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Jesse Prospect

Prospect in Carbon 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. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Geologic structures
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Land status
  12. Workings at the site
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10132554
MRDS ID W900052
MAS/MILS ID 560070401
Record type Site
Current site name Jesse Prospect
Alternate or previous names Umslopagus Group, Scott Mine, Unknown, Jessie Mine

Comments on the site identification

  • This is an Unknown site, not part of the Umslopagus Group. It was misidentified in the original MAS database (0560070401) as Umslopagus because it is after that site in Bull. 50 but identified only by PLSS location and no name. A.B. Wilson changed the name of this record from Umslopagus to Unknown, then determined that it fit the description and location given fror W900052, Jesse Prospect.

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -106.8517, 41.0211 (WGS84)
Elevation 2508
Location accuracy 10(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Carbon(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Dudley Creek(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

Comments on the location information

  • Shaft shown on topo. Supposedly there are 2 shafts. (Both are shown on AML map)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Malachite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Amphibolite
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Pegmatite

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -106.8517, 41.0211
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure name NW trending foliation; NW trending fault LESS THAN 0.5 mi. toSW

Comments on the geologic information

  • "Malachite occurs at the intersection (contact?) of amphibolite and pegmatite. Two shafts have been sunk here." (Bull. 50, p. 49).

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Prospect
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1902

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Name of workings 2 shafts

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Location

    Medicine Bow National Forest, Wyoming, AML Inventory, [undated]: U.S. Bureau of Mines unpublished and undated inventory available at the USDA Forest Service office in Saratoga, WY.

  • Deposit

    Osterwald and others, 1966, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 50 [revised ed.], p. 49.

  • Deposit

    Hausel, 1997, Copper, lead, zinc, molybdenum, and associated metal deposits of Wyoming: Wyoming State Geological Survey Bull. 70, p. 179.

  • Deposit

    Spencer, 1904, Copper deposits of the Encampment District, Wyoming: USGS PP-25, p. 40, 46, pl. 1.

Comments on the references

  • Terry Klein's Jesse Prospect cites "Hauff, 1986, p. 59-66" but this reference was not found in Georef or the USGS library.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 1983-11-18 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines
Editor 2009-02-20 Wilson, Anna B. U.S. Geological Survey revised 15-oct-2012

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

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