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Whitlockite from
White Elephant Mine, Cicero Peak, Pringle, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Whitlockite
Formula:Ca9Mg(PO4)6(PO3OH)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Whitlockite data
Locality Data:Click here to view White Elephant Mine, Cicero Peak, Pringle, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:210777
Long-form Identifier:1:3:210777:6
GUID (UUID V4):1db872fd-5d91-4114-8c6f-e23c2a037e11
Nearest other occurrences of Whitlockite
9.6km (6.0 miles) Tip Top Mine, Fourmile, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
9.9km (6.1 miles) Bull Moose 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 (issue)
affiliated with the Friends of Mineralogy John S. White, Jr. Division o f M ineralogy The Sm ithsonian Institution...Mineralogist departments circulation manager Mary Lynn White design & composition Bowie Graphic A rt Services...keeping them at hand for ready reference. John S. White Jr. paLa properues iNTerNanoNaL. in c . Edward...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
Report (issue)
1(2)◦ X-ray Powder Pattern: Palermo #1 mine, New Hampshire, USA. 3.05 (10), 2.73 (9), 3.22 (8), 3.48 (7)...74 0.78 [100.0] 100.00 (1) Palermo #1 mine, New Hampshire, USA; corresponds to (Ca3.28 Mn0.47 Mg0.17...complex zoned granite Association: Apatite, whitlockite, childrenite–eosphorite, laueite, strunzite,...amblygonite, siderite. Distribution: In the USA, from the Palermo #1 mine, near North Groton, Grafton Co., New...Linwood, and White Elephant mines, near Custer, Custer Co., South Dakota; at the Champion mine, White Mountains
Report (issue)
Optical Properties: Translucent. Color: White, pale greenish white, greenish gray, pink. Luster: Vitreous...Powder Pattern: Kings Mountain, North Carolina, USA. 6.36 (10), 3.17 (10), 3.02 (9), 2.67 (4), 3.58 (3)...00 (1) Palermo #1 mine, New Hampshire, USA. (2) Kings Mountain, North Carolina, USA. (3) Ca2 (Fe, Mn)(PO4...anapaite, vivianite, ludlamite, siderite, goyazite, whitlockite, herderite, amblygonite, eosphorite, brazilianite...Salsigne mine, 15 km north of Carcassone, Aude, France. From Kustanai, Kazakhstan. In the USA, at the
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)
specimensare from the Tip Top pegmatite, near Custer, South Dakota. Jahnsite, caMn2+Mgr(Hro)aFe3+z(oH)rlPC)oln...Top pegmatite,near the village of Custer, in Custer County, South Dakota, although other localities have...accesorycore mineral arrd was exposedduring the course of mining activity. These crude giant crystals of triphylite...collinsite, Ca2(Mg, Fe") (H2O)s[POe]2,as colorlessto white radiating sprays,lath-like crystals,and flattened...Cad(OH)[PO+]s, as rounded colorlesshexagonalprisms; whitlockite, ca Ca6Mg[PO+]e,as colorlesssimple rhombohedra;
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,...burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime". The white pigment of many ancient painters consisted of ground...brecciated metamorphosed rock phosphate at Moculta, South Australia Optical constants: Not certain; low birefringence
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121 (Syn.), M l Boracite, see Iron-boracite Boulby mine, Loftus, Saltburn, Yorkshire, iron-boracite, 404...relation to talc and stevensite, 443 Broken Hill, New South Wales, plagioclase, 469; gneiss, M2o BROWN (G. M...ALPHABETICAL Carter's mine, Madison County, North Carolina, kerolite, 443 Cassiar mine, British Columbia...lower quartzofeldspathic gneiss at Broken Hill, New South Wales, M2o; and see PItILLIPS (E. R.), 469 CHISHOLM...Mendips, crystal structure, 357 Christmas mine, Gila County, Arizona, ruizJte, 429 Chrome-picotite, New
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 (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
Book
On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN Famous mineral...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 (edition)
mostly of large specimens, as well as 104 black-and-white photographs 45 new crystal drawings of rare species...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
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mostly of large specimens, as well as 104 black-and-white photographs • 45 new crystal drawings of rare species...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
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
Book (edition)
Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43... with all The color of most opaque minerals is white or gray in possible intermediate gradations. Luster...abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture), dept...dept. (departement), dept. (departamento), dist. (district). Less common terms are not abbreviated, e.g....always included in text, except in the cases of the USA, UK, and the provinces Ontario and Quebec in Canada
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England Thomas Nelson Australia 102 Dodds Street South Melbourne 3205 Victoria, Australia Nelson Canada...Enterprises, PO Box 213, Livermore, California, 94551, USA. Because of space limitations, only a subset of the...Hidden Valley Road, Kingsport, Tennessee, 37663, USA. The authors appreciate the advice and kind assistance...City, Nevada, USA; Peter Embrey, London, England; Jessie Hardman, Long Beach, California, USA; and Barbara...Barbara Nichols, Livermore, California, USA. All of these colleagues made helpful comments and substantive
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
Report (issue)
\ \I Cover: The De Wet Shaft, Tsumeb mine (photograph by Dr Gabi Schneider, Geological Survey of Namibia)...from the Tsumeb deposit (Namibia) and the Clara mine, Schwarzwald (Germany). At Tsumeb, the phase occurs...zone along 30 Level. The material from the Clara mine is a sulphate-rich variety. 13 --, Type mineralogy...has also recently been described from the Clara mine, Schwarzwald, Germany (Walenta, 1990). The phase...described by Rouse et al. ( 1988) from the Kombat mine. Asisite occurs as transparent yellow to yellow-green
Book (volume)
Lavrion, Greece (6) and Cu-poor adamite from Ojuela mine, Mexico (7) IR spectra of acid salts (silicates...abbreviations are used in this chapter: Mt. mountain Co. county IR infrared D density Dmeas measured density Dcalc...Locality: Boron Open Pit, Boron, Kern Co., California, USA. Description: Colourless crystal from the association...Kerch peninsula, Crimea, Ukraine. Description: White soft concretion. Specimen No. 37869 from the Fersman...Mn2+BO2(OH) Locality: Franklin, Sussex Co., New Jersey, USA (type locality). Description: Pink massive aggregate
Book (edition)
Smithsonian Inst., Washington, D.C. Alan Pring: South Australian Museum, Adelaide, SA, Australia. Gunnar...University of Arizona, Tuscon, Arizona. John S. White: Stewartstown, Pennsylvania. Hans J. Wilke: Eppertshausen/Hessen... except where noted. Labels on the axes have a white background, and when axes point toward the observer...ranges. The indices are to be assumed as being for white light, unless a reference is made to a specific...10. India 11. South east Asia 12. Middle East 13. African Countries, from north to south 14. Oceania 15
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Aus1rnlia. Thomas Nelson Aus1r.1lia. 102 Dodds S1rce1. South Mdbournc. Vic1oria 3205. Auslr.ilia Chapman & Hall...File, 1601 Park Lane. Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, USA. Introduction This volume is the third edition...Green River Formation in (TL) Uintah Co .. Utah. USA. Named for P.H. Abelson. 20.7.3 AbernalhJile. K(U00As0...26 A. Z=4 [PDF 1 6-386]. (TL) Temple Mts. Utah. USA. Named for J . Abernathy. Abhurite. S n 30(0HhCl...954) Mining Rev. S. Austral. Dept. Mines no. 9 (for 1 952). p. 99. From (TL) Crackers Well. South Australia
Report (volume)
I M.E. Tech. Pub.; Trans -American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers Techmcal Publications;...Rock, Ark Ark Geol. Survey County Mmeral Rpt.-Arkansas Geological Survey County Mmeral Report Little Rock...Bethlehem, Pa. Los Angeles County Mus Sci Ser, Paleontology; Quart.-Los Angeles County Museum Science Series...Survey Bull.; Ground-water Stud1es; Rpt Inv-North Dakota Geological Survey Bulletm, Ground-water Studies;...Forks, N. Dak N.Dak. Research Found. Bull-North Dakota Research FoundatiOn Bulletm Bismarck, N. Dak Northwest
 
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