This Yukon Update (click here) features selected classy specimens of uncommon minerals that are hard to obtain. These are from the famous phosphate mineral occurrences at Rapid Creek, Dawson Mining District, Yukon, Canada, and include gormanite, kulanite (both of these minerals were first described from Rapid Creek) and goyazite, as well as lazulite and wardite. The pieces in this update are from the heyday of specimen discoveries at Rapid Creek in the 1980s and 1990s.

Lazulite, Rapid Creek, Dawson Mining District, Yukon – 3.7 cm

Lazulite, Rapid Creek, Dawson Mining District, Yukon – crystal 1 cm

Wardite, Rapid Creek, Dawson Mining District, Yukon – crystals to 1.1 cm

Wardite, Rapid Creek, Dawson Mining District, Yukon – field of view 2.5 cm

Wardite, Rapid Creek, Dawson Mining District, Yukon – crystal group 1.4 cm

Kulanite with Fluorapatite, Rapid Creek, Dawson Mining District, Yukon – field of view 1.7 cm

Gormanite, Rapid Creek, Dawson Mining District, Yukon – 7.0 cm

Gormanite, Rapid Creek, Dawson Mining District, Yukon – field of view 2.5 cm

Gormanite, Rapid Creek, Dawson Mining District, Yukon – field of view 3.0 cm

Goyazite, Rapid Creek, Dawson Mining District, Yukon – field of view 2.0 cm