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Unnamed Prospect

Occurrence in Albany county in Wyoming, United States with commodities Platinum, Palladium, Zinc
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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. 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. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10048495
MRDS ID MP00084
Record type Site
Current site name Unnamed Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -106.14034, 41.18219 (WGS84)
Elevation 2621
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position WITHIN 1 MI WEST OF ALBANY, Est Within Section, Est Within Section

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Albany(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Albany(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 078W 15 Wyoming

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION GIVEN IS CENTER OF SECTION. IN MEDICINE BOW NATIONAL FOREST

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Platinum Critical Primary
Palladium Critical Primary
Zinc Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Sphalerite Ore
Limonite Gangue
Magnetite Gangue

Analytical data

Result LIMONITE CONCENTRATES YEILDED MAXIMUM OF: 0.12 PPM PT, 1.4 PPM PD, AND 1,500 PPM ZN

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Rock unit name Lake Owens Complex;Sherman Granite
    Rock description Lake Owens Complex;Sherman Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Mafic Volcanic Rock

Nearby scientific data

(1) -106.14034, 41.18219
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Economic information

Geologic structures

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

Ore body information

  • General form UNKNOWN, POSSIBLY VEIN

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Breccia Zone

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Keystone District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Comments on the workings information

  • SHORT TRENCH

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HAUSEL, W.D., 1989, THE GEOLOGY OF WYOMING'S PRECIOUS METAL LODE AND PLACER DEPOSITS: GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WYOMING BULLETIN 68, P. 125

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit UNPUBLISHED MODEL NAME: NEW RAMBLER CU-AU-PGE?

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-91 Peterson, Jocelyn A. U.S. Geological Survey

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