Unidentified Occurrence

Occurrence in Lincoln county in Wyoming, United States with commodity Iron
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. Geologic structures
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Land status
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10080953
MRDS ID W032494
MAS/MILS ID 560230150
Record type Site
Current site name Unidentified Occurrence

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Approximate
Geographic coordinates: -110.7075, 42.51528 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 2000(meters)
Relative position 6.5 MILES WNW OF MT. THOMPSON. In Sec. 12, on MS-14. ABW moved this point about 1 mi north.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lincoln(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Poison Meadows(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Afton(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Preston(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Green(hydrologic unit)

Upper Green(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Divide-Upper Green(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bridger-Teton 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 Lincoln

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 029N 117W 12 Wyoming

Comments on the location information

  • Location of 10157810 (0560230150) was given as T29N, R 116W, Sec. 19, but reference is for T29N, R117W, Sec. 12.
  • Location from MS-14. Classified as residual (lag) deposit.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Hematite Ore

Nearby scientific data

Approximate (1) -110.7075, 42.51528

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Northerly Trending Absaroka Thrust Fault

Ore body information

  • General form BLANKET
    Thickness 1.83M

Comments on the geologic information

  • DISCONTINUOUS AND SPOTTY HEMATITE BEDS OCCUR THROUGHOUT WESTERN WY WITHIN THE BASAL SECTION OF THE WELLS FORMATION

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category National Forest
Area name Bridger

Comments on the workings information

  • SURFACE PROSPECT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Osterwald and others, 1966, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 50 [revised ed.], p. 116.

  • Deposit

    FRUCHEY, R.A., 1962, OVERTHRUSTING IN MT. THOMPSON AND ADJACENT AREAS, SUBLETTE AND LINCOLN COUNTIES, WYOMING: M.S. THESIS, UNIV. OF WYO.

  • Location

    Harris, Hausel, and Meyer, 1985, Wyoming Geological Survey MS-14, scale 1:500,000.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ABWilson determined that there is insufficient information to maintain separate records for each of the former old records and merged them because they all use the same reference. If someone later determines that these are discrete deposits the record can show the multiple locations in the locations table. NOTE: The Fruchey thesis was not available at the time of record consolidation.
General 5 to 6 ft. thick pisolitic hematite bed in the lower part of the Pennsylvanian Wells Formation.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 1978-01-01 Suekawa, Harry S. (Barari, Rachel A.) U.S. Geological Survey
Reporter 1983-11-18 SDSM South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
Reporter 1984-05-01 Barari, Rachel A. U.S. Geological Survey
Editor 2008-12-10 Wilson, Anna B. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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