The Cowboy Tin Mine is a mine located in Pennington county, South Dakota at an elevation of 5,240 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 5,240 Feet (1,597 Meters)
Commodity:
Lat, Long: 43.9278, -103.59720
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Cowboy Tin Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Cowboy Tin Mine
Commodity
Tertiary: Mica
Tertiary: Tin
Tertiary: Beryllium
Location
State: South Dakota
County: Pennington
District: Hill City District
Land Status
Land ownership: Private
Note: the land ownership field only identifies whether the area the mine is in is generally on public lands like Forest Service or BLM land, or if it is in an area that is generally private property. It does not definitively identify property status, nor does it indicate claim status or whether an area is open to prospecting. Always respect private property.
Holdings
Type: Patented
Workings
Type: Underground
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Underground
Mining Method: Unknown
Year First Production: 1884
Discovery Year: 1884
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Interior Plains
Physiographic Province: Great Plains Province
Physiographic Section: Black Hills
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Unknown: Quartz
Unknown: Muscovite
Unknown: Cassiterite
Unknown: Beryl
Comments
Comment (Deposit): REFER TO FIGS 1-3 (WMR 377), FIGS 11+12 (PP 247, P 93-4) AND (IC 7069) FOR PLAN AND SECTIONAL VIEWS OF COWBOY TIN MINE. RESERVE ESTIMATES MADE BY BUR OF MINES STAFF (WMR 377, P 6) SH TONS AT 0.46 SR AND 640 SH TONS BROKEN ORE IN STOPES. TONS ADDED TO TOTAL FOR INFERRED. COWBOY DEPOSIT IS A WELL-DEFINED PEGMATITE-QUARTZ-MUSCOVITE- CASSITERITE VEIN. CASSITERITE OCCURS IN A GREISEN-TYPE VE WITHIN THE PEGMATITE. THESE CASSITERITE SEAMS ARE OF SHOR ICAL AND HORIZONTAL DIMENSIONS AND ARE IRREGULAR IN OCCURR
References
Reference (Deposit): COWBOY TIN MINE, 1945, WAR MINERALS REPORT 377, 7PP.
Reference (Deposit): USGS PROF PAPER 247, P 91-4.
Reference (Deposit): PAGE, LINCOLN R, ET AL, 1953, PEGMATITE INVESTIGATIONS, 1942
Reference (Deposit): USBM IC 7069, P 16-22.
Reference (Deposit): P 55.
Reference (Deposit): GARDNER, E D, 1939, TIN DEPOSITS OF THE BLACK HILLS, SOUTH D
Reference (Deposit): BLACK HILLS MINERAL ATLAS, SOUTH DAKOTA, PT 2. 1955, USBM IC
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