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Kurtz-Chatterton Mine

Past Producer in Carbon county in Wyoming, United States with commodities Copper, Gold, Silver
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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. Alteration
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Mineral rights holdings
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10400653
Record type Site
Current site name Kurtz-Chatterton Mine

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -106.861, 41.14588 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 50(meters)
Relative position unlabeled symbols on topo, readily visible on topo. Site visit by A.B. Wilson and W.D. Heran (USGS).

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Carbon(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

USGS map quadrangles

Encampment(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Saratoga(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Rawlins(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

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 014N 084W 29 Wyoming

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Gold Primary
Silver Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcocite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) potassic (secondary biotite, muscovite, and chlorite)

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -106.861, 41.14588
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface-Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic

Mining district

District name Encampment

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Patented

Comments on the production information

  • Amount of production not reported in either WGS Bulletin.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Location

    Medicine Bow National Forest, Wyoming, AML Inventory, [undated]: U.S. Bureau of Mines unpublished and undated inventory available at the USDA Forest Service office in Saratoga, WY.

  • Deposit

    Hausel, W.D., 1989, The Geology of Wyoming's precious metal lode and placer deposits: Wyoming Geological Survey Bull. 68, 248 p.

  • Deposit

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

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit One of the three most productive copper mines in the Encampment district. "By 1901, more than 1700 feet of tunnel and severl hundred feet of drifts had been driven" (Bull. 70, p. 173).
Deposit "Widespead copper minearalization was found in veins and in shear zones in Sierra Madre grandite. Five distinct veins ranging in width from 18-44 feet. The ore consisted of chalcocite and chalcopyrite." (Bull. 70, p. 173)

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 2012-10-15 Wilson, Anna B. U.S. Geological Survey

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