Blanche Mine

Past Producer in Albany county in Wyoming, United States with commodities Copper, Palladium, Platinum, Gold
Sections on this page
  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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10038155
MRDS ID M045445
MAS/MILS ID 560010110
Record type Site
Current site name Blanche Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -106.28556, 41.21806 (WGS84)
Elevation 2969
Relative position ABOUT 9 MI SOUTHWEST OF CENTENNIAL

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 015N 079W 32 SE4 Wyoming

Comments on the location information

  • WEST OF AND ADJACENT TO NEW RAMBLER MINE. IN MEDICINE BOW NATIONAL FOREST
  • Visited Aug. 3, 2010, by Wilson and Heran (USGS). Location by GPS agrees with locations in Bull. 68. It's hard to believe this was ever a very large mine--currently it is little more than a small depression in woods among summer cabins.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Palladium Critical Tertiary
Platinum Critical Tertiary
Gold Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcocite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Cuprite Ore
Malachite Ore
Sperrylite Ore
Hematite Gangue
Limonite Gangue
Quartz Gangue
Pyrite Unknown

Analytical data

Result 2 HIGH-GRADE LIMONITE SAMPLES FROM DUMP ANALYZED 6, 17 PPM PT
Result 30, 20 PPM PD
Result 20, 17% CU

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Gabbro
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss

Nearby scientific data

(1) -106.28556, 41.21806

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Mullen Creek-Nash Fork Shear Zone

Ore body information

  • General form VEINS

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Gouge And Shear Zones

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOLOGY IS SIMILAR TO THAT OF NEW RAMBLER MINE TO EAST

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name New Rambler District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Comments on the production information

  • NO PRODUCTION FIGURES GIVEN, PRESUMED SMALL

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Overall depth 48.77M

Comments on the workings information

  • SHAFTS. INTERSECTED ORE AT 120 FT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MCCALLUM, M.E., AND ORBACK, C.J., 1968, THE NEW RAMBLER COPPER-GOLD-PLATINUM DISTRICT, ALBANY AND CARBON COUNTIES, WYOMING: GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WYOMING PRELIMINARY REPORT 8, P. 10.

  • Deposit

    HAUSEL, W.D., 1989, THE GEOLOGY OF WYOMING'S PRECIOUS METAL LODE AND PLACER DEPOSITS: GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WYOMING BULLETIN 68, P. 126-128.

  • Deposit

    Wilson, W.H., rev., 1966, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Geol. Survey of Wyoming Bulletin 50.

  • Deposit

    Coalson, Edward B., 1971, Geology of the New Rambler Mine area, Albany County, Wyoming: Laramie, University of Wyoming MS thesis, 51 p.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit VEINS IN GOUGE ZONES; UNPUBLISHED MODEL NAME: NEW RAMBLER CU-AU-PGE.
Deposit RECORD W032393 HAS BEEN MERGED AND DELETED. MAS 0560010110 has also been merged and deleted.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 1975-02-01 Blair, Will N. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 1983-04-01 Barari, Rachel A. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 1991-08-01 Peterson, Jocelyn A. U.S. Geological Survey
Editor 2010-08-16 Wilson, Anna B. U.S. Geological Survey merged and deleted 10205063 (MAS 0560010110)
Reporter 1997-01-09 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines MAS 0560010110 = newMRDS 10205063

Beyond USGS

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