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Zircon from
Dan Patch 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 Dan Patch Mine, Keystone, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:212253
Long-form Identifier:1:3:212253:3
GUID (UUID V4):76d61ab0-06e1-44e0-acc1-b33c9750a92b
Nearest other occurrences of Zircon
1.8km (1.1 miles) Peerless Mine, Keystone, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
2.1km (1.3 miles) Bob Ingersoll Mine, Keystone, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
2.4km (1.5 miles) Etta Mine, Keystone, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
5.6km (3.5 miles) King Lithia Mine, Greyhound Gulch, Keystone, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
5.8km (3.6 miles) Big Chief Mine, Glendale, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
6.8km (4.2 miles) Wood Tin mine, Harney City, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
7.9km (4.9 miles) Black Elk Peak (Harney Peak), Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
10.0km (6.2 miles) November Mine, The Needles, Custer State Park, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
17.7km (11.0 miles) Surprise Mica Mine, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
23.7km (14.7 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
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
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)
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
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
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)
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...provided a model for the PEGMATITE FIELD OF the Keystone area, along the northeastern flank of the Harney
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 (volume)
National Forest, South Dakota and Wyoming U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1580 SOUTH DAKOTA WYOMING I -«*&...Geology of the Black Hills National Forest, South Dakota and Wyoming We st from. Washington SHOWING...Geology of the Black Hills National Forest, South Dakota and Wyoming By ED DEWITT, J. A. REDDEN, ANNA...Mineral resources locatable commodities 50 History of mining and exploration 50 Metals 51 Industrial minerals...114 Miscellaneous commodities 115 Utilization of mine tailings 115 Aluminum 115 Bentonite 115 Mineral
Journal (issue)
free throughout the series, as they are needed. SOUTH AFRICA Subscriptions Telephone (011) 652 1838, fax...It was extracted from the Earth at the Pedra Alta Mine, San Geraldo do Baixio (Brazil). Below: A brooch...Washington DC (USA), who made a particular study of the geology of Crestmore in Riverside County, California...foshagite is at Crestmore in Riverside County, California (USA)—it is against specimens from here that...Durango (Mexico) and at Bingham Pit, Salt Lake County, Utah (USA). Other small deposits have been recorded
Book
logyoO0000grie &N ROADSIDE % JEOLOGY of South Dakota John Paul Gries Mountain Press Publishing...Gries, John Paul, 1911- Roadside geology of South Dakota / John Paul Gries. p. cm. Includes bibliographical...(pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Geology—South Dakota—Guidebooks. 2. South Dakota— Guidebooks. I. Title. QE163.G68...interpreting the details of the surface geology of South Dakota. My model is Nathaniel Horatio Darton, geologist...depth to groundwater in the western half of South Dakota. Even in this day of gadgetry, field studies
Report (issue)
.. ii :iet3Baorpfcic zoek» of tha Ssystooa district of rock type* «*«.«*«,*«*,**.*.*,» Quart** and...«*«*»*»«.***** 92 1* locatioa of t&a Sayaton* district and dlatributioa of pe^raatitca la t&t aoutJwra...SejTrtone district, Coaoty, Sotttii DeLkota *«***«*«»* ^. Stnstttural treoda of the Heystona district, County...County, South Bakata *«****«*,***»««,, In * Orientation of 160 polott to discordant contacts of 6* Geologic...Geologic map and section, Big Chief Peimla^toa County, 3* DaJt. .«,.., «...,,.* la T« Geolo^te section,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
will be digging in the old dumps of the Ruggles Mine in Grafton, N.H. and hit upon some fine specimens...Wiseof a very interesting variety of a phos­ men's Mine at Greenwood produced some phate mineral. purple...Hill Stone ham Mine; and the well known Har­ This mineral is one of the most com­ vard Mine at Greenwood...minerals here in New England. Any­ visited this mine many times, not only for one looking for an excellent...hunting minerals in New Hampshire and Maine. The Key Mine at Mt. Apatite is Maine to come upon a pocket of
Report (volume)
veins in the northeastern part of the Lemhi Pass district J UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON...-----------------------------Future of thorium mining ................ -----------------------------...Lemhi Pass quadrangle, Page Lemhi County, Idaho, and Beaverhead County, Mont ..... Jn pocket FIGURE 1....only a part of the much larger Lemhi Pass thorium district, is the area of the most abundant thorium veins...Through 1970, the only thorium shipped from this district was used for testing. Future development of these
Report (issue)
14 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Asbestos ore Lead ore, Balmat mine, N. Y. Chromite, chromium ore, Washington Zinc ore...and Mineral Resources of the Lemhi Pass Thorium District, Idaho and Montana By MORTIMER H. STAATZ With...chemistry of the thorium veins in the Lemhi Pass district UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE...and mineral resources of the Lemhi Pass thorium district, Idaho and Montana. (Geology and resources of...acknowledgments ............................. 5 Rocks of the district .............................................
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
Report (issue)
Geology of the Hugo Pegmatite Keystone, South Dakota GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 297-B Geology... Geology of the Hugo Pegmatite Keystone, South Dakota By J. J. NORTON, L. R. PAGE, and D. A. BROBST PEGMATITES...and section of the area near the Hugo pegmatite, Keystone, S. Dak. Geologic map, underground workings, and...____ Spectrochemical analyses of mica from the south segment of the Hugo pegmatite.______________________...______________________ Chemical analyses of mica from the south segment of the Hugo pegmatite.____________________________
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...to thank the various photographers, particularly Dan Behnke, for contributing their work to this volume
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 (article/letter/editorial)
Geophysics, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019 USA (email: dlondon@ou.edu) ABSTRACT Pegmatites are...that Li-rich pegmatites of the Black Hills district, South Dakota, might be unrelated to the Harney Peak...trench, and coring program conducted in Colorado (USA) during WWII generated modal analyses of 1,803 pegmatites...a group or district. For example, of ~ 24,000 pegmatites mapped in the Black Hills district (Fig. 7),... South Dakota, only 14 mines or prospects were recognized as lithiumbearing (Page et al., 1953). When
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Ural Mts., USSR Hagendorf-SUd, Germany Dan Patch, South Dakota Connecticut l o c a l i t i e s .Crystal...Harding, New Mexico Hugo, South Dakota Mongolian A1tai #3 Etta, South Dakota White Picacho d i s t r i...Viitaniemi, Finland Malakialina, Madagascar Peerless, South Dakota Finnis River, Australia Kings Mountain, North...the English River and other subprovinces to the south onto the SachigoBerens-Uchi craton. STOTT et al...stages of the 2.7-2.6 Ga Kenoran event. Precise zircon dating is available only exceptionally. Whole-rock
Book (volume)
(25.56 ct), Sweet Home Mine, Colorado; colorless scheelite (19.66 ct), Kern County, California; octagonal...Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from San Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...DS AED 3) June Culp Zeitner, of Rapid City, South Dakota, for her lifelong devotion to the study and...events to bring the history of North American gem mining up to date. Here, then, is the latest, most complete...and interviews with persons actively engaged in mining gemstones. Pertinent references are furnished throughout
Report (volume)
................................ 50 History of mining............................................................................ 54 Condition of the mining industry.................................................................. 56 Nespelem (Moses) district............................................. ............................... 58 Production and mining conditions. ................................. 59...Metalliferous deposits Continued. Nespelem (Moses) district Continued. Mines and prospects Continued. Replacement
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Ural Mts., USSR Hagendoff-Siid, Germany Dan Patch, South Dakota Connecticut localities Crystal Mt. field...Mexico Hugo, South Dakota Mongolian Altai #3 Etta, South Dakota White Picacho district Arizona Manono...Viitaniemi, Finland Malakialina, Madagascar Peerless, South Dakota Finnis River, Australia Li (Sn, Be, Ta~ Nb...Brown Derby, Colorado Pidlite, New Mexico Himalaya district, Calitbrnia Khukh-Del-Ula, Mongolia Wodgina, Australia...work with: they typically have very low zircon content; zircon is commonly U-, Th-enriched and extensively
 
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