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Golden Dome

Occurrence in Fremont county in Wyoming, United States with commodity Mercury
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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. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Land status
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10040145
MRDS ID M054826
Record type Site
Current site name Golden Dome
Alternate or previous names Bonneville Placers (?), Unknown

Comments on the site identification

  • Deleted duplicate record 10040146, Bonneville Placers (old MRDS M054828) because it could not be verified from cited references. (The same references as this current Golden Dome record cites.) No mine by this name is listed in WGS Bull. 50, p. 131 (1966 version), p. 118 (1959 version). Entry describes gravels "northeast of Bonneville".

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Centroid
Geographic coordinates: -107.94438, 43.36371 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 5000(meters)
Relative position Location given is center of sec. 14. There is a visible ground disturbance within 1 km but no way to determine if that is the "test pit."

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Fremont(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Picard Ranch(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Lysite(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Arminto(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Badwater(hydrologic unit)

Big Horn(hydrologic accounting unit)

Big Horn(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

BLM Administrative Area(land status)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Wyoming Fremont

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 039N 093W 12,14,24 Wyoming

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cinnabar Ore

Comments on the analytical data

  • Note slight difference reporting the Hg content in Bulletin 50 (as 1 lb. 8.48 oz) in IC-8252 (as 1.5 lbs).

Nearby scientific data

Centroid (1) -107.94438, 43.36371
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • "DEPOSIT SUPPOSEDLY COVERS A LARGE AREA" 'Fourteen picked smaples averarged 1.5 pounds of mercury per ton." "Reportedly, mercury occurs in the Wind River Formation." (IC-8252, p. 373) "In Wind River Formation gravels." (IC-8252, p. 375)

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the production information

  • NO PRODUCTION DATA

Comments on development

  • Test Pit (IC-8252, p. 375)

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    U.S. Bureau of Mines, 1965, Mercury potential of the United States: USBM IC 8252, p. 373, 375.

  • Deposit

    OSTERWALD, F.W., OSTERWALD, D.B., LONG, J.S., JR., AND WILSON, W.H., 1959, MINERAL RESOURCES OF WYOMING: WYO. GEOL. SURV. BULL. 50, P. 118.

  • Deposit

    OSTERWALD, and others, 1966, MINERAL RESOURCES OF WYOMING: WYO. GEOL. SURV. BULL. 50, P. 131.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 1976-09-01 Peterson, Jocelyn A. U.S. Geological Survey
Editor 2001-09-13 Wilson, Anna B U.S. Geological Survey
Reporter 1983-12-01 South Dakota School of Mines U.S. Bureau of Mines MAS 0560131222 = newMRDS 10254872, merged and deleted.

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

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