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


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Graphite
Formula:C
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Graphite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Etta Mine, Keystone, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:172907
Long-form Identifier:1:3:172907:8
GUID (UUID V4):69d6a5b5-5be5-4cfc-9da8-ecb1e67dff89
Nearest other occurrences of Graphite
2.0km (1.2 miles) Columbia Mine (Maiden Mine), Keystone, Keystone Gold Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
9.3km (5.8 miles) Good Luck; Success; Cleveland Claims (American Tungsten Mining Company), Hill City Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
9.4km (5.9 miles) Vida May Occurrence (Pettit and Nash), Hill City Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
12.2km (7.6 miles) Dyke claim (Dike lode), Hill City Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
13.4km (8.3 miles) Black Metal Group, Hill City Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
13.8km (8.6 miles) Eureka Lode Prospect (Hultz), Custer 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
14.5km (9.0 miles) Annie No. 1 Lode (Tin Spike), Hill City Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
15.2km (9.5 miles) Coats Mine (Coats Dike Mine; Cowboy Group), 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
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...Mica prospect.____________________________ Etta spodumene mine.______________________________ Geology-___...301 302 303 305 305 307 310 312 314 315 Etta spodumene mine Continued Mineral deposits____--__------...spodumene prospect._________ Hot Shot feldspar and mica mine.. _____ Geology __________-_---_-_-----------__-_-----Mineral
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Petaca district of Rio Arriba County, New Mexico; from the Harney Peak region of South Dakota; the Reagan...Reagan mining district, Kern range, White Pine County, Nevada. SULFUR, S, occurs very rarely in pegmatites...grains also at Shaft 7 near Fishkill, New York. GRAPHITE. C, is rather uncommon in pegmatite. In the eastern...five miles south of Blairs- sulfide, has been found in the Ben Nevis ville, Union County, Georgia. It...It has been mine on San Augustin Peak, Organ mounmined from a pegmatite at Pinetucky, tains, New Mexico
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)
OF THE ETTA SPODUMENE BLACK HILLS, SOUTH DAKOTA. G. M. MINE, SCHWARTZ. INTRODUCTION. THE Etta mine...importantproducerof lithium ore in the United States. Althoughthe mine has been repeatedlyreferred to, and briefly described...JamesCessna,Superintendent of the Etta, for permissionto studyand map the mine and for many mineral specimens...GENERAL FEATURES. History of the Mine.--Previous to I883 the Etta claim had beenworked for mica. In... P. Blake• determined tin in samplesfrom the Etta mine which had been submitted to him for analysis.
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)
muscovite in pegmatite wall zones, Black Hills, South Dakota, USA B.L. JOLLIFF,'J.J.PAPIKE,* andC.K. SHEARER'...Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63 130499, USA *Institute of Meteoritics, Department of Geology...University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87 13l- 1126, USA (Received January 6, 1992; accepted in revised form...character and degree of compositional evolution in the Keystone area of the Black Hills. Whole-rock compositions...geochemical characteristics of samples from the Etta pegmatite indicate mixing with and assimilation
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)
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
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)
Rtcrwooo Schoolof Applied Geologlt (Jniversityof New South |l'ales Kensington,N. S.W. 2033, Australia Abstract...(E1 9 2 3 , p . 3 6 2 ) . 5 PerticaE Italy. 2. Mine, Urbino, SULPIiIDES € SULPHOSALTS (i)SULTHIDES...70 x 8.89 x 6.35 cm from Maybee Quarry, Monroe County, Michigan, U.S.A. and which is in the Cranbrook...Sciences,Madrid, Spain; Guillemin (1964,p.l). Graphite crystals 20 cm long have been reported from u...Collection, Central ResearchLaboratory, Mitsubishi Metal Mining Company, Yonu-Shi, Saitana prefecture, Japan; it
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
places these bodies are funnel shaped, as is the Etta pegmatite in the Black Hills. Still other pegmatites...1910. 6 Keith, Arthur, Gafiney-Kings Mt- Folio, South and North Carolina: U. ,5. Geol. Suraey, Geol. Folio...pegmatite aiUes in the Archean rocks of the Alma district, Park -C*tty, Colorado, measure four hundred feet...Maitlandlo has described pegmatites in the Wodgina district of Western Australia which "vary from mere threads...earth for great distances cannot be accepted, since mining operations have uncovered a definite bottom in
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
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......
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
Report (issue)
.. ii :iet3Baorpfcic zoek» of tha Ssystooa district of rock type* «*«.«*«,*«*,**.*.*,» Quart** and...«*«*»*»«.***** 92 1* locatioa of t&a Sayaton* district and dlatributioa of pe^raatitca la t&t aoutJwra...SejTrtone district, Coaoty, Sotttii DeLkota *«***«*«»* ^. Stnstttural treoda of the Heystona district, County...County, South Bakata *«****«*,***»««,, In * Orientation of 160 polott to discordant contacts of 6* Geologic...Geologic map and section, Big Chief Peimla^toa County, 3* DaJt. .«,.., «...,,.* la T« Geolo^te section,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(including Scotland), and in the Gondwanaland belt of South America, Africa, India, and Australia. In addition...North America; the rare earth pegmatitesb of Llano County (Texas), Minas Geraes(BraziI), Ytterby (Sweden)...and India; and the beryl pegmatites of BraziI and South Africa. PelBozorc PncuerrrBs Pegmatites of Paleozoic...the ore deposits of the New England area of New South Wales are related to Carboniferous and PermoCarboniferous...Keith, Arthur, The Gaffney-Kings Mountain Folio, South and North Carolina: U . S. Geol.Swvey, GeoI.Fol'io
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
identify. This sample was taken about 15 miles south of Anniston, Alabama, where the rock had been cut...first phyllite we ever saw from sers" area, Sonoma County, Calif. It was noted by M. Vonsen in CALIF. JOUR... ranging in in a road cut situated in Randolph County, size from 2 to 4 millimeters. Sometimes it Ala...small open fissures with quartz and calcite." miles south of Anniston." "I must add, however, that there should...other recognized psilomelane in the Batesville district, In- species as laumontite, thomsonite, datolite
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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
 
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