Newton Group

Prospect 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. Materials information
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Geologic structures
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10303499
MAS/MILS ID 560070369
Record type Site
Current site name Newton Group

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -106.892, 41.1854 (WGS84)
Elevation 2606

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

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 Carbon

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 14N 85W 13, 24 13:S2; 24:N2N2 Wyoming
6th Principal 14N 84W 18, 19 18:S2; 19:N2N2 Wyoming

Comments on the location information

  • patented claims in sec. 19 part of group. LOCATION OF SHAFT IN THE NW CORNER OF claim group; some patented claims in Sec.18.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Limonite Ore
Cuprite Ore
Hematite Ore
Malachite Ore
Azurite Ore
Chrysocolla Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Bornite Ore
Chalcocite Ore

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -106.892, 41.1854

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure name W trending metasediments and shears within Cheyenne Belt

Comments on the geologic information

  • Cascade Quartzite; Magnolia Formation; Jack Creek Quartzite; mafic intrusives
  • mafic rock; metaconglomerate; quartzite schist
  • 147 ft shaft (on Copper Queen claim) with 20ft drift and 50ft crosscut.
  • vein near surface contained limonite, hematiete, cuprite, malachite, azurite, chrysocolla. At depth chalcopyrite, bornite, chalcocite.
  • vein in mafic rock between metaconglomerate to the S. and quartzite schist to the N.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Prospect
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1906

Mining district

District name Encampment District

Land status

Ownership category Federal

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Osterwald and others, 1966, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 50 [revised ed.], p. 48.

  • Deposit

    Hausel, 1997, Copper, lead, zinc, molybdenum, and associated metal deposits of Wyoming: Wyoming State Geological Survey Bull. 70, p. 175.

  • Deposit

    Hausel, 1986, Mineral deposits of the Encampment mining district, Sierra Madre, Wyoming-Colorado: Geological Survey of Wyoming RI-37, p. 21.

  • Deposit

    Osterwald and others, 1959, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 50, p. 45.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 1979-12-10 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines
Reporter 1983-11-18 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines
Editor 2009-02-06 Wilson, Anna B. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

External references