Mine detail: Buster Dike

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Location: Custer County, South Dakota, United States, North America
Lat / long: 43.73329, -103.61667
dep_id: 10011970
mrds_id: D007184
Commodity type: metallic and nonmetallic
Major mineral: Beryllium, Feldspar, Mica
Trace mineral: Tantalum
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Past Producer
ore: Beryl, Cleavelandite, Muscovite
gangue: Albite, Microcline, Quartz
work_type: Surface/Underground
conc_proc: Hyperthermal Stage
Reporter: Barari, Rachel A.
hrock_type: Mica Schist
arock_type: Pegmatite
tectonic: Southern Black Hills
Year first produced: 1939
References:
  • Deposit:: U.S. BUREAU OF MINES, 1955, BLACK HILLS MINERAL ATLAS, SOUTH DAKOTA: PART 2, BUREAU OF MINES INFORMATION CIRCULAR 7707
  • Deposit:: FISHER, D.J., 1945, PRELIMINARY REPORT ON THE MINEROLOGY OF SOME PEGMATITES NEAR CUSTER, SOUTH DAKOTA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY REPORT OF INVESTIGATIONS 50
  • Deposit:: ROBERTS, W.L., AND RAPP, GEORGE, 1965, MINERALOGY OF THE BLACK HILLS, SOUTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MINES AND TECHNOLOGY BULLETIN 18.
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