David K. Joyce

Grenville Minerals, Various Localities, Page Two

Here are some more unusual specimens from the Grenville Geological Province.

All prices in Canadian dollars. For payment in US$, deduct 21% or multiply by 0.79.

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Item #17629 Corundum 15.0x11.3x5.7 cm Largest Crystal Size: 45mm $75.00 Gutz Farm Rosenthal Ontario, Canada A fairly sharp, hexagonal, slightly tapered corundum crystal protrudes out of nepheline syenite along with a number of corundum crystal fragments. Excellent geological and mineralogical sample!	Item #18240 Tremolite 11.2x6.3x5.2 cm Largest Crystal Size: 83mm $75.00 Dancey Property Haliburton Co. Ontario, Canada A cluster of interlocking tremolite crystals from small acicular to large prismatic.	Item #18250 Tremolite 5.8x3.9x1.8 cm Largest Crystal Size: 32mm $50.00 Dancey Property Haliburton Co. Ontario, Canada A cluster of just barely green, end-member tremolite. Very nice!	Item #18244 Tremolite 4.3x1.4x1.1 cm Largest Crystal Size: as above $45.00 Dancey Property Haliburton Co. Ontario, Canada A highly lustrous, colourless, striated prismatic crystal with a poor termination. (they all have poor terminations from here) End member tremolite, for sure!
Item #18207 Pyroxene Group 5.5x4.8x3.5 cm Largest Crystal Size: 20mm $35.00 Miller Property Eganville Ontario, Canada Nice specimen of pyroxene from this modern classic locality.	Item #18194 Pyroxene Group 4.2x2.8x2.2 cm Largest Crystal Size: 39mm $35.00 Trapper's Trail Haliburton Ontario, Canada A sharp, well terminated pyroxene crystal with a fragment of the original calcite attached to the termination. The crystal has a crack down the middle but seems well held together.	Item #18239 Tremolite 8.7x6.2x4.8 cm Largest Crystal Size: 15mm $65.00 Dancey Property Haliburton Co. Ontario, Canada A plate of striated, not well terminated end-member tremolite crystals with very good prism faces.	Item #19143 Fluororichterite 10.8x9.5x7.6 cm Largest Crystal Size: 84mm $150.00 Earl Farm Wilberforce Ontario, Canada A classic Grenvillian specimen showing sharp fluoro-richterite crystals, a rare qamphibole mineral, embedded in white calcite. Sits perfectly for display.
Item #20155 Calcite, Pyrite 4.7x3.6x3.4 cm Largest Crystal Size: 30mm $120.00 Lyndhurst Leeds Township Ontario, Canada Wow! THIS is a nice calcite specimen! The nice forms, hematite zoning, pyrite sprinkles and historic, classic location make it extra special. This location was mined for electronic-grade quartz crystals during the second world war and they also came across these excellent calcite clusters, as well. Looks fantastic!	Item #21770 Fluoro-richterite 9.3x8.1x4.7 cm Largest Crystal Size: 80mm $85.00 Wilberforce Ontario, Canada A really nice, showy specimen of fluororichterite showing a really nice, twinned crystal embedded in white calcite, with a couple of other crystal fragments. These specimens come from two locations in the Wilberforce area. One is a road-cut and one is the George Earle farm property. This is an old timer from the Court Saunders collection and his label accompanies it. Grenville classic!	Item #21772 Schorl 5.9x4.0x3.7 cm Largest Crystal Size: 22mm $35.00 Hybla Road Ontario, Canada An interesting locality piece from a Roadcut on the Hybla Road near Bancroft. Pitch-black schorl crystal sections in glassy quartz with a little orangey feldspar.	Item #21782 Marialite 6.0x3.4x3.9 cm Largest Crystal Size: 34mm $55.00 Clarke Road Cut Highland Grove Ontario, Canada Nice cluster of white scapolite crystals, in particular, end member marialite from an unusual locality. Fluoresces deep red. Sits perfectly!
Item #22020 Dravite 5.9x4.2x3.4 cm Largest Crystal Size: 20mm $35.00 Canada Talc Mine Madoc Ontario, Canada Dark-brown, glassy, hexagonal dravite crystals are embedded in this lighter-brown mica schist matrix. The dravite crystals are sharp and one is curved and distorted in an interesting way. Classic Madoc!	Item #22105 Nepheline 13.5x10.0x7.3 cm Largest Crystal Size: 45mm $120.00 Davis Hill Bancroft Ontario, Canada This fragment of massive nepheline syenite has one side covered with crystals of nepheline. The crystals are hexagonal prisms with pinacoidal terminations. This is the classic nepheline occurrence in the Grenville Geological Province.	Item #22281 Dravite, Tremolite 5.5x5.5x2.4 cm Largest Crystal Size: Dr 40mm, Tr 8mm $65.00 Bancroft Ontario, Canada I obtained this specimen years ago from an old collection. It shows a large crystal of tremolite associated with pitch-black crystals of dravite. It is not from Tait Farm but one of the smaller, obscure locations just south of Bancroft. Old label accompanies it.	Item #24539 Dravite 6.4x3.6x3.2 cm Largest Crystal Size: 13mm $55.00 Goshen Ontario, Canada A number of dark-brown dravite crystals are exposed in pure-white calcite cleavages on a phlogopite mica matrix. Nice specimen from an unusual Grenville location! s
Item #24579 Diopside 8.5x6.3x5.3 cm Largest Crystal Size: 39mm $75.00 Dog Lake Frontenac Co. Ontario, Canada A nice cluster of light green diopside crystals with a little phlogopite and calcite attached. Above average cluster! s	Item #24668 Titanite, Magnetite 13.3x10.4x6.6 cm Largest Crystal Size: 17mm $75.00 New York MIne Glamorgan Township, Haliburton Ontario, Canada This is a very nice specimen of titanite on octahedral crystals of magnetite. Hard to see the magnetite crystals in the pictures. Much of the titanite appears to be oriented on the magnetite. Very good!	Item #24669 Andradite, Grossular 13.0x5.9x5.5 cm Largest Crystal Size: 9mm $45.00 Marmoraton Mine Marmora Ontario, Canada Nice example of the garnets from the gigantic skarn zone that is/was the Marmoraton Iron Mine. The mine was a very large open pit that has now been closed for decades. Some feldspar crystals associated. Nice!	Item #24671 Schorl 11.1x6.9x7.1 cm Largest Crystal Size: 60mm $45.00 Villeneuve Mine Val-Des-Bois Quebec, Canada Nice example of a schorl crystal in feldspar matrix from this large pegmatite. The schorl crystal is pitch black and well formed, although not complete on one side. It is terminated.