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Etta Mine, Keystone, Keystone District, Pennington Co., South Dakota, USA

Latitude: 43°52'50"N
Longitude: 103°25'8"W

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A lithium-niobium/tantalum-tin muscovite mine in pegmatite. Started in 1883. Owned by the Harney Peak Tin Co. This mine is famous for its huge crystals.

Originally exploited for muscovite in 1883, but acquired by the Harney Peak Tin Mining Company. Tin was never encountered in economic concentrations and the company collapsed by 1893 in "The Black Hills Tin Scandal".

Lithium (spodumene) mining commenced in 1898 and ceased in 1959. Over the years, the mine produced muscovite, niobium, tantalum, beryl and feldspar.

Mineral List

Albite
var: Cleavelandite
'Albite-Anorthite Series'
Alluaudite
Almandine
Amblygonite
Andalusite
Arrojadite-(KFe)
Arsenolite
Arsenopyrite
Augelite
Autunite
Azurite
Baryte ?
Beryl
'Biotite'
Bismuth
Cacoxenite
Cassiterite
Cerussite
Chalcocite
Chalcopyrite
Chrysocolla
Columbite-(Fe)
'Columbite-Tantalite'
Corundum

'Cuprocassiterite'
Diopside
Dufrénite
Elbaite
Epidote
Eucryptite
Ferrisicklerite
Fluorapatite
var: Carbonate-rich Fluorapatite
Frondelite
Galena
Goethite
Gold
Graphite
Griphite
Grossular
Heterosite
Hübnerite
Hureaulite
Ilmenite
Jahnsite-(CaMnMg)
Kaolinite
Kesterite
'K Feldspar
var: Adularia'
Laueite
Lazulite

Lepidolite
Libethenite
Lithiophilite
Löllingite
Ludlamite
Malachite
Microcline
Mitridatite
Molybdenite
Monazite-(Ce)
Montgomeryite
Montmorillonite
Muscovite
Mushistonite
Olivenite
Opal
Orthoclase
Petalite
Phosphosiderite
Pseudomalachite
Pyrite
Quartz
Rockbridgeite
Rutile
var: Strüverite
Scheelite

Schorl
Scorodite
Siderite
Sphalerite
Spinel
Spodumene
Stannite
Stewartite
Strengite
Strunzite
'Tapiolite'
Tavorite
Titanite
Todorokite
Torbernite
Triphylite
Triplite
Uraninite
'Varlamoffite'
Vivianite
'Wolframite'
Xanthoxenite
Zircon

101 entries listed. 90 valid minerals.

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References

Norton, James J. (1964) Pegmatites and other Precambrian Rocks in the Southern Black Hills; Geology and mineral deposits of some pegmatites in the southern Black Hills, South Dakota. USGS Professional Paper 297E.

Dana, E.S. (1892) System of Mineralogy, 6th. Edition, New York: 1088.

Rocks & Minerals: 10: 121-122, 146-147.

Rocks & Minerals: 57: 160.

Rocks & Minerals: 60: 110, 112.

Rocks & Minerals: 75(3): 156-169.

"A History of Black Hills Pegmatites", Matrix Magazine, Volume 10, Number 3, Tom Loomis

External Links

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9506E0DB1338E533A25755C0A9649D94669FD7CF

http://giantcrystals.strahlen.org/america/etta.htm

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