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


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Eucryptite
Formula:LiAlSiO4
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Eucryptite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Etta Mine, Keystone, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:172902
Long-form Identifier:1:3:172902:3
GUID (UUID V4):da2cbcad-cc0d-4c26-bc4e-10d7cdc5611b
Nearest other occurrences of Eucryptite
29.1km (18.1 miles) Helen Beryl Mine, Fourmile, 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...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)
lithium_________________________________ History of lithium mining and production ________________________ Imports..._._______.__ North and South Carolina.___---_______-_-_---__-__________ South Dakota________________...area._____________________________ Pala pegmatite district.__--___--___-_-______--_______._ Arizona, New...________________________ Future of the lithium mining industry________--__--___-___-______-___ Literature...analyses of three spodumene samples, Edison mine, Keystone, S. Dak.. ____..____________^__._______5. Lithium
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)
110± Z=4 X-ray Powder Pattern: Pala, California, USA (?). (ICDD 33-786). 2.921 (100), 2.793 (90), 4.205...Total 99.44 Chemistry: (1) Pala, California, USA; corresponds to (Li 0: 98 Na0:01 )§=0:99 Al1:00 (Si1:99...gneisses. Association: Quartz, albite, petalite, eucryptite, lepidolite, beryl. Distribution: From UtÄo...the Tammela district. In the USA, giant crystals in the Etta mine, near Keystone, Pennington Co., and elsewhere...in the Black Hills, South Dakota; at Hiddenite, Alexander Co. and in the Foote mine, Kings Mountain, Cleveland
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
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
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
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...Update oo the Minerals of Summit Rock, Klamath County, Oregon Magoesiohomblcnde, Pblogopite aud Cristobalite...on tbe Minerals from tbe Kiggins Mioe, Clackamas County, O~oa Donald G. Howard Most of us are aware that...I had collected on our f.eld trip to the Kiggins Mine: calcite with a liberal sprinkling of red cinnabar
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)
Survey Prof. Paper. MINERAL SOUTH ASSEMBLAGES IN BLACK HILLS DAKOTA JAMESJ. NORTON U.S. GeologicalSurvey...be sampledbecausethe mine workingswere insufficiently accessible. Only the Etta and Tin Mountain pegmatiteswere...samplescollectedand reported in matitc in the Giant-Volney mine at Tinton, in the northern Black Hills, was derived...a perthitc-rich that is in the upper part of the Etta pegThat this pegmatitemay have a petalitc origin... Redden matitc. Because of the condition of the mine work(oral eommun., 1977). ings,the sampleswere obtainedfrom
Journal (issue)
Purpurite (Phosphate) From Colorado and Pg 3 South Dakota Pebble Pups Rudist Fossil story Pg 8 Secretary’s...2 PURPURITE (PHOSPHATE) FROM COLORADO AND SOUTH DAKOTA Mike Nelson csrockguy@yahoo.com For my part...opportunity to revisit the Helen Beryl Mine in Custer County, South Dakota, in the Black Hills. I had first...graduate student enrolled in the University of South Dakota. I, and a few of my geology friends, initiated...highlight of the semester! In revisiting the Helen Beryl Mine, I only had an opportunity to sort through part
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 (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)
parcels containing fluorescent EUCRYPTITE. From the Etta Mine, Keystone, S. D., he sent in a fine fluorescent...probably the Al Hyatt mine, Mr. Vanone also sent some nearly transparent chips of EUCRYPTITE with a magnificent...source of EUCRYPTITE. The specimens ranged from nearly pure spodumene altering to EUCRYPTITE, solid EUCRYPTITE...EUCRYPTITE, EUCRYPTITE to cymatolite which is a mixture of albite and muscovite, cymatolite to muscovite...this alteration that shows fluorescence is the EUCRYPTITE. This makes for very interesting studying: Thanks
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,...while almost 50 mol% AIP0 4 is soluble in j1-eucryptite LiAISi0 4 at 1,050 °C (Liebau and Koritnig 1970)...brecciated metamorphosed rock phosphate at Moculta, South Australia Optical constants: Not certain; low birefringence
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
west coast, from Scotland in the north, to the south of England, in Devon and Cornwall, Midway, in the...in the crystals IS characteristic of a particular mine or locality. I have never seen black fluor, but...strong that IT IS VISIBLE I N SUNLIGHT. (Caps are mine) He showed me four entirely different colours and...within a few yards of each other in a particular mine. (Following are Mr. Kennedy's notes on the Harwood...haematite Florence Mine, Cumberland. Pale blue-Assoc. with dolomite, Florence Mine. Pale emerald green-app
Book
advertising and the theatre, criminology, chemistry, mining and prospecting, and medicine. Finally, a descriptive...world over — the zinc deposits in Sussex 19 I County, New Jersey. Willemite, one of the important ores...have been to look over the picking table at the mine where the ore was sorted under powerful ultraviolet...fluorescent minerals there has never been another mine to equal that at Franklin. PHOSPHORESCENT CALCITE...they usually contain material from many sources. Mine, quarry and road cut samples are also good. Watch
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geophysics, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019 USA (email: dlondon@ou.edu) ABSTRACT Pegmatites are...that Li-rich pegmatites of the Black Hills district, South Dakota, might be unrelated to the Harney Peak...trench, and coring program conducted in Colorado (USA) during WWII generated modal analyses of 1,803 pegmatites...a group or district. For example, of ~ 24,000 pegmatites mapped in the Black Hills district (Fig. 7),... South Dakota, only 14 mines or prospects were recognized as lithiumbearing (Page et al., 1953). When
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
crystals(e.9.,2 m thick and 13 m long at the Etta mine, South Dakota). It occurs in some aplites and has been...pegmatitedeposits without the presenceof either petalite or eucryptite (Munoz, l97l; Stewart, 1978).The a spodumenestructure...phases(specificgravity : 2.4)l1ke B spodumene,petalite, a and B eucryptite, eachwith Al in fourfold coordination, can easily...different duraor 600 'C and 4 kbar, petalite and a eucryptite crystal- tions at 450 and 600 "C, 4 kbar, led...agreementwith the liquidus diagram of the system albite-eucryptite-quartz determined by Stewart (1978). This phenomenon
Journal (issue)
Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...silicate minerals from Trumbull Peak, Mariposa County, California......................................Pohs was well known to every serious collector of mining antiques and memorabilia in the U.S. In the late...the first book on the subject: Early Underground Mine Lamps', it became the “bible” of lamp collecting...of learning and research on all types of antique mine lamps. He was truly a pioneer in his field. 0 The
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA Sustainable Transportation Energy Pathways, Institute...Academic Surge, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA Center for Sustainable Systems, School of Natural...Environment, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA d Systems Analytics and Environmental Sciences, Ford...Company, Mail Drop RIC-2122, Dearborn, MI 48121‐2053, USA b c a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received...large-scale mining, but significant production might also come from selective, underground mining of small
Report (issue)
Geology of the High Climb Pegmatite Custer County South Dakota GEOL.OGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1015-C Geology... Geology of the High Climb Pegmatite Custer County South Dakota By DOUGLAS M. SHERIDAN A CONTRIBUTION TO...production-_____________________________________ Mine workings________________________________________________...CUSTER COUNTY, S. DAK. By DOUGLAS M. SHERIDAN ABSTRACT The High Climb pegmatite, Ouster County, S. Dak...SURFACE FEATURES The High Climb pegmatite in Custer County, S. Dak., is near the section line between the
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
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
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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