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Louise & Hunter Claim

Past Producer in Pennington county in South Dakota, United States with commodities Lithium, Tin, Mica, Feldspar
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Workings at the site
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10055677
MRDS ID SD02289
Record type Site
Current site name Louise & Hunter Claim

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -103.61974, 43.85552 (WGS84)
Elevation 1804
Relative position ON THE PENNINGTON-CUSTER COUNTY LINE, 0.75 MI SOUTH OF OREVILLE, SOUTH DAKOTA

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pennington(county)

South Dakota(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Custer(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Mount Rushmore(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Hot Springs(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle Cheyenne-Spring(hydrologic unit)

Cheyenne(hydrologic accounting unit)

Cheyenne(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Black Hills National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States South Dakota Pennington

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Black Hills 002S 004E 22,27 South Dakota

Comments on the location information

  • SW 1/4 OF SECTION 22 AND NW 1/4 OF SECTION 27.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lithium Critical Primary
Tin Critical Primary
Mica Tertiary
Feldspar Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cassiterite Ore
Feldspar Ore
Mica Ore
Spodumene Ore
Albite Gangue
Microcline Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result SPODUMENE AVERAGES 6.5% LI20

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Pegmatite
    Rock unit name Pegmatite
    Rock description Pegmatite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Pegmatite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -103.61974, 43.85552
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form DIKE
    Strike N 25 E
    Dip 65 W

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Oreville District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest
Area name Black Hills National Forest

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Overall length 42.67M
    Overall width 9.14M

Comments on the workings information

  • 2 OPENCUTS - LOUISE IS LISTED AND IS 8 FT DEEP. HUNTER IS 22 FT LONG, 13 FT WIDE AND 8 FT DEEP

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    U. S. BUREAU OF MINES, 1955, BLACK HILLS MINERAL ATLAS, SOUTH DAKOTA: PART 2, BUREAU OF MINES INFORMATION CIRCULAR 7707

  • Deposit

    ROBERTS, W.L., AND RAPP, GEORGE, 1965, MINERALOGY OF THE BLACK HILLS, SOUTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MINES AND TECHNOLOGY BULLETIN 18

  • Deposit

    1945 DIREXPL FEDERAL BUREAU OF MINES & FEDERAL GEOLOGIC SURVE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1980 Barari, Rachel A. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

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