Ida

Occurrence in Pennington county in South Dakota, United States with commodities Tin, Lithium
Sections on this page
  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. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10055706
MRDS ID SD02326
Record type Site
Current site name Ida
Alternate or previous names Ida Tin

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -103.51862, 43.92829 (WGS84)
Elevation 1539
Relative position 3 MI EAST OF HILL CITY, 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

Hill City(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 001S 005E 27,28 South Dakota

Comments on the location information

  • NORTHEAST OF AND ADJACENT TO THE ADDIE LODE, SE 1/4 SEC. 28 AND SW 1/4 SEC. 27

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tin Critical Primary
Lithium Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cassiterite Ore
Spodumene Ore
Albite Gangue
Chalcopyrite Gangue
Muscovite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result SPODUMENE BLADE 2 INCHES LONG AND 0.5 INCH THICK

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) -103.51862, 43.92829

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form DIKE
    Strike N 40 E
    Dip 60 NW
    Length 182.88M
    Width 3.05M

Comments on the geologic information

  • SCATTER SMALL CRYSTALS OF CASSITERITE OCCUR WITH SMALL SPODUMENE CRYSTALS

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Hill City District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest
Area name Black Hills National Forest

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Overall depth 24.38M

Comments on the workings information

  • 2 SHALLOW SHAFTS, 10 AND 15 FEET DEEP, AND AN 80 - FOOT SHAFT, NOW CAVED IN

Comments on development

  • PATENTED LODE

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

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit FINE GRAINED

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.

External references