 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Silica and Silicates ( 107 ) from the pegmatites at QUARTZ, silica, Si02, is an essential mineral in the granite...granite pegmatites. Massive, white, or smoky colored crystalline quartz often makes up the greater bulk of...are of pink or the rose quartz variety. Rock crystals, or the colorless quartz crystals, are often found...found as well as are smoky quartz crystals in the cavities of druses which occur in many pegmatites. Amethyst...Amethyst, the purple colored variety of crystalline quartz, usually is found in crystals in cavities or pockets |  | | 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) | | M I N E , CUSTER COUNTY SOUTH DAKOTA and Arthur Smith Jr. Houston, Texas The Tin Mountain pegmatite...about 6 miles west southwest of Custer in the Black Hills of South Dakota (Figure 1 ) . The pegmatite was...one of the properties of the old Harney Peak Tin Co. The mine was acquired by the Maywood Chemical Company...1928 and sold by them along with the Etta mine in 1961. The mine has produced spodumene, beryl, feldspar...primarily amphibo- W . L. Roberts Rapid City, South Dakota lite, composed predominantly of small dark |  | Staatz, M.H., Page, L.R., Norton, J.J., Wilmarth, V.R. (1963) Exploration for beryllium at the Helen Beryl, Elkhorn, and Tin Mountain pegmatites, Custer County, South Dakota. Professional Paper 297c. US Geological Survey doi:10.3133/pp297c | Report (issue) | | Helen Beryl, Elkhorn and Tin Mountain Pegmatites Custer County, South Dakota GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL...Helen Beryl, Elkhorn and Tin Mountain Pegmatites Custer County, South Dakota By MORTIMER H. STAATZ, LINCOLN...Beryl pegmatite _____________________________ _ Mine workings ________________________________ _ Production...Metamorphic rocks ________________________ _ Quartz and quartz-feldspar veins ____________ _ Pegmatite _...________________________________ _ Albite-quartz-muscovite pegmatite (wall zone) _______________________________ |  | | Report (issue) | | Pegmatite Investigations 1942-1945 Black Hills, South Dakota By LINCOLN R. PAGE and OTHERS GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...diagrams of deposits of mica, beryl, lithium, tantalum, tin, and feldspar UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING..._______________________ Mining, preparation, and uses of mica. _____________ Mining.___________________________________...Tantalum deposits__________________________________ 58 Tin deposits______-_-_____---_-___-_-_____-_-_____ 59...mines and prospects___________________ 60 Addie tin mine._________________________________ 60 Ajax cla |  | | 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...exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals that are widely distributed, such as quartz and calcite |  | | Report (volume) | | it helpful to refer to Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals of wide distribution, such as quartz and calcite...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products but because they furnish...........Prof. B. L. Miller, Lehigh University, South Bethlehem, Pa. Florida............Dr. E. H. Sellards...Carolina.. .Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, Chapel Hill. North Dakota... .Dr. A. G. Leonard, Grand Forks. Ohio...... |  | | 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...collection from Alexander County, North Carolina, and those superb quartz crystal groups with cavernous...surprisingly good specimens. Nowadays the University of South Carolina’s collection cannot be classed as one of |  | | Journal (issue) | | a large collecti?n of iris agate and asteriated quartz. Pictures of the two exhibits mentioned above are...White Horse Ranch to the Blitzen Valley, (Harney County, Oregon} and on the way I picked up some pieces...looked like slag from a furnace. This was in Grant County, Oregon, about 5 miles from Seneca. I was on a...pegmatites the crystals and grains of these minerals ; quartz, feldspar, mica, etc. ha,·e gro,vn to much larger...feet. It was mined on the farm Tveit, Iveland District north of Kristiansand, Norway. A book of biotite |  | | Book (edition) | | YEAR 1687"—DAVID T. DAY, CHIEF OF THE DIVISION OF MINING STATISTICS AND TECHNOLOGY WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT...the con dition of affairs, more especially in the South and in the States and Ter ritories of the far West...and consump tion, or better and cheaper means of mining, extraction, and convey ance to market, may in...by Prof. John G. Smock, and that for the Eocky Mountain region by Mr. C. Whitman Cross. To these gentlemen...correspondence has been carried on with geologists, mining engineers, and other local authorities, and various |  | | 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) | | Cuts FORMS and SHAPES in any slabbed stone - jade. quartz. agate, glass. etc. Faster and easier lhan grinding...Treasurer 655 • 8th St. Idaho Falls, 10 83401 SOUTH CENTRAL FEDERATION OF MINERAL SOCIETIES Offlcare.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 26 South Dakota Mlneral New, by Martha Linde . . . . . . . ... Red rhyollte exterior surrounding a beautiful quartz crystal interior. An excellent buy at only . .... . $1 .00 per lb. NEW ARRIVALS FROM SOUTH AFRICA BOTSWANA BANDED CARNELIAN AGATE - New and a very attractive |  | | 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...2 KANSAS Foreword 4 How To Use This Book SOUTH DAKOTA 6 New Finds ................ Fairburn Type...AGATE BEDS 11 OELRICHS AGATE BED .. 12 THE CUSTER AREA ......... Tepee Canyon Agate ... Garnets ....... Concretions ........ .38 .38 .38 38 THE SMOKY HILLS ........ Gem Material ............... Barite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | cleave1andite, rubellite, tourmaline, lepidolite, and quartz. Much of the spodumene exhibits a pink to purple...occasionally small crystals of microlite, some quartz, and rareIy some blue cleavelandite, Some spodumene...terminations completely enclosed in quartz much of which is of the smoky variety, but most spodumene is overgrown...overgrown by cleavelandite, lepidolite, and quartz. Mangantantalite, the manganese-rich variety of tantalite...embedded in spodumene, cleaveIandite, lepidolite, and quartz. Its most frequent occurrence is a small, brownish-red |  | | 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...ALABAMA Iron phosphate mineral locality at Indian Mountain, Alabama (by H. Harwood) 5:241-244 Iron-manganese...Iron-manganese phosphates of the Williams pegmatites, Coosa County, Alabama (by P. B. Leavens & T. A. Simpson) 6:66-73 |  | | Book | | fibrous radiating structure. Opposite: gold on quartz from California. CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 7 THE...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...crystals in Cornwall; at Wallaroo, South Australia and Broken Hill, New South Wales. Found in sandstone at...Corocoro, Bolivia, and at Cananea, Mexico. In the USA copper is found in abundance in the Keweenaw area |  | | Book (volume) | | (25.56 ct), Sweet Home Mine, Colorado; colorless scheelite (19.66 ct), Kern County, California; octagonal...Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from San Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...Dosen ONN/ QBI96-40247 Trade Distribution by Mountain Press Publishing Company P.O. Box 2399, Missoula...DS AED 3) June Culp Zeitner, of Rapid City, South Dakota, for her lifelong devotion to the study and...events to bring the history of North American gem mining up to date. Here, then, is the latest, most complete |  | | Book (edition) | | interesting facts about the people involved in mining, current price lists of various stones, and numerous...from the Tourmaline Q ueen .1ine, Pala, San Diego County, California. From a pen-and-ink drawing by W. E...price increases, which make it more attractive to mine domestic deposits at a profit. Foreign labor is...are so widespread, as in the case of the alluvial quartz gemstones of the Midwest, that it is impossible...formations containing cryptocrystalline varieties of quartz, such as agate and petrified wood, extend over |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | igneous rock in which nearly equal proportions of quartz (SiO2), plagioclase, and alkali feldspar (as separate...“schorl” on albite, 16.8 × 16.0 × 14.3 cm, Urucum mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil; Joe Budd photo, courtesy...variety morganite, spodumene variety kunzite, with quartz, lepidolite, and albite, 26 × 17 × 13 cm, Kunar...colorless beryl variety goshenite from the Tanco mine, Bernic Lake, Manitoba, 6.2 × 4.0 × 4.8 cm; David...layered pegmatite dike from near Palomar Mountain, San Diego County, California. Note that beryl occurs at |  | | Book | | AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins in a variety of metamorphic...Litchfield, where a mass of white quartz on a ridge had once been mined for quartz, and large ilmenite masses...ilmenite crystals to 7 .5 cm in matrix of massive quartz from these dumps-adding that, in his judgment,...region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites between the towns...Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series of incompletely |  | | Book | | &N ROADSIDE % JEOLOGY of South Dakota John Paul Gries Mountain Press Publishing Company Missoula...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...96-15930 CIP Printed in United States of America MOUNTAIN PRESS PUBLISHING COMPANY P.O. Box 2399 ¢ Missoula...interpreting the details of the surface geology of South Dakota. My model is Nathaniel Horatio Darton, geologist |  | | Catalog/List | | occasionally in millimeters (mm): xl = crystal: TIN = thumbnail specimen, under 2.5x2.5x2.5cm: Capsules...overgrowths on whitc Microcline xls, with scat tered smoky Quartz xls to 1.2 cm-$3.00; (b) rather crude white...xls partially imbedded in a tabular transparent Quartz xl; 1.3xlx0.4-$2.50 ANDALUSITE; M464.Lane,Massachusetts;...Andradite, no bruising; 4x2.5x2-$6.50 MS62.Mirac/e Mt. Mine, Vo/cano, Ca/ifomia; (a) dark reddish brown xls...base of specimen; 4.8x4.2x3-$5.00 M563. Ye//ow Cat Mine, San Benito Co., Califomia; var. topazolite: (a) |  | | Book | | Jewelry, 146 Breastplate of the High Priest, 144 South America, Beryl in the Bible, 80 Emerald and 140...Derivations of Names and Portugal, 490 Republic of South Africa, Romania, 549 601 Yugoslavia, 485 Pakistan...Spain, 445 Greenland, India, 500 Republic, South West Africa 445 Ghana, Inner Somali 443 Germany... semi-precious in beryl history of gemstone mining the on papers in of knowledge the many ...considerable deemed to possess, that encouraged mining despite meager yields and the appalling conditions |  | | Book | | volume is dedicated is four-fold: (1) To locate by mine, deposit, or community those mineralized areas of...Co. Hematite CALERA, Shelby Co. Wavkllite CLAY COUNTY, Sec. 24. T. 19 S R., 7 E. STATUARY, Coosa Co...Co., (W. border of* Marble Crystalline TALLADEGA COUNTY Marble, (crystalline) VALLEY HEAD, DeKalb Co. Hematite...VILLAGE SPRINGS, Blount Co. Hematite WOODS COPPER MINE, Cloaburne Co. Sphalerite ARIZONA COVEI.I.ITE...Feldspar HISSOP, Coosa Co., (near) Beryl JACKSON COUNTY Hematite KENNEDYS, Clay Co., (near) Magnetite MILLERVILLE |  | | Report (issue) | | studies in 1811, during A.G. Werner's time at the Mining Academy in Freiberg, Saxony (Germany). From 1826...miners. He was also the gemstone inspector for the mining authority. Breithaupt's legacy is 500 publications...descriptions. T he above is a postcard of the School of Mining in Feiberg, Saxony printed for the 1991 Breithaupt...from the University of New Orleans in Louisiana (USA), with the lowdown on beryl mineralogy An ancient...in New Hampshire (USA). The crystal weighed 455 kilograms. 2m: The Queen Anne mine in Zimbabwe has produced |
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