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Leighton-Gentry Mine

Past Producer in Carbon county in Wyoming, United States with commodities Copper, Cobalt, Nickel
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  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. Workings at the site
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10205636
MRDS ID W900035
MAS/MILS ID 0560070357
Record type Site
Current site name Leighton-Gentry Mine
Alternate or previous names Leighton-Gentry Prospect, Leighton-Gentry (Jack Creek) Prospect, Jack Creek Mine

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -107.09122, 42.20995 (WGS84)
Elevation 3042
Location accuracy 10(meters)
Relative position Near Continental Divide at the head of Jack Creek. Labeled Jack Creek Mine on topo.

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)

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 14N 86W 5 SW Wyoming

Comments on the location information

  • DMS, UTM agree but 1 deg north of DD in same county. No PLSS. No other clues in the record. No workings visible in Google Earth imagery. Mindat.org uses the southern 41 deg lat DD coordinates, but the record looks very derivative. Mindat.org DMS is off by 1 second, possibly due to datum change. Bib_ref not on line, need paper copy.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Cobalt Critical Tertiary
Nickel Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Pyrite Ore
Pyrrhotite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore

Comments on the analytical data

  • Assay 3.07% Cu, 0.67% Ni and Co combined, Trace Zn.

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -107.09122, 42.20995
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Economic information

Comments on the ore body information

  • 3 in. wide gossan

Comments on the geologic information

  • Rocks strike N80W, dip 30SW.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface-Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Private

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Osterwald and others, 1966, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 50 [revised ed.], p. 36, 48-49, 139.

  • Deposit

    Osterwald and others, 1959, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 50, p. 33, 45, 125.

  • Deposit

    Hausel, 1997, Copper, lead, zinc, molybdenum, and associated metal deposits of Wyoming: Wyoming State Geological Survey Bull. 70, p. 173.

  • Deposit

    Hausel, 1986, Mineral deposits of the Encampment mining district, Sierra Madre, Wyoming-Colorado: Geological Survey of Wyoming RI-37, p. 19-20.

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.

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