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Locality Name:
Oreville District, Pennington Co., South Dakota, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 1700
Youngest recorded age at locality: 1700

mindat Locality ID: 122301
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-122301.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Oreville District, Pennington Co., South Dakota, USA": 8
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 8

Number of Child Localities: 8
Child Localities:
Deacon Wright Lode Occurrence
Gira & Ainsley's Dike
Louise & Hunter Claim (Hunter And Louise Spodumene Dike)
Oreville Spar Mica Mine
Stalin (High Climb Mine)
Tin City -Part Of Tin Plate Group (Tin King Lodes)
U.S. Highways 16/385 & State Route 87 Intersection Area
US 16 Roadside

Latitude: 43°51'44"N
Longitude: 103°37'18"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 43.862222222222,-103.62166666667

A	This mineral is Anthropogenic.
G	This mineral is directly dated.
B	This mineral is reported as having this age.
Y	This mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
O	This mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
R	The age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
P	The age displayed for this mineral is the range of ages for this mineral at all of this locality's children.
	This mineral's age has not yet been recorded.

Andalusite	Beryl	Clay	Feldspar	Garnet	Mica	None	Not in a structural group	Olivine	Pyroxene
Quartz	Rutile	Staurolite

Albite ()*	Almandine ()*	Amblygonite ()*	Andalusite ()*	Beryl ()*
Cassiterite ()*	Graphite ()*	Heterosite ()*	Lithiophilite ()*	Microcline ()*
Muscovite ()*	Purpurite ()*	Quartz ()*	Sillimanite ()*	Spodumene ()*
Staurolite ()*	Triphylite ()*

This Mineral list contains entries from this locality, including sub-localities. Minerals in bold are reported by mindat.org as occurring directly at this locality, and do not occur at any children (sublocalities) of this locality.

Elements at this locality, including sub-localities: Al Be C F Fe H K Li Mn Na O P Si Sn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Andalusite Beryl Clay Feldspar Garnet Mica None Not in a structural group Olivine Pyroxene
Quartz Rutile Staurolite

17 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	1700	1700	1	266134	8803
Almandine ()*	Garnet	Fe²⁺₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	1700	1700	2	266138,266139	2353
Amblygonite ()*	None	LiAl(PO₄)F	1700	1700	1	266135	244
Andalusite ()*	Andalusite	Al₂SiO₅	1700	1700	1	266138	1310
Beryl ()*	Beryl	Be₃Al₂Si₆O₁₈	1700	1700	1	266135	4286
Cassiterite ()*	Rutile	SnO₂	1700	1700	3	266132,266134,266135	5171
Graphite ()*	None	C	1700	1700	1	266138	2812
Heterosite ()*	Olivine	Fe³⁺(PO₄)	1700	1700	1	266134	204
Lithiophilite ()*	Olivine	LiMn²⁺(PO₄)	1700	1700	1	266134	155
Microcline ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	1700	1700	1	266134	4924
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1700	1700	1	266138	17380
Purpurite ()*	Olivine	Mn³⁺(PO₄)	1700	1700	1	266134	80
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1700	1700	2	266134,266138	61156
Sillimanite ()*	Not in a structural group	Al₂SiO₅	1700	1700	1	266138	1516
Spodumene ()*	Pyroxene	LiAlSi₂O₆	1700	1700	1	266134	688
Staurolite ()*	Staurolite	Fe²⁺₂Al₉Si₄O₂₃(OH)	1700	1700	1	266139	978
Triphylite ()*	Olivine	LiFe²⁺(PO₄)	1700	1700	1	266134	313

1 Ages assigned to this locality:

	Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Age Interpret	Prioritized?	Sample Source	Sample Num	Run Num	Age from other Locality	Dated Mineral	Minerals explicitely stated as having this age	Age applies to these Elements	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID	Age Notes
	Alexandra-0372	1700	1700	1700		Age of pegmatite					Yes			Li, Be, Sn, Cs, Ta, Nb, U	122418	Black Elk Peak (Harney Peak), Pennington Co., South Dakota, USA	Harney Peak	Norton and Redden (1990)	10.2138/am.2008.2633	AM75_631

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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