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Teepee Canyon Main diggings (Teepee Canyon Agate No. 1 claim; Teepee Canyon Agate No. 2 claim), Teepee Canyon ("Hell Canyon"), Custer County, South Dakota, USAi
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
43° 43' 50'' North , 103° 53' 35'' West
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):
Type:
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Nearest Settlements:
| Place | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Hill View Heights | 170 (2006) | 23.9km |
| Custer | 1,952 (2017) | 24.0km |
| Pringle | 109 (2017) | 27.6km |
| Newcastle | 3,534 (2017) | 28.6km |
| Hill City | 995 (2017) | 34.0km |
The easternmost developed workings within the famed Teepee Canyon agate locality. The deposit has been mined in the past and has existing workings consisting of a series of connected trenches and bulldozer cuts along the hillside trending from the southwest to the northeast. North of highway 16 in West Teepee Canyon.
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Standard Detailed Gallery Strunz Chemical ElementsDetailed Mineral List:
| ⓘ Calcite Formula: CaCO3 References: William Godley collection--personally collected.Identification: Visual Identification, Dealer/Collection Label |
| ⓘ Quartz Formula: SiO2 |
| ⓘ Quartz var. Chalcedony Formula: SiO2 |
| ⓘ Quartz var. Fairburn Agate Formula: SiO2 |
Gallery:
List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification
| Group 4 - Oxides and Hydroxides | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| ⓘ | Quartz var. Chalcedony | 4.DA.05 | SiO2 |
| ⓘ | var. Fairburn Agate | 4.DA.05 | SiO2 |
| ⓘ | 4.DA.05 | SiO2 | |
| Group 5 - Nitrates and Carbonates | |||
| ⓘ | Calcite | 5.AB.05 | CaCO3 |
List of minerals for each chemical element
| C | Carbon | |
|---|---|---|
| C | ⓘ Calcite | CaCO3 |
| O | Oxygen | |
| O | ⓘ Calcite | CaCO3 |
| O | ⓘ Quartz var. Chalcedony | SiO2 |
| O | ⓘ Quartz var. Fairburn Agate | SiO2 |
| O | ⓘ Quartz | SiO2 |
| Si | Silicon | |
| Si | ⓘ Quartz var. Chalcedony | SiO2 |
| Si | ⓘ Quartz var. Fairburn Agate | SiO2 |
| Si | ⓘ Quartz | SiO2 |
| Ca | Calcium | |
| Ca | ⓘ Calcite | CaCO3 |
Other Regions, Features and Areas containing this locality
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- Black HillsMountain Range
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Teepee Canyon Main diggings, Teepee Canyon, Custer County, South Dakota, USA