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Agate from
Parker Peak, Minnekahta, Fall River County, South Dakota, USA


Locality type:Peak
Classification
Species:Quartz var: Agate
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Agate data
Locality Data:Click here to view Parker Peak, Minnekahta, Fall River County, South Dakota, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:385811
Long-form Identifier:1:3:385811:0
GUID (UUID V4):3458ddf8-c81e-4ed6-b361-4cc71d965f17
Nearest other occurrences of Agate
2.8km (1.8 miles) Fossil Cycad National Monument, Fall River County, South Dakota, USA
34.2km (21.2 miles) Oral, Fall River County, South Dakota, USA
38.5km (24.0 miles) State Game Lodge area, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
40.4km (25.1 miles) Teepee Canyon ("Hell's Canyon"), Custer County, South Dakota, USA
40.8km (25.3 miles) Sawmill Spring diggings (Teepee Gem Agate claims), Teepee Canyon ("Hell's Canyon"), Custer County, South Dakota, USA
42.3km (26.3 miles) Ardmore, Fall River County, South Dakota, USA
44.6km (27.7 miles) Oelrichs, Fall River County, South Dakota, USA
56.9km (35.3 miles) Orella, Sioux County, Nebraska, USA
58.1km (36.1 miles) Fairburn, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
73.5km (45.7 miles) Buffalo Gap National Grasslands, South Dakota, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Book (edition)
COVER -- Pairburn agates from South Dakota. Photo courtesy South Dakota School of Mines Museum. > 1...includes 1 SOUTH DAKOTA • MICHIGAN • ILLINOIS • IOWA WISCONSIN • OHIO • KANSAS • NORTH DAKOTA NEBRASKA...To Use This Book SOUTH DAKOTA 6 New Finds ................ Fairburn Type Agate Blue Chalcedony .....ARDMORE AGATE BEDS 11 OELRICHS AGATE BED .. 12 THE CUSTER AREA ......... Tepee Canyon Agate ... Garnets...44 44 .44 THE RED RIVER VALLEY .... 32 NORTH DAKOTA .. 30 WESTERN NORTH DAKOTA Badlands and Buttes
Book (volume)
Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States SOUTH DAKOTA This northwestern Great Plains state varies...Alleghenies, culminate in Harney Peak in southern Pennington Co. At 7,242’ this peak is the highest point in America...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...artesian, Rocky Mountain snow melt water. Harney Peak is the crest of the geologically notable granite
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...the recently added South Dakota room in the Museum of Geology at the South Dakota School of Mines and...deformation, but the main granite mass, the Harney Peak Granite, and its related pegmatites represent some
Book (volume)
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
Book (volume)
mixture of chert, translucent chalcedony, jasp-agate and common opal, rivaling in beauty the Arizona...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
Book (volume)
mixture of chert, translucent chalcedony, jasp-agate and common opal, rivaling in beauty the Arizona...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
Report (issue)
AMERICA SOUTH DAKOTA 1989 THE NATIONAL GAZETTEER OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA SOUTH DAKOTA 1989 "The... "The Pulpit," Badlands National Park, South Dakota. Apparently named for its resemblance to a ministerial...complex features characteristic of South Dakota Badlands. In South Dakota, the term "badlands" is generally...GAZETTEER OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICASOUTH DAKOTA 1989 U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER...National gazetteer of the United States of America. South Dakota 1989 / prepared by the U.S. Geological Survey
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...described in detail. Price $2.00. THE AGATE BOOK — For the agate hunter, cutter and collector. Describes...sub-varieties of agate. The first complete book on agate, with 50 photos, showing numerous types of agate, localities... Hot Springs Area Cycad .-' _ :. Oelrichs Agate Beds Rose Quartz Mine Northern Hill Gems 24
Book
logyoO0000grie &N ROADSIDE % JEOLOGY of South Dakota John Paul Gries Mountain Press Publishing...Gries, John Paul, 1911- Roadside geology of South Dakota / John Paul Gries. p. cm. Includes bibliographical...(pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Geology—South Dakota—Guidebooks. 2. South Dakota— Guidebooks. I. Title. QE163.G68...interpreting the details of the surface geology of South Dakota. My model is Nathaniel Horatio Darton, geologist...depth to groundwater in the western half of South Dakota. Even in this day of gadgetry, field studies
Journal (issue)
disappear into the sun. Comparative By TANYA SOUTH Vague is the purpose of our faring, Dim our vision...Championship Meet, Reno, Nevada. Feb. 16-24—Riverside County Fair and National Date Festival, Indio, California...to San Francisco, planning to import miners from South Africa and lapidaries from Holland. He envisioned...the way it had been necessary to cross a swollen river on a hastily constructed raft. When it had nearly...Railroad at Rawlings Springs, near what is now Green River, Wyoming. of risk involved. Then came the selection
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
Book (volume)
Oregon. Information was also supplied by Dowse’s Agate Shop, Salt Lake City, Utah, by William J. Bingham...Mahaffey of Nevada, Missouri. The well-known Texas agate localities of the Alpine Region were described in...Kobuk jade locality. Descriptions of San Diego County, California, gemstones and the mines in which they...the generous assistance of many residents of that county. My special thanks are extended to Elbert H. McMacken...basalt 204 Turquois jewelry 209 Turquois 201 Ithaca Peak 22st Himalaya Turquois Mine 22 A variscite nodule
Journal (issue)
and SHAPES In any alabbed atone - Jade, quartz. agate, glass, etc. Worka well on Metallcs such as Silver.........................................32 A South Dakota Rock Collector by Martha Llnde ....................... 80 HOW-TO-DO How to Cut Mexican Fire Agate by Ken Scherer ..............................................................................58 SOUTH CENTRAL FEDERATION OF MINERAL SOCIETIES Offlc.,...00 per lb. or $17.50 per 1A lb. AMAZONITE - From South Africa, Is a good quality greenish blue. It will
Book
fossil-hunting localities, organized by state, county, township, section, or other landmark, together...the slough forming a backwater of your nearest river is crammed full of plant and animal remains slowly...a pencil eraser and found in limestone deposits south of Fruita, Colorado. Molds or Casts: Not infrequently... where workmen have found fossils within their county of jurisdiction. FLOAT AS AN INDICATOR The experienced...beautiful opalized wood, this layer of exposed ash in south-central Washington goes back to the Oligocene.
Report (volume)
...................................... * North Dakota............................;.....................Altitudes in South Carolina.................................................. South Dakota...............ALTITUDES IN UNITED STATES. a MISSISSIPPI RIVER COMMISSION (MISS. RIVER COM.). These elevations were determined...lines of precise leveling, which extend up the river from near its mouth to St. Paul, across to Lake...to Lake Michigan at Chicago. MISSOURI RIVER COMMISSION (MO. RIVER COM ). These elevations were determined
Report (issue)
Mountains south of Panther Creek........................... ............................. South End Hills.... .. .. . . .. . .. . . . . .. . . . . . Antler Peak .................................. ..................................... ...... ' Three River Peak .........._............... ·'··.......................Mountain, Bannock Peak, and the valley of the Gallatin River.................. Bannock Peak................................ . ...... ............ Elect-ric Peak .. . . .. .. .. .. .. .. . . .. .. .. .. .. ..
 
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