Lewiston District

Past Producer in Fremont county in Wyoming, United States with commodities Gold, Tungsten
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. Mining district
  9. Bibliographic references
  10. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 60000056
MRDS ID D001381
Record type District
Current site name Lewiston District

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -108.48401, 42.43324 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Fremont(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Lewiston Lakes(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

South Pass(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Lander(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Sweetwater(hydrologic unit)

North Platte(hydrologic accounting unit)

North Platte(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management WY)

Bureau of Land Management WY BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Wyoming Fremont

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Tungsten Critical Secondary

Nearby scientific data

(1) Upper Miocene Rocks

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Significant Yes

Mining district

District name LEWISTON DISTRICT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LEMMON, D.M., AND TWETO, O.L., 1962, TUNGSTEN IN THE U.S., USGS MAP, MR-25.

  • Deposit

    OSTERWALD, F.W., AND OSTERWALD, D.B., 1952, WYO. GEOL. SUR. BULL. 45.

  • Deposit

    http://www.wsgs.uwyo.edu/Topics/Metals/gold.aspx, accessed 6/9/2010.

  • Deposit

    Hausel, 1991, Economic geology of the South Pass granite-greenstone belt, southern Wind River Range, western Wyoming: WGS RI-44, 129 p.

  • Deposit

    Hausel, 1989, The geology of Wyoming's precious metal lode and placer deposits: WGS Bull. 68, 248 p.

  • Deposit

    Osterwald and others, 1966, Mineral Resources of Wyoming, Wyoming Geological Survey Bulletin 50, 287 p.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Editor 18-JUN-10 Wilson, Anna B. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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