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⇱ Zircon from Francon quarry, Montréal, Québec, Canada


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Zircon from
Francon quarry, Montréal, Québec, Canada

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Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Zircon
Formula:Zr(SiO4)
Habit:fine-grained
Colour:pink, yellow, brown, grey
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Zircon data
Locality Data:Click here to view Francon quarry, Montréal, Québec, Canada
Photo GalleryView Gallery (2 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:12221
Long-form Identifier:1:3:12221:4
GUID (UUID V4):0
Nearest other occurrences of Zircon
6.4km (4.0 miles) Canadian National Railway tunnel, Mont Royal, Montréal, Québec, Canada
6.6km (4.1 miles) Corporation (Forsyth's) quarry, Mont Royal, Montréal, Québec, Canada
21.5km (13.3 miles) Dulude Quarry (DJL - Carrière Mont-Bruno), Mont Saint Bruno, Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, Longueuil TE, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
23.2km (14.4 miles) Demix-Varennes quarry, Saint-Amable sill, Varennes & St-Amable, Lajemmerais RCM, Montérégie, 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
44.3km (27.5 miles) Mont Rougemont, Rouville RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
54.6km (33.9 miles) Mont Rigaud, Vaudreuil-Soulanges RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
56.6km (35.2 miles) Saint-André carbonatite complex, Argenteuil RCM, Laurentides, Québec, Canada
78.9km (49.0 miles) Miller Mine (Keystone Mine; Grenville graphite deposit), Grenville-sur-la-Rouge, Argenteuil RCM, Laurentides, Québec, Canada
79.8km (49.6 miles) Autoroute 50 roadcut No. 1, Grenville-sur-la-Rouge, Argenteuil RCM, Laurentides, Québec, Canada
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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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, `ÉÇàܰtÄ? dâ°uxv Peter Tarassoff 91 Lakeshore Road Beaconsfield, Québec, Canada
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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
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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
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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. M41-8/32E Canada: $7.50 ISBN 0-660-11547-6 Other countries:...without notice $9.00 PlateI Mont St-Hillaire quarry. (GSC 138741) CONTENTS ix | Abstract l Introduction
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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
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MACROCRYSTS IN GABBRO, MONT ROYAL, MONTREAL, QUEBEC, CANADA ANDREI Y. BARKOV§ AND ROBERT F. MARTIN Department...3450 University Street, Montreal, Quebec H3A 0E8, Canada ABSTRACT We document unusual zones of Cr enrichment...crystallization, Mont Royal intrusive center, Montreal, Canada. INTRODUCTION Although Mont Royal, the prominent...limestone. These sills are well exposed in the Francon quarry, located within the city limits 8 km north...orthoclase (K and Al), spessartine (Mn), chromite (Cr), zircon (Zr), metallic V, synthetic (Co,Ni)2As (Co), ZnS
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University 859 Sherbrooke Street West Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 0C4 peter.tarassoff@sympatico.ca M CGILL...Pinch Medal from the Mineralogical Association of Canada. VISITOR INFORMATION Address: Redpath Museum,...Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, Quebec H3A 0C4, Canada Hours: Monday–Friday, 9 a.m.–5 p.m.; Sunday, 11...Montreal founded in 1827, and the Geological Survey of Canada established in 1842. All three museums were available...scientific endeavor. In 1877 the government of Canada decided to move the Geological Survey and its museum
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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
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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
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
856 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, Quebec, Canada 2 Department of Geological Sciences, McGill University...University, 3450 University Street, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3A 2A7 Received January 7, 1992/Accepted August...1992 Abstract. Ordovician limestones in the Francon quarry on the island of Montreal, Quebec, are host...hydrous carbonate, first identified in the Francon quarry. Four types of inclusions have been recognized...reported from the Montreal area including the Francon quarry where it is a major mineral in three felsic
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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
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
W o r l d News on Mineral Occurrences CANADA V A N D A L L T. KING Ontario Ward's Natural Science...sylvite, and anhydrite. Quebec Francon quarry The large Francon quarry in Montreal is located in a residential...little or no land available for expanding the quarry. The economics of dig­ ging deeper for the construction-grade...of mining offsets transportation costs. The Francon quarry is world-famous for being the first (or only)...are found at the Francon quarry. Dawsonite was first found in a quarry near the Francon. The city of Montreal
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geological Survey of Canada by Ann P. Sabina). Quebec Francon Quarry The Francon quarry in Montreal is famous...dis­ covered what appears to be a first for the quarry—cube faces on analcime. This mineral almost always...shows a trapezohedron with a cube modification. CANADA Newfoundland Hematite Ms. Brenna Lorenz of Syracuse..."dresserite" examined. It was identified in the quarry by an "expert." On the specimens were gray botryoids...also available as tiny, loose crystals. Jeffrey Quarry, Asbestos The following note comes from D r . Steve
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Journal (issue)
Ann Arbor, MI Andrew C. Roberts Geol. Surv. of Canada Ottawa George W. Robinson Seaman Mineral Museum...Vietnam . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225 by D. Blauwet Francon revisited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...price of $475 postpaid in the United States and Canada (write or e-mail for the shipping surcharge to...chance? Within minutes I was at the base of the quarry, but I quickly noticed large square blocks of numbered...LONG, and HOANG QUANG VINH (2003) Xac dinh duoi zircon trong bao the rubi va spinel vung Luc Yen bang
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Kohút 1997; Kubiš and Broska 2005, 2010). Recent zircon U–Pb and molybdenite Re–Os isotopic dating indicate...from alkali silicocarbonatites in Francon quarry, Montréal, Canada does not contain any detectable Mn...D, Janák M (2002) First Permian–Early Triassic zircon ages for tin-bearing granites from the Gemeric...Roberts AC, Dunn PJ (1983) Viitaniemiite from the Francon quarry, Montreal, Quebec. Can Mineral 21: 499–502
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Journal (issue)
may be made in local currency to the following: Canada: Mrs. J.W . Peat. 36 Oeepwood Crescent. Don Mills...Blount Little Rock, Arkansas 72209 The Jeffrey quarry, near North Little Rock, Arkansas, has produced...to come from the Arkan­ sas quartz region. The quarry is now closed but specimens of quartz, ankerite...Arkansas, and south of Camp Robinson. The quarry, known as Jeffrey quarry, is just north of McArthur Drive (Conway...and deposited the minerals for which the Jeffrey quarry is now well known. The rocks in the two well mineralized
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Norway, 145 CANADA,contrasting parageneses in a Grenvillian granitoid pluton, 355; Francon quarry, Montreal...Hercynian Au veins, 231 Francolite, 508 Francon quarry, see Montreal, Canada FUKUOKA, M., see DASGUPTA,S., 511...in kimberlites from Pakistan, 559 Montreal, see Canada ALPHABETICAL INDEX MORAND, V. J., black slate...Australia New York, see U.S.A Newfoundland, see Canada NICOLLET, C., grandidierite, serendibite and tourmaline...in the Spanish Central System, 267 Quebec, see Canada QUILEZ, E., SIERRA,J. and VINDEL,E., a fluid inclusion
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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
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
tamarugite(?), thenardite, 172 Blaen-y-Nant, Nant Francon, Caernarvonshire, North Wales: chlorite, gar- ...azurite, olivenite, 428; coronadite, 343 Embleton quarry, Cockermouth: alunite, dickite, thaumasite, zunyite...scheelite, 921 Meldon aplite quarry, Okehampton: bavenite, 577 Meldon limestone quarry, Okehampton: scheelite...with muscovite, microcline, columbite, monazite, zircon, gahnite, kasolite, betafite(?), 373 Lock a' Sgurr...Langevat, South Harris: pegmatite with epidote, zircon, spessartine, allanite, nraninite, thorite, monazite
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Catalog/List
- ·MINERALS 200 Napier Street, Barrie, Ontario, Canada. Telephone: 1 (705) 726-~713 o LIST #3 - APRIL...ACTINOLITE: Gooderham, Ontario, Canada. crystals ACTINOLITE: St. Hilaire. Qu0bec, Canada, acicular sprays and tufts...tufts ACTINOLITE: Bull Run Quarry, Loudon County, Virginia, USA. sprays and tufts ACTINOLITE,variety...sections AS /\BOVE AEGERINE: St. Hilaire, Quebec, Canada. acicular sprays and tufts, crystal sections AEGERINE...AEGERINE,ALBIT~: St. Hilaire, Quebec, Canada. crystal sections, sprays and tufts AENIGMATITE, varfoty
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Journal (issue)
Minerals-Hardness Vandall T. King Thumbnails-Francon Quarry Norman D. Biggarl and John Reiner Chips and...Add $3.00 for subscriptions outside the U.S. and Canada. All orders by indi­ viduals should be paid in...this quarry. Ms. Sabina’s paper notes that Dresscrite has its only known occurrence at the Francon Quarry...Star Rt. 62, Box 370 pedia is also present in the quarry. Al­ Center Harbor, N.H. 03226 though the Canadian...ANY SPECIMEN THAT Plagioclasc a mineral at the quarry, private communique identifies this minera WILL
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
interactions recorded in the Cambrian– Ordovician detrital zircon geochronology of North Wales Hayley D. Pothier...Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G2E3, Canada British Geological Survey, Columbus House, Greenmeadow...orogen Tectonics Peri-Gondwanan terrane Detrital zircon geochronology Provenance a b s t r a c t Precambrian...together comprising the domain Megumia. A detrital zircon analysis from Cambrian sandstone in the Harlech...least until the Silurian. The Cambrian detrital zircon record from the Arfon Basin does not show clear
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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
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Report (issue)
Mont-Laurier Grenville, Québec; Hawkesbury - Ottawa, Ontario Geological Survey of Canada Miscellaneous Report... @ Minister of Supply and Services Canada 1986 Available in Canada through authorized bookstore agents...Supply and Services Canada Ottawa, Canada K I A OS9 and from Geological Survey of Canada offices: 601 Booth...Booth Street Ottawa, Canada KIA OE8 3303-33rd Street N.W., Calgary, Alberta T2L 2A7 A deposit copy of this...reference in public libraries across Canada Cat. No. M41-8/33E Canada: $7.50 ISBN 0-660-11941-2 Other countries:
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Catalog/List
mass nearly lxl inch with Hydrocerussite. Merehead Quarry Mendips £35 9. SIMPSONITE Orange cleavage mass...5mm across on lxl with small quartz crystals Francon Quarry Montreal Quebec £25 14. VESUVIANITE lxl inch...inch matrix Pancake Bay, lake Superior Ontario Canada £10 £12 2x3 18. BERYLLONITE (pictured left)...(Henderson# 2 mine, 3250 level, Chibugamu, Quebec Canada) £12 24. CUPRIAN MELANTERITE rich bluish-green...in magnetite Whitehorse Mine, Whitehorse, Yukon Canada 2xl.5 inch £18 30_ PALYGORSKITE, creamy coloured
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