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Astrophyllite from
Saint-Amable sill, Varennes & St-Amable, Lajemmerais RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada


Locality type:Sill
Classification
Species:Astrophyllite
Formula:K2NaFe72+Ti2Si8O26(OH)4F
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Microcline11 photos of Astrophyllite associated with Microcline at this locality.
Låvenite10 photos of Astrophyllite associated with Låvenite at this locality.
Aegirine7 photos of Astrophyllite associated with Aegirine at this locality.
Rinkite-(Ce)3 photos of Astrophyllite associated with Rinkite-(Ce) at this locality.
Kukharenkoite-(Ce)3 photos of Astrophyllite associated with Kukharenkoite-(Ce) at this locality.
Polylithionite3 photos of Astrophyllite associated with Polylithionite at this locality.
Eudialyte3 photos of Astrophyllite associated with Eudialyte at this locality.
Rhodochrosite3 photos of Astrophyllite associated with Rhodochrosite at this locality.
Natrolite2 photos of Astrophyllite associated with Natrolite at this locality.
Kupletskite Group2 photos of Astrophyllite associated with Kupletskite Group at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Astrophyllite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Saint-Amable sill, Varennes & St-Amable, Lajemmerais RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:856031
Long-form Identifier:1:3:856031:5
GUID (UUID V4):5ed3e52e-ca58-4630-b727-cfd8bafb4d46
Localities for Astrophyllite in this Region
Demix-Varennes quarry, Saint-Amable sill, Varennes & St-Amable, Lajemmerais RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University 859 Sherbrooke Street West Montreal, Québec, Canada H3A 0C4 peter.tarassoff@mail.mcgill.ca LÁSZLÓ...Heights, Québec, Canada J0P 1J0 laszlo.horvath@sympatico.ca SERANDITE Mont Saint-Hilaire, Montérégie, Québec...Québec, Canada F or many mineral collectors, serandite is synonymous with Mont Saint-Hilaire. This extraordinary...abundance to those from Mont Saint-Hilaire. For this reason a Mont Saint-Hilaire serandite has been chosen...longtime mineral collector with a focus on Mont Saint-Hilaire. He is honorary curator of mineralogy at
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
HYDROTERSKITE: A NEW MINERAL SPECIES FROM THE SAINT-AMABLE SILL, QUEBEC, AND A COMPARISON WITH TERSKITE AND... Box 3443, Station D, Ottawa, Ontario K2P 1E4, Canada ABSTRACT Hydroterskite, ideally Na2ZrSi6O12(OH)6...species from the Saint-Amable sill at the Demix-Varennes quarry, near Varennes, Québec, Canada. Hydroterskite...centric structure, hydrogen atoms, Saint-Amable sill, Varennes, Québec, Canada. INTRODUCTION Terskite was first...found at the Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint Hilaire, Rouville County, Québec (Mandarino & Anderson 1989). These
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
PHONOLITE, NAMIBIA, MONT SAINT-HILAIRE AND THE SAINT-AMABLE SILL, QUEBEC, CANADA Paula C. PIILONEN§ Research...Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, Ontario K1P 6P4, Canada Andrew M. McDONALD Department of Earth Sciences...Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario P3E 2C6, Canada Joel D. Grice, Ralph ROWE, Robert A. GAULT and...Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, Ontario K1P 6P4, Canada Mark A. COOPER Department of Geological Sciences...University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 2N2, Canada Uwe KOLITSCH Mineralogisch-Petrographische Abt
Report (issue)
X-ray Powder Pattern: Saint-Amable sill, Demix-Varennes quarry, Québec, Canada. 3.322 (100), 3.283 (80)...05 96.84 (1) Saint-Amable sill, Demix-Varennes quarry, near Varennes, Québec, Canada; average of 3 electron.... Occurrence: Formed in cavities in a phonolite sill, by post-magmatic hydrothermal processes. Association:...Association: Manganoneptunite, aegirine, analcime, an astrophyllite-group mineral, catapleiite, a eudialyte-group...Distribution: From the Saint-Amable sill, Demix-Varennes quarry, near Varennes, Québec, Canada. Name: For the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
cope LÁSZLÓ HORVÁTH 594 Main Road Hudson, Quebec Canada J0P 1H0 Downloaded by [University of Chicago Library]...group, was first described from Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada (Chao, Chen, and Baker 1980; Ghose,...eudialyte, kentbrooksite, microcline, aegirine, astrophyllite, fluorite, ancylite-(Ce), and rhodochrosite...contributions to the research on the mineralogy of Mont Saint-Hilaire. He was born in Montreal, Quebec, 11 April...in Egypt and Turkey, he ultimately immigrated to Canada in 1923. Between 1925 and 1928 he worked as a miner
Journal (issue)
kristalle.com j* f| E-mail: leicht@kristalle.com w St -L i" " - Editor & Publisher Wendell E. Wilson...Ann Arbor, Ml Andrew C. Roberts Geol. Surv. of Canada Ottawa George W. Robinson Seaman Mineral Museum... Articles Mineralogy of the Saint-Amable Sill, Varennes and Saint-Amable, Q u e b e c .................Pfenninger-Horvath 594 Main Road Hudson, Quebec, Canada JOP 1H0 Robert A. Gault Research Division Canadian...Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K IP 6P4 Peter Tarassoff 91 Lakeshore Road Beaconsfield, Quebec, Canada H9W 4H8 A
Report (issue)
09)Σ=1.97(CO3)2[(CO3)0.71F0.59]F. (2) Mont Saint-Hilaire, Canada; average of 3 electron microprobe analyses...phonolite of an alkaline intrusive complex (Mont Saint-Hilaire). Association: Villiaumite, aegirine, labuntsovite-group...manganoneptunite, rhodochrosite, sphalerite, astrophyllite (Saint-Amable); aegirine, albite, a clinoamphibole...mosandrite, natrolite, gonnardite, fluorapatite (Mont Saint-Hilaire pegmatite); aegirine, “tetranatrolite”,...goethite, an alkali feldspar, an astrophyllite-group mineral (Mont Saint-Hilaire sodalite syenite xenoliths)
Report (issue)
amphibole, biotite, eudialyte, catapleiite, astrophyllite, rinkite, lorenzenite, aegirine. Distribution:...Islands. At Mont Saint-Hilaire and in the Saint-Amable sill, near Varennes, Quebec, Canada. From Granite...Tarasso® (1998) Mineralogy of the Saint-Amable Sill, Varennes and Saint-Amable, Qu¶ebec. Mineral. Record, 29
Report (issue)
di®erence. (3) CaZrSi3 O9 ² 3H2 O: (4) Near Saint-Amable, Canada; by electron microprobe, corresponds to...miarolitic cavities in a nepheline syenite sill (near Saint-Amable, Canada). Association: Microcline, quartz,...aegirine, astrophyllite, eudialyte, microcline, mangan-neptunite, pyrite (near Saint-Amable, Canada). Distribution:...Okanogan Co., Washington, USA. From near Saint-Amable, Quebec, Canada. Name: For the calcium content and...Tarasso® (1998) Mineralogy of the Saint-Amable Sill, Varennes and Saint-Amable, Qu¶ebec. Mineral. Record, 29
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
PRELIMINARY REPORT ON THE MINERALOGY OF THE SAINT-AMABLE SILL, VARENNES, QUEBEC. R. A. Gaul?, Mineral Sciences...The Saint-Amable sill forms a low buttelike topographical feature between the villages of Varennes and...and Saint-Amable just east of the Saint Lawrence River and north of Mont Bruno, near Montreal, Quebec.... The sill is well exposed in the Varennes quarry, which has been operated continuously for crushed rock...alkaline composition and close proximity to Mont Saint-Hilaire and Mont Bruno suggest it is related to
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
alkalirich pegmatites of agpaitic Mont SaintHilaire complex in Quebec, Canada. It associates here with gaidonnayite...syenite, which makes part of the nearby Saint Amable sill (Horvath et al., 1998). This mineral in late...syenites of Southern Norway: with pyrophanite, astrophyllite, catapleiite, analcite, boehmite, etc. in Bratthagen...part of Strange Lake complex (QuebecLabrador, Canada). However, the data on chemistry of the mineral... pectolite, natrolite, eudialyte, rinkite, astrophyllite, apatite, fluorite, dawsonite, and sulfides
Book
MONT SAINT-HILAIRE: HISTORY, GEOLOGY, MINERALOGY About the cover The striking specimen shown on...specimens collected at Mont Saint-Hilaire; it features the species that made Mont Saint-Hilaire so well known...feature two species originally described from Mont Saint-Hilaire; they remain unique to that locality. On...named after the Monteregian Hills, of which Mont Saint-Hilaire is a member; carletonite is named after...University, where much of the early work on Mont Saint-Hilaire minerals was carried out. The monteregianite-(Y)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of Earth Sciences, Saint Petersburg State University, University Emb. 7/9, 199034 St. Petersburg, Russia;...a “seidozerite block” (=TS block, [17]) and astrophyllite-group minerals titanosilicate analogues of micas...nepheline syenites of the alkaline sill of St. Amable, Quebec, Canada [26], as forming prismatic crystals...were performed at the Resource Center “Geomodel” of St. Petersburg State University using the AzTec Energy...the Resource Center “X-ray Diffraction Methods” of St. Petersburg State University using Bruker Kappa APEX
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University, 955 Oliver Road, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada P7B 5E1 Received 29 March 2005; accepted 13 March...sodalite, eudialyte, aegirine, sodic amphibole and astrophyllite–kupletskite as primary minerals, are termed...(15–20 vol.%) and eudialyte (10–15 vol.%). Astrophyllite and lamprophyllite (5–10 vol.%.) occur as 0...F; ΣD + T total cations in D and T sites of astrophyllite–kupletskite structure (see Piilonen et al.,...prismatic aegirine associated with natrolite, (9) astrophyllite, (10) kupletskite, (11) lamprophyllite, (12)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Box 3443, Station D, Ottawa, Ontario K1P 6P4, Canada 2 Department of Natural History, Royal Ontario...Museum, 100 Queen’s Park, Toronto, Ontario M5S 2C6, Canada 1 adranosiTe* F. Demartin, C.M. Gramaccioli,...phonolite, Namibia, Mont Saint-Hilaire and the Saint-Amable sill, Quebec, Canada. Can. Mineral., 48, 661–671...unknown mineral in 2000. The material from St Amable and Mont Saint-Hilaire were recognized as new species...was the same species as the material from Mont Saint-Hilaire (MSH). These localities are regarded as
Book
(OH)·2H2O] from Rapid Creek area, Yukon Territory, Canada (c). The spectra were obtained by N.V. Chukanov...mine, near Penobsquis, Kings Co., New Brunswick, Canada (type locality). Description: White massive from...Springs potash deposit, Sussex, New Brunswick, Canada (type locality). Description: Crystals from the...Springs potash deposit, Sussex, New Brunswick, Canada (type locality). Description: Crystals from the...Division) mine, Penobsquis, Kings Co., New Brunswick, Canada (type locality). Description: Pale yellow, vitreous
Journal (volume)
Andersen (Norway), Adrian A. Finch (UK), John Gittins (Canada), Jens Konnerup-Madsen (Denmark), Raymond Macdonald...(Kola Peninsula, Russia), and Mont Saint-Hilaire (Quebec, Canada) are among the areas in the world which...localities for 127 minerals (Pekov 1998) and Mont Saint-Hilaire holds the type localities for 38 minerals...(Andersen et al. 1969) and later found at Mont Saint-Hilaire and given the name tetranatrolite (Chen...T.T. & Chao, G.Y. 1980: Tetranatrolite from Mont St-Hilaire, Quebec. Canadian Mineralogist 18, 77–84
Book
Sergey V. Krivovichev Saint-Petersburg State University Russia Editorial Office MDPI St. Alban-Anlage 66 4052...Drybones Bay Kimberlite Pipe (Northwest Territories, Canada): A High-Resolution Trace Element and Geochronological...received his PhD and Doctor of Sciences degrees from St. Petersburg State University. He is currently a Head...(Apatity, Russia) and Professor of Crystallography at St. Petersburg State University. During his career,...of Earth Sciences, St. Petersburg State University, University Emb. 7/9, 199034 St. Petersburg, Russia
Book (edition)
All rights reserved. Published simultaneously in Canada. Reproduction or translation or any part of this...compelation of the American Geological Institute, 4220 King St., Alexandria, VA, 22302-1502. However, without the...Ercit: Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Richard C. Erd: U.S.G.S., Menlo Park, California...INFORMATION The United States, from east to west Canada Mexico Central America and the Caribbean Greenland...Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming WA WV WI WY Provinces, Canada AB Alberta BC British Columbia NF Labrador (part
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Pezzotta and Zorzi (2008). ILMENITE UNITED STATES and CANADA BRITISH COLUMBIA Ice River complex. The Ice River...(2006: 240). J r ILMENITE QUEBEC Girardville, Lac Saint-Jean area. Just northwest of the town of Girardville...Girardville, itself 40 km northwest of Lac Saint-Jean in south-central Quebec, very large and sharp ilmenite...(Philippe Beiley, personal communication, 2010). Mont Saint-Hilaire. Ilmenite is relatiYelycommon in miarolitic...miarolitic cavities in the nepheline syenite of Saint-Hilaire, but specimen-grade crystals are seldom larger
 
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