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Schorl from
Ross Mine, Berne, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Schorl
Formula:NaFe32+Al6(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3(OH)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Schorl data
Locality Data:Click here to view Ross Mine, Berne, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:210939
Long-form Identifier:1:3:210939:8
GUID (UUID V4):075816b6-1b2c-4272-ad04-a7b22bad2c15
Nearest other occurrences of Schorl
4.1km (2.5 miles) Tin Mountain Mine, Fourmile, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
4.1km (2.6 miles) Crown Mine (McMackin Mine), Custer, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
4.2km (2.6 miles) Ballard Mine, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
4.5km (2.8 miles) White Spar Mica Mine (Westinghouse No. 2 Mine), Custer, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
5.7km (3.6 miles) Tip Top Mine, Fourmile, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
5.9km (3.7 miles) Rte. 85A South, Custer, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
6.2km (3.8 miles) Helen Beryl Mine, Fourmile, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
6.2km (3.8 miles) Buster lode (Buster Dike Mica Mine), Custer, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
6.6km (4.1 miles) Knowles lode claim, Custer, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
7.2km (4.4 miles) New York Mine (Westinghouse No. 1 Mine), Custer, 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
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)
(42-foot) spodumene from the Etta mine in the Black Hills of South Dakota and a 6.1-meter (20-foot) microcline...some tourmaline supergroup minerals, particularly schorl, can occur in quite large crystals, some measuring...one dimension being at least 1 meter are schorl. Large schorl crystals were once particularly common in...in the Kinkel quarry near Bedford, Westchester County, New York. One fragmented group consisting of thirty-two...Norwich Hill, Huntington, Massachusetts, a crystal of schorl 42 cm (17 inches) long and 12 cm (4.7 inches) wide
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Granite, near Red Stone quarry, Conway, Carroll County, New Hampshire. Henry Minot specimen and photo...Teller and Park counties, CO, USA Crystal Park–Bear Creek, El Paso County, CO, USA Pikes Peak Granite NYF... 3 Mount Antero and Mount White, Chaffee County, CO, USA Mount Antero Granite NYF Miarolitic beryl...b) 4 Sawtooth Mountains, Boise, Custer and Elsmore counties, ID, USA Sawtooth Granite in the Idaho batholith... Moat Mountain and related areas, Carroll County, NH, USA Conway Granite in White Mountain intrusive
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
with its representation of mining tools clearly proclaim Montana’s mining origins. Montana’s production...published describing the occurrence, collecting, mining, and cutting of the two state gemstones. Figure...2. Granville Stuart established Montana’s first mining camp at Gold Creek in 1860. Geologic Provinces...view showing the Indian Queen mine ca. 1905 at Farlin, Beaverhead County. 208 ROCKS & MINERALS Downloaded...mines at Butte in Silver Bow County and the Black Pine mine in Granite County have produced many fine crystal
Book (edition)
Chapters on the Coeur d'Alene Mining District, the Blackbird Mining District, and the Sawtooth Mountains...Chapters on the Coeur d'Alene Mining District and the Blackbird Mining District, and to Ben Sheppard for reviewing...reviewing the chapter on the Blackbird Mining District. Those who contributed photographs, or specimens...or a vein of massive pyrite and chalcopyrite in a mine, so references such as these were not included....for a particular mineral may be a certain mine, but that mine may now have a new name, or may now be a
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 (issue)
Lyangara, Uzbekistan; and the Emma Mine, Little Cottonwood District, Salt Lake Co., Utah. In most locations...fossils. These fossils are particularly prevalent south of Donalda in the Drumheller area which is home...News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 • 3 E-mail: lream@comtch.iea...worldwide. In describing micro crystals from further south near Drumheller. Sabina supports the pseudocubic...provided me with a specimen from still further south near Manybcrrics. and also by Ty Ballacko (personal
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 (issue)
PAPER 229 and prospects examz"ned in each district, some z"llustrated by maps .and structure sections..._________________________________ _ History of mining __________________________________ _ Geologic features...Mineralogy of mica and beryL ______________________ .:. Mining, preparation, and uses of mica and beryL _____...Production and reserves ________________________ _ Adams County ________________________________ _ Clarkprospe...Clarkprospects-----------------------~----- Mica Queen mine __________________________ _ Location and access ____________________
Journal (issue)
Deze maand worden specimens van beusiet van South Dakota (USA) aangeboden. Meer details hierover vindt U...Varuträsk, Zweden 5 6 Erongo, Namibië Hill City, South Dakota 6 12.08 38.36 0.31 Omdat de absolute concentraties...Geonieuws 32(3), maart 2007 59 • Tanco Mine (Bernic Lake Mine), Bernic Lake, Lac-du-Bonnet area, Manitoba...voorkomen werd ontdekt in 1930, en de Tanco ("Tantalum Mining Corporation") mijn werd tot 1982 uitgebaat voor...en cesium (tot 90 m diep). • Upper Ross Lake, Yellowknife district, Northwest Territories (Wise et al
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 (issue)
Euclase, 2.3 cm, from the Gachalá mine, Guavió-Guatéque mining district, Boyacá Department, Colombia. Gail...cm, from Stak Nala, Haramosh Mountains, Skardu district, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Zach Goodman collection;...twin, 5.5 cm, from the Amo tin deposit, Ximeng County, Yunnan, China. Wally Mann collection; Joe Budd...Budd photo. Tanzanite, 7.6 cm, from the Merelani mine near Arusha, Tanzania. Barry & Beth Kitt collection;...2.2 cm, from the Pulsifer quarry, Androscoggin County, Maine. Kyle Kevorkian collection; Jordan Root
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
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
Report (issue)
LITHIUM-BEARING PEGMATITES OF THE PALA DISTRICT, SAN DIEGO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA By RICHARD H. JAHNS and...LITHIUM-BEARING PEGMATITES OF THE PALA DISTRICT, SAN DIEGO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA! By Richard H. Jahns* and...Spodumene Bervl Quartz Other minerals MINING Prospecting and mining methods Production Future possibilities...Schuyler) mine Tourmaline Queen mine Gem Star (Loughbaugh) mine Stewart mine Mission mine Pala Chief...Chief mine Katerina (Ashley, Catherina, Katrina) mine El Molino mine INDEX Geologic map and section of the
Report (issue)
International, LLC P.O. Box 263, East Hampton, CT 06424, USA Phone 1.860.267.1512; fax 1.860.267.7225 www.lapisint...microcline from Pakistan's world famous Gilgit area. The schorl is 4. 7 cm high. Photo Jeff Scovil; private collection...elbaite crystals with lepidolite from the Golconda Mine in Minas Gerais, Brazil by Eberhard Equit, 1993...CHRISTIAN WEISE VERLAG, GERMANY AND LAPIS INTERNATIONAL, USA Tourmaline ♦ History ♦ Mineralogy • Tourmaline....... 85 North America ..................... 89 South America ..................... 96 • References .
Book
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...for cutting other minerals. Tale, Mpumalanga, South Africa * 19 x 6 x 83cm Hardness 1 Hardness 4
Book
Jewelry, 146 Breastplate of the High Priest, 144 South America, Beryl in the Bible, 80 Emerald and 140...Derivations of Names and Portugal, 490 Republic of South Africa, Romania, 549 601 Yugoslavia, 485 Pakistan...Spain, 445 Greenland, India, 500 Republic, South West Africa 445 Ghana, Inner Somali 443 Germany...Wendell E. Wilson. Tucson, M. Mary Stalder, Berne, Helmut Trnek, Survey, Washington, D.C. Harold... semi-precious in beryl history of gemstone mining the on papers in of knowledge the many
Journal (issue)
CA Articles Great pockets: the National Belle mine ..................................................Rosemeyer Phosphate minerals from the Tip Top mine, Black Hills, South D a k o ta ................................... 255 by N. L. Bennett The Buca della Vena mine, Tuscany, I ta ly ................................R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur...------------------ 4 the « ♦ » ------- National Belle mine Arthur E. Smith, Jr. 9118 Concho Street Houston
Catalog/List
PEDDLER 100 NORTH LAKE PARK, BOTTtNEAU, NORTH DAKOTA 68318 Phone: (701) 263-4948 FAX: (701) 263-4644...good stuff that used to come out of the Marencl mine, ~ut the price is a whole lot better. specimens...00 eaoh. CLEANED COPPER AND MALACHITE: Southwest Mine, Bisbee, Arizona: I've had these for a few years...specimen material comes from a collection from Mining Engineer Eben Bebee who first arrived in Cripple...volcanic crater 4 miles long and 2 miles wide. Mining at Cripple Creek lasted from 1891 to 1962 with
Journal (issue)
stibnites from a new Nevada locality, the Murray Mine, not the old Manhattan, but he had only three specimens...clear calcites from a small pocket in the Meikle Mine, the new locality for the superb yellow barites...specimens of azurite and malachite from the Flambau Mine in Wisconsin, now completely gone, of the chalcocite...News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 E-mail: lream@comtch.iea.com...find of calcite in complete "balls" from the Herja Mine near Baia Mare. Evidently a large vug, or series
Book
stumble over a valuable nugget and stake your own mining claim? Indeed it to is, and author book Jay...prospecting, he points out, is in abandoned mining districts, where valuable mineral ores are present...commercial ores and secondary minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification...RANSOM 1875-1948 An to the Eastern '‘Schoolmarm” Mining Camps of the Old West I I a s I \ h K... CONTENTS Preface ix PART I 1 Introduction to Mining and Mineralogy 2 Preparation for Mineral Collecting
Book
variety amethyst, sceptre habit, Denny Mountain, King County, Washington, U.S.A. / Photo by Ken Mayer Production...Mots inc. Native Gold on Quartz, Paymaster mine, South Porcupine, Ontario / Photo by Brian Boyle. Courtesy...Marquis imprimeur inc. Barite on Quartz, Rock Candy mine, Grand Forks, British Columbia / Photo by Ken Mayer...Mayer Publisher Pyromorphite, Society Girl mine, Moyie, British Columbia / Photo by Ken Mayer Mineralogical... Ontario Canada Diopside on Grossular, Jeffrey mine, Asbestos, Quebec / Photo by Jeffrey A. Scovil
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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