Unnamed Prospect

Prospect 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. Materials information
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Geologic structures
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mineral rights holdings
  12. Land status
  13. Workings at the site
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10254456
MRDS ID w900163
MAS/MILS ID 560070669
Record type Site
Current site name Unnamed Prospect
Alternate or previous names Unnamed

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Claim
Geographic coordinates: -106.35889, 41.22167 (WGS84)
Elevation 2930
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position Within 1000 Meters

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Carbon(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Keystone(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

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 015 N 080 W 35 SW Wyoming

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Malachite Ore
Azurite Ore
Chrysocolla Ore
Hematite Ore
Limonite Ore
Feldspar Gangue
Dolomite Gangue

Analytical data

Result Cu < 2%, Ag not detected to 0.5 ppm, Pd not detected to 0.004 ppm, As not detected to 500 ppm, Co 10-15 ppm, Cr trace, Mo not detected to 50 ppm, Ni 7-10 ppm, Pb 30-50 ppm.

Nearby scientific data

Claim (1) -106.35889, 41.22167

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure name E-W shear zone

Comments on the geologic information

  • Ore strikes WNW, dips 90.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface-Underground
Development status Prospect
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Unknown

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WYO GEOL SURV OPEN FILES [unverified]

  • Deposit

    Hausel, 1997, Copper, lead, zinc, molybdenum, and associated metal deposits of Wyoming: Wyoming State Geological Survey Bull. 70, p. 134-135.

  • Deposit

    Millgate, 1965, Wyoming Geological Survey MR 65-2.

  • Deposit

    McCallum and Kluender, 1983, USGS Map MF-1638A.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Age Sample sites OR-1272B1 and OR-1273.
Deposit Copper veins in granite; mylonite.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 1983-11-18 South Dakota School of Mines 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.