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Chrysoberyl from
Rocky Ridge Mine, Fourmile, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Chrysoberyl
Formula:BeAl2O4
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Beryl1 photo of Chrysoberyl associated with Beryl at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chrysoberyl data
Locality Data:Click here to view Rocky Ridge Mine, Fourmile, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:112931
Long-form Identifier:1:3:112931:1
GUID (UUID V4):35ff0f75-3b80-4146-9895-63cea7a803bf
Nearest other occurrences of Chrysoberyl
8.7km (5.4 miles) Victory Mine, Custer, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
8.7km (5.4 miles) Elk No. 1 Mine, Custer, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
10.2km (6.3 miles) Pink Rose Lode Quarry (Scott Rose Quartz Mine; Scott Mine; Rose Quartz Mine), Custer, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
11.6km (7.2 miles) Roosevelt group (Rough Rider), Custer, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
13.6km (8.4 miles) Mountain Rose Mine (Lofton Mine; Mountain Queen Mine), Pringle, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
25.6km (15.9 miles) Peerless Mine, Keystone, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
[University of Connecticut] at 20:42 14 January 2015 South Dakota is perhaps best known for its pegmatites, which...Hills are responsible for the accessibility of South Dakota’s itbundant and diverse mineral locations...secondary phosphate minerals. Although some pegmatite mining for feldspar still continues (Jacobson 1994). the...except for the Homestake mine, which has operated for more than 120 years, most mining in the area peaked in...and fewer chances to obtain any. However, some mining, mineral exploration, and mineral collecting continues
Report (issue)
STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA Nils Boe, Governor MINERALOGY OF THE BLACK HILLS by WILLARD LINCOLN ROBERTS...Associate in Mineralogy Museum of Geology, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology and GEORGE RAPP...Department of Geology and Geological Engineering, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology With the Editorial...Mineralogy South Dakota School of Mines and Technology BULLETIN NUMBER 18 of the South Dakota School of...of Mines and Technology Rapid City, South Dakota PUBLICATIONS STAFF F. L. Partlo J. T. Thomas President
Book (volume)
This gem flint occurs in the 8 mile long Flint Ridge, between Newark (Licking Co.) and Zanesville (Muskingum...include the highly colored Vanport flint of the Flint Ridge and the Upper Mercer flint exposed in Hocking, Perry...ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE
Book (volume)
This gem flint occurs in the 8 mile long Flint Ridge, between Newark (Licking Co.) and Zanesville (Muskingum...include the highly colored Vanport flint of the Flint Ridge and the Upper Mercer flint exposed in Hocking, Perry...ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE
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Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee...of commercial mining is also long, beginning with the Kenya opal mines of 4000 B.C. Mining began with gemstones...gemstones, instead of metallic ores, and mining for turquoise was enormously extended throughout the...had been sending great expeditions to prospect and mine for it throughout the Sinai Peninsula since at least...and abandoned, one is also sure to find extensive mine dumps sloping steeply down from the shaft or tunnel
Report (volume)
Bulletin nos. 26, 27; Museum Paper no. 7; County Report no. 1 (Clay County). Montgomery, Ala. Alberta, Scientific...Geologists: Bulletin, vols. 7, 8. American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers: Transactions, vols...Mineralogist, vols. 8, 9. Menasha, Wis. American Mining Congress: Reports of 25th and 26th Annual Conventions...nos. 1-28. San Francisco, Calif. California State Mining Bureau: Bulletin, nos 91-93. San Francisco, Calif...vols. 37, 38. Ottawa, Ont. Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy: Transactions, vols. 25, 26; Monthly
Journal (issue)
The Mineralogical Record, Inc., © 2022 5347 N. Ridge Spring Place, Tucson, Arizona 85749 Softcover: $40...Scovil photo. Vanadinite, 2.4 cm, from the Apache mine, Arizona. Collected by Evan Jones; Jeff Scovil photo...Miglioli photo. Fluorite, 7.4 cm, from the La Barre mine, France. Collected by Aubin Cosson; Niels Brouwer... from left: Caledonite, 1.1 cm, from the Reward mine, California. Collected by Jeff Lines; Ben DeCamp...Thrill of Discovery by Wendell Wilson Epilog: On Mine Safety UThe Field-CollectorsV Anthony J. Albini
Book (volume)
Tertiary erosional debris spreading out from the Rocky Mountains as they rose during the Larimide revolution...the state, insomuch as both the Black Hills of South Dakota and the scenic Badlands thrust long spurs into...the color of the rainbow. The western Nebraska-South Dakota borderland from Sheridan Co. to the Wyoming...along the southern slopes and ridges of the Pine Ridge Escarpment and along Whiteclay Creek near the Sioux...chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte
Report (volume)
Crossroads: Lyons, P. L., 4. Gilbert H., 10. Colorado, South Silverton area: Expanding horizons: Lay, R. L.,L...the future: Just, E. ing: Burwell, E. B., Jr., 4. Mining geology, retrospect and Index fossils: Stephenson...extinction L. R., 6. factors: Coleman, R. H. North Dakota, petroleum: Laird, Management look at the geologist:...trends: Schultz, P. R. Thrust faulting, mechanisms, Rocky Mts., discovery challenge: theories: Longwell, C...interpretation, cf. Rocky Mtn. exploration: Sloss, ground conditions: Hagar, L. L., 11. D. J. Rocky Mtn. geosyncline
Book
^^4tt/vzhoisyS.. , Kb s itn MINERALS NEW SOUTH WALES. ARCHIBALD LIVERSIDGE, PROFESSOR OF MINERALOGY...CvGdetheite Staurolite &v Gothite THE MINERALS OF NEW SOUTH WALES. By Archibald Liversidge, late Scholar of...systematic examination of the minerals and rocks of New South Wales has been undertaken similar to that performed...as few as possible. A 2 THE MINERALS OF NEW SOUTH WALES. PART I. METALLIC MINERALS. Gold. Only one...of gold has up to the present been found in New South Wales, and that is :— Native Gold. Cubical system
Report (volume)
viii-ix. The physical geology of the Grand Canon district, by Clarence E. Button, pp. 47-166, pis. x-xxxvi...Abstract of report on geology and mining industry of Leadville, Lake County, Colorado, by S. F. Emmons, pp...of'the geology of the Comstock lode and the Wash oe district, by George F. Becker, pp. 291-330, pis. xlvi-xlvii...xviii-xxiii. Abstract of report on'geology of the Eureka district, Nevada, by Arnold Hague, pp. 237-290, pis. xxiv-xxv...ii-xxx. Abstract of a report on the mining geology of the Eureka district, Nevada, by Joseph Story Curtis
Report (volume)
are as follows: COLORADO. Mineralogy. Montrose County, uranium-vanadium deposits: Weeks, A. D., 13R....Iron, Cook County, titaniferous magnetite: Grout, F. F., 5. IRON. Minnesota, Cook County, titaniferous...and have not been searched completely. A.I.M.E., Mining Geology Geophysics Div. Ann. Mtg., Abs. Tech. Papers;...Br. Abs. American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, Mining, Geology, and Geophysics Division...Technical Papers; Mining Branch Abstracts. New York. A.I.M.E. Trans. American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical
Book
long (Marty, 2004 ). AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins...of Litchfield, where a mass of white quartz on a ridge had once been mined for quartz, and large ilmenite...region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites between the towns...Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series of incompletely...Litchfield County. Ilmenite masses and crystals from somewhere near Washington, Litchfield County, were described
Journal (issue)
... . ........... . .... . .... . ........ 38 SOUTH CENTRAL FEDERATION OF MINERAL SOCIETIES Offlcera...Treasurer 1215 South 41st Street, Temple, Texas 76501 FIELD TRIPS Chalcedony in South Dakota by Martha Linde...-Park Hotel , Washington, O.C. Bob Romanowski, 2708 Ridge Rd., Alexandria, Va. 22302. 1973 $5 40 • Show...Barre Or., Metai rie, la. 70001 March 16 thru 18. SOUTH CENTRAL FEDERATION OF MINERALOGICAL SOCIETIES. Annual...Lark, San Antonio, Texas 78228. June 15 thru 17. ROCKY MOUNTAIN FEDERATION OF MINERALOGICAL SOCIETIES.
Journal (issue)
part they played in the life of the old silver mining town of Tombstone, Arizona. The articles are currently...ART OF LIVING HOBBY INDIANS HUMOR LETTERS NEWS MINING HOBBY CRAFT COMMENT BOOKS 13 U n t a m e d Lily...n o w l e d g e 16 Desert Refuge, b y MARSHAL SOUTH . . . .17 W e Collect Morteros, b y H O W A...from two side canyons coming in from the north and south. The northern canyon seemed to offer a possible...planned—up to a certain point. We found the trail rocky and hard to follow in places, but after we reached
Journal (issue)
areas as Goblin Valley, the Circle Cliffs, the South Desert, and Cathedral Valley. Here is found some...Lake City, Utah, Executive offices: 231 East 4th South, Salt Lake City, Utah 841 1 1 Phone (801) 355-2991...An intimate chronicle of Arizona's oncebooming mining towns, stage stations, army posts, marauding Indians...by John D. Mitchell. The first of Mitchell's lost mine books is now available after having been out of...BONANZAS by Eugene Conrotto. Brief resumes of lost mine articles printed in back issues of DESERT Magazine
Book
Kentucky 6 CHAPTER 8 Tennessee 8 7 6 CHAPTER 10 South Carolina ......... _ .......... _ _ .... ____________________...l a c h i a n s a r e t h e spectacular B l u e Ridge a n d S m o k y M o u n t a i n r a n g e s w h...was m e r e l y p a r t o f t h e waste o f t h e mine. W h a t t h e y needed was h i g h grade ore o...o o r e , M o n t g o m e r y, Randolph, Macon South C a r o l i n a : Chesterfield, L a n c a s t e...Mecklenburg, Rutherford, F r a n k l i n , Cleveland South Carolina: Spartanburg, Pickens Georgia: H a l l
Journal (issue)
LIST OF FINE MINERALS FROM AN OLD COLLECTION. . CHRYSOBERYL, Brazil. Twin xi. 1roup about 1 ½ inch. • .•••...x 1 x ½ .•.• .. •. •. 7 .50 COBALTITE, Columbus Mine, Cobalt, Ontario. Bright loose xis. about 3/ 16"... _............_ _ _ ............ ... ... THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN FEDERATION OF MINERAL SOCIETIES CONVENTION...Mrs. C. W . Lockerbie, Sect'y-Treas. 223 West 9th South Street Salt Lake City 4, Utah We Want The Report...~ttache William 0. Vanderburg, Pretoria, Union of South Africa, whose full and complete reports form the
Journal (volume)
A. Logan, District Mining Engineer C. Jenkins, Chief Geologist McK. Laizure, District W. Burling...Tucker, Reid J. Mining Engineer District Sampson, Assistant Mining Engineer District Engineer Chas...Chas. V. Averill, District Mining Engineer San Francisco Sacramento San Francisco Los Angeles Los Angeles...Junior Mining Engineer (Librarian) San Francisco San Francisco TABLE OF CONTENTS Page DISTRICT REPORTS...REPORTS OF MINING ENGINEERS—— 7 Redding Field District 7 Sacramento Field District 7 San Francisco
Journal (issue)
HISTORIC MINERAL FEATURE The Harn.me Brothers Tungsten Mine by Joseph A. Dague 27 PORTRAIT GALLERY The Legendary...White 40 ON THE COVER: Pyromorphite, Roughton Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria. A l2X8 cm mass of oil-green...roots lO Great Britain, and this article will fur­ mining and mineral producing region of Cornwall, and the...Jef­ beautifully crystallized brucite from the Wood Mine lo­ feris was not a skilled writer. Light editing...William matic tungsten locality known as the Hamme Mine. They W.Jefferis. You begin to get the picture.
Journal (issue)
5—Bandollero trek to Fortuna gold mine in western Gila mountains, sponsored by Yuma County, Arizona, chamber of commerce...Valley Mineral society, at main building, Riverside county fairgrounds, Indio, California. Mar. 11-12—Rodeo...starting from Yuma, Arizona. Trip sponsored by Yuma County chamber of commerce. Mar. 15-20—Palm Springs, California...Dignity a n d E l e g a n c e A m o n g the Rocks MINING LETTERS CHAMPION NEWS HOBBY LAPIDARY COMMENT BOOKS...From one of Alex Colbath's old photo collection. Mining experts said that silver did not and could not
Book
[(OH)5 (P04)4]' 6 H20 (monoclinic, brown) Rotlăufchen Mine near Wetzlar/FRG Original size 5 x 6 mm ISBN-13:...a deeper view of the crust in mines. The deepest mine shafts are those of the gold mines in the Witwatersrand...Witwatersrand region, near Johannesburg in South Mrica, which descend to a depth of almost 3500 m. That we...mineral derives from the Latin minare, meaning mining, and mina, the shaft. Therefore mineral became...metallic appearance and a high density. From a mining point of view, however, many other minerals are
Report (issue)
Occurrences east of Sudbury Falcon Mine Wanup quarry Elizabeth Mine Wahnapitei occurrences MacDonald occurrence...quarry Vermilion River placer deposits Moose Mountain Mine Nickel-copper mines west of Sudbury High Falls Road...occurrence McMillan Mine Wallace Mine Sheguiandah quarry Shakespeare Mine Massey Mine Hermina Mine Elliot Lake...Bi-Ore Mine Pater Mine Pronto Mine Jasper conglomerate occurrences, Highway 546 Glagoma Mine Cheney Mine...Mine Gould Mine Havilah Mine Rock Lake Mine Bruce Mines copper mines Stobie Mine Jasper conglomerate
Book (volume)
was found at the p. 127, line 5. Premier Mine, Transvaal, South Africa. It weighed 3106 carats in the rough...production and almost 56% of world annual production. South Africa is p. 159, line 17. ; ADDENDA Vlll (1968)...chiefly industrial grade stones of smaller sizes. South Africa diamonds Congo Other large producers in Africa...colors at very modest prices. there Synthetic chrysoberyl (alexandrite) has never been produced commercially...famous Australian opal locality of Lightning Ridge, New South 384, line 4. Wales, was discovered. In 1915
Book (volume)
Page. 107 . 24, Section of akame, Bennington, south side, . 25, Section of akame, Bennington, north...modified drift under till, Hancock, 108 - 27, South end of Upper Beech pond, Wolfeborough, 128 . 28...Railroad excavation, Dover, . g. 46, Section in kame south-east of Pine Hill cemetery, Dover, . 47, Section...Section at the tin mine, Jackson, . . : : A : . . 67 Fig. 7, Map of the Warren mine, . CHARTS Holland’s...Hampshire. Geological map of the Ammonoosuc mining district. ILLUSTRATIONS NOT PRINTED HELIOTYPES
 
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