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Big Five Prospect

Prospect in Albany county in Wyoming, United States with commodities Copper, Zinc
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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. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Land status
  12. Workings at the site
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10080875
MRDS ID W032397
MAS/MILS ID 0560090272
Record type Site
Current site name Big Five Prospect
Alternate or previous names Big Five, Big Five Esterbrook

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -105.36061, 42.40607 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 500(meters)
Relative position SW4 of SW4 of Sec. 10. (Moved lat/long from center of south of section). North-northeast of Three Cripples Mine.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Converse(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Esterbrook(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Laramie Peak(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Torrington(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Glendo Reservoir(hydrologic unit)

North Platte(hydrologic accounting unit)

North Platte(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Wyoming Albany

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 028N 071W 10 SW OF SW Wyoming

Comments on the location information

  • 2500 FT NORTH-NORTHEAST OF THE THREE CRIPPLES MINE

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Zinc Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Pyrrhotite Ore
Feldspar Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -105.36061, 42.40607
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Prospect
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Esterbrook Area, Laramie Range

Land status

Ownership category National Forest
Area name Medicine Bow

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Overall depth 15.24M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Wilson, W.H., 1966, GSW BULL. 50, P. 38.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit "The dump near a 50 ft. shaft contained pyrrhotite with only bunches of chalcopyrite associated with quartz and feldspar. Traces of sphalerite also reported." [Bull. 50, p. 38]

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1983 Barari, Rachel A. U.S. Geological Survey
Reporter 18-NOV-1983 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines
Editor 16-DEC-2009 Wilson, Anna B. U.S. Geological Survey

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