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Homestake Limestone Quarry Mine

Past Producer in Meade county in South Dakota, United States with commodity Limestone, General
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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. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Land status
  12. Ownership information
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10055566
MRDS ID SD02150
Record type Site
Current site name Homestake Limestone Quarry Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -103.44473, 44.27579 (WGS84)
Elevation 1123
Relative position 4.5 MILES NORTHWEST OF PIEDMONT, SOUTH DAKOTA

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Meade(county)

South Dakota(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Tilford(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Rapid City(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Rapid City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle Cheyenne-Elk(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 Meade

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Black Hills 004N 006E 30 South Dakota

Comments on the location information

  • SW 1/4

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Limestone, General Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Limestone Ore

Nearby scientific data

(1) -103.44473, 44.27579
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1904

Mining district

District name Unorganized District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest
Area name Black Hills National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Homestake Mining Co.

Comments on development

  • ECON.COM: 2 - 8 TON KILNS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    US BUREAU OF MINES, 1954 , BLACK HILLS MINERAL ATLAS, SOUTH DAKOTA: PART 1 , BUREAU OF MINES INFORMATION CIRCULAR 7688

  • Production

    US BUREAU OF MINES, 1954 , BLACK HILLS MINERAL ATLAS, SOUTH DAKOTA: PART 1 , BUREAU OF MINES INFORMATION CIRCULAR 7688 .

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1979 Barari, Rachel A. U.S. Geological Survey

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:

  • Homestake Mining Co. — acquired by Subsidiary of Barrick Gold (2001)
    Operator of the historic Homestake Mine in South Dakota; acquired by Barrick Gold in 2001.

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.

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