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Helen Beryl Mine (Sweepstakes Beryl; Big Tom claim; Kem claim), Fourmile, Custer District, Custer Co., South Dakota, USA

Ref.: Rocks & Minerals: 18: 207.

Meeves, H., et al (1966), Reconnaissance of beryllium-bearing pegmatite deposits in six western states, U.S. Bureau of Mines Information Circular 8298: 32 (Table A-1).

Rocks & Minerals: 60: 117.

A beryl mine located in sec. 7, T.4S., R.4E., at Fourmile, SW of Custer. Operated chiefly in the 1940's (WWII).

Mineralization is an irregular, oval, zoned pegmatite body in quartz-mica schist.

Workings include a large open cut.





Map Reference: 43°42'46"N , 103°41'49"W

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Mineral List:
Albite
Alluaudite
Apatite-(CaF)
Bertrandite
Beryl
Biotite
Cassiterite
Childrenite
'Columbite-Tantalite'
Eucryptite ?
Heterosite
Ixiolite
'Jahnsite'
Microcline
Muscovite
Opal
var: Opal-AN
Quartz
Schorl
Sicklerite
Spodumene
var: Hiddenite
Tantalite
Triphylite
Vivianite


25 entries listed. 19 valid minerals.

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