The Peerless Mine is a mine located in Pennington county, South Dakota at an elevation of 4,629 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 4,629 Feet (1,411 Meters)
Commodity:
Lat, Long: 43.8906, -103.41940
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Peerless Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Peerless Mine
Secondary: Monarch,Monitor,Protector Lode Clai
Secondary: Ms
Commodity
Tertiary: Niobium (Columbium)
Tertiary: Mica
Tertiary: Lithium
Tertiary: Beryllium
Tertiary: Tin
Tertiary: Aluminum
Location
State: South Dakota
County: Pennington
District: Keystone Area
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
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Surface-Underground
Mining Method: Unknown
Year First Production: 1880
Discovery Year: 1880
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: Columbite
Unknown: Cassiterite
Unknown: Beryl
Unknown: Mica
Unknown: Quartz
Unknown: Lithiophilite
Unknown: Amblygonite
Unknown: Alabandite
Comments
Comment (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
References
Reference (Deposit): BLACK HILLS SOUTH DAKOTA. USGS PROF PAPER 247, P 175-6.
Reference (Deposit): DAKOTA. USGS BULL 380, P 144, 161.
Reference (Deposit): LINCOLN, FRANCIS C, 1937, THE MINING INDUSTRY OF SOUTH DAKOT
Reference (Deposit): USBM IC 7069, P 46-7.
Reference (Deposit): HESS, FRANK L, 1909, TIN, TUNGSTEN, AND TANTALUM DEPOSITS IN
Reference (Deposit): P 80.
Reference (Deposit): GARDNER, E D, 1939, TIN DEPOSITS OF THE BLACK HILLS. SOUTH D
Reference (Deposit): BLACK HILLS MINERALS ATLAS, SOUTH DAKOTA, PT 2. 1955, USBM I
Reference (Deposit): PAGE, LINCOLN R, ET AL, 1953, PEGMATITE INVESTIGATIONS, 1942
Reference (Deposit): SOUTH DAKOTA SCH. OF MINES BULL 17, P 31-3, 155
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