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Tip Top Mine, Fourmile, Custer District, Custer Co., South Dakota, USA

A beryllium mine in the phosphatic Tip Top pegmatite body.
Located just SW of the center of Sec. 8, T3S, R4E, about 8.5 km SW of Custer.

Ref.:
- Rocks & Minerals: 60: 117.

- Dunn, P.J., Roberts, W.L., Campbell, T.J. & Leavens, P.B. (1983): Red Montgomeryite and associated minerals from the Tip Top Pegmatite with notes on kingsmoutite and calcioferrite. Mineralogical Record 14 (3): 195-197.

- Campbell, T.J. and Roberts, W.L. (1986). Phosphate minerals from the Tip Top mine, Black Hills, South Dakota. Mineralogical Record. 17: 237-254.

- Seaman, 1976. Pegmatite Minerals of the World.

- MATRIX (2002) 10(3): 138-146.

- http://www.dakotamatrix.com/Articles/Tiptop.htm





Map Reference: 43°42'56"N , 103°40'10"W

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Mineral List:
  • Albite
  • Alluaudite
  • Almandine
  • Amblygonite
  • Apatite-(CaF)
  • Apatite-(CaOH)
       var: Carbonate-rich Apatite-(CaOH)
  • Arsenopyrite
  • Autunite
  • Barbosalite
  • Beraunite
  • Bermanite
  • Beryl
  • Biotite
  • Bismuth
  • Cassiterite
  • Childrenite
  • Collinsite
  • 'Columbite-Tantalite'
  • Crandallite
  • Cyrilovite
  • Diadochite
  • Dufrénite
  • Ehrleite (TL)
  • Elbaite
  • Englishite
  • Eosphorite
  • Fairfieldite
  • Ferrisicklerite
  • Fransoletite (TL)
  • Frondelite
  • Galena
  • Goethite
  • Gordonite
  • Goyazite
  • Greifensteinite
  • Heterosite
  • Hopeite
  • Hureaulite
  • Hurlbutite
  • Hydroxylherderite
  • 'Jahnsite'
  • Jahnsite-(CaMgMg)
  • Jahnsite-(CaMnFe)
  • Jahnsite-(CaMnMg) (TL)
  • Jahnsite-(NaFeMg) (TL)
  • Jahnsite-(NaMnMg)
  • Kingsmountite
  • Kryzhanovskite
  • Laueite
  • Leucophosphite
  • Lithiophilite
  • Lithiophosphate
  • Ludlamite
  • Marcasite
  • Messelite
  • Meta-autunite
  • Metaswitzerite
  • Microcline
  • Mitridatite
  • 'Monazite'
  • Montebrasite
  • Montgomeryite
  • Muscovite
  • Pahasapaite (TL)
  • Parafransoletite (TL)
  • Pararobertsite (TL)
  • Parascholzite
  • 'Perthite'
  • Phosphoferrite
  • Purpurite
  • Pyrite
  • Pyrolusite
  • Quartz
  • Robertsite (TL)
  • Rockbridgeite
  • Roscherite
  • Scholzite
  • Schorl
  • Segelerite (TL)
  • Sicklerite
  • Siderite
  • Spessartine
  • Sphalerite
  • Stewartite
  • Strengite
  • Strunzite
  • Switzerite
  • Tavorite
  • Tinsleyite (TL)
  • Tiptopite (TL)
  • Todorokite
  • Triphylite
  • Uraninite
  • Ushkovite
  • Vivianite
  • Wardite
  • 'Whiteite'
  • Whiteite-(CaMnMg) (TL)
  • Whitlockite
  • Whitmoreite
  • Xanthoxenite
  • Zircon


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