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Beulah Prospect

Prospect in Carbon county in Wyoming, United States with commodity Copper
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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. Mineral occurrence model information
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Land status
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10303053
MRDS ID W900385
MAS/MILS ID 560070302
Record type Site
Current site name Beulah Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -106.9811, 41.1711 (WGS84)
Elevation 3011
Location accuracy 500(meters)
Relative position One mile north of Battle in the Sierra Madre., Within 500 Meters

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Carbon(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Red 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 014 N 085 W 20 NW Wyoming

Comments on the location information

  • T14N, R85W, sec, 20, NW is same location as part of Mohawk I.
  • Terry Klein put this site 0.67 mi (3600 ft) to the NE at -106-58-12 41-10-34 in the SE corner of Sec. 17 at 8960 ft. elevation and in T14N, R85W, Sec. 17, 20, and 21 with sec. 17 in the S2SE, NWSE, E2NEESW; Sec. 20, NENE; and Sec. 21, NWNW.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Malachite Ore

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 92
USGS model code 24b.1
Deposit model name Massive sulfide, Besshi
Mark3 model number 98

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -106.9811, 41.1711
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Prospect
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Comments on the workings information

  • tunnel

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Osterwald and others, 1959, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Wyoming Geological Survey Bulletin 50, p. 41.

  • Deposit

    Osterwald and others, 1966, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Wyoming Geological Survey Bulletin 50, p. 45.

  • Deposit

    Hausel, W.D., 1997, Copper, lead, zinc, molybdenum, and associated ore deposits of Wyoming: Wyoming Geological Survey Bulletin 70, p. 162.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Ore is malachite, copper sulfides, and iron sulfides.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 1983-11-18 South Dakota School of Mines U.S. Bureau of Mines
Editor 2008-09-11 Wilson, Anna B. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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