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Schorl from
Victory Mine, Custer, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Schorl
Formula:NaFe32+Al6(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3(OH)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Schorl data
Locality Data:Click here to view Victory Mine, Custer, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:210824
Long-form Identifier:1:3:210824:7
GUID (UUID V4):b54c873b-6420-4d19-aed4-8a56083e14a6
Nearest other occurrences of Schorl
2.5km (1.6 miles) Knowles lode claim, Custer, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
4.4km (2.7 miles) Glenwood Mica Mine (Hampton Mine), Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
4.7km (2.9 miles) Earl Lode, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
5.3km (3.3 miles) Rte. 85A South, Custer, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
5.4km (3.4 miles) Pink Panther Mine, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
5.4km (3.4 miles) Burt Mica Mine (Bur; Burk), Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
5.8km (3.6 miles) Elkhorn Mine (Tinsley Mine), Custer, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
6.0km (3.7 miles) Hot Shot mine, Custer, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
6.0km (3.8 miles) Crown Mine (McMackin Mine), Custer, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
6.1km (3.8 miles) Ballard Mine, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
References
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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)
X-Ray Diffraction Pattern: Victory mine, Custer County, South Dakota, USA. 2.489 (37), 4.085 (35), 4...64 0.77 1.84 5.61 99.66 (1) Victory mine, Custer County, South Dakota, USA; average electron microprobe...Ferrowyllieite, schorl, fillowite, arrojadite, quartz, muscovite. Distribution: From the Victory mine, Custer County...County, South Dakota, USA. Name: Prefix, ferro, identifies the iron-dominant analog of bobfergusonite. Type...and the RRUFF Project (R140993), Tucson, Arizona, USA. References: (1) Yang, H., T. Yong, and R.T. Downs
Report (issue)
= 6.354(9) X-ray Powder Pattern: Victory mine, South Dakota, USA. 2.693 (10), 2.674 (10), 6.15 (6),...0.95 0.01 7.1 0.00 0.60 99.94 (1) Victory mine, South Dakota, USA; H2 O by calorimetry, corresponds to...)Σ=1.00 (PO4 )3 . (2) G.E. 2+ 2+ Smith mine, New Hampshire, USA; corresponds to (Na1.07 Mn2+ 0.43 Ca0...Association: USA). Arrojadite, muscovite, schorl, plagioclase, quartz (Victory mine, South Dakota, Distribution:...Distribution: In the USA, from the Victory mine, four km northeast of Custer, Custer Co., South Dakota, and at the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
summers of 1971 and 1972, it became clear that the Victory mine pegmatite was chemically unique, so peculiar...The Victory mine pegmatite is located two miles northeast of the center of Custer, Custer County, South...South Dakota on the Custer Quadrangle, Section 18, SE 114, SW 1/4, T.3S, R.5E. It is one of the hundreds...dimensions of many other worked pegmatites, the Victory mine was small. According to Pray, et al. (1953)...Fahey (1949) for their "triphylitc" fWIll the Victory mine, the sample of which we found to hc in fact
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 (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
Report (issue)
PAPER 229 and prospects examz"ned in each district, some z"llustrated by maps .and structure sections..._________________________________ _ History of mining __________________________________ _ Geologic features...Mineralogy of mica and beryL ______________________ .:. Mining, preparation, and uses of mica and beryL _____...Production and reserves ________________________ _ Adams County ________________________________ _ Clarkprospe...Clarkprospects-----------------------~----- Mica Queen mine __________________________ _ Location and access ____________________
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...Harney Peak Granite of the southern Black Hills, South Dakota, form an igneous system that progrcssesfrom...satellitic plutons in the southern Black Hills, South Dakota, are surrounded by a region containing about
Journal (issue)
Articles Type locality minerals of the Black Hills, South Dakota ..............................................R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur...Pocket,” a recreation of a pocket in the Elmwood mine near Carthage, Tennessee. A space of several cubic...Museum of Geology South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Rapid City, South Dakota 57701 INTRODUCTION...INTRODUCTION The Black Hills of western South Dakota are a great storehouse of mineral wealth, and a great variety
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
are Asrich. A second occurrence is on the Rogers mine property southwest of Madoc, where sulfosalt assemblages...Cr. Purplish-red topaz from Sanarka, Orenburg district, USSR, contains about 2700 ppm Cr. Germanium contents...Colorado; 500 ppm-Little Three mine, Ramona, California; 550 ppm-Maple Lode mine, Aguanga Mountain, California;...investigations of samples from prospect pits on the Rogers mine property reveal a surprising abundance of ringhke...AN OCCURRENCE OF VlVlANlTE AT THE CLEAR SPRINGS MINE, BARTOW, FLORIDA. C. L. Himes and B. L. Murowchick
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
collecting. garnet diggings of Latah County and the Spencer Opal Mine, charge a digging fee. But most...floating opal produces satisfactory results. In Clark County near Spencer, opal with a beautiful play and of...digging is permitted on a fee basis. Because the mine is high in the mountains near the Continental Divide...found while digging a well near Whelan in Latah County, northwest of Moscow almost on the IdahoWashington...the operations of the North American Gem and Opal Mining Company. In quality, the opal recovered was equal
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Jewelry, 146 Breastplate of the High Priest, 144 South America, Beryl in the Bible, 80 Emerald and 140...Derivations of Names and Portugal, 490 Republic of South Africa, Romania, 549 601 Yugoslavia, 485 Pakistan...Spain, 445 Greenland, India, 500 Republic, South West Africa 445 Ghana, Inner Somali 443 Germany... semi-precious in beryl history of gemstone mining the on papers in of knowledge the many ...considerable deemed to possess, that encouraged mining despite meager yields and the appalling conditions
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Fossil-Belemnite Soil-Greenwich Loam Series 29 30 31 * District of Columbia Dinosaur-Capitalsaurus fo, Fossil-Petrified...Rock-Granite 109 110 90 90 91 91 a2 * North Dakota Fossil-Jeredo Petrified Wood 111 * Ohio Gemstone-Ohio...Gem-Garnet Fossil-Eurypterus remipes 102 103 104 * South Carolina Gem Stone-Amethyst Stone-Blue Granite...Gem-Petrified Wood Fossil-Columbian Mammoth * South Dakota Mineral-Rose Quartz Gemstone-Fairburn Agate...Minerals such as bauxite contributed significantly to victory in the American Revolution. Precious metals of
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copper are in the Keweenaw Peninsular. Lake Superior, USA, the largest being 15 x 7 x 3m (approx. 50 x 23 x...(5'A in) long occurred in the Ray mine and in Bisbce, Arizona, USA. Very fine spincl-law twins up to...Superior, Michigan, USA. Wires, up to 100 mm (4 in) long, come also from the San Gcnaro Mine in Huancavclica...found in many localities in California, USA (Colorado Quartz mine. Nigger Hill and others). Fine leaf gold...in) long were very rare in Ground Hog mine, Gilman, Colorado, USA. The largest known sheets of crystallized
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
view of the Tenderfoot mine (about 19131, Esterbrook copper district, Albany County. John Taylor collection...and Grace Dyck and wus titled “The Sunrise Iron Mine near Hartville, Wyoming”; it appeared in the MaylJune...titled “The Copper Mountain Pegmatite District, Freniont County, Wyoming” and was in the JulylAugust 2001...most notable ones. The localities are listed by county and then in alphabeticnl order. Where numerous...under the district name. District names are from Hausel (1986). Localities by County Albany County Allanite
Book (edition)
Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...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...localities of magmatic origin (in the sequence North and South America and Greenland, then Europe, Asia, Africa
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copper are in the Keweenaw Peninsular, Lake Superior, USA, the largest being I 5 x 7 x 3m (approx. 50 x 23...140mm (5½ in) long occurred in the Ray mine and in Bisbee, Arizona, USA. Very fine spinel-law twins up to...Superior, Michigan, USA. Wires, up to 100 mm (4 in) long, come also from the San Genaro Mine in Huancavelica...Dorado, California, US.A. Gold, 68 mm, Eagle's Nest Mine, California, US.A. Gold gold on it. Typical aggregates...from Farncomb Hill near Breckenridge, Colorado, USA. Fine crystals were also found in Berezovsk, Ural
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)
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
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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...in sandstone at the Fuemrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely disseminated
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
entrance and arch of the Palermo mine, North Groton, Grafton County. Rob Lawrence photo, courtesy Bob...large scale, there has been enough prospecting and mining activity to uncover many important mineral localities...collector. Prospecting, granite quarrying, and mining probably peaked before the turn of the twentieth...pegmatite prospecting and mining were revived during World War II, with some mining continuing into the early...at 15:01 05 January 2015 LOCATIONS BY COUNTY Belknap County Alton area: arsenopyrite, galena, quartz
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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
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long (Marty, 2004 ). AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins...region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites between the towns...Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series of incompletely...Litchfield County. Ilmenite masses and crystals from somewhere near Washington, Litchfield County, were described...Lake Road occurrence, Faraday Township, Hastings County. In fall 1994, Dan and Shelley Lambert extracted
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Scovil photo. Vanadinite, 2.4 cm, from the Apache mine, Arizona. Collected by Evan Jones; Jeff Scovil photo...Miglioli photo. Fluorite, 7.4 cm, from the La Barre mine, France. Collected by Aubin Cosson; Niels Brouwer... from left: Caledonite, 1.1 cm, from the Reward mine, California. Collected by Jeff Lines; Ben DeCamp...Thrill of Discovery by Wendell Wilson Epilog: On Mine Safety UThe Field-CollectorsV Anthony J. Albini...the words of the original discoverers. Adelaide Mine, Tasmania, 1971, 2012 Albert Chapman wrote one such
 
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