What's New at Ontariominerals.com
Here you'll find a list of the latest additions and improvements made to the site.
02/2010
NEW MINERALS FROM ONTARIO:
NIOBOAESCHYNITE-(Y): Bermanec V, Tomašić N, Kniewald G, Back M E, Zagler G (2008) Nioboaeschynite-(Y), a new member of the aeschynite group from the Bear Lake diggings, Haliburton County, Ontario, Canada, The Canadian Mineralogist 46, 395-402
CLINOHYDROXYLAPATITE: Chakhmouradian A R, Medici L (2006) Clinohydroxylapatite: a new apatite-group mineral from northwestern Ontario (Canada), and new data on the extent of Na-S substitution in natural apatites, European Journal of Mineralogy 18, 105-112
MARIANOITE: Chakhmouradian A R, Mitchell R H, Burns P C, Mikhailova Y, Reguir E P (2008) Marianoite, a new member of the cuspidine group from the Prairie Lake silicocarbonatite, Ontario, The Canadian Mineralogist 46, 1023-1032
Chakhmouradian A R, Mitchell R H (2009) Marianoite, a new member of the cuspidine group from the Prairie Lake silicocarbonatite, Ontario: Reply, The Canadian Mineralogist 47, 1280-1282
FOITITE, NANPINGITE, LITHIOPHILITE, STIBIOTANTALITE, ALLUAUDITE, PURPURITE, BITYITE, BIKITAITE - from Pakeagama Lake pegmatite, 16 km N of Red Lake and/or Separation Rapids pegmatites, 70 km N of Kenora, see Tindle A G, Breaks F W, Selway J B (2002) Tourmaline in petalite-subtype granitic pegmatites: evidence of fractionation and contamination from the Pakeagama Lake and Separation Lakes areas of northwestern Ontario, Canada, The Canadian Mineralogist 40, 753-788
LIDDICOATITE,
FOITITE,
McCombe pegmatite, NW Ontario, see: Tindle
A G, Selway J B, Breaks F W (2005) Liddicoatite and associated species from the
McCombe spodumene-subtype rare-element granitic pegmatite, northwestern Ontario,
Canada, The Canadian Mineralogist 43, 769-793
New photos:
Anatase, Quartz, Pseudo Titanite, Bear Lake Diggings
Millerite, Kerr Addisson Mine, Larder Lake, Ontario
Calcite, Goethite, Madawaska/Faraday Mine, Ontario
09/2009
Many thanks to the photographers out there who generously let me reproduce their images! I'm talking about Bill Lechner, Saul Krotki, Rudi Turner, Maggie Wilson, Dave Joyce, Jordi Fabre, Claude Pelisson - YOU ROCK! Keep 'em coming!
Like field collecting? Have a pen? Want to be rich, famous, and plagued by paparazzi and rock groupies? Write up your favorite locality and I'll post it!
- the Ontario Gems section has been massively improved with many photos and new entries
- the Beryl Pit page has been greatly improved, with new analysis info, photos, and finds!
- New locality writeup: MacDonald Mine
- New locality writeup: Bear Lake Diggings
- New locality writeup: Rose Quartz Pit
- New Dundas Quarry Initial Mineralogy ---> it ain't all calcite and fluorite ya know. Well... ok... it's mostly calcite and fluorite
NEW PHOTOS:
microcline, Beryl Pit
galena, Flamboro Qu.
fluorite, Madoc, killer piece
quartz - killer!
pyrite - a 20 cm octahedron, collected summer 2009!!!
fluororichterite monster xl
calcioancylite-(Ce) - new species for Ontario!
sphalerite, Flamboro Qu.
fluorite, Flamboro Qu.
silver wire - wow!
hematite SEM photos!
clay SEM photos!
- lots of tweaking is going on, to fix bugs, broken links, and make things easier on the eyes and more consistent; this is very boring and time consuming, but will make the site nicer and more user-friendly
2007
Ercit and Gault present "Canadian Tourmaline occurrences in the Grenville Province", a blockbuster study of over one hundred tourmaline specimens from over sixty localities within the Grenville of Ontario and Quebec! Presented at the Rochester Symposium, summarized in R&M V82#3, p.235. Nice work!
09/2003
- new photographs of very fine Ontario fluorapatite, silver, gold, fluorite, goethite and hematite, kindly provided by Marty Lewadny
- new link to the website of Sarnia's Stones 'N Bones Museum
03/2003
- NEW BOOK: Mineral Species Described in Canada and Species Named after Canadians, by Laszlo Horvath, order online from the Mineralogical Association of Canada
- NEW BOOK: Ontario Rocks, Three Billion Years of Environmental Change, by Nick Eyles, superb and thorough coverage of the geology of Ontario, available at bookstores
- new links: the history of mining in Ontario, and info on forty Bancroft mineral localities
- made a couple of corrections, thanks to the sharp eyes of Matt Neuzil
01/2003 - more work done on the alphabetical list, up to annabergite so far
11/2002:
- Charlie and Florence Magovern provided a fine Isotelus trilobite photo
- Glenn Sloggett has provided a photo of a superb fossil Eurypterid
- Eight minerals new to the province: ishikawaite, tanteuxenite-(Y), hingganite-(Y), kobeite-(Y), pyrophanite, iimoriite-(Y), calciosamarskite, and yttrotantalite-(Y), all discovered by Scott Ercit and presented at the 2002 Rochester Mineralogical Symposium. Scott has also clarified other species and added to the list of localities.
- The mineral list has been split up alphabetically. This will make things quicker, as the entire list of all known Ontario minerals which I'll be inputting over the next few years is a massive amount of data.
03/2002:
- I've begun a complete (as possible) listing of Ontario minerals. This is a massive project, (e.g. 47 acanthite localities, 43 actinolite localities), and will be completed in a few years.
- crystal drawings of corundum, datolite, nickel-skutterudite, pyrargyrite, sperrylite, and zircon, from Goldschmidt's Atlas of Crystal Forms, have been added to the Photo Gallery
- the Literature section (24 pages of references!) has been cleaned up and alphabetized by author
- in the type localities section, I've listed all other localities the minerals have been discovered at
- a couple of maps are in the map section, so you can finally see where Ontario is
- A photo gallery with over 100 photos of Ontario minerals is now online
- A localities section has been started which will eventually have photos and articles on the top Ontario mineral localities. Photos and a list of minerals from the Beryl Pit, near Quadeville, have been posted, as well as photos of the York River Skarn Zone, Blue Point Mine, and the Dundas Quarry.
- A section on Ontario fossils has been started. Contributions are definitely needed.
07/2001:
- kamotoite-(Y) is the latest addition to the mineralogy of Ontario
- a section on basic field collecting safety has been added
- a list of Ontario meteorites is now up
- four new links added, including one to a live webcam at Niagara Falls
- the gem section has been reorganized, and data from the ROM collection added