Unidentified Prospect area

Occurrence in Carbon county in Wyoming, United States with commodities Iron, Gold, Silver
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. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10080907
MRDS ID W032437
Record type Deposit
Current site name Unidentified Prospect area

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -107.05583, 42.17361 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position In The Sections Listed, In The Sections Listed

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Carbon(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Bradley Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Bairoil(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 025N;026N 085W;086W 12;31;36 Wyoming

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary
Gold Primary
Silver Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Hematite Ore
Silver Ore

Analytical data

Result A SAMPLE AT 36-26N-86W ASSAYED FE = 35.50%, P205 = 0.125%, SIO2 = 5.50%, AU = 0.02 OZ PER TON, AG = 0.50 OZ PER TON

Nearby scientific data

(1) -107.05583, 42.17361

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Length 2.44M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Seminoe Mountains Area

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Osterwald and others, 1966, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 50 [revised ed.], p. 112.

  • Deposit

    Osterwald and others, 1959, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 50, p. 102.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit STRIKE WEST OF SOUTH TO THE CENTER OF SEC. 12 THEN EAST AND SPLITS INTO 3 BELTS OF IRON FORMATION

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 1983-04-01 Barari, Rachel A. U.S. Geological Survey
Editor 2008-11-14 Wilson, Anna B. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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