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Island City Group Prospect

Prospect in Carbon county in Wyoming, United States with commodities Copper, Silver, Gold, 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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Land status
  12. Workings at the site
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10096587
MRDS ID W032414
MAS/MILS ID 560070352
Record type Site
Current site name Island City Group Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Geographic coordinates: Elevation UTM Precision Relative position Point location
Main Entrance -107.056, 41.20288 (WGS84) 250 2 MILES NORTHEAST OF THE OLD TOWN OF DILLION. Island City adit shown on AML, Bridger Peak Quad.
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Main Entrance -107.059, 41.20288 (WGS84) 100 Lucky Find adit shown on AML-Bridger Peak Quad.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Carbon(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Bridger Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Baggs(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Rawlins(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper North Platte(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 Carbon

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 014N 086W 10 NW of NW Wyoming

Comments on the location information

  • NORTH SIDE OF BRIDGER MOUNTAIN, NEAR THE HEAD OF NORTH SPRING CREEK.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Silver Primary
Gold Secondary
Iron Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Copper Ore
Pyrrhotite Ore
Limonite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Gabbro > Norite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Gabbro > Norite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -107.056, 41.20288
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Main Entrance (2) -107.059, 41.20288
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • At 60 ft. deep, pyrrhotite between contact of norite and schist.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Land status

Ownership category National Forest
Area name Medicine Bow

Comments on the ownership information

  • No patented claims. No claims at all shown on AML, suggesting that former claims have expired.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Overall depth 18.29M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Location

    Medicine Bow National Forest, Wyoming, AML Inventory, [undated]: U.S. Bureau of Mines unpublished and undated inventory available at the USDA Forest Service office in Saratoga, WY.

  • Deposit

    Osterwald and others, 1966, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 50 [revised ed.], p. 120.

  • Deposit

    Hausel, 1986, Mineral deposits of the Encampment mining district, Sierra Madre, Wyoming-Colorado: Geological Survey of Wyoming RI-37, p. 18.

  • Deposit

    Hausel, 1997, Copper, lead, zinc, molybdenum, and associated metal deposits of Wyoming: Wyoming State Geological Survey Bull. 70, p. 17.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit AT CONTACT BETWEEN NORITE AND SCHIST. LIMONITE AND COPPER CARBONATES STAIN THE VEIN.
Deposit Ore is copper sulfide.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 1983-04-01 Barari, Rachel A. U.S. Geological Survey
Editor 2009-01-29 Wilson, Anna B. U.S. Geological Survey revised 17-oct-2012
Reporter 1983-11-18 Intermountain Field Operations Center U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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

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