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Microcline from
Hugo Mine, Keystone, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Microcline
Formula:K(AlSi3O8)
Comments:Occurs in pegmatite.
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Microcline data
Locality Data:Click here to view Hugo Mine, Keystone, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:68805
Long-form Identifier:1:3:68805:7
GUID (UUID V4):841cd2cb-0249-4e62-b0c6-df1917e6a6b8
Nearest other occurrences of Microcline
0.7km (0.4 miles) Expectation Pegmatite, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
1.0km (0.6 miles) Monte Carlo Prospect, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
1.2km (0.7 miles) Etta Mine, Keystone, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
1.5km (0.9 miles) Dan Patch West Mine, Keystone, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
1.7km (1.1 miles) Nickel Plate Mine, Keystone, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
1.8km (1.1 miles) White Cap Mine, Keystone, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
2.1km (1.3 miles) Edison Mine, Keystone, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
2.2km (1.4 miles) Peerless Mine, Keystone, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
2.3km (1.4 miles) Dike Lode, Keystone Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
2.5km (1.6 miles) Pink Elephant Beryl prospect, Keystone Mining District, Pennington 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)
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.___________________________________...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
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)
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...pegmatite.- ________ Zone 4: Quartz-cleavelandite-microcline-amblygonite pegmatite and quartz-cleavelandite*...pegmatite-. __ Zone 5: Quartz-microcline-spodumene pegmatite____ Zone 6: Quartz-microcline pegmatite. ____ _________..._________ Zone 7: Cleavelandite-microcline-lithia mica pegmatite. ________________________________________
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...prospect.____________________________ Etta spodumene mine.______________________________ Geology-___ . __...303 305 305 307 310 312 314 315 Etta spodumene mine Continued Mineral deposits____--__--------------_-_------Eureka...spodumene prospect._________ Hot Shot feldspar and mica mine.. _____ Geology __________-_---_-_-----------__-_-----Mineral
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
SPODUMENE BLACK HILLS, SOUTH DAKOTA. G. M. MINE, SCHWARTZ. INTRODUCTION. THE Etta mine is known the world...importantproducerof lithium ore in the United States. Althoughthe mine has been repeatedlyreferred to, and briefly described...Superintendent of the Etta, for permissionto studyand map the mine and for many mineral specimens. I am especiallyindebtedto...analyticalwork. GENERAL FEATURES. History of the Mine.--Previous to I883 the Etta claim had beenworked...P. Blake• determined tin in samplesfrom the Etta mine which had been submitted to him for analysis. In
Report (issue)
lithium_________________________________ History of lithium mining and production ________________________ Imports..._._______.__ North and South Carolina.___---_______-_-_---__-__________ South Dakota________________...area._____________________________ Pala pegmatite district.__--___--___-_-______--_______._ Arizona, New...________________________ Future of the lithium mining industry________--__--___-___-______-___ Literature...analyses of three spodumene samples, Edison mine, Keystone, S. Dak.. ____..____________^__._______5. Lithium
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Rtcrwooo Schoolof Applied Geologlt (Jniversityof New South |l'ales Kensington,N. S.W. 2033, Australia Abstract...(E1 9 2 3 , p . 3 6 2 ) . 5 PerticaE Italy. 2. Mine, Urbino, SULPIiIDES € SULPHOSALTS (i)SULTHIDES...70 x 8.89 x 6.35 cm from Maybee Quarry, Monroe County, Michigan, U.S.A. and which is in the Cranbrook...Collection, Central ResearchLaboratory, Mitsubishi Metal Mining Company, Yonu-Shi, Saitana prefecture, Japan; it...Moscow,U.S.S.R.is 35 Geological Survey, Pretoria, South Africa (pers. x 15 cm; Guillemin (1964,p.2; 1972
Report (issue)
Deposits of the Peerless Pegmatite Pennington County South Dakota GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER...Deposits of the Peerless Pegmatite Pennington County South Dakota By DOUGLAS M. SHERllDAN, HAL G. STEPHENS...__________________ Acknowledgments__________________________ Mine workings _____________________________________ Geology...DEPOSITS OF THE PEERLESS PEGMATITE, PENNINGTON COUNTY, SOUTH DAKOTA By DOUGLAS M. SHEKIDAN, HAL G. STEPHENS...Peerless pegmatite, half a mile south of Keystone, Pennington County, S. Dak., has been a major source
Report (volume)
Geology of the Hill City Quadrangle Pennington County South Dakota A Preliminary Report GEOLOGICAL SURVEY... Geology of the Hill City Quadrangle Pennington County South Dakota A Preliminary Report By JAMES C. RATTE...and pegmatites in the central Black Hills of South Dakota UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON...GEOLOGY OF THE HILL CITY QUADRANGLE PENNINGTON COUNTY, SOUTH DAKOTA A PRELIMINARY REPORT By JAMES C. RATTE...City quadrangle, in the central Black Hills, South Dakota, is underlain by Precambrian phyllites and schist
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
CRYSTALS FROM THE PLUMBAGO NORTH PEGMATITE, OXFORD COUNTY, MAINE WILLIAM B. SIMMONS§ AND ALEXANDER U. FALSTER...Museum, Bethel, Maine, USA JAMES W. NIZAMOFF 64 Mineral Drive, Hebron, Maine, USA GARY FREEMAN Freeman...Freeman Resources, LLC, 48 Lovejoy Road, South Paris, Maine, USA Keywords: giant crystals, spodumene, montebrasite...on the north side of Plumbago Mountain, Oxford County, Maine. The pegmatite is spodumenerich and is potentially...and spodumene. Initial sampling indicates that microcline is sparse and occurs in the spodumene zone and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
discrepancies in zoned pegmstites, Black Hills, South Dakota G. Geosciences Division, (Received Southwest...from the Harney granite, southern Black Hills, South Dakota yield B total-rock isochron granite age of 1744...noted in the granite are observed in all mites, microcline and pollucite. Albite and the phosphate mineral...Precambrian pegmatites from the Black Hills uplift, South Dakota. The not surprising result that gross discordancies...trending ~~.-SS~. near the western boundary of South Dakota. The exposure of the central Precambrian core
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
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)
(6) quartz,spodumene (or petalite),(7) quartz,microcline or perthite,(8) quartz,and (9) lepidoliteor lithian...lithian mica, plagioclase, quartz,microcline. Assemblages $ and 5 are subdividedto showverticalchangesin...The most based on evidence from the Black Hills, South Da- prolificsources of problemshave beenlarge lithium...Lepidolite-plagioclase-quartz 9 Quartz-microcline 10 Microcline-plagioclase-lit hia micas-quartz 11...muscovite 4 Perthite-quartz 5 Perthite- (or microcline-) Victory White Cap X X Buster Highland
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Connedistrict, Maine Topsham district, Maine Grafton district, New Hampshire Greenfield...Middletown district, Connecticut Southern Black Hills district, South Dakota Crystal Mountain district, Colorado...Colorado Clear Creek district, Colorado Bunkerville district, Arizona/Nevada Bently district, Nevada O Pegmatite...nature of the old pit indicated that the previous mining operations may have occurred almost a century ago...chrysoberyl in quartz, Wisdom Ranch prospect, Larimer County, Colorado. Crystal is VA by VA by 1/8 inches.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MINERALS FROM THE ETTA MINE KEYSTONE, SOUTH DAKOTA By ARTHUR SMITH JR. The purpose of this article is...Rapid City. The Etta mine is located 1 mile south of Keystone. To reach the mine take Alternate Route...the railroad crossing in Keystone. Follow this road past the road to the Keystone Cemetery. At about 0.6...makes a Y ; the dumps of the Etta mine are directly ahead. To reach the mine follow the road to the right...right. phic knob, but mining has reduced this knob to an oval pit 230 by 220 feet and from 100 to 150 feet
Journal (issue)
talking on "The Minerals of the Silver Coin Mine", an old silver mine near Winnemucca, Nevada with a wide variety...for the dam seems to have been quarried fro m the south side of the C411yon just below the dam, and an extensive...Update oo the Minerals of Summit Rock, Klamath County, Oregon Magoesiohomblcnde, Pblogopite aud Cristobalite...on tbe Minerals from tbe Kiggins Mioe, Clackamas County, O~oa Donald G. Howard Most of us are aware that...I had collected on our f.eld trip to the Kiggins Mine: calcite with a liberal sprinkling of red cinnabar
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
is from Leiper’s quarry at Springfield, Delaware County, Pennsylvania (Peters 1984). When the spessartine...to 7 cm across occur near Middletown, Middlesex County, and massive spessartine and relatively small crystals...occur with rhodonite in ore of the Betts manganese mine at Plainfield, Massachusetts. Exceptional garnet...localities in Figure 2. A classic Avondale, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, spessartine specimen with a major...HUK [OL *PU JPUUH[P4PULYHS:VJPL[` Delaware County, Pennsylvania. Detailed work by Lindsley and Peters
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..._____________________ Cordierite-biotite and microcline-biotite schists_____________________________..._ ________ Quartz______________ Perthite and microcline. Muscovite. ___________ Other minerals ________...prospects-_--------------------Big Tom mine (pegmatite 64) -------------------Corky mine (pegmatite 58)____--_--------------Gayle
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
Journal (issue)
was found in the Hell Creek Formation in North Dakota, a heavily studied formation containing a variety...Montana and stretches into portions of North and South Dakota and into parts of Wyoming ("The virtual fossil‖)...Happenings Pg 3 Pebble Pups—Year End Pg 4 District 11 Honors Pebble Pups Pg 5 Installation of Officers...719-488-0880 or e-mail rsvp@wmmi.org. Western Museum of Mining & Industry / info@wmmi.org // Phone: 719-488-0880...the Family Geology Day at the Western Museum of Mining and Industry in January. The CSMS Pebble Pup table
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...sucha Burmesecrystal. In the Etta pegmatitenear Keystone,S. Dak., a singlecrystal of spodumene was 42 X
 
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