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| ·- I A : I ♦ • ROCKBOUND'S . PARADISE I Bancroft and Region l Old Mines Quarries Outcrops Roadcuts...Identification Guide to the·Rocks and Minerals of the Area Bob Trueman. l • The Geology of the Princess...Dungannoo Township, aboo 2.5 mile (4 km) n rth t of Bancroft • _- within a ~cries of ~kalinc . ( 5km) ardfrom...partially replaced by sodalite. The rocks of the area have been mylonitized J>y late particularly attractive...al. Classic .\.fmeral Collecting Localities in Ontario and Quebec; XXIV International Geological Congress |
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| the highlands of the Bancroft area, Ontario. PO Box 1924 Bancroft, Ontario, Canada K0L 1C0 mcdougallray@gmail...collection F Ontario, Canada or more than one hundred years, mineral specimens from the Bancroft area, Ontario...Ontario, Canada, have been added to collections around the world, gracing the display cases of museums and...Although the days of commercial mining in the Bancroft area are over, and access to localities has become...superb specimens are still found today, and Bancroft-area minerals and their localities continue to be |
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| PETCH, B.A. Past President and Publicity Chairman, Bancroft Mineral Society Limited Rock Club Cutting and...star sapphire cabochons is the top rock news from Bancroft this past winter. Sam Woodcox has made up a number...gems from black corundum found in the area. The sapphire is a member of the corundum family which has...beautiful green corundum known as Oriental Emerald. The Oriental Ruby, which is deep red corundum, is the one...diamond of similar size and perfection. The blue corundum called Oriental Sapphire was the one the Hebrews |
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| Highway 134 is shown, but is not labelled. - BANCROFT TRlP 1 - This mine is closed and most of the Photo...It is also private property. BANCROFT TRlP 2 Figure 10, p. 64 BANCROFT TRlP 3 Figure 11, p. 68 Photo...500 is now Highway 28. - From Stop 11, Craigmont Corundum Mine, to Combermere, take Highway 517; the road...SCENERY PETERBOROUGH, BANCROFT AND MADOC AREA Geological Guide Book No. 3 ONTARIO DEPARTMENT OF MINES...MINES Reprinted by Ontario Ministry of Northern Development and Mines Sean Conway, Minister of Mines (iii) |
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| THE NEPHELINE AND CORUNDUM ROCKS OF SOUTHEASTERN ONTARIO Lours Moyn, Bancroft,Ontario. CowrrNrs A b s t...tJl /J5 739 Description of the nepheline and corundum rocks. Occurrence. Structures. Composition ..... Genesis of the nepheline and corundum rocks. Statement of hypothesis. . Alteration of the Grenville...no f n e p h e l i n e . . . . . . Formation of corundum Later alterations. .. . Age relations. . Summary...well-known nepheline- and corundum-bearing gneissesof southeastern Ontario. Field evidence appears to |
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| 1 Bancroft & District CHAMBER OF COMMERCE P.O. B o x 5 3 9 , B a n c r o f t , O N K 0 L 1C0 Tel: (613)...commerce.bancroft.on.ca Be sure to visit... The Bancroft Mineral Museum Located in the "Old Station",...region Eagle's Nest Lookout Get an overview of Bancroft and the scenic York River Valley from the top...canyon is part of the Crowe River Valley Conservation Area, and is a great place for a family outing. Bear...Chamber of Commerce for information and permits. Bancroft & District Chamber of Commerce Information on |
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| ONTARIO DEPARTMENT OF MINES Hon. G. C. Wardrope, Minister D. P. Douglass, Deputy Minister J. E. Thomson...Geological Branch Pegmatite Mineral Resources of Ontario By D. F. HEWITT Industrial Mineral Report 21...Production in Ontario (Table 1). . . . . .. . . . ... Number of Pegmatite Deposits opened in Ontario (Table..... . . . .. . . . 9 Selling Crude Feldspar in Ontario. . . . . . . . . ... . . . . .. . . . . . . . ... . . ... 10 History of Feldspar Production in Ontario .. . . . . . ... . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . |
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| Saint-Hilaire and Montreal Area Quarries, VHS format, 32 minutes, 1990; $36.50. Bancroft Area Mineral Localities...Moose Video, 198 Clonmore Drive, Scarboro, Ontario, Canada M1N 1Y1. Add $7.00 shipping and handling for...mineral collectors. Mont Saint-Hilaire and Montreal Area Quarries begins with a review of the history and...excellent and come from the collections of the Royal Ontario Museum (including micrographs from the Violet Anderson...interview with Ann Sabina of the Geological Survey of Canada, who has led the mineralogical work on the Francon |
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| John Mitchell of Port Hope, Ontario, Canada, had been urging me to visit Ontario singing praises about the...the wonderful collecting to be had in the Bancroft Area. (Now I am making it a duet.) When I saw an ad...Peter catered to rockhounds and was in the Bancroft area, I decided to inquire further. After corresponding...River, a short walk from here brought us to blue corundum location. Then crossing the river, a ROCKS AND...many productive locations that the local club in Bancroft not only has field trips on Sundays but also on |
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| Survey of Canada Miscellaneous Report 39 Bancroft - Parry Sound area and Southern Ontario Ann P. Sabina...Sabina L 1*1 Natural Resources Canada Ressources naturelles Canada 1986 CanadZ L COVER Left: Betafite...Collection specimen No. 42584. National Museum of Canada photo No. 1168B. Note: actual specimen is dark...brown. Right: Nepheline crystals, Davis Hill, Bancroft. Specimen measures 21 cm by 20 cm. National Mineral...Collection specimen No. 36463. National Museum of Canada photo No. 1361. Note: actual specimen is grey with |
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| Some classic mineral localities in Southeastern Ontario..................................................Collins The Lake Clear-Kuehl Lake area, Renfrew County, Ontario.......................................Quartz crystals from the Granite Creek-Lolo Pass area, Montana..........................................219 by M.Jensen Some rare minerals of the Bancroft area ..............................................Leicestershire LE7 7QB Canada: Mrs. J. W. Peat 36 Deepwood Crescent Don Mills, Ontario M3C 1N8 South Africa: |
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| THE BANCROFT AREA AND ITS MINERALS About one billion years ago the famous mineral deposits of the Bancroft...Bancroft area were formed. The Bancroft deposits occur in a series of metamorphic rocks found in the southerly...borders or the zone. The area lying within a forty mile radius of the town of Bancroft contains some of the... The R.O.M. has over seventy minerals from this area including (those italicized most likely to be found):...chabazite, chalmersite, chondrodite, columbite, corundum, datolite, dhpside, dumortierite, epidote, euxinite |
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| ROCKHOUND HEAVEN—BANCROFT AREA OF ONTARIO 212 By KER.M I T M . S T O N G Meadow R d . , Bel A i r ,...g just returned from an exciting two weeks i n Canada has prompted me to pass on my experience to others...of our d u b centered our vacations around the Bancroft Gemboree which was held the first week in August...plant fossil for one of John's corundum crystals. I consider this area to be a haven for rockhounding...along with giant sphene, uranium minerals, gold, corundum, beryl, rose quartz, sodalite, beautiful orange |
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| 2- -'/ % • / • '• f • ' * * ' < €•"••- Ontario Geological Survey Mineral Deposits Circular 23...Radioactive Mineral Deposits of the Pembroke-Renfrew Area by S.L. Masson and J.B. Gordon This project is funded...Governments of Canada and Ontario 1981 Ministry of Hon James A c Au|d - - - Minister Ontario Natural..._ x «0MNR-OGS1981 Printed In Canada Publications of the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and...Whitney Block, Queen's Park, Toronto, and the Ontario Government Bookstore, 880 Bay Street, Toronto. |
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| and a member of the Mineralogical Association of Canada, Mineralogical Society of Great Britain, Microbeam...Contact: I(AI U ~ayorsocrates:(uo1 TlQwos BANCROFT ONTARIO, CANADA Downloaded by [Heriot-Watt University]...07:55 08 January 2015 "the Mineral Capital of Canada" The mining capital it is not. Commercial mining...activity has long since moved on fkom the Bancroft district, but this area has seen a lot of mining in its day...day. At the turn-of-thecentury, pioneers to this area delighted in the fact that most of the materials |
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| Articles Amethyst from the Thunder Bay region, Ontario .................................................Elliott at the Diamond Willow mine near Thunder Bay, Ontario. Photo by Harold and Erica Van Pelt, Los Angeles...Leicestershire LE7 7Qb Canada: Mrs. J. W. Peat 36 Deepwood Crescent Don Mills, Ontario M3C 1N8 South Africa:...Bay Region, Ontario by Donald G. Elliott P.O. Box 253 Thunder Bay, Ontario P7C 4V8 Canada methyst from...from the Thunder Bay region of Ontario has been col lected, sold to tourists, and exported to Europe since |
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| and Bancroft Areas, Providence of Ontario. By FRANK D. ADAMSand ALFRED E. BARLOW. Ottawa: Canada Department...and Bancroft areas describedby Adams and Barlow are located in the southeastern part of Ontario within...square miles, of which the southern portion, the Bancroft area, consists mainly of limestone and dolomite,...gneisses and granites, exposed mainly in the Haliburton area to the north, and making up more than half of the...northern part of the 99 Ioo0 REVIEWS Haliburton area. From thence it descends toward the northeast, thus |
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| Rocks and Minerals of Ontario -- H f ONTARIO DEPARTMENT OF MINES AND NORTHERN AFFAIRS Honourable...and Minerals of Ontario By D. F. HEWITT Chief, Industrial Mineral Section Ontario Department of Mines... (Courtesy The International Nickel Company of Canada, Limited). Centre left: Eurypterus lacustris, an...about 400 m.y. ago; Welland County. (Courtesy Shell Canada Ltd.). right: left: — — — Centre right: Archaeocrinus...are common in Paleozoic limestones throughout Ontario. A large crinoid reef extended along presentday |
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| report indicated that the Kirkland Lake area of northern Ontario is also attracting considerable attention...Kirkland Lake area as a result of extensive field work by the Geological Survey of Canada over the last...the esker came from the Kirkland Lake-Larder Lake area, where some kimberlite dikes have since been found...exploring a kimberlite pipe in the Upper Canada Mine, near Timmins, Ontario. Does this indicate that a diamond...metamorphism. The lack of success in finding pipes in Canada and the northern states h.is been the destruction |
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| the Community Centre. Michael Bainbridge photo. Bancroft Downloaded by [University of Lethbridge] at 13:39... y husband, George, and I began attending the Bancroft Gemboree back in the mid-1970s. The show helped...graduate school at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. Many of our self-collected minerals came from...the numerous, well-known localities that circle Bancroft: the Silver Crater mine, Turner’s Island in Lake...near Tory Hill, and localities in the Wilberforce area, among others. Grenville minerals ranked high on |
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| various textural features. INTRODUCTION I N the area lying to the south of Kunavaram (lat. 17° 34' N...amphibolites, and granite gneisses. A portion of this area, about 280 km2, lying between Kunavaram in the north-east...so Explanation AL I Alluvium Biotite nepheline corundum syenite Hornblende biotite nepheline syenite Biotite...the area around Kunavaram is listed in Table 1. TABLE 1 Precambrian rocks of the Kunavaram Area Stratigraphic...Stratigraphic position Rocks of the area Kunavaram Series (alkaline rocks) Syenites: pyroxene-, amphibole- |
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| 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...in Canada (fig. 1). Some gem localities, such as those for amethyst from Nova Scotia and Ontario, have...sapphire in Nunavut, emerald in the Yukon and Ontario, and peridot, topaz, and aquamarine in British...BRADLEY S. WILSON PO Box 352 Kingston, Ontario K7L 4W2 Canada brad@alpinegems.ca 96*2: 405,9(3: |
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| Publications Committee 270 Brock Street Peterborough, Ontario K9H 2P9 Editorial committee: Michael Peterman,...dozen other successful mining operations, both in Canada and United States, giving stable employment to...major success story for Peterborough County and for Canada. In 1934, Bill Morrison acquired a few hundred...around the turn of the century for sheet mica and corundum. Indeed, it may have been these that local people...There was a late flurry of interest in mica and corundum in the early months of World War II because of |
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| JuNE-JuLY, 1955 URANIUM DEVELOPMENTS IN 4 ONTARIO J. D. BATEMAN ABSTRACT Uraniferous reef-type...Canadian Shield have been under investigationin Ontario during the past two years. Very large tonnages...analogousgeologicalconditionselsewherein eastern Canada and in correspondingPrecambrian formations in the...large-scaleproductionhave been explored and developedin Ontario during the past two years. One of the geologic...reef-likeconglomerates 0f Huronian age in the Blind River area north of Lake Huron; and the other in pegmatiticdikes |
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| permission of the Director of the Geological Survey of Canada. Read November 6th, ]907.) [PLATESXI-XIII.] CONTENTS................................. Structure of the Area ..................................................in the early years of the Geological Survey of Canada, was gradually unravelling the stratigraphical...obliterated bedding. He subsequently found in Eastern Ontario a series of rocks which he considered in all probability...2015 Yol. 64.] ThE LAVRENT~A~SYS~r~ I~ ~aS~RN CANADA. 129 The work of Prof. Lawson in the Lake-Superior |
Craigmount workings, Craigmont Mine, Raglan Township, Brudenell-Lyndoch-and-Raglan, Renfrew County, Ontario, Canada