South Pass Mines

Occurrence in Fremont county in Wyoming, United States with commodity Tungsten
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. General comments
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10090609
MRDS ID D001380
MAS/MILS ID 0560130002
Record type District
Mineralized Area Atlantic City - South Pass District
Current site name South Pass Mines

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -108.81739, 42.46661 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Fremont(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

South Pass City(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

South Pass(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Lander(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 Fremont

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • Tungsten is not mentioned in Armstrong's 1948 OFR.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Scheelite Ore

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -108.81739, 42.46661

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Atlantic City - South Pass District

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LEMMON, D.M., AND TWETO, O.L., 1962, TUNGSTEN IN THE U.S., USGS MAP, MR-25.

  • General

    Osterwald and others, 1966, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Wyoming Geological Survey Bulletin 50, 287 p.

  • Deposit

    ARMSTRONG, F.C., 1948, USGS OPEN FILE REPT. [http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/djvu/OFR/1948/ofr_48_2.djvu]

General comments

Subject category Comment text
General It appears that this record is just a report that some tungsten has been reported in the district. There are no scheelite mines or prospects. "Scheelite has been found on the dumps of the Amanda, Hidden Hand, and Iron Duke mines (Bull. 50, p. 201)" in the Lewiston District.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-73 Elliott, James E. U.S. Geological Survey
Reporter 13-FEB-78 Unknown U.S. Bureau of Mines MAS 0560130002 = newMRDS 10143514.
Editor 14-APR-11 Wilson, Anna B. U.S. Geological Survey MAS 0560130002 = newMRDS 10143514, merged and deleted.

Beyond USGS

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