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Apatite-(CaOH) (Var: Carbonate-rich Apatite-(CaOH)) : Ca5[(OH,O)|(PO4,CO3)3] | |
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White Elephant Mine, Cicero Peak, Pringle, Custer District, Custer Co., South Dakota, USA Acicular Ca-hydroxylapatite crystals. 40x micro photo, field of view 2.1mm, Dionne collection. |
| © Dick Dionne | Photo ID: 22798 View Count: 783 |
Heterosite : (Fe3+,Mn3+)[PO4], Triphylite : LiFe2+[PO4] | |
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White Elephant Mine, Cicero Peak, Pringle, Custer District, Custer Co., South Dakota, USA A 1 1/4 x 2 1/4 inch colorful specimen in the Creekmur collection. |
| © Charles Creekmur | Photo ID: 231420 View Count: 60 |
Heterosite : (Fe3+,Mn3+)[PO4], Triphylite : LiFe2+[PO4], Mica Group | |
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White Elephant Mine, Cicero Peak, Pringle, Custer District, Custer Co., South Dakota, USA Dimensions: top specimen 3" x 2" x 2", bottom specimen: 2" x 2" x 1/2", right specimen: 1" x 1/2" x 1/2". Three very purple pieces of heterosite sold as purpurite on eBay. Purchased a year or so back. The seller sent these three pieces rather than the single large chunk offered in the auction, then disappeared from the face of the earth. |
| Photo ID: 254558 View Count: 11 | |
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White Elephant Mine, Cicero Peak, Pringle, Custer District, Custer Co., South Dakota, USA 9.8 x 5.4 x 3.4 cm. Professor W.L. Roberts, the noted authority on phosphates of the amazingly rich and varied deposits in Custer County, sold this to John White at the Seattle Show in 1971. On the back of White's label, he notes that " Prof. Roberts says that this is one of the three best known specimens of Leucophosphite". The large, sharp brown ... |
| © Rob Lavinsky | Photo ID: 249806 View Count: 22 |
Quartz (Var: Rose Quartz) : SiO2 | |
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White Elephant Mine, Cicero Peak, Pringle, Custer District, Custer Co., South Dakota, USA Massive rose quartz (13.0cm by 8.0cm) with a great pink color from the White Elepant Mine, Custer County, South Dakota. Photo by and in the collection of J. Nemitz. |
| © jnemitz | Photo ID: 231456 View Count: 20 |
Walentaite : H(Ca,Mn2+,Fe2+)Fe3+3[(AsO4,PO4)]4 · 7H2O | |
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White Elephant Mine, Cicero Peak, Pringle, Custer District, Custer Co., South Dakota, USA Bright yellow bladed crystals forming rosettes. Field of view = 0.9 mm. Robert O. Meyer specimen and photograph. |
| © 2004 ROM | Photo ID: 16986 View Count: 642 |
Walentaite : H(Ca,Mn2+,Fe2+)Fe3+3[(AsO4,PO4)]4 · 7H2O | |
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White Elephant Mine, Cicero Peak, Pringle, Custer District, Custer Co., South Dakota, USA Golden yellow cushions of needles of walentaite in fracture of lollingite (looks a bit too orange in this photo but color correction doesn't make it look natural). FOV = 1 mm. |
| © Van King | Photo ID: 242413 View Count: 41 |
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