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Muscovite from
White Cap Mine, Keystone, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Muscovite
Formula:KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Muscovite data
Locality Data:Click here to view White Cap Mine, Keystone, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:212553
Long-form Identifier:1:3:212553:4
GUID (UUID V4):a059de3b-57cd-4869-a2a0-608b8cbb4fff
Nearest other occurrences of Muscovite
0.5km (0.3 miles) Edison Mine, Keystone, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
0.7km (0.5 miles) Nickel Plate Mine, Keystone, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
1.1km (0.7 miles) Etta Mine, Keystone, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
1.4km (0.9 miles) Pink Elephant Beryl prospect, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
1.4km (0.9 miles) Monte Carlo Prospect, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
1.5km (0.9 miles) Expectation Pegmatite, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
1.7km (1.0 miles) Peerless Mine, Keystone, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
1.8km (1.1 miles) Hugo Mine, Keystone, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
2.3km (1.4 miles) King Lithia Mine, Greyhound Gulch, Keystone, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
2.3km (1.4 miles) Dan Patch West Mine, Keystone, Keystone Mining District, Pennington 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...the number of mines worked tor bery 1. muscovite, col ti mhite-tantalite. ambl ygonite, spodumene, and...except for the Homestake mine, which has operated for more than 120 years, most mining in the area peaked in
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
Report (issue)
Some Pegmatites in the Southern Black Hills South Dakota GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 297-E ...Some Pegmatites in the Southern Black Hills South Dakota By JAMES J. NORTON and others PEGMATITES AND...prospect.____________________________ Etta spodumene mine.______________________________ Geology-___ . __...303 305 305 307 310 312 314 315 Etta spodumene mine Continued Mineral deposits____--__--------------_-_------Eureka...spodumene prospect._________ Hot Shot feldspar and mica mine.. _____ Geology __________-_---_-_-----------__-_-----Mineral
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
Report (issue)
Pegmatite Investigations 1942-1945 Black Hills, South Dakota By LINCOLN R. PAGE and OTHERS GEOLOGICAL SURVEY..._______________________ Mining, preparation, and uses of mica. _____________ Mining.___________________________________...mines and prospects___________________ 60 Addie tin mine._________________________________ 60 Ajax claim...___________60 Aladin mica mine by J. W. Adams____________ 60 Ann mica mine by T. A. Steven_________________...Steven_________________ 61 Antler mica mine.._-___--__--__-___-_-_-___-___ 64 Apex claim.___-__________-_-----_---_--_-____64
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...Black Hills, South Dakota, form an igneous system that progrcssesfrom slightly biotitic muscovite granite...rare-mineral pegmatitesbecome more abundant and muscovite pegmatitesless abundant toward the outskirts of
Report (issue)
Deposits of the Peerless Pegmatite Pennington County South Dakota GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER...Deposits of the Peerless Pegmatite Pennington County South Dakota By DOUGLAS M. SHERllDAN, HAL G. STEPHENS...__________________ Acknowledgments__________________________ Mine workings _____________________________________ Geology...____________________________ Quartz-plagioclase-muscovite pegmatite, undifferentiated _________________...schist containing staurolite partially changed to muscovite, chlorite (ripidolite), quartz, and biotite. B
Report (issue)
Properties: Semitransparent. Color: Dark blue. Streak: White to pale blue. Luster: Vitreous. Optical Class: Biaxial...120◦ 350 Z=2 X-ray Powder Pattern: Corrego Frio mine, Brazil; nearly identical to lazulite. 3.24 (vs)...00 MgO 4.23 6.34 Fe2 O3 0.54 3+ (1) Corrego Frio mine, Brazil; corresponds to (Fe2+ 0.66 Mg0.34 Zn0.01...tourmaline, muscovite, feldspar, quartz. Distribution: From the Corrego Frio pegmatite mine, Divino das...In the USA, at the Victory mine, four km northeast of Custer, Custer Co., and the White Cap mine, three
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and Cooper in Maine; and from the berylmolybdenite mine near Mr. Antero, Colo­ rado. It is an economic mineral...in the Temiskaming District in Canada, in the tin district in the Trans­ vaal, South Africa; and important...near the center of the pegmatite at the Ben Nevis Mine on San Augustin Peak in the Organ Mountains, New...MINERALS at the Deep Park No. 2 Mine near Penland, and also at the McKinney Mine near Little Switzerland, North...pegmatite as at the Deer Park No. 2 Mine near Penland, and at the McKinney Mine near Little Switzerland in North
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
Report (issue)
Geology of the Hugo Pegmatite Keystone, South Dakota GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 297-B Geology... Geology of the Hugo Pegmatite Keystone, South Dakota By J. J. NORTON, L. R. PAGE, and D. A. BROBST PEGMATITES...vite pegmatite ________ Zone 2: Quartz-albite-muscovite pegmatite. _______ Zone 3: Perthite-quartz-albite...and section of the area near the Hugo pegmatite, Keystone, S. Dak. Geologic map, underground workings, and...____ Spectrochemical analyses of mica from the south segment of the Hugo pegmatite.______________________
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...appears to be a few scattered clusters of milky white cristobolitc present as well. Other minerals are...Update oo the Minerals of Summit Rock, Klamath County, Oregon Magoesiohomblcnde, Pblogopite aud Cristobalite...aegirine, even on the surface. The clusters of milky white crystals of cristobalite seem to prefer to grow
Report (issue)
.. ii :iet3Baorpfcic zoek» of tha Ssystooa district of rock type* «*«.«*«,*«*,**.*.*,» Quart** and...«*«*»*»«.***** 92 1* locatioa of t&a Sayaton* district and dlatributioa of pe^raatitca la t&t aoutJwra...SejTrtone district, Coaoty, Sotttii DeLkota *«***«*«»* ^. Stnstttural treoda of the Heystona district, County...County, South Bakata *«****«*,***»««,, In * Orientation of 160 polott to discordant contacts of 6* Geologic...Geologic map and section, Big Chief Peimla^toa County, 3* DaJt. .«,.., «...,,.* la T« Geolo^te section,
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
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...golden yellow calcites, lustrous sphalerites and white barite clusters. In the following succession of...Thomssen Figure 6. Brazilianite crystal, 8 cm, with muscovite from Corrego Frio, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Sams
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. 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
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)
revisedsequence presented hereis (1) plagioclase, quartz,muscovite, (2) plagioclase, quartz, (8) quartz,perthite...canbesummedup verysimply.Many pegmatiteshave muscovite-richzonesat their outer edge.As the abundanceof...The most based on evidence from the Black Hills, South Da- prolificsources of problemshave beenlarge lithium...New Mexico SouthDakota i Plagioclase-quartz-muscovite X X X 2 Plagioclase-quartz X X X 3 ...se, with or without X X X X X X X X muscovite, with or without biotite 4 Perthitc-quartz
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)
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
Book (edition)
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
Report (issue)
SURVEY Locatable Mineral Reports for Colorado, South Dakota, and Wyoming provided to the U.S. Forest Service........ . . ............ 10 Pike National Forest County of El Paso (Black Forest) Land Exchange Offer ...Creek Land Exchange Offer .............. 153 SOUTH DAKOTA ............................................................. Black Hills National Forest South Dakota Department of Transportation Land Exchange Offer...................... 48 Fig. 14. Map 12-Offered mining claims-Quartz Creek & Cumberland Pass areas (provided
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)
International, LLC P.O. Box 263, East Hampton, CT 06424, USA Phone 1.860.267.1512; fax 1.860.267.7225 www.lapisint...elbaite crystals with lepidolite from the Golconda Mine in Minas Gerais, Brazil by Eberhard Equit, 1993...CHRISTIAN WEISE VERLAG, GERMANY AND LAPIS INTERNATIONAL, USA Tourmaline ♦ History ♦ Mineralogy • Tourmaline....... 85 North America ..................... 89 South America ..................... 96 • References ....were uncovered there until the 1860s when a true mining effort was directed at the outcrop (King, 2000)
Journal (issue)
R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Arthur Roe Tucson, AZ Abraham Rosenzweig University...Touissit, Morocco, and comments on endlichite by J. S. White 347 Hawleyite and phosphate minerals from Bethel...Fluorapatite from the King Lithia mine, Custer County, South Dakota .. 361 by M. L. Wilson, J. B. Paces...Netherlands: W. J. R. Kwak Aalsburg 14-21 TN-6602 Wijchen South Africa: Horst Windisch 30 Van Wouw Street Groenkloof...Belsher P .O . Box 636 G olden, CO 80402 303-494-7785 South American Minerals Show s: 322 on, except as noted
 
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