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Custer Claim

Past Producer in Custer county in South Dakota, United States with commodity Tin
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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. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10011987
MRDS ID D007208
Record type Site
Current site name Custer Claim
Alternate or previous names Old Jeff, Tin Reef Claim, Great Eastern, Custer S.M.

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -103.6339, 43.81052 (WGS84)
Elevation 1780
Location accuracy 500(meters)
Relative position 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF CUSTER, SOUTH DAKOTA

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 004E 10,03 NW (10) South Dakota

Comments on the location information

  • OLD JEFF IS IN THE NW 1/4 SEC. 3

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tin Critical Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • THE CASSITERITE IS UNUSUALLY FINE-GRAINED. THIS IS THE MOST SOUTHERLY REPORTED OCCURENCE OF CASSITERITE IN THE BLACK HILLS.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cassiterite Ore

Analytical data

Result 2 SAMPLES TOTALLING 3, 241 LBS WERE SENT TO ENGLAND FOR TESTING IN 1888. REPORTS 50 POUNDS OF CASSITERITE TO THE TON.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Pegmatite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Pegmatite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -103.6339, 43.81052
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form DIKE
    Thickness 4.57M

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE PEGMATITE AND CASSITERITE ARE UNUSUALLY FINE-GRAINED

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Unorganized District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest
Area name Black Hills National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Harney Peak Tin Mining, Milling, And Manufacturing Co.

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

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THE PEGMATITE IS UNUSUALLY FINE-GRAINED. THREE PATENTED 10 ACRE CLAIMS

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1981 Barari, Rachel A. U.S. Geological Survey

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

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