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Whippet No. 8 Prospect

Prospect in Fremont county in Wyoming, United States with commodities Tantalum, Beryllium, Feldspar
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10009180
MRDS ID D001898
MAS/MILS ID 560131146
Record type Site
Current site name Whippet No. 8 Prospect
Alternate or previous names Marion Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -107.993, 43.415 (WGS84)
Relative position Coordinates are for SW of SW of SW of Sec. 22 as estimated from fig. 29, p. 112 of PP-227.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Fremont(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Guffy Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Lysite(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Arminto(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Badwater(hydrologic unit)

Big Horn(hydrologic accounting unit)

Big Horn(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management WY)

Bureau of Land Management WY BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Wyoming Fremont

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 040N 093W 22 Sw of SW of SW Wyoming

Comments on the location information

  • ONE OF SEVERAL LOCATIONS WITH SAME NAME

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tantalum Critical Primary
Beryllium Critical Primary
Feldspar Secondary

Comments on the commodity information

  • Deleted MAS record suggest that Feldspar was primary importances, Beryllium, Gemstones, and Tantalum were secondary, and Niobium was tertiary. This is not supported by text in PP-227 (p. 111-112).

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Beryl Ore
Tantalite Ore
Petalite Trace
Tourmaline Unknown
Feldspar Unknown

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Amphibolite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -107.993, 43.415
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • PEGMATITES INTRUDE PRE-CAMERIAN BASIC SCHISTS,AMPHIBOLITES, AND GNEISSES.
  • TOURMALINE (Bull. 50, p. 197)

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface
Development status Prospect
Commodity type Both
Significant No

Mining district

District name Copper Mountain District

Comments on the production information

  • "About 250 lbs of tantalite and some beryl have been sold in the past, and estimated reserves total about 2,250 tons of tantalite-bearing pegmatite" (p. 72, Bull. 50)

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • "About 250 lbs of tantalite and some beryl have been sold in the past, and estimated reserves total about 2,250 tons of tantalite-bearing pegmatite" (p. 72, Bull. 50)

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 1975-04-01 Parker, Raymond L. U.S. Geological Survey
Editor 2012-01-13 Wilson, Anna B U.S. Geological Survey merged and deleted duplicate record 10157201 (MAS 0560131146) and added DMEA Docket.
Reporter 1983-12-01 South Dakota School of Mines U.S. Bureau of Mines MAS 0560131146

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