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Cassiterite from
Scotland mine, Tinton Pegmatite Mining District, Lawrence 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 Scotland mine, Tinton Pegmatite Mining District, Lawrence County, South Dakota, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:384535
Long-form Identifier:1:3:384535:6
GUID (UUID V4):63a83150-7945-4ccf-b6bc-08e698755621
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...that their faces are crossed by large and small pegmatite dikes. ARTHUR E. S M I T H 9 I I8 Concho Street...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)...that their faces are crossed by large and small pegmatite dikes. Although the northern Black Hills iirea
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)
California 48 Canada Cape Colony Carolina, North and South 51 Ceylon 54 Chili 55 50 52 China 55 Colorado...123 123 New Guinea New Hampshire New Jersey New South Wales New Zealand 124 124 124 124 132 132 Nigeria...Russia Santo Domingo Scotland Siam Siberia South America South Australia South Dakota Spain Swaziland ...IV. Metallurgy and Chemistry V. Mineralogy VI. Mining and Milling 187 II. ^ * 226 234 VII. Statistics... dikes, or placers of a particular country or district, and in the arrangement of this bibliography the
Book
be minerals. Microcline, Crystal Peak, Colorado, USA * 12 x 9x 5 om MINERALS: PRODUCTS OF A CHANGING...CHANGING PLANET 11 Vanadinite, San Carlos district, Chihuahua, Mexico * 8 x 4 x 2 cm Mineral Species Minerals...a fracture, producing such forms as aegirine pegmatite. As well, hot hydrothermal fluids often carry...zeolites. Calcite (septarian nodule), San Juan County, Utah, USA * 18 x 24x Bem 14 | MINERALS: PRODUCTS...10 ct RIGHT: Round brilliant-cut white diamonds, South Africa and Canada « 2.00 ct and 3.06 ct leaves
Book
museum quality but many minerals can be found on mine dumps or can be purchased or traded. After introducing...to granite but with no quartz. Sandstone (South Dakota, USA) _9_ A darker rock than granite but with...are much smaller than the O2" anion. Spinel, cassiterite, and chromite are important oxides. Phosphates...Fluorite is a common example. Aragonite (Utah, USA) 27 Crystals Crystal Morphology The term morphology...crystal form. Other crystals Wulfenite (Arizona, USA) 29 may show lesser symmetry on a scale at the
Journal (issue)
stibnites from a new Nevada locality, the Murray Mine, not the old Manhattan, but he had only three specimens...clear calcites from a small pocket in the Meikle Mine, the new locality for the superb yellow barites...specimens of azurite and malachite from the Flambau Mine in Wisconsin, now completely gone, of the chalcocite...News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 E-mail: lream@comtch.iea.com...find of calcite in complete "balls" from the Herja Mine near Baia Mare. Evidently a large vug, or series
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
about 35 miles northwest of Flagstaff, in Coconino County, a pineforested volcanic area. The elevation is...in California recently I visited the Los Angeles County Museum in Los Angeles to see the famous collection...in Los Angeles can walk across the lawn to the County Museum for another thrill—the display of some of...weekends. "At a mine east of Leadville (Lake Co.). Colo., almost at the end of Lake County, I found a specimen...are reported from only one mine at Mackay, Idaho. Also found at this mine are malachite, azurite, cuprite
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....Prof. Erasmus Haworth, University of Kansas, Lawrence. Kentucky........Mr. J. B. Hoeing, Frankfort.
Book
be minerals. Microcline, Crystal Peak, Colorado, USA * 12 x 9x 5 cm. Biominerals Crystals formed by biological...periods of stability PLANET | 114 San Carlos district, Chihuahua, Mexico * 8 x 4 x 2 om are uncommon...a fracture, producing such forms as aegirine pegmatite. As well, hot hydrothermal fluids often carry...zeolites. Calcite (septarian nodule), San Juan County, Utah, USA » 18 x 24 x 8 om 14 MINERALS: PRODUCTS...10 ct RIGHT: Round brilliant-cut white diamonds, South Africa and Canada « 2.00 ct and 3.06 ct leaves
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
Report (issue)
International, LLC P.O. Box 263, East Hampton, CT 06424, USA Phone 1.860.267.1512; fax 1.860.267.7225 www.lapisint...elbaite crystals with lepidolite from the Golconda Mine in Minas Gerais, Brazil by Eberhard Equit, 1993...CHRISTIAN WEISE VERLAG, GERMANY AND LAPIS INTERNATIONAL, USA Tourmaline ♦ History ♦ Mineralogy • Tourmaline....... 85 North America ..................... 89 South America ..................... 96 • References ....were uncovered there until the 1860s when a true mining effort was directed at the outcrop (King, 2000)
Catalog/List
sunbust effect , cut and polished slab 2.5 xl .5 Mine de L' Etoile Congo £20 3. LEPIDOLITE, choice display...SPODUMENE pale pink cleavage section 2.5 xl inch on pegmatite with several smaller crystal sections.( Haapaluoma...for this location It's also a good example of a pegmatite. Haapaluoma Finland £8 small 2x3 8. ACTINOLITE...fine pale green fibrous mass with some quartz. 3x2 South Norway £6 Selasvatn 9. TOURMALINE dark green elongated...Franklinite, old time specimen 3x2x2 Franklin New Jersey USA £25 Actually quite attractive and with excellent
Catalog/List
mass of black crystals, some Mount Malosa, Zomba District, lxl ins £5 lx2ins _lyro?'~~e . __ __ _ ___ ___...Greenish, sparse, acicular micros in Penberthy Croft Mine, St 1cm £4 s AGARDITE Y Ca Cu As_O_O_H_____c_a_v_iti_e'-s-'in'-'-...215 69 3 11 Rich white crusts on matrix. Rawhide Mine, Mohave ½x½£3 _P_b_S_iO_13 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _...Hornblende ALLANITE Black areas in actinolite Bastnas Mine Sweden lxl £1.20 CeYFeSiO Quite attractive blue-grey...Grey veins in and on matrix, some with Fallowfield mine, Ix½ ALSTONITE BaCaCO/3 Alstonite micros. Hexharn
Book
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...area of north Michigan; at the Copper Queen mine, Bisbee, Arizona and at Georgetown, New Mexico. Treatment
Journal (issue)
free throughout the series, as they are needed. SOUTH AFRICA Subscriptions Telephone (011) 652 1838, fax...as cairngorm, after the Cairngorm Mountains in Scotland, where some of the finest specimens are found...crystals. This hand specimen was extracted from a pegmatite in Switzerland. Right: This crystalline aggregate...It was extracted from the Earth at the Pedra Alta Mine, San Geraldo do Baixio (Brazil). Below: A brooch...Washington DC (USA), who made a particular study of the geology of Crestmore in Riverside County, California
Book (edition)
Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture), dept...dept. (departement), dept. (departamento), dist. (district). Less common terms are not abbreviated, e.g....always included in text, except in the cases of the USA, UK, and the provinces Ontario and Quebec in Canada...localities of magmatic origin (in the sequence North and South America and Greenland, then Europe, Asia, Africa
Catalog/List
grained mass in Calcite.(Dark Star Mine,Ravalli County, Montana USA) 1 x 14 £2.50 1x1 £4 1x2 £10 156 NATIVE...in matrix (Union Carbide Mine, Wilson Springs Garland County, Arkansas USA) 1x1 £4 1x2 £7.50 360 PARATELLURITE...fairly sparse, green crusts on matrix. (San Miguel Mine Moctezuma Mexico) 1cm piece £ 5 5mm £3 WITH UNUSUAL...yellow crusts on matrix. (Outpost Mine, San Domingo Wash Maricopa County Arizona) Ixliins £4 107 CHLORARGYRITE...dark red micro's on matrix. (Getchell Mine,Humboldt Co . Nevada USA) 5mm £4 up to 1.5cm £7 242 KOLBECKITE
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
CONTENTS fxtnonucrtoN History and definition of "pegmatite" Shape and size of pegmatites Cavities Position...or cemented together in a framework." In 1849 "pegmatite" was used by Delesse3to designate a very coarse...relatively large mineral grains. The writer defines pegmatite as an intrusiae holouystall,ine ro:ck'composedessentially...crystals. In rare cases, notably 1.hecryolite pegmatite of southwest Greenland, the essential components...these bodies are funnel shaped, as is the Etta pegmatite in the Black Hills. Still other pegmatites have
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Murfreesboro, Pike Co., Ark. This is in the cinnabar district of Howard, Pike, and Clark Counties, Ark. This...Modesto, Calif. Both specimens come from an old Gold mine at Placerville, El Dorado Co., Calif. The following...he gave us—both were from the famous Gillette pegmatite quarry, Haddam Neck, Middlesex Co., Conn. One...by Seymour F. Dozier, Red Oak, Route 1, Fulton County, Georgia. Large lumps of this material can be picked...picked up on land lots, 199 and 200, 10th Land District, six miles northeast of Greenville (Meriwether
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
igneous rocks are exposed at surface (granite, pegmatite, crystalline, schists, quartz or limestone veins)...orangite, latapleite, eucrasite, veins of nephelin pegmatite. Kragero, S Norway, and Iviland, occurrence of...fergusonite. KIMOTO, S. W. Finland, large deposit of pegmatite: muskovite, beryl, topaz, tapiolite, tryphiline...fuchsite. ILMEN ZAPOVEDNIK, near town of MIASK, South Urals. Famous mineral locality in lImen Mountain...Freiberg deposit is found locality Zinnwald: cassiterite xIs, wolframite, zinnwaldite-iron lithium mica
by Sterling Publishing Co, Inc. 419 Park Avenue South, New York 10016 British edition published by Oak... New Jersey. In South Australia at Wallaroo and on Yorke Peninsula, and in New South Wales at Broken... England. Native copper wires occur at Tsumeb, South West 'Africa. occurrences: 14 10 X Copper 15...in Colorado at Aspen and in Boulder County; also in several mining areas in Arizona. Good specimens have...Australia, silver is found at Broken Hill in New South Wales. Mexico has been a big producer, particularly
Report (issue)
Empire. No attempt has been made to give details of mining or metallurgical processes. HARCOURT, Chairman...MOLYBDENUM ORES (a) BRITISH EMPIRE Europe: England; Scotland; Ireland Asia.: Ceylon; India • Africa: Nigeria;...Nigeria; Southern Rhodesia; SouthWest Africa; Union of South Africa North America: Canada; Newfoundland ; Lee­...Japan; Siam North America: Mexico; United States South America: Argentina; Bolivia; ChilE:·' Peru WORLD..."ore-bearing zone" 1'ead "ore-bearing zone of the Knaben district," and transpose the paragraph with that following
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Bulldog Tunnel of the Inspiration copper mine. The Live Oak copper mine of the same company (Inspiration Copper...crystals found in the Josephine Mine near Volcanoville, Eldorado County, California. What your correspondent...interest. I happen to be a part owner of the Josephine Mine, and acted as Engineer and Geologist during the...avoid hauling the waste rock to the surface. The mine has been closed for a year and the air now is so...workings and resume mining. I must say, that in over twenty-five years of mining this was perhaps the
Catalog/List
Jersey,Erionite crystals, Volborthite,Stibnitefrom Scotland Kesterite,Graphite JR, Bismuth in individual minerals...~black cry~t~i;,o;-~;atrix. M~~nl Malo~O:. i:~n{ba District. IX I ins £5 2 AEGIRINE £10 Pyroxene Malawi lxl...IX½ Rawhide Mine. Mohave 255 ALA!\IOSITE Rich white cruslS on matrix. £5 PbSiO/3 County. Arizona. U.S...botryoidal with possible New East Wheat Russell mine, ½x½ 501 ALLOPHANE £4 -·-· . . ALSiO £2.SO B~~.~~~~t~...grey masses '1.\ith possible Alstonite Fallowfield mine, Ix½ £4 13 ALSTONITE BaCaCO/3 micros. Hexham,Northumberland
Catalog/List
Cu UO PO/4 slightly radioactive. (Old Gunislake Mine Cornwall) a) green 3mm area on ropk, £3 ( b) IxhaJ...Phlogopite Mica. (Possibly slightly radioactive)(Palabora Mine,S.Africa lxl £5 1x2 £10 WITH UNUSUAL ELEMENTS...sections in matrix with Eudialyte.Rare not Rich (Umba Mine,Lovozero Massif,Kola Russia) lxl £4 1x2 £7.50 239...silvery areas in matrix with Tellurite. (La Bambolla Mine Moctezuma, Sonora Mexico) lxl £10 14 x 54 ins £5...yellow crusts on matrix. (Outpost Mine, San Domingo Wash Maricopa County Arizona) lx)4ins £4 063 CAVANSITE
 
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