 | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | [University of Connecticut] at 20:42 14 January 2015 South Dakota is perhaps best known for its pegmatites, which...Hills are responsible for the accessibility of South Dakota’s itbundant and diverse mineral locations...secondary phosphate minerals. Although some pegmatite mining for feldspar still continues (Jacobson 1994). the...except for the Homestake mine, which has operated for more than 120 years, most mining in the area peaked in...and fewer chances to obtain any. However, some mining, mineral exploration, and mineral collecting continues |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Petaca district of Rio Arriba County, New Mexico; from the Harney Peak region of South Dakota; the Reagan...Reagan mining district, Kern range, White Pine County, Nevada. SULFUR, S, occurs very rarely in pegmatites...five miles south of Blairs- sulfide, has been found in the Ben Nevis ville, Union County, Georgia. It...It has been mine on San Augustin Peak, Organ mounmined from a pegmatite at Pinetucky, tains, New Mexico...Mexico, with argentite in a Randolph County, Alabama; and from a sulfide zone near the center of the pegfew |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | molybdenite, and galena. Tetradymite, argentite, chalcocite, bornite, stannite, greenockite, covellite, marcasite...and Cooper in Maine; and from the berylmolybdenite mine near Mr. Antero, Colo rado. It is an economic mineral...in the Temiskaming District in Canada, in the tin district in the Trans vaal, South Africa; and important...near the center of the pegmatite at the Ben Nevis Mine on San Augustin Peak in the Organ Mountains, New...Augustin Peak in the Organ Mountains, New Mexico. CHALCOCITE, a copper sulfide, has been noted as a rare mineral |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Bernardino County, California and also in pegmatites north of the Reagan mining district, Nevada. FLUORIDES...earth type of pegmatite as at Barringer Hill, Llano County, Texas where large masses weighing up to four hundred...mineral at St. Peter's Dome near Pike's Peak, El Paso County, Colorado. CRYOLITE, a fluoride of sodium and aluminum...August 2017 Smith Mine, Newport, New Hampshire. Calcite occurs elsewhere at the Harding Mine, New Mexico....Section Hill in the Eight Mile Park area of Fremont County, Colorado. DOLOMITE, calcium, magnesium carbonate |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | MINERALS FROM THE ETTA MINE KEYSTONE, SOUTH DAKOTA By ARTHUR SMITH JR. The purpose of this article is...brief descriptions of the minerals occurring in the Etta pegmatite. Much of the information has been compiled...of Rapid City. The Etta mine is located 1 mile south of Keystone. To reach the mine take Alternate Route...the railroad crossing in Keystone. Follow this road past the road to the Keystone Cemetery. At about 0.6...makes a Y ; the dumps of the Etta mine are directly ahead. To reach the mine follow the road to the right |  | | Report (issue) | | TIN, TUNGSTEN, AND TANTALUM DEPOSITS OF SOUTH DAKOTA. By FRANK L. HESS. INTRODUCTION. Many articles... and tantalum in South Dakota occur in the Black Hills, in Lawrence and Pennington counties, in the southwestern...miles wide, the longer axis lying nearly north and south. There is a considerable diversity of topography...considered. In the southern part, near Hill and Keystone, the hills exhibit rounded contours with fairly...deposits of wolframite in the Black Hills of South Dakota: Trans. Am. Ir.st. Min. Eng., vol. 31, 1901 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Museum of Geology South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Rapid City, South Dakota 57701 Downloaded...unless otherwise noted. Minerals of the ETTA PE THE ETTA PEGMATITE IS BEST KNOWN for having produced...poured in the United States came from Etta cassiterite. The Etta is the type locality of the nowdiscredited...Location The Etta pegmatite is located in the NW !A, NE Yi, of section 16, T2S, R6E, 1 mile south of the town...town of Keystone, South Dakota. It is 2 miles due east of Mount Rushmore and can be located on the Mount |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | THE ETTA TIN MINES By MRS. MARTHA LINDE 639 Harney St., Custer, S. Oak. 57730 The Black Hills of Dakota...changed from the hunting grounds of the Sioux to the mining mecca of America on that sultry day in August 1874...the Black Hills. "The Mine That Started The Tin Boom, The Etta Mine" The Etta mine which is located near...the Keystone cemetery was first located by Dr. S. H. Ferguson and L. W. McDonald as a mica mine in 1883...1883. In working the mine they discovered in the black ore the presence of a mineral they couldn't identify |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | scorodite, and some scorodite from the large Gold Quarry mine in Nevada contains significant phosphorus and vanadium...pegmatites including those near Georgetown, Sagadahoc County (King and Foord 1994); other occurrences include...Oxford County. Scorodite occurred in small, pale green masses in oxidized ore at the cobalt mine at Great...Middlesex County; the Booth bismuth mine at Monroe, Fairfield County; and the arsenic mine between Seymour...Haven County, Connecticut (Schairer 1931; Januzzi 1976). It has also been found in the Wheeler mine, Merrimack |  | | Journal (issue) | | talking on "The Minerals of the Silver Coin Mine", an old silver mine near Winnemucca, Nevada with a wide variety...for the dam seems to have been quarried fro m the south side of the C411yon just below the dam, and an extensive...Update oo the Minerals of Summit Rock, Klamath County, Oregon Magoesiohomblcnde, Pblogopite aud Cristobalite...on tbe Minerals from tbe Kiggins Mioe, Clackamas County, O~oa Donald G. Howard Most of us are aware that...I had collected on our f.eld trip to the Kiggins Mine: calcite with a liberal sprinkling of red cinnabar |  | | Report (volume) | | ....................................... 102 District of Columbia ............................................................................ North Dakota........................................................ South Carolina......................................:.................... South Dakota..........to refer to Geological Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals that are widely |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | which showedcrystal faces. In the Natas mine in middle South-West Africa such a vein in schistscarriescrystalsof...carriesbiotite, a little muscovite,chalcopyrite, bornite,chalcocite, molybdenite, a little visiblegoldin the quartz...pp. 1-49, I914. a Rickard, T. A.: A Journeyto South Africa. Eng. & Min. Jour. Press, vol. i2i, p....muchlarger. A massof amblygonite in the Peerlessmine at Keystone,S. Dak., had been exposedin I9o8 for a lengthof... berylon theIngersollclaim2• milesnorthwestof Keystone,S. Dak., was 45 inchesacrossthe endbetween sides |  | | Report (volume) | | it helpful to refer to Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant, it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals of wide distribution...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products but because they furnish...........Prof. B. L. Miller, Lehigh University, South Bethlehem, Pa. Florida............Dr. E. H. Sellards...Carolina.. .Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, Chapel Hill. North Dakota... .Dr. A. G. Leonard, Grand Forks. Ohio...... |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | when a new pocket was broken into in the Mammoth Mine, Tiger, (Pinal Company), Arizona." ARKANSAS — Another...xled cyrtolite was found last year in the Pine District, Jefferson Co., Colo., so we were informed by...locality in the State is Russell Gulch in Gilpen County. A small but very fine crystal group from Russell... June 26-29, 1952. CONNECTICUT — The old copper mine near Bristol, Hartford Co., Conn., used to produce...mind. We have only one small rock outcrop in my county (Orange) at Rock Springs near Apopka. "The beaches |  | | Journal (issue) | | R, Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur...C. M. Garland Arsenopyrite from the Kilpatrick mine, Madoc, Ontario...................................mushistonite; and an unnamed tin mineral from the Etta mine ................................................COVER: WULFENITE group, 6 cm, from the Stefanie mine at Bleiberg, Carinthia, Austria. Photo by Werner...thought, I decided to depict a specimen of Red Cloud mine wulfenite (drawn rather loosely from Bob Lane’s |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | identify. This sample was taken about 15 miles south of Anniston, Alabama, where the rock had been cut...first phyllite we ever saw from sers" area, Sonoma County, Calif. It was noted by M. Vonsen in CALIF. JOUR... ranging in in a road cut situated in Randolph County, size from 2 to 4 millimeters. Sometimes it Ala...small open fissures with quartz and calcite." miles south of Anniston." "I must add, however, that there should...inference that the mode of origin of on massive chalcocite, has been found in the stellerite be associated |  | | Book (volume) | | Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States SOUTH DAKOTA This northwestern Great Plains state varies...western counties of Lawrence, Meade, Custer and Pennington the land rises abruptly into the 6,000 sq. mi...Alleghenies, culminate in Harney Peak in southern Pennington Co. At 7,242’ this peak is the highest point...rising granite mass intruded the famed Cretaceous Dakota sandstone, which underlies most of the Great Plains...continental seas were advancing from the south, the Dakota sandstone represents topset beds, wave reworked |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | PAPERS TEE OF THE CONSTANTIN N. PEGMATITES KEYSTONE AREA+ APSOURI Detailed mapping of the Hugo...Patch, Bob Ingersoll and lesser pegmatites in the Keystone area, supported by critical study of the relations...over-emphasized. The spodumene "Iogs" at the Etta mine are not products of replacement. (4) The common...visits and mapping, concurrent with the progress of mining, are essential to uncover significant data, otherwise...heretofore been reported from the Michigan iron mining districts. The first of these, stilpnomelane, occurs |  | | Book (volume) | | ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA |  | | Book (volume) | | ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA |  | | Book | | On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298...Iron-manganese phosphates of the Williams pegmatites, Coosa County, Alabama (by P. B. Leavens & T. A. Simpson) 6:66-73...ALICE GLORY HOLE The Alice glory hole, Clear Creek County, Colorado (by T. A. Hanson & W. B. Craft) 18:185187 |  | | Journal (issue) | | call for appointment Tourmaline Tourmaline Queen Mine Pala, California NEW ACQUISITIONS: RUTILE from...the Department of Geology of the University of South Caro lina in Columbia. It was a pleasant and exhilerating...Department of Geology Museum, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina. Perhaps the collection, begun...hiddenite specimens in his collection from Alexander County, North Carolina, and those superb quartz crystal...surprisingly good specimens. Nowadays the University of South Carolina’s collection cannot be classed as one of |  | | Book | | be minerals. Microcline, Crystal Peak, Colorado, USA * 12 x 9x 5 cm. Biominerals Crystals formed by biological...periods of stability PLANET | 114 San Carlos district, Chihuahua, Mexico * 8 x 4 x 2 om are uncommon...zeolites. Calcite (septarian nodule), San Juan County, Utah, USA » 18 x 24 x 8 om 14 MINERALS: PRODUCTS...10 ct RIGHT: Round brilliant-cut white diamonds, South Africa and Canada « 2.00 ct and 3.06 ct leaves...minerals. Calcite, Oklahoma, USA * 10 x 11 x 8 cm Talc, Mpumalanga, South Africa * 19 x 5 x 3cm Hardness | | | Book | | be minerals. Microcline, Crystal Peak, Colorado, USA * 12 x 9x 5 om MINERALS: PRODUCTS OF A CHANGING...CHANGING PLANET 11 Vanadinite, San Carlos district, Chihuahua, Mexico * 8 x 4 x 2 cm Mineral Species Minerals...zeolites. Calcite (septarian nodule), San Juan County, Utah, USA * 18 x 24x Bem 14 | MINERALS: PRODUCTS...10 ct RIGHT: Round brilliant-cut white diamonds, South Africa and Canada « 2.00 ct and 3.06 ct leaves...for cutting other minerals. Tale, Mpumalanga, South Africa * 19 x 6 x 83cm Hardness 1 Hardness 4 |
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