Maloney Blue Lead Mine

Past Producer in Pennington county in South Dakota, United States with commodities Copper, Gold, Silver
Sections on this page
  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. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10055462
MRDS ID SD02014
Record type Site
Current site name Maloney Blue Lead Mine
Alternate or previous names Blue Lead Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -103.45278, 43.96663 (WGS84)
Elevation 1576
Relative position SOUTH OF SHERIDAN LAKE NEAR THE CREST OF BLUE LEAD MOUNTAIN

Site location context

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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States South Dakota Pennington

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Black Hills 001S 006E 18 South Dakota

Comments on the location information

  • E 1/2 , NW 1/4

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Gold Secondary
Silver Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chrysocolla Ore
Copper Ore
Cuprite Ore
Gold Ore
Malachite Ore
Silver Ore
Tenorite Ore
Pyrite Gangue
Pyrrhotite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Slate
    Rock unit name Graphitic And Quartzitic Slates
    Rock description Graphitic And Quartzitic Slates
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -103.45278, 43.96663

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N 25 W
    Dip 65 NE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1875
Discoverer Newton - Jenny Survey

Mining district

District name Hill City District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest
Area name Black Hills National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner American Mining And Smelting, Inc.
  • Type Owner
    Owner Fred L. Long Estate

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 490.73M
    Overall depth 91.44M

Comments on the workings information

  • SEVERAL SHALLOW OPEN CUTS AND A 1610 FT. ADIT INTERSECTED SHEAR ZONE 1400 FT. FROM PORTAL AND 300 FT. FROM SURFACE

Comments on development

  • ECON.COM: SHIPPED TO SMELTER IN OMAHA, NEBRASKA

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    US BUREAU OF MINES, 1954 , BLACK HILLS MINERAL ATLAS, SOUTH DAKOTA: PART I, BUREAU OF MINES INFORMATION CIRCULAR 7688 .

  • Production

    MULLEN, D. H., AND AGNEW, A. F., 1961 , THE MINERAL INDUSTRY OF SOUTH DAKOTA IN 1960 , SOUTH DAKOTA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MINERALS REPORT 8 { BIENIEWSKI, C. L., AND MCGREGOR, D. J., 1965 , THE MINERAL INDUSTRY OF SOUTH DAKOTA IN 1963 , SOUTH DAKOTA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MINERALS REPORT 11 { US BUREAU OF MINES, 1954 , BLACK HILLS MINERAL ATLAS, SOUTH DAKOTA: PART I, BUREAU OF MINES INFORMATION CIRCULAR 7688 . { US BUREAU OF MINES, 1954 , BLACK HILLS MINERAL ATLAS, SOUTH DAKOTA: PART I, BUREAU OF MINES INFORMATION CIRCULAR 7688 .

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DIP = 60 - 70 NE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1978 Barari, Rachel A. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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