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Ross Mine (Highland lode; John Ross Mine), Berne, Custer District, Custer Co., South Dakota, USA

Purpurite
Ross Mine, Berne, Custer District, Custer Co., South Dakota, USA

Photo: 2002 John H. Betts
Latitude: 43°46'0"N
Longitude: 103°40'41"W
A granite pegmatite located in the NE¼ sec. 30, T.3S., R.4E., near Berne, near Custer. A mine on the "Highland lode."

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

Workings include a large open pit, an incline with raise, a tunnel, and small pits.

Mineral List

Albite
'Allanite'
Alluaudite
Amblygonite
Arsenopyrite
Autunite
Beryl
var: Heliodor
Bismuth
Cassiterite
'Columbite-Tantalite'
'Davidite'
Fluorapatite
'Garnet'
Graftonite
'Gummite'
Hureaulite
Lithiophilite
Löllingite
Microcline
Montebrasite
Muscovite
Phosphosiderite
Purpurite
Pyrite
Pyrrhotite
Quartz
Schorl
Sicklerite
Spessartine
Torbernite
Triphylite
Triploidite ?
Uraninite
Uranophane
Vivianite
Zircon


37 entries listed. 29 valid minerals. 2 erroneous literature entries.

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References

Moore, P. B., 2000, Analyses of Primary Phosphates from Pegmatites in Maine and Other Localities, in V. T. King (editor), Mineralogy of Maine. Mining History, Gems, and Geology, Maine Geological Survey, Augusta, Maine, p. 333-336.

Rocks & Min.: 60: 113;
Rocks & Min.: 75(3): 156-169;

Meeves, H., et al (1966), Reconnaissance of beryllium-bearing pegmatite deposits in six western states, US Bur. Mines Info. Circ. 8298: 32 (Table A-1).


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