Mineral Collecting Ontario Canada
Algonquin Park & Area
Listed are some of the Minerals that can be found in and around Ontario's Algonquin Park.
Click on Mineral to get Image, Descriptions and Sites Where Minerals can be found.
A list of commodities that have been mined in the past include: corundum, feldspar, uranium, graphite, iron, nepheline syenite, mica, marble, granite, lead, gold, molybdenite, apatite, beryl, fluorite, tale & sodalite.
Mining in most cases, was carried out on a limited scale, between 1880 and 1935, and was largely confined to open cuts and small quarries.
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Minerals Most Commonly found in the Area include:
Some of the minerals listed and grouped into 5 classifications
Primary Rock-Forming Minerals of Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks
Feldspar group: microcline
Mica Group: muscovite, phlogopite, biotite
Amphibole Group: hornblende, actinolite, tremolite
Pyroxene Group: augite, diopside
quartz, nepheline, garnet, zircon, titanite (sphene)
Secondary Minerals formed by Alterations
serpentine, chlorite, epidote, scapolite
Chemically Precipitated Minerals, Forming Sedimentary Rocks:
calcite, gypsum , quartz
Metalic Ore Minerals:
Iron Minerals: magnetite, pyrite, pyrrhotite, hematite , goethite
Copper Minerals:chalcopyrite
Lead Mineral: galena
Uranium Minerals: uraninite, uranothorite
Rare-earth element and radioactive minerals:allanite
Molybdenum Mineral:molybdenite
Beryllium Mineral: beryl
Nonmetallic Minerals
apatite, brucite, corundum, graphite , sodalite, tourmaline
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