Fiddler's Green

Occurrence in Carbon county in Wyoming, United States with commodities Titanium, Metal, Iron
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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. General comments
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10069109
MRDS ID W002507
Record type Site
Current site name Fiddler's Green

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -106.45064, 41.74996 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Carbon(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Elk Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Medicine Bow(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Rawlins(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Medicine Bow(hydrologic unit)

North Platte(hydrologic accounting unit)

North Platte(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Wyoming Carbon

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
021N 080W 21 Wyoming

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Titanium, Metal Critical Tertiary
Iron Tertiary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Shale
    Rock type qualifier Lewis Shale
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous

Nearby scientific data

(1) -106.45064, 41.74996

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HOUSTON, R. S., AND MURPHY, J. F., 1970, FOSSIL BEACH PLACERS IN SANDSTONES OF LATE CRETACEOUS AGE IN WYOMING AND OTHER ROCKY MOUNTAIN STATES: WYOMING GEOL. ASSOC. ANN. FIELD CONF., 22D, GUIDEBOOK, SYMPOSIUM ON WYOMING SANDSTONES, P. 241-249

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DEPOSIT IS 2,600 FT. LONG AND 13 FT. THICK

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1973 Cooper, Margaret U.S. Geological Survey
Editor 31-OCT-2008 Wilson, Anna B. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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