Bonita Prospect

Prospect in Carbon county in Wyoming, United States with commodities Copper, Gold
Sections on this page
  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. Land status
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10181670
MAS/MILS ID 0560070306
Record type Site
Current site name Bonita Prospect
Alternate or previous names Bonita #s 1-5, Bonita Prospect 1, Bonita Prospect 2

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -106.90204, 41.23052 (WGS84)
Elevation 2621

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Carbon(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Red Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Saratoga(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

Federal(land status)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Wyoming Carbon

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 15N 85W 25 and 36 Washington

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Gold Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Malachite Ore
Gold Ore
Hematite Unknown
Limonite Unknown

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -106.90204, 41.23052

Economic information

Comments on the ore body information

  • One vein 2 - 8 in thick.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Prospect
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Encampment District

Land status

Ownership category Federal

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Osterwald and others, 1966, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 50 [revised ed.], p. 45, 82.

  • Deposit

    Osterwald and others, 1959, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 50, p. 41, 76.

  • Deposit

    Hausel, 1997, Copper, lead, zinc, molybdenum, and associated metal deposits of Wyoming: Wyoming State Geological Survey Bull. 70, p. 159.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ABW combined Bonita Prospect 1 (newMRDS 10181670, MAS 0560070306) and Bonita Prospect 2 (newMRDS 10132686, MAS 0560070307) into one record

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 18-NOV-1983 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines
Editor 21-OCT-2008 Wilson, Anna B. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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