Rapid Creek Formation Geology and Mineralogy, Yukon 2012
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Description
A 2012 three-week field program collected mapping, geochemical samples, and phosphate minerals from the Rapid Creek Formation in Yukon. The formation is a phosphorite-rich ironstone facies with alternating phosphate and siderite-rich mudstones. Secondary minerals from veins and nodules include rare phosphate species like apatite, augelite, and arrojadite-group minerals.
Use Cases
Identify rare phosphate mineral occurrences based on the list of collected secondary minerals.
Analyze the composition of phosphorite-rich ironstone facies based on the described alternating beds.
Study the mineralogy of phosphate nodules based on the identified species like satterlyite and wolfeite.
Map geological features of the Rapid Creek Formation based on the field mapping program.
Strengths
Field data collected over a three-week program in 2012.
Description lists specific rare phosphate minerals like apatite, augelite, and arrojadite-group minerals.
Geographic scope is defined as the Rapid Creek Formation in the Richardson Mountains, Yukon.
Limitations
Row count and column-level documentation are absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Data freshness should be verified; last metadata update was 2026-04-17.
Provenance
Source
Government of Yukon
Collection Method
Mapping, geochemical sampling, and mineral collection during a field program.
Time Range
Summer 2012
Geography
Rapid Creek Formation, Richardson Mountains, Yukon (NTS 117A/8 and NTS 117A/9)
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