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Amethyst from
Imlay, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA


Locality type:Village
Classification
Species:Quartz var: Amethyst
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Amethyst data
Locality Data:Click here to view Imlay, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:212384
Long-form Identifier:1:3:212384:4
GUID (UUID V4):807415bf-5d85-40eb-a497-b830895dc8d6
Nearest other occurrences of Amethyst
78.7km (48.9 miles) State Game Lodge area, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
98.5km (61.2 miles) Box Elder Creek (2), Nemo, Lawrence 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...to be made. The most complete mineralogy of South Dakota and the Black Hills is found in Roberts and...965). Some uncited mineral species are from the South Dakota School of Mines Museum of Geology. Noteworthy...FiridofGt~rnSphultirite ut IIIP Bulinut Zinc Mine, St. Luwrence County, tditor of NPW b r k ” unrl iipptwwl in the No~~er
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Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, — ; Oregon, South Dakota, Washington, and Wyoming ~ AllanW...Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia... Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Washington, and Wyoming VOLUME 4:...Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Washington, and Wyoming by Allan W...Minnesota Missouri Montana Nebraska North Dakota Oregon South Dakota Washington vi Contents Wyoming 5505
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)
Fauna of the Bedinan Formation (Ordoviciari) in South-Eastern Turkey, by W. T. DEAN. pp. 83-123, and 10...DEPARTMENT. Economic Report No. 17. Namazambwe Amethyst Deposits, Kalomo District, by C. J. STILLMAN....1967. No price. Bulletin 1215. Geology of Shawnee County, Kansas, by WILLIAM D. JOHNSON, Jr., and W. L....Birch Creek, a Travertine Depositing Stream, Inyo County, California, by KEITH V. SLACK. 19 pp., 4figs....Magnetite from the Inner Piedmont Belt, North and South Carolina, by P. K. THEOBALD, Jr., W. C. OVERSTREET
Report (issue)
emplacement in the Schwartzwalder mine, Jefferson County, Colorado [abstr.]: in Geological Survey research...Bedrock geology of western Taylor Park, Gunnison County, Colorado: Master's, 1979, Oregon State Univ.,...lacustrine sediments of the Creede Formation, Mineral County, Colorado: 120 p., 3 plates, map, Master's, 31...hydro fracturing, Carbondale coal field, Pitkin County, Colorado: Master's, 1981, Colorado School of Mines...the Fort Hays Member, Niobrara Formation, Boulder County, Boulder, Colorado: The Engineering Geologist,
Book (edition)
EDITION SOUTH DAKOTA MINNESOTA KANSAS • INDIANA • • MISSOURI ILLINOIS • NORTH DAKOTA • OHIO...includes SOUTH DAKOTA • MICHIGAN • ILLINOIS • IOWA WISCONSIN • OHIO • KANSAS • NORTH DAKOTA NEBRASKA...Minnesota 32 Wisconsin 39 Nebraska 40 North Dakota 43 Indiana . 45 Ohio 46 Michigan 50 Missouri...you are a tourist in the IMack Hills of Soutli Dakota, the highest mountain region east of the Rockies...desolate but spectacular Badlands of North or South Dakota and think, "Surely this is not all waste! There
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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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
Report (volume)
fm________ franc. ___---_ front__--__Ft___..-- Company, County Collections Colorado Commission,Committee Communications...Md___ _______ Maryland North America no date North Dakota new series nacional Natural National northeast...--________ Soc__-______sp-___--__--_ south, Survey South Carolina South Dakota Science (s), Scientific southeast...Science Bulletin, v. 32. Topeka, Kans. Los Angeles County Museum Quarterly, v. 6, no. 4; 7, nos. 1, 2. Los...Raleigh, North Dakota Research Foundation Bulletin no. 4. Bismarck, N. Dak. North Dakota State Water Conservation
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
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describes sites under of the nearest town and county. and the many maps included book contain such...Turquoise LJ Emerald, Beryl ^"^ Agate ** Jade Amethyst nq -* % Gem Hunter's Guide Gem Hunter...that opals were unlucky long unfashionable, and amethyst lost some of its made them when high status...create a steady market and a sentithe abundant South mental regard for that gem. make Rarity helps...another. gem minerals The quartz gems, such as amethyst, form crystal prisms with / 1 for example,
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Rock-Granite 109 110 90 90 91 91 a2 * North Dakota Fossil-Jeredo Petrified Wood 111 * Ohio Gemstone-Ohio...Fossil-Eurypterus remipes 102 103 104 * South Carolina Gem Stone-Amethyst Stone-Blue Granite 106 107 128...Gem-Petrified Wood Fossil-Columbian Mammoth * South Dakota Mineral-Rose Quartz Gemstone-Fairburn Agate...“Magic City” of Birmingham, Jefferson County “The Pittsburgh of the South” during the turn of the 20" century...made of cast iron ore, sits atop Red Mountain, south of Birmingham. ROCK-MARBLE WHEREAS, marble, a
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wulfenite on the front cover and the picture of the amethyst geode on page 1 are reproduced by courtesy of...famous was the single beryl stone found in Oxford County in Maine that weighed 18 tons and was 18 feet in...serves as an excellent clue. A case in point is amethyst. This gem has a distinctive purplish or bluish-violet...York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota and Utah. Other than color, characteristics...various kinds of quartz. When one remembers that amethyst, along with the agates, chalcedonies, jaspers
Book (volume)
the state, insomuch as both the Black Hills of South Dakota and the scenic Badlands thrust long spurs into...the color of the rainbow. The western Nebraska-South Dakota borderland from Sheridan Co. to the Wyoming...chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...townagate, chalcedony, jasper, petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville...chalcedony, jasper, fossils. CHERRY COUNTY VALENTINE, in the Sandhills county along the Niobrara R. and Minnechaduza
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Georgia. The Cobb p:bbles have been found in Chicago, County specimen was collected by Bob Cook Co., III., on...I A N A — Douglas McCain, Box ium well-colored amethyst crystals from his farm one mile north of Fayetteville...away." Delphi is in the western part of Carroll County in the central part of the state. IOWA — A nice...is on a hillside on State highway 385, in Owen County, about 10 miles southeast of Gratz, Ky. LOUISIANA...Uranium Corporation in the Majuba Mountains north of Imlay, Pershing Co., Nev. We hope some reader will visit
Journal (issue)
twin, 5.5 cm, from the Amo tin deposit, Ximeng County, Yunnan, China. Wally Mann collection; Joe Budd...2.2 cm, from the Pulsifer quarry, Androscoggin County, Maine. Kyle Kevorkian collection; Jordan Root...5-mm view, from the Mohawk mine, San Bernardino County, California (#1869). Jerry Cone photo. Aurichalcite...Karnes Uranium district near my ancestral home in south Texas. Over time I developed a preference for gem...sphalerite, 20 cm, from the Elmwood mine, Smith County, Tennessee. Paul Bordovsky photo. Wire silver
Book (edition)
MARIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY 3 1111 00289 4184 \ I s Fifth Revised Edition A complete, state-by-state... LJ Emerald, Beryl *"» Agate ** Jade =p Amethyst ^ X ) y ' £f h % ^ K Gem Hunter's ...ivory and carmine enclosing a turbulent mass of amethyst. I bought it some years ago for a few shillings...unfashionable, and amethyst lost some of its high status when the abundant South American supply came...another. The quartz gems, for example, such as amethyst, form crystal prisms with six faces terminated
Book (volume)
feet thick in the south, grading to 600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason
Book (volume)
feet thick in the south, grading to 600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason
Report (volume)
cientiflca Circular' Classe classification Company, County Collections Committee Communications Comparative...S________ Siillsk_____. Schr______ schweizer__ _. south, Survey Sallskapets Schrift schweizerisch SE______...Mineral Investigations no. 2. Raleigh, N. C. North Dakota Geological Survey: 23d Biennial Report; Bulletins...Water Resources Board: Bulletin no. 1, Montgomery County: Reports on Water Supply, Clark, Franklin (and...Los Angeles, Calif. SERIALS EXAMINED 13 South Dakota Geological Survey: Bulletin 15; Reports of Investigations
Report (issue)
calcite, chalcedony, barite, quartz (including amethyst), gypsum, and hematite. From one half to 1% percent...camps of Mexico 1 Approximately equivalent to "county" in the United States. 181 182 GEOLOGIC INVESTIGATIONS...direction and 1,200 to 1,400 meters wide. To the south the mesa terminates in alluvium-blanketed plains...BULLETIN 954 PLATE 33 LUFFS OF RHYOLITE. Looking south across the Rio dc Valle Allende on the Amalia claim...claims are listed geographically from north to south. Mining claims in the Talamantes district Title
Book (edition)
from the Tourmaline Q ueen .1ine, Pala, San Diego County, California. From a pen-and-ink drawing by W. E...of tourmaline crystal forms 38. Map of San Diego County, California gem sources 3 9. Stewart Lithia· and...View of Clear Creek, San Benito County, California 55. Monterey County jade-producing shoreline, California...61. Spessartine mining, Ramona, California 62. Amethyst specimens, North Carolina 63. Quartz mine and...Agate hunting, Muscatine, Iowa 65. Four Peaks amethyst deposit crystal, Arizona 66. Digging for thundereggs
Journal (issue)
... . ........... . .... . .... . ........ 38 SOUTH CENTRAL FEDERATION OF MINERAL SOCIETIES Offlcera...Treasurer 1215 South 41st Street, Temple, Texas 76501 FIELD TRIPS Chalcedony in South Dakota by Martha Linde...Barre Or., Metai rie, la. 70001 March 16 thru 18. SOUTH CENTRAL FEDERATION OF MINERALOGICAL SOCIETIES. Annual...Show. " Stanislaus Treasure Trove." Stanislaus County Fairgrounds, Turlock, Ca. Mother Lode Mineral Society.... .O , , ~ • ,•. ,- •' Aug. 5 and 6. Fulton County Mineral Club. 12th An- ROCKS AND MINERALS FOR
Report (volume)
Station Bulletins 21, 22. Raleigh, N. C. North Dakota Geological Survey Bulletins 12, 13. Grand Forks...Angeles, Calif. South Carolina Academy of Science Bulletin vol. 6. Columbia, S. C. South Dakota Geological..., and Lee, Wallace). Oil and gas in Montgomery County, Kans.: Kansas Univ. Bull. 31, pp. 5-29, 2 pis...Chattanooga shale in Chetopa oil pool, Labette County Kans.: Am. Assoc. Petroleum Geologists Bull., vol...also Hake, B. F., 1. 1. Buckeye oil field, Gladwin County, Mich.: Am. Assoc. Petroleum Geologists Bull.,
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HfiRIN COUNTY FREE LIBRfiRY 311110G386652Q I V Russell P MacFal A COLOR TREASUF FOR COLLECTORS...to Hunting Locations ? i 9 GIVEN TO THE MARIN COUNTY LIBRARY BY MARI N L MTNF.RAT. SOCTETY DAVID...may be able to buy specimens. map of Keweenaw County. Mich- Part of the U.S. Geological Survey topographic...crystals. North Carolina and the Black Hills of South Dakota are also regions attractive for rose quartz...mines: 3 Mine portal at Fenice Capanne, Grosseto, south of Florence, Italy. f ..1.': * * •• *> ^'^
 
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