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The Goose Egg

Occurrence in Carbon county in Wyoming, United States with commodity Gypsum-Anhydrite
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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. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Links to other databases
  10. Bibliographic references
  11. General comments
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10205844
MAS/MILS ID 560070338
Record type Deposit
Current site name The Goose Egg
Alternate or previous names Freeze-Out Seminoe Area

Comments on the site identification

  • Confirmed identity based on Bull. 50 citing Ferren, 1935 (As ref #200), p. 10.
  • Duplicate MAS record 0560070335, merged and deleted, was incorrectly labeled "Freeze-out Seninoe Area" [sic]. The location puts it with the Goose Egg.

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -106.528, 42.08387 (WGS84)
Elevation 2499
Location accuracy 10000(meters)
Relative position Could be anywhere in 6 townships. Coordinates are for close to center of the 6 townships.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Carbon(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

T E Ranch(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Shirley Basin(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Casper(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Medicine Bow(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 024N, 025N 080W, 081W, 082W Wyoming

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gypsum-Anhydrite Primary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -106.528, 42.08387
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MIN RES WYO 1966 GEOL SURV WYO BULL 50 P99

  • Deposit

    FERREN, J.E., 1935, The Geology of the sutheastern part of the Shirley Mountains, Carbon County, Wyoming: Unpublished Master's thesis, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit "the Goose Egg forms a sinuous outcrop pattern through portions of Tps. 24, 25N, Rs 80, 81, 82W, and contains numerous gypsum beds of varying thickness purity, and color." (Bull 50, p. 99)

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 1983-11-18 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines
Editor 2012-10-25 Wilson, Anna B U.S. Geological Survey Corrected name. Adjusted location.

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

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