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Muscovite from
Pennington County, South Dakota, USA


Locality type:County
Classification
Species:Muscovite
Formula:KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Elbaite18 photos of Muscovite associated with Elbaite at this locality.
Quartzⓘ11 photos of Muscovite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Andalusite9 photos of Muscovite associated with Andalusite at this locality.
Columbite-Tantalite6 photos of Muscovite associated with Columbite-Tantalite at this locality.
Sillimanite6 photos of Muscovite associated with Sillimanite at this locality.
Rutile4 photos of Muscovite associated with Rutile at this locality.
Tourmaline4 photos of Muscovite associated with Tourmaline at this locality.
Albite4 photos of Muscovite associated with Albite at this locality.
Biotite4 photos of Muscovite associated with Biotite at this locality.
Sinkankasite3 photos of Muscovite associated with Sinkankasite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Muscovite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:996647
Long-form Identifier:1:3:996647:5
GUID (UUID V4):99d129d5-0b58-4d1c-8b81-a57a1ca2bbf4
Localities for Muscovite in this Region
Everly Mine (Riverton lode), Harney City, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
Wood Tin mine, Harney City, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
Hill City Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
Annie No. 1 Lode (Tin Spike), Hill City Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
Black Metal Group, Hill City Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
Blue Bird claim, Hill City Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
Canfield Lode Occurrence (High Lode), Hill City Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
Cassiterite Tin Prospect, Hill City Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
Clara Belle (Forest City; Golden Arrow), Hill City Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
Cowboy Tin Mine, Hill City Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
Dyke claim (Dike lode), Hill City Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
Excelsior Lode, Hill City Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
General Harney (Golden Slipper Tin; Tin Boom No. 1 and No. 2; Tin Spike No. 1), Hill City Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
Gertie mine, Hill City Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
Good Luck; Success; Cleveland Claims (American Tungsten Mining Company), Hill City Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
Ida Occurrence (Ida Tin), Hill City Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
Martha Washington Occurrence (C. H. Kammon), Hill City Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
Mateen Mine (Mattine Mine; Century Lode Claim; Nevada No. 2 Mine), Hill City Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
McKinnon and Miller's Claim, Hill City Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
Michigan Placer Ground, Hill City Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
Mohawk Mine, Hill City Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
Monkey Lode, Hill City Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
Olympia Tin Prospect, Hill City Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
Reinbold Claim (Tungsten No. 1-3 Claims), Hill City Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
Sally Cavanaugh Occurrence, Hill City Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
Tin Chance and Tin Chance No. 1 Occurrence, Hill City Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
Tin Queen Mine (White Blowout Mine), Hill City Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
Tungsten Lode, Hill City Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
Vida May Occurrence (Pettit and Nash), Hill City Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
White Swan (Hayes' Claim), Hill City Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
Wolfram Lode Occurrence, Hill City Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
Keystone Gold Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
Cobalt lode (Margaret Tin Mine), Keystone Gold Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
Holy Terror Mine, Keystone Gold Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
Legal Tender Group, Keystone Gold Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
Big Smoke, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
Dike Lode, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
Expectation Pegmatite, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
Gilt Edge Mica Mine, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
Big Chief Mine, Glendale, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
Eureka dike, Glendale, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
Soda Spar Pegmatite, Glendale, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
Hardesty Homestead Mine, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
Barker-Ferguson Mine, Keystone, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
Bob Ingersoll Mine, Keystone, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
Champion Mine, Keystone, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
Dan Patch Mine, Keystone, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
Dan Patch West Mine, Keystone, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
Diamond Mica Mine, Keystone, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
Edison Mine, Keystone, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
Etta Mine, Keystone, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
King Lithia Mine, Greyhound Gulch, Keystone, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
Hugo Mine, Keystone, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
Nickel Plate Mine, Keystone, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
Peerless Mine, Keystone, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
Sitting Bull pegmatite, Keystone, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
White Cap Mine, Keystone, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
Monte Carlo Prospect, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
Pink Elephant Beryl prospect, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
Ponca Group, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
U.S. highways 16/385 & State route 87 intersection area, Oreville Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
Marble, Rockerville, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
Silver City Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
Summit Peak, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
Black Diamond Pennington County Occurrence, Unorganized mining district [5], Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
Gap Lode Pegmatite, Unorganized mining district [5], Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
New England Prospect, Unorganized mining district [5], Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
Upper Spring Creek quarry, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
References
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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...1994). the number of mines worked tor bery 1. muscovite, col ti mhite-tantalite. ambl ygonite, spodumene...to be made. The most complete mineralogy of South Dakota and the Black Hills is found in Roberts and...965). Some uncited mineral species are from the South Dakota School of Mines Museum of Geology. Noteworthy
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...the recently added South Dakota room in the Museum of Geology at the South Dakota School of Mines and...Thomas Campbell is a graduate student at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. His major in­
Report (volume)
Geology of the Hill City Quadrangle Pennington County South Dakota A Preliminary Report GEOLOGICAL SURVEY... Geology of the Hill City Quadrangle Pennington County South Dakota A Preliminary Report By JAMES C. RATTE...and pegmatites in the central Black Hills of South Dakota UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON...GEOLOGY OF THE HILL CITY QUADRANGLE PENNINGTON COUNTY, SOUTH DAKOTA A PRELIMINARY REPORT By JAMES C. RATTE...City quadrangle, in the central Black Hills, South Dakota, is underlain by Precambrian phyllites and schist
Report (issue)
Iron-Formation of the Blue Lead Mountain Area, Pennington County, South Dakota Anomalous Concentrations of Several...Iron-Formation of the Blue Lead Mountain Area, Pennington County, South Dakota By William H. Raymond, Robert U. King...Iron-Formation of the Blue Lead Mountain Area, Pennington County, South Dakota By William H. Raymond, Robert U. King...Homestake mine - in the Black Hills of western South Dakota. The area surrounding the village of Keystone...portion at Sheridan Lake and for 2 miles (3 km) south of it is either in a recreational area closed to
Report (issue)
Pegmatite Investigations 1942-1945 Black Hills, South Dakota By LINCOLN R. PAGE and OTHERS GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...Custer Mountain (Skookum) feldspar mine._______ 97 Dakota Feldspar mine_________--____._---______ 98 Dalmon...Ouster County, South Dakota. Detailed map, plans, and sections, Ann mica mine, Ouster County, South Dakota...sections Beecher Lode pegmatite, Ouster County, South Dakota. Geologic map and sections, Beecher No....Ouster County, South Dakota. Geologic map of the Bob Ingersoll mine, Keystone, Pennington County, South
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
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...Bear pegmatite. Index map, southern Black Hills, South Dakota_____-______-_-_____--------------_--------_----------Insets...Production of pegmatite minerals, Black Hills, South Dakota, 1945-58----_---_---__-.---------------------296...content of the albite-quartz-beryl wall zone of the south segment, Dan Patch West pegmatite.. _ _ 312 Modes
Report (issue)
Deposits of the Peerless Pegmatite Pennington County South Dakota GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER...Deposits of the Peerless Pegmatite Pennington County South Dakota By DOUGLAS M. SHERllDAN, HAL G. STEPHENS...____________________________ Quartz-plagioclase-muscovite pegmatite, undifferentiated _________________...schist containing staurolite partially changed to muscovite, chlorite (ripidolite), quartz, and biotite. B...which staurolite has been completely replaced by muscovite, quartz, and biotite. C and D, Tourmalinized schist
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Washington, DC 20013 pohwatp@si.edu Muscovite Shannon Canyon, Inyo County, California R ocks are made up...particular fondness for muscovite. The texture and earth-tone color of muscovite crystals seem to be a...from the old Russian province of Muscovy, where muscovite was used as window glass. In the late eighteenth...to more than 11.0 weight percent (Fleet 2003). Muscovite is one of many phyllosilicates, which are also...phyllosilicates—exemplified by the mica group, of which muscovite is one of the more recognizable members—is due
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Peerlesspegmatite' Wodginite PenningtonCountY,South Dakota P. eeRNf '"'*'wi::{;'il},fii#f ,'ty#:;'xl,"ty;nitoba...Geology Department South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Rapid City, South Dakota 57701 T. S. Encn...the Peerlesspegmatite,near Keystone, Pennington County, South Dakota. It is associatedwith cassiteritecontaining...Keystone, Pennington of anhydrous Li-aluminosilicates(cf. Burt and Londonn County, South Dakota is one of...According this pegmatite: plagioclase, qvafiz, muscovite varieties, to Sheridan et al. (1957),the pegmatite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(Headden, 1891) from the Nickel Plate mine, Pennington County, S. Dak. Direct comparison of the two had...outside, was found to contain small books of muscovite, granular quartz, graftonite, and cassiterite...pegmatite, South Dakota. Harvard No. 523; optics by Lindberg. Arrojadite, Nickel Plate mine, South Dakota. Irarvard...The arrojadite from the Nickel Plate mine, Pennington County, S. Dak. represents the purq analyzed sample...96111 Arrojadite Nickel Plate mine, Pennington County, South Dakota; Harvard 543 Pure Varulite Skrumpetorp
Book (edition)
the con dition of affairs, more especially in the South and in the States and Ter ritories of the far West...mmed at Broken Arrow aud Trout creek, in Sc. Clair county. The strata in this field are more faulted und...extends from the south prong of Canoe creek, in St. Clair county, to Ha\sop creek, in Bibb county, a distance...distance of 60 miles. Down to Helena, in Shelby county, the field has an average width of 5 or 6 miles. Below...being in the latitud" of Blocton, in Bibb county. The south ern end of this field has a greater thickness
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
metamorphic rocks in the southern Black Hills, South Dakota JnvrnsJ. Nonrox* Branch of Central Mineral Resources...Center, Denver, Colorado 80225, U.S.A., and South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Department of...Geology and Geological Engineering, Rapid City, South Dakota 57701,U.S.A. Ansrnlcr The pegmatite field and...Black Hills, South Dakota, form an igneous system that progrcssesfrom slightly biotitic muscovite granite...rare-mineral pegmatitesbecome more abundant and muscovite pegmatitesless abundant toward the outskirts of
Book
ancient workings of turquois were located on the south slopes of the Ali-Mirsa-Kuh mountains near Nishapur...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...Custer-Pringle area, Custer County, and at the Etta mine, Pennington County, South Dakota. Also found in pegmatite...in the Black Hills, South Dakota, especially at the Beecher Lode, Custer County, as masses up to 200
Report (volume)
........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......... Brown, Providence. South Carolina.. .Dr. Earle Sloan, Charleston. South Dakota... .Prof. E. C. Perisho...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Victory mine near Custer, South Dakota with quartz, albite, muscovite, black tourmaline and triphylite...dickinsonite occurs sparingly at Branchville, Fairfield county, Connecticut. FAIRFIELDITE, a hydrous phosphate...noted as a rare mineral at Branchville, Fairfield county, Connecticut from which it was named; and also...lithiophilite at the Stewart mine, Pala, San Diego county, California. STEWARTITE, another hydrous manganese...Etta mine near Keystone and from Hill City, South Dakota; at Pala and RincĂłn, California. A heterosite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
piecescontainedmicroscopicimpurities, of which muscovite, quartz, Iazulite and goethite were identified...been reported from only two localities, both in South Dakota. It was first describedas triplite by L. G....from the Riverton tin lode near Harney City, Pennington County, S. D. Headden says "It occurs in the granite...Headden's granite is undoubtedly one of the South Dakota tin-bearing pegmatitesdescribedby F. L. Hess... 1.70 1 .65 w !v I .48 \l' (M)-Griphite,South Dakota dI 3.39 1 s.264 + 3.066 297 2.884 2.743
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
22234232 0 Fwgunon klLmmh Lta. 1987. Printed in USA. + .a3 LElTER Mineral recorders of pegmatite internal...contents of tourmaline from the Rob Ingersoll petite, South T)akota B.L. JOLLIFFand J. J. PAPIKE Institute...Institute for the Study of Mineral Deposits, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD 55701-3995...gmnitic pegmatite, located in the Black Hii South Dakota. The total REE concentrations range f?om 40...located 3.2 km northwest of Keystone, in Pennington County, South Dakota. Tourmaline occurs in five of the six
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
GEOLOGY OF THE ETTA SPODUMENE BLACK HILLS, SOUTH DAKOTA. G. M. MINE, SCHWARTZ. INTRODUCTION. THE..."The Discovery of Tin-stone in the Black Hills of Dakota," l•ng. and Min. Your., vol. 36, pp. x45-6 and...and •63-4, •883; "Tin Ore in the Black Hills of Dakota," Min. Res. ole the United States, x883-4, pp. 6o2-6•3..."Mineral Resources of South Dakota," Dakota Geol. Survey Bull. 3, •9o2. Also South Dakota School of Mines Bull...milesouthof thevillageof Keystone, Pennington County,South Dakota,at an elevationof 4,500 feet abovesealevel
Report (volume)
........................................ North Dakota........................................................ South Carolina......................................:.................... South Dakota..........Arkansas, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Texas; to list all the literature...Catalogue of the mineral localities of South Carolina: South Carolina Geol. Survey, ser. 4, Bull. 2,...1908. Scott, Samuel, Map of the Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming, with full descriptions of mineral
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the easternmost Wyoming Craton (Black Hills, South Dakota) PETER S. DAHL,1,* MICHAEL P. TERRY,2 MICHAEL...the easternmost Wyoming craton (Black Hills, South Dakota) has been analyzed by microstructural methods...~1480 Ma obtained for separates of D3 matrix muscovite and biotite, respectively, which are interpreted...Paleoproterozoic rocks from the Black Hills, South Dakota (Fig. 1), and then compared these data at various...Geologic map of the Black Hills crystalline core, South Dakota, showing distribution of Neoarchean basement
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
genesis: Tin Mountain pegmatite, Black Hills, South Dakota Richard J. Walker* i, Gilbert N. Hanson 1 and...Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA z Institute for the Study of Mineral Deposits, South Dakota School of Mines and...and Technology, Rapid City, SD 67701, USA Abstract. The Tin Mountain pegmatite is a small, zoned granitic...National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA Offprint requests to: R.J. Walker tions and the...Tin Mountain pegmatite in the Black Hills of South Dakota. This body is ideal for a petrogenetic evaluation
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
spodumene from the Etta mine in the Black Hills of South Dakota and a 6.1-meter (20-foot) microcline from Maine—tourmaline...in the Kinkel quarry near Bedford, Westchester County, New York. One fragmented group consisting of thirty-two...(1911) and Hamlin (1895), respectively. Further south, Figure 2. The Weidhass-Manchester reconstructed...was found in a mica mine near Micaville, Randolph County, Alabama (Van Horn 1926). Even larger crystals...the Cochran mica mine near Ball Ground, Cherokee County, Georgia. Many of these crystals, locally referred
 
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