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Tenderfoot Prospect

Occurrence in Albany county in Wyoming, United States with commodities Copper, Silver, Gold, Zinc
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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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10096581
MRDS ID W032381
Record type Site
Current site name Tenderfoot Prospect
Alternate or previous names War Bonnet Group
Related records 10157639

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -105.35339, 42.42329 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 2000(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Converse(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Esterbrook(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Laramie Peak(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Torrington(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Glendo Reservoir(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 Albany

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 028N 071W 03 Wyoming

Comments on the location information

  • 1/2 MILE EAST OF THE ESTERBROOK MINE. CENTER OF SECTION 3 ON A LIN E BETWEEN SECS. 3 AND 1

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Silver Tertiary
Gold Tertiary
Zinc Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Gold Ore
Pyrite Ore
Silver Ore
Sphalerite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Outcrops Iron Stained

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -105.35339, 42.42329
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Esterbrook Area

Comments on the workings information

  • CONTAINED PYRITE AND CHALCOPYRITE BELOW THE GOSSAN, AS WELL AS SI LVER AND GOLD. SULFIDE BELT NOT LESS THAN 2000 FT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    GSW BULL 50, P. 39

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1983 Barari, Rachel A. U.S. Geological Survey

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