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


Locality type:Creek
Classification
Species:Fluorapatite
Formula:Ca5(PO4)3F
Habit:hexagonal prisms
Colour:colourless, white, purple
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Sideriteⓘ64 photos of Fluorapatite associated with Siderite at this locality.
Lazuliteⓘ63 photos of Fluorapatite associated with Lazulite at this locality.
Quartzⓘ33 photos of Fluorapatite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Goyaziteⓘ26 photos of Fluorapatite associated with Goyazite at this locality.
Warditeⓘ25 photos of Fluorapatite associated with Wardite at this locality.
Kulaniteⓘ21 photos of Fluorapatite associated with Kulanite at this locality.
Eosphoriteⓘ4 photos of Fluorapatite associated with Eosphorite at this locality.
Augeliteⓘ2 photos of Fluorapatite associated with Augelite at this locality.
Gormaniteⓘ2 photos of Fluorapatite associated with Gormanite at this locality.
Sigismunditeⓘ2 photos of Fluorapatite associated with Sigismundite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Fluorapatite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Rapid Creek, Dawson mining district, Yukon, Canada
Photo GalleryView Gallery (16 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:5237
Long-form Identifier:1:3:5237:5
GUID (UUID V4):ae9e3e00-ec75-4720-9ba8-fd66f6f46f8d
Localities for Fluorapatite 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 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
Nearest other occurrences of Fluorapatite
0.2km (0.1 miles) ⓘLocality 8, 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
2.5km (1.6 miles) ⓘ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
14.7km (9.1 miles) ⓘBig Fish River, Dawson mining district, Yukon, Canada
15.3km (9.5 miles) ⓘLocality 16, Big Fish River, Dawson mining district, Yukon, Canada
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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
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mine, Zamanti River area, Denizovasi, Yahyali district, Kayseri Province, central Anatolia region, Turkey...mine, Zamanti River area, Denizovasi, Yahyali district, Kayseri Province, central Anatolia region, Turkey...crystals from an unnamed mine in the Huancayo district, Huancayo Province, Junin Department, Peru. Largely...Maine. Rose Quartz, 5.8 cm, from the Huancayo district, Huancayo Province, Junin Department, Peru. Fabre...have been known earlier from the Bou Azzer mining district (see the Mineralogical Record’s special “Bou
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‘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...with siderite and pale purple fluorapatite, from the Rapid Creek area, Yukon Territory. Keith Williams specimen;...45 46 Figure 1. The Big Fish River, northern Yukon Territory, as viewed from collecting area “ C.”
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Sites "Re miniets Aitus du Canada Joel D. Grice A # ds. «< RE « "1 Ă©+ Le: . 0 7, 22 L # ... SITES MINIERS CANADA CÉLÈBRES DU “Joel D. Grice L'ouvrage Sites miniers cĂ©lĂšbres du Canada est un heureux...s'Ă©tend sur prĂšs de la moitiĂ© de la superficie du Canada et constitue l’une des rĂ©gions miniĂšres les plus...zinc, de cuivre et d’or. Sites miniers cĂ©lĂšbres du Canada est un ouvrage passionant et d’érudition rĂ©digĂ©... Sites miniers cĂ©lĂšbres du Canada Gites miniers cĂ©lĂšbres du Canada Joel D. Grice MusĂ©e national
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University Oxford, Ohio 45056 rakovajf@miamioh.edu Fluorapatite Acushnet Quarry Bristol County, Massachusetts...have made Pulsifer the premier locality for fluorapatite in the United States (Wilson 1977; Francis and...many others, another of North America’s finest fluorapatite specimens. It is from a locality, however, that...Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. Figure 1. Fluorapatite on albite with chlorite, 11.5 cm tall, Acushnet...fortunate to find what was left. ❑ Figure 3. Fluorapatite on albite with chlorite, 7.1 × 5.0 × 3.5 cm
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mineralogy, 100 Queen’s Park, toronto, ontario, Canada M5s 2C6. The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) mineral...originated from the Lac d’Amiante mine, Quebec, Canada. Well known as an asbestos mine, the locality is...the pegmatite include triphylite (to 10 cm), fluorapatite (to 1 cm), and montebrasite (to 15 cm). Both...occur in last-stage cleavelandite-bearing zones; fluorapatite is volumentrically the most important. Because...Because of the widespread occurrence of fluorapatite in the pegmatite, it is interpreted to be the most important
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
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...siderite, fluorapatite, rapidcreekite, brazilianite, arrojadite, anatase, goyazite (Cross-cut Creek, Canada);...Cross-cut Creek, 1.5 km upstream from the confluence with Rapid Creek, Big Fish-Blow River area, Yukon Territory
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
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
Report (issue)
Renfrew, Ontario, Canada; 7. Canada; 8. South Burgess, Lanark Co., Ontario, Canada 10. Snarum, Norway;...Kragero, Norway; 12. Eganville, Renfrew Co., Ontario, Canada; 13. (Phosphorite) Staffel, Limburg, Hesse-Nassau...Thousand Pound Crystals and Eighty Carat Gemstones-Canada is BIG! BY KIMBERLY TAIT AND MICHAEL BAINBRIDGE...The Panasqueira Mines: One Hundred Years of Fluorapatite BY CARLES CURTO MILA AND JORDI FABRE I FORNAGUERA...(Damour 1856; Rammelsberg 1860): 4 APATITE fluorapatite, hydroxylapatite, and chlorapatite. Their ideal
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
224 ROCKS & MINERALS Gallery Ottawa, Ontario Canada Figure 2. The front of the Victoria Memorial Museum...capital cities of each province and territory of Canada. The diamond-set globe (42 cut stones, total weight...present day. The Vale Earth Gallery is named for Vale mining (pronounced vah-lay in Portuguese) that provided... where its exhibits feature natural history in Canada and the world. The Vale Earth Gallery occupies...museum purchased in 1993 with funding from the major mining companies and other Canadian donors. At that time
Journal (issue)
Collected by Reinhold Bacher; Reinhold Bacher photo. Fluorapatite, 3.3-cm crystal, from the Pulsifer quarry, Maine...abiding secrets.” (Moore and Wilson, 2012) Fluorapatite rosette, with prehnite, 14 cm, from the Centreville...pocket in 1955 at least 25 others were found as mining progressed. The contents of these, which ranged...Colorado, and their most publicized effort, the mining of variscite nodules at Fairfield, Utah (the type...Over experienced as he reached in and gently Fluorapatite crystals on matrix, 3.6 cm, from the 1966 pocket
Report (issue)
37 0.01 Total 99.84 99.97 (1) François Lake, Canada; corresponds to Ca1.92 (Mg0.78 Fe0.34 )ÎŁ=1.12 (PO4... Association: Carbonatian fluorapatite, bitumen (Lake François, Canada); parahopeite, scholzite, cryptomelane... Coast district, British Columbia, and as large crystals from the Big Fish River–Rapid Creek area, Yukon...Yukon Territory, Canada. In the USA, at the Tip Top mine, 8.5 km southwest of Custer, Custer Co., South... formerly Director of the Geological Survey of Canada. Type Material: n.d. References: (1) Palache
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Siderite Siete Suyos Mine, Atocha-Quechisla District Sud Chichas Province, PotosĂ­ Department, Bolivia...siderite from Siete Suyos mine, Atocha-Quechisla district, Sud Chichas Province, PotosĂ­ Department, Bolivia...galena, hematite, calcite, ankerite, dolomite, fluorapatite, pyrite, fluorite, barite, cassiterite, and...found as iridescent microcrystals; the Duquesne district, Santa Cruz County, as curved rhombohedra; and...sphalerite and pyrite. The White Raven mine, Ward district, Boulder County, has produced some of the Figure
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...formation. Association: Kulanite, quartz, siderite, fluorapatite, rapidcreekite, brazilianite, arrojadite, anatase...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
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
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)
Carbonate-fluorapatite Ca5 (PO4 , CO3 )3 F c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1 Crystal...quartz (pegmatites). Distribution: High-carbonate fluorapatite has been analyzed from many localities, although...Saint-Amable, Quebec, and along Rapid Creek, Yukon Territory, Canada. At the Zheleznyi iron mine, Kovdor...massif, Kola Peninsula, Russia. Name: For a fluorapatite with essential carbonate. References: (1) Palache
Journal (issue)
Ann Arbor, Ml George W. Robinson Natl. Museums of Canada Ottawa, Ontario Abraham Rosenzweig Tampa, FL Associate...Mowry Place Tucson, AZ 85741 Articles Giant fluorapatite crystals: a question of locality .............spessartine, topaz and pseudobrookite from Ash Creek near Hayden, Arizona .........487 by J. S. White...significance—2 0 % of all talc mined in the U .S. and Canada comes from Vermont. But publicity is publicity...by Vermont Governor Howard Dean and attended by mining industry representatives, mine owners, representatives
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Diablo, Arizona. 12 x 13 cm. (Geological Survey of Canada specimen) By studying meteorites such as this one...Often very fine-grained rocks result. Although the rapid 30 cooling of volcanic rocks is not conducive...(Photograph by Michael Hamilton, Geological Survey of Canada) Diffirentiation of magma caused compositional...the diamonds clearly do not form in them. Placer mining employs water to separate gems or precious metals... minerals crystallized from it because of the rapid decrease in pressure encountered at the Earth's
Report (issue)
. Total 98.35 99.40 100.00 (1) Rapid Creek, Yukon Territory, Canada; average electron microprobe analysis...Lazulite, hematite, fluorapatite, quartz. Distribution: From the Yukon Territory, Canada [TL] and the Victory
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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)
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s Tijdens een excursie naar Yukon, in het uiterste noordwesten van Canada (tegen Alask a aan) in juni...eerder beschreven (Dillen, 1994) moet men in het Yukon-gebied rekenin g houden met het extreme klimaat...vindplaatsen i n het uiterste noordwesten va n Canada (Yukon Terrifory, dat tege n Alaska aan ligt) . [Naa...vindplaatsen R" (links) an "B" (rechts) bij Rapid Creek, Yukon, Canada . [Naa r Robinson G . W. et al., 1992]...1992] In het noordwesten van Canada, op de scheiding van Yukon- en North-West Territory lig t het Richardson
 
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