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Tantalite from
Helen Beryl Mine, Fourmile, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:'Tantalite' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:(Mn,Fe)(Ta,Nb)2O6
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Quartz1 photo of Tantalite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Tantalite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Helen Beryl Mine, Fourmile, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (2 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:210816
Long-form Identifier:1:3:210816:2
GUID (UUID V4):82ad9f3a-0c6b-4b91-bfb9-08cdb398fc4c
Nearest other occurrences of Tantalite
4.2km (2.6 miles) Tin Mountain Mine, Fourmile, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
6.8km (4.3 miles) Dorothy Lode, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
7.8km (4.8 miles) Mayo Lode, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
10.8km (6.7 miles) Lookout Mine (Carroll Claims; Park; Rosebud), Pringle, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
13.0km (8.1 miles) Bull Moose Mine, Custer, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
13.4km (8.3 miles) Old Mike mine (Great Northern; Old Mike M.S.2212), Custer, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
21.4km (13.3 miles) Grizzly Bear Gulch, Hill City Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
28.8km (17.9 miles) Dan Patch Mine, Keystone, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
29.5km (18.3 miles) Bob Ingersoll Mine (Ingersoll Mine; Ben Butler Mine; Horace Greely Mine), Keystone, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
29.8km (18.5 miles) White Cap Mine (King Mica Mine; Primer lode), Keystone, Keystone 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...mines worked tor bery 1. muscovite, col ti mhite-tantalite. ambl ygonite, spodumene, and feldspar probably...except for the Homestake mine, which has operated for more than 120 years, most mining in the area peaked in
Report (issue)
Geology and Pegmatites of the Fourmile Quadrangle, Black Hills South Dakota GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL... Geology and Pegmatites of the Fourmile Quadrangle, Black Hills South Dakota By JACK A. REDDEN PEGMATITES...-----Feldspar.-_________----_------------------Beryl-.----------------------------------Lithium mineral...prospects-_--------------------Big Tom mine (pegmatite 64) -------------------Corky mine (pegmatite 58)____--_--------------Gayle...9)__________________ Red Spar mine (pegmatite 70)-___--__-___________ Rock Ridge mine (pegmatite 113)_________________
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MINERAL LOCATIONS IN THE SOUTHERN BLACK HILLS, SOUTH DAKOTA By ARTHUR SMITH JR., Geologist 152 Wilbur Road...Location 1-B: The road to the November Pegmatite Mine is located about 1.2 miles east of the "Needles...southwest (right, coming from the tunnel) up a hill. The mine dumps are about 150 yards up this road to the right...and up on the dumps to the mine located near the top of the hill. The mine consists of a long open-cut...There has been some mining since this time, possibly as late as 1957, but the mine was idle in 1958 and
Report (issue)
Beryllium at the Helen Beryl, Elkhorn and Tin Mountain Pegmatites Custer County, South Dakota GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...Beryllium at the Helen Beryl, Elkhorn and Tin Mountain Pegmatites Custer County, South Dakota By MORTIMER... _ Methods of estimating beryl content _________________ _ Tonnage of beryl-bearing units __________________...___________________________________ _ Helen Beryl pegmatite _____________________________ _ Mine workings ___________...Mineral deposits _______________________________ _ Beryl _____________________________________ _ Feldspar
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
Report (issue)
Pegmatite Investigations 1942-1945 Black Hills, South Dakota By LINCOLN R. PAGE and OTHERS GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...Descriptions, maps, and diagrams of deposits of mica, beryl, lithium, tantalum, tin, and feldspar UNITED STATES..._______________________ Mining, preparation, and uses of mica. _____________ Mining.___________________________________...Prospecting for mica.___________________________ Beryl deposits.-___.__-_-___--_--__--:_-__-__--_--__ Distribution..._____ Types of beryl deposits_-__-_-_-_--------------__ Structural features of beryl deposits..-.___________
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)
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)
N M O U N T A I N PEGMATITE M I N E , CUSTER COUNTY SOUTH DAKOTA and Arthur Smith Jr. Houston, Texas...about 6 miles west southwest of Custer in the Black Hills of South Dakota (Figure 1 ) . The pegmatite was...the properties of the old Harney Peak Tin Co. The mine was acquired by the Maywood Chemical Company of...them along with the Etta mine in 1961. The mine has produced spodumene, beryl, feldspar, amblygonite,... columbite-tantalite and pollucite. The pegmatite occurs in a ridge which is far from the main mass of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
The spatial locations for six samples from the Helen Beryl pegmatite were known. The Na/K ratios of their...t h Dakota, and their interpretation The pegmatites in the southern Black Hills region of South Dakota...minerals as reported by Keith & Tuttle (1952). The .Helen Beryl pegmatite was empiaced in quartz-mica schist...economic deposits of beryl, mica, K-feldspar, spodumene, and colurnbite-tantalite. Detailed mineralogical...the fluid inclusions and whole quartz from the Helen Beryl pegmatite are presented iin Table 1. The analyses
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
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...-------Feldspar _-_--_--------------_----------Beryl-.---------. ----------------------Lithium minerals...Map showing distribution of zoned pegmatites and beryl-bearing pegmatites in the Berne quadrangle_______...GEOLOGY OF THE BERNE QUADRANGLE, BLACK HILLS, SOUTH DAKOTA By JACK A. REDDEN ABSTRACT The Berne quadrangle
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
genesis: Tin Mountain pegmatite, Black Hills, South Dakota Richard J. Walker* i, Gilbert N. Hanson 1 and...Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA z Institute for the Study of Mineral Deposits, South Dakota School of Mines and...and Technology, Rapid City, SD 67701, USA Abstract. The Tin Mountain pegmatite is a small, zoned granitic...National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA Offprint requests to: R.J. Walker tions and the...Tin Mountain pegmatite in the Black Hills of South Dakota. This body is ideal for a petrogenetic evaluation
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Investigation of Gilley Fluorspar Deposits in Cherokee County, Alabama, by James F. O'Neill. It is interesting...fluorite worthy of special investigation this far south. The deposit is 17 miles east of Gadsden, 50 miles...Birmingham, in Cherokee County, located in West 1/2, West V2 of Section 16, Township 12 South, Range 9 East, and...crystal'ized cinnabar which comes from the Culver-Baer mine, Sonoma Co., Calif. Colorado—An interesting article...The Micanite pegmatite district lies across the Park-Fremont County line in south-central Co'crado, a few
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Copyright © 2003 Elsevier Science Ltd Printed in the USA. All rights reserved 0016-7037/03 $30.00 ⫹ .00 Pergamon...Granite and associated pegmatites, Black Hills, South Dakota—Evidence from fluid inclusions MONA-LIZA C....University Of Missouri–Columbia, Columbia, MO 65211, USA (Received August 29, 2001; accepted in revised form...the Proterozoic terrane of the Black Hills, South Dakota. The aims of this study were to determine the...Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859, USA. (mona.sirbescu@cmich.edu). 2443 2444 M.-L. C
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
Book
world mineralo- authority provides cultural beryl: and mineral collectors. here sciences, yet...material causes of to jewelry on the and beryl uses the techno- fora mineral only for and...cultural mineralogical once events. languages for beryl emerald logical to and part, Sinkankas explores...jewels—and relatives, beryl is a of the ago, the fabled Table golden beryl medicine years of...Queen 5500 Egypt the part is anywhere an beryl deposits, of fine crystal Sinkankas has in the
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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...or etched by corrosive solutions, as occurs with beryl, or they may be fractured by rock movements during...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
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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
Book
courtesy (A Division 249 of Norman From and Helen K. Gray the collection of the 7 z o T. n ...ore?" "Do I need a license to mine uranium?" "How do I stake a mining claim?" As a result of these inquiries...which have participated hundreds of geologists, mining engineers, mineralogists, and prospectors, both...and R. Sprigg, South Australia Department of Mines; H. H. Adler, Margaret Cooper, Helen V. DeSanctis,...of Mines and Technical Surveys, Canada. Eldorado Mining and Refining, Ltd., Canada. Department of Atomic
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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...\ Encyclopedia of Minerals IN MEMORY OF 2. HELEN KEMPNER < i FROM ye = JOHN & ELAINE WOODARD...Photo Editor: Wendell E. Wilson Library Saguache County Public Saguache, Colorado VAN NOSTRAND REINHOLD
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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
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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...taken from this room Encyclopedia of Minerals HELEN KEMPNER FRCM JOHN & ElAINE WOODARD . . . N CYCL·OPEDIA...England Thomas Nelson Australia 102 Dodds Street South Melbourne, Victoria 3205, Australia Nelson Canada
 
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