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Homestake Mine

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. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Ownership information
  15. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10106953
MRDS ID SD01966
Record type Site
Current site name Homestake Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -103.76501, 44.35607 (WGS84)
Elevation 1707
Relative position AT LEAD, 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 33 South Dakota

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Chlorite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Pyrrhotite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Chemical Sediment > Iron Formation

Nearby scientific data

(1) -103.76501, 44.35607
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Black Hills
Type of structure Local
Structure description The Rocks Are In A Set Of Large Isoclina Folds That Have Been Refolded By Two Sets Of Smaller Folds, Which Result In Extremely Complex Configurations. Also Warping Is Caused By Tertiary Igneous Rocks And The Dome Formed Around The Cutting Stock, Exposed West Of Lead. Ore Bodies Are Located In The Younger Set Of Crossfolds.

Ore body information

  • General form ORE BODIES ARE IRREGULAR PIPELIKE STRUCTURES

Controls for ore emplacement

  • 1. A Sulfide-Bearing Phase Of The Homestake Formation { 2. Cross Folds { 3. Proximity To Garnet Isograd

Comments on the geologic information

  • ORE FROM THE HOMESTAKE USUALLY CONSISTS OF MASSES OF CHLORITE AND QUARTZ WITH LEAVES, RODS OF IRREGULAR MASSES OF FREE GOLD ATTACHED WHICH IS SELDOM MORE THAN 2 CM IN LARGEST DIMENSION AND USUALLY MUCH SMALLER. EXCEPTIONAL SPECIMENS CONSISTING OF WELL-DEVELOPED ARSENOPYRITE CRYSTALS ENCLOSING OR INCRUSTED WITH NATIVE GOLD, AND OCCASIONAL OCTAHEDRAL CRYSTALS OF GOLD UP TO 2 MM IN SIZE HAVE BEEN COLLECTED.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1875

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Homestake Mining Co.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Overall depth 2073M

Comments on the workings information

  • 1968 DEPTH

Comments on development

  • ORIGINAL HOMESTAKE CLAIM, APRIL, 1876 ; ECON.COM: AMALGAMATION-CYANIDATION PLANT AT LEAD, SOUTH DAKOTA

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, U. S. BUREAU OF RECLAMATION, AND SOUTH DAKOTA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, 1975 , MINERAL AND WATER RESOURCES OF SOUTH DAKOTA, SOUTH DAKOTA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 16

  • 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-1978 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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