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Lake Owen Complex

Occurrence in Albany county in Wyoming, United States with commodities Iron, Titanium, Metal, Vanadium, Copper, Gold, PGE, Nickel, Cobalt, 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. Mineral occurrence model information
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10008229
MRDS ID D000224
MAS/MILS ID 560010037
Record type District
Mineralized Area Lake Owen area
Current site name Lake Owen Complex
Alternate or previous names Lake Owens Mafic Complex, Lake Owens, Lake Owen layered mafic igneous, Lake Owen and Lake Creek titaniferous magnetite

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -106.09333, 41.13389 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 2000(meters)
Relative position Main anomaly is in SW4 sec. 31 and SE4 of Sec. 36, T14N, R. 77 and 78W. There are other anomalies over about a 23 sq. mile area. (Harrer, 1966, p. 15).

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Albany(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Lake Owen(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 014N 077W Wyoming
6th Principal 014N 078W Wyoming

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary
Titanium, Metal Critical Secondary
Vanadium Critical Tertiary
Copper Tertiary
Gold Tertiary
PGE Critical Tertiary
Nickel Critical Tertiary
Cobalt Critical Tertiary
Silver Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Magnetite Ore
Ilmenite Ore

Analytical data

Result Bureau of Mines sample (Harrer, 1966, p. 15):\n29.0% Fe, 4.92% TiO2, 0.05% Mn, 0.07% P, 0.05% S, 28.7% SiO2.\nSemiquantitative spectroscopy: >10% Fe and Si; 1 to 10% Al, Ca, Mg, and Ti; 0.01 to 0.`% Co, Cr, Mn, Ni, Pb, and V; and 0.001 to 0.01% Cu, Ga, Sc, and Zr.\nCharacter sample from body near Lake Creek (5 mi. N of Fox Park, CO) contained 55.6% Fe, 11.0% TiO2, 0.001% p, 0.01% S, and 2.0% SiO2.

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 4
USGS model code 2b
Deposit model name Merensky Reef PGE

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -106.09333, 41.13389
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Name Lake Owen (anomaly in Sec. 31/36)
    Length 1609.35M
    Width 804.67M
    Depth to top 0M

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: STRINGERS, PODS, AND DISSEMINATIONS OF ILMENITE AND MAGNETITE (FINELY INTERGROWN) IN ANORTHOSITE IN 23 SQUARE MILE AREA (HARRER, 1966). Not a single "site".
  • Dimensions of ore body from Harrer, 1966, p. 15: 1 mile by 1/2 mile. Former record 10278921 (MAS 0560010037) gave dimensions as 57 HA, 1584 M long X 396 m wide and thickness of 200 m.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface
Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Lake Owen

Land status

Ownership category National Forest
Area name Medicine Bow National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Trend Mining Corp.
    Interest 100
    Home office 401 Front Avenue Suite 1 Littleton CO 83814 United StatesPhone(208) 664-8095
    Year 2002
  • Type Unknown
    Owner Sprott Resource Corp
    Year 2001
  • Type Unknown
    Owner Rocky Mountain Resources Corp.
    Home office Brian McAlister President (604) 408-7553 Website: www.rkyresources.com
    Year 2007

Comments on the ownership information

  • Rocky Mountain Resources Corp. [www.rkyresources.com] appears (as of April 2011) to have been consumed by American Vanadium Corp. [www.americanvanadium.com].

Comments on the production information

  • DEPOSIT HAS NEVER PRODUCED.

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • POTENTIAL for iron or titanium PROBABLY SMALL

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
General Lake Owen anorthosite complex covers a large area--most of 2 Townships. This record includes the 3 areas within it that are described in Harrer, 1966 (p. 15) and even more generalized in Wilson's Bull. 50, p. 108.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 1973-09-01 Fischer, Richard P. U.S. Geological Survey
Editor 2009-12-09 Wilson, Anna B. U.S. Geological Survey
Reporter 1984-02-27 Wilson U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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