| Title | Rocks and minerals for the collector: Buckingham-Mont-Laurier-Grenville, Quebec; Hawkesbury-Ottawa, Ontario |
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| Licence | Please note the adoption of the Open Government Licence - Canada
supersedes any previous licences. |
| Author | Sabina, A P |
| Source | Geological Survey of Canada, Miscellaneous Report 33, 1986, 90 pages; 1 CD-ROM, https://doi.org/10.4095/120600  Open Access |
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| Year | 1986 |
| Document | serial |
| Lang. | English |
| Media | CD-ROM; paper; on-line; digital |
| Related | This publication supercedes Rocks and minerals for the
collector : Buckingham, Mont Laurier, Grenville, Quebec; Hawkesbury, Ottawa, Ontario |
| File format | readme
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| File format | pdf |
| Province | Quebec; Ontario |
| NTS | 31G/05; 31G/06; 31G/07; 31G/08; 31G/09; 31G/10; 31G/11; 31G/12; 31G/13; 31G/14; 31G/15; 31G/16; 31J/01; 31J/02; 31J/03; 31J/04; 31J/05; 31J/06; 31J/07; 31J/08; 31J/09; 31J/10; 31J/11; 31J/12 |
| Area | Hawkesbury Area; Ottawa Area; Mont-laurier Area; Buckingham Area |
| Lat/Long WENS | -76.0000 -74.0000 46.7500 45.2500 |
| Subjects | mineralogy; mineral specimens; minerals; mineral distribution; mines; limestones; gneisses; pegmatites; Canadian Shield; St. Lawrence Lowlands |
| Illustrations | photographs; location maps |
| Released | 1986 08 01; 2003 04 01; 2011 01 24 |
| Abstract | Occurrences of rocks, minerals and fossils are described from over one hundred and fifty localities from Buckingham to Mont-Laurier, St-Jovite and Grenville in Quebec, and in Ontario between Hawkesbury
and Ottawa. These occurrences provide a variety of specimens including some potential ornamental types such as feldspar, serpentine, marble and granite. Probably the best known area is the du Lièvre River valley where the intense mining activity that
began nearly a century ago has left numerous former apatite, mica, feldspar and graphite mines. Their dumps still furnish the collector with good specimens of the ore minerals as well as a variety of accessory minerals. Other deposits in the region
yield specimens of hematite, asbestos, barite, galena, etc. In the region between Mont-Laurier, St-Jovite and Grenville, dumps of old mines and quarries contain specimens of ilmenite, graphite, garnet, serpentine, kaolinite, marble, granite, etc.
Only the serpentine and marble occur in specimens sufficiently large to be used for lapidary purposes. Ordovician limestones containing some fossils are exposed along the highway, the shoreline, and in quarries between Hawkesbury and Ottawa.
These rocks are not rich in minerals except for calcite. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 120600 |
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