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Medicine Bow Mountains Area (marble)

Prospect in Carbon county in Wyoming, United States with commodity Marble, Dimension
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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. Land status
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. General comments
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10302943
MAS/MILS ID 560070362
Record type Deposit
Current site name Medicine Bow Mountains Area (marble)
Alternate or previous names unknown

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -106.18306, 41.47444 (WGS84)
Elevation 3182
Location accuracy 5000(meters)
Relative position Somewhere within 4 sections: 32, 5, 6, and 8., Within about 1.5 mi.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Carbon(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Morgan(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Saratoga(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Rawlins(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

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 18N 78W 32 Wyoming
6th Principal 17N 78W 5, 6, 8 Wyoming

Comments on the location information

  • ALSO LOCATED RANGE 79 [moved here from References table]
  • Ignore elevation. ABW was unable to erase the value.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Marble, Dimension Primary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -106.18306, 41.47444
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • "A light brown, medium-grained marble crops out in this area. The marble is characterized by thin silica-rich bands ranging from a fraction of, to one inch in thickness which may be in a linear direction or in large ptygmatic folds." Bull. 50, p. 187-188.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Prospect
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Osterwald and others, 1966, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 50 [revised ed.], p. 187-188.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DOLOMITIC MARBLE-Z300 FT THICK- IN PRECAMBRIAN METAMORPHIC ROCK
General 4 Unknown marble occurrences in each of these sections have been consolidated into this record and deleted. 10184433(MAS 0560070424), 10132691 (MAS 0560070421), 10157243 (MAS 0560070422), 10159207(MAS 0560070420)
Deposit A.B. Wilson combined 4 records and merged them with this original record. In previous databases this entry was recorded as a lithium deposit, but it is very clear from the reference that it should have been coded as Marble. There is no mention of any lithium occurrences in the Medicine Bow Mtns or in Carbon County in Bull. 50 which is the reference cited.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 1983-11-18 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines
Editor 2009-01-27 Wilson, Anna B. U.S. Geological Survey

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