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Siderite from
Big Fish River, Dawson mining district, Yukon, Canada


Locality type:River
Classification
Species:Siderite
Formula:FeCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Gormaniteⓘ18 photos of Siderite associated with Gormanite at this locality.
Kulaniteⓘ15 photos of Siderite associated with Kulanite at this locality.
Quartzⓘ15 photos of Siderite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Lazuliteⓘ7 photos of Siderite associated with Lazulite at this locality.
Fluorapatiteⓘ6 photos of Siderite associated with Fluorapatite at this locality.
Apatite5 photos of Siderite associated with Apatite at this locality.
Childreniteⓘ3 photos of Siderite associated with Childrenite at this locality.
Metavauxiteⓘ3 photos of Siderite associated with Metavauxite at this locality.
Brazilianiteⓘ3 photos of Siderite associated with Brazilianite at this locality.
Augeliteⓘ2 photos of Siderite associated with Augelite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Siderite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Big Fish River, Dawson mining district, Yukon, Canada
Photo GalleryView Gallery (3 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:46951
Long-form Identifier:1:3:46951:3
GUID (UUID V4):f642bae1-8249-46f1-92eb-50ac73ecf637
Localities for Siderite in this Region
Locality 15, Big Fish River, Dawson mining district, Yukon, Canada
Nearest other occurrences of Siderite
0.8km (0.5 miles) ⓘLocality 15, Big Fish River, Dawson mining district, Yukon, Canada
14.7km (9.1 miles) ⓘLocality 8, Kulan Camp (Area A; Area 1), Rapid Creek, Dawson mining district, Yukon, Canada
14.7km (9.1 miles) ⓘRapid Creek, Dawson mining district, Yukon, Canada
15.0km (9.3 miles) ⓘKulan Camp (Area A; Area 1), Rapid Creek, Dawson mining district, Yukon, Canada
15.3km (9.5 miles) ⓘLocality 3, Crosscut Creek, Kulan Camp (Area A; Area 1), Rapid Creek, Dawson mining district, Yukon, Canada
15.6km (9.7 miles) ⓘLocality 7, Kulan Camp (Area A; Area 1), Rapid Creek, Dawson mining district, Yukon, Canada
15.7km (9.7 miles) ⓘLocality 2, Crosscut Creek, Kulan Camp (Area A; Area 1), Rapid Creek, Dawson mining district, Yukon, Canada
16.1km (10.0 miles) ⓘCrosscut Creek, Kulan Camp (Area A; Area 1), Rapid Creek, Dawson mining district, Yukon, Canada
16.1km (10.0 miles) ⓘMount Seafoam (Area D; Area 4), Rapid Creek, Dawson mining district, Yukon, Canada
16.3km (10.1 miles) ⓘLocality 1, Crosscut Creek, Kulan Camp (Area A; Area 1), 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...8 11 13 40 45 45 46 Figure 1. The Big Fish River, northern Yukon Territory, as viewed from collecting
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...velkjente blant mineralsamlere. Ved Rapid Creek, Yukon, ble det i 1959 fun net lazulite. Senere ble det...thousand kilometers that comprise the breadth of Canada will have noted stunning differences in the surface
Report (issue)
symmetry observed.] X-ray Powder Pattern: Big Fish River, Canada. 3.010 (100), 5.769 (93), 3.529 (56), 2...(2) Crosscut Creek, Rapid Creek area, Yukon Territory, Canada; electron microprobe analysis, H2O calculated...fraction of soils; commonly as favas in diamantiferous river sands. Association: Dawsonite, alumohydrocalcite...Australia); lazulite, siderite, “limonite”, quartz (Big Fish River, Canada); diamond (river sands, may be coincidental)...Bonsa River, near Dompim, Gold Coast. From the Oiyi district, Sierra Leone. In the Buffels River, Spektakel
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
NEAR-ENDMEMBER ARROJADITE-(BaNa) FROM BIG FISH RIVER, YUKON, CANADA HEIDI E. TOMES University of Toronto...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...H)2, has been identified from Big Fish River, Yukon Territory, Canada. Arrojadite-(BaNa) was first discovered...2016). At Big Fish River it is associated with apatite group minerals, gormanite, siderite, quartz, and
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)
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
Report (issue)
54(2) D(calc.) = 3.76 (Luna); 3.620 and 3.710 (Big Fish River) Optical Properties: Translucent. Color: Pale...0067(5) c = 24.5435(12) ÎČ = 106.121(2)° Z = 4 (Big Fish) X-ray Powder Pattern: Luna albite pegmatite,...Ca)Fe2+13Al(PO4)11(PO3OH)(OH)2. (3) Big Fish River, Yukon Territory, Canada; average electron microprobe analysis...phosphatic ironstone shales and mudstones (Big Fish River). Association: Fluorapatite, albite (Luna);...gormanite, apatite/‘francolite’, siderite, quartz, pyrite (Big Fish). Distribution: From the Luna albite
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...remote Rapid Creek and Big Fish River valleys in northeastern Yukon Territory, Canada (Mossman and Robertson
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...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...occurrences along Rapid Creek and Big Fish areas, Yukon Territory, Canada, where crystals closely resemble
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
BOBDOWNSITE, A NEW MINERAL SPECIES FROM BIG FISH RIVER, YUKON, CANADA, AND ITS STRUCTURAL RELATIONSHIP WITH...Museum, 100 Queen’s Park, Toronto, Ontario M5S 2C6, Canada Madison C. BARKLEY, Richard M. THOMPSON, Marcus...the west side of Big Fish River, Yukon, Canada. The associated minerals include siderite, lazulite, an arrojadite-group...gormanite, quartz, and collinsite. Bobdownsite from the Yukon is tabular, colorless, and transparent, with a white... X-ray diffraction, Raman spectra, Big Fish River, Yukon, Canada. Sommaire Nous dĂ©crivons la bobdownsite
Report (issue)
=∌ 90◩ X-ray Powder Pattern: Cross-cut Creek, Canada; almost identical to kulanite. 3.094 (100), 2.915...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: Honoring...Mr. Gunar Penikis (1936–1979), Ross River, Yukon Territory, Canada, a codiscoverer of the Rapid Creek
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...(1852–1856), contributed to development of [the] mining industry in Russia, inspected supplies and working...MEMBER OF THE WHITLOCKITE GROUP, FROM BIG FISH RIVER, YUKON, CANADA. K. T. Tait1,2, R. M. Thompson1, H....Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 2C6. A new mineral, bobdownsite, ideally Ca9Mg(PO3F)(PO4)6
Report (issue)
4.622-4.670 2 X-ray Powder Pattern: Yukon Territory, Canada. 6.71 (100), 2.699 (70), 2.956 (60), 2...[96.85] 100.00 23.72 13.31 31.72 (1) Yukon Territory, Canada; Fe2+:Fe3+ = 7.98:1 by TGA, H20 by TGA;...fillings in sideritic iron formation (Yukon Territory, Canada); as a folded ribbonlike mass in sediment...Association: Siderite, vivianite, lazulite, whiteite, collin site, childrenite, Territory, Canada). Distribution:...From the Big Fish River-Rapid Marlborough Province, New Zealand. quartz Creek area, Yukon Territory
Journal (issue)
1858, when gold was discovered along the Fraser River in British Columbia, a new gold rush drew more than...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...to British Columbia in 1858, during the Fraser River gold rush. The largest surviving gold nugget from...company of 15 women to exploit it. The Alaska Garnet Mining and Manufacturing Company was the first all-woman
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mg(CO'XHBO').5H,O. NEW MINERAL The nameis for the district,Canavese, in which the villageand mine of Brossooccur...Museum;National Reference Collection,Geological Surveyof Canada;Museumof Geology,SouthDakota School of Mines and...natrolite,calcite,chlorite,aegirine,arfvedsonite, siderite,rhodochrosite, ancylite,pyrite,sphalerite, hematite...{102}.with Z = 2,thecalculateddensityis Friedrich,Mining University,Leoben,Styria,Austria.Type mate- 2.79...empiricalformula (basedon Museum,Toronto,Ontario,Canada;and SmithsonianInstitution, l3 oxygenions) of
Report (issue)
fairfieldite, hydroxyl-herderite, eosphorite, siderite roscherite (pegmatites). Distribution: In the...Large crystals from the Big Fish River–Rapid Creek area, Yukon Territory, Canada. In Brazil, from the Lavra...Lavra da Ilha pegmatite, in the Jequitinhonha River, three km north of Taquaral, and in the Pirineus
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
4~x4x2-t". ÂŁ17.00. ATACAMITE. Copiapo, Atacama District, Chile. Specimen A - Bright, deep green, radiated...specimens are from a new find in this famous old mining district. , AUTUNITE. Bessinesi Haute-Vienne, France...of'Chalcopyrite, light brown drusy crystalised Siderite and odd small, elongated, milky quartz crystals...across the 'xis: ÂŁ1.50. DIOPTASE. Mindouli, Niari River, Zaire. Specimen A - Very bright, emerald green...crystals, and with an encrustation of pale creamy Siderite crystals on one side. ~xl-txl". ÂŁ8.00. 47. 48
Report (issue)
product of primary phosphate minerals. Association: Siderite, pyrite, apatite, quartz (Tavistock, England);...Hampshire. From the Rapid Creek–Big Fish River area, Yukon Territory, Canada. Large crystals at the João
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)...Mineralogy of the Rapid Creek and Big Fish River Area, Yukon Territory [Canada] 23:Yl-47 --with H. R. Steacy
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(H. K. Worner and R. Mitchell, eds.). Australian Mining and Smelting Ltd., Melbourne, 68-195. Brush, G...Museum (unpubl.). (1959) Proc. Australas. Inst. Mining Met. 190, 1-84. [Manuscript received 3 May 1983;...gratitude to the following:Mr J. Just of Seltrust Mining Corporation, who brought the mineral assemblage...triplite, has been found for the first time in Canada, in the East Kemptville greisen-hosted tin deposit...been termed the Davis Lake monzogranite by Shell Canada Resources Limited who discovered the deposit in
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University user 824 F. CĂĄmara et al. Yukon Territory, Canada (Robertson, 1982; Young & Robertson, 1984;...presence of NH4+ in arrojadite-(KNa) from Rapid Creek (Yukon) by means of WDS microprobe analysis and FTIR, which...Creek, Dawson mining district, Fillow Quarry, Branchville, Type locality “Costa Balzi Rossi”, Yukon Territory...Territory, Canada RidgeïŹeld, FairïŹeld County, Maremola Creek, Isallo, Connecticut, USA Magliolo, Savona...triploidite, graftonite inclusion) “limonite” (former siderite?) lithiophilite, quartz References: (1) This study;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
triplite, has been found for the first time in Canada, in the East Kemptville greisen-hosted tin deposit...been termed the Davis Lake monzogranite by Shell Canada Resources Limited who discovered the deposit in...of the childreniteeosphorite series, stilbite, siderite, pyrite, and fluorite. For a summary of the paragenetic...e series in Canada, childrenite having been recorded from the Big Fish River area, Yukon Territory, by...n g t h e r m a l analysis. The T G A d a t a Canada Resources Limited and P. M. Kavanagh of Riocanex
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
fractures in a siderite-rich formation in the Big Fish River area, in the northeastern part of Yukon Territory...Territory, Canada, in association with quartz, fluorapatite, lazulite and magnesian vivianite. Two other occurrences...and chemical properties of barićite from the Big Fish River area were reported by Sturman & Mandarino (1976)...National Research Council, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0S2, Canada. INTERATOMIC DISTANCES IN BARIĆITE Four of the...the magnesian analogue of vivianite from Yukon Territory, Canada. Can. Mineral. 14, 403-406. TAKAGI, S.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Rapid Creek area, Canada. The Rapid Creek is a remote region in the north-eastern Yukon Territory, but it...Creek area, which is characterized by deposits of siderite and phosphatic ironstone embedded in shales and...thick sequences of turbidite sandstones, named Blow River Formation, deposited during the early- to midCretaceous...phosphatic iron formation is composed of phosphate–siderite grains, detrital quartz and skeletal fragments...set of rigid fracture which cross-cuts the Blow River Formation, where a typical fracture-filling mineral
 
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