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Old Mike Mine

Past Producer in Custer county in South Dakota, United States with commodities Feldspar, Niobium (Columbium), Tantalum
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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. 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 10250921
MAS/MILS ID 0460330026
Record type Site
Current site name Old Mike Mine
Alternate or previous names Great Northern, Old Mike M.S.2212

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Trench
Geographic coordinates: -103.61696, 43.81826 (WGS84)
Elevation 1829
Location accuracy 10(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Custer(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 Custer

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Black Hills 003 S 004 E 02 NW South Dakota

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Feldspar Tertiary
Niobium (Columbium) Critical Tertiary
Tantalum Critical Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Trench (1) -103.61696, 43.81826
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Patented

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Samica Corp. Of Vermont
    Interest 100
    Home office Vermont
    Year 1976

Comments on the production information

  • Page and others (1953, p. 170) give production figures which are totaled below for the years 1941 - 1945:
    Mica
    crude (pounds) 1,385,042
    large sheet (pounds) 7,335.47
    small sheet (pounds) 3,206.16
    untrimmed punch (pounds) 54,548.05
    Beryl (pounds) 39,760
    Tantalite_tapiolite (pounds) 282.5
    Earlier production figures are not available except for a statement from Lincoln, quoted by Page and others, to the effect that the mine had produced 58,000 pounds of beryl prior to 1941.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    GEOL.MON.2,1949,P26,40,44,48,68,95,FIG.16.

  • Deposit

    GUITERAS,JR.MINING & MILLING METHODS & COSTS AT B.H.TIN CO,T

  • Deposit

    LINCOLN,FC BERYL IN THE BL.HILLS.ENG.&MIN.JOUR,VOL.135,1934.

  • Deposit

    -210.

  • Deposit

    STERRETT.DB.MICA DEP.OF SD.GEOL.SURVEY BULL.380,1909,PP299-3

  • Deposit

    STERRETT.DB,MICA DEP.OF THE US.GEOL.SURVEY BULL.740,1923,PP3

  • Deposit

    U.S.BUREAU OF MINES STAFF,REGION V,B.H.MIN.ATLAS,1C7707,1955

  • Deposit

    STERRETT,DB,MICH DEP.OF SD.GEOL.SURVEY BULL.380,1909,PP299-3

  • Deposit

    STERRETT DB,MICH DEP.OF THE US.GEOL.SURVEY BULL.740,1923,PP3

  • Deposit

    U.S BUREAU OF MINES STAFF,REGION 5,B.H.MIN.ATLAS,IC7707,1955

General comments

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

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 25-NOV-83 South Dakota School of Mines U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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