Big Chief Group

Prospect in Carbon county in Wyoming, United States with commodity Copper
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. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Land status
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. General comments
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10181658
MAS/MILS ID 0560070303
Record type Site
Current site name Big Chief Group

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -107.00343, 41.17635 (WGS84)
Elevation 2865
Location accuracy 2000(meters)
Relative position Group covers 3 sections: 18, 13 and 24 in adjacent Ranges. Location given as near the corner of these 3 sections.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Carbon(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Bridger Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Baggs(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Rawlins(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Little Snake(hydrologic unit)

White-Yampa(hydrologic accounting unit)

White-Yampa(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Colorado(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 14 N 85 W 18 Wyoming
6th Principal 14 N 86 W 13, 24 Wyoming

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -107.00343, 41.17635

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Prospect
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Encampment District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Osterwald and others, 1959, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Wyoming Geological Survey Bulletin 50, p. 41.

  • Deposit

    Osterwald and others, 1966, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Wyoming Geological Survey Bulletin 50, p. 45.

  • Deposit

    Hausel, W.D., 1997, Copper, lead, zinc, molybdenum, and associated ore deposits of Wyoming: Wyoming Geological Survey Bulletin 70, p. 158.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Merged info from old MAS 0560070304 (newMRDS # 10303659) and deleted. It appears to have been 2 records because the section numbers are across two townships Sec. 18 in R 85 and secs. 13 and 24 in 86W. This is an area, not a site record.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 18-NOV-83 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines
Editor 11-SEP-08 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