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Cassiterite from
Tin Mountain Mine, Fourmile, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Cassiterite
Formula:SnO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Cassiterite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Tin Mountain Mine, Fourmile, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:137471
Long-form Identifier:1:3:137471:1
GUID (UUID V4):42789cdc-c98e-4765-989e-d7887aec4c4a
Nearest other occurrences of Cassiterite
2.3km (1.4 miles) Occidental Lode Occurrence, Unorganized mining district [1], Custer County, South Dakota, USA
4.1km (2.5 miles) Ross Mine, Berne, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
4.2km (2.6 miles) Helen Beryl Mine, Fourmile, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
5.4km (3.3 miles) Tip Top Mine, Fourmile, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
5.6km (3.5 miles) New York Mine (Westinghouse No. 1 Mine), Custer, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
9.2km (5.7 miles) Custer Claim, Berne, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
11.5km (7.2 miles) Old Mike mine (Great Northern; Old Mike M.S.2212), Custer, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
11.9km (7.4 miles) Japanzy Mine (Tenderfoot Mine; Czar Mine), Tenderfoot Gulch, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
12.4km (7.7 miles) Custer Mountain lode (Snookum mine), Custer, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
12.8km (8.0 miles) Climax mica 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...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
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)
Geology and Pegmatites of the Fourmile Quadrangle, Black Hills South Dakota GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL... Geology and Pegmatites of the Fourmile Quadrangle, Black Hills South Dakota By JACK A. REDDEN PEGMATITES...prospects-_--------------------Big Tom mine (pegmatite 64) -------------------Corky mine (pegmatite 58)____--_--------------Gayle...9)__________________ Red Spar mine (pegmatite 70)-___--__-___________ Rock Ridge mine (pegmatite 113)_________________...113)_________________ Warren Draw mine (pegmatite 12)________________ Geology.__________________________________
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
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)
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 (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...Elkhorn pegmatite _________________________________ _ Mine workings ________________________________ _ Geology..._____________________________________ _ Tin Mountain pegmatite ____________________________ _ Mine workings ___________
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
THE TIN MOUNTAIN MINE IN THE BLACK HILLS, SOUTH DAKOTA By PAUL L. BROUGHTON e g i n a , Shave a s...c h e w aFor n , Cthe anad a The Black Hills of South RDakota collection of rare minerals, the one of...variety of rare radioactive min­ and Custer area of South Dakota. erals have been found in the excavation...of the region is the Tin Moun­ is commonly of secondary origin, usually tain Mine, about seven miles west...other ura­ ter, in Custer County. The mine is com­ nium minerals. In the Tin Mountain mercially operated
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
Report (issue)
UC-NRLF B 3 JTH am IDD DAKOTA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN NO. J. E. 3 TODD, STATE GEOLOGIST ... MINERAL RESOURCES OF SOUTH DAKOTA INCLUDING MINERAL WEALTH OF THE BLACK HILLS BY CLEOPHAS C. O^HARRA...MINERAL BUILDSSUM&^RIAL FUELS AND WATERS OF SOUTH DAKOTA > WITH PRODUCTION FOR IQOO BY JAMES E. TQ02...TQ02 TODD EARTH SCIENC LIBRARY GIFT OF SOUTH DAKOTA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN NO. J. E. 3. TODD...TODD, STATE GEOLOGIST MINERAL RESOURCES OF SOUTH DAKOTA INCLUDING MINERAL WEALTH OF THE BLACK HILLS
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
Report (issue)
Geology of the Berne Quadrangle Black Hills South Dakota GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 297-F ... Geology of the Berne Quadrangle Black Hills South Dakota By JACK A. REDDEN PEGMATITES AND OTHER PRECAMBRIAN...___________________ Gneissic pegmatites of the Bear Mountain area- Page 343 344 345 345 345 347 347 347 347...Park dome _ ______________-___-_--------_Bear Mountain dome____--_-______---------Harney Peak dome.__...GEOLOGY OF THE BERNE QUADRANGLE, BLACK HILLS, SOUTH DAKOTA By JACK A. REDDEN ABSTRACT The Berne quadrangle
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
CESIUM BIOTITE FROM CUSTER COUNTY, SOUTH DAKOTA FneNr L. Hessl and J. J. Fanev2 Fonnwonr. (F. L. H.)...the Custer County Court at Custer, South Dakota, who had formerly been actively engagedin mining, undertook...specimenswere collected from Tin Mountain, about 7 miles west of Custer, and appear to belong to the...Grant of Custer, I visited Tin Mountain and made a reconnaissanceof the neighborhood. The "Mountain" has...Survey. I'J 174 TE E AM ERICAN MI NERALOGIST cassiterite, whence the name of the hill. At one time an
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 (volume)
it helpful to refer to Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant, it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals of wide distribution...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......
Report (issue)
petalite, amblygonite, lepidolite, elbaite, cassiterite, columbite, apatite, eucryptite, muscovite, potassic...Bikita, Zimbabwe. From Karibib, Namibia. In the USA, from a number of localities in Oxford Co., Maine;..., Connecticut; in the Tin Mountain mine, near Custer, Custer Co., South Dakota; in the Pala and Mesa...Bernic Lake, Manitoba, Canada. From the Taquaral district, Itinga, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Large crystals...Gilgit districts, Pakistan. At Nilaw, Nuristan district, Laghman Province, Afghanistan. Additional minor
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
schist matrix from the Murchison greenstone belt, South Africa; 90 × 75 mm. Peter Lyckberg, and published... Be2AlO4. Twinned crystals from the Ratnapura district, Sri Lanka. Photograph of sample R100130 reproduced...Be4Si2O7(OH)2, in pseudohexagonal prisms from the Golconda mine, Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Photograph...Fershtater et al. (2007) Danalite 2550 Barbara gold mine pegmatites, Coolgardie, Jacobson et al. (2007) Jacobson...Top mine, Fourmile quadrangle, Custer County, Robinson et al. (1985) Dahl and Foland (2008) South Dakota
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
California mine Mt Antero, Colo. 837 Mobawk tin mine, near Hill City, S. Dak. 838 Emerald mine, Chivor district...district. Colombia. 813 Black Pearl rvolframite mine, Bagdad, Ariz Bq Windy claims, Ariz. 810 Scheelitemine...Lakevierv Scheelitemine, Nev 832 Laheview Scheelite mine, Nev 88, B45 Wolframite vein, Victorio Mts , N....4 Agua Verde, Pima County, Ariz. 2 Lone Pine, Calif 3 SheeprockMts, Tooele County, Utab Bl2 SheeprockMts...SheeprockMts, Tooele County, Utah 811 SheeprockMts, Tooele County, Utah 1 Mt Antero, Colo. B30 Mt Antero, Colo
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...abundant it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals that are widely
Journal (issue)
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...feet. It was mined on the farm Tveit, Iveland District north of Kristiansand, Norway. A book of biotite...enormous spodumene crystals in the Black Hills of South Dakota ; the huge beryl crystals at Albany, Maine ;...tourmaline crystal 3x3x8 feet in the Luella Mine near Avon, Latah County, Idaho ; and etc. Origin The crystals
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
Report (volume)
National Forest, South Dakota and Wyoming U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1580 SOUTH DAKOTA WYOMING I -«*&...Geology of the Black Hills National Forest, South Dakota and Wyoming We st from. Washington SHOWING...Geology of the Black Hills National Forest, South Dakota and Wyoming By ED DEWITT, J. A. REDDEN, ANNA...Mineral resources locatable commodities 50 History of mining and exploration 50 Metals 51 Industrial minerals...Proterozoic pegmatite deposits Potassium feldspar (E); tin and tungsten (F); lithium (G); potassium feldspar
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
THE TIN MOUNTAIN SPODUMENE MINE, BLACK HILLS, SOUTH DAKOTA. G. M. SCHWARTZ. TaE Tin Mountain Mine is...is locatedabout sevenmiles.westof Custer, S. D., in the southeastquarter of Section 26, T 3 S, R3 E. The...the Bla.ckHills uplift. The mine is accessible by auto road from Custer. The depositis remarkablefor...remarkablefor its closeresemblance to the Etta Mine xwhichhaslongbeenthe world'slargestproducerof lithium minerals...pegmatitewas examinedfor tin, but no commercialtin was found and, in fact, cassiterite•vas not observedon the
Journal (issue)
WASHINGTON May 4, 2002 9:30 am to 6:30 pm Clark County P. U. D. Building 1200 •'ort Vancouver Way Vancouver...and Associated Minerals from Alder Creek, Wheeler County, Oregon Larry B. rrcnch 21 N Winchester Miles City...Hills I. Tin Mountain and Tip Top Mines Robert Smith In the southwest part of South Dakota, along the...to the mineralogist. These are near the towns of Custer and Keystone in the central Black Hills. I would...the town of Custer in Custer county_ These are the Tin Mountain Mine and the Tip Top Mine. The Tin Mountain
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
 
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