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Purpurite from
Tip Top Mine, Fourmile, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA


Locality type:Open-Cast Mine
Classification
Species:Purpurite
Formula:Mn3+(PO4)
Comments:Very poor choice of a reference for a mineral that doesn't occur at this locality.
Confirmation
Validity:Erroneously Reported
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Purpurite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Tip Top Mine, Fourmile, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:382235
Long-form Identifier:1:3:382235:7
GUID (UUID V4):40681391-9ce7-4ecd-88f6-ca3bd07ef25b
Nearest other occurrences of Purpurite
2.2km (1.4 miles) Helen Beryl Mine, Fourmile, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
5.7km (3.6 miles) Ross Mine, Berne, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
9.4km (5.8 miles) Custer Mountain lode (Snookum mine), Custer, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
12.1km (7.5 miles) Earl Lode, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
16.1km (10.0 miles) Louise & Hunter Claim (Hunter and Louise Spodumene Dike), Oreville Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
68.5km (42.6 miles) Ross Hannibal Mine (North Star Mine; Hannibal Mine; and Mikado Mine), Lead Mining District, 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...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
Journal (issue)
call for appointment Tourmaline Tourmaline Queen Mine Pala, California NEW ACQUISITIONS: RUTILE from...the Department of Geology of the University of South Caro­ lina in Columbia. It was a pleasant and exhilerating...Department of Geology Museum, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina. Perhaps the collection, begun...hiddenite specimens in his collection from Alexander County, North Carolina, and those superb quartz crystal...surprisingly good specimens. Nowadays the University of South Carolina’s collection cannot be classed as one of
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...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.__________________________________
Report (issue)
= 5.182(1) Z=4 X-ray Powder Pattern: Sapucaia mine, Brazil. (ICDD 35-625). 3.191 (100), 3.381 (85)...47 6.94 Total 100.09 100.00 3+ 3+ (1) Sapucaia mine, Brazil; corresponds to (Mn2+ Na Mg 0.70 0.20 0...vivianite, heterosite–purpurite, cyrilovite, phosphosiderite, leucophosphite (Sapucaia mine, Brazil). Distribution:...Distribution: From the Sapucaia pegmatite mine, about 50 km east-southeast of Governador Valadares, Minas...the Fletcher mine, near North Groton, Grafton Co., New Hampshire, and in the Tip Top mine, 8.5 km southwest
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Department of Astronomy, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts 01075, U.S.A. 2 Planetary...graftonite and 25% triphylite 38.4.1.2 purpurite DD227 40–50% purpurite, 30–40% ferrisicklerite, and 10–20%...10–20% quartz 38.4.1.2 purpurite DD270 80% albite and 20% purpurite 39.2.1.1 hureaulite ML-P31-A 60% hureaulite...Bavaria, Germany Tip Top pegmatite, Black Hills, South Dakota Serra Branca pegmatite, 12 km south of Pedra Lavrada...Baviere, Germany Tip Top Mine, Custer Co., South Dakota Serra Branca pegmatite, 12 km south of Pedra Lavrada
Journal (issue)
CA Articles Great pockets: the National Belle mine ..................................................Rosemeyer Phosphate minerals from the Tip Top mine, Black Hills, South D a k o ta ............................... 255 by N. L. Bennett The Buca della Vena mine, Tuscany, I ta ly ................................R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur...------------------ 4 the « ♦ » ------- National Belle mine Arthur E. Smith, Jr. 9118 Concho Street Houston
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,...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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
euchroite, hematite, lazulite, leucite, orpiment, purpurite or rutile), their chemical composition (e.g. anhydrite...Jahnsite(NaFeMg), a new mineral from the Tip Top mine, Custer County, South Dakota: description and crystal structure
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
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
Report (issue)
Schaller, Afwillite NMNH 95237 Dutoitspan Mine, Kimber¬ ley, South Africa Dutoitspan Ammonioborite cany...Geological Survey, 1950) Trinity Anemousite County, California. Contributions to Mineral¬ (discredited...Vonsen, 1920) NMNH 106112 from the Hillside Mine, Yavapai County, Ari¬ L. G. Berry, 1947. Composition and...Aluminocopiapite Utah NMNH K. J. Murata, Trinity County, California M. C. Bandy, 1938. Utah. J. M. Axelrod...93834 Island Mountain, Mountain, from Mine, Yavapai County, Arizona (L. J. Cabri, 1976) Island Group
Book (volume)
Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and  the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59...along adjoining Co. linerock crystal. BARROW COUNTY WINDER, along rd. to Jefferson and 1½ mi. inside...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States BARTOW COUNTY AREA, Saltpeter Cave, as floatjasper. CARTERSVILLE:...agate, (banded, various colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY MACON:  at Holton Quarry, 7½ mi. NWagate;  N
Catalog/List
over the top of larger Stilbite crystals. Good display piece. Vambori, Ahmedhagar District, Maharashtra...with micro Sphalerite on 2x2 matrix Lers Malines Mine, Gard, France £20 4. BENTORITE a very rare, Cr containing...crystals, possible Dickite micros too. Panteg-y-Gaseg Mine, Amlwch Anglesey, Wales £18 I 0. PENNANTITE small...matrix. Plates are about I to 1.5 mm size (Benallt Mine,Lleyn, Wales) £30 11. BOURNONITE good blocky grey...crystals,. all over 2.5 x2.5 inch surface Likasi Mine, Katanga Congo £25 14. SIDERITE rich red-brown
Book (edition)
(Brazil). Malcolm Back (Canada), Henry L. Barwood (USA). Dmitriy Belakovskiy (Russia). Fabio Bellatreccia...(Italy), T.S. Ercit (Canada). Alexander Falster (USA). Jeffrey de Fourestier (Canada). Robert Gault (Canada)...Henderson. Jr. (USA). D.D. Hogarth (Canada). J.L. Jam bor (Canada), Anthony R. Kampf (USA). Pave! M. Kartashov...Karnp-Moller (Denmark). Akira Kato (Japan). Lance E. Keams (USA). Elisabeth Kirchner (Austria), Uwe Kolitsch (Austria)...Republic). Per Nystcn (Sweden), David O'Hanlcy (USA). Filippo Olmi (deccased) (ltaly). Werner H. Paar
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
Book
right) De Beers. 14 (top left) Angelo Hornak/Orbis. 44 (bottom) Archivio Foto B. 53 (top) Angelo Hornak/Orbis...Hornak/Orbis. 80 (bottom right) Archivio Foto B. 87 (top) NERC copyright, reproduced by permission of the...Institute of Geological Sciences. 123 (top) Angelo Hornak/Orbis. 131 (top) Angelo Hornak/Orbis. 144 (bottom)...Germany; Pribram, Czechoslovakia; Broken Hill, New South Wales; Chanarcillo, Atacama, Chile; and in the states...states of Guanajuato and Chihuahua, Mexico. In the USA silver occurs at Keweenaw, Michigan, in association
Book (edition)
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
Book (edition)
students in the field. Jacket photo: (Top) sulfur, Sicily, 14cm; (top, right) vanadinite, Morocco; (center...(center, left) wulfenite, San Francisco mine, Sonora, Mexico; (center) ameihyst, Veracruz, Mexico; (center)...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...Photo Editor: Wendell E. Wilson Library Saguache County Public Saguache, Colorado VAN NOSTRAND REINHOLD
Book
copper are in the Keweenaw Peninsular. Lake Superior, USA, the largest being 15 x 7 x 3m (approx. 50 x 23 x...(5'A in) long occurred in the Ray mine and in Bisbce, Arizona, USA. Very fine spincl-law twins up to...Superior, Michigan, USA. Wires, up to 100 mm (4 in) long, come also from the San Gcnaro Mine in Huancavclica...found in many localities in California, USA (Colorado Quartz mine. Nigger Hill and others). Fine leaf gold...in) long were very rare in Ground Hog mine, Gilman, Colorado, USA. The largest known sheets of crystallized
Book (edition)
students in the field. Jacket photo: (Top) sulfur, Sicily, 14 cm; (top. 1ight) vanadinite, Morocco; (center...(center, left) wulfen ite San Francisco mine, Sonora, Mexico; (center) amethyst, Veracruz, Mexico; ( center)...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...England Thomas Nelson Australia 102 Dodds Street South Melbourne, Victoria 3205, Australia Nelson Canada
Book (edition)
Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture), dept...dept. (departement), dept. (departamento), dist. (district). Less common terms are not abbreviated, e.g....always included in text, except in the cases of the USA, UK, and the provinces Ontario and Quebec in Canada...localities of magmatic origin (in the sequence North and South America and Greenland, then Europe, Asia, Africa
Book
stumble over a valuable nugget and stake your own mining claim? Indeed it to is, and author book Jay...prospecting, he points out, is in abandoned mining districts, where valuable mineral ores are present...commercial ores and secondary minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification...RANSOM 1875-1948 An to the Eastern '‘Schoolmarm” Mining Camps of the Old West I I a s I \ h K... CONTENTS Preface ix PART I 1 Introduction to Mining and Mineralogy 2 Preparation for Mineral Collecting
Book
copper are in the Keweenaw Peninsular, Lake Superior, USA, the largest being I 5 x 7 x 3m (approx. 50 x 23...140mm (5½ in) long occurred in the Ray mine and in Bisbee, Arizona, USA. Very fine spinel-law twins up to...Superior, Michigan, USA. Wires, up to 100 mm (4 in) long, come also from the San Genaro Mine in Huancavelica...Dorado, California, US.A. Gold, 68 mm, Eagle's Nest Mine, California, US.A. Gold gold on it. Typical aggregates...from Farncomb Hill near Breckenridge, Colorado, USA. Fine crystals were also found in Berezovsk, Ural
Book
England Thomas Nelson Australia 102 Dodds Street South Melbourne 3205 Victoria, Australia Nelson Canada...Enterprises, PO Box 213, Livermore, California, 94551, USA. Because of space limitations, only a subset of the...Hidden Valley Road, Kingsport, Tennessee, 37663, USA. The authors appreciate the advice and kind assistance...City, Nevada, USA; Peter Embrey, London, England; Jessie Hardman, Long Beach, California, USA; and Barbara...Barbara Nichols, Livermore, California, USA. All of these colleagues made helpful comments and substantive
 
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