Cooper Hill District

Past Producer in Carbon county in Wyoming, United States with commodities Gold, Copper, Lead, Silver
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. Mineral occurrence model information
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10400394
Record type District
Mineralized Area Cooper Hill mineralized area
Current site name Cooper Hill District

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -106.14, 41.49 (WGS84)

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)

Upper Laramie(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 018N 078W 22, 27, 34, 35 Wyoming

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Copper Secondary
Lead Secondary
Silver Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Pyrite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Chalcocite Ore
Galena Ore
Polybasite Ore
Gold Ore
Malachite Ore
Cerrusite Ore
Limonite Ore
Bornite Ore
Chrysocolla Ore

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 85
USGS model code 22c
Deposit model name Polymetallic veins
Mark3 model number 46

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist
    Rock unit name schist
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Precambrian
    Stratigraphic age (oldest) Precambrian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
    Rock unit name quartzite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Marble
    Rock unit name meta-limestone
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Amphibolite
    Rock unit name amphibolite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -106.14, 41.49

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure name Allocthonous block

Comments on the geologic information

  • Cooper Hill is an allocthonous block of layered Proterozic metamorphic rocks thrust over younger unmineralized Cretaceous sedimentary rocks. The mineralized veins are Proterozic in the Proterzoic rocks and do not extend into the underlying Cretaceous rocks. (Hausel, 1997, p. 106)

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Cooper Hill District

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Hausel, 1994, Geology and MIneralization of the Cooper Hill Mining District, Medicine Bow Mountains, southeastern Wyoming: Wyoming State Geological Survey Report of Investigations No. 49, 22 p., pl. 1 (scale approx. 1:12,000).

  • Deposit

    Hausel, 1980, Gold districts of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming Report of Investigations No. 23, 71 p.

  • Deposit

    Osterwald and others, 1966, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 50 [revised ed.], 287 p.

  • Deposit

    Hausel, 1997, Copper, lead, zinc, molybdenum, and associated metal deposits of Wyoming: Wyoming State Geological Survey Bull. 70, 229 p.

  • Deposit

    Schoen, Robert, 1953, Geology of the Cooper Hill district, Carbon County, Wyoming: Univ. of Wy MA thesis, 41 p.

  • Deposit

    Hausel, W.D., 1993, Guide to the geology, mining districts, and ghost towns of the Medicine Bow Mountains and Snowy Range Scenic Byway: Geological Survey of Wyoming Public Information Circular No. 32, 53 p.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 2010-06-16 Wilson, Anna B. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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