Lead District

Producer in Lawrence county in South Dakota, United States with commodities Gold, Tungsten, Antimony, Barium-Barite
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Nearby scientific data
  7. Controls for ore emplacement
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Ownership information
  11. Bibliographic references

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 60000051
MRDS ID D001350
Record type District
Current site name Lead District

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -103.70057, 44.33326 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lawrence(county)

South Dakota(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Deadwood South(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)

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 Lawrence

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Tungsten Critical Secondary
Antimony Critical Tertiary
Barium-Barite Critical Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -103.70057, 44.33326

Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Lithology

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Both

Mining district

District name LEAD DISTRICT

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner HOMESTAKE MINING CO.
    Year 1945

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LEMMON, D.M., UNPUBLISHED DATA.

  • Deposit

    LEMMON, D.M., AND TWETO, O.L., 1962, TUNGSTEN IN THE U.S., USGS MAP, MR-25.

  • Deposit

    CONNOLLY, J.P., AND O'HARRA, C.C., 1929, SOUTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MINES, BULL. 16.

  • Deposit

    RUNNER, J.J., AND HARTMANN, M.L., 1918, SOUTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MINES, BULL. 12.

  • Deposit

    RUNNER, J.J., AND HARTMANN, M.L., SOUTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MINES BULLETIN 12, 264 P., 1918.

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.