Mine detail: Climax Mica Mine

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Location: Custer County, South Dakota, United States, North America
Lat / long: 43.76302, -103.55278
dep_id: 10011984
mrds_id: D007204
Commodity type: nonmetallic
Major mineral: Mica
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Past Producer
ore: Muscovite
gangue: Albite, Amblygonite, Quartz, Triphylite
orebody_fm: IRREGULAR
work_type: Underground
Reporter: Barari, Rachel A.
hrock_type: Schist
arock_type: Pegmatite
tectonic: Southern Black Hills
Year first produced: 1880
References:
  • Deposit:: U.S. BUREAU OF MINES, 1955, BLACK HILLS MINERAL ATLAS, SOUTH DAKOTA: PART 2, BUREAU OF MINES INFORMATION CIRCULAR 7707
  • 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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