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Turquoise from
Tin Mountain Mine, Fourmile, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Turquoise
Formula:CuAl6(PO4)4(OH)8 · 4H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Unconfirmed/Questioned
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Turquoise data
Locality Data:Click here to view Tin Mountain Mine, Fourmile, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:210796
Long-form Identifier:1:3:210796:7
GUID (UUID V4):0ae5175a-c174-4795-8210-03f5551d6730
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
Journal (issue)
Flatirons Facets Flatirons Mineral Club of Boulder County, Colorado Volume 61, Number 4 The Flatirons Mineral...Flatirons Mineral Club is affiliated with the Rocky Mountain Federation of Mineralogical Societies, the American...August 18 at Harlow Platts Park, located just south of the South Boulder Recreation Center at 1360 Gillespie...if you’re feeling like a road trip, the Rocky Mountain Federation (of which we are members) is having...by the Western Dakota Gem and Mineral Society on July 20 –22 in Rapid City, South Dakota. There will be
Journal (issue)
Treasurer 655 • 8th St. Idaho Falls, 10 83401 SOUTH CENTRAL FEDERATION OF MINERAL SOCIETIES Offlcare.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 26 South Dakota Mlneral New, by Martha Linde . . . . . . . .... $1 .00 per oz. TURQUOISE - From a new discovery in Mexico. A hard blue turquoise, some with spiderweb...people would never recognize this for Mexican turquoise as this Is by far the best we've ever seen from...at only . . . $1 .00 per lb. NEW ARRIVALS FROM SOUTH AFRICA BOTSWANA BANDED CARNELIAN AGATE - New and
Report (volume)
it helpful to refer to Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant, it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals of wide distribution...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products but because they furnish...........Prof. B. L. Miller, Lehigh University, South Bethlehem, Pa. Florida............Dr. E. H. Sellards...Carolina.. .Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, Chapel Hill. North Dakota... .Dr. A. G. Leonard, Grand Forks. Ohio......
Report (volume)
....................................... 102 District of Columbia ............................................................................ North Dakota........................................................ South Carolina......................................:.................... South Dakota..........to refer to Geological Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals that are widely
Book
Germany; Pribram, Czechoslovakia; Broken Hill, New South Wales; Chanarcillo, Atacama, Chile; and in the states...states of Guanajuato and Chihuahua, Mexico. In the USA silver occurs at Keweenaw, Michigan, in association...crystals in Cornwall; at Wallaroo, South Australia and Broken Hill, New South Wales. Found in sandstone at...Corocoro, Bolivia, and at Cananea, Mexico. In the USA copper is found in abundance in the Keweenaw area...area of north Michigan; at the Copper Queen mine, Bisbee, Arizona and at Georgetown, New Mexico. Treatment
Book (volume)
(25.56 ct), Sweet Home Mine, Colorado; colorless scheelite (19.66 ct), Kern County, California; octagonal...Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from San Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...Dosen ONN/ QBI96-40247 Trade Distribution by Mountain Press Publishing Company P.O. Box 2399, Missoula...DS AED 3) June Culp Zeitner, of Rapid City, South Dakota, for her lifelong devotion to the study and...events to bring the history of North American gem mining up to date. Here, then, is the latest, most complete
Report (volume)
Geophysical Union.. Transactions, American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers _..._ American Journal...Colorado Mining Association publications . Economic Geology. _ . _ ___... Engineering and Mining Journal...of Sedimentary Petrology_...__._ Mines Magazine Mining Engineering ........___..._...._____ Advances in...Tallahassee, Fla. GA Georgia Department of Mines, Mining and Geology, 425 State Capitol, Atlanta, Ga. IM...Beltsville, Md. Mil U.S. Geological Survey, Iron Mountain, Mich. MIL Geological Survey Division, Department
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On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298...ALABAMA Iron phosphate mineral locality at Indian Mountain, Alabama (by H. Harwood) 5:241-244 Iron-manganese...Iron-manganese phosphates of the Williams pegmatites, Coosa County, Alabama (by P. B. Leavens & T. A. Simpson) 6:66-73
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volume is dedicated is four-fold: (1) To locate by mine, deposit, or community those mineralized areas of...Co. Hematite CALERA, Shelby Co. Wavkllite CLAY COUNTY, Sec. 24. T. 19 S R., 7 E. STATUARY, Coosa Co...Co., (W. border of* Marble Crystalline TALLADEGA COUNTY Marble, (crystalline) VALLEY HEAD, DeKalb Co. Hematite...VILLAGE SPRINGS, Blount Co. Hematite WOODS COPPER MINE, Cloaburne Co. Sphalerite ARIZONA COVEI.I.ITE...Feldspar HISSOP, Coosa Co., (near) Beryl JACKSON COUNTY Hematite KENNEDYS, Clay Co., (near) Magnetite MILLERVILLE
Book (volume)
Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from Sai, Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...DICATED TO ] une Culp Zeitner, o/ Rapid City South Dakota, /or her /;/efong devotion to the study and...and interviews with persons actively engaged in mining gemstones. Pertinent references are furnished throughout... most likely in Canada. Systematic large-scale mining of sapphire-bearing gravels in Montana is beginning...States continues to supply the 1najor ,veight of turquoise and peridot, although for the latter gem, much
Book (edition)
interesting facts about the people involved in mining, current price lists of various stones, and numerous...from the Tourmaline Q ueen .1ine, Pala, San Diego County, California. From a pen-and-ink drawing by W. E...price increases, which make it more attractive to mine domestic deposits at a profit. Foreign labor is...information is included on the persons involved in mining the deposits, with dates and other pertinent information...cut gem 4. Mounce diamond crystal 5. Gibson's Ruby mine, Cowee Creek, North Carolina 6. Corundum Hill, North
Journal (issue)
MAGAZINE DESERT CALENDAR Oct. 28-31 — International Mining Days, El Paso, Texas. Oct. 31-Nov. 1 — Nevada Day...Chapter Sierra Club climb of Twentynine Palms Mountain, in Pinto Mountains 8 miles southeast of Twentynine...Chapter Sierra Club climb of Tin Mountain in the Panamint Range, and Dry Mountain in the Last Chance Range...FICTION Hard Rock Shorty of Death Valley LOST MINE Life o n the Desert, b y S E W A R D DESERT QUIZ...LETTERS Comment from Desert's r e a d e r s 23 MINING Current n e w s of desert m i n e s 26 NEWS
Journal (issue)
call for appointment Tourmaline Tourmaline Queen Mine Pala, California NEW ACQUISITIONS: RUTILE from...the Department of Geology of the University of South Caro­ lina in Columbia. It was a pleasant and exhilerating...Department of Geology Museum, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina. Perhaps the collection, begun...hiddenite specimens in his collection from Alexander County, North Carolina, and those superb quartz crystal...surprisingly good specimens. Nowadays the University of South Carolina’s collection cannot be classed as one of
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Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee...silicate found as clear blue gemmy pebbles), and turquoise. About 2000 B.c. the first true emeralds appear...left to adorn her in the afterlife: opaque blue turquoise and lapis lazuli, clear red carnelian, purple... One bracelet adorning her arm was formed of turquoise panels alternating with gold plaques, each one...of seed pods of a desert plant. A third was of turquoise, amethyst, and hollow gold balls held together
Book (edition)
COVER -- Pairburn agates from South Dakota. Photo courtesy South Dakota School of Mines Museum. > 1...includes 1 SOUTH DAKOTA • MICHIGAN • ILLINOIS • IOWA WISCONSIN • OHIO • KANSAS • NORTH DAKOTA NEBRASKA...2 KANSAS Foreword 4 How To Use This Book SOUTH DAKOTA 6 New Finds ................ Fairburn Type...AGATE BEDS 11 OELRICHS AGATE BED .. 12 THE CUSTER AREA ......... Tepee Canyon Agate ... Garnets ...RED RIVER VALLEY .... 32 NORTH DAKOTA .. 30 WESTERN NORTH DAKOTA Badlands and Buttes........... Gems
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In the shafts and tunnels of a sixteenth-century mine INTRODUCTION arabic^groffcvinditaris.f} norrafludd9...Tantalum Tellurium Terbium Thallium Thorium Thulium Tin Titanium Tungsten Uranium Vanadium Xenon Ytterbium...This means that, when you contem¬ plate a mighty mountain range, you are essen¬ tially looking at a vast...minerals hematite, Fe203, and cassiterite, Sn02, a tin oxide, are representative of the many oxides of great...sul¬ phides that you will meet frequently outside mining areas are those of iron, namely pyrite, FeS2, and
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Thallium TL Terbium ete 192.20 55.85 oe he Thulium Tin 49 114.82 36 83.80 = Ei 2 8 6.94 Hg 80 ...This means that, when you contemplate a mighty mountain range, you are essen- tially looking at a vast...minerals hematite, Fe,O3, and cassiterite, SnO>, a tin oxide, are representative many of the oxides ...metal and sulphur in a variety frequently phides mining that of structures, covalent than will you...want to check this, you will have to visit a salt mine; halides are dissolved by groundwater if they are
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world-renowned gem and mineral collection at Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History since 1980. Joan Kaylor...Makeup Crystals 56 Earthly Treasures Mines & Mining Ocean Minerals A Multitude of Uses Gemstones Legendary...plate crumples, resulting in the rise of an inland mountain range, such as the H imalayas. At other times...crystalline rock (found in areas marked above) on South America and Africa and on North America and Europe...in the southern hemisph ere and featured long mountain ranges, an inner sea, and some glaciation. It
world-renowned gem and mineral collection at Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History since 1980. Joan Kaylor...Makeup » Crystals Earthly Treasures » Mines & Mining * Ocean Minerals » A Multitude of Uses » Gemstones...crumples, result- ing in the rise of an inland mountain where they grate against each other, range,...located in the southern hemisphere and featured long mountain ranges, an inner sea, and some glaciation. It...inlets, seas, (found in areas marked above) on South America and Africa and on North America and Europe
Book (edition)
Morocco; (center, left) wulfenite, San Francisco mine, Sonora, Mexico; (center) ameihyst, Veracruz, Mexico;...rnodochrosite, N’Chwaning mine, South Africa; (lower left, center) wulfenite, Red Cloud mine, Arizona; (lower...Lincoln. Encyclopedia of minerals Sagiiache County Pu blic Library Saguache , Colorado DEMCO For...Photo Editor: Wendell E. Wilson Library Saguache County Public Saguache, Colorado VAN NOSTRAND REINHOLD...England Thomas Nelson Australia 102 Dodds Street South Melbourne, Victoria 3205, Australia Nelson Canada
Book (edition)
Morocco; (center, left) wulfen ite San Francisco mine, Sonora, Mexico; (center) amethyst, Veracruz, Mexico;...Mountains, Utah; (lower le ft) rhodochrosite, N'Chwaning mine, Sou th A frica; {lower left, center) wulfenite...Willard Lincoln. Encyclopedia of minerals ~~cbe County Public Library Saguache, Colorado OEMCO For Refere...England Thomas Nelson Australia 102 Dodds Street South Melbourne, Victoria 3205, Australia Nelson Canada...in sandstone at the Fuemrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely disseminated
Journal (issue)
time is Fodinae Regale . a history and survey of mining. wrinen at the request or Prince Rupert and the...history and general theory of mining. but Peuus is focused on contemporary mining practice. and the first pan...works in mineralogy, early surveys, paleontology, mining, meteoritics, regional geology, and old & new world...erogers@geology-books.com • Poncha Springs, Colorado 81242 USA Phone: 719,539,4113 • Fax 719,539,4542 PO Box 455...0 TABLE OF CONTENTS HISTORIC MINERAL FEATURE Turquoise Findings-Silver Linings: An Evolurion of the Specie
Journal (issue)
.... 5 by C. S. Stolburg Minerals of the Pereta mine, Tuscany, Italy ..................................and M. Tazzini Alteration minerals of the Cetine mine, Tuscany, It a ly ................................ Sabelli and G. Brizzi Siegenite from the Buick mine, Bixby, Missouri .................................R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Arthur Roe Tucson, AZ Abraham Rosenzweig University...Renato Pagano Via S. Anna 1/B I-34074 Monfalcone South Africa: Horst Windisch 30 Van Wouw Street Groenkloof
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Shaub -y Treasures from the earth PUBLIC LIBRARY COUNTY, FORT WAYNE AND ALLEN IND. Treasures from...New fork, N.Y. 10036. Published in 1975 by Crow*T South, 419 Inc., lishers, New Park Avon York, N...mJneraL Opf <>f formation of I ' -! in ran South tn in Afrfc An imr*ru from Muzo Colombii Un1u... these are the well-known from Cape Province, South Africa, (commonly called tiger's-eye), and the cymophane...would nerd third .1 to indicate youi height above tin- floor. In crystals, an) I room, a if Could
 
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