Lena Shields Group

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10254317
MRDS ID W900427
MAS/MILS ID 560070358
Record type Site
Current site name Lena Shields Group

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -107.01194, 41.19167 (WGS84)
Elevation 2966
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position Near the head of the main fork of Cow Creek., Within about 1/2 mi., Within about 1/2 mi., Within about 1/2 mi.

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 14N 86W 12 Wyoming

Comments on the location information

  • Klein (W900427) lists both sections 12 and 13. 12: SESW, SWSE. 13: N2NWNE, N2NENW.
  • Very close to Vulcan (3 shafts between secs. 1 and 12, in saddle of Vulcan Mtn), Unpatented Camp Lode (Battle Lake Tunnel Site Mining Co., E2 sec. 11), Mattie Gibson and Blackfoot Lodes (Blackfoot Mining and Million Co, SW4 sec. 12) to the north. And E.C. No. 2 Lode (unpatented, Battle Lake Copper Exploration Company, C of S2 of Sec. 13)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -107.01194, 41.19167

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1903

Mining district

District name Encampment District

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Patented

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Unknown
    Owner Ben Hur Copper Mining Co.

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. 49, 121.

  • Deposit

    Osterwald and others, 1959, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 50, p. 45, 109.

  • Deposit

    Hausel, 1986, Mineral deposits of the Encampment mining district, Sierra Madre, Wyoming-Colorado: Geological Survey of Wyoming RI-37, p. 20.

  • Deposit

    Hausel, 1997, Copper, lead, zinc, molybdenum, and associated metal deposits of Wyoming: Wyoming State Geological Survey Bull. 70, p. 174.

  • Geology

    Graff, 1978, Univ. of Wyo., PhD thesis, 85 p.

  • General

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

General comments

Subject category Comment text
General Klein (W900427) says patented claims cover the area.
Deposit N70W-trending quartz vein 5-15 ft. wide contains limonite, azurite, malachite, and pyrite.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 1983-11-18 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines
Editor 2009-01-28 Wilson, Anna B. U.S. Geological Survey revised 16-oct-2012

Beyond USGS

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

External references