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Yukon, Northwest Territories

Rapid Creek / Big Fish River (Dawson region)

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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

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Also reported: Superb lazulite, wardite, kulanite, arrojadite, brazilianite.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Cretaceous ironstone phosphates

World's finest crystallized lazulite; a legendary but very hard-to-reach phosphate locality.

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