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Syndicate Property

Prospect in Carbon county in Wyoming, United States with commodity Copper
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  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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Mineral rights holdings
  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 10278708
MRDS ID W900471
MAS/MILS ID 560070394
Record type Site
Current site name Syndicate Property

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -107.15306, 41.24111 (WGS84)
Elevation 2883
Location accuracy 10(meters)
Relative position Shaft labeled Mine on topo., 10 m., 10 m.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Carbon(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Singer 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 015N 087W 26 NW of SW Wyoming

Comments on the location information

  • shaft located on USGS 1:24K topo; patented claims cover much of adjacent area

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcocite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -107.15306, 41.24111
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • 135 ft. shaft sunk on a 3-11 ft thick vein that strikes N70W and dips 65S, in Precambrian quartzite. The vein crosscuts the bedding in the quartzite. Quartzite is overlain by a 150 ft. thick diorite sill that strikes EW, dips S.
  • fissure vein in quartzite made up of calcite filled breccia with disseminated mineralization in the calcite and in some quartz fragments
  • E-W trending quartzite and mafic intrusives; NW-trending Divide Peak Synclinorium; 1 1/2 mi SW of NW-trending Savery Creek Fault

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Prospect
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1905

Mining district

District name Encampment District

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Patented

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Unknown
    Owner Syndicate Gold and Copper Mining Co.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Name of workings shaft
    Overall depth 41.14M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Osterwald and others, 1966, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 50 [revised ed.], p. 24, 49.

  • 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, 1959, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 50, p. 21, 46.

  • Deposit

    Hausel, 1986, Mineral deposits of the Encampment mining district, Sierra Madre, Wyoming-Colorado: Geological Survey of Wyoming RI-37, p. 25.

  • Deposit

    Hausel, 1997, Copper, lead, zinc, molybdenum, and associated metal deposits of Wyoming: Wyoming State Geological Survey Bull. 70, p. 178.

  • Deposit

    Spencer, 1904, Copper deposits of the Encampment District, Wyoming: USGS PP-25, p. 88-89.

  • Deposit

    Graff, 1978, Univ. of Wyo., PhD dissertation.

  • Deposit

    Houston and Graff, 1995, USGS I-2452.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 1983-11-18 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines
Editor 2009-02-19 Wilson, Anna B. U.S. Geological Survey revised 16-oct-2012

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

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