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Cockscomb

Occurrence in Lincoln county in Wyoming, United States with commodity Copper
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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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10096627
MRDS ID W032891
MAS/MILS ID 560230132
Record type Site
Current site name Cockscomb
Alternate or previous names The Cockscomb Prospect, The Cockscomb

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.98139, 41.60917 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 5000(meters)
Relative position 25 MILES NORTH OF EVANSTON, In The Township

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lincoln(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Sawtooth Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Kemmerer(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Ogden(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Bear(hydrologic unit)

Upper Bear(hydrologic accounting unit)

Bear(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(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 Lincoln

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 019N 120W Wyoming

Comments on the location information

  • Location was extremely misplaced. In OFR 01-497, it was close to -110.82 41.91547. This is about 22 mi too far to the NNE. Location given in Bull. 50 is T19N, R120W, 25 mi. north of Evanston and 5 mil from Bear River. However, the source of the information is Veatch, 1907, USGS PP-56, p. 163 and plate XXIII. In that publication the location of Cockscomb is T19N, R119W, Secs. 22, 23, 26, 27, and 35. The location of the first 4 common section corners is about -110-57-48, 41-36-30. Comparing the 1907 map with modern topos indicates the name of the mountain was changed from Cockscomb to Sawtooth Mountain.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Copper Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
    Rock unit name Beckwith; Twin Creek
    Rock description Beckwith;Twin Creek
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -110.98139, 41.60917
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Overturned Anticline

Controls for ore emplacement

  • 3 Places Along Overturned Anticline

Comments on the geologic information

  • Osterwald and others p. 56: "Gray sandstone in the Beckwith formation contains copper carbonates at 3 places along the axis of an overturned anticline". But, citing Veatch, 1907, they say "copper is in a yellow standstone in the Twin Creek Formation".

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Osterwald and others, 1966, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 50 [revised ed.], p. 56.

  • Deposit

    Veatch, 1907, Geography and geology of a portion of southwestern Wyoming with speacial reference to coal and oil: USGS PP-56, p. 163, pl. XXIII.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 1983-08-01 Barari, Rachel A. U.S. Geological Survey
Reporter 1983-11-18 SDSM South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
Editor 2009-03-06 Wilson, Anna B. U.S. Geological Survey

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