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


Locality type:Creek
Classification
Species:Quartz
Formula:SiO2
Habit:prismatic
Colour:colourless, white
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Lazuliteⓘ476 photos of Quartz associated with Lazulite at this locality.
Sideriteⓘ340 photos of Quartz associated with Siderite at this locality.
Whiteite-(CaFeMg)ⓘ50 photos of Quartz associated with Whiteite-(CaFeMg) at this locality.
Gormaniteⓘ34 photos of Quartz associated with Gormanite at this locality.
Fluorapatiteⓘ33 photos of Quartz associated with Fluorapatite at this locality.
Augeliteⓘ17 photos of Quartz associated with Augelite at this locality.
Warditeⓘ11 photos of Quartz associated with Wardite at this locality.
Kulaniteⓘ11 photos of Quartz associated with Kulanite at this locality.
Whiteite Subgroupⓘ11 photos of Quartz associated with Whiteite Subgroup at this locality.
Apatiteⓘ7 photos of Quartz associated with Apatite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Quartz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Rapid Creek, Dawson mining district, Yukon, Canada
Photo GalleryView Gallery (6 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:213237
Long-form Identifier:1:3:213237:2
GUID (UUID V4):94cbb7a8-b63a-4be7-86db-4ee1e8b17b62
Localities for Quartz in this Region
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 5, 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 12, Stoneman Camp, Rapid Creek, Dawson mining district, Yukon, Canada
Locality 9, Stoneman Camp, Rapid Creek, Dawson mining district, Yukon, Canada
Young's Creek, 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 Quartz
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) ⓘLocality 2, Crosscut Creek, Kulan Camp (Area A; Area 1), Rapid Creek, Dawson mining district, Yukon, Canada
2.5km (1.6 miles) ⓘLocality 5, 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) ⓘGrizzly Bear Creek, Stoneman Camp, Rapid Creek, Dawson mining district, Yukon, Canada
7.3km (4.5 miles) ⓘStoneman Camp, Rapid Creek, Dawson mining district, Yukon, Canada
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (issue)
photo. (lower left) Amazonite microcline with smoky quartz, 8.5 cm, Tree Root pocket, Two Point claim, Teller...2009 7 RICHARDSON BEARD COLLECTION Pyrite on quartz, 11 cm, Spruce Ridge, King County, Washington....Bruce Oreck collection. Joe Budd photo. Pyrite on quartz and siderite, 8 cm, Simplon Tunnel, near Brig,...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
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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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)
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
Report (issue)
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...discovery of very good rose quartz crystals from an unnamed mine in the Huancayo district, Huancayo Province,...the old classic rose quartz occurrence on Plumbago Mountain in Maine. Rose Quartz, 5.8 cm, from the Huancayo...Huancayo district, Huancayo Province, Junin Department, Peru. Fabre Minerals specimen and photo. 6 ï‚„
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...and pale purple fluorapatite, from the Rapid Creek area, Yukon Territory. Keith Williams specimen; photo...45 46 Figure 1. The Big Fish River, northern Yukon Territory, as viewed from collecting area “ C.”
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...association: lazulite + quartz + siderite. The phosphate-rich clefts, in the Dawson mining district, are due to an...post-depositional history involving the whole Rapid Creek Formation (Robertson 1980, 1982). This complex...Ca-rich mineral association of the first type (i.e., quartz + siderite + lazulite + “apatite”; Robertson 1982)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in quartz and generally classed as quartzites (Graves Mountain). Lesser occurrences are in quartz and...veins cutting phosphatic shales and ironstones (Yukon). Unanalyzed lazulite-scorzalite has been reported...from a series of kyanite-bearing “quartzite” or quartz granofels monadnocks that occur in a poorly defined...greenish-blue grains and masses in the kyanite-quartz rock mined on Willis Mountain northeast of Pleasant...faceted stones are found here associated with late quartz veins. In Moore County, North Carolina, several
Report (volume)
.............................. 20 * 20 20 21 Canada.........................'...................................................................... Canada................................................................................................ Canada..................................................36 36 37 37 37 12 CLASSIFIED KEY TO INDEX. Canada Continued. Page. Ontario....................................................................... Canada...............................................
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
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)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
globular, radially fibrous masses. Inclusions of quartz, tourmaline, apatite, and muscovite crystals have...optically anomalous brazilianite from the Yukon Territory, Canada, shows local enrichment in iron and calcium...wylleite, eosphorite, siderite, albite, muscovite, quartz, and microcline. It also occurs as a sparse component...quarry at Greenwood, the Nevel quarry, the rose quartz crystal locality of Mount Plumbago, and the Mount...locality, the C6rrego Frio (Portuguese for “Cold Creek”) mine, approximately 6 kilometers north of the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
a pebble of the riverbed of the upper Maremola Creek, close to the village of Isallo, in the Magliolo...found in the region. The mineral is associated with quartz and almandine and has microscopic inclusions of...crystals in an anhedral centimetric nodule embedded in quartz. Fluorcarmoite-(BaNa) is brittle, and no cleavage...Arrojadite-group minerals occur also associated with quartz related to hydrothermal activity accompanying a...University user 824 F. CĂĄmara et al. Yukon Territory, Canada (Robertson, 1982; Young & Robertson, 1984;
Report (issue)
terminal rhombohedrons in a habit suggesting that of quartz, but their satiny-gleaming luster (never mind their...being Greek for “six”) in the ancient Laurium mining district of Attika, Greece. On the website of his always-interesting...smithsonite, 2.7 cm, from Sounion mine #6, Laurium district, Attika, Greece. Greek Rocks specimen and photo...hemimorphite, 5.5 cm, from Sounion mine #6, Laurium district, Attika, Greece. Greek Rocks specimen and photo...summer 2020 find in the Bou Nahas mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drña-Tafilalet
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...Australia); lazulite, siderite, “limonite”, quartz (Big Fish River, Canada); diamond (river sands, may be coincidental)...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
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
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...&Kploration. $5.00 IRIDESCENT GOETHITE COVERING QUARTZ: Grandfather Mountain, Georgia: Choice specimens
Report (issue)
SURVEY OF CANADA BULLETIN 422 GEOLOGY AND MINERAL AND HYDROCARBON POTENTIAL OF NORTHERN YUKON TERRITORY...TERRITORY AND NORTHWESTERN DISTRICT OF MACKENZIE Edited by D.K. Norris ed | Natural Resources Ressources...Ressources naturelles Canada Canada : (i | 3 151200082 2939 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA BULLETIN 422 ...HYDROCARBON POTENTIAL OF NORTHERN YUKON TERRITORY AND NORTHWESTERN DISTRICT OF MACKENZIE Edited by D.K. ... COLL! ae °Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada, 19 Ke Catalogue No. M42-422E
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
Journal (issue)
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...he carefully pried away the jagged, iron-stained quartz rock from the ever-widening seam. It finally opened...came from a single cavity lined with crystals of quartz, orthoclase and lepidolite, accompanied by small...so Frank was quite familiar with techniques for mining it. After a careful examination of the quarry,
Report (issue)
= 6.1646(8) Z=8 X-ray Powder Pattern: Rapid Creek, Canada; strongest lines close to gypsum. 7.78 (100)...28 36.38 23.37 Total 100.0 100.00 (1) Rapid Creek, Canada; by electron microprobe, CO2 and H2 O by...formed along joint and bedding-plane surfaces of quartz-rich sideritic iron formation. Association: Distribution:...aragonite. From Crosscut Creek, a tributary of Rapid Creek, Yukon Territory, Canada. For its occurrence...occurrence in the Rapid Creek district, Canada. Type Material: Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, 64346; Canadian
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...pegmatite (Xiyuantou, China). Association: Penikisite, quartz, siderite, fluorapatite, rapidcreekite, brazilianite...brazilianite, arrojadite, anatase, goyazite (Cross-cut Creek, Canada); palermoite, montebrasite, triphylite (Palermo
Journal (issue)
Printed by Allen Press, Lawrence, Kansas Front cover Quartz scepter with pyrite, 7 cm, from Spruce Ridge, King...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...book. Collectors have reveled in the beautiful quartz specimens from Denny Mountain and King County,...642gram (52 troy-ounce) Turnagain Nugget, found on a creek in northern B.C. in 1937. The B.C. Department of
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...with apatite group minerals, gormanite, siderite, quartz, and other minerals in thin veins, phosphate nodules
Catalog/List
6-$3.50 NALCIME: M68. Mont-St. Hilaire, Quebec, Canada; (a) T/N, white single xl, complete except for...with tan curved 1-2 mmDolomite xls, micro Pyrite & Quartz s; 4.2x2.9x2.B-$30.00; (e) showy; sharp distinct...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
 
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