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Siderite from
Rapid Creek, Dawson mining district, Yukon, Canada


Locality type:Creek
Classification
Species:Siderite
Formula:FeCO3
Habit:rhombohedral, prismatic, scalenohedral
Colour:brown
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Lazuliteⓘ467 photos of Siderite associated with Lazulite at this locality.
Quartzⓘ340 photos of Siderite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Gormaniteⓘ68 photos of Siderite associated with Gormanite at this locality.
Fluorapatiteⓘ64 photos of Siderite associated with Fluorapatite at this locality.
Kulaniteⓘ63 photos of Siderite associated with Kulanite at this locality.
Warditeⓘ44 photos of Siderite associated with Wardite at this locality.
Augeliteⓘ24 photos of Siderite associated with Augelite at this locality.
Brazilianiteⓘ12 photos of Siderite associated with Brazilianite at this locality.
Goyaziteⓘ11 photos of Siderite associated with Goyazite at this locality.
Souzaliteⓘ11 photos of Siderite associated with Souzalite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Siderite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Rapid Creek, Dawson mining district, Yukon, Canada
Photo GalleryView Gallery (21 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:10045
Long-form Identifier:1:3:10045:2
GUID (UUID V4):1e74f5cb-3efd-4eb0-bb9b-05fb8b84b64c
Localities for Siderite in this Region
Kulan Camp (Area A; Area 1), Rapid Creek, Dawson mining district, Yukon, Canada
Crosscut Creek, Kulan Camp (Area A; Area 1), Rapid Creek, Dawson mining district, Yukon, Canada
Locality 1, Crosscut Creek, Kulan Camp (Area A; Area 1), Rapid Creek, Dawson mining district, Yukon, Canada
Locality 2, Crosscut Creek, Kulan Camp (Area A; Area 1), Rapid Creek, Dawson mining district, Yukon, Canada
Locality 3, Crosscut Creek, Kulan Camp (Area A; Area 1), Rapid Creek, Dawson mining district, Yukon, Canada
Locality 7, Kulan Camp (Area A; Area 1), Rapid Creek, Dawson mining district, Yukon, Canada
Locality 8, Kulan Camp (Area A; Area 1), Rapid Creek, Dawson mining district, Yukon, Canada
Mount Seafoam (Area D; Area 4), Rapid Creek, Dawson mining district, Yukon, Canada
Stoneman Camp, Rapid Creek, Dawson mining district, Yukon, Canada
Grizzly Bear Creek, Stoneman Camp, Rapid Creek, Dawson mining district, Yukon, Canada
Locality 14, Grizzly Bear Creek, Stoneman Camp, Rapid Creek, Dawson mining district, Yukon, Canada
Locality 12, Stoneman Camp, Rapid Creek, Dawson mining district, Yukon, Canada
Locality 9, Stoneman Camp, Rapid Creek, Dawson mining district, Yukon, Canada
Locality 10, Young's Creek, Stoneman Camp, Rapid Creek, Dawson mining district, Yukon, Canada
Locality 11, Young's Creek, Stoneman Camp, Rapid Creek, Dawson mining district, Yukon, Canada
Nearest other occurrences of Siderite
0.2km (0.1 miles) ⓘLocality 8, Kulan Camp (Area A; Area 1), Rapid Creek, Dawson mining district, Yukon, Canada
2.0km (1.2 miles) ⓘLocality 3, Crosscut Creek, Kulan Camp (Area A; Area 1), Rapid Creek, Dawson mining district, Yukon, Canada
2.1km (1.3 miles) ⓘKulan Camp (Area A; Area 1), Rapid Creek, Dawson mining district, Yukon, Canada
2.1km (1.3 miles) ⓘLocality 2, Crosscut Creek, Kulan Camp (Area A; Area 1), Rapid Creek, Dawson mining district, Yukon, Canada
2.5km (1.6 miles) ⓘCrosscut Creek, Kulan Camp (Area A; Area 1), Rapid Creek, Dawson mining district, Yukon, Canada
2.5km (1.6 miles) ⓘLocality 1, Crosscut Creek, Kulan Camp (Area A; Area 1), Rapid Creek, Dawson mining district, Yukon, Canada
2.9km (1.8 miles) ⓘMount Seafoam (Area D; Area 4), Rapid Creek, Dawson mining district, Yukon, Canada
3.6km (2.2 miles) ⓘLocality 7, Kulan Camp (Area A; Area 1), Rapid Creek, Dawson mining district, Yukon, Canada
6.7km (4.2 miles) ⓘLocality 14, Grizzly Bear Creek, Stoneman Camp, Rapid Creek, Dawson mining district, Yukon, Canada
6.7km (4.2 miles) ⓘGrizzly Bear Creek, Stoneman Camp, Rapid Creek, Dawson mining district, Yukon, Canada
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (issue)
‘D ’ Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K IP 6P4 H. Gary Ansell Geological Survey of Canada 601 Booth Street Ottawa...Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0E8 (Geological Survey of Canada contribution number 38290) B. Darko Sturman...Ontario Museum 100 Queen’s Park Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 2C6 $ 1992 T h e M in e r a l o g ic a l R... 1.5 cm, with siderite and pale purple fluorapatite, from the Rapid Creek area, Yukon Territory. Keith...45 46 Figure 1. The Big Fish River, northern Yukon Territory, as viewed from collecting area “ C.”
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Famous Mineral Localities of Canada Joel D. Grice Sammendrag pa norsk Canada kan inndeles i fire fysiogeografiske...sedimenter med store praerielandskap. Det sentrale Canada utgjores av det kanadiske skjoldet som bestar av...bergarter. Appalachene langs den ostlige delen av Canada er en eroded fjellkjede dan net av sedimenter som...mineralforekomster er velkjente blant mineralsamlere. Ved Rapid Creek, Yukon, ble det i 1959 fun net lazulite. Senere...thousand kilometers that comprise the breadth of Canada will have noted stunning differences in the surface
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Figure 1. Dawson Gallery, Redpath Museum, in 2011, with fossil, mineral and biological exhibits on the...University 859 Sherbrooke Street West Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 0C4 peter.tarassoff@sympatico.ca M CGILL...Peter Tarassoff photo. The Museum and Sir William Dawson Construction of the museum was financed by Montreal...Redpath (1821–1894) as a tribute to John William Dawson (1820–1899), McGill’s fifth principal and an eminent...school system. All the while, on his own account, Dawson conducted geological and paleontological investigations
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
lazulite from Crosscut Creek (Kulan Camp area, Dawson mining district, Yukon, Canada) was investigated by...comes from the Crosscut Creek (Kulan Camp area, Dawson mining district, Yukon, Canada). The crystal was taken...lazulite + quartz + siderite. The phosphate-rich clefts, in the Dawson mining district, are due to an unusual...post-depositional history involving the whole Rapid Creek Formation (Robertson 1980, 1982). This complex...association of the first type (i.e., quartz + siderite + lazulite + “apatite”; Robertson 1982). This
Report (issue)
observed.] X-ray Powder Pattern: Big Fish River, Canada. 3.010 (100), 5.769 (93), 3.529 (56), 2.292 (39)...01[(OH),F]5.83. (2) Crosscut Creek, Rapid Creek area, Yukon Territory, Canada; electron microprobe analysis...Basin, Australia); lazulite, siderite, “limonite”, quartz (Big Fish River, Canada); diamond (river sands,...River, near Dompim, Gold Coast. From the Oiyi district, Sierra Leone. In the Buffels River, Spektakel...Africa. From the Big Fish River-Rapid Creek area, Yukon Territory, Canada. In the Zig Zag Mountains, about
Journal (issue)
collection. Joe Budd photo. Pyrite on quartz and siderite, 8 cm, Simplon Tunnel, near Brig, Valais, Switzerland...Budd photo. Gold, 8 cm, St. Johns, Newfoundland, Canada. Joe Budd photo. Supplement to The Mineralogical...photo. Mesolite with apophyllite, 14 cm, Pune district, Maharashtra, India. Joe Budd photo. Apophyllite...Apophyllite on stilbite, 9.5 cm, Jalgaon district, Maharashtra, lndia. Joe Budd photo. Arsenopyrite with quartz...stibnite, 8.5 cm, Xionghuang Kuang mine, Wuyu district, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China. Ex Steve
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
NEAR-ENDMEMBER ARROJADITE-(BaNa) FROM BIG FISH RIVER, YUKON, CANADA HEIDI E. TOMES University of Toronto, Department...Sciences, 22 Russell Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5S 3B1 VERONICA E. DI CECCO§ AND KIMBERLY...Museum, 100 Queen’s Park Crescent, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5S 2C6 FERNANDO CÁMARA Dipartimento di Scienze...has been identified from Big Fish River, Yukon Territory, Canada. Arrojadite-(BaNa) was first discovered...associated with apatite group minerals, gormanite, siderite, quartz, and other minerals in thin veins, phosphate
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
optically anomalous brazilianite from the Yukon Territory, Canada, shows local enrichment in iron and calcium...montebrasite, scorzalite, wylleite, eosphorite, siderite, albite, muscovite, quartz, and microcline. It...locality, the C6rrego Frio (Portuguese for “Cold Creek”) mine, approximately 6 kilometers north of the...The site was correctly ascribed to the Moscovita district of Conselheiro Pena Township. Conselheiro Pena...and Cdrrego Frio became part of the Lin6polis district of Divino das Laranjeiras Township. Cassedanne
Report (issue)
deposits
known as [the] Legnica-GƂogów copper district, mining Kupferschiefer copper shales
Formation of...halite crystals
grew in only a few months’ time. Mining will restart around September 2017, and will result...Halite, 3.5 cm, from the Sieroszowice mine, Lubin district, Lower Silesia, Poland. Spirifer Minerals specimen...Halite, 6.5 cm, from the Sieroszowice mine, Lubin district, Lower Silesia, Poland. Spirifer Minerals specimen...region—the locality is given as the Rudna mine, Lubin district, Legnica, Lower Silesia, Poland—come gleaming
Report (issue)
= 4.926(1) X-ray Powder Pattern: Cross-cut Creek, Canada; almost identical to penikisite. 3.108 (100)...99 [4.27] Total 98.09 [98.46] (1) Cross-cut Creek, Canada; H2 O by DTA-TGA, corresponding to Ba1.00 (Fe2+...fractures in sideritic iron formation (Cross-cut Creek, Canada); as disseminations and veinlets in granite...(Xiyuantou, China). Association: Penikisite, quartz, siderite, fluorapatite, rapidcreekite, brazilianite, arrojadite...arrojadite, anatase, goyazite (Cross-cut Creek, Canada); palermoite, montebrasite, triphylite (Palermo
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
veins cutting phosphatic shales and ironstones (Yukon). Unanalyzed lazulite-scorzalite has been reported...Carolina. Prior to the discovery of the now-famous Yukon lazulite, Graves Mountain in Lincoln County, Georgia...occurrence at the American Progress mine, Bare Mountain district, Nye County, and from an undisclosed locality...quartzite on Vitrefax Hill in the Cargo Muchacho district, Imperial County, and from Markleeville, Alpine...the remote Rapid Creek and Big Fish River valleys in northeastern Yukon Territory, Canada (Mossman and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
DC 20013 pohwatp@si.edu Siderite Siete Suyos Mine, Atocha-Quechisla District Sud Chichas Province, Potosí...superb backgrounds for the A-List minerals, is siderite. Its typical brown color is perfect for highlighting...at a later time), siderite is an underappreciated star in its own right. Siderite is ferrous iron carbonate...conchoidal fracture and a perfect _ cleavage on {1011}. Siderite has a hardness of 3.75–4.25, as measured on the...ash-gray, and white. An interesting fact concerning siderite is that it is paramagnetic, meaning it is attracted
Catalog/List
6-$3.50 NALCIME: M68. Mont-St. Hilaire, Quebec, Canada; (a) T/N, white single xl, complete except for...Rock Candy Mine, Grand Forks, British Columbia, Canada; (a) translucent, pale yellow tabular xls to 3...3x2.1x1-$2.50 BIOTITE: ~near Bancroft, Ontario, Canada; (a) section af a single xl, showing fairly sh...7-2.5 cm-$2.00; (b) miniatures; 3-4 cm-$3.00 ~Elk Creek, Meade Co., South Dakota; (a) yellow elongated rhombohedrons...5-3.2 cm-$2.50 M154. Nanisivik, Northwest Terr., Canada; (a) yellowish translucent subparallel xls in two
Catalog/List
3.7x3.3x2.8 00236-$5.00 AllA~\HTE Canada, Quebec, Sandy Creek,Yates Mine Portion of a crude xl showing...········· 00071-$5.00 ARROJADITE Canada,YukonTerr.,Rapid Creek Rich micro xls to 3 mm, chiefly on a...GlennD. Commonsco/1. 00007-4 for $5.00 ramN!ESSffE Canada, Quebcc, Mont-Saint Hilaire Blacl...aftenwith Analcimexls S/C 5-6.5cm NationalMuseumof Canada 00169-$5.00 lBD{BVi IE Utah, Thomas Mts. Mirror-lustredcube...00181-3 for $10.00 ·- ‱ - - 001s2-=-9·-cor-$t5:oo Canada, Quebec, Brampton Lake, Orford NickieMine Fairly
Journal (issue)
to the Yukon, and in 1899 more gold was found around Nome, Alaska, drawing away many of the Yukon prospectors...prospectors. All of this activity gave a jump-start to mining interests and prospecting in the lands of the Pacific...642gram (52 troy-ounce) Turnagain Nugget, found on a creek in northern B.C. in 1937. The B.C. Department of...company of 15 women to exploit it. The Alaska Garnet Mining and Manufacturing Company was the first all-woman...had first been located in 1881, but little actual mining had been done; it had become a favorite spot where
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
at the Rapid Creek area, Canada. The Rapid Creek is a remote region in the north-eastern Yukon Territory...description of the Rapid Creek area, which is characterized by deposits of siderite and phosphatic ironstone...phosphatic iron formation is composed of phosphate–siderite grains, detrital quartz and skeletal fragments...including arrojadite, gormanite and satterlyite. At Rapid Creek, well-crystallized phosphates occur within a...rhombohedral brown vitreous millimetric crystals of siderite, probably related to the type 3 set of fractures
Catalog/List
each you Just can't go wrong! CRIPPLE CREEK GOLD ORE: Cripple Creek , Colorado: Thie old specimen material...from a collection from Mining Engineer Eben Bebee who first arrived in Cripple Creek, Colorado for the gold...crater 4 miles long and 2 miles wide. Mining at Cripple Creek lasted from 1891 to 1962 with the main...that represented the great richn‱ee of the Cripple Creek ore,.and discovered that heat treating the ore converted...each MANGANITE: Caland Pit, Atlkokan, Ontario, Canada: Top quality cabinet sized specimens (2x2 to 3x3
Book
© 2011 Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. All rights reserved. No part of this publication...Cataloging-in-Publication Data (U.S.) Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Tait, Kimberly. Tait...States by Firefly Books (U.S.) Inc. Published in Canada by Firefly Books Ltd. PO. Box 1338, Ellicott Station...at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Photography: Brian Boyle, MPA, FPPO, and Miguel...publishing program by the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund as administered by the Department
Report (issue)
Nanisivik mines; and, of course, the Big Fish/Rapid Creek area of Yukon Territory. But around eight years ago...standouts include wardite and gormanite from the Yukon; serandite, elpidite and rhodochrosite from St.-Hilaire;...first-rate.) Gormanite, 3 cm, from Rapid Creek, Yukon Territory, Canada. Tyson’s Fine Minerals specimen...photo. Elpidite, 1.4 cm, from St.-Hilaire, QuĂ©bec, Canada. Tyson’s Fine Minerals specimen and photo. 2 ...the safflorite-coated silver from the old Cobalt District of Ontario is a nice old-timer: identical-looking
Book
special issues, the letter precedes the page number. Yukon Phosphates (vol. 23, no. 4) Therefore, the Tsumeb...Tsumeb; 23/#2, Michigan Copper Country; 23/#4, Yukon Phosphates; 24/#2, Greenland; and 25/#6, The History...[ 417-512 393-508 329--408 509-588 409--488 YUKON] 205-300 [ 1-72 373-452 453-516 1-88 169-256...22:303-308 ALBERTA Mineral occurrences in western Canada [British Columbia and Alberta] (by A. Ingelson)...21:235-248 ALICE GLORY HOLE The Alice glory hole, Clear Creek County, Colorado (by T. A. Hanson & W. B. Craft)
Report (issue)
Greece generally and from the ancient Laurium district especially. Some of Christos’s Laurium azurite...quality only from its type locality, the silver-mining district of Guanajuato, Mexico (see the article on Guanajuato...plate of “valencianite” from the Silver City mining district, Owyhee County, Idaho. “Valencianite” (adularian...orthoclase), 8.7 cm, from the Silver City Mining District, Owyhee County, Idaho. Cal Neva Mineral Company...com) has again come up with something new from Canada, his native country. This time Ray offers seven
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
a pebble of the riverbed of the upper Maremola Creek, close to the village of Isallo, in the Magliolo...University user 824 F. CĂĄmara et al. Yukon Territory, Canada (Robertson, 1982; Young & Robertson, 1984;...mineral occurs in the riverbed of the upper Maremola Creek, close to the village of Isallo, in the Magliolo...rounded pebble in the riverbed of the Maremola Creek by one of the authors (RB) in 2012. The erratic...presence of NH4+ in arrojadite-(KNa) from Rapid Creek (Yukon) by means of WDS microprobe analysis and
Report (issue)
(Hagendorf, Germany); fairfieldite, vivianite, siderite, whitlockite (Palermo #1 mine, New Hampshire,...Co., South Dakota. From the Rapid Creek district, Yukon Territory, Canada. Large crystals from the San...San Antonio mine, Santa Eulalia district, Chihuahua, Mexico. In the Énio pegmatite mine, northeast of
Report (issue)
α =∌ 90◩ X-ray Powder Pattern: Cross-cut Creek, Canada; almost identical to kulanite. 3.094 (100),...6.5 1.4 24.9 3.9 Total 101.3 (1) Cross-cut Creek, Canada; by electron microprobe, total Fe as FeO; corresponds...iron formation. Association: Kulanite, quartz, siderite, fluorapatite, rapidcreekite, brazilianite, arrojadite...Cross-cut Creek, Big Fish River–Blow River area, and in the Hess River area, Yukon Territory, Canada. Name:...(1936–1979), Ross River, Yukon Territory, Canada, a codiscoverer of the Rapid Creek phosphate occurrences
Catalog/List
crystals. Good display piece. Vambori, Ahmedhagar District, Maharashtra State, lndia about 5x2.5 inches ÂŁ70...inch surface Likasi Mine, Katanga Congo ÂŁ25 14. SIDERITE rich red-brown cleavages with some minor Quaitz...fibres in cavities with quartz Mt Ste Hilaire Quebec Canada about a half inch area i Ix! .5 matrix ÂŁ12 21....plate of grey-green 2 to 3mm crystals. Rapid Creek, Yukon Canada with previous label f rom Richard V Gaines...(Henderson# 2 mine, 325 0 level, Chibugamu, Quebec Canada) ÂŁ12 59. CUPRIAN MELANTERITE rich bluish-green
 
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