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


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Zircon
Formula:Zr(SiO4)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Zircon data
Locality Data:Click here to view Etta Mine, Keystone, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:172938
Long-form Identifier:1:3:172938:2
GUID (UUID V4):98b084e7-e0b9-4781-be5c-144b583faf45
Nearest other occurrences of Zircon
1.1km (0.7 miles) Peerless Mine, Keystone, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
2.4km (1.5 miles) Dan Patch Mine, Keystone, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
3.2km (2.0 miles) King Lithia Mine, Greyhound Gulch, Keystone, Keystone 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
4.6km (2.9 miles) Wood Tin mine, Harney City, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
9.2km (5.7 miles) Black Elk Peak (Harney Peak), Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
10.7km (6.7 miles) November Mine, The Needles, Custer State Park, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
18.0km (11.2 miles) Surprise Mica Mine, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
24.3km (15.1 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)
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)
MINNESOTA, MISSOURI, NEBRASKA NORTH DAKOTA, OKLAHOMA, SOUTH DAKOTA AND TEXAS BY MARGARET COOPER CONTENTS...Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, 1, Part 2, and Part 3 258 Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas and Section 2....North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Texas 262 souri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota...Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Texas. It is Part 4 of a comprehensive...Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Texas; Index II, Geographical
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)
OF THE ETTA SPODUMENE BLACK HILLS, SOUTH DAKOTA. G. M. MINE, SCHWARTZ. INTRODUCTION. THE Etta mine...importantproducerof lithium ore in the United States. Althoughthe mine has been repeatedlyreferred to, and briefly described...JamesCessna,Superintendent of the Etta, for permissionto studyand map the mine and for many mineral specimens...GENERAL FEATURES. History of the Mine.--Previous to I883 the Etta claim had beenworked for mica. In... P. Blake• determined tin in samplesfrom the Etta mine which had been submitted to him for analysis.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
muscovite in pegmatite wall zones, Black Hills, South Dakota, USA B.L. JOLLIFF,'J.J.PAPIKE,* andC.K. SHEARER'...Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63 130499, USA *Institute of Meteoritics, Department of Geology...University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87 13l- 1126, USA (Received January 6, 1992; accepted in revised form...character and degree of compositional evolution in the Keystone area of the Black Hills. Whole-rock compositions...geochemical characteristics of samples from the Etta pegmatite indicate mixing with and assimilation
Report (issue)
TIN, TUNGSTEN, AND TANTALUM DEPOSITS OF SOUTH DAKOTA. By FRANK L. HESS. INTRODUCTION. Many articles... and tantalum in South Dakota occur in the Black Hills, in Lawrence and Pennington counties, in the southwestern...miles wide, the longer axis lying nearly north and south. There is a considerable diversity of topography...considered. In the southern part, near Hill and Keystone, the hills exhibit rounded contours with fairly...deposits of wolframite in the Black Hills of South Dakota: Trans. Am. Ir.st. Min. Eng., vol. 31, 1901
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
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
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 (issue)
was found in the Hell Creek Formation in North Dakota, a heavily studied formation containing a variety...Montana and stretches into portions of North and South Dakota and into parts of Wyoming ("The virtual fossil‖)...Happenings Pg 3 Pebble Pups—Year End Pg 4 District 11 Honors Pebble Pups Pg 5 Installation of Officers...719-488-0880 or e-mail rsvp@wmmi.org. Western Museum of Mining & Industry / info@wmmi.org // Phone: 719-488-0880...the Family Geology Day at the Western Museum of Mining and Industry in January. The CSMS Pebble Pup table
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)
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)
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
Report (issue)
Association: Columbite, ilmenite, beryl, cassiterite, zircon, monazite, albite, microcline. Distribution: From...Czech Republic. In the Etta mine, near Keystone, Pennington Co., South Dakota, USA. At Tongafeno, Fefana
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...contained crystals of hornblende as well as those of zircon, often in the same cavities. It has thus been possible...Another sporadically occurring mineral of this suite, zircon, required zirconium in the vapors. Clearly, for
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
specimen is from the Number 20 mine near Spruce Pine, Mitchell County, North Carolina. Author’s specimen...Figure 5. A 2-cm uraninite cube from the Cardiff mine, Wdberforce, Ontario, Canada;Canadian Museum of...specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. muth, and arsenic to zircon, tourmaline, fluorite, carbonates, and sulfides;...the famous Palermo and Ruggles mines in Grafton County, New Hampshire; dendritic uraninite intergrowths...Bedford, WestChester County, and from a locality at Richville Station, St. Lawrence County, New York. Uraninite
Journal (issue)
OVERMAN, Omaha, Nebr. The Black Hills region of South Dakota is exceptionally interes ting to the mineral...worked b~• the Scott Rose Quartz Co. of Custer. This mine ls an open cut and the entire face of the workings...and py1·ite. The Etta, Hugo. P eerless and Bob Ingersoll mine!'!, all located at Keystone, haYe been worked... Gold, garnet, staurolite and tiny crystals of zircon, rutile and octahedrite may he obtained by panning...panning the gravel of Battle Creek at Keystone. The yield of gold is very slight as all of these sands and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
places these bodies are funnel shaped, as is the Etta pegmatite in the Black Hills. Still other pegmatites...1910. 6 Keith, Arthur, Gafiney-Kings Mt- Folio, South and North Carolina: U. ,5. Geol. Suraey, Geol. Folio...pegmatite aiUes in the Archean rocks of the Alma district, Park -C*tty, Colorado, measure four hundred feet...Maitlandlo has described pegmatites in the Wodgina district of Western Australia which "vary from mere threads...earth for great distances cannot be accepted, since mining operations have uncovered a definite bottom in
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
deepseateddepositsincludemonazite,cassiterite,apa[ite, zircon and the andalusite-sillimanite-kyanite 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 (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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
................ 655 Geologic setting oi the Etta mine.................................................with recent studies2 of the Etta spodumene mine near Keystone, South Dakota, the writers’ attention was...etting of the E tta M ine The geology of the Etta mine has been described in some detail in the paper...artz: Geology of the E tta spodumene mine, Black Hills, South Dakota. Econ. Geol., vol. 20, November, 1925...Alteration of spodumene in the E tta mine, Black Hills, South Dakota. Am. Jour. Sci., vol. xi, 1926, pp
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)
fuchsite. ILMEN ZAPOVEDNIK, near town of MIASK, South Urals. Famous mineral locality in lImen Mountain... covered in lImen locality. Large xls of ilmenite, zircon, monazite, blomstrandite, altaite, pyrochlor, phenakite...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
 
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