Beaver Group

Occurrence 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 10254354
MAS/MILS ID 0560070300
Record type Site
Current site name Beaver Group
Alternate or previous names Yellow Beaver Claim, Silver Beaver Claim, Golden Beaver Claim, Red Jacket Claim, Tenderfoot Claim, Two Tom Mine, Red Beaver Claim (Discovery lode)

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Approximate
Geographic coordinates: -106.69453, 41.08886 (WGS84)
Elevation 2576
Location accuracy 500(meters)
Relative position Along Beaver Creek about 0.25 mi. SE of its confluence with Camp Creek. {note: reference states SE of confluence, but creek runs SW}

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Carbon(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Blackhall Mountain(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 Carbon

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 013 N 083 W 14 and 23 Wyoming

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary

Nearby scientific data

Approximate (1) -106.69453, 41.08886

Economic information

Comments on the ore body information

  • Copper carbonate.

Comments on the geologic information

  • Host rocks are chlorite schist and arkosic conglomerate, quartzite, or brecciated granite pegmatite.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Encampment District

Land status

Ownership category Federal

Comments on the workings information

  • 2 shafts, 1 adit

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Osterwald and others, 1966, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 50 [revised ed.], p. 62.

  • Deposit

    Hausel, 1997, Copper, lead, zinc, molybdenum, and associated metal deposits of Wyoming: Wyoming State Geological Survey Bull. 70, p. 158.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Worked from 1905-1911 by Keystone Copper Co.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 18-NOV-83 South Dakota School of Mines U.S. Bureau of Mines
Editor 20-OCT-08 Wilson, Anna B. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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