| Deposit ID | 10080793 |
|---|---|
| MRDS ID | W032159 |
| Record type | Site |
| Current site name | Sunday Morning Mine |
| Related records | 10157766 |
| Point of reference | Main Entrance |
|---|---|
| Geographic coordinates: | -106.9975, 42.20972 (WGS84) |
| Elevation | 2548 |
| Location accuracy | 10(meters) |
| Relative position | Adit on topo at the mouth of Sunday Morning Creek on Seminoe Dam quad. Mine labeled Sunday Morning Mine on adjacent Bradley Peak quad is the Prospect, not the Mine., 10 m. Main entrance on topo and pl. 1 of RI-50. |
Political divisions (FIPS codes)
Carbon(county)
Wyoming(state)
United States(country)
North America(continent)
Land(continent)
USGS map quadrangles
Seminoe Dam(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)
Shirley Basin(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)
Casper(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)
Hydrologic units (watersheds)
Pathfinder-Seminoe Reservoirs(hydrologic unit)
North Platte(hydrologic accounting unit)
North Platte(hydrologic subregion)
Missouri(hydrologic region)
| Country | State | County |
|---|---|---|
| United States | Wyoming | Carbon |
| Meridian | Township | Range | Section | Fraction | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6th Principal | 026N | 085W | 21 | SE of SE of NE | Wyoming |
| Commodity | Importance |
|---|---|
| Gold | Primary |
| Materials | Type of material |
|---|---|
| Gold | Ore |
| Quartz | Gangue |
| Main Entrance (1) | Alluvium and Colluvium |
|---|
| Operation type | Underground |
|---|---|
| Development status | Past Producer |
| Commodity type | Metallic |
| Deposit size | Small |
| Significant | No |
| Discovery year | 1882 |
| District name | Seminoe District |
|---|
| Type of workings | Underground |
|---|---|
| Name of workings | shaft |
| Overall depth | 18.28M |
| Type of workings | Underground |
|---|---|
| Name of workings | tunnel with drifts |
| Overall length | 69.49M |
| Agency | Database name | Acronym | Record ID | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USGS | Mineral Resources Data System | MRDS | W032159 |
Osterwald and others, 1966, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 50 [revised ed.], p. 83-84. [Incorrectly labels this the Mine when it is, in fact, the Prospect in Sec. 29]
Hausel, 1980, Gold districts of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming RI-23, p. 62. [Incorrectly labels this the Mine when it is, in fact, the Prospect in Sec. 29]
Hausel, 1997, Copper, lead, zinc, molybdenum, and associated metal deposits of Wyoming: Wyoming State Geological Survey Bull. 70, p. 153.
Hausel, 1989, The geology of Wyoming's precious metal lode and placer deposits: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 68, p. 150. [Incorrectly mixes up the Mine and Prospect. Use the sections to get the right Sunday Morning.]
Hausel, 1994, Economic geology of the Seminoe Mountains Mining District, Carbon County, Wyoming: Wyoming State Geological Survey RI-50, p. 25-26.
Bishop, 1964, Retrogressive metamorphism in the Seminoe Mountains, Carbon County, Wyoming: Univ. of Wyoming M.S. thesis, p. 40, pl. 1. [Misidentifies the Sunday Morning Prospect as the Sunday Morning Mine on p. 40. Appears to describe the Sunday Morning Prospect.]
Klein, 1980, The geology and geochemistry of the sulfide depoists of the Seminoe district, Carbon County, Wyoming: Colo. School of Mines PhD dissertation, p. 59, pl. 1.
| Subject category | Comment text |
|---|---|
| Deposit | Gold is reported in felsic metavolcanics and associated metasediments (Bull. 68, p. 150). |
| Type | Date | Name | Affiliation | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reporter | 1982-09-01 | Barari, Rachel A. | U.S. Geological Survey | |
| Editor | 2009-02-19 | Wilson, Anna B. | U.S. Geological Survey | Original record may have referred to Sunday Morning Prospect (labeled Sunday Morning Mine) on the topo. ABW added a new record for that prospect and tried to sort out the sources of the information for these two scrambled sites. |
Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.