Saskatchewan Lithic Material
Name | Natural | Non-heat treated points | Heat treated points | Color details | Primary found in: | Associated Formation / Member |
Agate Jasper |
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Ranges from yellow to brown or green. Part if the material will be banded and be translucent while the remaining material will be mottled and opaque. | Southern Saskatchewan | ||
Athabasca Quartzite |
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Ranges in color from a brown to a gray or silver gray color. Inclusions may be present. | West central Saskatchewan | McMurray Formation | |
Azurite | ||||||
Basalt |
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Ranges from black to gray | Southern and western Saskatchewan | Volcanic | |
Beaver River
Silicified Sandstone AKA: Beaver Creek Quartzite, Muskeg Valley Microquartz |
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Slightly mottled ranging in color from brown to orange and light to medium gray | Northwestern Saskatchewan | ||
Calcite | ||||||
Flaxville Quartzite Gravel |
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Light gray color | Southern Saskatchewan | Flaxville Formation | |
Greenstone | ||||||
Gronlid Siltstone |
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Black in color with a gray shale cortex | Southwestern Saskatchewan | ||
Knife River Flint Knife River Chert, Knife River Chalcedony |
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Ranges in color from a root beer, tea, coffee, or caramel brown | Southern Saskatchewan | Eocene Golden Valley Formation | |
Lake of the Woods Chert |
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Ranges from a white mottled with green to a homogenous dark green to black color | East central Saskatchewan | South Kakagi Lake Formation |
Lake of
the Woods Rhyolite |
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Ranges in color from a greenish gray to less commonly a gray. Streaks of brown to orangish brown may be present. | East central Saskatchewan | ||
Obsidian AKA: Volcanic Glass |
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Black to black with bands of dark reds (mahogany obsidian) or white flakes (snowflake obsidian) | Western to southern Saskatchewan | Volcanic | |
Petrified Wood AKA: Agatized Wood, Opalized Wood |
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Vary in color based on the minerals present during the process | Saskatchewan | Varies | |
Porcellanite Generic type |
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Ranges from white to brown or various shades of gray | Southern Saskatchewan | Varies | |
Rhyolite |
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Gray to grayish black, flow banding may be present alternating from light to darker gray | North America | Volcanic Activity | |
Rocky Mountain Quartz Gravels | ||||||
Slate | ||||||
Salt and Pepper Quartzite Northern Quartzite variant |
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Matrix that ranges from white to light gray, bluish gray or a light tannish brown white with black inclusions | West central Saskatchewan | ||
Swan River Chert |
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Ranges from a creamy white to gray, pink to a rust, or pale yellow to deep orange, commonly has banding | Southeastern Saskatchewan | Souris River Formation, Point Wilks Member |
Taltheilei Quartzite | ||||||
Tuff AKA: Solidified Volcanic Ash |
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Contains greater than 75 volcanic ash and ranges from white to tan, gray or pink. | North America | Volcanic activity |