Mine detail: Beecher Lode

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Location: Custer County, South Dakota, United States, North America
Lat / long: 43.70274, -103.5775
dep_id: 10055687
mrds_id: SD02303
Commodity type: metallic and nonmetallic
Major mineral: Lithium, Beryllium, Mica
Minor mineral: Niobium (Columbium), Tantalum
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Past Producer
ore: Amblygonite, Beryl, Columbite, Mica, Spodumene, Tantalite
gangue: Albite, Apatite, Cassiterite, Cleavelandite, Lepidolite, Muscovite, Quartz, Tourmaline
orebody_fm: LENS
work_type: Surface/Underground
alteration: Limonite Veinlets, The Stain Is Carried With Depth. The Pegmatite Is Badly Altered.
Reporter: Barari, Rachel A.
arock_unit: Pegmatite
arock_type: Pegmatite
tectonic: Black Hills
disc_yr: 1900
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 MINERALOGY OF SOME PEGMATITES NEAR CUSTER, SOUTH DAKOTA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY REPORT OF INVESTIGATIONS 50.
  • Deposit:: FISHER, D.J., 1942, PRELIMINARY REPORT ON SOME PEGMATITES OF THE CUSTER DISTRICT, SOUTH DAKOTA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY REPORT OF INVESTIGATIONS 44
  • Deposit:: BIENIEWSKI, C.L., 1964, THE MINERAL INDUSTRY OF SOUTH DAKOTA IN 1962, SOUTH DAKOTA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MINERALS REPORT 10
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