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


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Sphalerite
Formula:ZnS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sphalerite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Etta Mine, Keystone, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:172928
Long-form Identifier:1:3:172928:3
GUID (UUID V4):6b6e8df4-2918-4a22-bc2f-4ae0704a0d79
Nearest other occurrences of Sphalerite
0.6km (0.4 miles) Nickel Plate Mine, Keystone, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
1.1km (0.7 miles) White Cap Mine, Keystone, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
2.0km (1.2 miles) Columbia Mine (Maiden Mine), Keystone, Keystone Gold Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
2.4km (1.5 miles) Dan Patch Mine, Keystone, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
2.7km (1.6 miles) Sitting Bull pegmatite, Keystone, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
2.8km (1.8 miles) Egyptian Group, Keystone Gold Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
2.9km (1.8 miles) Bismark-Ida Florence Groups, Keystone Gold Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
3.4km (2.1 miles) Big Chief Mine, Glendale, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
4.4km (2.7 miles) Bob Ingersoll Mine, Keystone, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
5.6km (3.5 miles) Spokane Mine, Iron Mountain, 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)
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)
Hills of South Dakota THOMAS J . C A M P B E L L and WILLARD L . ROBERTS Museum of Geology South Dakota...Dakota School of Mines and Technology Rapid City, South Dakota 57701 more comprehensive description of the...occurrences as the Black Hills area of western South Dakota. These occurrences are quite diverse, ranging...of the CusterKeystone area, to the Homestake gold mine in Lead, to golden barite-bearing concretions east...the recently added South Dakota room in the Museum of Geology at the South Dakota School of Mines and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Petaca district of Rio Arriba County, New Mexico; from the Harney Peak region of South Dakota; the Reagan...Reagan mining district, Kern range, White Pine County, Nevada. SULFUR, S, occurs very rarely in pegmatites...five miles south of Blairs- sulfide, has been found in the Ben Nevis ville, Union County, Georgia. It...It has been mine on San Augustin Peak, Organ mounmined from a pegmatite at Pinetucky, tains, New Mexico...Mexico, with argentite in a Randolph County, Alabama; and from a sulfide zone near the center of the pegfew
Report (issue)
Some Pegmatites in the Southern Black Hills South Dakota GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 297-E ...Some Pegmatites in the Southern Black Hills South Dakota By JAMES J. NORTON and others PEGMATITES AND...Mica prospect.____________________________ Etta spodumene mine.______________________________ Geology-___...301 302 303 305 305 307 310 312 314 315 Etta spodumene mine Continued Mineral deposits____--__------...spodumene prospect._________ Hot Shot feldspar and mica mine.. _____ Geology __________-_---_-_-----------__-_-----Mineral
Report (issue)
pegmatite (Etta mine, South Dakota, USA). Association: Stannite, chalcopyrite, sphalerite, galena (Mushiston...cassiterite, pseudomalachite, quartz (Etta mine, South Dakota, USA). Distribution: In the Mushiston tin...Tajikistan. From the Etta mine, near Keystone, Pennington Co., South Dakota, USA. Name: For its occurrence...Mushiston deposit, Tajikistan. Type Material: Mining Institute, St. Petersburg, 1999/1; A.E. Fersman...mushistonite; and an unnamed tin mineral from the Etta Mine. Mineral. Record, 17, 383. All rights reserved
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
monly found in granite pegmatite as ga­ lena, sphalerite, chalcopyrite, pyrrhotite, bismuthinite, pyrite... and bismuth­ inite are most often observed. Sphalerite is less common, fallowed by chalcopyrite, molybdenite...and Cooper in Maine; and from the berylmolybdenite mine near Mr. Antero, Colo­ rado. It is an economic mineral...in the Temiskaming District in Canada, in the tin district in the Trans­ vaal, South Africa; and important...near the center of the pegmatite at the Ben Nevis Mine on San Augustin Peak in the Organ Mountains, New
Report (issue)
UC-NRLF B 3 JTH am IDD DAKOTA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN NO. J. E. 3 TODD, STATE GEOLOGIST ... MINERAL RESOURCES OF SOUTH DAKOTA INCLUDING MINERAL WEALTH OF THE BLACK HILLS BY CLEOPHAS C. O^HARRA...MINERAL BUILDSSUM&^RIAL FUELS AND WATERS OF SOUTH DAKOTA > WITH PRODUCTION FOR IQOO BY JAMES E. TQ02...TQ02 TODD EARTH SCIENC LIBRARY GIFT OF SOUTH DAKOTA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN NO. J. E. 3. TODD...TODD, STATE GEOLOGIST MINERAL RESOURCES OF SOUTH DAKOTA INCLUDING MINERAL WEALTH OF THE BLACK HILLS
Report (issue)
Pegmatite Investigations 1942-1945 Black Hills, South Dakota By LINCOLN R. PAGE and OTHERS GEOLOGICAL SURVEY..._______________________ Mining, preparation, and uses of mica. _____________ Mining.___________________________________...mines and prospects___________________ 60 Addie tin mine._________________________________ 60 Ajax claim...___________60 Aladin mica mine by J. W. Adams____________ 60 Ann mica mine by T. A. Steven_________________...Steven_________________ 61 Antler mica mine.._-___--__--__-___-_-_-___-___ 64 Apex claim.___-__________-_-----_---_--_-____64
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MINERALS FROM THE ETTA MINE KEYSTONE, SOUTH DAKOTA By ARTHUR SMITH JR. The purpose of this article is...brief descriptions of the minerals occurring in the Etta pegmatite. Much of the information has been compiled...of Rapid City. The Etta mine is located 1 mile south of Keystone. To reach the mine take Alternate Route...the railroad crossing in Keystone. Follow this road past the road to the Keystone Cemetery. At about 0.6...makes a Y ; the dumps of the Etta mine are directly ahead. To reach the mine follow the road to the right
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
generally attributable to included chalcopyrite and sphalerite; Dr. Robert B. Cook, an executive editor of Rocks...in the Peerless pegmatite at Keystone, Pennington County, South Dakota, by Headden (1893) and shortly...shortly thereafter in the nearby Etta pegmatite where it formed masses to 8 inches across associated with molybdenite...molybdenite, sphalerite, chalcopyrite, arsenopyrite, and a suite of alteration products. Accessory stannite...Examples include the Cove mine, Lander County, the Bald Mountain mine, White Pine County, and the famous Majuba
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Museum of Geology South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Rapid City, South Dakota 57701 Downloaded...unless otherwise noted. Minerals of the ETTA PE THE ETTA PEGMATITE IS BEST KNOWN for having produced...poured in the United States came from Etta cassiterite. The Etta is the type locality of the nowdiscredited...Location The Etta pegmatite is located in the NW !A, NE Yi, of section 16, T2S, R6E, 1 mile south of the town...town of Keystone, South Dakota. It is 2 miles due east of Mount Rushmore and can be located on the Mount
Report (issue)
hydrothermal origin. Association: Chalcopyrite, sphalerite, tetrahedrite, arsenopyrite, pyrite, cassiterite...Cı́novec (Zinnwald). In Australia, at Broken Hill, New South Wales, and from Zeehan, Tasmania. In Bolivia, in...Uncia. In the USA, at the Peerless and Etta mines, near Keystone, Pennington Co., South Dakota. From the... Canada. As large crystals from the Yaogangxian mine, 45 km northeast of Yizhang, Hunan Province, China
Journal (issue)
talking on "The Minerals of the Silver Coin Mine", an old silver mine near Winnemucca, Nevada with a wide variety...for the dam seems to have been quarried fro m the south side of the C411yon just below the dam, and an extensive...Update oo the Minerals of Summit Rock, Klamath County, Oregon Magoesiohomblcnde, Pblogopite aud Cristobalite...on tbe Minerals from tbe Kiggins Mioe, Clackamas County, O~oa Donald G. Howard Most of us are aware that...I had collected on our f.eld trip to the Kiggins Mine: calcite with a liberal sprinkling of red cinnabar
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
fuchsite. ILMEN ZAPOVEDNIK, near town of MIASK, South Urals. Famous mineral locality in lImen Mountain...hydrothermal zinc-lead deposit. Here occur: galena, sphalerite, tetrahedrite, jamsonite, bournonite, pyrite...Harz mountains, hydrothermal lead-zinc deposits: sphalerite xls, tetrahedrite, galena xIs, bournonite, calcite...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
Journal (issue)
the Geology and Resources of the Black Hills of Dakota with Atlas, Washington. 1879-1880, quarto, pp....used on one other report. where the birds denoted mine villages in a region of Mexico. It predates the...Preliminary Report of Ex­ plorations in Nebraska and Dakota. in the Years 1855-56-57. Washington. I 875. Oc­...Black Hills, and adjacent pans of the Nebraska and Dakota regions was originally as an appendix to the Humphrey...topographic and geographic features from Kansas in the south to the Canadian border on the north. The map extends
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
fluorspar, galena, gold, magnetite,molybdenite,sphalerite,scheeliteand wolframite. This third group of...which showedcrystal faces. In the Natas mine in middle South-West Africa such a vein in schistscarriescrystalsof...pp. 1-49, I914. a Rickard, T. A.: A Journeyto South Africa. Eng. & Min. Jour. Press, vol. i2i, p....muchlarger. A massof amblygonite in the Peerlessmine at Keystone,S. Dak., had been exposedin I9o8 for a lengthof... berylon theIngersollclaim2• milesnorthwestof Keystone,S. Dak., was 45 inchesacrossthe endbetween sides
Journal (issue)
White Horse Ranch to the Blitzen Valley, (Harney County, Oregon} and on the way I picked up some pieces...looked like slag from a furnace. This was in Grant County, Oregon, about 5 miles from Seneca. I was on a...feet. It was mined on the farm Tveit, Iveland District north of Kristiansand, Norway. A book of biotite...enormous spodumene crystals in the Black Hills of South Dakota ; the huge beryl crystals at Albany, Maine ;...tourmaline crystal 3x3x8 feet in the Luella Mine near Avon, Latah County, Idaho ; and etc. Origin The crystals
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 (issue)
the Geology and Resources of the Black Hills of Dakota with Atlas, Washington. 1879-1880, quarto. pp....used on one other report. where the birds denoted mine villages in a region of Mexico. It predates the...Preliminary Report of Ex­ plorations in Nebraska and Dakota. in the Years 1855-56-57. Washington. 1875. Oc­...Black Hills. and adjacent pans of the Nebraska and Dakota regions was originally as an appendix to the Humphrey...topographic and geographic features from Kansas in the south to the Canadian border on the north. The map extends
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
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
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
 
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