| Deposit ID | 10080794 |
|---|---|
| MRDS ID | W032160 |
| MAS/MILS ID | 560070315 |
| Record type | Site |
| Current site name | Charlie's Glory Hole |
| 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. |
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)
| Country | State | County |
|---|---|---|
| United States | Wyoming | Carbon |
| Meridian | Township | Range | Section | Fraction | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6th Principal | 026N | 085W | 29 | Wyoming |
| Commodity | Importance |
|---|---|
| Gold | Primary |
| Materials | Type of material |
|---|---|
| Gold | Ore |
| Chlorite | Gangue |
| Quartz | Gangue |
| Host or associated | Host | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Rock type | Metamorphic Rock > Schist | ||
| |||
| Pit (1) | -106.91, 42.19278 |
|---|
| Type of structure | Local |
|---|---|
| Structure description | Small Fault Zone |
| General form | pods |
|---|
| Development status | Prospect |
|---|---|
| Commodity type | Metallic |
| Deposit size | Small |
| Significant | No |
| District name | Seminoe District |
|---|
| Agency | Database name | Acronym | Record ID | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USGS | Mineral Resources Data System | MRDS | W032160 | |
| U.S. Bureau of Mines | Minerals Availability System | MAS | 560070315 | =newMRDS 10181371. Merged and deleted. |
Osterwald and others, 1966, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 50 [revised ed.], p. 82.
Hausel, 1980, Gold districts of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming RI-23, p. 62.
Hausel, 1989, The geology of Wyoming's precious metal lode and placer deposits: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 68, p. 150.
Bishop, 1964, Retrogressive metamorphism in the Seminoe Mountains, Carbon County, Wyoming: Univ. of Wyoming MS thesis, p. 40, pl. 2.
| 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. |
| 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 |
Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.