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Townsite Lode

Past Producer in Custer county in South Dakota, United States with commodity Feldspar
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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. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10012491
MRDS ID D008143
Record type Site
Current site name Townsite Lode

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -103.57862, 43.60052 (WGS84)
Elevation 1554
Location accuracy 500(meters)
Relative position 1 MI SOUTHEAST OF PRINGLE, 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

Pringle(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 005S 005E 19 NW South Dakota

Comments on the location information

  • MAP SHOWS A TOWNSITE MINE IN SEC. 24, T05N, R04E.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Feldspar Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • MOST OF THE PEGMATITE IS DARK-BLUE OR PINK FELDSPAR OF EXCELLENT QUALITY.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Feldspar Ore
Aragonite Gangue
Calcite Gangue
Mica Gangue
Quartz Gangue
Tourmaline Gangue

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 Metamorphic Rock > Schist

Nearby scientific data

(1) -103.57862, 43.60052
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form ELONGATE
    Length 152.4M
    Width 12.19M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Pringle District

Land status

Ownership category
Area name Black Hills

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Abingdon Sanitary Manufacturing Co.
    Home office Abingdon, Il.

Comments on the workings information

  • DEVELOPMENT IS BY AN ADIT AND RAISES TO AN OPENPIT.

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.

  • Deposit

    ROBERTS, W. L., AND RAPP, GEORGE, 1965, MINERALOGY OF THE BLACK HILLS, SOUTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MINES AND TECHNOLOGY BULLETIN 18.

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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

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