Portland Mine, Bald Mountain District, Lawrence Co., South Dakota, USA
| Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): | 44° 20' 50'' North , 103° 50' 45'' West |
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| Latitude & Longitude (decimal): | 44.34722,-103.84583 |
| Köppen climate type: | Dfb : Warm-summer humid continental climate |
A gold mine located Lead.
Commodity List
This is a list of exploitable or exploited mineral commodities recorded at this locality.Mineral List
8 valid minerals.
Regional Geology
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| Eocene - Paleocene 33.9 - 66 Ma ID: 2749430 | Phonolitic Intrusive Rocks Age: Paleogene (33.9 - 66 Ma) Description: Gray to greenish-gray sills, laccoliths, and small stocks of phonolite, trachyphonolite, and trachyandesite. Contains phenocrysts of andesine, feldspathoids, aegirine-augite, biotite, and sphene in a finely crystalline plagioclase-biotote-feldsphoid groundmass. Lithology: Major:{hypabyssal felsic alkaline,hypabyssal trachyte} Reference: Horton, J.D., C.A. San Juan, and D.B. Stoeser. The State Geologic Map Compilation (SGMC) geodatabase of the conterminous United States. doi: 10.3133/ds1052. U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 1052. [133] |
| Eocene - Paleocene 33.9 - 66 Ma ID: 2474149 | Quartz trachytic intrusive rocks Age: Paleogene (33.9 - 66 Ma) Description: Tan to gray and porphyritic or phaneritic. Locally sanidine-bearing. Forms laccolithic bodies and sills. Reference: Redden, J.A., E. DeWitt. Maps Showing Geology, Structure, and Geophysics of the Central Black Hills, South Dakota. U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Map 2777. [73] |
| Permian - Devonian 252.17 - 419.2 Ma ID: 3190647 | Paleozoic sedimentary rocks Age: Paleozoic (252.17 - 419.2 Ma) Lithology: Sedimentary rocks Reference: Chorlton, L.B. Generalized geology of the world: bedrock domains and major faults in GIS format: a small-scale world geology map with an extended geological attribute database. doi: 10.4095/223767. Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 5529. [154] |
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Portland Mine, Bald Mountain District, Lawrence Co., South Dakota, USA