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Unidentified Occurrence in Sheep Creek Canyon

Occurrence in Lincoln county in Wyoming, United States with commodity 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. Land status
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10081139
MRDS ID W032867
MAS/MILS ID 560230157
Record type Site
Current site name Unidentified Occurrence in Sheep Creek Canyon
Alternate or previous names Unidentified Occurrence, Unknown, Sheep Creek Canyon

Comments on the site identification

  • Merged 3 duplicate records. Kept 10081139. Deleted 10157221 and 10132950.

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.6575, 42.85278 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position North side of Sheep Creek Canyon.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lincoln(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Park Creek(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Afton(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Preston(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Greys-Hoback(hydrologic unit)

Snake Headwaters(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Snake(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(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 033N 116W 11 SW Wyoming

Comments on the location information

  • ALONG THE NORTH SIDE OF SHEEP CREEK CANYON. 2.5 MILES E-SE OF THE CONFLUENCE OF SHEEP CREEK AND THE GREYS RIVER.
  • ABWilson moved the lat/long coordinates to be in the SW4 of Sec. 11 on the N side of Sheep Creek Cyn.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Hematite Ore
Limonite Ore

Analytical data

Result Chemical Analyses, percent (IC-8315, p. 45):\nhematite accretions, pebbles: 60.44% Fe, 0.03% P2O5, 0.04% S, 8.99% Si.\nconglomerate: 34.81% Fe, 0.06% P2O5, 0.08% S, 27.87% Si.\nshale: 11.33% Fe, 0.10% P2O5, 0.04% S, 60.48% Si.\n

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Shale
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pennsylvanian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -110.6575, 42.85278
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Thickness 3.05M
  • Strike N00S
    Dip 20W
    Length 792M
    Width 3M
    Depth to top 0M

Comments on the ore body information

  • record 10132950 (old MAS 0560230020) gave the following Orebody information (in addition to the orebody information in that table): Type of Orebody #1: Sedimentary Shape of Orebody #1: Tabular Shape of Oregbody #2: other Primary mode of origin: sedimentation Seocndary mode of origin: residual concent. Primary ore control: lithology secondary ore control: bedding Degree of Wallrock Alter. :" none Type of Wallrock Alter. #1: unknown Strike and Dip N00S: 20W min. depth to top: 0 Ave. Thick. unconsol. mat.: 0 Min Thick. Unconsol. mat. : 0 Date of Last Modification: 780213

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1914

Land status

Ownership category National Forest
Area name Bridger-Teton

Comments on the production information

  • Deposit has never produced.

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • Reserves calculated in record 10132950 (old MAS 0560230020) from ore analysis ((IC-8315) and outcrop pattern (USGS I-686).

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Schultz, 1914, Geology and Geography of a portion of Lincoln County, Wyoming: USGS BULL 543, pl. 1.

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    Harrer, 1966, Wyoming Iron-Ore Deposits: USBM IC-8315, p. 45.

  • Deposit

    Harris and others, 1985, Metallic and Industrial minerals map of WYOMING: Wyoming Geological Survey Map Series 14, scale 1:500,000.

  • Deposit

    USGS MAP I-686.

Comments on the references

  • AB Wilson unable to verify reference #3.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit "Hematite and limonite as a four-foot-thick bed of conglomerate-pebbles and as an underlying six-foot-thick shale, crops out along the north side of Sheep Creek Canyon for about 1/2 mile easterly in the SW4 Sec. 11, T33N, R116W."

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 1984-05-01 Suekawa, Harry S. (Barari, Rachel A.) U.S. Geological Survey
Reporter 1983-11-18 South Dakota School of Mines South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
Reporter 1984-02-27 Wilson U.S. Bureau of Mines
Editor 2008-12-10 Wilson, Anna B. U.S. Geological Survey

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