Cherry Creek Prospect

Prospect in Carbon county in Wyoming, United States with commodities Copper, Tungsten, Sulfur-Pyrite, Thorium
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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10081156
MRDS ID W032890
MAS/MILS ID 560070317
Record type Site
Current site name Cherry Creek Prospect
Alternate or previous names Babbs Mine, Weidemeir Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -107.31806, 42.28389 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 1000(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Carbon(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Youngs Pass(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Bairoil(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Casper(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Sweetwater(hydrologic unit)

North Platte(hydrologic accounting unit)

North Platte(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management WY)

Bureau of Land Management WY BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Wyoming Carbon

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 027N 088W 26 Wyoming

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Tungsten Critical Tertiary
Sulfur-Pyrite Tertiary
Thorium Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Allanite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Malachite Ore
Scheelite Ore
Biotite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -107.31806, 42.28389

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N
    Dip 80 E
    Width 0.46M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Prospect
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Ferris Mountain Area

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Osterwald and others, 1966, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 50 [revised ed.], p. 43.

  • Deposit

    Reynolds, M.W., and Neubert, J.T., 1988, Mineral Resources of the Ferris Mountains Wilderness Study Area, Carbon Couty, Wyoming: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1757-C, 18 p.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 1983-11-18 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines
Reporter 1984-06-01 Barari, Rachel A. South Dakota Geological Survey
Updater 2013-07-24 Wilson, Anna B U.S. Geological Survey synonyms from Reynolds and Neubert. REE from WY WSGS website.

Beyond USGS

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

External references