Bismarck Property

Past Producer in Lawrence county in South Dakota, United States with commodities Gold, Tungsten
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. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mineral rights holdings
  10. Ownership information
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. General comments
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10129012
MAS/MILS ID 0460810028
Record type Site
Current site name Bismarck Property
Alternate or previous names Alder Creek Property, Little Blue Group

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -103.75887, 44.32936 (WGS84)
Elevation 1844

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lawrence(county)

South Dakota(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Lead(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Rapid City(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Rapid City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Belle Fourche(hydrologic unit)

Belle Fourche(hydrologic accounting unit)

Cheyenne(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States South Dakota Lawrence

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Black Hills 004 N 003 E 09 NE South Dakota

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Tertiary
Tungsten Critical Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -103.75887, 44.32936

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface-Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Patented

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Homestake Mining Co.
    Interest 100
    Home office Lead, Sd
    Year 1976

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    IRVING J D 1902 ECONOMIC RESOURCES OF THE NORTHERN BLACK HIL

  • Deposit

    GEOL SURVEY PP 26 PP 211 212

  • Deposit

    LINCOLN F C 1937 THE MINING INDUSRY OF S DAK: S DAK SCHOOL O

  • Deposit

    BULL 17 P 95.

  • Deposit

    RUNNER J J AND HARTMANN 1918 THE OCCURRENCE CHEMISTRY METALL

  • Deposit

    D USES OF TUNGSTEN WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE BLACK HILLS

  • Deposit

    TH DAK:S D SCHOOL OF MINES BULL 12 P 75

  • Deposit

    U S BUMINES STAFF REGION V BLACK HILLS MINERAL ATLAS S D PT

  • Deposit

    IRC 7688 1954 PP 74-75.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit HARD COPY FILE CONTAINS FILE REPORT PLUS MAPS.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 07-DEC-1983 South Dakota School of Mines U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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

Operator history (post-MRDS)

MRDS records operators as of each record's last update (≤ 2019). Some of the operators listed here have since changed hands or dissolved:

Curated by qvyshift.com from publicly-reported M&A activity (SEC filings, press releases, USGS Mineral Yearbooks). Not authoritative — verify against primary sources before relying on it. The MSHA panel above is the current authoritative source for actively-permitted mines.