Mineral Gallery
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The images displayed in this first series were scanned from the collection available as posters or postcards from the M.A.C.
Amethyst/Améthyste
Location: Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
Source: Royal Ontario Museum/Musée Royal de l'Ontario
Notes: This variety of quartz is the official mineral emblem of Ontario./Cette varieté de quartz est l'emblème minéral de l'Ontario.
Photography: Calvin Nicholls, reproduced courtesy of Nicholls Design, Inc.
Cubanite crystals/Cristaux de cubanite
Location: Henderson Mine, Chibougamau, Québec
Source: Canadian Museum of Nature/Musée Canadien de la Nature
Photography: Jeffrey A. Scovil, reproduced courtesy of Canadian Museum of Nature
Photographie: Jeffrey A. Scovil, courtoisie Musée Canadien de la Nature
Diopside on grossular/Diopside sur grossulaire
Location: Jeffrey Mine, Asbestos, Québec
Notes: This asbestos mine, exploited for more than 100 years, is a world famous mineral locality./Cette mine d'amiante, exploitée depuis plus de 100 ans, est une localité minéralogique reconnue mondialement.
Source: Canadian Museum of Nature/Musée Canadien de la Nature
Photography: Jeffrey A. Scovil, reproduced courtesy of Canadian Museum of Nature
Photographie: Jeffrey A. Scovil, courtoisie Musée Canadien de la Nature
Gypsum/Gypse
Location: Red River Floodway, Winnipeg/Canal de diversion de la riviére Rouge, Winnipeg.
Source: Geological Survey of Canada/Commission Géologique du Canada
Notes: Rosettes such as this one are found in clay sediments near Winnipeg./On trouve des rosettes comme celle-ci dans les sédiments argileux près de Winnipeg.
Photography: Claire Dufour
Lazulite, Quartz and Siderite/Lazulite, quartz et sidérite
Location: Rapid Creek, Yukon
Source: Geological Survey of Canada/Commission Géologique du Canada
Notes: Lazulite is the official gemstone of the Yukon./La lazulite est la pierre gemme officielle du Yukon.
Photography: Claire Dufour
Native gold/Or natif
Location: Pioneer mine, Bridge River District, British Columbia/Mine Pioneer, district Bridge River, Columbie Britannique
Source: Royal Ontario Museum/Musée Royal de l'Ontario
Notes: This specimen of solid spongy gold weighs 8.8 troy ounces/Cet échantillon d'or massif pèse 8,8 onces troy.
Photography: Calvin Nicholls, reproduced courtesy of Nicholls Design, Inc./courtoisie de Nicholls Design, Inc.
Pyrite crystals/Cristaux de pyrite
Location: Logrono, Spain/Logrono, Espagne
Source:Collection de géologie de l'Université Laval, Québec, Canada
Photography: Claire Dufour
Pyromorphite/Pyromorphite
Location: Society Girl Mine, Moyie, British Columbia/Mine Society Girl, Moyie, Columbie Britannique
Source: M. Y. Williams Geological Museum, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
Notes: This mine, closed long ago, produced the finest Canadian examples of polymorphite./Cette mine, fermée depuis longtemps a donné les plus beaux échantillons canadiens de pyromorphite.
Photography: Ken Mayer
Pyrrhotite on Calcite/Pyrrhotite sur calcite
Location: Nigadoo River Mines Ltd., Robertville, New Brunswick/ Mines Nigadoo River Ltd., Robertville, Nouveau-Brunswick.
Source: Redpath Museum/Musée Redpath, McGill University
Photography: Claire Dufour
Quartz, variety amethyst - sceptre habit/Quartz sceptre, variété améthyste
Location: Denny Mountain, King County, Washington
Source: M. Y. Williams Geological Museum, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
Photography: Ken Mayer
Rhodochrosite (rose) with Aegirine (dark green) and Genthelvite (white)
Location: Mont Saint-Hilaire, Québec
Source: Redpath Museum/Musée Redpath, McGill University
Notes: This locality is famous world wide for the more than 180 minerals identified there./Cette localité est reconnue mondialement pour les quelques 180 espèces minérales qu'on y a identifiées.
Photography: Claire Dufour
Uranophane/Uranophane
Location: Faraday Mine/Mine Faraday, Bancroft, Ontario
Photography: Calvin Nicholls, reproduced courtesy of Nicholls Design Inc.
The following three images were scanned from the hardcover Special Publication series.
Encyclopedia of Mineral Names
The Canadian Mineralogist Special Publication 1, by William H. Blackburn & William H. Dennen, featuring the artwork of Peter I. Russell. Hardcover, 360 pages.
Description of Cover Illustration:
 Quartz, variety amethyst, sceptre habit, Denny Mountain, King County, Washington, U.S.A. Photography by Ken Mayer
Sérandite, Analcime and Natrolite, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Québec. Photography by Claire Dufour
Native Gold on Quartz, Paymaster mine, South Porcupine, Ontario. Photography by Brian Boyle. Courtesy of the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada.
Barite on Quartz, Rock Candy mine, Grand Forks, British Columbia. Photography by Ken Mayer.
Pyromorphite, Society Girl mine, Moyie, British Columbia. Photography by Ken Mayer.
Diopside on Grossular, Jeffrey mine, Asbestos, Québec. Photography by Jeffrey A. Scovil. Courtesy of the Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, Canada.
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Glossary of Mineral Synonyms
The Canadian Mineralogist Special Publication 2, by Jeffrey de Fourestier. Hardcover, 434 pages.
Description of Cover Illustration:
Sérandite from Mont Saint-Hilaire, Québec. Courtesy of the Department of Earth Sciences, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario. Photography by Brian Boyle.
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Atlas of Micromorphology of Mineral Alteration and Weathering
The Canadian Mineralogist Special Publication 3, by Jean E. Delvigne. Hardcover, 494 pages.
Description of Cover Illustration:
The photomicrograph illustrates some of the most common patterns of weathering observed within partly weathered primary minerals. A subhedral crystal of orthopyroxene is partly weathered to greenish yellow smectite arranged in a subparallel banded texture. The first-formed smectite is developed from transverse fractures; numerous denticulate remnants of orthopyroxene are still preserved within the alteromorph. Further weathering reduces the development of iron oxyhydroxides, either by degradation of the previously formed smectite or by direct weathering of the orthopyroxene residues.
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The following images were scanned from the covers of MAC Short Course Publications
 Mineralized Intrusion-Related Skarn Systems
Short Course Volume 26, Edited by D. Lentz, Softcover, 664 pages.
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 Modern Approaches to Ore and Environmental Mineralogy
Short Course Volume 27, Edited by L.J.Cabri & D.J. Vaughn, Softcover, 421 pages.
Description of Cover Illustration:
Reflected light photograph, in oil between crossed polars, of intergrown laths of buckhornite (blue) and aikinite (green and grey). The black areas are where these minerals are at extinction positions. The sample is off the holotype (E.1102, BM 1991,52), which is from the Buckhorn mine, Boulder County, Colorado. Photo by A.J. Criddle.
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 Fluids and Basin Evolution
Short Course Volume 28, Edited by Kurt Kyser, Softcover, 262 pages.
Description of Cover Illustration:
Photomicrograph in cross-polarized light of a clay-rich horizon in the Proterozoic Manitou Falls Formation, Athabasca Basin, Canada. This photo shows the intense diagenetic alteration that can occur when basinal fluids interact with sedimentary minerals. The large elongate grains are muscovite, and the large, irregularly shaped gray grains are quartz. These detrital grains are undergoing reaction during formation of authigenic illite, primarily yellow to purple in colour, and dickite, fine-grained dark gray colours. The field of view is approximately 1 mm in long dimension. Photo by Eric Hiatt.
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