Medicine Bow Mines Company Prospect

Occurrence in Albany county in Wyoming, United States with commodities Copper, Gold, Cobalt
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. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Land status
  12. Workings at the site
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10080870
MRDS ID W032387
Record type Site
Current site name Medicine Bow Mines Company Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -106.29119, 41.21025 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 10000(meters)
Relative position NEAR HOLMES

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Albany(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Keystone(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Saratoga(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Rawlins(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper North Platte(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 014N 079W Wyoming

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Gold Primary
Cobalt Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Copper Ore
Gold Ore

Nearby scientific data

(1) -106.29119, 41.21025

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Keystone-Holmes Area

Land status

Ownership category National Forest
Area name Medicine Bow

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 290.78M

Comments on the workings information

  • TUNNEL

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    GSW BULL 50, P. 40

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit NUMBER OF BODIES OF ORE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-83 Barari, Rachel A. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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