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Oriole Mine

Past Producer in Converse county in Wyoming, United States with commodity Copper
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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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10080905
MRDS ID W032435
MAS/MILS ID 0560090296
Record type Site
Current site name Oriole Mine
Alternate or previous names Oriole Group

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -105.809, 42.492 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 10(meters)
Relative position Shaft shown and labeled on topo.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Converse(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Warbonnett Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Laramie Peak(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Torrington(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle North Platte-Casper(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 Converse

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 029N 075W 10 SE of NE of SE Wyoming

Comments on the location information

  • 1 MILE NORTHWEST OF THE COPPER KING LINE OF PROSPECTS

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore

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 Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite > Diabase

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -105.809, 42.492
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Red granite contains layers of schist, gneiss, and other rocks. Quartz veins and "dykes of diorite" cut the schists, and occasionally are altered and replaced by limonite and copper and iron sulfides. Copper carbonates stain some of the viens. Chalcopyrite was encountered at 75 ft." (Osterwald and others, Bull. 50, p. 51.)

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Esterbrook Area

Land status

Ownership category National Forest
Area name Medicine Bow

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    GSW BULL 50, P. 51.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SIMILAR TO THE COPPER KING PROSPECT

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 0560090296 = newMRDS 10181735, merged and deleted.
Reporter 18-NOV-83 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines MAS 0560090296 = newMRDS 10181735

Beyond USGS

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

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