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Yukon Lazulite Update – May 2016
Posted by: Raymond McDougall on 05.14.2016 | Filed under: Latest, Recent Mineral Updates

I’ve added some excellent specimens of lazulite from Rapid Creek in this Yukon Lazulite Update (click here).
Discovered in the 1970s, the occurrences at Rapid Creek have become known for a variety of minerals, including what are arguably the world’s finest crystals of lazulite. These occurrences are very remote and the costs are high, so specimen collection efforts are few and far between, and it is hard to obtain fine specimens. Most of these fine lazulites are from a recent find, in 2015, and there are a couple of older ones here as well. These are super lazulite crystals.

Lazulite, Rapid Creek, Dawson Mining District, Yukon, Canada

Lazulite, Rapid Creek, Dawson Mining District, Yukon, Canada
Field of view – 3 cm

Lazulite, Rapid Creek, Dawson Mining District, Yukon, Canada

Lazulite, Rapid Creek, Dawson Mining District, Yukon, Canada – 1.2 cm crystal

(Note that the faces on this one are so glassy they are reflecting the associated siderite crystals)

Lazulite, Rapid Creek, Dawson Mining District, Yukon, Canada

Lazulite, Rapid Creek, Dawson Mining District, Yukon, Canada – 1.2 cm crystal group

Lazulite, Rapid Creek, Dawson Mining District, Yukon, Canada

Lazulite with quartz, Rapid Creek, Dawson Mining District, Yukon, Canada
Field of view 3.5 cm

Lazulite, Rapid Creek, Dawson Mining District, Yukon, Canada

Lazulite, Rapid Creek, Dawson Mining District, Yukon, Canada
Field of view 3.3 cm

Lazulite, Rapid Creek, Dawson Mining District, Yukon, Canada

Lazulite, Rapid Creek, Dawson Mining District, Yukon, Canada – 5.4 cm

Lazulite, Rapid Creek, Dawson Mining District, Yukon, Canada

Lazulite, Rapid Creek, Dawson Mining District, Yukon, Canada
Crystals to 1.2 cm

Lazulite, Rapid Creek, Dawson Mining District, Yukon, Canada

Lazulite, Kulanite, Rapid Creek, Dawson Mining District, Yukon, Canada
Field of view 2.2 cm

Lazulite, Rapid Creek, Dawson Mining District, Yukon, Canada

Lazulite, Rapid Creek, Dawson Mining District, Yukon, Canada – 4.9 cm

Lazulite, Rapid Creek, Dawson Mining District, Yukon, Canada

Lazulite with siderite and quartz, Rapid Creek, Dawson Mining District, Yukon, Canada

Crystal group 1.2 cm

Lazulite, Rapid Creek, Dawson Mining District, Yukon, Canada

Lazulite, Rapid Creek, Dawson Mining District, Yukon, Canada – 6.2 cm