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Gheen Nos 1 and 2 Claims

Prospect in Washakie county in Wyoming, United States with commodity Manganese
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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. Mineral rights holdings
  11. Land status
  12. Ownership information
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10279261
MAS/MILS ID 0560430057
Record type Site
Current site name Gheen Nos 1 and 2 Claims
Included sites Gheen No. 1 to No. 6 Claims

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -107.15968, 44.03394 (WGS84)
Elevation 2840
Location accuracy 2000(meters)
Relative position Uncertain location. Coordinates are near center of shared boundary between secs. 15 and 22.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Washakie(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Onion Gulch(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Worland(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Sheridan(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Nowood(hydrologic unit)

Big Horn(hydrologic accounting unit)

Big Horn(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

National Forest(land status)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Wyoming Washakie

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 047 N 086 W 15, 22 Wyoming

Comments on the location information

  • A.B. Wilson corrected location from plotting at 44.1656, -107.1456, T48N, R86 W to given coordinates on the border of Sec. 15 and 22, T47N, R86W, per description on p. 16 of 44 in DMEA Docket 3153. Uncertain how original record was located. There is NO mention whatsoever of the location of the Gheen in RI-4445 beyond "in the northeast corner of Washakie County" (RI-4445, p. 2).

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Manganese Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Pyrolusite Ore
Psilomelane Ore
Braunite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -107.15968, 44.03394
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Prospect
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Unknown

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Unknown
    Owner A.L. Gheen
    Year 1954
  • Type Unknown
    Owner Gheen Manganese Mining Co.
    Home office Washakie County, WY
    Year 1954

Comments on the production information

  • Unknown amount of production, but produced at least 1 ton for the USBM beneficiation tests. (RI-4445, p. 2)

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Shibler, B.K., and Snedden, H.D., 1946, Beneficiation of oxide and silicate manganese ores from Crook, Albany, and Washakie Counties, Wyol, (Caulkins-McGuckin, J.B.C., and Gheen Properties): U.S. Bureau of Mines Report of Investigations RI-4445, p. 1-16 p.

  • Deposit

    DMEA Docket No. 3153, 44 p., http://minerals.usgs.gov/dockets/scans/wy/dmea/3153_DMEA.pdf

  • Deposit

    Osterwald and others, 1966, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: WGS Bull. 50 [rev.], p. 130.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit "Pryrolusite, psilomelane, and braunite are intimately associated with quartz in a silicified limestone." (Bull. 50, p. 130)

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 18-NOV-83 South Dakota School of Mines U.S. Bureau of Mines
Editor 12-JAN-12 Wilson, Anna B U.S. Geological Survey

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