Muscovite Claim

Past Producer in Albany county in Wyoming, United States with commodities Garnet, Feldspar, Mica, Pumice, Tungsten
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 10205580
MAS/MILS ID 0560010179
Record type Site
Current site name Muscovite Claim

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -106.17662, 41.05157 (WGS84)
Elevation 2787
Location accuracy 500(meters)
Relative position East of Ione Prospect in Sec. 32.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Albany(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Foxpark(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 Albany

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 013N 078W 32 Wyoming

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Garnet Tertiary
Feldspar Tertiary
Mica Primary
Pumice Tertiary
Tungsten Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Beryl Ore
Columbite Ore
Tantalite Ore
Muscovite Ore
Andradite Trace
Microcline Unknown
Quartz Unknown

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -106.17662, 41.05157

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • GRANITE PEGMATITE CUTS PRECAMBRIAN METADIABASES,SCHISTS,GNEISSES. (Bull. 50, p. 132)

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Private

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Osterwald and others, 1966, WGS BULL #50, 287 p.

  • Deposit

    Hausel and Sutherland, 2000, WSGS Bull. 71, 268 p.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit "A granite pegmatite dike strikes N50E and cuts pre-Cambrian metadiabases, hornblende schist, and gneisses for a distance of 600 ft. Maximum width of the dike is 70 ft; the average is 40 ft. In places, quartz and white feldspar show a graphic structure. Fine-grained aggregates of quartz and feldspar enclose some pink microcline crystals several inches in diamter. Some muscovite books are up to a foot wide but contain numerous dark iron spots. Tantalite-columbite crystals are associated with green beryl along fractures in the wall rock. Black tourmaline crystals up to several inches long are found in metadiabse and schist wallrock and as fine-grained veinlets in the pegmatite. Andradite(?) garnet is a minor accessory mineral." (Bull. 50, p. 132-133)

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 18-NOV-83 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines
Editor 23-JUN-10 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