Red Cross Lake: Rockhounding in Manitoba
- Minerals reported
- 5
Red Cross Lake is a mapped rockhounding spot in Manitoba, Canada. Reported finds include almandine, beryl, elbaite, tourmaline, garnet group. Below: coordinates, access notes, and nearby spots.
About Red Cross Lake
The Red Cross Lake pegmatites, in remote northeastern Manitoba, are a swarm of lithium-rich, lepidolite- and petalite-bearing dikes intruded into rocks of the Oxford Lake greenstone belt. Researchers describe the suite as extremely fractionated: albite, quartz and muscovite grade into rubidium- and cesium-rich lepidolite, with accessory spessartine garnet, elbaite and rossmanite tourmaline, beryl, pollucite, amblygonite and rare oxides of tantalum, niobium and tin. The locality is known through geological research sampling rather than as an established collecting site.
Plan your visit
Permission required before collecting
- Province
- Manitoba
- Coordinates
- 55.07222, -92.90000
Coordinates are approximate. Confirm the exact ground and access before you head out.
Land & collecting status
Permission required before collecting
Requires landowner or agency permission before any collecting. Do not enter without explicit authorization.
Collecting rules in Canada are set provincially and by land owner. Crown land and many public beaches allow casual hand collecting, while provincial and national parks are off-limits. Confirm the rules for this site before you dig.
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AlmandineEncyclopedia →
BerylEncyclopedia →
ElbaiteEncyclopedia →
TourmalineEncyclopedia →- Garnet Group
Nearby rockhounding spots
Other rockhounding spots in Manitoba within driving distance of Red Cross Lake.
- Eagle PegmatiteManitoba · 525 km awayBeryl, Tourmaline, Spodumene
- High Grade DykeManitoba · 527 km awayAquamarine, Beryl, Rubellite
- Shatford LakeManitoba · 550 km awayBeryl, Smoky Quartz, Tourmaline
- Gillis Quarry Rubble PileRural Municipality of Brokenhead, Manitoba · 612 km awayFossil, Receptaculites, Nautiloid
- Stonewall Quarry ParkManitoba · 624 km awayFossil, Brachiopod, Gastropod
- Canadian Fossil Discovery CentreManitoba · 743 km awayFossil, Mosasaur, Plesiosaur
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