LaPlata District

Past Producer in Albany county in Wyoming, United States with commodity Gold
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Nearby scientific data
  7. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  8. Bibliographic references
  9. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10400518
Record type District
Current site name LaPlata District
Alternate or previous names La Plata District

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

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -106.29619, 41.36108

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface-Underground
Development status Past Producer
Significant No

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Hausel, 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 20-JAN-11 Wilson, Anna B. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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