Junk Creek Prospects

Past Producer 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. Workings at the site
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10205696
MAS/MILS ID 0560070354
Record type Site
Current site name Junk Creek Prospects
Alternate or previous names Junk Creek Mines, Junk Creek area

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -107.0276, 42.20523 (WGS84)
Elevation 2396
Location accuracy 50(meters)
Relative position Shaft on Klein's thesis map.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Carbon(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Bradley Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Bairoil(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Casper(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Pathfinder-Seminoe Reservoirs(hydrologic unit)

North Platte(hydrologic accounting unit)

North Platte(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management WY)

Bureau of Land Management WY BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Wyoming Carbon

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 26N 85W 20 C S2 Wyoming

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Gold Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Malachite Ore
Bornite Ore
Chrysocolla Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Covellite Ore

Analytical data

Result Grab sample of Cu-stained quartz contained 1.2% Cu, 0.05 ppm Au, 1.4 ppm Ag, 6 ppm Ga.\nChip sample contained 0.78% Cu, 1.7 ppm Au, <0.05 ppm Au.

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -107.0276, 42.20523

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Brecciated N45E-trending quartz vein.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Seminoe Mountains District

Land status

Ownership category Federal

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Name of workings shaft

Comments on the workings information

  • Near-vertical shaft. Caved prospect is about 650 ft. SW of the shaft.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Osterwald and others, 1966, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 50 [revised ed.], p. 44.

  • Deposit

    Hausel, 1989, The geology of Wyoming's precious metal lode and placer deposits: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 68, p. 149.

  • Deposit

    Hausel, 1997, Copper, lead, zinc, molybdenum, and associated metal deposits of Wyoming: Wyoming State Geological Survey Bull. 70, p. 153.

  • Deposit

    Klein, 1981, Colo. School of Mines, PhD thesis, p. 57-58, plate.

  • Deposit

    Hausel, 1994, Economic geology of the Seminoe Mountains Mining District, Carbon County, Wyoming: Wyoming State Geological Survey RI-50, p. 25.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 18-NOV-83 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines
Editor 28-JAN-09 Wilson, Anna B. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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