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Spodumene from
Peerless Mine, Keystone, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Spodumene
Formula:LiAlSi2O6
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Spodumene data
Locality Data:Click here to view Peerless Mine, Keystone, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:212461
Long-form Identifier:1:3:212461:2
GUID (UUID V4):246bd3bb-0711-43cd-8e00-61ea02928cc6
Nearest other occurrences of Spodumene
0.9km (0.6 miles) Nickel Plate Mine, Keystone, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
1.1km (0.7 miles) Etta Mine, Keystone, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
1.4km (0.8 miles) Edison Mine, Keystone, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
1.5km (0.9 miles) Expectation Pegmatite, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
2.2km (1.4 miles) Hugo Mine, Keystone, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
3.5km (2.2 miles) Bob Ingersoll Mine, Keystone, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
3.9km (2.4 miles) King Lithia Mine, Greyhound Gulch, Keystone, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
3.9km (2.4 miles) Dike Lode, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
4.9km (3.1 miles) Wood Tin mine, Harney City, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
6.2km (3.9 miles) Tiger mine, Hayward, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
References
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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...muscovite, col ti mhite-tantalite. ambl ygonite, spodumene, and feldspar probably peaked in the 1940s. However...except for the Homestake mine, which has operated for more than 120 years, most mining in the area peaked in
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)
Pegmatite Investigations 1942-1945 Black Hills, South Dakota By LINCOLN R. PAGE and OTHERS GEOLOGICAL SURVEY..._______________________ Mining, preparation, and uses of mica. _____________ Mining.___________________________________...Mineralogy-___________________________________ 55 Spodumene _______-_-____-_--____------____ 55 Amblygonite..._________________- i __-__-__--___-__ 57 Prospecting for spodumene, amblygonite, and lepidolite ________ ______:...mines and prospects___________________ 60 Addie tin mine._________________________________ 60 Ajax claim
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)
and Beryl Deposits of the Peerless Pegmatite Pennington County South Dakota GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL...and Beryl Deposits of the Peerless Pegmatite Pennington County South Dakota By DOUGLAS M. SHERllDAN, HAL...__________________ Acknowledgments__________________________ Mine workings _____________________________________ Geology...undifferentiated _____________________________________ Peerless pegmatite ______________________________ Size...4 4 4 4 5 5 5 6 17 17 Page Geology Continued Peerless pegmatite Continued Chemical composition.....
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MINNESOTA, MISSOURI, NEBRASKA NORTH DAKOTA, OKLAHOMA, SOUTH DAKOTA AND TEXAS BY MARGARET COOPER CONTENTS...Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, 1, Part 2, and Part 3 258 Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas and Section 2....North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Texas 262 souri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota...Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Texas. It is Part 4 of a comprehensive...Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Texas; Index II, Geographical
Report (issue)
Near rringie, Pringle Southern Black Hills, South Dakota, "Vii ic«*rl Kw Caused by Rare-Mineral I tnckvrkncc»«4...Anomaly Near Pringle, Southern Black Hills, South Dakota, Possibly Caused by Unexposed Rare-Mineral Pegmatite...Products Section, U. S. Geological Survey, 604 South Pickett Street, Alexandria, VA 22304 CONTENTS...group of pegmatites .............................. Mining and exploration for lithium minerals, beryl, and...of tantalite-columbite from the Etta pegmatite, Keystone, S. Dak. ....................................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
River, New York City, N.Y. ; at the Dake mine, Mitchell County, North Carolina; with tysonite in Cheyenne...Springs, Colorado; and with rutile in Alexander County, North Carolina. MONAZITE, is essentially a phosphate...Park no. 2 mine near Penland and in crystals to one and one half inches in size at the Dake mine in Mitchell...Mitchell County. It occurs also in crystals at the Ray mine near Burnsville and the Ramsey mine near Toledo...Toledo in Yancy County, North Carolina. Large masses of Monazite occurred at the Flat Rock mine in Mitchell
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...provided a model for the PEGMATITE FIELD OF the Keystone area, along the northeastern flank of the Harney
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)
lithium_________________________________ History of lithium mining and production ________________________ Imports...deposits in pegmatites._____________________________ Spodumene deposits.._----___-____-________-__________ Amblygonite..._._______.__ North and South Carolina.___---_______-_-_---__-__________ South Dakota________________...area._____________________________ Pala pegmatite district.__--___--___-_-______--_______._ Arizona, New...________________________ Future of the lithium mining industry________--__--___-___-______-___ Literature
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...quartz-cleavelandite* pegmatite-. __ Zone 5: Quartz-microcline-spodumene pegmatite____ Zone 6: Quartz-microcline pegmatite...and section of the area near the Hugo pegmatite, Keystone, S. Dak. Geologic map, underground workings, and...quartz, albite, microcline, mica, amblygonite, and spodumene a,t successive zonal contacts. Index map.-___
Report (issue)
may be an ore Association: Hydroxylapatite, spodumene, lepidolite, petalite, pollucite, tourmaline,...pegmatite, Bernic Lake, Manitoba, Canada. In the USA, at the Nevel quarry and Bell Pit, Newry, Oxford...pegmatite, White Picacho district, Maricopa Co., Arizona; in South Dakota, from the Peerless and Hugo mines, near...near Keystone, Pennington Co.; around Custer, Custer Co., at the Tip Top and Tin Mountain mines, with...of Custer; at the Nesbit mine, Gunnison Co., Colorado; in the Stewart mine, Pala, San Diego Co., California
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...Potash feldspar_________________________________ Spodumene.___________________________________ Beryl ___...prospect.____________________________ Etta spodumene mine.______________________________ Geology-___...301 302 303 305 305 307 310 312 314 315 Etta spodumene mine Continued Mineral deposits____--__--------
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
plagioclase, perthite,spodumene(or petalite),amblygonite, (6) quartz,spodumene (or petalite),(7) quartz...ward,the rockbecomes mostlyfeldsparand quartz. Spodumene-rich zones,if present,follow feldsparquartz zones...The most based on evidence from the Black Hills, South Da- prolificsources of problemshave beenlarge lithium...te$podumene 6 Plagioclase-quartz-spodumene 7 Quartz-spodumene 8 Lepidolite-plagioclase-quartz ...X X X JDoesnotinclude pegmatites of thetin-spodumene belt(NorthCarolina andSouthCarolina) or Alabama
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 ZONED PEGMATITES OF THE BLACK HILLS, SOUTH DAKOTA Peur L. Wnrs, [/. S. Geological Suruey,Washington25...crystallization in a restricted system. Beryl, spodumene, tourmaline, garnet and quartz containing fluid...temperatures than beryl from outer zones. The Peerless pegmatite gave results that showed a reverse trend...in inclusions Results. Highland Lode (John Ross Mine) Bob Ingersoll No. 1 pegmatite BoblngersollNo.2pegmatite...differencesexisted. The pegmatites of the Black Hills, South Dakota, were selected as being best suited for the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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... In the Etta pegmatitenear Keystone,S. Dak., a singlecrystal of spodumene was 42 X 6 X 3 ft. weighingabout
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...States, as the enormous spodumene crystals in the Black Hills of South Dakota ; the huge beryl crystals...tourmaline crystal 3x3x8 feet in the Luella Mine near Avon, Latah County, Idaho ; and etc. Origin The crystals
Report (issue)
Pegmatites of the Fourmile Quadrangle, Black Hills South Dakota GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 297-D ...Pegmatites of the Fourmile Quadrangle, Black Hills South Dakota By JACK A. REDDEN PEGMATITES AND OTHER PRECAMBRIAN...prospects-_--------------------Big Tom mine (pegmatite 64) -------------------Corky mine (pegmatite 58)____--_--------------Gayle...9)__________________ Red Spar mine (pegmatite 70)-___--__-___________ Rock Ridge mine (pegmatite 113)_________________...113)_________________ Warren Draw mine (pegmatite 12)________________ Geology.__________________________________
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mineral Collecting in the Black Hills Area of South Dakota 1957 By MARY S. SHAUB 159 Elm St., Northampton... The Black Hills and the adjacent areas in South Dakota, Nebraska and Wyoming have long been famous...1925 and the opening up of many pegmatites in the Keystone area, interest has continued, and with the establishment...been focused more on the southwest section of South Dakota. Here the mineral collecting areas have been...sandcalcite crystal locality which is located 30 miles south of Interior. Approaching Interior from Cedar Pass
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 (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)
MAY_JUNE, 1970 COMPOSITIONOF A PEGMATITE, KEYSTONE, SOUTH DAKOTA1 Surwy, Washington,D. C. 20242. JanrnsJ...and diamond drilling at a locality near Keystone, South Dakota. The pegmatite contains 33.6 percent albite...simple pegmatite in the southern Black Hills, South Dakota, have been determined from analyses of a set...is on the Diamond Mica claim, about 1 mile south of Keystone in the SE| NEt NE+ Sec.17, T. 2S., R. 6E....W. from the portal of the main adit of the Etta mine. The name of the claim seems to have been derived
 
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