Gold Coin Prospect

Occurrence in Carbon county in Wyoming, United States with commodities Copper, Gold, Lead
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. Mineral occurrence model information
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10254608
MRDS ID W900345
MAS/MILS ID 560070343
Record type Site
Current site name Gold Coin Prospect
Alternate or previous names includes Emma G.; Clara B.; Minneapolis; King Soloman; Gold Coin; Gold Coin #s2-5, also includes Blue Jay; Donation; Annex; Silver Queen; Maryanna; S.G. 427; S.G. 420

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -107.1475, 41.28417 (WGS84)
Elevation 2659
Location accuracy 10(meters)
Relative position Shaft on topo. Claim staked south of the Bridger Mine on the Continental Divide., Within 10 Meters (for shaft on topo).

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Carbon(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Divide Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Baggs(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 15N 087W 11 E2 of SW Wyoming

Comments on the location information

  • two shafts; numerous overlapping claim boundaries are not known

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Gold Tertiary
Lead Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Galena Ore
Pyrite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Gold Ore
Silver Ore
Calcite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 273
USGS model code 36a
Deposit model name Low-sulfide Au-quartz vein
Mark3 model number 27

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -107.1475, 41.28417

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form 1 ft. wide calcite-quartz vein in N75E fissure, dipping steeply S.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Gold Coin Mining Co.
  • Type Owner
    Owner Badger State Mining and Milling Co.
  • Type Owner
    Owner John A. Rhone
  • Type Owner
    Owner Exxon Corp.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground

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. 47, 83, 62, 121, 125.

  • Deposit

    Hausel, 1997, Copper, lead, zinc, molybdenum, and associated metal deposits of Wyoming: Wyoming State Geological Survey Bull. 70, p. 170.

  • Deposit

    Hausel, 1989, The geology of Wyoming's precious metal lode and placer deposits: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 68, p. 155.

  • Deposit

    Hausel, 1986, Mineral deposits of the Encampment mining district, Sierra Madre, Wyoming-Colorado: Geological Survey of Wyoming RI-37, p. 16-17.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 1997-01-10 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines
Editor 2008-10-31 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.