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Azurite from
Etta Mine, Keystone, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Azurite
Formula:Cu3(CO3)2(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Azurite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Etta Mine, Keystone, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:172889
Long-form Identifier:1:3:172889:7
GUID (UUID V4):b81518ce-d025-464c-b74c-b5a5989bacd1
Nearest other occurrences of Azurite
1.1km (0.7 miles) White Cap Mine, Keystone, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
1.1km (0.7 miles) Peerless Mine, Keystone, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
8.6km (5.4 miles) Dakota Calumet Mine (Continental Copper Company Mine), Blue Lead Mine (Mahoney Bluelead Mine), Sheridan, Hill City Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
10.0km (6.2 miles) Blue Lead Mine (Mahoney Bluelead Mine), Sheridan, Hill City Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
22.4km (13.9 miles) Poisoned Ox Group (Uranium Lode; Copper Glance), Pactola Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
28.4km (17.6 miles) Tin Mountain Mine, Fourmile, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
39.6km (24.6 miles) Bee Mine (Climax; Solnar; Copper Reef Nos. 1 and 2; Black Hills Copper Company), Rochford Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
43.0km (26.7 miles) Jungle Mine (Custer Peak Copper Mine), Roubaix, Galena Mining District, Lawrence County, South Dakota, USA
48.2km (29.9 miles) Roubaix, Galena Mining District, Lawrence County, South Dakota, USA
58.0km (36.0 miles) Ross Hannibal Mine (North Star Mine; Hannibal Mine; and Mikado Mine), Lead Mining District, Lawrence 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
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)
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)
Bernardino County, California and also in pegmatites north of the Reagan mining district, Nevada. FLUORIDES...earth type of pegmatite as at Barringer Hill, Llano County, Texas where large masses weighing up to four hundred...mineral at St. Peter's Dome near Pike's Peak, El Paso County, Colorado. CRYOLITE, a fluoride of sodium and aluminum...August 2017 Smith Mine, Newport, New Hampshire. Calcite occurs elsewhere at the Harding Mine, New Mexico....Section Hill in the Eight Mile Park area of Fremont County, Colorado. DOLOMITE, calcium, magnesium carbonate
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MINERALS FROM THE ETTA MINE KEYSTONE, SOUTH DAKOTA By ARTHUR SMITH JR. The purpose of this article is...brief descriptions of the minerals occurring in the Etta pegmatite. Much of the information has been compiled...of Rapid City. The Etta mine is located 1 mile south of Keystone. To reach the mine take Alternate Route...the railroad crossing in Keystone. Follow this road past the road to the Keystone Cemetery. At about 0.6...makes a Y ; the dumps of the Etta mine are directly ahead. To reach the mine follow the road to the right
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Museum of Geology South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Rapid City, South Dakota 57701 Downloaded...unless otherwise noted. Minerals of the ETTA PE THE ETTA PEGMATITE IS BEST KNOWN for having produced...poured in the United States came from Etta cassiterite. The Etta is the type locality of the nowdiscredited...Location The Etta pegmatite is located in the NW !A, NE Yi, of section 16, T2S, R6E, 1 mile south of the town...town of Keystone, South Dakota. It is 2 miles due east of Mount Rushmore and can be located on the Mount
Journal (issue)
talking on "The Minerals of the Silver Coin Mine", an old silver mine near Winnemucca, Nevada with a wide variety...for the dam seems to have been quarried fro m the south side of the C411yon just below the dam, and an extensive...Update oo the Minerals of Summit Rock, Klamath County, Oregon Magoesiohomblcnde, Pblogopite aud Cristobalite...on tbe Minerals from tbe Kiggins Mioe, Clackamas County, O~oa Donald G. Howard Most of us are aware that...I had collected on our f.eld trip to the Kiggins Mine: calcite with a liberal sprinkling of red cinnabar
Journal (issue)
OVERMAN, Omaha, Nebr. The Black Hills region of South Dakota is exceptionally interes ting to the mineral...worked b~• the Scott Rose Quartz Co. of Custer. This mine ls an open cut and the entire face of the workings...and py1·ite. The Etta, Hugo. P eerless and Bob Ingersoll mine!'!, all located at Keystone, haYe been worked...obtained by panning the gravel of Battle Creek at Keystone. The yield of gold is very slight as all of these...the early days, Ke~·stone was an important gold-mining town, but the rich ore bas been worked out until
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
when a new pocket was broken into in the Mammoth Mine, Tiger, (Pinal Company), Arizona." ARKANSAS — Another...xled cyrtolite was found last year in the Pine District, Jefferson Co., Colo., so we were informed by...locality in the State is Russell Gulch in Gilpen County. A small but very fine crystal group from Russell... June 26-29, 1952. CONNECTICUT — The old copper mine near Bristol, Hartford Co., Conn., used to produce...mind. We have only one small rock outcrop in my county (Orange) at Rock Springs near Apopka. "The beaches
Report (volume)
....................................... 102 District of Columbia ............................................................................ North Dakota........................................................ South Carolina......................................:.................... South Dakota..........to refer to Geological Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals that are widely
Report (volume)
it helpful to refer to Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant, it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals of wide distribution...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products but because they furnish...........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......
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
fuchsite. ILMEN ZAPOVEDNIK, near town of MIASK, South Urals. Famous mineral locality in lImen Mountain...name. WIELICZKA, near Krakow, Poland, oldest salt mine in Europe, beautiful large halite xls, anhydrate...beautiful axinite xIs, epidote. Fine twin quartz xIs, mine Gardett, Dauphine Isere. ROCKS AND MINERALS LIMOGES... large number of mineral localities (Zyrianskii mine and some others): zinc-lead ores, phosgenite, povellite...M1NERALS YAKUTIA, East Siberia, USSR, Verkhoyansk district, new discovered mineral localities; diamond, native
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
was sent in by Mr. McDonald. ARIZONA—"The Bagdad Mine, Yavapai Co., Arizona, has lately produced some...is now in the hands of various collectors. Bagdad Mine has produced, from time to time, many unusual copper...in small amount . . . . also cutting grades of azurite in malachite and chrysocolla."—item dated Nov....polished gold ore comes from Burton's Tropico Gold Mine in Rosamond (Kern Co.), Calif., where the largest...largest Southern California gold mill is located. The mine is no longer in operation but it is open to the
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
DEPOSIT. ^ jflnzona mining Directory A DIRECTORY OF Arizona^s Mines^ Mining Districts Owners or...or Operators AND POSTOFFICE ADDRESSES (Yavapai County) Copyright RUSSELL H. J 903 MILLWARD PRESCOTT...PRESCOTT, ARIZONA Published by The Arizona Mining Directory Prescott, Arizona Price $2.50 '-^ '...#;^ XXc. No. a. PREFACE Yavapai, the treasure county of Arizona, has developed beyond the speculative...operators than to this county a greater is October 298 1, were 1876, of mining locations Hinton, the
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
Book (volume)
Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States SOUTH DAKOTA This northwestern Great Plains state varies...western counties of Lawrence, Meade, Custer and Pennington the land rises abruptly into the 6,000 sq. mi...Alleghenies, culminate in Harney Peak in southern Pennington Co. At 7,242’ this peak is the highest point...rising granite mass intruded the famed Cretaceous Dakota sandstone, which underlies most of the Great Plains...continental seas were advancing from the south, the Dakota sandstone represents topset beds, wave reworked
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
Book (volume)
ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA
Book (volume)
ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(No. 6) Augelite, South Dakota, 383 Autunite, South Dakota, 383 Azurite, South Dakota, 383 Back, M. E...E., Pyromorphite: A Review, 22-36 Barite, South Dakota, 383 Barium-Saturated Zeolite Assemblage, Sugar...JanuaryIFebruary: Pyromorphite, Les Barlow, A., 98 Farges mine, Correze Province, France; Barnes, J. H., see Media...Minerals of the Government Pit, Albany, New Mountain, South Hunan Province, PeoHampshire, 158-68 ple’s Republic...Gibson mine, Bertrandite, New Hampshire, 161 Pitkin County, Colorado; specimen Beryl, South Dakota, 383
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...sulfide) oxidizes to form anglesite (lead sulfate). Azurite (blue copper carbonate) can react to form malachite...this way keeps the original crystal shape of the azurite, it is called a pseudomorph, meaning “false form...zeolites. Calcite (septarian nodule), San Juan County, Utah, USA * 18 x 24x Bem 14 | MINERALS: PRODUCTS
Catalog/List
"'· f·,,or.-i ti.s cd: send a 1 ist of th,;'! mine"i",;• L, that price for ~ach piece There is no...(New Cornelia well covered~ Mine,Ajo,Pima greenish (Belstone light County blue coating on , Arizona...A) Cl92 ANDRADITE location. brown crystals on Mine near Okehampton Cl93 ARSENOPYRITE Arsenopyrite...micros and masses on (Ballycormick near Shanagolden, County U.K.journal of Mines and Minerals isssue lxl f3...location pieces, about a third covered (Bedford Consols Mine near Tavistock, Devon) B) for micros lx 1/2 ins
Journal (issue)
R, Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur...C. M. Garland Arsenopyrite from the Kilpatrick mine, Madoc, Ontario...................................mushistonite; and an unnamed tin mineral from the Etta mine ................................................COVER: WULFENITE group, 6 cm, from the Stefanie mine at Bleiberg, Carinthia, Austria. Photo by Werner...thought, I decided to depict a specimen of Red Cloud mine wulfenite (drawn rather loosely from Bob Lane’s
Journal (issue)
Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...silicate minerals from Trumbull Peak, Mariposa County, California......................................Pohs was well known to every serious collector of mining antiques and memorabilia in the U.S. In the late...the first book on the subject: Early Underground Mine Lamps', it became the “bible” of lamp collecting...of learning and research on all types of antique mine lamps. He was truly a pioneer in his field. 0 The
 
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