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Watermelon Calcite, Buffalo Gap Grasslands, South Dakota

This material is known as "watermelon calcite" or "watermelon rock" due to its colorful red and green fluorescent response under UV. This...

Watermelon Rock- Looks almost good enough to eat!

There is a widespread area that spans a region within America's Heartland between northwestern Nebraska to southwestern South Dakota that...

Golden Barite from Elk Creek, South Dakota

Several well-formed, terminated, amber barite crystals on a dark chocolate brown matrix, from the Elk Creek area of Meade County, South...

Fluorescent Barite from Elk Creek, South Dakota

Sprays of golden amber barite crystals cover a dark chocolate brown matrix in this specimen from the Elk Creek area of Meade County,...

Buttery Yellow Calcite, Elk Creek, South Dakota

Best known for its golden-amber colored barite crystals, the Elk Creek area of Meade County, South Dakota, also produces buttery yellow...

Metauranocircite, Davier Mine, South Dakota

Small yellow/green, plate-like, crystals of metauranocircite on a dark limonitic stained Rhyolite matrix. From the Davier Mine, located...

Elk Creek Barite, on Calcite - Meade County, South Dakota

BARITE ON YELLOW CALCITE. ELK CREEK, MEADE COUNTY, SOUTH DAKOTA 4 ½ OUNCES 2 ¾ X 2 ¾ X 1 ¼ inches f/11 ISO-100 .8 second

Meta-Uranocircite - Annie Creek, South Dakota

Watermelon Calcite, Chalcedony - Hot Springs, South Dakota

Elk Creek Barite - Butte Co., South Dakota

(On calcite)

Elk Creek Barite - South Dakota