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Chrysocolla from
Etta Mine, Keystone, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Chrysocolla
Formula:Cu2-xAlx(H2-xSi2O5)(OH)4 · nH2O, x < 1
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chrysocolla data
Locality Data:Click here to view Etta Mine, Keystone, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:131210
Long-form Identifier:1:3:131210:2
GUID (UUID V4):29587d23-d12e-4dda-b279-e43929e4b428
Nearest other occurrences of Chrysocolla
10.0km (6.2 miles) Blue Lead Mine (Mahoney Bluelead Mine), Sheridan, Hill City Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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)
[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 (article/letter/editorial)
COOK Department of Geolo Blackbird Mine, Cobalt, Lemhi County, Idaho Downloaded by [University of...North Groton, New Hampshire, and at the State Forest mine, East Hampton, Connecticut. Roberts and Rapp (1965)...Black Hills of South Dakota. Here, it occurred in the Bull Moose mine, Custer County, as beautiful apple-green...the Keystone district, Pennington County, including the Big Chief, Dan Patch, Ferguson Lode, Etta, and...ludlamite occurrence is the Blackbird mine, near Cobalt, Lemhi County, Idaho, an occurrence .. described
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
[Northeastern University] at 22:03 15 November 2014 SHABA DISTRICT, ZAIRE This attractive metatorbernite is typical...Shinkolobwe,it is more likely from the Musonoi mine in the same district. The specimen is 12.5 cm wide. Photo by...Hampshire; and at the Bedford quarries, Westchester County, New York. “Torbernite” has been reported from...Chalk Mountain mines in the Spruce Pine district, Mitchell County, North Carolina. Here, individual dark...from the Markey No. 3 mine, White Canyon district, Utah, as well as the Skyline mine in the Monument Valley
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
was sent in by Mr. McDonald. ARIZONA—"The Bagdad Mine, Yavapai Co., Arizona, has lately produced some...of brochantite (copper sulphate), gem grade chrysocolla (hydrous copper sulphate), and black copper oxide...is now in the hands of various collectors. Bagdad Mine has produced, from time to time, many unusual copper...specimens. Some three years ago, a gem grade chrysocolla with inclusion of dendritic copper, was uncovered...also cutting grades of azurite in malachite and chrysocolla."—item dated Nov. 30, I960, from R. A. Richards
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
tourmaline crystal was noted in the Luella mine near Avon, Latah county, Idaho, which measured 3x3x8 feet. Other...the Black Hills of South Dakota. A black crystal from Micaville, Randolph county, Alabama, was 10 inches...length. Other crystals have been noted at the Baer mine near Orange, New Hampshire, to 10 inches in diameter...noted in the School Section pegmatite of Fremont county, Colorado. ROCKS AND MINERALS Maine, Connecticut...Gunnison county, Colorado; dark green, pink, and indicolite tourmalines from pegmatites near Keystone, South
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
fuchsite. ILMEN ZAPOVEDNIK, near town of MIASK, South Urals. Famous mineral locality in lImen Mountain...name. WIELICZKA, near Krakow, Poland, oldest salt mine in Europe, beautiful large halite xls, anhydrate...beautiful axinite xIs, epidote. Fine twin quartz xIs, mine Gardett, Dauphine Isere. ROCKS AND MINERALS LIMOGES... large number of mineral localities (Zyrianskii mine and some others): zinc-lead ores, phosgenite, povellite...M1NERALS YAKUTIA, East Siberia, USSR, Verkhoyansk district, new discovered mineral localities; diamond, native
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
when a new pocket was broken into in the Mammoth Mine, Tiger, (Pinal Company), Arizona." ARKANSAS — Another...xled cyrtolite was found last year in the Pine District, Jefferson Co., Colo., so we were informed by...locality in the State is Russell Gulch in Gilpen County. A small but very fine crystal group from Russell... June 26-29, 1952. CONNECTICUT — The old copper mine near Bristol, Hartford Co., Conn., used to produce...mind. We have only one small rock outcrop in my county (Orange) at Rock Springs near Apopka. "The beaches
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
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......
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
Catalog/List
"'· f·,,or.-i ti.s cd: send a 1 ist of th,;'! mine"i",;• L, that price for ~ach piece There is no...(New Cornelia well covered~ Mine,Ajo,Pima greenish (Belstone light County blue coating on , Arizona...A) Cl92 ANDRADITE location. brown crystals on Mine near Okehampton Cl93 ARSENOPYRITE Arsenopyrite...micros and masses on (Ballycormick near Shanagolden, County U.K.journal of Mines and Minerals isssue lxl f3...location pieces, about a third covered (Bedford Consols Mine near Tavistock, Devon) B) for micros lx 1/2 ins
Book (volume)
Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States SOUTH DAKOTA This northwestern Great Plains state varies...western counties of Lawrence, Meade, Custer and Pennington the land rises abruptly into the 6,000 sq. mi...Alleghenies, culminate in Harney Peak in southern Pennington Co. At 7,242’ this peak is the highest point...rising granite mass intruded the famed Cretaceous Dakota sandstone, which underlies most of the Great Plains...continental seas were advancing from the south, the Dakota sandstone represents topset beds, wave reworked
Book
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...Iron-manganese phosphates of the Williams pegmatites, Coosa County, Alabama (by P. B. Leavens & T. A. Simpson) 6:66-73...ALICE GLORY HOLE The Alice glory hole, Clear Creek County, Colorado (by T. A. Hanson & W. B. Craft) 18:185187
Journal (issue)
R, Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur...C. M. Garland Arsenopyrite from the Kilpatrick mine, Madoc, Ontario...................................mushistonite; and an unnamed tin mineral from the Etta mine ................................................COVER: WULFENITE group, 6 cm, from the Stefanie mine at Bleiberg, Carinthia, Austria. Photo by Werner...thought, I decided to depict a specimen of Red Cloud mine wulfenite (drawn rather loosely from Bob Lane’s
Book (volume)
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...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA
Book (volume)
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...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA
Book
and rocks are formed. RIGHT: Malachite with chrysocolla, Majdanpek, Serbia ¢ tixex7 cm LEFT: Fluorite...be minerals. Microcline, Crystal Peak, Colorado, USA * 12 x 9x 5 om MINERALS: PRODUCTS OF A CHANGING...CHANGING PLANET 11 Vanadinite, San Carlos district, Chihuahua, Mexico * 8 x 4 x 2 cm Mineral Species Minerals...zeolites. Calcite (septarian nodule), San Juan County, Utah, USA * 18 x 24x Bem 14 | MINERALS: PRODUCTS...10 ct RIGHT: Round brilliant-cut white diamonds, South Africa and Canada « 2.00 ct and 3.06 ct leaves
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)
PAPERS TEE OF THE CONSTANTIN N. PEGMATITES KEYSTONE AREA+ APSOURI Detailed mapping of the Hugo...Patch, Bob Ingersoll and lesser pegmatites in the Keystone area, supported by critical study of the relations...over-emphasized. The spodumene "Iogs" at the Etta mine are not products of replacement. (4) The common...visits and mapping, concurrent with the progress of mining, are essential to uncover significant data, otherwise...heretofore been reported from the Michigan iron mining districts. The first of these, stilpnomelane, occurs
Journal (issue)
Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...silicate minerals from Trumbull Peak, Mariposa County, California......................................Pohs was well known to every serious collector of mining antiques and memorabilia in the U.S. In the late...the first book on the subject: Early Underground Mine Lamps', it became the “bible” of lamp collecting...of learning and research on all types of antique mine lamps. He was truly a pioneer in his field. 0 The
Report (issue)
MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE ORD MOUNTAIN DISTRICT, SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA By F. HAROLD WEBER...Climate, vegetation, and water supply History of mining 20 7 Summary 21 7 Hydrothermal 7 10 Previous...classification 28 Description of the mines Gold Banner mine Greenback prospect Martha prospect ___ 29 29 29... 31 Moly prospect Ord Mountain mine 31 Red Etta Hill 31 mine _ prospects Ord Mountain 41 41...41 iron deposit White Dollar mine Unnamed manganese-travertine 20 [3] 40 41 Contact metasomatic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Ryan, where centered in former years the extensive mining activities of a famous borax company, also a number...President is Mr. Hazen T. Perry, 2501 Girard Avenue South, Minneapolis, Minn., and Federation Secretary is...of coal and included the development of mine lamps and mine safety equipment. Since Mr. Kondrosky grew...region of Pennsylvania and was actively engaged in mining for more than twenty years, his talk was liberally...the romance of coal and the problems involved in mining it. • Mr. Kondrosky's interest in rocks began as
Report (issue)
Purple pit fluorspar pipe, Lost Sheep mine, Spar Mountain, Juab County. CONTENTS Page Dell No. 5 Claim...43 Floride Mine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Floride No. 1 Mine . . . . ...Floride No.5 Mine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Floride No. 13 Mine . . . . . . ..... . . 45 Floride No. 18 Mine ............ ·.......... 45 Fluorine Queen Mine . . . . . . . . . . . ....Fluorine Queen No. 1 Mine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Fluorine Queen No. 2 Mine . . . . . . . .
Journal (issue)
Petersburg University specimens **- St.-Petersburg Mining Museum specimens 2 W o r l d of Stones. Ng 1 I...the authors of this article, was opened in the Mining Museum of St. Petersburg not long ago and another...Unusual Crystallization or... Mineral Pathology? //Mine mlogicheskii zhurnal. 1989.1.11, N 2. p.96-98. 10...popularity in the world, while it is the leader in the USA. Recently, well known jewelry stones have been joined...chrome-diopsides have been found in Finland, the Republic of South Africa, Myanma (Burma), the Swiss Alps, and Kenya
 
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