White Swan

Past Producer in Pennington county in South Dakota, United States with commodities Tin, 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. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. General comments
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10251129
MAS/MILS ID 0461030074
Record type Site
Current site name White Swan
Alternate or previous names Hayes' Claim, Haye's Claim

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Trench
Geographic coordinates: -103.57086, 43.93276 (WGS84)
Elevation 1536
Location accuracy 10(meters)

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 001 S 005 E 30 SWNESW South Dakota

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tin Critical Tertiary
Tungsten Critical Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Trench (1) -103.57086, 43.93276

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Patented

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CUMMINGS J B REPT OF SOUTH DAKOTA STATE PLANNING BOARD 1936

  • Deposit

    N MINING IN SOUTH DAKOTA P 29

  • Deposit

    SOUTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MINES BULL 17 1937 P 165

  • Deposit

    SOUTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MINES BULL 12 1918 P 61

  • Deposit

    U S BUREAU OF MINES INFO CIRC 7707 P 51

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit CONSISTS OF A PEGMATITE DIKE STRIKING N25W WITH VARIABLE DIR SMALL WOLFRAMITE CRYSTALS OCCUR WITH FELDSPAR MUSCOVITE QTZ. WOLFRAMITE IS APPROXIMATELY 36.3% FEW04 AND 63.7% MNW04. DIKE LS PROSPECTED FOR 200 FT BY SMALL CUTS AND PROSPECT PL 300 DOLLARS WORTH OF TUNGSTEN WAS REMOVED BEFORE 1918 NO DEVELOPMENT OR MINING HAS OCCURED SINCE 1910 HARD COPY FILE CONTAINS FILE REPORT PLUS MAPS.

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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

External references