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Union Asbestos and Rubber Co. Deposit

Past Producer in Carbon county in Wyoming, United States with commodity Vermiculite
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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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Production statistics
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10400295
Record type Site
Current site name Union Asbestos and Rubber Co. Deposit
Alternate or previous names Platt Ranch

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -106.59333, 41.13139 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Carbon(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Barcus Peak(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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Wyoming Carbon

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 13N 82W 3 Wyoming

Comments on the location information

  • There is an adit on the topo in the NW4 of Sec. 3. This is the coordinate location used for this record. It may, or may not, be this deposit. There is insufficient information to make this determination.
  • Terry Klein gives this site as W900017, Unnamed Mine, and assumes it is a Cu-Au deposit in Precambrian rocks belonging to the low-sulfied Au-quartz vein deposit type, however there is no reference other than the adit on the Barcus Peak topo map.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Vermiculite Primary

Analytical data

Result The composition of Vermiculite in this deposit is:\nSiO2=39.82%, TiO2=0.11%, Al2O3=15.42%, Fe2O3=4.77%, FeO=1.48%, MnO=0.12%, Ca)=1.74%, MgO=19.86%, Na2O=0.35%, K2O=0.71%,.\nH2O -130 deg. C =7.20%, H2O +130 deg. C=7.54%.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Quartz Diorite
    Rock type qualifier Hornblende-quartz diorite
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Pegmatite
    Rock type qualifier granite pegmatite

Nearby scientific data

(1) Upper Miocene Rocks
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic

Production statistics

  • Year 1945
    Period 1941-March 1944
    Material vermiculite
    Ore mined 976.13mt
    Accuracy Accurate

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Osterwald and others, 1966, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 50 [revised ed.], p. 234.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 2009-03-12 Wilson, Anna B. U.S. Geological Survey

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

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