 | | 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) | | Pegmatite Investigations 1942-1945 Black Hills, South Dakota By LINCOLN R. PAGE and OTHERS GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...Descriptions, maps, and diagrams of deposits of mica, beryl, lithium, tantalum, tin, and feldspar UNITED STATES..._______________________ Mining, preparation, and uses of mica. _____________ Mining.___________________________________...Prospecting for mica.___________________________ Beryl deposits.-___.__-_-___--_--__--:_-__-__--_--__ Distribution..._____ Types of beryl deposits_-__-_-_-_--------------__ Structural features of beryl deposits..-.___________ |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | meaning golden and (iripuyyos (beryllos) meaning beryl. The mineral first was described and named by Werner...Connedistrict, Maine Topsham district, Maine Grafton district, New Hampshire Greenfield...Middletown district, Connecticut Southern Black Hills district, South Dakota Crystal Mountain district, Colorado...Colorado Clear Creek district, Colorado Bunkerville district, Arizona/Nevada Bently district, Nevada O Pegmatite...crystals up to six inches in diameter, albite, green beryl, columbite, muscovite, and black tourmaline (Seybert |  | | 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) | | number of localities, most of which are in Oxford County (King and Foord 1994). These include pegmatites...recently in a pegmatite at Gillette quarry, Middlesex County, Connecticut. It is reported from a pegmatite near...Summit and as an accessory mineral at the old garnet mine at Wilmot, New Hampshire. Chrysoberyl was recovered...alexandrite crystal in matrix from the Takovaya district, Russia, in the Urals Geological Museum collection...small pegmatite near Saratoga Springs, Saratoga County, and much later during building construction at |  | | Report (volume) | | Geology of the Calamity Peak Area Custer County South Dakota ~y DONALD H. KUPFER :ONTRIBUTIONS TO ECONOMIC...map and sections of the Calamity Peak area, Custer Page County, S. Dak------------------------------------~...GEOLOGY GEOLOGY OF THE CALAMITY PEAK AREA, CUSTER COUNTY, SOUTH DAKOTA By DoNALD H. KuPFER ABSTRACT An...granite-pegmatite complex and pegmatites containing beryl and other industrial minerals. Quartz-mica schists...contain small resources of feldspar, mica, and beryl. A potentially large reserve of potassium feldspar |  | | 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 |  | | 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 (article/letter/editorial) | | Hampshire and to an inch in diameter at the Smith Mine, Newport, New Hampshire. It also has been found...state. Scorzalite occurs at the Victory mine near Custer, South Dakota with quartz, albite, muscovite...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...product of lithiophilite at the Stewart mine, Pala, San Diego county, California. STEWARTITE, another hydrous |  | | Book (edition) | | OPALS • AOATI • • AMETHYST URINE • • BERYL MOONSTONE CITRINE GEM HUNTERS GUIDE by Russell... TYPICAL CRYSTAL FORMS OF PROMINENT MINERALS BERYL CHIASTOLITE a\ DIAMOND CRYSTALS DIOPSIDE EMERALD...which make a almost price- merely an ore of beryl, is beryllium worth a few cents a pound. Pattern... stones, such as quartz amethyst, tourmaline, beryl, topaz and spodumene. crystals, Areas in Maine...associated with such rocks. Because hard rock mining amateur will usually get is tedious and expensive |  | | 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) | | Cramer's exhibit included a building plot with a victory garden with vegetables actually growing in ordered...White Horse Ranch to the Blitzen Valley, (Harney County, Oregon} and on the way I picked up some pieces...looked like slag from a furnace. This was in Grant County, Oregon, about 5 miles from Seneca. I was on a...feet. It was mined on the farm Tveit, Iveland District north of Kristiansand, Norway. A book of biotite...spodumene crystals in the Black Hills of South Dakota ; the huge beryl crystals at Albany, Maine ; a black |  | | 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 (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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Ala., a little village whose main industry is mining scrap mica. ALASKA—"I see that you like some rocks...a year ago a pocket of these were opened in the mine at Washington Camp. Patagonia (Santa Cruz Co.),...most, if not all, of them. One is a good friend of mine so I have several specimens. Recently another pocket...'Arizona Gem Fields'. Near Indian Pass, Imperial County, Calif., and then deep in the Muggins Mountains...found in the North Star Mine. "It was found in the 1700 ft. level of the Portland Mine, Teller Co. (Cripple |  | | 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 |  | | Report (issue) | | Mica and Beryl Pegmatites in Idaho and Montana GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 229 Mica and...and Beryl Pegmatites in Idaho and Montana By W. C. STOLL GEOLOGICAL .A descrz"ption SURVEY of mines... PAPER 229 and prospects examz"ned in each district, some z"llustrated by maps .and structure sections..._________________________________ _ History of mining __________________________________ _ Geologic features...of mica and beryL ______________________ .:. Mining, preparation, and uses of mica and beryL _____ :.._ |  | | Report (issue) | | FORTY-FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE Mining Industry of Idaho FOR THE YEAR 1942 ARTHUR CAMPBELL Inspector...Collections Watam(W PB) access eee eee ee 34, 35 Victory, Guide® for: Civilian Defense eee estan aera ree...eee oe nee 42, 43, 184 Report: of —Audit;) State” Mine" Inspector ene eee 44, 46 Tnspectorssof. Mines,’...Secretary, [Idahow Mining aAssociation pps cate aeee see eee ere eee eee 48 Eastern Idaho Mining Association...Page Adam County os ee 87 AGE SsCOUNG Yi ssen eee ee 87 Bannock. Count ya es 88 Bear Lake: County =... 90 |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 6o637, USA SYNOPSIS A N O M ENCLATU R E is proposed for the...e acces~l-/ anhydrous silicate phases such as beryl, petalite, spodamene and the garnets, sites necessitated...(1905); five new analyses on material from the Palera~ mine, Dyke Lode, Sidi-Bou-Ot~ane it beth chronological...45.8 0.8 44.6 0.I 99.94 l~Dyke Lode, Custer, South Dakota. J . I r e , analyst. d if f e r e nc e...difference. 16Pleasant Valley pe~atite, Custer, South Dakota. compositions Thus, six trivial names |  | | 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...... |  | | Report (issue) | | FORTY -FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE Mining Industry Idaho ores and gravels in 1943, yielded gold, silver...Mines BOISE, IDAHO FORTY-FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT Mining Industry ot Idaho FOR THE YEAR 1943 ARTHUR...Hecla Mining Company .................00....-...... 45-49 New Wills; Coeur d’Alene: Mining District 2.x...CIC LL A SSeS a ty 86-108 At conditions, Lriumph Mine Blaine, Countys 22a ee 109-112 idaho Minerals, General...Bannon Countyee eee Bear Wake County <........2...2:5... Benewah: County 8... Bins ham ©ountyes cet ee |  | | Report (volume) | | periods of exploratIon that ultimately led to a mining "boom ll in the 1950 IS. Since I ts meager start...Tallahassee Creek distrIct in Fremont County. Uranium, recoverable by solution mining of Upper Cretaceous...evaluated In Weld County. VBlntype uran I urn occurrence 5 are typ I fled in Je f farson County by the Schwartzwal...Schwartzwal der Mi ne, the largest uranium mine In Colorado. Part 2 contains in the bibliography of approximately...occurrences In the state, with cross-Indexes by county, host rock, and the special categoriesof "Front |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | identify. This sample was taken about 15 miles south of Anniston, Alabama, where the rock had been cut...first phyllite we ever saw from sers" area, Sonoma County, Calif. It was noted by M. Vonsen in CALIF. JOUR... ranging in in a road cut situated in Randolph County, size from 2 to 4 millimeters. Sometimes it Ala...small open fissures with quartz and calcite." miles south of Anniston." "I must add, however, that there should...other recognized psilomelane in the Batesville district, In- species as laumontite, thomsonite, datolite |
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