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Fluorapatite from
Peerless Mine, Keystone, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Fluorapatite
Formula:Ca5(PO4)3F
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Quartzⓘ5 photos of Fluorapatite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Goyaziteⓘ2 photos of Fluorapatite associated with Goyazite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Fluorapatite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Peerless Mine, Keystone, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (3 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:156203
Long-form Identifier:1:3:156203:3
GUID (UUID V4):db280691-5499-46d8-bc58-90749076dc1f
Nearest other occurrences of Fluorapatite
1.1km (0.7 miles) ⓘEtta Mine, Keystone, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
1.4km (0.8 miles) ⓘEdison Mine, Keystone, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
1.7km (1.0 miles) ⓘWhite Cap Mine, Keystone, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
1.8km (1.1 miles) ⓘDan Patch Mine, Keystone, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
2.2km (1.4 miles) ⓘHugo Mine, Keystone, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
3.5km (2.2 miles) ⓘBob Ingersoll Mine, Keystone, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
3.9km (2.4 miles) ⓘKing Lithia Mine, Greyhound Gulch, Keystone, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
4.1km (2.6 miles) ⓘBig Chief Mine, Glendale, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
4.9km (3.1 miles) ⓘWood Tin mine, Harney City, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
11.0km (6.9 miles) ⓘOld Marble quarry, The Needles, Custer State Park, 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...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 (article/letter/editorial)
specificgravity results from both Nrn and Sr in this fluorapatite. rt is suggestedthat oxygen replacesF to a small...southern Black Hills half a mile south of Keystone,PenningtonCounty, South Dakota. It is one of a group of productive...productive zoned pegmatites comprising the Keystone district, which is located near the northeastern marqin...at the surface;its cross-section anticlinal. Fluorapatite occurs as the major mineral in drusy fracture...necessarilydirectly related in origin to the main mass of the Peerless pegmatite, becausethey occur on siickensidedsurfacesof
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
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 (issue)
R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Arthur Roe Tucson, AZ Abraham Rosenzweig University...and W. B. Simmons Fluorapatite from the King Lithia mine, Custer County, South Dakota .. 361 by M. L. Wilson...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...Roman, C/zÂŁvei/i deposits of jf v l t h e Ems district in West Germany have yielded over 50 mineral species
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)
Virginia. Willis Mt. is in Buckingham County, not Prince Wil­ liam County. of the Pyrochlore Group" by D....Sonoma names—pyrochlore, microlite, and betafite- County and Peoples said that he found it which are modified...material sound familiar to anyone? corner of Crawford county (a generalized map is published). From these pegmatites...similar to the lithia mica from the Peerless mine, Keystone, Sheri­ dan County, S. D. . . . The mineral does...are found at the Dunton gem quarry (now really a mine with its underground workings). Most of the sulphides
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...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.______________________...______________________ Chemical analyses of mica from the south segment of the Hugo pegmatite.____________________________
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
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
Report (issue)
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. A sbestos ore Lead ore, Balmat mine, N . Y. Chromite-chromium ore, Washington Zinc ore...Survey in accordance with the provisions of the Mining and Minerals Policy Act of 1970 (Public Law 91-631...discovered or not currently profitable to mine. The mining of mineral deposits, once they are discovered.................... Fluorine in phosphate and fluorapatite deposits..................... Fluorine in other..... ....... Washington-Idaho-Montana-Wyoming-South Dakota, by R. L. Parker...........................
Book
On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...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 (article/letter/editorial)
River Canyon, isotropic sound velocities usFremont County, Colorado. 3. 1001 ing refractiveindex data. ....the bert).. 1727 Peerless pegmatite, South 1829 1830 INDEX (Young, Sheridan, Dakota Munson) fluor-chlor-oxy... I. The manganese bearing minerals of Charnpion Mine, Champiorr, Mich1560 . igan (abs.). . Babefphite...112+ 1712 216 130 from Ambrosia Lake uranium district.. . Barite-quartz phase in the FireCarbonate,...C. with Peng,T. Charnockite, myrmekite in, from South-West Nigeria (Hubbard) Chase,A. B. and Osmer, J'
Book (volume)
Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States SOUTH DAKOTA This northwestern Great Plains state varies...western counties of Lawrence, Meade, Custer and Pennington the land rises abruptly into the 6,000 sq. mi...Alleghenies, culminate in Harney Peak in southern Pennington Co. At 7,242’ this peak is the highest point...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
Report (volume)
Geophysical Union.. Transactions, American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers _..._ American Journal...Colorado Mining Association publications . Economic Geology. _ . _ ___... Engineering and Mining Journal...of Sedimentary Petrology_...__._ Mines Magazine Mining Engineering ........___..._...._____ Advances in...Tallahassee, Fla. GA Georgia Department of Mines, Mining and Geology, 425 State Capitol, Atlanta, Ga. IM...and Mineral Resources, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, N. Mex. NOC North Carolina
Journal (issue)
crystal, 1.5 cm, with siderite and pale purple fluorapatite, from the Rapid Creek area, Yukon Territory...W longitude. It is on Rapid Creek, about 35 km south of Mackenzie Bay on the Beaufort Sea, and approximately...“Crosscut Creek,” and the next tributary to the south and east is called “Lake Creek.” Area B, about 10...north of due east, dipping very steeply to the south, and intersecting the bedding at a high interplanal...Chalcopyrite Childrenite Collinsite Eosphorite Fluorapatite Fluorite Garyansellite Gorceixite Gordonite
Journal (issue)
crystals to 4 cm, with calcite, from the arsenic mine near Shimen in Hunan Province, China. Mike Bergmann...’s more unusual wulfenite occurrences, the Finch mine, inhere crystal groups are commonly found covered...covered by a thin layer o f drusy quartz. This mine and the various other adjacent properties and workings...f 21 unpatented claims in the B anner m ining district, Gila C ounty, Arizona. T he group includes the...1995 the property to the north is the fam ous 79 mine. Further north and west is the R ay copper m ine
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
Thesis/Dissertation
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mining History . .......................................intervening basins. South Italian, Italian and North Italian Mountains form a north-south line with the highest...vegetation adapted to living in a cold arid climate. Mining History The Italian Mountain area was the scene...lead-silver ore and the Star Mine in 1878 (Garrett, 1950). The remoteness of the mine discouraged development...2711 lb (oz ?) Ag and 2 oz. Au (Roy, 1972). The mine is currently.being prospected by Dr, C. S. Livingstone
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
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 (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
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)
University of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana 70148, USA Fernando NORONHA Geology Centre, and Department...evolution both within and among pegmatites in a district (ČernĂœ et al. 1985, 1986, 2004, ČernĂœ 1989, Ercit...biotite, and minor tourmaline, beryl, garnet, fluorapatite, chlorite, and zircon; 2) quartz–andalusite...quartz, feldspar, muscovite, and minor biotite, fluorapatite, beryl, tourmaline, chlorite, zircon, pyrite... 780 the canadian mineralogist minerals, fluorapatite, montebrasite, triphylite, phosphoferrite, dufrĂ©nite
 
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