What about those emeralds, eh? Geological setting of emeralds at Regal Ridge (SE Yukon) provides clues to their origin - and to other places to explore
Description
In 1998, a new occurrence of emeralds was discovered in Finlayson Lake area, southeastern Yukon. Emeralds occur in the alteration selvages of quartz-tourmaline (-scheelite-muscovite-beryl) veins that cut biotite-chlorite metavolcanic schist in the metamorphic aureole around one of the area's largest bodies of mid-Cretaceous granite. In the area of the showing, the mafic schist, part of the widespread Upper Devonian Fire Lake unit, is meta-basalt of boninitic composition which overlies a thick, laterally tapering slab of variably serpentinized mafic and ultramafic meta-plutonic rocks. Using various geometric and geological criteria, this slab is inferred to be a sill, comagmatic with the Fire Lake unit, which intruded laterally from feeder dykes localized along a nearby synvolcanic fault.
Resources
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| Yukon Geological Survey publication metadata |
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https://data.geology.gov.yk.ca/Reference/49678 |
| Original metadata (https://open.yukon.ca) |
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https://open.yukon.ca/information/1fe01580-4d80-4381-9b3a-3f16a69a3e48 |
| Placemat |
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https://ygsftp.gov.yk.ca/publications/miscellaneous/placemats/emerald_placemat.pdf |