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Fluorite from
Yellow Lake, Olalla, Osoyoos Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada


Locality type:Lake
Classification
Species:Fluorite
Formula:CaF2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Brewsterite Subgroup1 photo of Fluorite associated with Brewsterite Subgroup at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Fluorite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Yellow Lake, Olalla, Osoyoos Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:170365
Long-form Identifier:1:3:170365:8
GUID (UUID V4):8ea556bc-9795-46fb-9438-d521e9a816ea
Nearest other occurrences of Fluorite
20.7km (12.9 miles) Gypo Mine, Osoyoos Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada
46.2km (28.7 miles) Carmi Moly deposit, Beaverdell, Greenwood Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada
49.6km (30.8 miles) Sally Mine, Wallace Mountain, Beaverdell, Greenwood Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada
51.0km (31.7 miles) Highland Bell Mine, Beaverdell, Greenwood Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada
80.4km (50.0 miles) Tonasket Prospect, Conconully Mining District, Okanogan County, Washington, USA
80.7km (50.1 miles) Lost River Fluorite Occurrence, Mazama Mining District, Okanogan County, Washington, USA
88.4km (54.9 miles) Tunk Creek, Okanogan County, Washington, USA
91.5km (56.9 miles) Rock Candy Mine, Grand Forks, Greenwood Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada
92.2km (57.3 miles) Silver Bell Mine, Wauconda Mining District, Okanogan County, Washington, USA
92.3km (57.3 miles) American Flag Mine, Wauconda Mining District, Okanogan County, Washington, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in Canada Fluorite Occurrences Downloaded by [Korea University] at 04:52 06 January 2015 Figure 1...1. Map of Canada, generally showing localities mentioned in the article. Figure 1. Fluorite, crystals...L’Amable, Ontario, Canada K0L 2L0 melanson@northcom.net 114 ROCKS & MINERALS A lthough Canada is not particularly...particularly well known for its abundance of major fluorite specimen-producing localities, two spring to mind...Madoc, Ontario, and the Rock Candy mine in British Columbia. There are, however, many other occurrences
Journal (issue)
I205 and come off onto SR14 just north of the Columbia River headed for Camas. From the east, you are...St. Pacific Rim Blvd. Camas Brady Rd. SR 14 Columbia River Exit 10 2 IN MEMORY OF DEXTER LEONARD...Rudy Tschernich several years ago to Yellow Lake, British Columbia. We had collected a fair amount of material...and Laumontite on Brewsterite Yellow Lake, Olalla, British Columbia, Canada 6 embedded in the matrix...Rudy Tschernich, Zeolites from Yellow Lake, Olalla, British Columbia, Canada, Microprobe, VIII, #4, pg 6
Report (Issue volume)
Printer, Ottawa, from the Geological Survey of Canada, 601 Booth St., Ottawa, and at the following Canadian...available for reference in public libraries across Canada. Price $1.30 Catalogue No. M41-8/8-1 Price subject...Queen's Printer and Controller of Stationery Ottawa, Canada 1964 Page 1 e INTRODUCTION 2 3 4 4 5 6 6 7 11...general equipment Care of specimens Collecting in Canada Mineral and rock sets Abbreviations used in references...references YUKON NORTHWEST TERRITORIES BRITISH COLUMBIA ALBERTA SASKATCHEWAN MANITOBA APPENDICES Additional
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. southwest of upper Slate Lake in the Gore Range of Summit County; with chabazite...reported in specimens from the Yellow Lake area near Olalla, British Columbia. Scolecite crystals with mesolite...Bob Ramik of the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada. Scolecite occurs in many scattered European localities...of the zeolites found in fine specimens in the British Isles. It is well known from Scotland as crystal...occurs in similar sprays and aggregates with green fluorite at Fiesch and is reported from Geisspfad, Binntal
Book
land surface, freshwater lake, or shallow sea; into a saline, alkaline lake; or into the ocean. LAND...hyd ,olog,ic system, because th,e water enters the lake and can only leave by evaporation. The zelolite...kaline lakes, are zoned ~ om the edge of the former lake to the center" reflecting the differences in, chemical...pH of the water in the lake (Fig. 2). Ash that falls ,on the shore of the lake is not alt1ered. Ne,ar...the e-dge of the lake w'here the pH ·s near n,eutral, but near th,e center of the lake, potassium-rich
Book
land surface, freshwater lake, or shallow sea; into a saline, alkaline lake; or into the ocean. LAND...hyd ,olog,ic system, because th,e water enters the lake and can only leave by evaporation. The zelolite...kaline lakes, are zoned ~ om the edge of the former lake to the center" reflecting the differences in, chemical...pH of the water in the lake (Fig. 2). Ash that falls ,on the shore of the lake is not alt1ered. Ne,ar...the e-dge of the lake w'here the pH ·s near n,eutral, but near th,e center of the lake, potassium-rich
Journal (issue)
Eastern Washington University. HISTORY: Goble, in Columbia County, Oregon is one of the oldest and best known...railroad was put through the Goble area along the Columbia River and again in 1917 to 1918 when the main...found at Goble although it is common across the Columbia River at Kalama, Washington. APOPHYLLITE is commonly...needles which alter to various shades of oreen, yellow, and finally brown. NATIVE COPPER is present as...llinerala are those found in the cavities and eeaaa at Yellow Ialat, B.c. The ear]J', cavitr-tllling lliDerah
Book
ALBERTA Mineral occurrences in western Canada [British Columbia and Alberta] (by A. Ingelson) 15:8994...History (by P. B. Leavens) 8:28-31 AMNH acquires Columbia University collection (by J. J. Peters & G. E...Creek and Big Fish River Area, Yukon Territory [Canada] 23:Yl-47 --with H. R. Steacy, A. C. Robens: Guest...6:26-31 ANTARCTICITE Antarcticite from [Bristol Dry Lake] California (by G. H. H. Muehle) 2:171-173 A.,rrno:-...mine 8:95-97 A.'\1™O~-Y The Lake George antimony mine, New Brunswick [Canada] (by W. E. Wilson) 22:263-268
Journal (issue)
content: Pete J. Dunn Washington, DC Peter G. Embrey British Museum (N.H.) London, England Richard C. Erd U...Ann Arbor, Ml George W. Robinson Natl. Museums of Canada Ottawa, Ontario Abraham Rosenzweig University of...by H. A. Truebe Minerals occurrences in Western Canada .................................................Belgium: Paul Van Hee Marialei 43 B-2120 Schoten Canada: Mrs. J. W. Peat 36 Deepwood Crescent Don Mills...England. Roger Stuart Harker was for many years the British agent (volunteer) for the Mineralogical Record
Report (issue)
Color: Dark red to coal-black, pale yellow to bluish gray; honey-yellow in thin section, may exhibit strong...60 Pb0.22 Pb0.22 )Σ=1.04 V0.98 O4 . (2) Yellow Lake, Canada; by X-ray fluorescence, total deficient as...deposit, Congo); in vesicles with zeolites (Yellow Lake, Canada). Association: Mottramite (Kusu deposit,...analcime, mesolite, thomsonite, calcite, fluorite (Yellow Lake, Canada). Distribution: In the Kusu vanadium... Morocco. On the north side of Yellow Lake, British Columbia, Canada. Name: Originally described as “kusuite”;
Book (edition)
interesting facts about the people involved in mining, current price lists of various stones, and numerous...in 1976 by V.-\..N NOSTRAND REINHOLD COMPANY A Division of Litton Educational Publishing, Inc. 450 West...1410 Birchmoum Road Scarborough, Ontario MlP 2E7, Canada V.-\.'- NoSTRA.'-D Rrn,'HOLD AUSTRALIA PTY. LTD...information is included on the persons involved in mining the deposits, with dates and other pertinent information...Merrill 0. Murphy, Nebraska Conservation and Survey Division, Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, Harold Noble
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
06:14 02 December 2014 Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada I sometric-appearing minerals are not always...famous quarries at Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada. Analcime is typically seen as white, transparent...late-stage hydrothermal mineral. It is found in lake-bed sediments where it forms as an alteration product...specimens have been found in many localities where the Columbia basalt and other volcanic rocks are exposed in...trapezohedra to 2 cm associated with calcite, fluorite, and quartz in vuggy tuff (Castor and Ferdock
Journal (issue)
Bookstore at www.MineralogicalRecord.com Front cover: Fluorite on Amazonite 7.5 cm, from the Smoky Hawk claim...Tom Spann photo. Back cover: Top row, from left: Fluorite, 6.7 cm, from the Weisseck, Austria. Collected...by Federico Pezzotta; Antonio Miglioli photo. Fluorite, 7.4 cm, from the La Barre mine, France. Collected...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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of: microcline (sunstone), magnetite, quartz, fluorite, fluorapatite; C. Lyon Mountain, Chateaugay iron...augite, stilbite, titanite, zircon, others; F, C. Columbia County Ancram lead mines: barite, galena, sphalerite...meionite, hedenbergite, titanite, zircon; C. Minerva Lake: scapolite, vesuvianite, augite, fluorapatite, wollastonite;...74°09'06"W): magnetite, oligoclase (sunstone); C. Saranac Lake, Indian Pass: labradorite; C. Fulton County Lassellsville...Hamilton County Long Lake, road cut on State Rte. 30 (44°02'42"N, 74°31'16"W): fluorite, calcite, kainosite-(Y)
Book (volume)
TOP GROUP. Green fluorite (121.39 ct), Westmoreland, New Hampshire; blue fluorite (132.12 ct), Illinois;...California; brownish yellow octagonal calcite (21.30 ct), Montana; light yellow orthoclase feldspar (25...three Montana sapphires, violetish blue (2.52 ct), yellow (4.17 ct), and pinkish purple (1.35 ct). GEMSTONES...events to bring the history of North American gem mining up to date. Here, then, is the latest, most complete...and interviews with persons actively engaged in mining gemstones. Pertinent references are furnished throughout
Book
1978 by David E. Jensen All rights reserved ger Lake demy in n . on to Corne m chemistry with Prior to...enteri versity of Roches Harold L. Ailing's the mining distri* Adirondack Mou somed into a lifet New York...Canadian settle­ ments visited the vicinity of Onondaga Lake where there were salt marshes. However, the occurrence...before 1800. Prospectors searching for silver near Lake Sanford in Essex County discovered magnetite in...Natural Sciences; the Geological Libraries at Columbia Uni­ versity, Harvard University, and the Smithsonian
Book
early life on a hillside vineyard farm above Keuka Lake in New York's Finger Lakes district. After attending...Harold L. Alling's geology students on a trip to the mining districts and the high peaks of the Adirondack...1931. In 1947 he became head of Ward's Geology Division and served until his retirement in 1974 as a Vice...of New York State is LABRADORJTE from the Saranac Lake area. of New York State David E. Jensen WARD...Canadian settlements visited the vicinity of Onondaga Lake where there were salt marshes. However, the occurrence
Book
Zorzi (2008). ILMENITE UNITED STATES and CANADA BRITISH COLUMBIA Ice River complex. The Ice River complex...Mi11eml Discm•t•ries, /960--20/ 5 ONTARIO Bentley Lake Road occurrence, Faraday Township, Hastings County...vein-dike digging site which they called the Bentley Lake Road occurrence, south of Bancroft. Sharp, flattened...( 1995: 582). Madawaska [Faraday] mine near Bow Lake, Hastings County. Some of the world's finest ilmenite...some which are coated by rutile or hematite are yellow or red and earthy; they are equant to short-prismatic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
collector of the minerals of upstate New York and Canada. Our list is not exhaustive. We have not specifically...at www.tandfonline.com/vram) ● Part 2: The Yellow Lake Road Cut, September/ October 2006, pages 366–373...May/June 2009, pages 254–263 ● Part 4: The Yellow Lake South Road Cut, July/ August 2011, pages 349–358...roadwork to expose small numbers of specimens of fluorite, barite, titanite, calcite, quartz, diopside,...75°219480W): Calcite, dravite, microcline, fluorapatite, fluorite, goethite, graphite, hematite, marcasite, opal
Book (volume)
TOP GROUP. Green fluorite (121.39 et), Westmoreland, New Hampshire; blue fluorite (132.12 et), Illinois;...Caufornia; brownish yellow octagonal calcite (21 .30 et), 1\1ontana; light yellow orthoclase feldspar...three Montana sapphires, violetish blue (2 .52 et), yellow (4.17 et), and pinkish purple (I .3 5 et). GEMSTONE§...and interviews with persons actively engaged in mining gemstones. Pertinent references are furnished throughout...promising diamond fields being vigorously explored in Canada and the United States. Experts agree that in several
Journal (issue)
Ann Arbor, Ml Andrew C. Roberts Geol. Surv. of Canada Ottawa George W. Robinson Seaman Mineral Museum...Germany, teach­ ing English courses for the European Division of the University of Maryland. When Mineralogical...19901994. Recently, the Mineralogical Association of Canada ex­ pressed an interest in picking up the series...Jr., 320 Strathroyal Ave., Strathroy, Ontario, Canada N7G 3G4 tjokela@execulink.com (519) 245-2741 268...Jeffrey m ine (Q uebec), A lpine R odingites, Fluorite (G erm any) $10 $10 v .ll /# 5 Los Lam entos
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
collector of the minerals of upstate New York and Canada. David Lalonde is a geologist and owner of the...(1983). With extensive prospecting and numerous mining operations in the area during the 1800s, it seems...gash vein. Crystals range in color from white to yellow, are mostly opaque, and, in rare instances, are...photo. cores similar to those found at the Yellow Lake Road Cut North occurrence (Chamberlain and Walter... The secondary calcite deposits emitted strong yellow fluorescence under both short- and longwave radiation
Catalog/List
mail, charges: add an m2il. FOREIGN( except Canada). Usually, merchandise is shipped by registered...946 128 129 Mtd. lhntd. ANDERSONITE, Ambrosia Lake District, McKinley County, NewMexico. Minute bright...ANDRADITE, San Benito County, California. Transparent yellow dodecahedra on serpen6.50 tine. ANDRADITE, near...Ontario, Canada. Assorted bright twinned groups. No matrix. ARSENOPYRITE, Deloro, Ontario, Canada. Doubly...7.50 AUTLNITE, Saone et Loire, France. Greenish-yellow tabular crystal group an autunite. AUTUNITE, Saone
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Quebec at such localities as Pierrepont, Rossie, Yellow Lake, and DeKalb, New Y o r k ; Wilberforce, Dr....salmon calcite from the Yates Uranium mine, Otter Lake, uranium mine and the Payne property in Quebec...Each size category is subdivided into a Grenville division w i t h a New Y o r k and Canadian sec­ tion;...non-Grenville, United States, and Canada division; and a world-wide division. The collection has not always...outstanding specimens from New Y o r k include fluorite from Macomb; calcite from Sterlingbush; galena
Journal (issue)
Ann Arbor, Ml George W. Robinson Natl. Museums of Canada Ottawa, Ontario Abraham Rosenzweig Tampa, FL Associate...Eastern U.S. Charles & Marcelle Weber 1172 West Lake Ave. Guilford, CT 06437 Subscriptions • Individuals...belonged to his deceased grandfather, who had been a mining engineer. Curators receive such calls fre­ quently...is proving useful to archaeologists as well as mining geologists. The $20,000 device consists of two... it’s heaven-sent. The University of Arizona’s Mining and Geological Engineering Department has purchased
 
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