Hill City District

Occurrence in Pennington county in South Dakota, United States with commodities Tungsten, Tin
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. Mining district
  9. Bibliographic references

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 60000049
MRDS ID D001348
MAS/MILS ID 0461030264
Record type District
Current site name Hill City District

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -103.56726, 43.91666 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pennington(county)

South Dakota(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Hill City(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
Tungsten Critical Primary
Tin Critical Primary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -103.56726, 43.91666

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name HILL CITY DISTRICT

Comments on the production information

  • According to Page, L.R.,et al. as sited by Wilburn, David R. in PEFR, a total of approximately 4,500 metric tons of beryl has been produced from the Black Hills pegmatites during the period 1914 to 1963.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CONNOLLY, J.P., AND O'HARRA, C.C., 1929, SOUTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MINES, BULL. 16.

  • Deposit

    LEMMON, D.M., AND TWETO, O.L., 1962, TUNGSTEN IN THE U.S., USGS MAP, MR-25.

  • Deposit

    RUNNER, J.J., AND HARTMANN, M.L., 1918, SOUTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MINES, BULL. 12.

  • Deposit

    HESS, F.L., 1908, USGS BULL. 380.

Beyond USGS

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