| Deposit ID | 10251636 |
|---|---|
| MAS/MILS ID | 0461030025 |
| Record type | Site |
| Current site name | Peerless Mine |
| Alternate or previous names | Monarch,Monitor,Protector Lode Clai, Ms |
| Point of reference | Main Entrance |
|---|---|
| Geographic coordinates: | -103.41996, 43.89056 (WGS84) |
| Elevation | 1411 |
| Location accuracy | 10(meters) |
Political divisions (FIPS codes)
Pennington(county)
South Dakota(state)
United States(country)
North America(continent)
Land(continent)
USGS map quadrangles
Mount Rushmore(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)
| Country | State | County |
|---|---|---|
| United States | South Dakota | Pennington |
| Commodity | Importance |
|---|---|
| Aluminum Critical | Tertiary |
| Beryllium Critical | Tertiary |
| Lithium Critical | Tertiary |
| Mica | Tertiary |
| Niobium (Columbium) Critical | Tertiary |
| Tin Critical | Tertiary |
| Materials | Type of material |
|---|---|
| Alabandite | Unknown |
| Amblygonite | Unknown |
| Beryl | Unknown |
| Cassiterite | Unknown |
| Columbite | Unknown |
| Lithiophilite | Unknown |
| Mica | Unknown |
| Quartz | Unknown |
| Main Entrance (1) | -103.41996, 43.89056 |
|---|
| Strike | N40W | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dip | 50E | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Length | 142M | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Width | 45M | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Area | 1HA | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Operation type | Surface-Underground |
|---|---|
| Development status | Past Producer |
| Commodity type | Both |
| Significant | No |
| Discovery year | 1880 |
| Year of first production | 1880 |
| District name | Keystone Area |
|---|
| Type of mineral rights | Patented |
|---|
| Ownership category | Private |
|---|
| Agency | Database name | Acronym | Record ID | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| U.S. Bureau of Mines | Minerals Availability System | MAS | 0461030025 |
BLACK HILLS MINERALS ATLAS, SOUTH DAKOTA, PT 2. 1955, USBM I
P 80.
GARDNER, E D, 1939, TIN DEPOSITS OF THE BLACK HILLS. SOUTH D
USBM IC 7069, P 46-7.
HESS, FRANK L, 1909, TIN, TUNGSTEN, AND TANTALUM DEPOSITS IN
DAKOTA. USGS BULL 380, P 144, 161.
LINCOLN, FRANCIS C, 1937, THE MINING INDUSTRY OF SOUTH DAKOT
SOUTH DAKOTA SCH. OF MINES BULL 17, P 31-3, 155
PAGE, LINCOLN R, ET AL, 1953, PEGMATITE INVESTIGATIONS, 1942
BLACK HILLS SOUTH DAKOTA. USGS PROF PAPER 247, P 175-6.
| Subject category | Comment text |
|---|---|
| Deposit | REFER TO PL 33 (USGS PP 247) FOR GEOLOGICAL MAP OF PEERLESS SCRAP MICA HAD BEEN MAIN PRODUCT MINED WITH BI-PRODUCTS OF B AMBLYGONITE, COLUMBITE AND CASSITERITE. PEGMATITE IS WELL MINE WORKINGS CONSIST OF 3 PITS (THE LARGEST PIT IS 150 FT AND 105 FT DEEP) AND A GLORY HOLE ACCESSED BY A 330 FT TUN |
| Type | Date | Name | Affiliation | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reporter | 27-FEB-84 | Hite, Alan G. | U.S. Bureau of Mines |
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