Charlie's Glory Hole

Prospect in Carbon county in Wyoming, United States with commodity 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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10080794
MRDS ID W032160
MAS/MILS ID 560070315
Record type Site
Current site name Charlie's Glory Hole

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Pit
Geographic coordinates: -106.91, 42.19278 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 10(meters)
Relative position Mine shown on Bishop's pl. 2. , 10 m., 10 m.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Carbon(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Seminoe Dam(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Shirley Basin(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Casper(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Pathfinder-Seminoe Reservoirs(hydrologic unit)

North Platte(hydrologic accounting unit)

North Platte(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management WY)

Bureau of Land Management WY BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Wyoming Carbon

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 026N 085W 29 Wyoming

Comments on the location information

  • RI 23 LISTS R 85 W, BULL 50 LISTS R 8 W; originally LAT - LONG was FOR CENTER OF SEC. 29, T 26 N, R 85 W. ABW changed the location to the mine shown on Bishop's pl. 2 in 26N, 84W, sec. 29, NW of SE. The location in RI-23 is wrong.
  • LOCATION FROM FIELD OBSERVATION (T. KLEIN)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Chlorite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) silicification

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

Pit (1) -106.91, 42.19278

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Small Fault Zone

Ore body information

  • General form pods

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Prospect
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Seminoe District

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Osterwald and others, 1966, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 50 [revised ed.], p. 82.

  • Deposit

    Hausel, 1980, Gold districts of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming RI-23, p. 62.

  • Deposit

    Hausel, 1989, The geology of Wyoming's precious metal lode and placer deposits: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 68, p. 150.

  • Deposit

    Bishop, 1964, Retrogressive metamorphism in the Seminoe Mountains, Carbon County, Wyoming: Univ. of Wyoming MS thesis, p. 40, pl. 2.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit QUARTZ VEIN IN FAULT ZONE CARRYING FREE GOLD.
Deposit Dug in the summer of 1962 by Charles Kortes. Free gold occurs in a quartz vein emplaced in a small fault zone in the chlorite-muscovite schist.
Deposit Note that this deposit is not in the 1959 version of Bull. 50 because it was not prospected until 1962.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 1982-09-01 Barari, Rachel A. U.S. Geological Survey
Editor 2009-03-16 Wilson, Anna B. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

External references