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Locality Name:
Nickel Plate Mine, Keystone, Keystone District, Pennington Co., South Dakota, USA


mindat Locality ID: 4118
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-4118.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Nickel Plate Mine, Keystone, Keystone District, Pennington Co., South Dakota, USA": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 43°53'0"N
Longitude: 103°24'45"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 43.883333333333,-103.4125
AThis mineral is Anthropogenic.
GThis mineral is directly dated.
BThis mineral is reported as having this age.
YThis mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
OThis mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
RThe age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
PThe 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.

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 As Be Ca Fe H K Li Mn Mo Na O P S Si Sn Zn 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al As Be Ca Fe H K Li Mn Mo Na O P S Si Sn Zn 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
ArrojaditeArsenopyriteBerylClayFeldsparGraftoniteMicaMolybdeniteNoneOlivine
PyroxeneQuartzRutileSphalerite

15 IMA Minerals at location:
Albite  (*)Arrojadite-(KFe)  (*)Arsenopyrite  (*)Beryl  (*)Cassiterite  (*)
Dickinsonite-(KMnNa)  (*)Graftonite  (*)Microcline  (*)Molybdenite  (*)Muscovite  (*)
Quartz  (*)Sphalerite  (*)Spodumene  (*)Triphylite  (*)Wyllieite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Albite  (*)FeldsparNa(AlSi3O8)08803
Arrojadite-(KFe)  (*)Arrojadite(KNa)Fe2+(CaNa2)Fe2+13Al(PO4)11(PO3OH)(OH)2050
Arsenopyrite  (*)ArsenopyriteFeAsS09052
Beryl  (*)BerylBe3Al2Si6O1804286
Cassiterite  (*)RutileSnO205171
Dickinsonite-(KMnNa)  (*)ArrojaditeK(NaMn)CaNa3AlMn13(PO4)12(OH)2026
Graftonite  (*)GraftoniteFe2+Fe2+2(PO4)20107
Microcline  (*)FeldsparK(AlSi3O8)04924
Molybdenite  (*)MolybdeniteMoS205800
Muscovite  (*)Mica ClayKAl2(Si3Al)O10(OH)2017380
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO2061156
Sphalerite  (*)SphaleriteZnS021482
Spodumene  (*)PyroxeneLiAlSi2O60688
Triphylite  (*)OlivineLiFe2+(PO4)0313
Wyllieite  (*)NoneNaNaMn(Fe2+Al)(PO4)3017


No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.
SampleSource LocalityReference URL
R070319Nickel Plate Mine, Keystone, Keystone District, Pennington Co., South Dakota, USAhttps://rruff.info/R070319

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