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Teepee Canyon Main diggings (Teepee Canyon Agate No. 1 claim; Teepee Canyon Agate No. 2 claim), Teepee Canyon ("Hell's Canyon"), Custer County, South Dakota, USAi
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Teepee Canyon Main diggings (Teepee Canyon Agate No. 1 claim; Teepee Canyon Agate No. 2 claim)Diggings
Teepee Canyon ("Hell's Canyon")Canyon
Custer CountyCounty
South DakotaState
USACountry

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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
43° 43' 50'' North , 103° 53' 35'' West
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):
Nearest Settlements:
PlacePopulationDistance
Hill View Heights170 (2006)23.9km
Custer1,952 (2017)24.0km
Pringle109 (2017)27.6km
Newcastle3,534 (2017)28.6km
Hill City995 (2017)34.0km
Mindat Locality ID:
243547
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:2:243547:6
GUID (UUID V4):
fd89d64f-fecb-4ff6-8d58-38a3f7ffe790


The easternmost developed workings within the famed Teepee Canyon agate locality. The deposit has been mined in the past and has existing workings consisting of a series of connected trenches and bulldozer cuts along the hillside trending from the southwest to the northeast. North of highway 16 in West Teepee Canyon.

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Standard Detailed Gallery Strunz Chemical Elements

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1 valid mineral.

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List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification

Group 4 - Oxides and Hydroxides
Quartz
var. Chalcedony
4.DA.05SiO2
var. Fairburn Agate4.DA.05SiO2
4.DA.05SiO2

List of minerals for each chemical element

OOxygen
O Quartz var. ChalcedonySiO2
O Quartz var. Fairburn AgateSiO2
O QuartzSiO2
SiSilicon
Si Quartz var. ChalcedonySiO2
Si Quartz var. Fairburn AgateSiO2
Si QuartzSiO2

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North America PlateTectonic Plate
USA

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