Sunday Morning Prospect

Past Producer in Carbon county in Wyoming, United States with commodities Gold, Copper, Silver
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. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Workings at the site
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10157766
MAS/MILS ID 560070393
Record type Site
Current site name Sunday Morning Prospect
Alternate or previous names Sunday Morning Mine
Related records 10080793

Comments on the site identification

  • Sunday Morning Mine is at the mouth of Sunday Morning Creek. The site labeled "Sunday Morning Mine" on the topo is NOT the Sunday Morning Mine. It is the Sunday Morning Prospect. Do NOT confuse these two different sites with similar names. Note that Hausel's 1989 description in Bull. 68 has the names of the mines switched. Go by the Section/Township/Range.
  • Bull. 68, p. 150, mixes up the Mine and Prospect but is clear about which each describes because it uses sections.

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -107.02306, 42.18917 (WGS84)
Elevation 2548
Location accuracy 10(meters)
Relative position Shaft on topo mislabeled Sunday Morning Mine.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Carbon(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Bradley Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Bairoil(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Casper(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Pathfinder-Seminoe Reservoirs(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 026N 085W 29 C of S2 of SE Wyoming

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Copper Primary
Silver Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Chrysocolla Ore
Cuprite Ore
Gold Ore
Malachite Ore
Quartz Gangue
Limonite Gangue

Analytical data

Result Hausel (1994, RI-50), sample 46a, p. 24: 1 ft. channel across Cu-stained shear: 45.4 ppm Ag, 0.07 ppm Au, 1.8% cu, 220 ppm Pb, 47 ppm Zn.
Result Hausel (1994, RI-50), sample 47a, p. 24: Grab Cu-stained quartz, Sunday Morning prospect: 26.9 ppm Ag, 2.1 ppm Au, 5.8% Cu, 1,970 ppm Pb, 140 ppm Zn.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Amphibolite
    Rock unit name Sunday Morning Creek metavolcanics

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) Metamorphosed mafic and ultramafic rocks

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure name Hydrous iron oxide-filled boxwork structure.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Seminoe District

Land status

Ownership category Federal

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground

Comments on development

  • ACTIVE IN 1953

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Osterwald and others, 1966, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 50 [revised ed.], p. 83-84. [incorrectly labels this the Mine when it is, in fact, the Prospect in Sec. 29]

  • Deposit

    Hausel, 1980, Gold districts of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming RI-23, p. 62. [Incorrectly labels this the Mine when it is, in fact, the Prospect in Sec. 29]

  • Deposit

    Hausel, 1997, Copper, lead, zinc, molybdenum, and associated metal deposits of Wyoming: Wyoming State Geological Survey Bull. 70, p. 153.

  • Deposit

    Hausel, 1989, The geology of Wyoming's precious metal lode and placer deposits: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 68, p. 150. [Incorrectly mixes up the Mine and Prospect. Use the sections to get the right Sunday Morning.]

  • Deposit

    Hausel, 1994, Economic geology of the Seminoe Mountains Mining District, Carbon County, Wyoming: Wyoming State Geological Survey RI-50, p. 25.

  • Deposit

    Bishop, 1964, Retrogressive metamorphism in the Seminoe Mountains, Carbon County, Wyoming: Univ. of Wyoming M.S. thesis, p. 40, pl. 1. [Misidentifies the Sunday Morning Prospect as the Sunday Morning Mine on p. 40. Appears to describe the Sunday Morning Prospect.]

  • Deposit

    Klein, 1980, The geology and geochemistry of the sulfide depoists of the Seminoe district, Carbon County, Wyoming: Colo. School of Mines PhD dissertation, p. 58, pl. 1.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit A white to rusty, massive, southesast trending quartz vein corps out in amphibolite schist. The vein bifurcates on the northwest and is locally characterized by boxworks. Free gold, chalcopyrite, malachite, cuprite, and chrysocolla occur on the mine dump.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 1997-01-06 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines
Editor 2009-02-19 Wilson, Anna B. U.S. Geological Survey Original record may have referred to Sunday Morning Prospect (labeled Sunday Morning Mine) on the topo. ABW used existing MRDS record W032159 for the Mine, and 0570070393 for the Prospect.

Beyond USGS

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

External references