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Bucaneer Prospect

Occurrence in Albany county in Wyoming, United States with commodities Copper, Iron
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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. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10080879
MRDS ID W032404
Record type Site
Current site name Bucaneer Prospect
Included sites Portland Group

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -105.3367, 41.02358 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 2000(meters)
Relative position 6 MILES SOUTH OF SHERMAN, in sec. 10.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Albany(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Buford(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Laramie(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Cheyenne(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Cache La Poudre(hydrologic unit)

South Platte(hydrologic accounting unit)

South Platte(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Wyoming Albany

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 012N 071W 10 Wyoming

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Iron Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Iron Ore
Malachite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -105.3367, 41.02358
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Width 2.44M

Comments on the geologic information

  • ASSOCIATED WITH 'DIORITE DIKES', SCHISTS AND GNEISS (ALL ARE CRUSH ED AND BROKEN)
  • COPPER SULFIDES IN QTZ VEIN CUTTING RED GRANITE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Osterwald and others, 1966, Mineral resources of Wyoming: GSW BULL 50, P. 41.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit "An 8 ft vein of quartz cuts red granite and crops out for several hundred feet. The granite is associated with "diorite dikes," schists, and gneiss, all of which are crushed and broken. Locally the quartz outcrop contains malachite and azurite, and some masses of "iron and copper sulphide ores." This prospect is a part of the Portland Group." (Bull. 50, p. 41)

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-83 Barari, Rachel A. U.S. Geological Survey
Editor 04-AUG-11 Wilson, Anna B U.S. Geological Survey MAS 0560010113 = newMRDS 10279246, merged and deleted.
Reporter 18-NOV-83 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines MAS 0560010113 = newMRDS 10279246

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