0ed6b05b4e80
Nearest other occurrences of Calcite
2.0km (1.2 miles) Dorion Amethyst Mine, Mineral Lot A, McTavish Township, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada
3.6km (2.2 miles) Enterprise Mine, McTavish Township, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada
6.7km (4.2 miles) Detroit-Algoma Mine, McTavish Township, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada
10.5km (6.5 miles) Thunder Bay Amethyst Mine, McTavish Township, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada
35.3km (21.9 miles) Silver Harbour Mine (Beck Mine; Three A Mine; 3 A), MacGregor Township, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada
37.8km (23.5 miles) Barite Occurrence, Porphyry Island, Porphyry Island Township, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada
37.9km (23.5 miles) Arsenic occurrence (Cross Property), Edward Island, Porphyry Island Township, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada
44.8km (27.8 miles) Silver Islet mine, Silver Islet, Sibley Township, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada
46.9km (29.1 miles) St. Ignace Island area, St.Ignace Island Area, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada
47.5km (29.5 miles) McNamara quarry, MacGregor Township, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the AMETHYST MINES in the Thunder Bay Area Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada Figure 1 View of the North...North Shore of Lake Superior in Thunder Bay from Amethyst Harbour. DANIEL E. KILE 5176 Black Bear Run Littleton...subsurface inclusions of hematite from the Thunder Bay Amethyst mine, collected in 1978. Specimen 14.4 cm wide...town of Thunder Bay and nearby mines; map prepared by William Besse. T he Thunder Bay district in Ontario...Ontario, Canada, is noted for spectacular amethyst clusters that are often distinctive due to microscopic
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
Journal (issue)
New York Articles Amethyst from the Thunder Bay region, Ontario .......................................Donald Elliott at the Diamond Willow mine near Thunder Bay, Ontario. Photo by Harold and Erica Van Pelt...Leicestershire LE7 7Qb Canada: Mrs. J. W. Peat 36 Deepwood Crescent Don Mills, Ontario M3C 1N8 South Africa:...paid at Bowie, Maryland One of the World’s Great Gem and Crystal Collections for sale by owner This collection...featured at the Munich, Germany, and Tucson, Arizona, Gem and Mineral Shows; specimens have been illustrated
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Amethyst Deposits of the Thunder Bay Area, Ontario, Canada DANIEL E . KILE 333 Salem Street Aurora,...Colorado 80011 T H E T H U N D E R BAY REGION IN ONTARIO PROV­ I N C E , Canada, has long been noted as a source...approximately 35 miles northeast of the city of Thunder Bay. Access is from Highway 11-17, which follows...Background Figure 1: Overview of the Thunder Bay Amethyst mine quarry in 1982. Elbow Lake is in the background...dezvous. A noteworthy point of interest in the Thunder Bay area is the excellent reconstruction of this
Book (volume)
Ramona, California; brownish yellow octagonal calcite (21.30 ct), Montana; light yellow orthoclase feldspar...cushion cut rhodochrosite (25.56 ct), Sweet Home Mine, Colorado; colorless scheelite (19.66 ct), Kern... His works are known to almost every collector, gem cutter, gemologist, and mineralogist. His writings...newer events to bring the history of North American gem mining up to date. Here, then, is the latest, most...promising diamond fields being vigorously explored in Canada and the United States. Experts agree that in several
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
from Canada Downloaded by [Florida International University] at 19:52 23 August 2013 C anada is home...from emerald to sapphire, Canada has it all. Yet, for most of its history, Canada has been regarded as a...producing gem rough, most major gem species have been found at one time or another in Canada (fig. 1)...1). Some gem localities, such as those for amethyst from Nova Scotia and Ontario, have been known for centuries...sapphire in Nunavut, emerald in the Yukon and Ontario, and peridot, topaz, and aquamarine in British
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........................ Tilly Foster magnetite mine near Brewster, Putnam County......................of Jefferson and St. Lawrence Counties.. Sterling mine, near Antwerp, Jefferson County............................................ Hematite mines near Ontario, Wayne County.................. Lead-Zinc Mines...................................... Rossie lead mine, St. Lawrence County.................................. Balmat-Edwards zinc district, St. Lawrence County......... Garnet mine of Gore Mountain, Warren
Book
farm above Keuka Lake in New York's Finger Lakes district. After attending Penn Yan Academy in nearby Penn......................... . Tilly Foster magnetite mine near Brewster, Putnam County .....................Jefferson and St. Lawrence Counties .. Sterling mine, near Antwerp, Jefferson County ......... . Clinton.......................... . Hematite mines near Ontario, Wayne County ........... • Lead-Zinc Mines . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rossie lead mine, St. Lawrence County . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Book (edition)
occurrences in the United States (nearly all localities), Canada, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Uganda, Tanganyika, Nyasaland...Description of Carbonatites of the World United States Canada Brazil Greenland, Europe, and the U.S.S.R. Africa...Geological Survey and H. von Eckermann (1948A) : Ontario Department of Mines and G. E. Parsons (1961)...Geological Survey and H. von Eckermann (1948A) : Ontario Department of Mines and G. E. Parsons (1961) :...Figure 12-9 : Ontario Department of Mines and G. E. Parsons (1961) Figure 12-10 : Ontario Department of
Report (volume)
Devonian development diagram Direcci6n Dissertation district distribution division Doctoral, Document Doctoral...Topog.------- Topographic, etc. Tp.__-.-__-._ Township BIBLIOGRAPHY OF NORTH AMERICAN GEOLOGY, 1946...Brunswick. Agricultural and Industrial Progress in Canada vols. 25, nos. 1, 3, 4, 6-10, 12; 26, nos. 3, 5...Berkeley, Calif. Canada Bureau of Mines Memorandum Series 90, 91. Ottawa, Canada. Canada Department of Mines...Reports, years ending 3/31/45 and 3/31/46. Ottawa, Canada. Canada'Geological Survey: Bulletin nos. 3-8; Economic
Journal (issue)
Journal of Gemmology The Gemmological Association and Gem Testing Laboratory of Great Britain President E...BSc., FCA, DCA The Gemmological Association and Gem Testing Laboratory of Great Britain 27 Greville Street...yield more gems from different localities, thirteen gem species are recorded here as stars or cat'seyes....materials science is of growing influence in the gem market and if it is not laser development or space...gemmological. R.R.H. © Gemmological Association and Gem Testing Laboratory of Great Britain ISSN: 1355-4565
Journal (issue)
accumulated in 1966, when the team from the Royal Ontario Museum m a d e their protracted study of the Crown...(September 1975) By KENNETH SCARRATT, F.G.A. The Gem Testing Laboratory London Chamber of Commerce and...at angles reminiscent of amphibole, pyroxene or calcite cleavage traces. T h e latest white opals (obtained...co-operation of our colleagues in the Institute and at the Gem Testing Laboratory during this work. W e are particularly...Synthetic Opals. Aust. Gem., X I I , (6), 179-180. 76 J. Gemm., 1976, XV, 2 ON GEM RHODONITE FROM MASSACHUSETTS
Journal (issue)
Change William E. Boyajian FEATURE ARTICLES 292 Gem Localities of the 1990s James E. Shigley, Dona M...Includes a wall chart and comprehensive tables of gem localities. 336 Gemstone Enhancement and Detection...pressing need to identify them. 360 Synthetic Gem Materials and Simulants in the 1990s John I. Koivula...Analyzes an entire decade of activity in the synthetic gem industry, as well as the introduction of new simulants... Editors, Gem Trade Lab Notes Thomas M. Moses Ilene Reinitz Shane F. McClure Editors, Gem News Mary L
 
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