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Tip Top Mine (Tip Top pegmatite), Fourmile, Custer District, Custer Co., South Dakota, USA
Latitude: 43°42'56"N
Longitude: 103°40'10"W
Longitude: 103°40'10"W
Mineralization is in the primary and secondary phosphate-bearing Tip Top granite pegmatite body. Note that many early reported phosphate species from this locality have been re-identified, particularly regarding manganese, iron, or magnesium end-members. Old references may be at variance with modern nomenclature. Both Campbell, T.J. and Roberts, W.L. (1986). Phosphate minerals from the Tip Top mine, Black Hills, South Dakota. Mineralogical Record. 17: 237-254. and Thomas A. Loomis & Thomas J. Campbell (2002) The Tip Top pegmatite A Historical Review and Mineralogical Update MATRIX: 10(3): 138-146 are definitive statements as to species identification.
Mineral List
109 entries listed. 97 valid minerals. 12 type localities (valid minerals). 4 erroneous literature entries.
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References
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.
Rocks & Minerals (1985): 60: 117.
Campbell, T.J. and Roberts, W.L. (1986). Phosphate minerals from the Tip Top mine, Black Hills, South Dakota. Mineralogical Record: 17: 237-254.
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: 333-336.
Loomis, Thomas A. & Thomas J. Campbell (2002), The Tip Top pegmatite, A Historical Review and Mineralogical Update MATRIX: 10(3): 138-146.
Tait, K.T., Barkley, M.C., Thompson, R.M., Origlieri, M.J., Evans, S.H., Prewitt, C.T. & Yang, H. (2011), Bobdownsite, a new mineral species from Big Fish River, Yukon, Canada, and its structural relationship with whitlockite-type compounds. Canadian Mineralogist: 49: 1065-1078.
Rocks & Minerals (1985): 60: 117.
Campbell, T.J. and Roberts, W.L. (1986). Phosphate minerals from the Tip Top mine, Black Hills, South Dakota. Mineralogical Record: 17: 237-254.
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: 333-336.
Loomis, Thomas A. & Thomas J. Campbell (2002), The Tip Top pegmatite, A Historical Review and Mineralogical Update MATRIX: 10(3): 138-146.
Tait, K.T., Barkley, M.C., Thompson, R.M., Origlieri, M.J., Evans, S.H., Prewitt, C.T. & Yang, H. (2011), Bobdownsite, a new mineral species from Big Fish River, Yukon, Canada, and its structural relationship with whitlockite-type compounds. Canadian Mineralogist: 49: 1065-1078.
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