Gold Hill Group
Hill City, South Dakota
43.9855°N 103.6083°W
Mine Overview
The Gold Hill Group is near Hill City, South Dakota. Historically the site has been associated with the Redfern Mining District which is now part of the Black Hills National Forest. The Gold Hill Group was closed at the time of data entry with no known plans to re-open. Production size when active was considered to be small. Mine operations consist of surface and underground workings. There is one known shaft. Subsurface depth reaches a maximum of 52 meters (170 feet). The ore mined is composed of gold and silver with waste material consisting primarily of galena, ankerite and pyrite. The ore body extends 914 meters (3,000 feet) long and 1 meters (4 feet) wide. The host rock in this area is schist from the Neoproterozoic era 1.00 to 0.54 billion years ago. The Black Hills of the Interior Plains characterize the geomorphology of the surrounding area.
Owner Name and Address
Gold Mountain Mining Company
- Type
- Owner
Commodities
Additional textual information about a site or mine.
- Commodity Type Importance
- Gold Metallic Primary
- Silver Metallic Primary
Location Info
- Pennington , South Dakota County / State
- Continent Country State County
- North America The United States South Dakota Pennington
Notes
SE 1/4, SW 1/4; THE MINE IS ON THE MAP AS THE GOLD MOUNTAIN MINE.
Development
10 UNPATENTED CLAIMS; 75-TON MILL
Workings
Workings at the site.
Workings #1
- Type: Surface and Underground
- Sub Surface Depth: 51.82 Meters
Workings
NUMEROUS TRENCHES AND SMALL PITS & DRIFTING.
Orebody
Characteristics of the ore body.
- Length:
- Width: 1.22 meters (4.00 feet)
- Strike: north-south
- Dip: 80 west
Rocks
Geological materials at the site.
Physiography
Physiographic area where the resource is found.
- Division Province? Section
- Interior Plains Great Plains Province Black Hills
Ore Control
Controls on emplacement of ore such as faults or other structural features.
- Text?
- Sheared Fissure
Nearby Deposits
Other deposits in the same region.
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Gold Hill Mine
- Gold commodity Site type Mine status
- Pennington, South Dakota
- Underground
- 0.02 miles
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Gold Mountain Mine
- Gold commodity Site type Mine status
- Pennington, South Dakota
- Underground
- 0.02 miles
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Gold Lode
- Gold commodity Site type Mine status
- Pennington, South Dakota
- Underground
- 0.02 miles
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Ok Lode Gold And Silver Mine
- Gold commodity Site type Mine status
- Pennington, South Dakota
- 0.15 miles
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Ok Lode
- Gold commodity Site type Mine status
- Pennington, South Dakota
- Surface And Underground
- 0.45 miles
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Burlington Lode
- Gold commodity Site type Mine status
- Pennington, South Dakota
- Vein
- 0.71 miles
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Crain Gold Occurrence
- Gold commodity Site type Occurrence status
- Pennington, South Dakota
- Surface And Underground
- 0.84 miles
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Woodchuck Gold Prospect
- Gold commodity Site type Prospect status
- Pennington, South Dakota
- Surface
- 0.87 miles
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Burlington Gold Mine
- Gold commodity Site type Mine status
- Pennington, South Dakota
- Underground
- 0.93 miles
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Buckeye Group
- Gold commodity Site type Mine status
- Pennington, South Dakota
- Vein
- 1.06 miles
Nearby Places
- Hill City (4.01 miles away)
- Silver City (7.18 miles away)
- Johnson Siding (10.89 miles away)
- Rochford (11.07 miles away)
- Keystone (11.31 miles away)
- Rockerville (12.56 miles away)
- Colonial Pine Hills (14.63 miles away)
- Custer (15.12 miles away)
- Nemo (15.30 miles away)
- Blackhawk (18.79 miles away)
- Summerset (19.28 miles away)
- Piedmont (20.18 miles away)
Nearby Mining Districts
- Redfern Mining District (0 miles away)
- Hill City Mining District (0.71 miles away)
- Mystic Mining District (4.02 miles away)
- Silver City Mining District (4.53 miles away)
- Oreville Mining District (5.63 miles away)
Nearby Lands
- Black Hills National Forest (0 miles away)
Footnotes
* Mine bounds on map indicate the general area that a mine occupies. For an detailed map, refer to the overseeing BLM field office.
** The mine central point is based on an average of the mine's bounding box(es) and does not necessarily fall on the claim itself.
1 World-class significance is determined by total endowment of the contained commodity. This includes all past production and remaining reserves. Each commodity is considered separately and commodities cannot be combined to arrive at a significant size. The tonnage thresholds are from the mine model grade-tonnage studies. As of June 2008, many entries were classified as significant under less strict rules.
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Deposit
SHEARED FISSURE VEIN