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Grand View Mine

Past Producer in Pennington county in South Dakota, United States with commodities Lead, 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. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Ownership information
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10055631
MRDS ID SD02233
Record type Site
Current site name Grand View Mine
Alternate or previous names Grand View Mining Company

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -103.58085, 44.10079 (WGS84)
Elevation 1646
Relative position 1.5 MILES NORTHWEST OF SILVER CITY, SOUTH DAKOTA

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pennington(county)

South Dakota(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Silver City(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Rapid City(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Rapid City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Rapid(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 002N 004E 25 South Dakota

Comments on the location information

  • SE 1/4

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Gold Primary
Silver Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Jamesonite Ore
Pyrite Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Boulangerite Gangue

Analytical data

Result 0.8 OZ AU AND 2 OZ AG PER TON

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

(1) -103.58085, 44.10079
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Precambrian Rocks Are Nearly Vertical And Strike N 60 W

Ore body information

  • Strike N 45 E
    Dip 90
    Thickness 0.61M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Vertical Veins Cut Across The Regional Structure And Strike N 45 E

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Silver City District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest
Area name Black Hills National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Francis Hoffman

Comments on the workings information

  • 5 SHAFTS FROM 35 TO 110 FT DEEP

Comments on development

  • SHAFT NO. 1 ON GRAND VIEW CLAIM, NO. 2 ON THE STANDARD AND NOS. 3 TO 5 ON THE GRAND VIEW NO. 4 CLAIM. ; ECON.COM: SMALL STAMP MILL (1905). THE JAMESONITE CONTAINS FREE GOLD AMENABLE TO AMALGAMATION. SILVER IS PROBABLY ALSO IN THE JAMESONITE BUT CANNOT BE SATISFACTORILY RECOVERED BY AMALGAMATION.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

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

  • 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-OCT-1979 Barari, Rachel A. U.S. Geological Survey

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