Hidden Treasure Mine

Past Producer in Carbon county in Wyoming, United States with commodities Copper, Iron, Gold
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. Geologic structures
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Land status
  13. Ownership information
  14. Workings at the site
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10102196
MRDS ID FS00015
MAS/MILS ID 560070348
Record type Site
Current site name Hidden Treasure Mine
Alternate or previous names Hidden Treasure No. 3
Included sites Hidden Treasure Tunnel

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -106.94806, 41.15528 (WGS84)
Elevation 2810
Location accuracy 500(meters)
Relative position 1 mi. east of the old town of Battle and 0.5 mi from the Gertrude claim. (Terry Klein used location DIGITIZED ON 24 K TOPO FROM LOCATION TRANSFERRED FROM SPENCER, 1904), Est 500 m.

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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Wyoming Carbon

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 014N 085W 28 NWSENE Wyoming

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Iron Tertiary
Gold Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Malachite Ore
Chalcocite Ore
Gold Ore
Hematite Gangue
Calcite Gangue
Siderite Gangue
Feldspar Gangue

Analytical data

Result MIN. EXAM. 1962. FS.
Result AVg. assay 0.3 opt Au.
Result One sample assayed 11 opt Au (not clear if this is included in the 9 samples averaging 0.3 opt).

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Gabbro
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -106.94806, 41.15528

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Sierra Madre Range

Comments on the geologic information

  • Country rocks strike N70E, dip steeply south.
  • Brecciated and mylonitized schist, quartzite, and altered intrusive diorite.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category
Area name Medicine Bow

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner R. R. Crow Co.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Name of workings tunnel
    Length 304.8M

Comments on development

  • ECON.COM: HEMATITE INSIGNIFICANT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Osterwald and others, 1966, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 50 [revised ed.], p. 47, 117.

  • Deposit

    Hausel, 1986, Mineral deposits of the Encampment mining district, Sierra Madre, Wyoming-Colorado: Geological Survey of Wyoming RI-37, p. 17.

  • Deposit

    Hausel, 1997, Copper, lead, zinc, molybdenum, and associated metal deposits of Wyoming: Wyoming State Geological Survey Bull. 70, p. 170.

  • Deposit

    MIN. EXAM. FS. 1962.

  • Deposit

    1962 OTHER FS

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 1976-02-01 Sierk, Betty M. U.S. Geological Survey
Reporter 1983-11-18 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines
Editor 2009-02-02 Wilson, Anna B. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

External references