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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. Materials information
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Land status
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. General comments
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10181721
MAS/MILS ID 0560070360
Record type Site
Current site name Unknown
Alternate or previous names Long Creek Area 3

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -107.96279, 42.20215 (WGS84)
Elevation 2475
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position No other location info given other than section. Location is roughly near the middle of the section., within about 1/2 mi., within about 1/2 mi.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sweetwater(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Antelope Reservoir(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Bairoil(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Casper(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Great Divide Closed Basin(hydrologic unit)

Great Divide Closed Basin(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Divide-Upper Green(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Colorado(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 26N 85W 29 Wyoming

Comments on the location information

  • No other location info given other than section. Location is roughly near the middle of the section.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Malachite Ore
Azurite Ore

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -107.96279, 42.20215

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Prospect
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Federal

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Osterwald and others, 1966, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 50 [revised ed.], p. 44.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Several copper prospects occur in a massive quartz vein emplaced in a fault zone in amphibolite schist.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 18-NOV-83 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines
Editor 28-JAN-09 Wilson, Anna B. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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