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Andalusite from
Etta Mine, Keystone, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Andalusite
Formula:Al2(SiO4)O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Andalusite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Etta Mine, Keystone, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:172886
Long-form Identifier:1:3:172886:6
GUID (UUID V4):88cabeee-4422-46e6-8462-119132b5fb2c
Nearest other occurrences of Andalusite
1.1km (0.7 miles) Peerless Mine, Keystone, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
10.5km (6.5 miles) Summit Peak, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
13.8km (8.6 miles) Hill City Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
13.8km (8.6 miles) U.S. highways 16/385 & State route 87 intersection area, Oreville Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
15.9km (9.9 miles) Southern Black Hills Kyanite Mine, Southern Black Hills, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
16.4km (10.2 miles) Oreville, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
16.8km (10.4 miles) Elkhorn Mine (Tinsley Mine), Custer, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
17.6km (10.9 miles) Beecher No. 3, Beecher Lode, Custer, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
18.3km (11.4 miles) Custer Mountain lode (Snookum mine), Custer, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
20.7km (12.9 miles) Black Diamond Pennington County Occurrence, Unorganized mining district [5], 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 (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)
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)
TIN, TUNGSTEN, AND TANTALUM DEPOSITS OF SOUTH DAKOTA. By FRANK L. HESS. INTRODUCTION. Many articles... and tantalum in South Dakota occur in the Black Hills, in Lawrence and Pennington counties, in the southwestern...miles wide, the longer axis lying nearly north and south. There is a considerable diversity of topography...considered. In the southern part, near Hill and Keystone, the hills exhibit rounded contours with fairly...deposits of wolframite in the Black Hills of South Dakota: Trans. Am. Ir.st. Min. Eng., vol. 31, 1901
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)
MINERALS FROM THE ETTA MINE KEYSTONE, SOUTH DAKOTA By ARTHUR SMITH JR. The purpose of this article is...brief descriptions of the minerals occurring in the Etta pegmatite. Much of the information has been compiled...of Rapid City. The Etta mine is located 1 mile south of Keystone. To reach the mine take Alternate Route...the railroad crossing in Keystone. Follow this road past the road to the Keystone Cemetery. At about 0.6...makes a Y ; the dumps of the Etta mine are directly ahead. To reach the mine follow the road to the right
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)
THE ETTA TIN MINES By MRS. MARTHA LINDE 639 Harney St., Custer, S. Oak. 57730 The Black Hills of Dakota...changed from the hunting grounds of the Sioux to the mining mecca of America on that sultry day in August 1874...the Black Hills. "The Mine That Started The Tin Boom, The Etta Mine" The Etta mine which is located near...the Keystone cemetery was first located by Dr. S. H. Ferguson and L. W. McDonald as a mica mine in 1883...1883. In working the mine they discovered in the black ore the presence of a mineral they couldn't identify
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Museum of Geology South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Rapid City, South Dakota 57701 Downloaded...unless otherwise noted. Minerals of the ETTA PE THE ETTA PEGMATITE IS BEST KNOWN for having produced...poured in the United States came from Etta cassiterite. The Etta is the type locality of the nowdiscredited...Location The Etta pegmatite is located in the NW !A, NE Yi, of section 16, T2S, R6E, 1 mile south of the town...town of Keystone, South Dakota. It is 2 miles due east of Mount Rushmore and can be located on the Mount
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...DEPOSITS OF THE PEERLESS PEGMATITE, PENNINGTON COUNTY, SOUTH DAKOTA By DOUGLAS M. SHEKIDAN, HAL G. STEPHENS...Peerless pegmatite, half a mile south of Keystone, Pennington County, S. Dak., has been a major source
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
monazite,cassiterite,apa[ite, zircon and the andalusite-sillimanite-kyanite group of minerals. Mineralsof...which showedcrystal faces. In the Natas mine in middle South-West Africa such a vein in schistscarriescrystalsof...pp. 1-49, I914. a Rickard, T. A.: A Journeyto South Africa. Eng. & Min. Jour. Press, vol. i2i, p....muchlarger. A massof amblygonite in the Peerlessmine at Keystone,S. Dak., had been exposedin I9o8 for a lengthof... berylon theIngersollclaim2• milesnorthwestof Keystone,S. Dak., was 45 inchesacrossthe endbetween sides
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
tourmaline crystal was noted in the Luella mine near Avon, Latah county, Idaho, which measured 3x3x8 feet. Other...the Black Hills of South Dakota. A black crystal from Micaville, Randolph county, Alabama, was 10 inches...length. Other crystals have been noted at the Baer mine near Orange, New Hampshire, to 10 inches in diameter...noted in the School Section pegmatite of Fremont county, Colorado. ROCKS AND MINERALS Maine, Connecticut...Gunnison county, Colorado; dark green, pink, and indicolite tourmalines from pegmatites near Keystone, South
Book
hobbyists. Many would be surprised to learn that the mining of titanium oxide, primarily for pigments, is a...systems that exhibit polymorphism such as Al2$íO5 (andalusite-sillimanite-kyanite) and SíO2 (quartz-cristobalite-tridymite)...pegmatite, Park County, Colorado; the Etta and Peerless mines, near Keystone, South Dakota; at Udraz, Czech...with lesser amounts of anatase and U l s t e r County, New York. Minute tabular brookite crystals rutile)...occurs with quartz crystals at the Ellenville Lead mine, granite at Topsham, Maine. Figure 20. A thumbnail-sized
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
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)
.......................... 12 3 Lake City Mining District, Colorado. By David Seaman ........... 124...By RONALD L. IVES Since the early days of placer mining mation is pre-Cambrian, with three, in Colorado...remainder FeWO, .... Ferberite hlgh country of Boulder County, Color20-80 % Mn WO., ado, near the town of Nederland...Colorado Geological Sun1c7 Interior of Boulder County Tunnd . Th is tunnel has tapped veil\5 of tungsten...and west coasts of Africn. nncl Yarion~ places in South America. Nine-tenths of the copal n!lecl is obain('d
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(No. 6) Augelite, South Dakota, 383 Autunite, South Dakota, 383 Azurite, South Dakota, 383 Back, M. E...E., Pyromorphite: A Review, 22-36 Barite, South Dakota, 383 Barium-Saturated Zeolite Assemblage, Sugar...JanuaryIFebruary: Pyromorphite, Les Barlow, A., 98 Farges mine, Correze Province, France; Barnes, J. H., see Media...Minerals of the Government Pit, Albany, New Mountain, South Hunan Province, PeoHampshire, 158-68 ple’s Republic...Gibson mine, Bertrandite, New Hampshire, 161 Pitkin County, Colorado; specimen Beryl, South Dakota, 383
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
168samplesof homogeneous matite in the Kings Mountain district gatheredby W. R. Griffittswereusedby T. G. Lovering(1958)as... 9't3 PEGM ATITES Table 2. Modes*, in percent,Etta pegmatitefrom Norton et al. (1964,Table 5) Unit...homogeneous of the LizO content half or less the district. tain rock in this volume of overany considerable...containsabout 2 weight percentmore AlrO, than tite, the Etta spodumenemine, SD, (Table2; from Nockolds'(1954...from zoned pegmatites, the suite from the Etta spodumene mine (Table 2) being connected by short dashes
Book
be minerals. Microcline, Crystal Peak, Colorado, USA * 12 x 9x 5 om MINERALS: PRODUCTS OF A CHANGING...CHANGING PLANET 11 Vanadinite, San Carlos district, Chihuahua, Mexico * 8 x 4 x 2 cm Mineral Species Minerals...zeolites. Calcite (septarian nodule), San Juan County, Utah, USA * 18 x 24x Bem 14 | MINERALS: PRODUCTS...10 ct RIGHT: Round brilliant-cut white diamonds, South Africa and Canada « 2.00 ct and 3.06 ct leaves...for cutting other minerals. Tale, Mpumalanga, South Africa * 19 x 6 x 83cm Hardness 1 Hardness 4
Report (volume)
Beecher No. 3-Black Diamond Pegmatite Custer County South Dakota GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1072-1 Beryl...Beecher No. 3-Black Diamond Pegmatite Custer County South Dakota By JACK A. REDDEN CONTRIBUTIONS TO ECONOMIC...beryl deposit in pegmatite of the Black Hills, South Dakota UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON...BEECHER NO. 3-BLACK DIAMOND PEGMATITE, CUSTER COUNTY, SOUTH DAKOTA By JACK A. EEDDEN ABSTRACT The Beecher... that plunge both northward and southward. The south end of the pegmatite is formed of two coalescing
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 (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......
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
 
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