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Tantalite from
Giant-Volney mine, Tinton Pegmatite Mining District, Lawrence 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
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Tantalite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Giant-Volney mine, Tinton Pegmatite Mining District, Lawrence County, South Dakota, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:382329
Long-form Identifier:1:3:382329:3
GUID (UUID V4):05cf7607-e589-41bd-8bcc-1a079568ddba
Nearest other occurrences of Tantalite
1.0km (0.6 miles) Rough and Ready mine, Tinton Pegmatite Mining District, Lawrence County, South Dakota, USA
67.7km (42.0 miles) Grizzly Bear Gulch, Hill City Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
70.3km (43.7 miles) Bob Ingersoll Mine (Ingersoll Mine; Ben Butler Mine; Horace Greely Mine), Keystone, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
71.0km (44.1 miles) Old Mike mine (Great Northern; Old Mike M.S.2212), Custer, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
72.3km (44.9 miles) Dan Patch Mine, Keystone, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
74.8km (46.4 miles) Tin Mountain Mine, Fourmile, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
75.5km (46.9 miles) White Cap Mine (King Mica Mine; Primer lode), Keystone, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
76.7km (47.7 miles) Dorothy Lode, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
79.0km (49.1 miles) Helen Beryl Mine, Fourmile, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
81.8km (50.8 miles) Bull Moose Mine, Custer, Custer Mining District, Custer 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...that their faces are crossed by large and small pegmatite dikes. ARTHUR E. S M I T H 9 I I8 Concho Street...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)...mines worked tor bery 1. muscovite, col ti mhite-tantalite. ambl ygonite, spodumene, and feldspar probably
Report (volume)
TIN-BEARING PEGMATITES OF THE TINTON DISTRICT LAWRENCE COUNTY, SOUTH DAKOTA A PRELIMINARY REPORT BY WARD...Oligoclase-quartz-muscovlte pegmatite............ Tourmaline-bearing pegmatite and quartz-tourmaline veins....... Albite-quartz pegmatite.......................... Spodumene-quartz pegmatite...................... lenses................... Mlcrocline-quartz pegmatite...................... Alblte-quartz-muscovite.............. Rough & Ready mine............................... Giant-Volney prospects................
Report (issue)
Near rringie, Pringle Southern Black Hills, South Dakota, "Vii ic«*rl Kw Caused by Rare-Mineral I tnckvrkncc»«4...Southern Black Hills, South Dakota, Possibly Caused by Unexposed Rare-Mineral Pegmatite By James J. Norton...Products Section, U. S. Geological Survey, 604 South Pickett Street, Alexandria, VA 22304 CONTENTS................... Mining and exploration for lithium minerals, beryl, and tantalite-columbite in the Black...niobium contents of specimens of tantalite-columbite from the Etta pegmatite, Keystone, S. Dak. .........
Report (issue)
Pegmatite Investigations 1942-1945 Black Hills, South Dakota By LINCOLN R. PAGE and OTHERS GEOLOGICAL..._______________________ 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
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)
analysis of some of the more completedescriptionsof pegmatite districts publishedover recent years, showsthat...pegmatitesfollowed a similar genetic course. The evolution of pegmatite developmentcan be characterizedaccordingto the...ences,especiallyas regardsaccessory minerals. Fur- giant porphyritic zones, consistingprincipally of ther...the resultof the evolutionof parasiterite, and tantalite-columbiteare generally asso- geneticunitsor groupsthat...planesprior to the intrusion. In the wall zone of the pegmatite La Totora, in San Luis, thereare includedrandomly
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
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...detailed structural and petrologic study of a pegmatite containing seven zones and two replacement bodies...Structure __________________________________________ Pegmatite units ____________________________________ Zone...Albite-quartz-musco vite pegmatite ________ Zone 2: Quartz-albite-muscovite pegmatite. _______ Zone 3: Pe
Book (volume)
Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States SOUTH DAKOTA This northwestern Great Plains state varies...boundary with Wyoming. In the far western counties of Lawrence, Meade, Custer and Pennington the land rises abruptly...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...which also produced a most remarkable series of pegmatite dikes ranking with those in Maine and Southern
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
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
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,...phosphorus handbook. Wiley. New York Moore PB (1982) Pegmatite minerals ofP(V) and B(III). Mineral Assoc Can...brecciated metamorphosed rock phosphate at Moculta, South Australia Optical constants: Not certain; low birefringence
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...of weakness caused by deformation or twinning. pegmatite Very coarse-grained granitic rock representing...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.,
Book (edition)
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...Photo Editor: Wendell E. Wilson Library Saguache County Public Saguache, Colorado VAN NOSTRAND REINHOLD...England Thomas Nelson Australia 102 Dodds Street South Melbourne, Victoria 3205, Australia Nelson Canada
Book (edition)
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...England Thomas Nelson Australia 102 Dodds Street South Melbourne, Victoria 3205, Australia Nelson Canada...Joel Yancy JZ Julius Z weibel KE Kent England LC Lawrence Conklin LH Laszlo Horvath LM Luiz Menezes LP Les
Report (issue)
no OIL ORO OIG ZoZ 292 Boulder County Tellurides .... 294 Boulder County Tungsten ...... eeoeeesee 296...323 A. Rifle area, Colorado «0s... 323 B. Uravan District, Colorado 324 Cope tick Rock DIsEEIcL sCoLoradO)...324 DeeGkante District, New sMext Comer. clecetsls cused cists! 0/0 326 E. Shiprock District, Utah—Arizona...Utah—Arizona ....vccccsnens F. Monticello-Moab-Thompsons District, Utah .....secvceee 326 327 ee eeseeee Gig GE...csansieterchersrersiovaie Pewee reser eres ereceseses 490 SOUTH DAKOTA CO meme eee eerenreeneerererrereseseseceses
Book (volume)
Verde Valley, Yavapai County, Arizona. In Nevada along the Virgin River in Clark County, and in distorted...distorted crystals from Humboldt County. From Borax Lake, San Bernardino County, California. In the Permian basin...100. Found at several mines in the Huantajaya district, calcite, embolite, cerargyrite, bromyrite, iodyrite...in great quantities during the early period of mining in these districts. An earthy variety (Buttermilk...as at Caracoles in Antofagasta, the Huantajaya district in Tarapaca, and especially Chanarcillo in Atacama;
 
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