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


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Chalcopyrite
Formula:CuFeS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chalcopyrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Tin Mountain Mine, Fourmile, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:137467
Long-form Identifier:1:3:137467:4
GUID (UUID V4):0f28246c-4b39-4428-bcc8-5a428005dea7
Nearest other occurrences of Chalcopyrite
21.6km (13.4 miles) Mastiff Group, Unorganized mining district [5], Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
25.9km (16.1 miles) Ida Occurrence (Ida Tin), Hill City Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
28.4km (17.6 miles) Etta Mine, Keystone, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
28.9km (18.0 miles) Peerless Mine, Keystone, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
29.3km (18.2 miles) Bismark-Ida Florence Groups, Keystone Gold Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
29.5km (18.3 miles) Spokane Mine, Iron Mountain, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
29.6km (18.4 miles) Columbia Mine (Maiden Mine), Keystone, Keystone Gold Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
29.9km (18.6 miles) Egyptian Group, Keystone Gold Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
30.2km (18.8 miles) Big Chief Mine, Glendale, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
31.5km (19.5 miles) Dakota Calumet Mine (Continental Copper Company Mine), Blue Lead Mine (Mahoney Bluelead Mine), Sheridan, Hill City 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...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)
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)
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)
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...1928 and sold by them along with the Etta mine in 1961. The mine has produced spodumene, beryl, feldspar...primarily amphibo- W . L. Roberts Rapid City, South Dakota lite, composed predominantly of small dark
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 (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
Book (edition)
YEAR 1687"—DAVID T. DAY, CHIEF OF THE DIVISION OF MINING STATISTICS AND TECHNOLOGY WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT...the con dition of affairs, more especially in the South and in the States and Ter ritories of the far West...and consump tion, or better and cheaper means of mining, extraction, and convey ance to market, may in...by Prof. John G. Smock, and that for the Eocky Mountain region by Mr. C. Whitman Cross. To these gentlemen...correspondence has been carried on with geologists, mining engineers, and other local authorities, and various
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)
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.___________________________________...Tantalum deposits__________________________________ 58 Tin deposits______-_-_____---_-___-_-_____-_-_____ 59...mines and prospects___________________ 60 Addie tin mine._________________________________ 60 Ajax cla
Report (issue)
and Ore Depostts of the Darwin Quadrangle Inyo County, California GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL Prepared... Geology and Ore Deposits ofthe Darwin Quadrangle Inyo County, California By WAYNE E. HALL and E. M. MAcKEVETT...______________________ _ Mississippian system _________ Tin Mountain limestone. _______________ - __ -_ Perdido formation...lead-silver-zinc district ______________ _ Geochemical prospecting ___ ._ ____________ _ Future of the district ___________________...___________________ _ Zinc Hill district ___________________________ _ Lee district _______________________________
Report (volume)
National Forest, South Dakota and Wyoming U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1580 SOUTH DAKOTA WYOMING I -«*&...Geology of the Black Hills National Forest, South Dakota and Wyoming We st from. Washington SHOWING...Geology of the Black Hills National Forest, South Dakota and Wyoming By ED DEWITT, J. A. REDDEN, ANNA...Mineral resources locatable commodities 50 History of mining and exploration 50 Metals 51 Industrial minerals...Proterozoic pegmatite deposits Potassium feldspar (E); tin and tungsten (F); lithium (G); potassium feldspar
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)
shaped the destiny of man. Utilization of copper and tin (bronze) and iron marked the beginnings of important...specimen is from the Number 20 mine near Spruce Pine, Mitchell County, North Carolina. Author’s specimen...Figure 5. A 2-cm uraninite cube from the Cardiff mine, Wdberforce, Ontario, Canada;Canadian Museum of...Newry; the Hinkley prospect, Pownal; the Black Mountain quarries near Rumford; and the well-known Swamp...the famous Palermo and Ruggles mines in Grafton County, New Hampshire; dendritic uraninite intergrowths
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ciated with the cleavelandite. The tin oc­ currence on this mountain is important enough that it is its...) T a 0 , are frequently encountered on the Tin Mountain dumps. I have collected tabu­ lar tantalite...thick. Microlite, C a T a 0 , is reported from this mine, though I was unable to observe any. They occur...this mine, but are relatively rarely collected. The principle ones are bismurhinite, chalcopyrite and...and sphalerite. The Tin Mountain Mine has one of the widest varieties of minerals avail­ able to the collector
Journal (issue)
.... 5 by C. S. Stolburg Minerals of the Pereta mine, Tuscany, Italy ..................................and M. Tazzini Alteration minerals of the Cetine mine, Tuscany, It a ly ................................ Sabelli and G. Brizzi Siegenite from the Buick mine, Bixby, Missouri .................................R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Arthur Roe Tucson, AZ Abraham Rosenzweig University...Renato Pagano Via S. Anna 1/B I-34074 Monfalcone South Africa: Horst Windisch 30 Van Wouw Street Groenkloof
Book
Germany; Pribram, Czechoslovakia; Broken Hill, New South Wales; Chanarcillo, Atacama, Chile; and in the states...states of Guanajuato and Chihuahua, Mexico. In the USA silver occurs at Keweenaw, Michigan, in association...found in veins and beds in association with chalcopyrite, chalcocite, cuprite, mala¬ chite and azurite...crystals in Cornwall; at Wallaroo, South Australia and Broken Hill, New South Wales. Found in sandstone at...Corocoro, Bolivia, and at Cananea, Mexico. In the USA copper is found in abundance in the Keweenaw area
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 (issue)
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...enormous spodumene crystals in the Black Hills of South Dakota ; the huge beryl crystals at Albany, Maine ;...tourmaline crystal 3x3x8 feet in the Luella Mine near Avon, Latah County, Idaho ; and etc. Origin The crystals
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) 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
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
Journal (issue)
WASHINGTON May 4, 2002 9:30 am to 6:30 pm Clark County P. U. D. Building 1200 •'ort Vancouver Way Vancouver...and Associated Minerals from Alder Creek, Wheeler County, Oregon Larry B. rrcnch 21 N Winchester Miles City...Hills I. Tin Mountain and Tip Top Mines Robert Smith In the southwest part of South Dakota, along the...to the mineralogist. These are near the towns of Custer and Keystone in the central Black Hills. I would...the town of Custer in Custer county_ These are the Tin Mountain Mine and the Tip Top Mine. The Tin Mountain
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
 
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