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E Pluribus No. 1 Lode

Past Producer in Carbon county in Wyoming, United States with commodity Copper
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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. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Mineral rights holdings
  12. Land status
  13. Ownership information
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10157754
MRDS ID W900085
MAS/MILS ID 560070391
Record type Site
Current site name E Pluribus No. 1 Lode
Alternate or previous names Standard Mine
Included sites Standard Mining Co.

Comments on the site names

  • Standard Mining Co. claim block includes shafts on both E Pluribus No. 1 Lode and Susquehanna No. 6 Lode.

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -107.00389, 41.09955 (WGS84)
Elevation 3097
Location accuracy 100(meters)
Relative position The location labeled Standard Mine on the Fletcher Peak Quadrangle, is NOT the Standard Mine. Coordinates are for shaft that is E. Pluribus No. 1 Lode of the Standard Mining Co. (see AML-Fletcher Peak quad.) No obvious ground disturbance on satellite imagery.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Carbon(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Fletcher Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Baggs(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Rawlins(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Little Snake(hydrologic unit)

White-Yampa(hydrologic accounting unit)

White-Yampa(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Colorado(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)

Huston Park Wilderness(Wilderness)

Wilderness 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 13N 86W 13 NE of NE Wyoming

Comments on the location information

  • According to RI-37, p. 25, the shaft labeled "Standard mine" on the topo in SW Sec. 12 is NOT the Standard Mine. The real Standard Mine is in NENE Sec. 13, T13N, R86W.
  • Mine labeled Standard on map is NOT the Standard. Symbol is at the E Pluribus No. 1 Lode (Standard Mining Co.)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Pyrite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Bornite Ore

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -107.00389, 41.09955
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Original rock type is unknown. Large mafic inclusions and dikes crop out in the area.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Encampment District

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Located Claim

Land status

Ownership category National Wilderness
Area name Huston Park Wilderness in Medicine Bow National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Unknown
    Owner Standard Mining Co.

Comments on the workings information

  • Shaft was flooded as of Hausel's 1997 (Bull. 70) report. There was a large dump.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Osterwald and others, 1966, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 50 [revised ed.], p. 49.

  • 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

    Hausel, 1986, Mineral deposits of the Encampment mining district, Sierra Madre, Wyoming-Colorado: Geological Survey of Wyoming RI-37, p. 25.

  • Deposit

    Hausel, 1997, Copper, lead, zinc, molybdenum, and associated metal deposits of Wyoming: Wyoming State Geological Survey Bull. 70, p. 178.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 1983-11-18 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines
Editor 2009-02-12 Wilson, Anna B. U.S. Geological Survey revised 16-oct-2012

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