The Old Mike Mine is a mine located in Custer county, South Dakota at an elevation of 6,001 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 6,001 Feet (1,829 Meters)
Commodity:
Lat, Long: 43.8183, -103.61640
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Old Mike Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Old Mike Mine
Secondary: Great Northern
Secondary: Old Mike M.S.2212
Commodity
Tertiary: Feldspar
Tertiary: Niobium (Columbium)
Tertiary: Tantalum
Location
State: South Dakota
County: Custer
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Type: Patented
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Owner Name: Samica Corp. Of Vermont
Percent: 100.0
Home Office: Vermont
Info Year: 1976
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Surface-Underground
Mining Method: Unknown
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
Not available
Comments
Comment (Deposit): HARD COPY FILE CONTAINS FILE REPORT PLUS MAPS.
Comment (Production): Page and others (1953, p. 170) give production figures which are totaled below for the years 1941 - 1945: Mica crude (pounds) 1,385,042 large sheet (pounds) 7,335.47 small sheet (pounds) 3,206.16 untrimmed punch (pounds) 54,548.05 Beryl (pounds) 39,760 Tantalite_tapiolite (pounds) 282.5 Earlier production figures are not available except for a statement from Lincoln, quoted by Page and others, to the effect that the mine had produced 58,000 pounds of beryl prior to 1941.
References
Reference (Deposit): STERRETT.DB,MICA DEP.OF THE US.GEOL.SURVEY BULL.740,1923,PP3
Reference (Deposit): STERRETT.DB.MICA DEP.OF SD.GEOL.SURVEY BULL.380,1909,PP299-3
Reference (Deposit): -210.
Reference (Deposit): LINCOLN,FC BERYL IN THE BL.HILLS.ENG.&MIN.JOUR,VOL.135,1934.
Reference (Deposit): GUITERAS,JR.MINING & MILLING METHODS & COSTS AT B.H.TIN CO,T
Reference (Deposit): GEOL.MON.2,1949,P26,40,44,48,68,95,FIG.16.
Reference (Deposit): U.S BUREAU OF MINES STAFF,REGION 5,B.H.MIN.ATLAS,IC7707,1955
Reference (Deposit): STERRETT DB,MICH DEP.OF THE US.GEOL.SURVEY BULL.740,1923,PP3
Reference (Deposit): STERRETT,DB,MICH DEP.OF SD.GEOL.SURVEY BULL.380,1909,PP299-3
Reference (Deposit): U.S.BUREAU OF MINES STAFF,REGION V,B.H.MIN.ATLAS,1C7707,1955
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