Unidentified Iron Occurrence

Occurrence in Sublette county in Wyoming, United States with commodity 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. Nearby scientific data
  8. Geologic structures
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Land status
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10080760
MRDS ID W032114
Record type Site
Current site name Unidentified Iron Occurrence

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.56217, 42.57076 (WGS84)
Elevation 2926
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position THREE MILES NORTH OF MT. DARBY

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sublette(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Wyoming Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Afton(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Preston(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Green(hydrologic unit)

Upper Green(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Divide-Upper Green(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bridger-Teton 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 Sublette

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 030N 115W 20 Wyoming

Comments on the location information

  • ALONG DARBY RIDGE: FISH CREEK MOUNTAIN

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Analytical data

Result 20 TO 40% FE 203

Nearby scientific data

(1) Blind Bull Formation

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Darby Thrust Fault

Ore body information

  • General form LENSE
    Thickness 4.57M
    Length 91.44M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category National Forest
Area name Bridger National Forest

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BRAGDEN, E.F., 1965, GEOLOGY OF FISH SPRING CREEK AND ADJACENT AREA, LINCOLN AND SUBLETTE COUNTIES, WYOMING: M.S. THESIS, UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1977 Suekawa, Harry S. (Barari, Rachel A.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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