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Monarch Group Prospect

Occurrence in Carbon county in Wyoming, United States with commodity Iron
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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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Land status
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10080885
MRDS ID W032413
Record type Site
Current site name Monarch Group Prospect
Alternate or previous names Monarch Group

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Approximate
Geographic coordinates: -106.96648, 41.13885 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 2000(meters)
Relative position 1.5 MILES south-SOUTHEAST OF THE OLD TOWN OF BATTLE. NO other location info. Coordinates are for the center line of Secs. 32 and 33.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Carbon(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Red Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Saratoga(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Rawlins(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper North Platte(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)

Huston Park Wilderness(Wilderness)

Wilderness FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Wyoming Carbon

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 014N 085W 32;33 Wyoming

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Pyrrhotite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Weathered To Hematite And Limonite Near Surface

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

Approximate (1) -106.96648, 41.13885
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike E-W
    Dip 90

Comments on the geologic information

  • INTERLAYERED SCHISTS AND QUARTZ 'DIORITES' trend E-W, dip vertically.
  • WEATHERED TO HEMATITE AND LIMONITE NEAR SURFACE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category National Forest
Area name Medicine Bow

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Osterwald and others, 1966, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 50 [revised ed.], p. 120.

  • Deposit

    Osterwald and others, 1959, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 50, p. 107.

  • Deposit

    Hausel, 1986, Mineral deposits of the Encampment mining district, Sierra Madre, Wyoming-Colorado: Geological Survey of Wyoming RI-37, p. 20.

  • Deposit

    Hausel, 1997, Copper, lead, zinc, molybdenum, and associated metal deposits of Wyoming: Wyoming State Geological Survey Bull. 70, p. 175.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THE ROCKS ARE ALTERED AND SILICIFIED AND ARE MINERALIZED WITH PYRRHOTITE.
Deposit No copper was found.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-83 Barari, Rachel A. U.S. Geological Survey
Editor 06-FEB-09 Wilson, Anna B. U.S. Geological Survey

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