Mateen

The Mateen is a lithium mine located in Pennington county, South Dakota at an elevation of 5,121 feet.

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Mine Info

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Site Name

Primary: Mateen
Secondary: Century Claim MS 1959
Secondary: Minerals Survey No. 1959

Commodity

Primary: Lithium
Tertiary: Tin

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: Fee Ownership

Workings

Type: Surface

Ownership

Owner Name: Frank E. Henderson
Percent: 100.0
Home Office: South Dakota
Info Year: 1983

Production

Year: 1956
Description: Negligible
Year: 1955
Description: Ore Input 1.2 Wt% Li2o 12519 St Ore/Year
Year: 1954
Description: Estimate 2917 St Ore/Year
Year: 1953
Description: Estimate 6691 St Ore/Year
Year: 1952
Description: Estimate 12255 St Ore/Year
Year: 1951
Description: Estimate 3088 St Ore/Year

Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Surface
Mining Method: Open Pit
Milling Method: Flotation
Year First Production: 1951
Discovery Year: 1884
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: Y

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: Apatite
Unknown: Amblygonite
Unknown: Albite
Unknown: Tourmaline
Unknown: Spodumene
Unknown: Quartz
Unknown: Muscovite
Unknown: Microcline
Unknown: Cassiterite

Comments

Comment (Reserve-Resource): M9C4=M1C1 M9C5=M2C1. MATRIX 1 GIVES RESOURCE POTENTIAL TO MAX. DEPTH OF 30M. ALL REPORTED RESOURCES ARE FOR NORTHERN DIKE ONLY; RESERVES FOR SOUTHERN DIKE ARE UNAVAILABLE. MATRIX 2 GIVES RESOURCE POTENTIAL FOR ORE BETWEEN 30-76M.

Comment (Ownership): TOTAL LAND HOLDING IS 8.3 HECTARES.

Comment (Geology): PEGMATITE CONSISTS OF 3 DISTINCT MINERAL ZONES. SPUDOMENE OCCURS IN THE CENTRAL ZONE. CASSITERITE OCCURS IN THE VERY THIN OUTER ZONE.

Comment (Workings): WORKING SEASON ASSUMED TO BE FOR 9 MONTHS; MINE SHUT DOWN WHERE NECESSARY IN WINTER MONTHS.

Comment (Deposit): DEPOSIT EVALUATED BY EFOC. MINE WORKINGS CONSIST OF 6 SHAFTS (ONE IS 200 FT DEEP AND TH OTHERS ARE LESS THAN 50 FT DEEP) AND NUMEROUS SURFACE CUTS. ORE BODY DIMENSIONS ARE FOR THE NORTHERN DIKE ONLY, DIMENSIONS FOR THE SOUTHERN DIKE ARE UNAVAILABLE.

References

Reference (Deposit): ----------. INVESTIGATION OF THE MATEEN SPODUMENE DEPOSIT,

Reference (Deposit): DAKOTA: PART 2. IC 7077, MAY 1955, P. 56.

Reference (Deposit): U.S. BUREAU OF MINES. BLACK HILLS MINERALS ATLAS, SOUTH

Reference (Deposit): BUMINES RI 5061, JUNE 1954, PP. 17-18.

Reference (Deposit): REPORT ON PEGMATITE INVESTIGATIONS IN SOUTH DAKOTA.

Reference (Deposit): PROF. PAPER 247, 1953, 228 PP.

Reference (Deposit): RUNKE, S.M., E.O. BINYON, AND J.B. CUNNINGHAM. PROGRESS

Reference (Deposit): MUNSON, G.A., AND F.F. CLARKE. MINING AND CONCENTRATING

Reference (Deposit): PP. 1045-1048.

Reference (Deposit): BLACK HILLS, SOUTH DAKOTA. U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY

Reference (Deposit): PAGE, L.R., ET AL. PEGMATITE INVESTIGATIONS 1942-1945,

Reference (Deposit): V. 7, NOVEMBER 1955, PP. 1041-1045.

Reference (Deposit): SPODUMENE IN THE BLACK HILLS, SOUTH DAKOTA. MIN. ENG.,

Reference (Deposit): RAW MATERIAL. MIN. ENG., V. 3, DECEMBER 1951,

Reference (Deposit): LANDOLT, P.E. LITHIUM MINERALS PROVIDE UNIQUE INDUSTRIAL

Reference (Deposit): SOUTH DAKOTA AND WYOMING. BUMINES IC 8660, 1974, 61 PP.

Reference (Deposit): IC 7824, 1958, 20 PP.

Reference (Deposit): GRIES, J.P. MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE BLACK HILLS AREA,

Reference (Deposit): BROWNING, J.S. SPODUMENE--MAJOR SOURCE OF LITHIUM. BUMINES

Reference (Deposit): U.S. 88TH CONG., 2D SESS., 1964, 295 PP.

Reference (Deposit): AFFAIRS. MINERAL AND WATER RESOURCES OF SOUTH DAKOTA.

Reference (Deposit): U.S. CONGRESS, SENATE COMMITTEE ON INTERIOR AND INSULAR

Reference (Deposit): MINERAL INDUSTRY OF SOUTH DAKOTA.

Reference (Deposit): ----------. MINERALS YEARBOOKS 1950-1955. CHAPTER ON THE

Reference (Deposit): 20 PP.

Reference (Deposit): PENNINGTON COUNTY, SOUTH DAKOTA. RI 4339, JULY 1948,

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