Unknown (Black Rock Creek area)

Prospect in Sweetwater county in Wyoming, United States with commodities Sodium Sulfate, Sodium Carbonate, Potassium, Potash
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. Land status
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. General comments
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10278849
MAS/MILS ID 560370304
Record type Site
Current site name Unknown (Black Rock Creek area)

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -108.2611, 41.8728 (WGS84)
Elevation 2042
Location accuracy 10000(meters)
Relative position near the head of Black Rock Creek. Used location near the center of the township.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sweetwater(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Red Lake SE(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Red Desert Basin(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Rock Springs(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 Sweetwater

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 022N 096W Wyoming

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sodium Sulfate Primary
Sodium Carbonate Primary
Potassium, Potash Secondary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) Dune sand and loess

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface
Development status Prospect
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Unknown

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Osterwald and others, 1966, WGS BULL. 50, p. 155, 166.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit "A brine layer 20 ft. thick under a playa lake at the head of Black Rock Creek contains 7.7% total salts--K2O with 20% or slightly more Na2O." (Bull. 50, p. 166).

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 1983-11-18 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines
Editor 2009-11-24 Wilson, Anna B. U.S. Geological Survey And again 03-May-2013.

Beyond USGS

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