Orford Nickel Mine
St-Denis-de-Brompton, Le Val-Saint-François RCM, Estrie, Québec, Canada
A historic nickel mine worked between 1877 and 1882.
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The site is probably best known amongst collectors for quality specimens of diopside, grossular garnet, and millerite.
Mindat lists 21 mineral species from the site. The Burlington mineral club has a good writeup of the site but mostly covers garnets.
Further reading
- https://www.mindat.org/loc-605.html
- https://www.burlingtongemandmineralclub.org/uploads/7/6/1/8/76186187/garnets_from_orford.pdf
- https://www.proquest.com/openview/065964fb712e9001a07e3252202d74f6/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=15490
If you are interested in other classic Canadian locales we may have stock from the following locales.
Canadian locales
Newfoundland and Labrador Ontario
- Cobalt area, Cobalt-Gowganda region, Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada
- Fernleigh occurrence, Clarendon Township, Frontenac County, Ontario, Canada
- Town of Bancroft, Hastings County, Ontario, Canada
- Wilberforce area, Monmouth Township, Highlands East Township, Haliburton County, Ontario, Canada
- Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
- Orford Nickel mine, St-Denis-de-Brompton, Le Val-Saint-François RCM, Estrie, Québec, Canada
- Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
- Yates Mine, Otter Lake, Pontiac RCM, Outaouais, Québec, Canada
For the rest of our Canadian stock, see below.