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Thaumasite from
Francon quarry, Montréal, Québec, Canada


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Thaumasite
Formula:Ca3(SO4)[Si(OH)6](CO3) · 12H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Thaumasite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Francon quarry, Montréal, Québec, Canada
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:357760
Long-form Identifier:1:3:357760:8
GUID (UUID V4):0b9cc764-c4b6-4e04-bea0-864c08947575
Nearest other occurrences of Thaumasite
6.6km (4.1 miles) Corporation (Forsyth's) quarry, Mont Royal, Montréal, Québec, Canada
36.2km (22.5 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
81.1km (50.4 miles) Autoroute 50 roadcut No. 2, 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, Quebec, Canada H3A 0C4 Well-crystallized dawsonite, a species...relatively rare. In the Montreal region, the Francon quarry has produced some of the world’s best dawsonite...campus of McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Its full characterization took almost a century...dawsonite localities in the Montreal region, the Francon quarry has produced some of the world’s best dawsonite...chemist and mineralogist to the Geological Survey of Canada. As Harrington was a mineral collector1 as well
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
Book
Sites "Re miniets Aitus du Canada Joel D. Grice A # ds. «< RE « "1 é+ Le: . 0 7, 22 L # ... SITES MINIERS CANADA CÉLÈBRES DU “Joel D. Grice L'ouvrage Sites miniers célèbres du Canada est un heureux...s'étend sur près de la moitié de la superficie du Canada et constitue l’une des régions minières les plus...zinc, de cuivre et d’or. Sites miniers célèbres du Canada est un ouvrage passionant et d’érudition rédigé... Sites miniers célèbres du Canada Gites miniers célèbres du Canada Joel D. Grice Musée national
Report (issue)
© Minister of Supply and Services Canada 1983 Available in Canada through authorized bookstore agents...and Services Canada Hull, Québec, Canada K1A 0S9 and from Geological Survey of Canada 601 Booth Street...Street Ottawa, Canada K1A 0E8 A deposit copy of this publication is also available for reference in public...public libraries across Canada Cat. No. ISBN Price M41-8/32E 0-660-11547-6 Canada: $7.50 Other countries:...without notice $9.00 PlateI Mont St-Hillaire quarry. (GSC 138741) CONTENTS ix | Abstract l Introduction
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
[Pb2(S2O3)(CO3)] Ba2(S2O3)(CO3) Mn3Si(OH)6(SO4)(CO3)·12H2O thaumasite [Ca3Si(OH)6(SO4)(CO3)·12H2O] Sr4Al23+Si4O10(SO4)(CO3)2(OH)4...(CO3)(OH)6·12H2O]; caledonite [Cu2Pb5(SO4)3(CO3)(OH)6]; thaumasite [Ca 3Si(OH) 6(SO 4)(CO 3)·12H 2O]; and kegelite...Poudrette Quarry within the nepheline syenite complex of Mont Saint-Hilaire, Québec, Canada, holds the...there, 12 of which are unique to the Poudrette Quarry. This remarkable diversity of rare minerals arises...Zaitsev et al. 1996); and the Francon Quarry, Montréal, Québec, Canada (21 species; type locality for
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
tamarugite(?), thenardite, 172 Blaen-y-Nant, Nant Francon, Caernarvonshire, North Wales: chlorite, gar- ...343 Embleton quarry, Cockermouth: alunite, dickite, thaumasite, zunyite, 418 ; thaumasite, lxxvi Grains...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...389 IRELAND Flush Hall, Newtownards, Co. Down: thaumasite, 416 Antrim Plinthite, red zeolites (miscalled
Report (issue)
MINERALS FOR THE COLLECTOR Geological Survey of Canada Miscellaneous Report 32 Kingston, Ontario to Lac...1983 COVER Left: Weloganite crystals from Francon Quarry, Montreal. Specimen measures 3 cm from tip...Collection specimen (No. 36384). National Museum of Canada photo. Right: Serandite with analcime and mangan-neptunite...mangan-neptunite crystals from Mont St-Hilaire quarry. Specimen 22 is cm long. National Mineral Collection...Collection specimen (No. 37124). National Museum of Canada photo. Miscellaneous Report 32 ROCKS AND MINERALS
Report (issue)
MINERALS FOR THE COLLECTOR Geological Survey of Canada Miscellaneous Report 48 Ottawa to North Bay and...Natural Resources Canada Ressources naturelles Canada Geological Survey of Canada Miscellaneous Report...Queen in Right of Canada 2007 Catalogue No. M41-8/48E ISBN 0-660-19556-9 Available in Canada from the Geological...Geological Survey of Canada Bookstore (see inside front cover for details) A copy of this publication is...available for reference by depository libraries across Canada through access to the Depository Services Program's
Report (volume)
MINERALS FOR THE COLLECTOR Geological Survey of Canada Miscellaneous Report 77 Kirkland Lake – Rouyn-Noranda...Quebec Ann P. Sabina 2003 Geological Survey of Canada Miscellaneous Report 77 ROCKS AND MINERALS FOR...in Right of Canada, 2003 Catalogue No. M41-8/77E ISBN 0-660-19062-1 Available in Canada from Geological...Geological Survey of Canada offices: 601 Booth Street Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0E8 3303-33rd Street N.W. Calgary...for reference in selected public libraries across Canada Cette publication est aussi disponible en français
Report (issue)
MINERALS FOR THE COLLECTOR Geological Survey of Canada Miscellaneous Report 58 Îles de la Madeleine,...Labrador Ann P. Sabina 2003 Geological Survey of Canada Miscellaneous Report 58 ROCKS AND MINERALS FOR...in Right of Canada, 2003 Catalogue No. M41-8/58E ISBN 0-660-18932-1 Available in Canada from Geological...Geological Survey of Canada offices: 601 Booth Street Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0E8 3303-33rd Street N.W. Calgary...for reference in selected public libraries across Canada Cette publication est aussi disponible en français
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Minerals, Rocks and Gemstones, 352 CAGNET (M.), FRANCON (M.), & THRIERR (J. C.), Atlas optischer Erseheinungen...Ettringite, crystal chemistry of, relation to thaumasite, 59 ; Israel, 723 EVANS (A. M.), see KING (R...Faroelite, Antrim & Iceland, 173, 187 Fayalite, Canada & Massachusetts, anal., X-ray, 730; Pantelleria...X-ray, 281 Foresite, a mixture, 260 Forsterite, Canada, anal., X-ray, 730 Framework structures, tetrahedrally...Olivine, determination of by X-rays, 730, 742; Canada & U.S.A., anat., X-ray, 730; Derbyshire, anal.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
feldspars P. E. BROWN: A note on pyrosmalite from Nant Francon, North Wales A. F. HALLIMOND: A new method for...Puyvalador, near Qu6rigut, France DIA~]~ C. KZeILL: Thaumasite from Co. Down, Northern Ireland R. VAn TASSEL:
Journal (issue)
287 288 293 353 A hornfels unit in the Poudrette quarry .................................................and J.Van Velthuizen Figure 1. The Poudrette quarry in the summer of 1988. Photo by L. Horvath. 284...associations are listed with the descriptions. Quarry maps have not been included because the precise...of many past finds in the quarry were never recorded, and because the quarry has changed so much over...very close to and clearly visible from the Trans-Canada highway. The picturesque farming and commuter village
Journal (issue)
Ann Arbor, Mi George W. Robinson Natl. Museums of Canada Ottawa, Ontario Abraham Rosenzweig Tampa, FL Associate...deerite, howieite, and zussmanite at the Laytonville quarry in Mendocino County, California. He brought the...most of the func­ tioning museums in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. For the first time ever, curators have...mail to any country, $5.75/$6.00; by airmail to Canada, $6.00/$6.00; by airmail to most of Europe and...Lake George antimony deposits in New Brunswick, Canada. The Lake George deposit is located about 24 miles
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
km east of Montreal, in the Province of Quebec, Canada. The quarries are on the 182 ROCKS AND MINERALS...fay j£*SJ Richelieu River \\ \r Rte. 229 U Quarry Mont Saint-Hilaire i ^ ^ m i Rte. 116 j\ ;...difficult. It was not until 1959, when the first quarry opened up on the northeast face of the mountain...right and the market available, he began work. The quarry produced its first load of stone for road metal...metal in 1959. A s Figure 6 shows, the Poudrette quarry was opened at the upper left of the working area
Report (issue)
MINERALS FOR THE COLLECTOR Geological Survey of Canada Miscellaneous Report 57 Cobalt – Belleterre –...Quebec Ann P. Sabina 2000 Geological Survey of Canada Miscellaneous Report 57 ROCKS AND MINERALS FOR...in Right of Canada, 2000 Catalogue No. M41-8-57E ISBN 0-660-17726-9 Available in Canada from Geological...Geological Survey of Canada offices: 601 Booth Street Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0E8 3303-33rd Street N.W. Calgary...for reference in selected public libraries across Canada Cette publication est aussi disponible en français
Catalog/List
Hilaire, Quebec with Fluorescent orange Sodalite .Canada Very’ rich mass of black crystals, some Mount Malosa...Arizona Pure green cleavage AMAZONITE Landsverk quarry, Evje, Norway Ixl 50p lx2£l 11 felspar group____________...£3 7 Pure black mica plate new Analysis , Saga Quarry, Tvedalen near ANNITE Mica__________ paper available...Chrysotile, pale grey-green Ixl £1 County Bridge Quarry,Lizard Mg Fe SiO_______ massive. _________ .Cornwall...Columbia masses m Andesite .Collected personally! , Canada Terminated single brownish -grey crystal "'Madagascar'
Report (issue)
MINERALS FOR THE COLLECTOR Geological Survey of Canada Popular Geoscience 97 Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick...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...treasurer for the Mineralogical Association of Canada. After her retirement in the late 1990s, Ann continued...shortly before her death. Geological Survey of Canada Popular Geoscience 97 ROCKS AND MINERALS FOR THE
Book
Lower Miocene columnar basalt in the Narre Warren Quarry, near Melbourne, Australia. The minerals are believed...Tasmaina and Victoria in Australia; Nova Scotia, Canada; Northern Ireland; and in Washington and Oregon...percent of the rock. At Crowsnest Pass, Alberta, Canada, analcime, sanidine, augite, and melanite garnet...HEXOCTAHEDRON {345} TRISOCTAHEDRON {233} BOYLSTONE QUARRY, BOYLSTONE QUARRY GLASGLOW, SCOTLAND, U.K. GLASGLOW, SCOTLAND... across, with cube faces from the Magheramore Quarry, Lame, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, U.K.; SEM
Book
Lower Miocene columnar basalt in the Narre Warren Quarry, near Melbourne, Australia. The minerals are believed...Tasmaina and Victoria in Australia; Nova Scotia, Canada; Northern Ireland; and in Washington and Oregon...percent of the rock. At Crowsnest Pass, Alberta, Canada, analcime, sanidine, augite, and melanite garnet...HEXOCTAHEDRON {345} TRISOCTAHEDRON {233} BOYLSTONE QUARRY, BOYLSTONE QUARRY GLASGLOW, SCOTLAND, U.K. GLASGLOW, SCOTLAND... across, with cube faces from the Magheramore Quarry, Lame, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, U.K.; SEM
Book
Uni-Mix quarry later became known as the De-Mix quarry. A third operation, the Desourdy quarry, also became...quarries were amalgamated and renamed the Demix quarry. The quarries were extremely active during the...More important for the science of mineralogy, the quarry operators allowed collectors to visit the quarries...was Mr. Frank Melanson. He visited the Poudrette quarry shortly after it started operation and continued...at a meeting of the Mineralogical Association of Canada, and, at about the same time, Mr. Melanson and
Book
Mineralogical Association of Canada Association mineralogique du canada 14 Also in this series Encyclopedia...(1998) J. Delvigne Mineral Species Discovered in Canada and Species Named after Canadians Special Publication...F. Martin c 2019 Mineralogical Association of Canada All rights reserved. No part of this publication...publishers. Printed in Canada on acid-free paper Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication...(1962-) Published by the Mineralogical Association of Canada ISBN: 978-0-921294-61-0 1. Mont Saint-Hilaire,
Journal (issue)
Fluorapatite, 3.3-cm crystal, from the Pulsifer quarry, Maine. Collected by Terry Szenics; Jeff Scovil...rosette, with prehnite, 14 cm, from the Centreville quarry, Fairfax, Virginia. Smithsonian Institution collection...C6649; Lee Boltin photo. Fairfax Quarry, Virginia, 1967 The Fairfax quarry in Virginia is a classic locality...northeastern corner of the Fairfax quarry in Centreville, Virginia. I visited the quarry the next weekend. Nothing...15 feet to the left, parallel to the wall of the quarry. This tube varied from 6 inches to 2 feet wide
Catalog/List
Diamond Lake,( Hex1 co Cres tmore f,lry, Ajo Ontario, Canada Maid of Sunshi Michigan Haine Roxbury, CT Champion...Grants, New Hex Workman Creek Spain Connecticut Canada India Horseshoe Dam *ftRAGONITE/CALCITE Choice...Robertson Hi California C.S.S.R. lJH Claims Pugh Quarry, OH -----------------~ ----r---....-----,--...II 1 Ro:.irfaire, Tl I Buckskin .Mtns Ontario, Canada Vekol Mine Crestmore Ory,CA franklin, 'IJ Fresno...Californi Lake Jaco, Mexico Lake George, CO Ray Hine Canada Salton Sea, CA St. Hilaire,Canad New York . Kohn
Journal (issue)
world. At present it is found in Myanma (Burma), Canada, Madagascar, Brasil, Kenya, Tanzania, Sri Lanka...exposed at the Pegmatiteing large gemmy crystals from Canada (100 3 occurrence, beryl was represented by carats)...(Wrozlaw), Ukraine (Kiev, Simferopol), wolframite, thaumasite, hematite and many France (Paris) - representatives...Creek, Richardson Range. 70 km NW ofAklavik, Yukon, Canada, 68° 39' N, 136° 48' W: ! augelite; *1976 — baricite;...Eldorado, Great Bear Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada: silver, uraninite: (U I-deposit was discovered
 
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