Tin Queen

Past Producer in Custer county in South Dakota, United States with commodities Niobium (Columbium), Tantalum
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Nearby scientific data
  7. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  8. Mineral rights holdings
  9. Ownership information
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. General comments
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10128994
MAS/MILS ID 0460330028
Record type Site
Current site name Tin Queen
Alternate or previous names Tin Queen #1, White Blowout

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -103.59556, 43.86806 (WGS84)
Elevation 1646

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pennington(county)

South Dakota(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Custer(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 Custer

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Niobium (Columbium) Critical Tertiary
Tantalum Critical Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -103.59556, 43.86806

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface-Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Located Claim

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Carl Bourassa Of Custer S Dakota
    Interest 100
    Home office South Dakota
    Year 1976

Comments on the production information

  • The mine was reopened in 1944-1945 for mica, amblygonite, and beryl. Partial production figures for (this) latter period (Norton, in Page and others, p. 201), are as follows:
    sheet mica 1,597 pounds
    punch 74 pounds
    untrimmed mica 900 pounds
    feldspar pincipal product

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    PAGE LINCOLN R ET AL PEGMATITE INVESTIGATIONS 1942-43 BLACK

  • Deposit

    DAKOTA U S GEO SURV PROF PAR 2471953 PP58 201-203 P139.

  • Deposit

    U S BUMINES STAFF REGION V BLACK HILLS MINERAL ATLAS S DAKOT

  • Deposit

    2 I C 7707 1955 P60

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit HARD COPY FILE CONTAINS FILE REPORT PLUS MAPS.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 25-NOV-1983 South Dakota School of Mines U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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

External references