Autoroute 5 extension (1974), Old Chelsea, Chelsea, Les Collines-de-l'Outaouais RCM, Outaouais, Québec, Canadai
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
45° 30' 52'' North , 75° 48' 33'' West
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):
Type:
Road Cutting (Built Over) - last checked 2024
Köppen climate type:
Nearest Settlements:
| Place | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Cantley | 10,412 (2018) | 6.2km |
| le Plateau | 15,000 (2015) | 9.1km |
| Gatineau | 242,124 (2016) | 9.4km |
| Ottawa | 812,129 (2016) | 14.4km |
| Wakefield | 2,000 (2016) | 17.0km |
Nearest Clubs:
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| Club | Location | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Eastern Ontario Natural History Society (EONS) / Ottawa Paleontology Club | Ottawa, Ontario | 13km |
| Ottawa Lapsmith and Mineral Club | Ottawa, Ontario | 13km |
In 1974, during road construction on then Highway 105 near Chelsea, Quebec, local collector John Hall, a resident of Ottawa, discovered a pocket of fluorite crystals that he recognised to be unusual. He contacted the museum's mineralogy staff, Louis Moyd and Robert Gault, who were working at that time out of the Victoria Museum building on McLeod St, and sold some of the fluorite specimens he collected to the museum. John agreed to take Lou and Bob to the pocket 30 feet (ca. 9 m) up the face of the road cut. The museum recovered 20 good fluorite crystals and 100 fluorite fragments.
See: Grice, J.D. (1981) Hexoctahedral Fluorite Crystals from Old Chelsea, Quebéc. The Mineralogical Record, 12(2), 103-104.
This is one of the specimens John Hall collected in 1974:
Select Mineral List Type
Standard Detailed Gallery Strunz Chemical ElementsDetailed Mineral List:
| ⓘ Calcite Formula: CaCO3 |
| ⓘ Chalcopyrite Formula: CuFeS2 |
| ⓘ Fluorite Formula: CaF2 |
| ⓘ Marcasite Formula: FeS2 |
| ⓘ Pyrite Formula: FeS2 |
List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification
| Group 2 - Sulphides and Sulfosalts | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| ⓘ | Chalcopyrite | 2.CB.10a | CuFeS2 |
| ⓘ | Pyrite | 2.EB.05a | FeS2 |
| ⓘ | Marcasite | 2.EB.10a | FeS2 |
| Group 3 - Halides | |||
| ⓘ | Fluorite | 3.AB.25 | CaF2 |
| Group 5 - Nitrates and Carbonates | |||
| ⓘ | Calcite | 5.AB.05 | CaCO3 |
List of minerals for each chemical element
| C | Carbon | |
|---|---|---|
| C | ⓘ Calcite | CaCO3 |
| O | Oxygen | |
| O | ⓘ Calcite | CaCO3 |
| F | Fluorine | |
| F | ⓘ Fluorite | CaF2 |
| S | Sulfur | |
| S | ⓘ Chalcopyrite | CuFeS2 |
| S | ⓘ Marcasite | FeS2 |
| S | ⓘ Pyrite | FeS2 |
| Ca | Calcium | |
| Ca | ⓘ Calcite | CaCO3 |
| Ca | ⓘ Fluorite | CaF2 |
| Fe | Iron | |
| Fe | ⓘ Chalcopyrite | CuFeS2 |
| Fe | ⓘ Marcasite | FeS2 |
| Fe | ⓘ Pyrite | FeS2 |
| Cu | Copper | |
| Cu | ⓘ Chalcopyrite | CuFeS2 |
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Autoroute 5 extension, Old Chelsea, Chelsea, Les Collines-de-l'Outaouais RCM, Outaouais, Québec, Canada