Mine detail: Maloney Blue Lead Mine

Previously called 'Blue Lead Mine'

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Location

Lat / long: 43.96663, -103.45278

Resource(M)

Primary: Copper
Secondary: Gold, Silver
Ore: Chrysocolla, Copper, Cuprite, Gold, Malachite, Silver, Tenorite
Gangue: Pyrite, Pyrrhotite
Discovery year: 1875

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small
Development status: Past Producer

Geology

Host rock:Graphitic And Quartzitic Slates
Host type:Slate

References

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Reference{Deposit:: ROBERTS, W. L., AND RAPP, G., 1965 , MINERALOGY OF THE BLACK HILLS, SOUTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MINES AND TECHNOLOGY BULLETIN 18}{Deposit:: US BUREAU OF MINES, 1954 , BLACK HILLS MINERAL ATLAS, SOUTH DAKOTA: PART I, BUREAU OF MINES INFORMATION CIRCULAR 7688 .}{Production:: MULLEN, D. H., AND AGNEW, A. F., 1961 , THE MINERAL INDUSTRY OF SOUTH DAKOTA IN 1960 , SOUTH DAKOTA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MINERALS REPORT 8 { BIENIEWSKI, C. L., AND MCGREGOR, D. J., 1965 , THE MINERAL INDUSTRY OF SOUTH DAKOTA IN 1963 , SOUTH DAKOTA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MINERALS REPORT 11 { US BUREAU OF MINES, 1954 , BLACK HILLS MINERAL ATLAS, SOUTH DAKOTA: PART I, BUREAU OF MINES INFORMATION CIRCULAR 7688 . { US BUREAU OF MINES, 1954 , BLACK HILLS MINERAL ATLAS, SOUTH DAKOTA: PART I, BUREAU OF MINES INFORMATION CIRCULAR 7688 .}
ReporterBarari, Rachel A.