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Spodumene from
Tin Mountain Mine, Fourmile, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Spodumene
Formula:LiAlSi2O6
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Spodumene data
Locality Data:Click here to view Tin Mountain Mine, Fourmile, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
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Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:131214
Long-form Identifier:1:3:131214:0
GUID (UUID V4):0356bf4e-99ba-40b0-bb49-62fef15c7257
Nearest other occurrences of Spodumene
0.7km (0.4 miles) Warren Draw Mine (Warren Gulch Mine), Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
1.1km (0.7 miles) Highview Prospect, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
1.2km (0.7 miles) Inca Mine, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
4.2km (2.6 miles) Helen Beryl Mine, Fourmile, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
5.6km (3.5 miles) New York Mine (Westinghouse No. 1 Mine), Custer, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
10.0km (6.2 miles) Wilhelm Mine, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
10.4km (6.5 miles) Milton Mine, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
12.4km (7.7 miles) Custer Mountain lode (Snookum mine), Custer, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
12.4km (7.7 miles) Beecher No. 2 (Longview Mine), Beecher Lode, Custer, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
12.5km (7.8 miles) Black Diamond Mine, Custer Mining District, Custer 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...muscovite, col ti mhite-tantalite. ambl ygonite, spodumene, and feldspar probably peaked in the 1940s. However...except for the Homestake mine, which has operated for more than 120 years, most mining in the area peaked in
Report (issue)
Geology and Pegmatites of the Fourmile Quadrangle, Black Hills South Dakota GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL... Geology and Pegmatites of the Fourmile Quadrangle, Black Hills South Dakota By JACK A. REDDEN PEGMATITES...prospects-_--------------------Big Tom mine (pegmatite 64) -------------------Corky mine (pegmatite 58)____--_--------------Gayle...9)__________________ Red Spar mine (pegmatite 70)-___--__-___________ Rock Ridge mine (pegmatite 113)_________________...113)_________________ Warren Draw mine (pegmatite 12)________________ Geology.__________________________________
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
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)
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)
Pegmatite Investigations 1942-1945 Black Hills, South Dakota By LINCOLN R. PAGE and OTHERS GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...diagrams of deposits of mica, beryl, lithium, tantalum, tin, and feldspar UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING..._______________________ Mining, preparation, and uses of mica. _____________ Mining.___________________________________...Mineralogy-___________________________________ 55 Spodumene _______-_-____-_--____------____ 55 Amblygonite..._________________- i __-__-__--___-__ 57 Prospecting for spodumene, amblygonite, and lepidolite ________ ______:
Journal (issue)
Finger) and LKA Emeralds, Hiddenite, Alexander County, NC Go On Public Exhibit in New York City. Emeralds................................... 2 Independence Mine, ................................................................................. 3 Little Three Mine,.................................................................................... 3 Cryo-Genie Mine ....................................................................................... 5 Black Mountain pegmatite ...................................
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)
York; the Scott and other quarries near Custer, South Dakota; near the Royal Gorge in Colorado, and elsewhere...Carolina; at Amelia, Virginia, near Clayton, Rabun county, Georgia; etc. The old localities near West Chester...at Shaw and Esray's quarry near Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania, and is now in the collection of...at the Fisher quar- occurred at the Little Three mine, Ramona, ry, Topsham, Maine, to sixteen inches in...Long Mt. near South Acworth and from the Mountain, Stark, New Hampshire. Crys- McGinnis mine near Rumney
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
constraints on pegmatite genesis: Tin Mountain pegmatite, Black Hills, South Dakota Richard J. Walker* i, Gilbert...Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA z Institute for the Study of Mineral Deposits, South Dakota School of Mines and...and Technology, Rapid City, SD 67701, USA Abstract. The Tin Mountain pegmatite is a small, zoned granitic...to have produced the parental liquid to the Tin Mountain pegmatite. Batch melting of any reasonable metasedimentary...National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA Offprint requests to: R.J. Walker tions and the
Report (issue)
Helen Beryl, Elkhorn and Tin Mountain Pegmatites Custer County, South Dakota GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL...Helen Beryl, Elkhorn and Tin Mountain Pegmatites Custer County, South Dakota By MORTIMER H. STAATZ, LINCOLN...Beryl pegmatite _____________________________ _ Mine workings ________________________________ _ Production...Perthite-spodumene-quartz pegmatite (third intermediate zone) ___________________ _ Quartz-spodumene-perthite-albite...Feldspar __________________________________ _ Spodumene _______________________________ _ Mica ______
Journal (issue)
Mineralogical Societies (AFMS) www.amfed.org Rocky Mountain Federation of Mineralogical Societies (RMFMS)...was found in the Hell Creek Formation in North Dakota, a heavily studied formation containing a variety...Montana and stretches into portions of North and South Dakota and into parts of Wyoming ("The virtual fossil‖)...Happenings Pg 3 Pebble Pups—Year End Pg 4 District 11 Honors Pebble Pups Pg 5 Installation of Officers...719-488-0880 or e-mail rsvp@wmmi.org. Western Museum of Mining & Industry / info@wmmi.org // Phone: 719-488-0880
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
THE TIN MOUNTAIN MINE IN THE BLACK HILLS, SOUTH DAKOTA By PAUL L. BROUGHTON e g i n a , Shave a s...c h e w aFor n , Cthe anad a The Black Hills of South RDakota collection of rare minerals, the one of...variety of rare radioactive min­ and Custer area of South Dakota. erals have been found in the excavation...of the region is the Tin Moun­ is commonly of secondary origin, usually tain Mine, about seven miles west...other ura­ ter, in Custer County. The mine is com­ nium minerals. In the Tin Mountain mercially operated
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
M I N E , CUSTER COUNTY SOUTH DAKOTA and Arthur Smith Jr. Houston, Texas The Tin Mountain pegmatite...about 6 miles west southwest of Custer in the Black Hills of South Dakota (Figure 1 ) . The pegmatite was...one of the properties of the old Harney Peak Tin Co. The mine was acquired by the Maywood Chemical Company...by them along with the Etta mine in 1961. The mine has produced spodumene, beryl, feldspar, amblygonite...primarily amphibo- W . L. Roberts Rapid City, South Dakota lite, composed predominantly of small dark
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
feldspars from three zoned pegmatites, Black Hills, South Dakota: Implications concerning pegmatite evolution...Mineral Deposits, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota 57701-3995 and J...geochemical study of pegmatites from the Black Hills, South Dakota, indicates potassium feldspar composition is...Li-Fe-Mn phosphate-bearing pegmatites = 90-50, spodumene-bearing ~atites = 5040, polluciteb&uing pegmatites...geochemicaf study of pegmatifes from the Black Nills, South Dakota, potassium feldspars were collected fmm three
Report (issue)
Geology of the Berne Quadrangle Black Hills South Dakota GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 297-F ... Geology of the Berne Quadrangle Black Hills South Dakota By JACK A. REDDEN PEGMATITES AND OTHER PRECAMBRIAN...___________________ Gneissic pegmatites of the Bear Mountain area- Page 343 344 345 345 345 347 347 347 347...Park dome _ ______________-___-_--------_Bear Mountain dome____--_-______---------Harney Peak dome.__...GEOLOGY OF THE BERNE QUADRANGLE, BLACK HILLS, SOUTH DAKOTA By JACK A. REDDEN ABSTRACT The Berne quadrangle
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...Potash feldspar_________________________________ Spodumene.___________________________________ Beryl ___...prospect.____________________________ Etta spodumene mine.______________________________ Geology-___...301 302 303 305 305 307 310 312 314 315 Etta spodumene mine Continued Mineral deposits____--__--------
Report (issue)
UC-NRLF B 3 JTH am IDD DAKOTA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN NO. J. E. 3 TODD, STATE GEOLOGIST ... MINERAL RESOURCES OF SOUTH DAKOTA INCLUDING MINERAL WEALTH OF THE BLACK HILLS BY CLEOPHAS C. O^HARRA...MINERAL BUILDSSUM&^RIAL FUELS AND WATERS OF SOUTH DAKOTA > WITH PRODUCTION FOR IQOO BY JAMES E. TQ02...TQ02 TODD EARTH SCIENC LIBRARY GIFT OF SOUTH DAKOTA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN NO. J. E. 3. TODD...TODD, STATE GEOLOGIST MINERAL RESOURCES OF SOUTH DAKOTA INCLUDING MINERAL WEALTH OF THE BLACK HILLS
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
schist matrix from the Murchison greenstone belt, South Africa; 90 × 75 mm. Peter Lyckberg, and published... Be2AlO4. Twinned crystals from the Ratnapura district, Sri Lanka. Photograph of sample R100130 reproduced...Be4Si2O7(OH)2, in pseudohexagonal prisms from the Golconda mine, Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Photograph...Fershtater et al. (2007) Danalite 2550 Barbara gold mine pegmatites, Coolgardie, Jacobson et al. (2007) Jacobson...Top mine, Fourmile quadrangle, Custer County, Robinson et al. (1985) Dahl and Foland (2008) South Dakota
Report (issue)
lithium_________________________________ History of lithium mining and production ________________________ Imports...deposits in pegmatites._____________________________ Spodumene deposits.._----___-____-________-__________ Amblygonite..._._______.__ North and South Carolina.___---_______-_-_---__-__________ South Dakota________________...area._____________________________ Pala pegmatite district.__--___--___-_-______--_______._ Arizona, New...________________________ Future of the lithium mining industry________--__--___-___-______-___ Literature
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
THE TIN MOUNTAIN SPODUMENE MINE, BLACK HILLS, SOUTH DAKOTA. G. M. SCHWARTZ. TaE Tin Mountain Mine is...is locatedabout sevenmiles.westof Custer, S. D., in the southeastquarter of Section 26, T 3 S, R3 E. The...the Bla.ckHills uplift. The mine is accessible by auto road from Custer. The depositis remarkablefor...remarkablefor its closeresemblance to the Etta Mine xwhichhaslongbeenthe world'slargestproducerof lithium minerals...indicatedby the name,the pegmatitewas examinedfor tin, but no commercialtin was found and, in fact, cassiterite•vas
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)
MINNESOTA, MISSOURI, NEBRASKA NORTH DAKOTA, OKLAHOMA, SOUTH DAKOTA AND TEXAS BY MARGARET COOPER CONTENTS...Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, 1, Part 2, and Part 3 258 Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas and Section 2....North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Texas 262 souri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota...Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Texas. It is Part 4 of a comprehensive...Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Texas; Index II, Geographical
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Copyright © 2003 Elsevier Science Ltd Printed in the USA. All rights reserved 0016-7037/03 $30.00 ⫹ .00 Pergamon...Granite and associated pegmatites, Black Hills, South Dakota—Evidence from fluid inclusions MONA-LIZA C....University Of Missouri–Columbia, Columbia, MO 65211, USA (Received August 29, 2001; accepted in revised form...crystallized melt inclusions in the complex, Li-bearing Tin Mountain pegmatite were trapped along the two-fluid phase...the Proterozoic terrane of the Black Hills, South Dakota. The aims of this study were to determine the
 
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