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Deadwood - Golden Terra Mine

Past Producer in Lawrence county in South Dakota, United States with commodities 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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Ownership information
  14. Workings at the site
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10104212
MRDS ID SD02104
Record type Site
Current site name Deadwood - Golden Terra Mine
Alternate or previous names Deadwood Terra

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -103.76808, 44.36468 (WGS84)
Elevation 1585
Relative position 1 MI NORTH OF LEAD, SOUTH DAKOTA BETWEEN CENTRAL CITY, SOUTH DAKOTA AND TERRAVILLE, SOUTH DAKOTA

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lawrence(county)

South Dakota(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Lead(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Rapid City(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Rapid City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Belle Fourche(hydrologic unit)

Belle Fourche(hydrologic accounting unit)

Cheyenne(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States South Dakota Lawrence

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Black Hills 005N 003E 28 South Dakota

Comments on the location information

  • W 1/2 - ON THE DIVIDE BETWEEN BOBTAIL AND DEADWOOD GULCHES

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Silver Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Conglomerate
    Rock unit name Deadwood Formation;Homestake Formation-Sideroplesite-Quartz Schist
    Rock description Deadwood Formation;Homestake Formation-Sideroplesite-Quartz Schist
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -103.76808, 44.36468
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Steeply Folded Precambrian Rocks

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Lead District

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Homestake Mining Co.

Comments on the production information

  • PRECAMBRIAN ORE

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Overall depth 274.32M

Comments on the workings information

  • PROPERTY STARTED OUT AS A CEMENT ORE MINE (DEADWOOD FORMATION) BUT THE PRESENCE OF GOLD-BEARING STRATA (HOMESTAKE FORMATION) IN THE STEEPLY FOLDED PRE-CAMBRIAN ROCKS SOON LED TO DEEPER MINING. DEPTH FOR THE YEAR 1900 .

Comments on development

  • ECON.COM: THE DEADWOOD CEMENT ORES WERE REPORTEDLY VERY RICH; THE THE HOMESTAKE ORES CARRIED A LOWER VALUE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    US BUREAU OF MINES, 1954 , BLACK HILLS MINERAL ATLAS, SOUTH DAKOTA: PART I, 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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