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Cummingtonite from
Homestake Mine, Lead, Lead Mining District, Lawrence County, South Dakota, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Cummingtonite
Formula:◻{Mg2}{Mg5}(Si8O22)(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Chlorite Group2 photos of Cummingtonite associated with Chlorite Group at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Cummingtonite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Homestake Mine, Lead, Lead Mining District, Lawrence County, South Dakota, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (5 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:68610
Long-form Identifier:1:3:68610:1
GUID (UUID V4):7e7d6a63-ccfe-4a66-9496-1c23bae040a9
Nearest other occurrences of Cummingtonite
21.9km (13.6 miles) Montana Mine, Rochford Mining District, Lawrence County, South Dakota, USA
25.0km (15.5 miles) Montezuma Mine (Montezuma Nos. 3 to 7; Red Jim; New Montezuma), Rochford Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
25.7km (16.0 miles) Gold King Mine (Gordelia Mine), Rochford Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
26.1km (16.2 miles) Mary Belle Mine, Rochford Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
26.6km (16.5 miles) Standby mine, Rochford Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
28.7km (17.9 miles) King of the West (North Star), Rochford Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
30.5km (19.0 miles) Golden West Mine (Benedict Property), Rochford Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
31.4km (19.5 miles) Black Eagle Mine (Blair Group), Rochford Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
69.0km (42.9 miles) Newark Group, Unorganized mining district [1], Custer County, South Dakota, USA
References
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Report (issue)
SURVEY CIRCULAR 699 Gold in the Black Hills, South Dakota, and How New Deposits Might Be Found CONTENTS...gold deposits ............................. . Homestake deposit ............................ . Other deposits...areas ........................... . Area north of Lead ............................ . Portland and Ruby...and geologic map of the Black Hills of western South Dakota and adjacent parts of Wyoming ....................... . m 3 Gold in the Black Hills, South Dakota, and How New Deposits Might Be Found By James
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
SEDIMENTARY ROC METAMORPHIG ZONES IN THOSE ROCKS IN THE LEAD D trusive bodies (including sills in the Ca Fro:om...THE NORTHERN BLACK HILLS AND THE HOMESTAKE MINE, LEAD, SOUTH DAKOTA BY JAMES A. NOBLE AND JAMES O. HARDER...Sedimentary rocks Metamorphic zoning Poorman formation Homestake formation Ellison formation Northwestern formation...the Lead district 941 2. Photomicrographs of typical sections of metamorphic rocks from the Lead district...of the Lead district 975 941 942 NOBLE AND HARDER—STRATIGRAPHY AND METAMORPHISM, SOUTH DAKOTA ABSTRACT
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ECONOMIC GEOLOGISTS MAy, 1974 No. 3 HomestakeGold Mine, SouthDakota: I. StableIsotopeStudies DANNY M...RYE * Abstract The Homestakegold mine is the largest producinggold mine in North America. The ore occursas...highly chloritized regions of sideropl.esite or cummingtonite schist. The 8a4Svalues of pyrrhotite and arseno...sedimentarysulfidesindicatethat most of the sul.fur in the Homestake mine was ultima.tely derived from sea-water sulfate...and Wright (1923) Tri•. Homestakegold mine, at Lead, South Dakota, suggestedthat all mineralizationwas
Report (issue)
Hpmestake Gold Mine, An Early Proterozoic lron-F<;,>rmation-Hosted Gold Deposit, Lawrepce County, South Dakota...SALT LAKE CITY, Utah-Federal Bldg., Rm. 8105, 125 South State St. • SAN FRANCISCO, California-Customhouse...The Homestake Gold Mine : an early Proterozoic iron-formation-hosted gold deposit, Lawrence County, South...South Dakota I by Stanton W. Caddey ... [et al.]. p. em. (Geology and resources of gold in the United...I 19.3:1857-J 1. Gold ores-South Dakota-Lawrence County. 2. Homestake Mine (S.D.) 3. Geology, Stratigraphic-Proterozoic
Report (volume)
GEOLOGY OF THE REGION AROUND LEAD SOUTH DAKOTA \ AND ITS BEARING ON THE HOMESTAKE ORE BODY BY SIDNEY PAIGE...________ Chemical analyses of rocks, minerals, and mine water_____ Structure______________ ________________...features _____ ___ _________ Structure shown on mine levels_____________!__ Mineralization__________...gold ores in Cambrian dolomites and ore of the Homestake lode______ ___ Fossil placer deposits in Cambrian... ILLUSTRATIONS PLATE I. Geologic map of the vicinity of Lead, S. Dak.__ _____________ II. A, Carbonate ore from
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
NOTES AND NEWS ..CASTELLATED DOLOMITES" FROM MAJOR COUNTY, OKLAHOMA C. A. MBnn:rr, (./niztersityof Oktahoma...occuring in Sec' 27,T.24 N., R. 8 W', in Garfield County' 120,1928' 1Evans,O.E.,Oklahoma of Scinnce,p' Acad'emy...in the Permian of Oklahoma. CUMMINGTONITE FROM THE BLACK HILLS, SOUTH DAKOTA Russnrr G. Wavr..q.Nn,University...furnonucrroN The mineral cummingtonite occurs abundantly in the Homestake mine, Lead, South Dakota, and likewise...near Rochford, twenty miles southwest of Lead. The cummingtonite is developed in iron-magnesium carbonate
Journal (issue)
November 2019 $6.00 The Homestake Mine Lead, Lawrence Co., South Dakota Tony Nikischcr Excalibur Mineral...than forty (40) minerals are known from this famous mine. gold was the product that kept the property in...operation for more than 125 years. Specimens of Homestake gold are uncommon in mineral collections, and...across. Much of the Homestake ore was similar. sometimes disseminated in cummingtonite (see figure I). and...Despite this. at the time of its closing in 200 I, the mine had produced nearly 40 million troy ounces of gold
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...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...and fewer chances to obtain any. However, some mining, mineral exploration, and mineral collecting continues
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
METAMORPHISM TION OF AND THE HYDROTHERMAL HOMESTAKE FORMATION. ALTERA- GOLD-BEARING • J. K. GUSTAFSON........................................ • 27 Homestake • 28 formation ........................................................... Formation of cummingtonite ................................ Formation of...INTRODUCTION. T•xE gold ore bodiesof the famous Homestake mine at Lead, SouthDakota,are confined to onerelativelythin...Statementof ProbIem.--This investigationof the Homestake formationwas undertakenprimarily to distinguishthe
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
IC A AMPHIBOLITES OF TH E LEAD AREA, NORTHERN BLACK HILLS, SOUTH DAKOTA BY THEODORE A. DODGE CONTENTS...582 ILLUSTRATIONS Figure Page 1. Sketch -map, Lead to Rochford....................................... Map showing distribution of amphibolitesof the Lead area................................... 568 Plate...AMPHIBOLITES OF LEAD AREA, SOUTH DAKOTA ABSTRACT In the complex pre-Cambrian terrane of the Lead area of the...the northern Black Hills of western South Dakota is a group of amphibolites parallel to the structure
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in the Permian of Oklahoma. CUMMINGTONITE FROM THE BLACK HILLS, SOUTH DAKOTA Russnrr G. Wavr..q.Nn,University...furnonucrroN The mineral cummingtonite occurs abundantly in the Homestake mine, Lead, South Dakota, and likewise...near Rochford, twenty miles southwest of Lead. The cummingtonite is developed in iron-magnesium carbonate...geological department of the llomestake Mining Company has shown cummingtonite to be developed only locally and...this, an alternative hypothesis is that the cummingtonite was formed by the action of hot silica-bearing
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 (article/letter/editorial)
Pyrrhotite, and Marcasite at the Homestake BIF-Hosted Gold Deposit, South Dakota, USA: Insights on Au-As Ore Genesis...Abstract The Paleoproterozoic Homestake deposit, northern Black Hills, South Dakota, is the largest banded ironformation...synsedimentary to early diagenetic sulfides at Homestake and surrounding area indicates that the Au in...that the volume of upper Poorman Formation in the mine area (approx. 12 km3) could potentially yield ~4...suggest that a significant portion of the gold at Homestake may have been sourced from the relatively thick
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
GEOLOGY APRIL-MAY, OF THE SIDNEY 1923. HOMESTAKE No. 3 MINE. • PAIGE. •NTRODUCT•ON. MY interest...nature and origin of the Homestakeore body of South Dakota, while naturally latent at the inceptionof my...acutewhen structuralstudiesin the vicinity of the mine suggested that the depositwas unusualand actuallyvery...publisheddescriptionsof it.2 An added glamour is attachedto the mine,perhaps,because strict censorship had prevailed...earnestsolicitation, in I9:•2, to a brief examinationof the mine workings,to be limited to threedays,was regardedas
Report (issue)
(Mg; Fe2+ )2 (Mg; Fe2+ )5 Si8 O22 (OH)2 Cummingtonite c 2001 ° Mineral Data Publishing, version 1.2...Orfordville Formation, Mt. Cube quadrangle, Vermont, USA; by electron microprobe, corresponds to (Mg3:77 Fe2+...Polymorphism & Series: Forms a series with magnesio-cummingtonite and grunerite. Mineral Group: Amphibole (Fe{Mn{Mg)...from: in the USA, at Cummington, Hampshire Co., Massachusetts; the Homestake mine, Lead, Pennington Co...Co., South Dakota; in the Jackson County Iron Formation, Wisconsin. In the Wabush Iron Formation, Labrador
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)
secretary-treasurer of the Yavapai Council, Arizona Small Mine Operators, collects rare rocks as a hobby. Some..."Three specimens from the Governor Mine (old New York Mine), a gold mine in the Mint Canyon area, West San...Pacific R. R. "One of the largest producers in the county, it has yielded over 2 million dollars worth of...about 1880; now idle. Name was changed to Governor Mine when the property was acquired by Gov. Gage of California...California. "The principal rock of the district is granodiorite. The vein is a quartz-filled fissure
Report (issue)
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah-Federal Bldg., Rm. 8105,125 South State St. SAN FRANCISCO, California-Customhouse...Terranes Part I Geographic Distribution of Gold Mining Regions and Types of Deposits in the United States...Exploration Guides for Gold Deposits, Black Hills, South Dakota By JACK A. REDDEN and GREGORY McN. FRENCH U...bibliographies. Contents: Geographic distribution of gold mining regions and types of deposits in the United States...Black Hills, South Dakota / by Jack A. Redden and Gregory McN. French. 1. Gold mines and mining United States
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
STRUCTURE OF T H E NORTHERN BLACK H IL L S, SOUTH DAKOTA, A N D IT S BEARING ON TH E ORIGIN OF T H E...this paper to suggest the hypothesis that the Homestake ore body is in the main a replacement deposit...nearly north, on the extreme western edge of South Dakota. Phvsiographicallv this mountainous tract is...about north 20° to 30° west through the town of Lead, and which, though its precise location is with...quartzite of this series turns or apexes on the south side of Sawpit Gulch about one-half mile west of
Report (volume)
and Gold Deposits of the Rochford District, Black Hills, South Dakota GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1332-A...and Gold Deposits of the Rochford District, Black Hills, South Dakota By RICHARD W. BAYLEY CONTRIBUTIONS...structure on the gold deposits of the Rochford district UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON...Distribution Branch, U.S. Geological Survey, 604 South Pickett Street, Alexandria, VA 22304 CONTENTS.......................................... Montana Mine and Rochford Formations.-......- ..............
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and mineralization to the unique Homestake depositsof South Dakota as describedby Noble et al. (1, 2...probably grunerite and hornblendewith some cummingtonite. The gold-bearingsectionsoccuras irregular replacementlensesof...metamorphiczoning very similar to that describedfor the Lead District of SouthDakotawith the development of a biotitezone...metamorphismin a part of the Black Hills and Homestake mine, Lead, South Dakota: p. 941-976. Geol. Soc. America...part of the Northern Black Hills and Homestake mine, Lead, South Dakota: Bull. 60, p. 321-352. Geol. Soc
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
SOME ROCKS AND MINERALS THE HOMESTAKE MINE, LEAD, SOUTH No. 8 FROM DAKOTA. W. J. S•IAUW00U. The generalgeologyof...generalgeologyof the mining regionof the Northern BlackHills of SouthDakota,andparticularlythat of the...indebtedto Mr. T. J. Grier, superintendent of the Homestake Mine. TheHomestake ore-body, asiswellknown, constitutes...Irving and Emmonsas occurringin and about the Homestake,are readily distinguished. The rhyolite porphyry...or felsite, is compactand nearly white, near the mine it usuallyshowsbut little evidenceof crystallization
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA ABSTRACT Thirty-one sets of data containing lengths...particles in a mixed dust environment, especially mining. If we are to understand the outcomes of occupational...nonmalignant lung fibrosis (asbestosis). Although mining of asbestos has ceased in most places in the world...(2008) reviewed environmental mesotheliomas in South Africa and concluded that crocidolite is far more...amosite or crocidolite from the Transvaal region of South Africa. Timbrell (1983) argued that the smaller
Report (issue)
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah-Federal Bldg., Rm. 8105,125 South State St. SAN FRANCISCO, California-Customhouse...Part I Bald Mountain Gold Mining Region, Northern Black Hills, South Dakota By JAMES J. NORTON Gold Deposits...Park City Mining District, Utah By CALVIN S. B ROM FIELD Gold in the Eureka Mining District, Nevada By...and THOMAS B. NOLAN Gold in the Central City Mining District, Colorado By ALAN R. WALLACE U.S. GEOLOGICAL...pt. 1. Bald Mountain gold mining region, northern Black Hills, South Dakota / by James J. Norton. Gold
 
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