Sunday Morning Mine

Past Producer in Carbon county in Wyoming, United States with commodity Gold
Sections on this page
  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. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Workings at the site
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10080793
MRDS ID W032159
Record type Site
Current site name Sunday Morning Mine
Related records 10157766

Comments on the site identification

  • Sunday Morning Mine is at the mouth of Sunday Morning Creek. The site labeled "Sunday Morning Mine" on the topo is NOT the Sunday Morning Mine. It is the Sunday Morning Prospect. Do NOT confuse these two different sites with similar names. Note that Hausel's 1989 description in Bull. 68 has the names of the mines switched. Go by the Section/Township/Range.
  • Bull. 68, p. 150, mixes up the Mine and Prospect but is clear about which each describes because it uses sections.

Geographic coordinates

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.

Site location context

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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Wyoming Carbon

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 026N 085W 21 SE of SE of NE Wyoming

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Quartz Gangue

Comments on the analytical data

  • Hausel found no gold in a grab sample of quartz from the dump.

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) Alluvium and Colluvium

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1882

Mining district

District name Seminoe District

Comments on the ownership information

  • Patented in 1919.

Workings at the site

  • 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

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    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]

  • Deposit

    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]

  • Deposit

    Hausel, 1997, Copper, lead, zinc, molybdenum, and associated metal deposits of Wyoming: Wyoming State Geological Survey Bull. 70, p. 153.

  • Deposit

    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.]

  • Deposit

    Hausel, 1994, Economic geology of the Seminoe Mountains Mining District, Carbon County, Wyoming: Wyoming State Geological Survey RI-50, p. 25-26.

  • Deposit

    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.]

  • Deposit

    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.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Gold is reported in felsic metavolcanics and associated metasediments (Bull. 68, p. 150).

Reporter information

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.

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.