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


Locality type:Open-Cast Mine
Classification
Species:Fluorapatite
Formula:Ca5(PO4)3F
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Muscovite4 photos of Fluorapatite associated with Muscovite at this locality.
Whitlockite3 photos of Fluorapatite associated with Whitlockite at this locality.
Beryl3 photos of Fluorapatite associated with Beryl at this locality.
Quartz3 photos of Fluorapatite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Schorl3 photos of Fluorapatite associated with Schorl at this locality.
Cryptomelane2 photos of Fluorapatite associated with Cryptomelane at this locality.
Microcline1 photo of Fluorapatite associated with Microcline at this locality.
Montgomeryite1 photo of Fluorapatite associated with Montgomeryite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Fluorapatite 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:44216
Long-form Identifier:1:3:44216:3
GUID (UUID V4):3233cbe0-32a8-409f-a61b-5f8f61bb84eb
Nearest other occurrences of Fluorapatite
2.2km (1.4 miles) Helen Beryl Mine, Fourmile, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
5.4km (3.3 miles) Tin Mountain Mine, Fourmile, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
5.6km (3.5 miles) Wonder lode (Duncan's Little Wonder mine), Custer, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
5.7km (3.6 miles) Ross Mine, Berne, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
9.0km (5.6 miles) Crown Mine (McMackin Mine), Custer, 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
9.6km (6.0 miles) White Elephant Mine, Cicero Peak, Pringle, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
10.1km (6.3 miles) Climax mica mine, Custer, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
10.8km (6.7 miles) Bull Moose Mine, Custer, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
11.3km (7.0 miles) Roosevelt group (Rough Rider), 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...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
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...of the CusterKeystone area, to the Homestake gold mine in Lead, to golden barite-bearing concretions east...the recently added South Dakota room in the Museum of Geology at the South Dakota School of Mines and
Report (issue)
β = 96.0◦ X-ray Powder Pattern: Tip Top mine, South Dakota, USA. 8.63(10), 2.749 (6), 5.61 (5), 1.623...77 38.45 Total 100.6 100.00 (1) Tip Top mine, South Dakota, USA; by electron microprobe, total Fe as...collinsite, huréaulite (Tip Top mine, South Dakota, USA); carbonate-fluorapatite, calcite, dolomite, quartz...Distribution: In the USA, from the Tip Top mine, 8.5 km southwest of Custer, and the White Elephant mine, near Pringle...Pringle, Custer Co., and the Gap Lode pegmatite, Pennington Co., South Dakota; in the White Picacho district
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)
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
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)
658(9) c = 9.751(9) X-ray Powder Pattern: Sapucaia mine, Brazil. 6.79 (10), 5.99(7), 3.06 (7), 2.916 (4)...Fe2 O3 41.35 K2 O 40.55 11.02 11.96 (1) Sapucaia mine, Brazil; recalculated after deduction of insoluble...in complex granite pegmatites; crosscutting fluorapatite nodules in black shale; replacing fossil wood;...(Sapucaia mine, Brazil); vivianite, aluminian strengite, diadochite, ferrostrunzite, fluorapatite (Bethel...(Bethel Church, Indiana, USA); rockbridgeite, triphylite (Tip Top mine, South Dakota, USA). Distribution: In
Journal (issue)
Articles Type locality minerals of the Black Hills, South Dakota ..............................................R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur...collectors have driven the price up so unconscionably on top-quality pieces that the casual shopper is in danger...Pocket,” a recreation of a pocket in the Elmwood mine near Carthage, Tennessee. A space of several cubic...collections meticulously accumulated over many years by top collectors and dealers such as Edward Swoboda, Dave
Report (issue)
192(1) Z=3 X-ray Powder Pattern: Fairfield, Utah, USA. (ICDD 33-257). 2.938 (100), 2.163 (60), 1.8946 (45)...14.48 15.23 99.99 100.00 (1) Brooklyn mine, Utah, USA; after deduction of insolubles 35.13% as quartz...swamp. Association: Fluorapatite, hydroxylherderite, quartz. Distribution: In the USA, in Utah, from the...Brooklyn mine, near Silver City, Tintic district, Juab Co., at the Little Green Monster mine, Clay Canyon...Pennington Co., and in the Tip Top mine, 8.5 km southwest of Custer, Custer Co., South Dakota. In the Alto Benedito
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)
Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90007, USA *Corresponding author...jahnsite group from the Herdade dos Pendões mine, Beja district, southwest Portugal. It formed in a highly...spectroscopy; Herdade dos Pendões mine; Portugal. 168 A.R. Kampf et al. Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard...Boulevard, Los Angeles, California 90007, USA, catalogue number 67277. 2. Occurrence Table 1. Note that...Jahnsite-(MnMnZn) occurs at the Herdade dos Pendões mine (37°380 3300 N, 8°370 5200 W) located about 5 km
Report (issue)
incrusting other minerals. Association: Carbonatian fluorapatite, bitumen (Lake François, Canada); parahopeite...Distribution: From François Lake, south of Babine Lake, Coast district, British Columbia, and as large...Canada. In the USA, at the Tip Top mine, 8.5 km southwest of Custer, Custer Co., South Dakota; in the Foote...Foote mine, near Kings Mountain, Cleveland Co., North Carolina. On Milgun Station, Western Australia, and...from Reaphook Hill, near Blinman, Flinders Ranges, South Australia. In the Kovdor massif, Kola Peninsula
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pohwatp@si.edu Muscovite Shannon Canyon, Inyo County, California R ocks are made up of minerals. Some...join together to form layers that are stacked on top of each other and bonded together to form a repeating...the littleknown locality of Shannon Canyon, Inyo County, California. The specimen is 3 × 4 cm and was collected...in tin-tungsten deposits (such as the Panasquiera mine) and is a constituent of granite, aplite, gneiss...from the Strickland quarry, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut. This is typical of the specimens
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Department, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, California...Introduction Occurrence The Angarf-Sud (or Angarf-South) granitic pegmatite is the best documented and most...Beryl was discovered at AngarfSud in 1946, and mining, mostly in the early 1950s, yielded a total of...economic value, they were discarded during the mining of the intermediate zone for beryl and mica. Although...collection of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County under catalogue numbers 63428 and 63429. The Angarf-Sud
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
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Museum of Geology South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Rapid City, South Dakota 57701 Abstract Tinsleyite...2H2O, is a new speciesfrom the Tip Top Mine, near Custer, South Dakota. It is monoclinic, spacegroup Pnor...Rapid City, South Dakota. Introduction As part of a study of the mineralogy of the Tip Top pegmatiteby...honor of Mr. Frank C. Tinsley of Rapid City, South Dakota. Mr. Tinsley has been a long-term contributor...specimensfrom the Tip Top pegmatite and many other localities in South 0003-004)o8410304-0374$02.00 Dakota. As a
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ROSCHERITE-GROUP MINERALS F R O M NEW ENGLAND, S O U T H DAKOTA, A N D BRAZIL.]. W N i z a m o f , A. U. Falster'...roscherite-group minerals from New England, South Dakota, and Brazil revealed interesting results: Backscattered...variation and occurs with hydroxylherderite and fluorapatite. The Black Mountain, Rumford, Maine, samples...Galileia Sapucaia Jenipapo Linopolis Palermo No. 1 mine, North Groton, New Hampshire, historically labeled...palermoite. Samples from the Tip Top pegmatite, near Custer, South Dakota, vary in composition from roscherite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
specimens, are either inaccessible or are in closed mining districts, or are closed for political reasons...City-D~Lamar Mining Dlstricts / J\. I,' -r-, - L..... ~ rl.. kl \ , 50 I 100 I Miles old mining and...199I-the right to collect in the Sawtooth Mountains of south-central Idaho. Although known by a few collectors...scientific significance. In this index, the better known mining districts that have produced many high-quality...across, on blue thomsonite. Lucky Peak Dam, Ada County; Lanny Ream specimen and photo. Figure 3 (below)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
JanuaryEebruary: Cerussite and fluorite, Blanchard mine, Socorro County, New Mexico. Peter J. Modreski photo. MarchlApril:...MarchlApril: Wulfenite, Red Cloud mine, Arizona. Vienna Natural History Museum specimen, 0. Medenbach...Medenbach photo. May/June: Legrandite, Ojuela mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico. Houston Museum of Natural Science... chalcopyrite, and quartz, Sweet Home mine, Alma, Park County, Colorado. Martin Zinn specimen, Jeffrey...photo. NovemberDecember: Silver, Bulldog mine, Mineral County, Colorado. F. John Barlow specimen, Malcomb
Catalog/List
S.A. Old No. l Headfnme. Whi ■ key Hlll Mine, Tuohnne County, CaUfomla (r■-,u. .SV•t- tor cr11•t•J...association. Few of the minute crystals you see on mine or quarry dumps or even on cabinet specimens will...dumps or surface float. Mirute crystals seen on a mine dump are a clue but nearly always tao weathered...inconvenient to have one 1 s hand stuck to a desk or table top. MOUNTING TECHNIQUES FORMATRIX SPECI!'✓.ENS. In order...selected 1·1ith top slightly smaller than the display sur face of the specimen. The top is then shaped
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
February 2015 MINERALS FROM THE HYATT MINE, TALCVILLE, ST. LAWRENCE COUNTY, NEW YORK. S. C. Chamberlain, Department...Corporation of America operates the new Hyatt mine on an orebody just south of the Oswegatchie River, 1.2 km southwest...Talcville in the Town of Edwards, St. Lawrence County, New York. The orebody consists of massive iron-rich...of sepiolite in the form of mountain leather, the mine has not, until recently, produced anything of particular...particular interest to collectors. In early 1994, mining operations encountered cavities lined with crystallized
Book (edition)
Chapters on the Coeur d'Alene Mining District, the Blackbird Mining District, and the Sawtooth Mountains...Chapters on the Coeur d'Alene Mining District and the Blackbird Mining District, and to Ben Sheppard for reviewing...reviewing the chapter on the Blackbird Mining District. Those who contributed photographs, or specimens...or a vein of massive pyrite and chalcopyrite in a mine, so references such as these were not included....for a particular mineral may be a certain mine, but that mine may now have a new name, or may now be a
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
chalcocite, cobaltite, cuprite, cavansite, fluorapatite, pharmacolite, rutheniridosmine, siderite, sodalite...re-validated the previous names chlorapatite and fluorapatite, in which the anions occur as prefixes (Pasero...than the approved names hydroxylapatite and fluorapatite. (II) An unnecessary proliferation of prefixes...Jahnsite(NaFeMg), a new mineral from the Tip Top mine, Custer County, South Dakota: description and crystal structure
 
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