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Dickite from
Francon quarry, Montréal, Québec, Canada


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Dickite
Formula:Al2(Si2O5)(OH)4
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Dickite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Francon quarry, Montréal, Québec, Canada
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:357731
Long-form Identifier:1:3:357731:8
GUID (UUID V4):405de57a-0a9d-4527-ae1d-36012f0ff813
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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)
tamarugite(?), thenardite, 172 Blaen-y-Nant, Nant Francon, Caernarvonshire, North Wales: chlorite, gar- ... 428; coronadite, 343 Embleton quarry, Cockermouth: alunite, dickite, thaumasite, zunyite, 418 ; thaumasite...scheelite, 921 Meldon aplite quarry, Okehampton: bavenite, 577 Meldon limestone quarry, Okehampton: scheelite...nah' Achlaise, Ledmore: cromaltite, 767 Lettermore quarry, Loch Loyal: nordmarkite, 389 Loch Bad ham Ban...contact, xlvii; vaterite, 535; calcite, 609 Belshaw's quarry, White Mountain: laumontite, 516 Bengore Head:
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...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...of mining offsets transportation costs. The Francon quarry is world-famous for being the first (or only)...are found at the Francon quarry. Dawsonite was first found in a quarry near the Francon. The city of Montreal
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
, 254 Canada: Ontario, albite pseudomorphs, 29; New Brunswick, boracite, 29; Francon quarry, 29; Glencoe... 209 Chalcopyrite, Illinois, 69 Chips from the Quarry: 4, 48, 144, 240 Chlorophoenicite, New Jersey,...Living Gems, R. B. Hoover, 148 Dick, A . B . , 257 Dickite, 257 Dixie mine, Virginia, 21 Downeyite, 73 Downey...Spinel from Glencoe Island, Northwest Territories, Canada, 155 Geikie, A . , 257 Geikielite, 257 Georgia...Jersey, 210 Glencoe Island, Northwest Territories, Canada, spinel, 155 Gonnardite, Italy, 30 Gorciexite,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
feldspars P. E. BROWN: A note on pyrosmalite from Nant Francon, North Wales A. F. HALLIMOND: A new method for...tanteuxenite E. R. SC~MIDT and R. 0. HECI~ROODT: A dickite with an elongated crystal habit and its dehydroxylation...pseudobrookite series R. E. NEWNHAN : A refinement of the dickite structure and some remarks on polymorphism in kaolin
Journal (issue)
the following locations worldwide: Francon Quarry, Montreal (Canada); lvigtut (Greenland); Nigeria; Miask...the world's richest sources of china clay. These quarry workings are near St Austell. by the carbon dioxide...also a range of other aluminium silicates such as dickite, illite, montmorillonite and nacrite. Sedimentary
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
massive from a vein in a dolerite sill at Embleton quarry, near Cockermouth, Cumberland. A. W. G. Kingsbury...Orange-brown cleavages on vein quartz, at Merehead quarry, near Shepton Mallet, Somerset. Specimen found...(2 cm) from a pegmatite vein in the old aplite quarry at Meldon, Okehampton, Devon. A. W. G. Kingsbury...cleavable masses in hydrocerussite, etc., at Merehead quarry, Somerset. C. J. Alabaster (i975) , Proe. Bristol...with feldspar from a pegmatite in the old aplite quarry at Meldon, Okehampton, Devon. A. W. G. Kingsbury
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
as read: 1. A note on pyrosmalite from N a n t Francon, North Wales: b y Dr. P. E. Brown (vol. 32, p....minerals: by Dr. B. Mukherjee (vol. 32, p. 332). 2. A dickite with an elongated crystal habit and its dehydroxylation
Book
fluorescing minerals. The field—mine, mine dump, or quarry—can be richly rewarding in its production of...Berge, and Kurt Ediarn (Norway); Gilles Haineault (Canada); Markku Lehtinen (Finland); Bob Smith (South Africa);...syenite batholith at Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada. Mont Saint- Hilaire provides a large variety...mine at Grafton, New Hampshire, and the Strickland quarry in Portland, Connecticut. Fluorapatite, which fluoresces...comes from the Millington quarry in Rocky Hill. From the Chimney Rock quarry near Somerville, there is
Journal (issue)
2 Wellsic Lane, Rothley Leicestershire LE7 7Qb Canada: Mrs. J. W. Peat 36 Deepwood Crescent Don Mills...Connoisseurs 270 Sutherland Drive, Toronto, Ont., Canada M4G 1J3. Phone (416) 421-0858 N e w A c q u is...St. Hilaire and Francon, two of the most interesting quarries in Quebec. The quarry owners allow collec­...been obtained. The conditions for col­ lecting at Francon are similar, except that it is Sunday only on which...cannot be too strongly said that collecting at any quarry can be jeopardized by two or three determined collectors
Book
fluorescing minerals. The field—mine, mine dump, or quarry—can be richly rewarding in its production of...Berge, and Kurt Ediarn (Norway); Gilles Haineault (Canada); Markku Lehtinen (Finland); Bob Smith (South...syenite batholith at Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada. Mont Saint- Hilaire provides a large variety...mine at Grafton, New Hampshire, and the Strickland quarry in Portland, Connecticut. Fluorapatite, which fluoresces...comes from the Millington quarry in Rocky Hill. From the Chimney Rock quarry near Somerville, there is
Book
mine, Bushvekl, South Africa and Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. Fine smaller nuggets, weighing up to 75 g (165... Arsenic, 45 mm, Alden Island. Canada Antimony, 37 mm, New Brunswick. Canada Arsenic Stibarsen As SbAs...found in quartz veins in Allin, British Colwnbia, Canada. Fine specimens occurred in a Li-beanng pegmatite...near Varutriisk, Sweden. Stibarsen. 58 mm, Allin, Canada Antimony Sb TRIGONAL ••• Properties: C - tin-white;...size described from Lake George, New Brunswick, Canada. Arsenolamprite, 70 mm, Jachymov, Czech Republic
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Wavenumbers Kaolinite 3697, 3669w, 3652w, 3620 Dickite 3704, 3654, 3622 Nacrite 3703, 3647, 3629 Talc...1979; Chukhrov 1992b; Chukanov 2014a). Kaolinite, dickite and nacrite are phyllosilicates which have the...3.02 Å in kaolinite; 2.92, 2.97 and 3.10 Å in dickite; 2.97, 2.98 and 3.06 in nacrite. In structural...corresponding to weak hydrogen bonds in kaolinite, dickite and nacrite is often more than 3, and total number...the O– H-stretching region of (a) kaolinite, (b) dickite, and (c) nacrite drawn using data from Prost et
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Mineralogical Association of Canada Association minéraiogique du Canada 1 Credits for photographs...Courtesy of the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada Hilaire, Quebec / Photo by Claire Dufour Printing...Association of Canada P.O. Box 78087 Meriline Postal Outlet 1460 Merivale Road Ottawa, Ontario Canada Diopside...the Canadian K2E 1Bl Museum of Nature, Ottawa, Canada e-mail: canmin.mac.ottawa@sympatico.ca Drawings...publisher. Printed in Canada Copyright © 1997 Mineralogical Association of Canada ISBN 0-921294-45-x Minerals
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Banalsite Bannisterite Brammallite Brookite Cymrite Dickite Lanthanite-(Ce) Namuwite Pennamite The first part...lavas containing prehnite and pumpellyite , 'wcdd Quarry. Builth Well are cut by veins -.arry analci me...Bwlch-goch Mwn Ffordd-ddu 10 Ordovician Mine ,, "' Quarry • Trial Figure 14. Distribution 00 of former...For example. Cambrian edimelll exposed at Penrhyn Quarry contain well formed pyrite cry tals. while similar...Arenig Station Quarry near Arenig, Manod Quarry at Blaenau Ffestiniog. Minffordd Quarry near Porthmadog
Book
10:215-217 ADULARIA Adu Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54...22:303-308 ALBERTA Mineral occurrences in western Canada [British Columbia and Alberta] (by A. Ingelson)...ANALCIME Natrolite and analcime from Eckman Creek quarry. Waldport. Oregon (by M. Groben) 1:153, 1:173,...23:88-90 ANCYLITE Calcian ancylite from [the Keystone quarry near Cornog,] Pennsylvania: new data (by F. A....13:107-112 ANDERSON, WAYNE --and R. Stinchfield: Pint's quarry. Black Hawk County, Iowa 20:473-479 ANDOVER MINE
Catalog/List
oo. 1 B'. 1-tx1t-", .f.2.00. 9. ANALCL'lE.Dean Quarry,St.Keverne,Lizard,Cornwall. Three l&rge,Yery fine...50. ~ -323. APATITE/OOLOMITE.Ren!rev,Ontario,Canada. Pleuing,conyeai1ntl7 øized display specimen. A...11 , .t:25.00. -656. BARYTES.Cannington Park Quarry,Bridgewater,Somerset •. Lustrous, . aalaon-pink...bundles. 1p::1z-x1", .i:18.50. CHABAZITE.nasalt Quarry,Tygden,Victoria,Australia. 2¾,c1" biscuitecaloured...Quartz. 3¾xlx1t", .i:15,00. CHALCEDONY. Penlee quarry ,Newlyn, W. Cornwall. Sxeeptionally attraetiTe
oo. 1 B'. 1-tx1t-", .f.2.00. 9. ANALCL'lE.Dean Quarry,St.Keverne,Lizard,Cornwall. Three l&rge,Yery fine...50. ~ -323. APATITE/OOLOMITE.Ren!rev,Ontario,Canada. Pleuing,conyeai1ntl7 øized display specimen. A...11 , .t:25.00. -656. BARYTES.Cannington Park Quarry,Bridgewater,Somerset •. Lustrous, . aalaon-pink...bundles. 1p::1z-x1", .i:18.50. CHABAZITE.nasalt Quarry,Tygden,Victoria,Australia. 2¾,c1" biscuitecaloured...Quartz. 3¾xlx1t", .i:15,00. CHALCEDONY. Penlee quarry ,Newlyn, W. Cornwall. Sxeeptionally attraetiTe
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Australia Nelson Canada 1120 Birchmount Road Scarborough, Ontario MIK 5G4, Canada 16 15 14 13 12 11...greenish-white. Kipawa River, Timiskaming Co., Quebec, Canada. H= 5.5, Djjj= 2.902, D(,= 2.887, VlllD 18. Gittins...Ca)5Ali2(P04)8(0H)22*32H20, 0 Orth. Pearly colorless. Moculta quarry, Angaston (near), South Australia, Australia. H=...white. Cadesky Vein, Hi-Ho mine. Cobalt, Ontario, Canada. H=3.5, Djj4= 10.0, D(,= 10.12, IIG 02. Ramdohr...Sub-translucent dirty yellow, brownish-yellow, green. Vilate quarry, Chanteloube, Haute-Vienne, France. H= 5-5.5, Djn=3
Journal (issue)
Ann Arbor, Ml George W. Robinson Natl. Museums of Canada Ottawa, Ontario Abraham Rosenzweig Tampa, FL Richard...307 by ]. P. Cassedanne Mineralogy of the Kalkar quarry, Santa Cruz, California..........................Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur Roe Univ. of Arizona, Tucson Abraham Rosenzweig...Minerals Mineral & Needle Craft Creations, Inc. Quarry Enterprises Wallingford, CT Oceanside, NY John...of Dr. Petr Cerny of the University of Manitoba, Canada. Cuprocassiterite (discredited species) Massive
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mine, Bushveld, South Africa and Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. Fine smaller nuggets, weighing up to 75 g (165...Konder. Russia Arsenic, 45 mm, Allien Island, Canada Antimony. 37 mm. New Brunswick, Arsenic Stibarsen...Stibarsen As SbAs TRIGONAL • • • TRIGONAL • • Canada • Properties: C - tin-white, tarnishes quickly...found in quartz veins in Atlin, British Columbia, Canada. Fine specimens occurred in a Li-bearing pegmatite...near Varutrask, Sweden. Stibarsen, 58 mm. Allin, Canada Antimony Sb TRIGONAL • • • Properties: C -
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)
USA, UK, and the provinces Ontario and Quebec in Canada, generally well known to readers. However, the...Menzenschwand Scbwarzwald Mts., in the Sailauf quarry, Spessart Mts., Bavaria. both Germany, and from...to Hot Springco., Arkansas, in the Point of Rock quarry, pearly. Clea,·age {001} perfect. {100} and {010}...mineral of alkaline rocks in the Point of Rocks quarry, Colfax co., New Mexico, with aegirine and arfvedsonite...several cm on prehnite in basalt in the Chantilly quarry, Loudoun co., Virginia. In metamorphic sulfide
Journal (issue)
Ann Arbor, Ml George W. Robinson Natl. Museums of Canada Ottawa, Ontario Abraham Rosenzweig Tampa, FL Richard...Ontario, Canada M5S 2C6 and Department of Geology University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1A1...Mandarino of the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada. He has served since January of 1983. The vice-chairman...CRESTMORE/JENSEN QUARRY MINERALS 75 Species, Crestmore Quarry 25 Species, Jensen Quarry Sent $1 for catalog...since they make six to ten trips a year to the quarry. The jet-black, equant crystal of anatase shown
 
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