David K. Joyce

Francon Quarry, Montreal, Quebec, Misc. Minerals

Here are some other minerals from Francon that don't fit on the other pages!

All prices in Canadian dollars. For payment in US$, deduct 20% or multiply by 0.8.

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Item #12880 Strontianite 4.7x3.3x3.3 cm Largest Crystal Size: 7mm ball $30.00 Francon Quarry Montreal Quebec, Canada A single, white ball of strontianite sits in this albite-lined vug. Good locality piece!	Item #12828 Strontianite, Weloganite 4.5x3.9x3.0 cm Largest Crystal Size: 9mm ball $40.00 Francon Quarry Montreal Quebec, Canada The vug in the front of this piece shows a lustrous ball of strontianite associated with a couple of yellow weloganite crystals.	Item #20352 Dresserite, Quartz 4.0x4.4x1.9 cm Largest Crystal Size: 2.5mm balls $45.00 Francon Quarry Montreal Quebec, Canada A very nice specimen of pure, white, radiating balls of acicular dresserite crystals. Nice specimen of this rare barium carbonate mineral!	Item #20363 Dresserite, Weloganite, Calcite 3.9x2.9x2.2 cm Largest Crystal Size: w-8mm, dr-1.5mm $55.00 Francon Quarry Montreal Quebec, Canada This specien shows a well-formed weloganite crystal with several white balls of radiating dresserite crystals on it. Very photogenic!
Item #20356 Dawsonite, Fluorite 3.7x1.7x0.8 cm Largest Crystal Size: 3mm $50.00 Francon Quarry Montreal Quebec, Canada This specimen is largely covered with sharp, transparent, colourless clusters of radiating dawsonite crystals and tiny, purpley fluorite crystals. Excellent! Nice example of thisrare mineral!	Item #20359 Dawsonite, Fluorite 3.9x2.5x1.4 cm Largest Crystal Size: 1.5mm $40.00 Francon Quarry Montreal Quebec, Canada This specimen is a shallow, concave vug showing many radiating clusters of sharp, clear, colourless dawsonite crystals, associated with tiny dark purple crystals of fluorite. Excellent!	Item #20365 Dresserite, Quartz 5.1x3.1x1.4 cm Largest Crystal Size: 1mm balls $65.00 Francon Quarry Montreal Quebec, Canada Many balls of white, radiating crystals of dresserite on this plate of tiny quartz crystals. The dresserite balls are excellent.	Item #20369 Dawsonite, Fluorite, Strontianite 4.6x3.0c2.1 cm Largest Crystal Size: 1mm $45.00 Francon Quarry Montreal Quebec, Canada Many, many, clear, colourless dawsonite crystals, many in radiating aggregates ,associated with straw-yellow strontianite crystals and tiny fluorite crystals. Very nice example!
Item #20371 Quartz, Weloganite 8.15.4x2.4x cm Largest Crystal Size: q-14mm, w-8mm $75.00 Francon Quarry Montreal Quebec, Canada Hear is a different one! This specimen is a plate of grey, well formed quartz crystals with a few weloganite crystals hidden away here and there, some very nice.	Item #20388 Dresserite, Weloganite 6.2x5.7x2.5 cm Largest Crystal Size: 2mm balls $75.00 Francon Quarry Montreal Quebec, Canada The opening in this grey rock matrix has many white balls of dresserite, as well as individual crystals plus many sharp, striated crystals of weloganite. Excellent!	Item #21888 Dresserite 4.7x3.3x1.2 cm Largest Crystal Size: 0.5mm $35.00 Francon Quarry Montreal Quebec, Canada A number of spheres and half-spheres of white dresserite are scattered in this vug on a sawn-base matrix.	Item #21908 Strontianite, Dawsonite, Fluorite 4.5x4.3x2.9 cm Largest Crystal Size: 2mm $40.00 Francon Quarry Montreal Quebec, Canada There are several vugs in this specimen and the largest contains some excellent, hexagonal, gemmy, colourless strontianite crystals associated with smaller dawsonite and purple fluorite. Nice! R
Item #21909 Dawsonite 4.1x2.0x1.4 cm Largest Crystal Size: 1mm $45.00 Francon Quarry Montreal Quebec, Canada Loads of excellent, sharp, colourless dawsonite crystals in single crystals and clusters in the vug that lays across the top of this piece. Sawn base. Very nice crystals! R.	Item #21910 Celestine, Fluorite, Dawsonite 3.8x2.9x1.7 cm Largest Crystal Size: c-4mm $40.00 Francon Quarry Montreal Quebec, Canada A beautiful spray of white celestine crystals lays on a bed of purple fluorite. As well, there are tiny dawsonite crystals scattered around on the fluorite. Don't see these very often! R	Item #21913 Dawsonite, Fluorite, Marcasite 4.5x4.3x2.2 cm Largest Crystal Size: 1.5mm $45.00 Francon Quarry Montreal Quebec, Canada A vug of gorgeous, pristine, gemmy prismatic crystals of dawsonite in sprays and individual crystals. The dawsonite crystals are associated with light purple, rounded fluorite crystals and lots of twinned marcasite crystals. Excellent! R	Item #21916 Dawsonite, Fluorite, Calcite 5.5x4.6x2.6 cm Largest Crystal Size: micro $35.00 Francon Quarry Montreal Quebec, Canada There are several vugs in this specimen, pretty well all of them containing purple fluorite crystals and often well formed dawsonite crystals in combination. Nice example! R