 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Auburn University Auburn, Alabama 36849-5305 Brazilianite Downloaded by [National Sun Yat-Sen University]...been formally nominated (see fig.), would be brazilianite. After all, only a handful of countries have...attractive and desirable as brazilianite. Unlike many relatively new minerals, brazilianite made its debut in unusually...Reasonably priced specimens are usually available. Brazilianite is most easily identified by its combination...characteristic twinning, and greater hardness. Brazilianite has good (010) cleavage, conchoidal fracture |  | | 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...purple fluorapatite, from the Rapid Creek area, Yukon Territory. Keith Williams specimen; photo by Wendell...8 11 13 40 45 45 46 Figure 1. The Big Fish River, northern Yukon Territory, as viewed from collecting |  | | Report (issue) | | Brazilianite NaAl3 (PO4 )2 (OH)4 c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data: Monoclinic...Picacho district, Maricopa and Yavapai Co., Arizona. In the Big Fish River–Rapid Creek area, Yukon Territory...Territory, Canada. From the Buranga pegmatite, near Gatumba, Rwanda. At Millstätter Seenrücken, Carinthia...and M.L. Lindberg (1948) Second occurrence of brazilianite. Amer. Mineral., 33, 135–141. (3) Gatehouse...B.K. Miskin (1974) The crystal structure of brazilianite, NaAl3 (PO4 )2 (OH)4 . Acta Cryst., 30, 1311–1317 |  | | 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) | | =∼ 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...quartz, siderite, fluorapatite, rapidcreekite, brazilianite, arrojadite, anatase, goyazite. Distribution:...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) | | gemology: Single-crystal diffraction study of brazilianite, NaAl3(PO4)2(OH)4 G. Diego Gatta,1,* Pietro...composition and the crystal structure of a gem-quality brazilianite from the Telírio pegmatite, near Linópolis,...diffraction. The chemical analysis shows that brazilianite from Telírio Claim approaches almost ideal composition...Fo > 4s(Fo). The building-block units of the brazilianite structure consist of chains of edge-sharing...differences between the crystal structure of brazilianite and wardite [ideally NaAl3(PO4)2(OH)4·2H2O] |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z4, Canada Abstract The crystal structure of the Ba–Al phosphate...diffractometer. The specimen, from the Rapid Creek area, Yukon Territory, has rhombohedral rather than monoclinic...prélevé dans la région de Rapid Creek, territoire du Yukon, possède une symétrie rhomboédrique plutôt que monoclinique...Ontario. Baldwin et al. (2000) found gorceixite in brazilianite that replaced montebrasite in rare-element pegmatites...sample of gorceixite from the Big Fish River – Rapid Creek area in the Yukon Territory, and indexed the |  | | Journal (issue) | | Petersburg University specimens **- St.-Petersburg Mining Museum specimens 2 W o r l d of Stones. Ng 1 I...the authors of this article, was opened in the Mining Museum of St. Petersburg not long ago and another...geographical name Aldan refers to both a city and a river, but often this name is used in an administrative...graduating from the Petrograd (now St. Petersburg) Mining Institute. Working here for nearly a year, the...Bald Mountain, in the upper reaches of the Inagli River, provided the basis for the description of so-called |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Rapid Creek area, Canada. The Rapid Creek is a remote region in the north-eastern Yukon Territory, but it...thick sequences of turbidite sandstones, named Blow River Formation, deposited during the early- to midCretaceous...set of rigid fracture which cross-cuts the Blow River Formation, where a typical fracture-filling mineral...chemical analysis of wardite from Rapid Creek, Yukon, Canada. Average composition based on 14 point analysis...gemology: single-crystal diffraction study of brazilianite, NaAl3(PO4)2(OH)4. Am Mineral 98:1624–1630 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | forest that is largely regrowth from the early mining operations (Fig. S1 and Fig. 2). However, the pegmatite...any renewed mining activities (Cochrane & Bowen, 1971). At no time during the early mining heyday was...and locality map of the Mount Wills pegmatite district (after Eagle et al., 2015). following the Benambran...montebrasite–amblygonite, lazulite–scorzalite, brazilianite, bertossaite and whiteite (sp.) is mainly developed...found in low-grade metamorphic rocks in Yukon Territory, Canada (Robinson et al., 1992). By comparison |  | | Book | | Sites "Re miniets Aitus du Canada Joel D. Grice A # ds. «< RE « "1 é+ Le: . 0 7, 22 L # ... SITES MINIERS CANADA CÉLÈBRES DU “Joel D. Grice L'ouvrage Sites miniers célèbres du Canada est un heureux...s'étend sur près de la moitié de la superficie du Canada et constitue l’une des régions minières les plus...zinc, de cuivre et d’or. Sites miniers célèbres du Canada est un ouvrage passionant et d’érudition rédigé... Sites miniers célèbres du Canada Gites miniers célèbres du Canada Joel D. Grice Musée national |  | | Book | | what was probably one of the earliest hard-rock mining operations in the world. A necklase with a turquois...Institute, Box 5050, Burlington, Ontario L 7R 4A6, Canada J. O. Nriagu et al. (eds.), Photosphate Minerals...rather convoluted account of the prospecting and mining of this mineral (Pliny, 38:33): "It [cal/aina,...evaporitic rocks at the Incline, Mariposa County and Big Creek, Fresno County, California. The associated...Found in a drill core in the valley of Vuonnemi River, Khibina alkalic massif, Kola Peninsula, U.S.S.R |  | | 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 |  | | 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 (issue) | | and four feet six inches wide. Enlarging the hole big enough to hold his light an arm’s length into the...crawlway—and there it is: the mouth of the Red River Find. From this vantage, the opening of the watercourse...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...so Frank was quite familiar with techniques for mining it. After a careful examination of the quarry, |  | | Journal (issue) | | or $324/three years, (Canada) $196/one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $275 for one year Subscription... Company, another shipping firm serving major American mining and chemical companies. The company ceased operations...mineral collector and curator, was born in the mining town of Anyox, British Columbia on April 30, 1930...Michael’s early employers were the Britannia Beach Mining and Smelting Company of British Columbia, and the...best mineral and gem galleries and collections in Canada. It was at Glenbow, that Michael met Lise; they |  | | Book | | Diablo, Arizona. 12 x 13 cm. (Geological Survey of Canada specimen) By studying meteorites such as this one...toss a stick into a river, we can watch it flow downstream because fluid flow in a river is easily observable...black rock had been bulldozed into ridges by the river of molten rock that once flowed beneath them. In...near Plush, Oregon. How do these crystals get so big, if they have so little time to crystallize? The...(Photograph by Michael Hamilton, Geological Survey of Canada) Diffirentiation of magma caused compositional |  | | Journal (issue) | | Ann Arbor, Ml George W. Robinson Natl. Museums of Canada Ottawa, Ontario Abraham Rosenzweig Tampa, FL Associate...sight occurring more and more often at old Nevada mining camps and ghost towns. In addition, the immediate...1991. Very little has changed here since the last mining occurred in the 1950’s, especially the beautiful...elsewhere in the mine. It has formed subsequent to mining, most commonly on surfaces of heavily altered,...4 The “epsomite” previously reported as a post-mining efflorescence (Jensen, 1985) is instead thenardite |  | | Book | | found in Berezovsk. Ural mountains and in the Lena River basin, Siberia. Russia. Fine scales and larger nuggets...weighing up to 11.5 kg (25 lb 5 oz) found in the Tura River basin near Turiinsk, Ural Mountains. Primary platinum...Ontario, Canada. Fine smaller nuggets, weighing up to 75 g (165 lb) were found in the Trinity River sediments...sediments in California. USA and the Choco River sediments in Columbia. Application: chemical industry, catalytic...Konder. Russia Arsenic, 45 mm, Allien Island, Canada Antimony. 37 mm. New Brunswick, Arsenic Stibarsen |  | | Book | | Mineralogical Association of Canada Association minéraiogique du Canada 1 Credits for photographs...Courtesy of the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada Hilaire, Quebec / Photo by Claire Dufour Printing...Association of Canada P.O. Box 78087 Meriline Postal Outlet 1460 Merivale Road Ottawa, Ontario Canada Diopside...the Canadian K2E 1Bl Museum of Nature, Ottawa, Canada e-mail: canmin.mac.ottawa@sympatico.ca Drawings...publisher. Printed in Canada Copyright © 1997 Mineralogical Association of Canada ISBN 0-921294-45-x Minerals |  | | Book | | Australia Nelson Canada 1120 Birchmount Road Scarborough, Ontario MIK 5G4, Canada 16 15 14 13 12 11...Semi-metallic/adamantine pink-purple, reddish-brown. Green River Formation, Uintah Co., Utah, USA. H= < 3, Dj4j=...greyish, greenish-white. Kipawa River, Timiskaming Co., Quebec, Canada. H= 5.5, Djjj= 2.902, D(,= 2.887...Alforsite, Ba5(P04)3Cl, 0 Hex. Transparent colorless. Big Creek, Fresno Co., California, USA. H=?, Djj4=?,...white. Cadesky Vein, Hi-Ho mine. Cobalt, Ontario, Canada. H=3.5, Djj4= 10.0, D(,= 10.12, IIG 02. Ramdohr |  | | Book | | found in Berezovsk, Ural mountains and in the Lena River basin, Siberia, Russia. Fine scales and larger nuggets...weighing up to I l.5 kg (25 lb 5 oz) found in the Tora River basin near Turiinsk, Ural Mountains. Primary platinum...Ontario, Canada. Fine smaller nuggets, weighing up to 75 g (165 lb) were found in the Trinity River sediments...sediments in California, USA and the Choc6 River sediments in Columbia. Application: chemical industry, catalytic... Arsenic, 45 mm, Alden Island. Canada Antimony, 37 mm, New Brunswick. Canada Arsenic Stibarsen As SbAs |  | | Book (volume) | | Pegmatite Field, Andrembesoa Commune, Betafo District, Vakinankaratra Region, Antananarivo Province...at the Solongo boron deposit, basin of the Vitim river, southern part of the Vitimskoe plateau, Buryatia...Locality: Solongo boron deposit, basin of the Vitim river, southern part of the Vitimskoe plateau, Buryatia... Hydroboracite CaMgB6O8(OH)6·3H2O Locality: District # 99, underground mine, Inder boron deposit, Atyrau...No. 90 , Nalednoe deposit, upper reaches of Jana river, Sakha Republic, Russia. Description: Dull columnar |  | | Book | | so as to render mining of these rare-element pegmatites feasible. The traditional mining of pegmatitic...aplitic rocks. In light of more than 1000 years of mining and an intensive study of the deeper parts of the...deposits in the region are not very promising and mining in Germany is obviously a profession of the past...mineralogists and become an operational target for mining geologists. In an idealistic transect through the............................................. 1.1 Mining Is Life – From Past to Modern Exploitation of Raw |  | | Book | | Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series of incompletely...ILMENITE UNITED STATES and CANADA BRITISH COLUMBIA Ice River complex. The Ice River complex is an intrusive...west-southwest from a mountain massif to join the Reuss River at the town of Amsteg, subordinate drainages running...of rutile (Weerth, 2004). Tonniq Valley, Skardu district, Gilgit-Baltistan [Northern Areas]. Beginning...testing to be hematite. Zagi [Zegi] Mountain, Warsak district, North West Frontier Province. Surface diggings |
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Big Fish River, Dawson mining district, Yukon, Canada