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Golden Key

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. Materials information
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Bibliographic references
  11. General comments
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10400447
Record type Site
Current site name Golden Key

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -106.31174, 41.1658 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Albany(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Keystone(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 Albany

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 014N 079W 19 NW of SE Wyoming

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Limonite Unknown
Pyrite Unknown
Chalcopyrite Unknown
Malachite Unknown

Nearby scientific data

(1) -106.31174, 41.1658
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer

Comments on the workings information

  • Site visited by Wilson and Heran (USGS), Aug. 3, 2010. There's a small trench 170 ft. to the ESE along the access trail (the road is no longer accessible to motorized vehicles). Another longer trench is exposed about 150 ft. to the ENE. The main working is capped with a concrete cover. A small pit is about 30 ft. to the NW. Rocks include a quatz vein with visitlbe copper stain in the adjacent unfilled small pit. (Later we discovered that the Keystone topo shows a large mine symbol west of the main mine. We did not see a mine of that scale near here, but it would have been possible to miss it in the deep woods with heavy whortleberry ground cover.) This would be considered an abandoned mine.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Hausel, 1989, WGS Bull. 68, p. 120-123.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
General Unable to locate the nearby "Pete Mine".

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 16-AUG-10 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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