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Unidentified Occurence

Prospect in Sublette county in Wyoming, United States with commodity Molybdenum
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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. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Land status
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10096573
MRDS ID W032199
Record type Site
Current site name Unidentified Occurence
Alternate or previous names Unknown

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Approximate
Geographic coordinates: -109.3025, 42.71861 (WGS84)
Elevation 2865
Location accuracy 10000(meters)
Relative position 32 MILES EAST-SOUTHEAST OF PINEDALE, WYOMING. 1 mile upstream from Boulter Lake.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sublette(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Big Sandy Opening(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Pinedale(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Lander(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

New Fork(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 Sublette

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 032N 104W 30 W2 Wyoming

Comments on the location information

  • ONE MILE UPSTREAM FROM BOULTER LAKE

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Molybdenum Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Molybdenite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Nearby scientific data

Approximate (1) -109.3025, 42.71861
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Intrusive Dike In Wind River Precambrian Formation

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N30E
    Dip 80 SE
    Thickness 1.52M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • In A Dike

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Prospect
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category National Forest
Area name Bridger National Forest

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Osterwald and others, 1966, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 50 [revised ed.], p. 135.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit MOLYBDENITE IS DISEMINATED AS SMALL CLOTS AND VEINLETS WITHIN THE GRANITE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 1977-10-01 Suekawa, Harry S. (Barari, Rachel A.) U.S. Geological Survey
Reporter 1983-12-01 SDSM South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
Editor 2010-06-07 Wilson, Anna B. U.S. Geological Survey

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