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Graftonite from
Nickel Plate Mine, Keystone, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Graftonite
Formula:Fe2+Fe22+(PO4)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals:
Associates:Arrojadite-(KFe)
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Triphylite1 photo of Graftonite associated with Triphylite at this locality.
Arrojadite-(KFe)1 photo of Graftonite associated with Arrojadite-(KFe) at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Graftonite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Nickel Plate Mine, Keystone, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:131163
Long-form Identifier:1:3:131163:1
GUID (UUID V4):12bc023d-9a5c-4d1e-8415-c6e431e28672
Nearest other occurrences of Graftonite
16.9km (10.5 miles) Victory Mine, Custer, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
19.1km (11.9 miles) Bull Moose Mine, Custer, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
23.0km (14.3 miles) White Spar Mica Mine (Westinghouse No. 2 Mine), Custer, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
25.0km (15.5 miles) Ross Mine, Berne, Custer Mining District, Custer 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)
(Fe2+ , Mn2+ , Ca)3 (PO4 )2 Graftonite c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data:...17–6.24 X-ray Powder Pattern: Greenwood, Maine, USA. 2.867 (10), 3.50 (9), 2.715 (7), 3.01 (4), 4.30...(1) Grafton, New Hampshire, USA. (2) Nickel Plate mine, South Dakota, USA; corresponds to 2+ (Fe2+ 1.52...albite, muscovite, biotite. Distribution: In the USA, on Melvin Mountain, about eight km west of Grafton...Moose mine, five km southeast of Custer, Custer Co., and at the Nickel Plate mine, 1.5 km south of Keystone
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
River, New York City, N.Y. ; at the Dake mine, Mitchell County, North Carolina; with tysonite in Cheyenne...Springs, Colorado; and with rutile in Alexander County, North Carolina. MONAZITE, is essentially a phosphate...Park no. 2 mine near Penland and in crystals to one and one half inches in size at the Dake mine in Mitchell...Mitchell County. It occurs also in crystals at the Ray mine near Burnsville and the Ramsey mine near Toledo...Toledo in Yancy County, North Carolina. Large masses of Monazite occurred at the Flat Rock mine in Mitchell
Report (issue)
105.72(9)° Z = 4 X-Ray Diffraction Pattern: South Dakota, USA. (ICDD 34-149) 3.042 (100), 2.714 (85), 3...94] –O = F 0.32 Total 100.40 (1) Nickel Plate mine, South Dakota, USA; average electron microprobe analysis... Association: Graftonite, cassiterite, spodumene, beryl, muscovite (Nickel Plate mine). Distribution:...Distribution: From the Nickel Plate mine, near Keystone, Pennington Co., South Dakota, USA [TL]. Chemically similar...the Smith mine, Newport, and the Palermo No. 1 and Nancy mines, North Groton, New Hampshire, USA. Name:
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Google seemed to average twelve states (North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri...Mineral Show® committee annexed a chunk of the South to this core and chose to feature sixteen “Midwest”...per state. Four states— Michigan, Wisconsin, South Dakota, and Arkansas—at the periphery of the area tally...species being described from just one mine, the Tip Top, in South Dakota. (Note: There are no type locality...occurrences in only four Midwestern states: North Dakota, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Kentucky; these might
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Hampshire and to an inch in diameter at the Smith Mine, Newport, New Hampshire. It also has been found...state. Scorzalite occurs at the Victory mine near Custer, South Dakota with quartz, albite, muscovite, black...dickinsonite occurs sparingly at Branchville, Fairfield county, Connecticut. FAIRFIELDITE, a hydrous phosphate...noted as a rare mineral at Branchville, Fairfield county, Connecticut from which it was named; and also...product of lithiophilite at the Stewart mine, Pala, San Diego county, California. STEWARTITE, another hydrous
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ARROJADITE, HUHNERKOBELITE, AND GRAFTONITE* Manrn Loursn LrNonnnc, U. S. GeologicalSurttey, Washington...o r k . . . Description of material from Nickel Plate mine. Gnalrorvrro. Optical studies Chemical composition...unnamed sodium iron manganese phosphate from the Nickel Plate pegmatite, S. Dak., has been reexamined and...properties of and 7: 1.675;X colorarrojadite from the Nickel Plate pegmatite are: a:1.664,0:1.670, 2V:86o, r...is not isostructural with arrojadite from the Nickel Plate pegmatite and from the Serra Branca pegmatite
Book
what was probably one of the earliest hard-rock mining operations in the world. A necklase with a turquois...ancient workings of turquois were located on the south slopes of the Ali-Mirsa-Kuh mountains near Nishapur...rather convoluted account of the prospecting and mining of this mineral (Pliny, 38:33): "It [cal/aina,...brecciated metamorphosed rock phosphate at Moculta, South Australia Optical constants: Not certain; low birefringence...evaporitic rocks at the Incline, Mariposa County and Big Creek, Fresno County, California. The associated minerals
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1971 and 1972, it became clear that the Victory mine pegmatite was chemically unique, so peculiar in...Victory mine pegmatite is located two miles northeast of the center of Custer, Custer County, South Dakota...dimensions of many other worked pegmatites, the Victory mine was small. According to Pray, et al. (1953) it cropped...(1949) for their "triphylitc" fWIll the Victory mine, the sample of which we found to hc in fact not...abundant wyllieite. But the core of the Victory mine was prohahly investigated only casually since only
Report (issue)
Denver, Colorado 9 ^University of South Dakota Vermillion, South Dakota INTRODUCTION This bibliography...references on geology of the Black Hills in South Dakota and Wyoming. For purposes of this report, the... the area does not include the Bad Lands of South Dakota nor the bulk of the Powder River Basin in Wyoming...included in the bibliography. References for South Dakota are more complete than those for Wyoming. Both...geology of the Black Hills National Forest, South Dakota and Wyoming, with a section on Salable commodities
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
will print them as space permits. Southern Gem Mining Co., 5241 Montoya Road, El Paso 32, Texas, has...Texas, continues to amaze us with fine samples of South Texas agate, sent to us from time to time. Moss...to you. ARROJADITE Nickel Plate mine, Keystone, Pennington County, South Dakota. Sodium iron manganese...with minor amounts of cassiterite, zinnwaldite, graftonite. Select specimens of this rare phosphate mineral...MILLERITE and GERSDORFFITE Temagami, Ontario, Canada. Nickel sulfide and nickle sulfide-arsenide. Brass-yellow
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
microscopic inclusions of fluorapatite and possible graftonite. It occurs as yellow–orange and translucent crystals...was chosen for arrojadite from the Nickel Plate mine (South Dakota, USA) by Lindberg (1950) and later as...determined on a sample from the Nickel Plate mine (Keystone, South Dakota) by Krutik et al. (1979) using...microscopic inclusions of fluorapatite and possible graftonite. Other minerals found at the same locality, but...clinochlore, fergusonite-(Y), gorceixite, goyazite, graftonite, hematite, hingganite-(Y), hundolmenite(Y), jarosite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
localities are identified as arrojadite-(KFe) (Nickel Plate Mine), dickinsonite-(KMnNa) (Branchville), fluorarrojadite-(BaFe)...(1996) in the Central Alps and by one of us in south-central Sweden] indicate that the formation conditions...long known from the Nickel Plate pegmatite, Keystone, Pennington Co., South Dakota (Headden 1891). The...Quensel (1937) introduced in between for the Nickel Plate Mine material. Fisher (1954, 1965) established...new localities (Minas Gerais; New Hampshire; South Dakota). Then came the time of structural studies,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
BEUSITE, A NEW MINERAL FROM ARGENTINA, AND THE GRAFTONITE-BEUSITE SERIES1 C. S. Hunr.nur, JR., exo L. F...Fe, Ca, Mg)3(POa), is the manganeseanalogue of graftonite and with it forms a continuous series. The new...chemical analysis necessary to distinguish between graftonite and beusite. The interlaminated lithiophilite...triphylite-lithiophilite from five localities and of graftonite from Ranquel and Cacique Canchuleta, all from...(1964 and 1965) specimensof what appeared to be graftonite triphylite intergrowths were collectedfrom four
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Museum of Geology South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Rapid City, South Dakota 57701 Downloaded...section 16, T2S, R6E, 1 mile south of the town of Keystone, South Dakota. It is 2 miles due east of Mount...Etta pegmatite prior to 1883. During muscovite mining that year a dense black mineral was found by Major...and led to the founding of the Harney Peak Tin Mining, Milling & Manufacturing Company, which built a...produced by a mine in the United States came from the Etta. Unfortunately for the mining venture, the
Catalog/List
price paid for the mineral(s). CTINCX..ITE: M179. Mine Mompti, Spain; (a) rich vuggy intergrown prisms...an rock; 1.5-3 cm-$1.50 NHYDRITE: M204. Campiano Mine, Grosseto, Tuscany, Italy; good for species; pale...shaped rock; 6xS.3x3-S12.50 -~ AUTUNITE:M95. Oaybreak Mine, Spokane, Washington; (a) 5 xls & groups, 1-1 .8...(e) 6x3.6x1 .5-$20.00 AZURITE:M37. United Verde Mine, Jerome, Arizona; (a) lustrous ball af intergrcwn...intergrcwn xls; 1 .B-3.2 cm-$2.25 M65. Hanover Mine, near Fierro, New Mexico; (a) T/N; nice balls to rosettes
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
around pyrite-pyrrhotite ore, also as incrustationsin mine workings' in intergranular cavities.The mineral...tenths of a mm in concentrates from the Driekop mine, Transvaal. The name is for Professor E. F. Stumpfl...large amounts at the Victory mine pegmatite, Custer County, South Dakota, in masses up to 20 kg, in crude...Associatedmineralsinclude arrojadite (rimmed by wyllieite), graftonite, sarcopside, and scorzalite. Wyllieite or related...noted from the Nickel Plate pegmatite near Keystone, South Dakota, and the Smith Mine, Newport, New Hampshire;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Nancy Mine, North Groton, New Hampshire, and the Nickel Plate Mine, Keystone, South Dakota. Dickinsonite...Headden (1891) Experimental from the Nickel Plate pegmatite, near Keystone, Experimentaldetails on three specimensof...specimensof arrojaSouth Dakota. Quensel(1937) defined this material as headdenitein an extensive review...pegmatites.In addition, viations are NM for Nancy Mine, North Groton, Mason (1941) reviewed these phases...1979);NP for Nickel Plate,Keystone,South kobelite 1: wyllieite groupl and graftonite, phases Dakota arrojadite
Catalog/List
on limonite ....... . Utah Toelle County, Gold Hill, Gold Hill mine --=.rransparent micro crystals on...Copper aluminum silicate' Arizona Pima County, Ajo, New Cornelia mine Sky blue micro xls and coatings on...silicate CLEAVELANDITE Virginia Amelia, Rutherford mine #2 Lustrous white twin xl groups, minor muscovite...ALTAITE Lead telluride • Colorado Saguache County, Klondike mine Brilliant metallic tin white cleavable mass...magnesium silicate Canada Heath Lake, Smallwood mine ~e, light brown prismatic crystalline aggregate
Report (issue)
Schaller, Afwillite NMNH 95237 Dutoitspan Mine, Kimber¬ ley, South Africa Dutoitspan Ammonioborite cany...Geological Survey, 1950) Trinity Anemousite County, California. Contributions to Mineral¬ (discredited...Vonsen, 1920) NMNH 106112 from the Hillside Mine, Yavapai County, Ari¬ L. G. Berry, 1947. Composition and...Aluminocopiapite Utah NMNH K. J. Murata, Trinity County, California M. C. Bandy, 1938. Utah. J. M. Axelrod...93834 Island Mountain, Mountain, from Mine, Yavapai County, Arizona (L. J. Cabri, 1976) Island Group
Book (edition)
Museum of Geology South Dakota School of Mines & Technology Rapid City, South Dakota GEORGE ROBERT RAPP...Vesuvius, Italy (12, column 2) and SEMSEYITE, Julcani mine, Huancavelica, Peru (#3, column 2). Color, page...sandstone at the Fuernrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely disseminated...Cave Hills and Slim Buttes areas, Harding County, South Dakota. BEST REF. IN ENGLISH: Thompson, M. E.,...rnine , Silver Plun1e district, and at the Little Emma mine, Clear Creek County; at the Enterprise n1ine
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... Encyclopedia of Minerals ... ABELSONITE (Nickel porphyrin) gly or in groups. Prominent forms are
 
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