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Maggie Murphy Group Prospect

Prospect in Albany county in Wyoming, United States with commodities Iron, Graphite, Copper, 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. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Workings at the site
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10080868
MRDS ID W032385
MAS/MILS ID 0560090289
Record type Site
Current site name Maggie Murphy Group Prospect
Alternate or previous names Maggie Murphy Group

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -105.3745, 42.37968 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 5000(meters)
Relative position SW4 of Township. BUT, location of shaft in Sec. 22 is near center of Township. No better description.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Converse(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Esterbrook(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Laramie Peak(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Torrington(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Glendo Reservoir(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 028N 071W 22 SW Wyoming

Comments on the location information

  • NORTH SIDE OF HORSESHOE CREEK
  • County is in question. Bull. 50 states that this is Albany Co, and only gives the SW4 of the entire township. Most of the SW4 is in Converse County. The shaft on the map that is presumed to be the Maggie Murphy is in Converse County.
  • Maggie Murphy claim is listed in Bull. 50, p. 94 (under Graphite) as being in Albany County, east-central part of sec. 21, T28N, R71W. (Record was plotting in Converse county, but with corrected lat/longs it is now in Albany Co.)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary
Graphite Critical Secondary
Copper Secondary
Zinc Critical Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • "pyrrhotite sometimes contains commercial quantities of nickel (Bull. 50, p. 119)."
  • Report of an AEC airborne RA anomaly in the vicinity (from deleted record MAS 0560010074 (10229431).

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Hematite Ore
Marcasite Ore
Pyrrhotite Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Graphite Gangue
Hornblende Gangue
Limonite Gangue
Malachite Gangue
Mica Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -105.3745, 42.37968
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N-S
    Dip E
    Width 12.19M

Comments on the geologic information

  • MICA AND HORNBLENDE SCHIST LAYERS IN GRANITE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Prospect
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Esterbrook Area

Land status

Ownership category National Forest
Area name Medicine Bow

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Overall depth 32.61M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WILSON, W.H., 1966, MINERAL RESOURCES OF Wyoming, GEOL SURV WYO BULL. 50, p. 39, 94, 119.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit 5 FT VEIN OF PYRRHOTITE BENEATH OXIDIZED ZONE. ANOTHER SHAFT FOUND PYRRHOTITE MIXED WITH COARSE-GRAINED MARCASITE AND A LITTLE DISSEMINATED CHALCOPYRITE. AT 50 FT PYRRHOTITE BECAME QUARTZOSE. PYRRHOTITE PASSED OUT OF THE SHAFT AT 60 FT.
Deposit QTZ VEIN BEARING PYRRHOTITE CUTS RED GRANITE, MICA & SCHIST (from deleted record 10182091)
Deposit "A graphite-pyrrhotite schist was encountered at 107 ft. depth." (Bull. 50, p. 94).
Deposit "A 107 ft. shaft was sunk on the north side of Horseshoe Creek, in the east-central part of sec. 21, T28N, R71W. "Rusty schist" at the surface gave way to a heavy, shallow body of pyrrhotite. A northeast trending graphite-pyrrhotite schist 1 ft. to 2 ft. thick underlies the pyrrhotite mass with a little chalcopyrite. Hornblende and quartz were mixed with pyrrhotite. Traces of sphalerite also reported." (Bull. 50, p. 39).

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-83 Barari, Rachel A. U.S. Geological Survey
Reporter 18-NOV-83 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines =0560090289 (newMRDS 10182091)
Editor 03-FEB-10 Wilson, Anna B. U.S. Geological Survey merged and deleted MAS 0560090289 (newMRDS 10182091)

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