Peerless Mine

Past Producer in Pennington county in South Dakota, United States with commodities Aluminum, Beryllium, Lithium, Mica, Niobium (Columbium), Tin
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Ore body information
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Mineral rights holdings
  12. Land status
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10251636
MAS/MILS ID 0461030025
Record type Site
Current site name Peerless Mine
Alternate or previous names Monarch,Monitor,Protector Lode Clai, Ms

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -103.41996, 43.89056 (WGS84)
Elevation 1411
Location accuracy 10(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pennington(county)

South Dakota(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mount Rushmore(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 Pennington

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Aluminum Critical Tertiary
Beryllium Critical Tertiary
Lithium Critical Tertiary
Mica Tertiary
Niobium (Columbium) Critical Tertiary
Tin Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Alabandite Unknown
Amblygonite Unknown
Beryl Unknown
Cassiterite Unknown
Columbite Unknown
Lithiophilite Unknown
Mica Unknown
Quartz Unknown

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -103.41996, 43.89056

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N40W
    Dip 50E
    Length 142M
    Width 45M
    Area 1HA
    Field Value
    Type of Orebody #1 PEGMATITE
    Shape of Orebody #1 IRREGULAR
    Primary mode of Origin MAGMATIC DIFFER
    Secondary mode of Origin CONT METASOMATIC
    Primary Ore Control IGNEOUS
    Secondary Ore Control FRACTURING
    Degree of Wallrock Alter. UNKNOWN
    Type of Wallrock Alter. #1 UNKNOWN
    Strike And Dip N40W:50E
    Total Surface Area (HA) 1
    Date of Last Modification 780213

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface-Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Significant No
Discovery year 1880
Year of first production 1880

Mining district

District name Keystone Area

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Patented

Land status

Ownership category Private

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BLACK HILLS MINERALS ATLAS, SOUTH DAKOTA, PT 2. 1955, USBM I

  • Deposit

    P 80.

  • Deposit

    GARDNER, E D, 1939, TIN DEPOSITS OF THE BLACK HILLS. SOUTH D

  • Deposit

    USBM IC 7069, P 46-7.

  • Deposit

    HESS, FRANK L, 1909, TIN, TUNGSTEN, AND TANTALUM DEPOSITS IN

  • Deposit

    DAKOTA. USGS BULL 380, P 144, 161.

  • Deposit

    LINCOLN, FRANCIS C, 1937, THE MINING INDUSTRY OF SOUTH DAKOT

  • Deposit

    SOUTH DAKOTA SCH. OF MINES BULL 17, P 31-3, 155

  • Deposit

    PAGE, LINCOLN R, ET AL, 1953, PEGMATITE INVESTIGATIONS, 1942

  • Deposit

    BLACK HILLS SOUTH DAKOTA. USGS PROF PAPER 247, P 175-6.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit REFER TO PL 33 (USGS PP 247) FOR GEOLOGICAL MAP OF PEERLESS SCRAP MICA HAD BEEN MAIN PRODUCT MINED WITH BI-PRODUCTS OF B AMBLYGONITE, COLUMBITE AND CASSITERITE. PEGMATITE IS WELL MINE WORKINGS CONSIST OF 3 PITS (THE LARGEST PIT IS 150 FT AND 105 FT DEEP) AND A GLORY HOLE ACCESSED BY A 330 FT TUN

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 27-FEB-84 Hite, Alan G. U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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

External references