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Rough Rider

Past Producer in Custer county in South Dakota, United States with commodities Gold, Silver
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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. Materials information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Mineral rights holdings
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10010796
MRDS ID D004772
Record type Site
Current site name Rough Rider
Alternate or previous names Roosevelt Group, Rough Rider Gold Mine

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Geographic coordinates: Elevation UTM Precision Relative position Point location
Main Entrance -103.72139, 43.80472 (WGS84) 1853 100 11 MILES BY ROAD WEST OF CUSTER, SOUTH DAKOTA
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Main Entrance -103.7207, 43.80433 (WGS84) 10 SE-most shaft
Main Entrance -103.72157, 43.80482 (WGS84) 10 middle shaft

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Custer(county)

South Dakota(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Berne(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 003S 003E 11 S2 of NE4 South Dakota

Comments on the location information

  • NE 1/4
  • Digitized 3 shafts (fron NW to SE) from the Berne 24k geologic map (PP-297F): -103.724421 43.805367 -103° 43' 27.9156" 43° 48' 19.3212" -103.721569 43.804823 -103° 43' 17.6484" 43° 48' 17.3628" -103.720703 43.804325 -103° 43' 14.5308" 43° 48' 15.57"

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Sylvanite Ore
Quartz Gangue
Tetradymite Gangue

Analytical data

Result GRAB SAMPLES ASSAYED FOR $0.70 TO $1.75 A TON FOR MINE-RUN QUARTZ

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist
    Rock unit name Schist
    Rock description Schist
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -103.72139, 43.80472
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Main Entrance (3) -103.7207, 43.80433
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Main Entrance (4) -103.72157, 43.80482
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Strike E
    Dip 70 N
    Width 1.83M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1900
Production years none known.

Mining district

District name Unorganized District

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Located Claim

Land status

Ownership category National Forest
Area name Black Hills National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Grantz Gold Mining Co. (Otto T. Grantz)
    Year 1955
    First year 190x
  • Type Owner
    Owner M. J. Kelly And Margaret E. Williams
    Year 1955
    First year 1937

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Overall depth 53.34M
    Overall length 30.48M

Comments on the workings information

  • DEVELOPMENT INCLUDES TWO OPENCUTS, A 40 - FOOT SHAFT, 2 SHALLOW SHAFTS AND EXTENSIVE DRIFTING ON THE 90 - FOOT LEVEL.

Comments on development

  • 4 UNPATENTED CLAIMS TOTALING APPROXIMATELY 60 ACRES

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    U.S. BUREAU OF MINES, 1955, BLACK HILLS MINERAL ATLAS, SOUTH DAKOTA-- PART 2: BUREAU OF MINES INFORMATION CIRCULAR 7707, p. 91-92.

  • Deposit

    Redden, J.A., Geology of the Berne Quadrangle, Black Hills, South Dakota: USGS Professional Paper 297-F, p. 400, 402.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit QUARTZ VEIN

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 1980-07-01 Barari, Rachel A. U.S. Geological Survey
Editor 2009-08-24 Wilson, Anna B. U.S. Geological Survey
Reporter 1983-11-18 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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

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