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Zircon from
Cabonga Reservoir, Réservoir-Dozois, La Vallée-de-l'Or RCM, Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Québec, Canada


Locality type:Reservoir
Classification
Species:Zircon
Formula:Zr(SiO4)
Comments:Found in minute amounts in the Nepheline Syenites. Very small crystal except for
the occasional specimen up to 2cm.

Zircon up to 2cm in also found in granite and in alluvial deposits.



Habit:Euhedral, tetragonal dipyramidal
Colour:Brown, Pink, Yellow, Colorless
Luminescent properties:Orange in LW
Quality for species:Good crystals or rich for species - important (!)
Abundance at site:Very common
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:EPMA
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Nepheline1 photo of Zircon associated with Nepheline at this locality.
Biotite1 photo of Zircon associated with Biotite at this locality.
Albite1 photo of Zircon associated with Albite at this locality.
Apatite1 photo of Zircon associated with Apatite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Zircon data
Locality Data:Click here to view Cabonga Reservoir, Réservoir-Dozois, La Vallée-de-l'Or RCM, Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Québec, Canada
Photo GalleryView Gallery (2 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:906702
Long-form Identifier:1:3:906702:8
GUID (UUID V4):3daaf8dd-cddd-43f9-94e2-acff46effa17
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McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1, Canada a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received...(Kellett et al., 1994); and Line 52 across the Cabonga nappe (Martignole and Calvert, 1996). All of these...Earth Sciences special issue on the Lithoprobe Abitibi-Grenville Transect, based on the work of Ludden...51185 ± 2 (2 sigma population) was determined for the La Jolla Nd standard during this work. The reproducibility...49 1.55 126 101 115 146 −175 −215 −215 −174 Cabonga allochthon X 754 46 5,238,300 375,400 10.5
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Ann Arbor, MI Andrew C. Roberts Geol. Surv. of Canada Ottawa George W. Robinson Seaman Mineral Museum...Division P.O. Box 3443, Station D Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1P 6P4 George W. Robinson** A. E. Seaman Mineral...The Grenville Geological Province of southeastern Canada and upstate New York has long been known as a source...2006 Figure 2. Locality 48 road cut near Laurel, Québec, showing fractured scapolite skarn mineralized...1985), nepheline syenite intrusions near the Cabonga Reservoir (Brunet and Martignole, 1994), and the Wakefield
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............................ 4 NORTH AMERICA Canada..................................................exploration in particular of Africa, the U.S.S.R., Canada and Brazil, much of it inspired by the search for...style adopted for Currie's 'The Alkaline Rocks of Canada' (1976) and the descriptions of carbonatites compiled...pathoidal rocks of the Haliburton-Bancroft area of Canada. Kimberlites are not included, partly because they...sequence, for example for the Montreal area of Canada and for central Coais, Brazil. N11111ber and na111e
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Mineralogical Association of Canada Association mineralogique du canada 14 Also in this series Encyclopedia...Mineral Synonyms Special Publication 2 (1999) J . de Fourestier Atlas of Micromorphology of Mineral Alteration...(1998) J. Delvigne Mineral Species Discovered in Canada and Species Named after Canadians Special Publication...10 (2008) Atlas of Ore Minerals: W.H . Paar, M.K. de Brodtkorb, Focus on Epithermal Deposits of Argentina...F. Martin c 2019 Mineralogical Association of Canada All rights reserved. No part of this publication
Report (volume)
3-Pt I, Conchas halladas en dep6s1tos cuaternanos de Guanajlbo, Puerto R1co Canbbean Jour s~.v 2,no 3...stereonet Geol Assoc Canada Proc, v 13, p 119-128, tllus, 1961 [1962] Royal Soc Canada Mmutes 8 BIBLIOGRAPHY...of States and Prov10ces 10 the U mted States and Canada-AGI Data Sheet 33 GeoTimes, v 6, no 7, p 31-32...water levels tn the Houston dtstnct and the Baytown-La Porte area, Texas, 195761 Texas Water Comm Bull 6211...(edttor) Type locahties project-Umt 2 Baton Rouge, La , Soc Econ Paleontologists and Mmeralogtsts, Gulf
 
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