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Magnetite from
Orford Nickel mine, St-Denis-de-Brompton, Le Val-Saint-François RCM, Estrie, Québec, Canada


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Magnetite
Formula:Fe2+Fe23+O4
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Magnetite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Orford Nickel mine, St-Denis-de-Brompton, Le Val-Saint-François RCM, Estrie, Québec, Canada
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:7283
Long-form Identifier:1:3:7283:0
GUID (UUID V4):64be056e-dc42-4182-ab23-48cdc061192f
Nearest other occurrences of Magnetite
8.4km (5.2 miles) Lac a la Truite, Orford, Memphrémagog RCM, Estrie, Québec, Canada
14.7km (9.1 miles) Bonsecours Quarry, Bonsecours, Le Val-Saint-François RCM, Estrie, Québec, Canada
16.8km (10.5 miles) Bel Horizon quarry (Carrière Bel Horizon; Carrière DJL), Hatley, Memphrémagog RCM, Estrie, Québec, Canada
21.6km (13.4 miles) Autoroute 55 roadcuts, Canton de Melbourne, Le Val-Saint-François RCM, Estrie, Québec, Canada
30.1km (18.7 miles) Sterrett mine, Saint-Cyr, Canton de Cleveland, Le Val-Saint-François RCM, Estrie, Québec, Canada
41.5km (25.8 miles) Jeffrey Mine, Val-des-Sources, Les Sources RCM, Estrie, Québec, Canada
44.4km (27.6 miles) Mont Brome, Bromont, Estrie, Québec, Canada
56.2km (34.9 miles) Troy, Orleans County, Vermont, USA
58.0km (36.0 miles) Lucas Brook locality, Richford, Franklin County, Vermont, USA
58.1km (36.1 miles) Mont Yamaska, Rouville RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Jeffrey Mine, Asbestos, Les Sources Municipalité Régional de Comté Estrie, Québec, Canada A lthough...Jeffrey mine, Asbestos, Les Sources Municipalité, Régional de Comté, Estrie, Québec, Canada. The stepped-growth...grossular dodecahedra is commonly observed on Jeffrey mine specimens. This particular specimen is one of the...crystal of grossular from the Jeffrey mine, Asbestos, Québec, Canada. The Arkenstone specimen, Joe Budd...group of grossular crystals from the Jeffrey mine, Québec, Canada. Formerly in the Charles Key collection
Journal (issue)
photo by Harold and Erica Van Pelt, Los Angeles MINE [RaL OG MANUEL Ol) MIN£RAl ° C Editor & Publisher...Roberts Geol. Surv. of Canada Ottawa George W. Robinson Natl. Museums of Canada Ottawa, Ontario Abraham...Articles Famous mineral localities: The Orford nickel mine, Quebec, Canada....................................coveted—the super flashy crystal specimens, la creme de la creme, those that often hide under dealers’ beds...91 Lakeshore Road Beaconsfield, Quebec H9W 4H8 Canada Robert A. Gault Research Division Canadian Museum
Report (issue)
Geological Survey of Canada Miscellaneous Report 46 ROCKS AND MINERALS FOR THE COLLECTOR Estrie and Gaspesie... © Minister of Supply and Services Canada 1992 Available in Canada through authorized bookstore agents...bookstores or by mail from Canada Communication Group - Publishing Ottawa, Canada K1A OS9 and from Geological...Geological Survey of Canada offices: 601 Booth Street Ottawa, Canada KlA OE8 3303-33rd Street N.W., Calgary...available for reference in public libraries across Canada Cat. No. M41-8/46E ISBN 0-660-14391-7 Price subject
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
carats, from Baicheng. Diopside from the Handan iron mine, Wu’an County, Handan Prefecture, Hebei Province...An unusual locality in the collection is the Posu mine, Changbak, Hangyong, North Korea. The lone specimen...pale green crystals to 1.5 cm come from the Horado mine, Gifu Prefecture. These are bladelike crystals with...diopside also occur at the Kamaishi mine, Iwate Prefecture, and the Yaguki mine, Fukushima Prefecture. Specimens...diopside variety schefferite have come from the Kuga mine, Yamaguichi Prefecture, and from Sarukabeyama, Iwate
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
HUNTING FOR UVAROVITE GARNETS AT THE ORFORD NICKEL MINES, QUEBEC, CANADA By GARDINER E. GREGORY Director,...location to find uvarovite garnets is near little Brompton Lake a few miles west of the city of Sherbrooke...Assays showed that the ore contained 1 percent nickel. In spite of the low grade, an attempt was made...difficulty locating the mine from the map given to us by a friend. The mine road begins on the left at...Camp. About 300 yards from the beginning of the mine road, it passes through a grown over field. Beyond
Report (issue)
4300(6) Z=4 X-ray Powder Pattern: Zapolyarnyi mine, Russia. 2.85 (100), 1.803 (90), 1.795 (80), 1.654... Total 100.1 99.57 100.9 100.00 (1) Zapolyarnyi mine, Russia; by electron microprobe, corresponding to...veins, or in peridotite with other nickel sulfides. Association: magnetite. Millerite, heazlewoodite, pentlandite...Valley, northwestern Pakistan. At the Amianthus mine, Kaapsche Hoop, Barberton, Transvaal, South Africa... In Canada, in the Texmont mine, about 50 km south of Timmins, Ontario, and at the Orford nickel mine
in the field ~“ Various geological locations iin Canada© Physical properties of minerals and rocks, and...surrounded ce ne white calcite, from!iheBluebell Mine; Riondel, Digitized by the Internet Archive...Fitzhenry & Whiteside Canadian Museum of Musée canadien de la Saad @./ NATURE Beginner’s Guide to Rocks and...Fitzhenry & Whiteside acknowledges with thanks the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Ontario Arts Council...acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development
Report (issue)
cm tall andradite on hematite is from the Wessels Mine near Hotazel in northern Cape Province, South Africa...diopside; 7.1 cm tall Jeffrey Mine, Asbestos, Richmond County, Quebec, Canada Paul Stahl specimen Jeff Scovil...Childeric 's bees (page 16); photo© Bibliotheque National de France, Paris Left: Grossular from the Republic of... Right: Grossular on vesuvianite from the Sierra de Cruces Range in Mexico; 3.1 cm tall; ex Blue Sky...chromophore of "raspberry" grossular from the Sierra de Cruces Range in Mexico) imparts pink, and chromium
Book
enOLOGIOAT SURVEY OF CANADA. AALFRED R C.SELWYN, C. M. G., LL.D. F.RS., Director GEOLOGICAL SURVEY... Ae aw ndeees as Se ey Caed, = tIGAM ALCS: Gis LE iaach auatiis vin;Aualin bpsdibse alere’ Ame | ...17 20 v1 GEOLOGICAL TABLE OF SURVEY OF CANADA. CONTENTS— Continued. OXYGEN saLTs—Continued...silver ores from the province of British Columbia. de aser eCOOtanie CString s vis. huts wteriey ba GeyvieNurdor... es Og 1a ee het oe pa yee east hay WiTb re, le! olny. eh a fel a sreUe/ jer ial al‘ahey (er eliei
Book
URCES I MINER1LES -DE LA- PUISSANCE DU CMUDS. Publiee par le Departement de l'Agriculture du Gkmvernement...Gkmvernement du Canada. OTTAWA. 1885. Typographic du Pionnier, Sherbrooke. IR lb WmH MP A A^ A...RESSOURCES MINERALES -DE LA- PUISSMCEiDUiCMADI. Publiee par le Departement de 1' Agriculture du Gouvernement...Gouvernement du Canada OTTAWA. 1885. &0£f' Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2013 http://archive...38 2 11 3 25 24 28 34 21 28 38 19 Molybdenite Nickel 22 Or Petrole 13 38 6 37 Phosphates 23 Pierre
Book
© 2011 Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. All rights reserved. No part of this publication...Cataloging-in-Publication Data (U.S.) Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Tait, Kimberly. Tait...States by Firefly Books (U.S.) Inc. Published in Canada by Firefly Books Ltd. PO. Box 1338, Ellicott Station...at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Photography: Brian Boyle, MPA, FPPO, and Miguel...publishing program by the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund as administered by the Department
Book
On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...from Mont St. Hilaire, Quebec 2: 141-142 AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona...22:303-308 ALBERTA Mineral occurrences in western Canada [British Columbia and Alberta] (by A. Ingelson)...ALLEN, GEORGE B. --and W. Hunt: The Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County, Arizona 19:139-144 ALLGOOD, GENNE...Allgood, C. Williams: Ramsdellite from the Mistake mine [Arizona] 14:333-335 ALLGOOD, ROBERT W. -with G
Report (Issue volume)
MISCELLANEOUS REPORT 8 Issued by THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA Department of Mines and Technical Surveys, Ottawa...Printer, Ottawa, the Geological Survey of Canada, 601 Booth St., Ottawa, and at the following Canadian...Building, 36 Adelaide St. East MONTREAL £terna-Vie Building, 1182 St. Catherine St. West or through your...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
.,a~ ,:::- • Canadian Museum of Musee canadien de la \..,~ NATURE Fitzhenry & Whiteside •"""'liir... •"""'liir. ,::- • Canadian Museu m of Mu see canadien de ta (...,~ NATURE Beginner's Guide to Rocks and...20 I O Canadian Museum of Nature Photographs by O le Johnsen copyright © 2010 Ole Johnsen All righls reserved...Fitzhenry & Whiteside acknowledges with thanks the Canada Council for the Arts. and the Ontario Arts Council...acknowledge the financial suppo1t of the Government of Canada through the Book Pubbshing lndus!Jy Development
Journal (issue)
Ann Arbor, MI Andrew C. Roberts Geol. Surv. of Canada Ottawa George W. Robinson Seaman Mineral Museum...Three Articles Famous Mineral Localities: The Barra de Salinas pegmatites, Minas Gerais, Brazil . . . ..... . . . . . . 217 by A. R. Kampf The Dee North mine, Elko County, Nevada . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...crystal cluster, 13.6 cm, from the famous Malmberget mine, Gällivose, Lapland, Sweden. Peter Lyckberg collection;...program. So Joe became a “landed immigrant” in Canada in 1971, but he never gave up his American citizenship
Book
canadien de la nature Text copyright © 1994 by Canadian Museum of Nature/ Musee canadien de la nature...Ltd The Orion Publishing Group Orion House SUpper St Martin's Lane London WC2H 9EA A catalogue record... C The devastating blasts of Krakatoa or Mount Saint Helens, cataclysmic earthquakes in Italy or California...volcanos in Iceland, or black smokers along the Juan de Fuca ridge beneath the Pacific Ocean, also provide...AT E 1 Nickel-Iron meteorite. Canyon Diablo, Arizona. 12 x 13 cm. (Geological Survey of Canada specimen)
Journal (issue)
Ann Arbor, MI Andrew C. Roberts Geol. Surv. of Canada Ottawa George W. Robinson Seaman Mineral Museum...Johnston & E. R. Swoboda Sulfur from the Perticara mine area, Pesaro-Urbino, Italy . . . . . . . . . . ...Pezzotta Famous mineral localities: The Lord Brassy mine, Tasmania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... John Sinkankas (1915–2002) at the Pala Properties Mine Bash, 1977. Van Pelt photo. NOTICE Died, John Sinkankas...opportunities arose. (He once told me that he had “seen” Saint John’s Island, Egypt, the famous olivine locality
Book
Pezzotta and Zorzi (2008). ILMENITE UNITED STATES and CANADA BRITISH COLUMBIA Ice River complex. The Ice River...Springfield show ( 1995: 582). Madawaska [Faraday] mine near Bow Lake, Hastings County. Some of the world's...property of, the old Madawaska uranium mine (called the Faraday mine before 1964). The mineral assemblage...assemblage of the vein-dike consists of ilmenite. magnetite, anatase, biotite, microcline and minor fluorapatite...(2006: 240). J r ILMENITE QUEBEC Girardville, Lac Saint-Jean area. Just northwest of the town of Girardville
Journal (issue)
.................................... 17 DAOPING MINE Guanghua Liu and Berthold Ottens .................crystal, 2.1 cm, from the Dadongla (Yunchangping) mine near Tongren, Guizhou Province, China. Marcus Budil...Xikuangshan, the site of the world’s largest stibnite mine. Berthold Ottens is a German dealer and author of...today, near the ancient mine workings, there is a large open-pit copper mine which provides small calcite...1121 B.C. There in 1973 a 3,000-year-old copper mine with smelting facilities was discovered on Mt. Verdigris
Journal (issue)
Ann Arbor, Ml Andrew C. Roberts Geol. Surv. of Canada Ottawa George W. Robinson Seaman Mineral Museum...dumps, about 30 meters from the Sankt Goransgruvan mine. The zone contained many cerium minerals, as well...I (Gustav Vasa). The last active iron and copper mine, Biickegruvan, was closed by its owner, Fagerstabruk...district one of the oldest in Sweden. Though the mine was mainly worked for iron ore, copper ore production...important for the gun-making foundries. The Falu mine in the northern Bergslagen area was Europe's most
Show/Event (guide)
and B.J. Flyer. 2:00 T h e Red Lake mine—the richest gold mine in the world, right here in Ontario by...B. Simmons. 5:45 Y a o g a n g x i a n Tungsten mine byB. Ottens. 6:00 N e w data of roscherite-group...Sweet Home mine, at the Colorado Quartz Gold mine, at the Red Cloud mine, at the Benitoite mine, at the...the Amazonite mine, at the Twin Creeks mine, and the Morro Rodundo mine. He will also comment on the future...pegmatite, and show significant Hf enrichment. Magnetite occursassmall octahedral crystals andmassesshowing
Journal (issue)
Scovil photo. Vanadinite, 2.4 cm, from the Apache mine, Arizona. Collected by Evan Jones; Jeff Scovil photo...Miglioli photo. Fluorite, 7.4 cm, from the La Barre mine, France. Collected by Aubin Cosson; Niels Brouwer... from left: Caledonite, 1.1 cm, from the Reward mine, California. Collected by Jeff Lines; Ben DeCamp...Thrill of Discovery by Wendell Wilson Epilog: On Mine Safety UThe Field-CollectorsV Anthony J. Albini...the words of the original discoverers. Adelaide Mine, Tasmania, 1971, 2012 Albert Chapman wrote one such
Journal (issue)
Ann Arbor, Ml Andrew C. Roberts Geol. Surv. of Canada Ottawa George W. Robinson Seaman Mineral Museum...by U. Burchard Recent discoveries at the Jeffrey mine, Asbestos, Quebec . .. ................. . . .....COVER: CATAPLEIITE on feldspar, 2.5 cm, from Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec. Martin Zinn collection; photo by...Scovil. For more on this famous deposit see the Mont Saint-Hilaire special issue, vol. 21, no. 4 Guly-August...Native American collections in New York City and St. Joseph, Missouri will not replace their war bonnets
Journal (issue)
Jan/Feb 2024 Vol.99, No.1 ROCKS MINE ."Iii[! iil"J www.tandfonline.com/vram Pegmatite Minerals & Gems...60 The Tanco Pegmatite at Bernie Lake Manitoba, Canada David London 78 John C. Lucking: Phoenix Field...Choice: Topaz from Granite Pegmatites, Limoeiro Mine, Virgem da Lapa, Ara~uaf Pegmatite District, . Minas...(c/eavelandite), and microc/ine, 72.5 cm, Limoeiro mine, Virgem da Lapa, Ara<;uar district, Minas Gerais...14.1 cm, Pioneer mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil; D: Elbaite, 8.9 cm high, Himalaya mine, Mesa Grande, San
Journal (issue)
COVELLITE crystal cluster, 3 cm across, From the Leonard mine, Butte, Montana. Frederick H. Pough collection;...the Butte mining camp, especially in the Kelley mine, was just full of vug holes . . . the holes, some...located in Butte, at the site of the old Orphan Girl mine. . . . So wrote a trainee miner, Jerry Dolph, concerning...an underground stope at Butte, Montana’s Kelley mine in the early 1970’s (Dolph, 1994). The wonderful...crystallized species, unusual associations, or individual mine localities. Similarly, the popular journals are
 
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