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Billie Class stamp mill and prospects

Past Producer in Albany county in Wyoming, United States with commodity Gold
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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. Bibliographic references
  10. General comments
  11. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10400442
Record type Site
Current site name Billie Class stamp mill and prospects

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -106.29619, 41.36108 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Albany(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Medicine Bow Peak(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 Albany

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 016N 079W 8 S2 of S2 of SE of SW Wyoming

Comments on the location information

  • Location by GPS on the remaining concrete footing by A.B. Wilson, 8/12/2010. Agrees very well with generalized location on p. 2 of Hausel, 1993.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -106.29619, 41.36108
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer

Comments on the workings information

  • Site visit 8/12-2010 by A.B. Wilson and W. Heran, USGS. Some timbers, a partly submerged iron wheel (apparently one of the two wheels shown in the photo in Hausel, 1993, p. 19, fig. 20), and a concrete footing (also visible in fig. 20) are about all that remain of the old mill. There are several small pits (perhaps caved shafts or adits) well within a hundred yards/meters or so to the west of the mill remains.
    Mill and all prospects are long since abandoned. Workings are located in a rusty shear zone, that has been referred to gossaniferous (Hausel, 1997, p. 129).

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • 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.

  • Deposit

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

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit No visible ore minerals found during site visit (12-aug-2010).

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 16-AUG-10 Wilson, Anna B. U.S. Geological Survey

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