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Slate from
El Dorado (Gold Dust; Midway Fraction), Hill City Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA


Classification
Type:Slate
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Slate data
Locality Data:Click here to view El Dorado (Gold Dust; Midway Fraction), Hill City Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1048441
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1048441:4
GUID (UUID V4):0
Nearest other occurrences of Slate
4.6km (2.8 miles) Black Crystal Property (Giras Claim; Gireau's Claim; P J McGowans Lode), Hill City Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
5.8km (3.6 miles) Greenback Group, Hill City Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
7.4km (4.6 miles) Buckeye & Lena Group (Union Hill Group; Gopher Group), Hill City Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
8.4km (5.2 miles) Egyptian Group, Keystone Gold Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
8.6km (5.3 miles) Nathaniel Pope, Keystone Gold Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
12.3km (7.7 miles) Omega Group, Unorganized mining district [5], Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
13.1km (8.2 miles) Barnes Group (Black Tom Group), Unorganized mining district [5], Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
16.0km (9.9 miles) Wild Rose Mine (Wild Rose Gold Mine; Grant Mine; Wild Rose Group), Unorganized mining district [1], Custer County, South Dakota, USA
16.2km (10.1 miles) Eldorado Custer County (Old Bill Group), Unorganized mining district [1], Custer County, South Dakota, USA
16.6km (10.3 miles) Mariposa Mine (Mary Posey; Third Time Lode; Slate Creek Lode; Merry Posey; Blair Claim), Mystic Mining District, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
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