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Century Group

Prospect 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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Land status
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10181616
MRDS ID W900389
MAS/MILS ID 560070313
Record type Site
Current site name Century Group
Alternate or previous names Century Group 1, Century Group 2

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -106.96194, 41.04861 (WGS84)
Elevation 2828
Location accuracy 5000(meters)
Relative position On Harrison Creek, 7 mi. south of Battle., Within 1.5 mi.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Carbon(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Solomon Creek(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Saratoga(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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Wyoming Carbon

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 13N 85W 32, 33 Wyoming

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Hematite Ore
Bornite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Sphalerite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist
    Rock type qualifier hornblende schist, altered.
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -106.96194, 41.04861
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Economic information

Comments on the ore body information

  • Ore strikes NW, dips steeply SW.

Comments on the geologic information

  • associated rocks: altered hornblende schist and diorite.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Prospect
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1908

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Comments on the workings information

  • 50 ft. shaft

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Geology

    Houston and Graff, 1995, USGS Map I-2452.

  • Deposit

    Osterwald and others, 1966, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 50 [revised ed.], p. 45.

  • Deposit

    Osterwald and others, 1959, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 50, p. 42.

  • Deposit

    Hausel, 1997, Copper, lead, zinc, molybdenum, and associated metal deposits of Wyoming: Wyoming State Geological Survey Bull. 70, p. 163.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Gossan (containing copper-carbonates, limonnite and hematite) overlies the ore.
Deposit Stratabound

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 1983-11-18 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines
Editor 2009-01-30 Wilson, Anna B. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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