The Rough and Ready is a tin mine located in Lawrence county, South Dakota at an elevation of 5,906 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 5,906 Feet (1,800 Meters)
Commodity: Tin
Lat, Long: 44.3797, -104.05250
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Rough and Ready MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Rough and Ready
Commodity
Primary: Tin
Location
State: South Dakota
County: Lawrence
District: Tinton
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: Filmore, Charles
Percent: 100.0
Home Office: South Dakota
Info Year: 1983
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Surface
Mining Method: Open Pit
Milling Method: Flotation
Year First Production: 1903
Discovery Year: 1884
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: Y
Deposit Size: S
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: Pyrite
Unknown: Muscovite
Unknown: Microcline
Unknown: Cassiterite
Comments
Comment (Reserve-Resource): REPORTED GRADE AT THE 75 PERCENT LEVEL. GRADE FOR 50 PERCENT LEVEL AND BELOW IS 0.22 PERCENT SN.
Comment (Workings): TOTAL LAND HOLDING IS ESTIMATED TO BE 10 HECTARES. WORKING SEASON ASSUMED TO BE FOR 9 MONTHS; MINE SHUT DOWN DURING WINTER MONTHS.
Comment (Deposit): ORE IS CONTAINED IN 3 SEPARATE ORE BODIES. DIMENSIONS GIVEN ARE THE AVERAGE FOR THE 3 ORE BODIES.
Comment (Production): MINE PRODUCED 13,000 METRIC TONS TIN ORE YIELDING 47.6 METRIC TONS TIN PRIOR TO 1911. THE ONLY OTHER PRODUCTION WAS IN 1928 WHEN 147 KILOGRAMS OF TIN WAS PRODUCED BY OPEN-CUT MINING.
References
Reference (Deposit): GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 922-T, 1941, 37 PP.
Reference (Deposit): TINTON DISTRICT, LAWRENCE COUNTY, SOUTH DAKOTA. U.S.
Reference (Deposit): SMITH, W.C., AND L.R. PAGE. TIN-BEARING PEGMATITES OF THE
Reference (Deposit): DAKOTA. BUMINES RI 4484, JULY 1949, 25 PP.
Reference (Deposit): PEGMATITES IN THE TINTON AREA, LAWRENCE COUNTY, SOUTH
Reference (Deposit): JAHN, W.F., AND P.E. PESONEN. INVESTIGATION OF TIN-BEARING
Reference (Deposit): DAKOTA. BUMINES IC 7069, 1939, 78 PP.
Reference (Deposit): GARDNER, E.D. TIN DEPOSITS OF THE BLACK HILLS, SOUTH
Reference (Deposit): BULLETIN NO. M7-F87, 1963, 2 PP.
Reference (Deposit): DENVER EQUIPMENT COMPANY. TIN RECOVERY. FLOWSHEET STUDY
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