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Albany Mine

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10080872
MRDS ID W032392
MAS/MILS ID 0560010108
Record type Site
Current site name Albany Mine
Included sites Keystone District

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -106.24924, 41.20219 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 500(meters)
Relative position NE4 of Sec. 10.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Albany(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Albany(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 10 NE Wyoming

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Covellite Ore

Nearby scientific data

(1) Metasedimentary and metavolcanic rocks
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1903

Mining district

District name Douglas Creek District

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Overall depth 109.73M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Osterwald and others, 1966, MINERAL RESOURCES OF WYOMING: Wyoming Geological Survey Bulletin 50, 287 p.

  • Deposit

    Hausel, W.D., 1980, Gold districts of Wyoming: 71 p.

  • Deposit

    Hausel, W.D., 1989, The geology of Wyoming's precious metal lode and placer deposits: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bulletin 68, 248 p.

  • Deposit

    CURRY, D.R., 1965, The Keystone gold-copper prospect area, Albany County, Wyoming: Wyoming Geological Survey PRELIMinary Report No. 3, 12 p.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit COVELLITE REPORTED AT A DEPTH OF 150 FT. (in a 360 ft. shaft) ON A NW ALBANY-CUPRITE MINERALIZED TREND THROUGH MOORE'S GULCH.

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 MAS 0560010108 = newMRDS 10254426
Editor 25-JAN-11 Wilson, Anna B. U.S. Geological Survey and again 27-apr-2011.

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