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Calcite from
Swan Creek, Greenhill, Cumberland Co., Nova Scotia, Canada


Locality type:Creek
Classification
Species:Calcite
Formula:CaCO3
Comments:Crystals in voids and veins in brecciated sandstone with chabazite-Ca and chrysocolla.
Habit:rhombohedral
Colour:white
Luminescent properties:reddish, best under MW, weaker under SW
Abundance at site:Common
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Chabazite-Caⓘ10 photos of Calcite associated with Chabazite-Ca at this locality.
Baryteⓘ3 photos of Calcite associated with Baryte at this locality.
Chrysocollaⓘ3 photos of Calcite associated with Chrysocolla at this locality.
Quartzⓘ2 photos of Calcite associated with Quartz at this locality.
VĂ©signiĂ©iteⓘ1 photo of Calcite associated with VĂ©signiĂ©ite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Calcite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Swan Creek, Greenhill, Cumberland Co., Nova Scotia, Canada
Photo GalleryView Gallery (3 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:781179
Long-form Identifier:1:3:781179:1
GUID (UUID V4):6e16c6c9-e291-4369-aa3e-e1a5beea1b94
Nearest other occurrences of Calcite
0.6km (0.4 miles) ⓘClarke Head, Greenhill, Cumberland Co., Nova Scotia, Canada
1.1km (0.7 miles) ⓘWasson Bluff, Two Islands, Cumberland Co., Nova Scotia, Canada
4.1km (2.5 miles) ⓘMcKay Head, Two Islands, Cumberland Co., Nova Scotia, Canada
7.2km (4.5 miles) ⓘPartridge Island, Parrsboro, Cumberland Co., Nova Scotia, Canada
11.0km (6.8 miles) ⓘCape Sharp, West Bay, Cumberland Co., Nova Scotia, Canada
11.4km (7.1 miles) ⓘFive Islands, Cumberland Co., Nova Scotia, Canada
12.3km (7.6 miles) ⓘLynn Road barite occurrence, Lower Five Islands, Colchester Co., Nova Scotia, Canada
13.0km (8.1 miles) ⓘAmethyst Cove (Captain Kidd's Cove), Kings Co., Nova Scotia, Canada
15.6km (9.7 miles) ⓘFive Islands, Colchester Co., Nova Scotia, Canada
16.0km (9.9 miles) ⓘCape Blomidon, Kings Co., Nova Scotia, Canada
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Advocate Harbour Cape Sharp Partridge Island Greenhill-Five Islands Five Islands Vol. XXIV, No. I i...45 miles. On both the New Brunswick and the Nova Scotia shore, the Triassic appears: in New Brunswick...Split Rock (Gardner's Creek), Quaco, Martin Head, and Waterside; in Nova Scotia on the island of Isle...Geological Survey of Canada, and to Professor D. S. McIntosh of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Professor Alfred C...between a broad belt of pre-Cambrian rocks in Nova Scotia, fronted by the Triassic; and a less broad belt
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
conglomerate is exposed on the shore near Vaughan Creek with a dip of 300 to the north and again a mile..."Records of Post-Triassic Changes in Kings County, Nova Scotia," Trans. N.S. Inst. Sci., X (1900oo),297. THE...from the point of age, rather than form. In Nova Scotia, outside of the Triassic area there are some...mapped on the sheets of the Geological Survey of Canada masses of diabase cutting the Union-Riversdale...Triassic age occur in a number of places between Nova Scotia and the Connecticut Valley. The large majority
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
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...equipment 5 ‱ Care of specimens 6 ‱ Collecting in Canada 6 ‱ Mineral and rock sets 7 ‱ Abbreviations used...used in references 11 ‱ NEW BRUNSWICK 31 ‱ NOV A SCOTIA and PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND 67 ‱ NEWFOUNDLAND 89
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Basin, and Cumberland Plateau. Continuing east beyond the Cumberland Mountains and Cumberland Plateau escarpment...Tennessee 37921 taparis@msn.com Figure 1 (top left). Calcite, 5.5 cm high, Elmwood mine, Smith County. Terry...Huizing specimen and photo. Figure 4 (right). Cumberland mine, Smith County. Travis Paris photo (2004)...1986). Moore prospect, 4.5 miles SSE of Norris: calcite, chalcopyrite, galena, pyrite, and sphalerite (Maher...Taylor quarry, 0.3 mile NE of the junction of Hinds Creek and the Clinch River: microscopic crystals of anatase
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
06:14 02 December 2014 Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada I sometric-appearing minerals are not always...famous quarries at Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada. Analcime is typically seen as white, transparent...many are commonly well crystallized and include calcite, stilbite, heulandite, laumontite, natrolite, pectolite...5 cm across associated with natrolite sprays, calcite, pectolite, apophyllite, and pale green datolite...Massachusetts, where the mineral occurred with calcite and amethyst; several localities in Pennsylvania
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
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...sory wb AS 113 SURVEY GEOLOGICAL MINERALS CANADA. CONTENTS—Continued. OF TABLE OF AND TO COMMON
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
Report (issue)
features in Tennessee________________________ Flynn Creek feature ___ ________________ Chattanooga shale....central Tennessee and nearby areas. Falls of Fall Creek. _____________________________________________________...Chattanooga shale on sloping side of the Flynn Creek cryptoexplosive feature Faces 18 A, Angular unconformity..._________________ 7 Cross section of the Flynn Creek cryptoexplosive feature._______________________...____________ 10 Map and cross section of the Swan Creek area of Tennessee showing the gradual thickening
Report (issue)
5 c: 5.0 4.5 o E o CD tJ) CO O 4.0 > CO D) C 3.5 3.0 ■> o E CO CD 2.5 I o Year Figure 2...sedimentary record. dant carbonate minerals (calcite and dolomite) and high mag¬ Core Core name BL96-1...Range west of the lake. The lake is saturated with calcite, aragonite, and dolomite at all depths, and produces...decomposition of produced organic mat¬ high-Mg calcite does indeed occur in the epilimnion from April...precipitation of arago¬ nite (pre-diversion) or calcite (post-diversion; see discussion below). Magnesium
Book (edition)
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...peculiarities Nova many examples. and age of the Auriferous the nature in Scotia. The remarkable
Report (issue)
COUNTY GRAND COUNTY Ashbrook District (Grouse Creek Mountains). Box Elder District (Wasatch Mountains)...(Promontory Mountains). Rosebud District (Grouse Creek Mountains). Sierra Madre District (Wasatch Mountains)...District (Polar Mesa). Richardson District (Waring Creek). Thompsons District (S. E. Thompsons). Wilson Mesa...Spring Creek District (Deep Creek Mountains). Tintic District (East Tintic Mountains). Trout Creek (Johnson...(Johnson Peak) District (Deep Creek Mountains). West Tintic District (West Tintic Mountains). KANE COUNTY
Journal (issue)
corundums manufactured in America by Air Products Co. Co. have already been briefly Linde Air briefly described...film, and I give you the film produced with the full co-operation as technicians of De Beers Consolidated...region of Nova Scotia in 1873, the author of this series the Bay Bay of Fundy Fundy region Nova Scotia of this...observations. T T BLOMIDON HE Bay of Fundy region of Nova Scotia yields some of the finest gem crystals of amethyst...amethyst and other minerals to be found in Canada. This is particularly true of Blomidon, not far from
Report (volume)
Geological Survey, Federal Center, Box 25425, Denver, CO 80225 CONTENTS Page Abstract.................... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Roanoke Creek Basin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Briery Creek Basin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....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
Report (issue)
County_________________________________________________ Swan Creek district________________________________________...County_______________________________________________ Beaver Creek lead-zinc mine________________________________ Park...____ ___ ______ __________ __ _______ _____ Spring Creek district_______________________________________...and E. B. Young of the Combined Metals Reduction Co.; J. M. Boutwell, A. W. Pinger, and Mr. and Mrs....Sackett of the International Smelting and Refining Co.; B. C. Sharp, geologist for the U.S. Atomic. Energy
Book (edition)
Department of Commerce 91; State of Maine 92; Nova Scotia Communications and Information Centre 95; Department...home or in other parts of the United States or Canada—a person can go to for a certain vacation activity...directory to each region of the United States and Canada, indicating the outstanding outdoor vacation possibilities...and colleagues throughout the United States and Canada can recommend. You'll find a brief account of each...for outdoor vacations, and across the border in Canada other vast areas await the camper, backpacker,
Report (issue)
in a gangue of iron-stained calcite and dolomite and are found at Swan Creek, Utah, and near St. Charles...and limestones.... Unconformity. Jurassic: Twin Creek limestone (shaly limestone)............... Jurassic...argillaceous shales; small rounded nodules of calcite are scattered irregularly through many of the layers...RIVER RANGE, IDAHO-UTAH. 181 SWAN CREEK, UTAH. 1 The prospect on Swan Creek, described as the Victoria...of malachite, azurite, accompanying barite, and calcite in a much brecciated zone approximately parallel
Report (volume)
City limestone._.-._-_.__________________________ Swan .Peak ,quar.tzite__ _ __-__-_--_--__L___--____________...sandstone...___._._--_-___..__________________ Twin Creek limestone-_---------------____-_-___--__.__ Jurassic...Valley anticline.------__--_..______-__--___-Curtis Creek syncline------------_------_----___----_-Bannock...overthrust._.___------_-_--____---________________ Birch Creek folds---.----------------.---____________ Vicinity...Bear Lake at Garden City; B, Delta of North Eden Creek and former shore line of Bear Lake..:. . ....--
Report (volume)
5, nos. 24-30; vol. 6, nos. 1-2. Berkeley, Cal. Canada, Geological Survey: Summary Report for 1909; Memoirs...14; and miscellaneous publications. Ottawa, Ont. Canada, Department of Mines, Mines Branch: Bulletins,...2^4; and miscellaneous publications. Ottawa, Ont. Canada, Royal Society: Proceedings and Transactions, 3d...Mining Journal, vol. 31. Toronto and Montreal, Canada. Carnegie Institution of Washington: Yearbook,...Survey: Bulletin, nos. 21, 22. Chapel Hill. N.C. . Nova Scotia Institute of Science: Proceedings and Transactions
Report (volume)
Gesner, H ............ Industrial Resources of Nova Scotia, p. 244. TapVarvn O T1 Lyell, C ............outcrops of Newark rocks in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia (PI. n). In New Brunswick these rocks occur in...occupies probably less than 1 square mile. In'Nova Scotia it forms the east shore of the bay of Fundy from...atlas sheets published by the Geological Survey of Canada.5 1 Manual of Geology, 2d ed., New York, 1875,...area is shown in part, on the Geological Map of Canada and Adjacent Regions, by James Hall and W. E. Logan
Report (volume)
Bulletin, vol. 2, no. 8-vol. 4, no. 13. Berkeley, Cal. Canada: Geological Survey: Annual Reports, new ser., vols...Catalogue of the Marine Invertebrata of Eastern Canada. Canada, Royal Society: Proceedings and Transactions...Ottawa, Canada. , . . .Canadian Institute: Transactions, vol. 7 and vol. 8, pt. 1. Toronto, Canada. Canadian... vols. 4-7. Ottawa, Canada. Canadian Mining Review: vols. 20-24. Ottawa, Canada. 6 LIST OF PUBLICATIONS...Science: vol. 8, no. 5-vol. 9, no. 4. Montreal, Canada. Carnegie Institution of Washington: Yearbook,
Book
hemispherical groups resembling a bunch of grapes. Cumberland, England. Plate 2. REPRESENTATIVE MINERAL...small area in the vicinity of Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. The world's ‱ most important emerald locality...weight approximately 90 tons; Lacy Mine, Ontario, Canada. QUARTZ: Milky white crystal; close to 11Âœ feet...APATITE: 550-pound crystal; Ottawa County, Quebec, Canada. Crystal Faces The regular, smooth growth planes...feldspars (see oligoclase, Plate 8, facing p. 51). Calcite and dolomite frequently exhibit fine striations
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Journal (issue)
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