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Calcite from
Fairburn, Custer County, South Dakota, USA


Locality type:Village
Classification
Species:Calcite
Formula:CaCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Baryteⓘ2 photos of Calcite associated with Baryte at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Calcite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Fairburn, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1072149
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1072149:4
GUID (UUID V4):cec2cf63-8d10-4c9a-b982-4aa7381ab22e
Nearest other occurrences of Calcite
15.5km (9.6 miles) ⓘBuffalo Gap National Grasslands, South Dakota, USA
33.1km (20.6 miles) ⓘRushmore Cave, Hayward, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
35.3km (21.9 miles) ⓘWind Cave, Wind Cave National Park, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
38.0km (23.6 miles) ⓘEdison Mine, Keystone, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
39.3km (24.4 miles) ⓘSheep Mountain Table, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
39.8km (24.7 miles) ⓘColumbia Mine (Maiden Mine), Keystone, Keystone Gold Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
39.9km (24.8 miles) ⓘSitting Bull Caverns, Rockerville, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
42.3km (26.3 miles) ⓘOld Marble quarry, The Needles, Custer State Park, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
42.3km (26.3 miles) ⓘTownsite mine, Pringle, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
51.0km (31.7 miles) ⓘNameless Cave, Rapid City, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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...the recently added South Dakota room in the Museum of Geology at the South Dakota School of Mines and...Thomas Campbell is a graduate student at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. His major in­
Book (edition)
COVER -- Pairburn agates from South Dakota. Photo courtesy South Dakota School of Mines Museum. > 1...includes 1 SOUTH DAKOTA • MICHIGAN • ILLINOIS • IOWA WISCONSIN • OHIO • KANSAS • NORTH DAKOTA NEBRASKA...4 How To Use This Book SOUTH DAKOTA 6 New Finds ................ Fairburn Type Agate Blue Chalcedony... THE CUSTER AREA ......... Tepee Canyon Agate ... Garnets ............................ Fairburn Agotes...FOSSILS . 27 THE MISSION AREA ......... Sand Calcite Crystals . 27 28 8 8 8 38 THE HIGH PLAINS Moss
Book (volume)
Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, — ; Oregon, South Dakota, Washington, and Wyoming ~ AllanW...Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia... Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Washington, and Wyoming VOLUME 4:...Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Washington, and Wyoming by Allan W...Minnesota Missouri Montana Nebraska North Dakota Oregon South Dakota Washington vi Contents Wyoming 5505
Book (edition)
EDITION SOUTH DAKOTA MINNESOTA KANSAS • INDIANA • • MISSOURI ILLINOIS • NORTH DAKOTA • OHIO...includes SOUTH DAKOTA • MICHIGAN • ILLINOIS • IOWA WISCONSIN • OHIO • KANSAS • NORTH DAKOTA NEBRASKA...Jasper 25 Golden Barite - 13 Black Agates The Custer Area Tepee Canyon Agate Page 8 12 Ardmore Agate...Sand Calcite Crystals ___ ._ 27 27 28 29 _ - _____ 30 18 Faulted Sandstone Fairburn Agates...Minnesota 32 Wisconsin 39 Nebraska 40 North Dakota 43 Indiana . 45 Ohio 46 Michigan 50 Missouri
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mineral Collecting in the Black Hills Area of South Dakota 1957 By MARY S. SHAUB 159 Elm St., Northampton... The Black Hills and the adjacent areas in South Dakota, Nebraska and Wyoming have long been famous...been focused more on the southwest section of South Dakota. Here the mineral collecting areas have been...sandcalcite crystal locality which is located 30 miles south of Interior. Approaching Interior from Cedar Pass...this turn, exactly one mile beyond is the Bennett County line.) 2.1 miles on the dirt road you will see
Report (issue)
Nodules at Formation, Bast Flank of Black Hills, 'South Dakota GEOLOGICAL SURVEY P I OFESSIONAL PAPER 594-L...Niobrara Formation, East Flank of Black Hills, South Dakota By HARRY A. TOURTELOT and W. A. COBBAN SHORTER...________________________ -- __ Occurrence of nodules near Fairburn _________ _ Morphology of nodules _____________________...minerals-Continued Barite ____________________________ _ Calcite _________ - ____ -_-----------Gypsum __________________________...-------r--Barite _____________________ -------Calcite ________________ -_- __ ------Gypsum and iron oxides
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...to be made. The most complete mineralogy of South Dakota and the Black Hills is found in Roberts and...965). Some uncited mineral species are from the South Dakota School of Mines Museum of Geology. Noteworthy...FiridofGt~rnSphultirite ut IIIP Bulinut Zinc Mine, St. Luwrence County, tditor of NPW b r k ” unrl iipptwwl in the No~~er
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
CUSTER CITY HOSTS THE SOUTH DAKOTA STATE GEM & MINERAL SHOW By MRS. M A R T H A LINDE 6 3 9 Harney...St., Custer, S.D. 5 7 7 3 0 Sixteen pounds of agate in a single stone and a beautiful Fairburn agate...attractions at the ninth annual South Dakota State Gem and Mineral Show held in Custer, June 17th and 18th. The...Chuck Styles in the Custer State Park while the 8I/2 pound beautifully marked Fairburn agate was found in...in June of this year in the Fairburn area by Jim Mass of Carter, S. D. This was the second rock show
Book
North Main Street Amherst, WI 54406 Front Cover: Fairburn agates from the author’s collection which have...ere MerieresUm ee Tt:JER LENE yi Vii Chapter 1 South Dakotas Faiburn, Beginning the Exploration... Chapter...and for tending to business while I explored South Dakota. Project Coordinator: Marcia Lorenzen Project... Introduction The Fairburn agate is named for the small community of Fairburn, South Dakota. The agate is...just across the South Dakota line. I have heard of them being found from as far south as Gordon, Nebraska
Report (issue)
Eart1i in the United I(ingdom. t (In Long Tons.) . County. 1913. 1915. 191~ 1916. 1917. 1918. 1919...Fermo-carboniferous coal measures at Wing en, New South Wales. The composition of the earth is as follows...Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, New York, South Dakota, California, South Carolina and Massachusetts.. At first...dykes. The deposits are situated about seven miles south of Benton. There are numerous dykes, some of which...90°. The Florida deposits are mainly in Gadsden County, ne•a r Quincy, and the southern Georgia deposits
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
willing to lose ourselves in the wonders of South Dakota. Enroute from here to there, we took a side...morning, after visiting Wind Cave, we headed north to Custer, S.D., where we made the acquaintance of Kenny...where to go "rock-hunting" for Tepee Canyon and Fairburn agates, plus other local treasures. Next morning...little town of Interior, near where we scouted for Fairburn Agates, and again added to our loaded car. After...Garden of the Gods, in Colorado; we headed west and south into Wyoming; photographing the scenery, visiting
Book
PUBLIC LIBRARY Fort Wayne and Allen County, Indiana ALLEN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY 833 00476 9409 j552...turned into rock) and beautiful satiny crystals of calcite and gypsum. Most sedimentary rocks are layered...can find trilobites. The mountain of bugs in Juab County, Utah, is one of the best. To find a trilobite...be found in 29 Rockhound Trails Oklahoma, South Dakota and Colorado, in other colors. The more barren...roses that look like sugar-frosted buttons. Farther south, on the lava hills, are found rare roses containing
Journal (issue)
Heights 11, L.I., N.Y. | CT oe R AGATE SHOP South 1709 Cedar Street SPOKANE 41 WASHINGTON 44 RS...Sa Michigan, where he is a very active t the Tri-County Rocks and Minerals Soci and incidentally a f [...travel visited the ‘gold coast’ and diamond mines of South Afri the pyramids of Egypt, and became as familiar...the Iron River area in Iron County and the Ironwoo area in Gogebic County Mr. Kiril Spiroff of the Geology...will also be in charge of the Dickinson County and Iron County field trips. Mr. Kivela is in avid collector
Journal (issue)
Commerce. ) THE FAIRBURN AGATI by Jane Culp Zeitner 11 What makes the elusive fairburn different from...bestow on agates. Even dyed agates cannot equal the fairburn for color (Illustrated. ) MODELING CHURCHES Is...College, Colorado Springs, Colo. J E Cup ZEITNE! f South Dakota, 1s familiar t ur readers for delightful a ints...Contrasts PEaRI IF YOU COULD look down upon the t ! south-central part of ¢ olorado from a suffi 1¢ ntly high...strange land of contrasts in southern Colorado Fairburn by JUNE CULP Agate ZEITNER ABOUT 5O YEARS
Journal (issue)
Interview]. Wyoming artifact. Scraper Question Email, USA. Figure 2. Shoshone family. Photo courtesy of the...The present move, from downtown Fountain to 594 South Santa Fe Avenue (just northeast of the overpass...on. For some it may be quartz, for others it's calcite or fluorite, or phosphate minerals, or sulphide...where they are preserved in certain areas of Teller County, Colorado. Figure 2. Historical photo (1914) of...Pikes Peak granite: Ute Pass, near Manitou. El Paso County, Colorado. 1914. Plate 6 in U.S. Geological Survey
Report (issue)
Ankerite Aragonite Autunite Barite Bauxite Biotite Calcite Carnotite Celestite. Chalcedony Chalcopyrite Chalk...Agate, Type II Occurrences. Fortification or "Fairburn" Agates. Prairie Agates . Moss Agates Agate, Type...temperatures, can sometimes be determined from minerals. Calcite and aragonite are tKO forms of calcium carbonate...carbonate. Aragonite forms in warmer water than does calcite. By determining the amounts of oxygen isotopes...I A N DEVONIAN SILURIAN ORDOVICIAN CAMBRIAN } DAKOTA Graneros Greenhorn - Corille Niobrara Pierre
Journal (issue)
the Geology and Resources of the Black Hills of Dakota with Atlas, Washington. 1879-1880, quarto, pp....Preliminary Report of Ex­ plorations in Nebraska and Dakota. in the Years 1855-56-57. Washington. I 875. 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...com PO Box 455 • Poncha Springs, Colorado 81242 USA Phone: 719-539-4113 • Fax 719-539-4542 SUMMER 2002
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)
near the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, which has a fantastic collection of minerals and...BD10 Power Feed Trim Saw Scan for Video MADE IN USA Features include: • All cast aluminum tank, table...# 168787 HP14 Slab Saw Scan for Video MADE IN USA Features include: • 1/2 HP continuous duty motor...Association Colorado Mineral & Fossil Show El Dorado County Mineral & Gem Society’s Annual Gem Show Better...15500 E 40th Ave., Denver, CO 80239 El Dorado County Fairgrounds 100 Placerville Drive, Placerville
Book
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...Fossil-Columbian Mammoth * South Dakota Mineral-Rose Quartz Gemstone-Fairburn Agate Fossil-Triceratops...“Magic City” of Birmingham, Jefferson County “The Pittsburgh of the South” during the turn of the 20" century...made of cast iron ore, sits atop Red Mountain, south of Birmingham. ROCK-MARBLE WHEREAS, marble, a
Book (volume)
Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States SOUTH DAKOTA This northwestern Great Plains state varies...In the far western counties of Lawrence, Meade, Custer and Pennington the land rises abruptly into the...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...the fascination of these pegmatites. 437 South Dakota The commercial production of minerals, principally
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)
sample of two quartz xls coated with siderite and calcite xls. Small but nice I think. About a year ago a...faces of which were coated by dark gray drusy calcite xls. ARKANSAS—"In the summer of 1958 we dug a well...'Arizona Gem Fields'. Near Indian Pass, Imperial County, Calif., and then deep in the Muggins Mountains...Georgetown, 111. One specimen is a xled, pale brown calcite (small xls) which fl. bright yellow (s.w.) and...lemon yellow (l.w.). The other is a xline brown calcite in brown limestone which fl. lemon yellow (l.w
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
Report (issue)
AMERICA SOUTH DAKOTA 1989 THE NATIONAL GAZETTEER OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA SOUTH DAKOTA 1989 "The... "The Pulpit," Badlands National Park, South Dakota. Apparently named for its resemblance to a ministerial...complex features characteristic of South Dakota Badlands. In South Dakota, the term "badlands" is generally...GAZETTEER OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICASOUTH DAKOTA 1989 U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER...National gazetteer of the United States of America. South Dakota 1989 / prepared by the U.S. Geological Survey
 
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