Rough and Ready

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

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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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