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Schorl from
Ballard Mine, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Schorl
Formula:NaFe32+Al6(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3(OH)
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Dealer/Collection Label
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Schorl data
Locality Data:Click here to view Ballard Mine, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1578927
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1578927:1
GUID (UUID V4):968ee7be-9e27-4d32-bbd1-b67de2731a6e
Nearest other occurrences of Schorl
0.1km (0.1 miles) Crown Mine (McMackin Mine), Custer, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
3.6km (2.2 miles) Knowles lode claim, Custer, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
4.2km (2.6 miles) Ross Mine, Berne, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
5.4km (3.3 miles) White Spar Mica Mine (Westinghouse No. 2 Mine), Custer, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
6.1km (3.8 miles) Rte. 85A South, Custer, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
6.1km (3.8 miles) Victory Mine, Custer, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
7.2km (4.4 miles) Buster lode (Buster Dike Mica Mine), Custer, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
8.2km (5.1 miles) Tin Mountain Mine, Fourmile, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
8.8km (5.5 miles) Tin Queen Mine (White Blowout Mine), Hill City Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
9.0km (5.6 miles) Glenwood Mica Mine (Hampton Mine), Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
References
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Book (edition)
Chapters on the Coeur d'Alene Mining District, the Blackbird Mining District, and the Sawtooth Mountains...Chapters on the Coeur d'Alene Mining District and the Blackbird Mining District, and to Ben Sheppard for reviewing...reviewing the chapter on the Blackbird Mining District. Those who contributed photographs, or specimens...or a vein of massive pyrite and chalcopyrite in a mine, so references such as these were not included....for a particular mineral may be a certain mine, but that mine may now have a new name, or may now be a
Book (volume)
Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and  the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59...along adjoining Co. linerock crystal. BARROW COUNTY WINDER, along rd. to Jefferson and 1½ mi. inside...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States BARTOW COUNTY AREA, Saltpeter Cave, as floatjasper. CARTERSVILLE:...agate, (banded, various colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY MACON:  at Holton Quarry, 7½ mi. NWagate;  N
Report (issue)
STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA Nils Boe, Governor MINERALOGY OF THE BLACK HILLS by WILLARD LINCOLN ROBERTS...Associate in Mineralogy Museum of Geology, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology and GEORGE RAPP...Department of Geology and Geological Engineering, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology With the Editorial...Mineralogy South Dakota School of Mines and Technology BULLETIN NUMBER 18 of the South Dakota School of...of Mines and Technology Rapid City, South Dakota PUBLICATIONS STAFF F. L. Partlo J. T. Thomas President
Book
stumble over a valuable nugget and stake your own mining claim? Indeed it to is, and author book Jay...prospecting, he points out, is in abandoned mining districts, where valuable mineral ores are present...commercial ores and secondary minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification...RANSOM 1875-1948 An to the Eastern '‘Schoolmarm” Mining Camps of the Old West I I a s I \ h K... CONTENTS Preface ix PART I 1 Introduction to Mining and Mineralogy 2 Preparation for Mineral Collecting
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
omitted from locality information. Where lot and district numbers are given, it is necessary to use topographic...Occurrence in Carroll County, Georgia" (November/December 1988). Banks County 184 ROCKS & MINERALS...provided many of the photographs. Baldwin County Milledgeville district—between the State Sanitarium and the...pit—east of S.R. 243 near the Baldwin-Wilkerson County line: kaolinite (Martin and Stafford, 1972). Cheatham...property—Route 3, Commerce, 4.8 km from the Jackson County line, 8 km east of Commerce on S.R. 59, and 0.8
Book (volume)
Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift...feet thick in the south, grading to 600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods
Book (volume)
Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift...feet thick in the south, grading to 600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
varieties, and habits of tourmaline: (a) left: schorl, 20 cm, Minas Gerais, Brazil, and right: dravite...cm, Garnet Ledge dike, Little Three mine, Ramona, San Diego County, California. Varieties of elbaite:...elbaite: (c) rubellite, 10 cm, Himalaya mine, Mesa Grande, California, found by Ralph Potter in 1958, William...terminated, 6 cm, 1991 London Pocket, Little Three mine, Ramona, California; (e) indicolite, 5.6 cm, Aracuai...rubellite, 4 cm, Tourmaline Queen mine (1972), Pala district, San Diego County, California, Jesse Fisher and
Book
long (Marty, 2004 ). AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins...region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites between the towns...Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series of incompletely...Litchfield County. Ilmenite masses and crystals from somewhere near Washington, Litchfield County, were described...Lake Road occurrence, Faraday Township, Hastings County. In fall 1994, Dan and Shelley Lambert extracted
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Cambrian massive sulphides is schorl > dravite in contrast to schorl in the Devonian granites. It is...family are elbaite (W = Na, X = A1, Li, Y = A1), schorl (W = Na, X = Feii, Fe iii, V = A1), dravite (W...sebery. Green (1983) noted tourmaline within the mine area as quartz-tourmaline-carbonate veins and in...numerous ore deposits. Geology of the Rosebery Mine The Rosebery deposit occurs within a thin (50 m)...Volcanics (Fig. 1). The geology of the Rosebery Mine has been documented previously by Brathwaite (1972)
Book (volume)
(25.56 ct), Sweet Home Mine, Colorado; colorless scheelite (19.66 ct), Kern County, California; octagonal...Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from San Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...DS AED 3) June Culp Zeitner, of Rapid City, South Dakota, for her lifelong devotion to the study and...events to bring the history of North American gem mining up to date. Here, then, is the latest, most complete...and interviews with persons actively engaged in mining gemstones. Pertinent references are furnished throughout
Book (volume)
Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from Sai, Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...DICATED TO ] une Culp Zeitner, o/ Rapid City South Dakota, /or her /;/efong devotion to the study and...and interviews with persons actively engaged in mining gemstones. Pertinent references are furnished throughout... most likely in Canada. Systematic large-scale mining of sapphire-bearing gravels in Montana is beginning...operators, Morefield Mine, Amelia, VA; Max & Suzy Berchtold, Royal Rainbow Mine, Laytonville, CA; Ralph
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ARTICLE Neoproterozoic tin mineralization in South China: geology and cassiterite U–Pb age of the Baotan...is located in the Jiuwandashan–Yuanbaoshan area, South China. It is hosted in Neoproterozoic mafic/metasedimentary...tourmalinization. Both pre-ore and ore-stage tourmaline is schorl. Tourmaline from pre-ore tourmaline–quartz nodules...the Neoproterozoic tin mineralization event in South China and indicates that the Neoproterozoic highly...tin mineralization event . Baotan tin deposit . South China Introduction Editorial handling: B. Lehmann
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
This is the case for the Tilley Foster mine (Putnam County), which was well described by Nightingale...geology and mineralogy of the Sterling mine, Antwerp (Jefferson County), which were well documented by Robinson...Iron mining in New York State has a long history. There are two main regions where iron mining was developed:...developed: the Hudson Highlands in the south and the Adirondack Mountains in the north (fig. 1). Smock...Mineville mining district; 2. Ausable Forks mining district; 3. Lyon Mountain mines; 4. Benson mine; 5. Jayville
Book (edition)
interesting facts about the people involved in mining, current price lists of various stones, and numerous...from the Tourmaline Q ueen .1ine, Pala, San Diego County, California. From a pen-and-ink drawing by W. E...price increases, which make it more attractive to mine domestic deposits at a profit. Foreign labor is...information is included on the persons involved in mining the deposits, with dates and other pertinent information...cut gem 4. Mounce diamond crystal 5. Gibson's Ruby mine, Cowee Creek, North Carolina 6. Corundum Hill, North
Book
Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee...of commercial mining is also long, beginning with the Kenya opal mines of 4000 B.C. Mining began with gemstones...gemstones, instead of metallic ores, and mining for turquoise was enormously extended throughout the...had been sending great expeditions to prospect and mine for it throughout the Sinai Peninsula since at least...and abandoned, one is also sure to find extensive mine dumps sloping steeply down from the shaft or tunnel
Journal (issue)
Emerald-green torbemite crystals to 9 mm across, from South Wheal Basset, lllogan, Cornwall. Caerhays Miniature...articles of interest to mineralogists, collectors and mining historians. Contributions or suggestions for articles...advertising. FRONTISPIECE 3 Fluorite from Frazer's Hush Mine 4 THE SUSSEX MINERAL AND LAPIDARY SOCIE1Y EDITOR...David Green CIRCULATION David I. Green Julie Ballard Mike Rumsey NEWS and EVENTS Peter J. Briscoe...CAERHAYS CASTLE 13 Courtenay Smale 29 DESIGN Julie Ballard The views and opinions expressed in this Journal
Journal (issue)
articles of interest to mineralogists, collectors, and mining historians. Contributions or suggestions for articles...Richard Bell SUPERGENE MINERALS FROM DESIGN Julie Ballard Neil Hubbard • Stephen Burchmore • David Green...Briscoe produced a display themed on a single mine. Cambokeels Mine (sometimes known also as Cammock Eals),...sparkling pyrite crusts. A couple of photographs of the mine provided an interesting backdrop. Simon Harrison...exceptional pieces from Rotherhope Fell Mine, Boltsburn Mine and Heights Mine. The Rotherhope Fell material included
Book
appreciation is also extended to the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, especially to Miss...York State, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and the south- ern states are actually heavily mineralized, and...specimens of various ore minerals abound in South Dakota, Minnesota, and Missouri. Native copper, sapphire...as Australia, Germany, England, Japan, Canada, South Africa, New Zealand, and Italy. Within recent years...Nebraska Nevada New Mexico North Dakota Oklahoma Oregon South Dakota Utah Washington Wyoming total
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uccessor in interest, the American Institute oC Mining and M etallurgical Engineers has made a grant from...attended his efforts- not the spectacular success of a mining executive, but the more lasting success in the...knowledge of ore deposits by adding Australia and South America, Mexico and Canada to bis roll of scientific...spontaneous movement arose among geologists and mining engineers to express in some appropriate fashion...Board of Directors of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers elected him to H onorary
Journal (issue)
interest to amateur mineralogists, collectors, and mining historians. Contributions or suggestions for articles...formed by the action of natural weathering in mines, mine spoil, and so on, will still be regarded as minerals...creating new species. Those formed by the action of mine fires however, will no longer be accepted as minerals...ollectors and mine historians visiting the Lake District should be aware that the Caldbcck Mining Museum at...relating to mining and quarrying in Cumbria. There is a shop with a range of books on mining and geology
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. ..... 483 W. E. Wilson The Total Wreck Mine, Pima County, Arizona ............ .. ........... ......... .... ..... 507 L. Presmyk The Flux Mine, Santa Cruz County, Arizona .................................. 531 W. E. Wilson & M. Hay The Carlota Mine, Gila County, Arizona ............................. .....Wilson & E. Jones Fluorite from the Oatman District, Mohave County, Arizona ............. .... ..... 569 M...M. Hay & D. Morris The Bagdad Mine, Yavapai County, Arizona ............. ..........................
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Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...ecord Articles Rare sulfosalts from the Van Silver mine, British C olum bia...............................Balacko Famous mineral localities: The Brownley Hill mine, Alston Moor, Cumbria, England....................COVER: ATACAMITE in GYPSUM, 6.8 cm, from the Lily mine, lea, Peru. Irv Brown collection; Jeff Scovil photo...British Columbia the Silver Tunnel o f the Van Silver mine has produced hundreds o f rare and beautiful crystal
Catalog/List
5x2x5/8", £8.75 A/4. ADAMITE. Kameriza Central Mine, Laurium, Attica, Greece. A sparkling lime-green...£20.00. A/l 6. ALMANDINE (Xtl). broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. A matrix-free, sharp, elongated...5x2x1", £10.00 6. ANDRADITE GARNET. Belstone Consols Mine, Sticklepath, Devonshire. A vitreous brownishgreen...25x5/8", £15.00 12. ANDRADITE/URALITE. Cornwall Iron Mine, Lebanon Co, Colorado, U.S.A. Lustrous coffee­ brown...APATITE (Var: Francolite) - Holmbush Form. Holmbush Mine, Nr. Callington, East Cornwall. Vuggy Quartz/Chloritic
Journal (issue)
Yield of Fruit obtained on the North Coast of New South Wales. By A. R. Penfold, F. R. Morrison and S. Smith-White...Pp. ro, 9½ X 7½• (Sydney : Royal Society of New South Wales, 194-2 .) Re­ printed from J. Proc. Roy. Soc...Mascarenhasi·a elastica. The History of Rubber Production in South Africa. Experiments and Exports of Byegone Days...the possibilities of the economic exploitation of South Africa's resources of wild rubber from the Landophia...16-22. Study of • pyrethrum :flowers grown in this district of Brazil . . OTHER INSECTICIDE MATERIALS OF VEGETABLE
 
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