Unknown

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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Land status
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10279139
MRDS ID W900062
MAS/MILS ID 560070402
Record type Site
Current site name Unknown
Alternate or previous names Umslopagus

Comments on the site identification

  • This is an Unknown site, not part of the Umslopagus Group. It was misidentified in the original MAS database (0560070402) as Umslopagus because it is after that site in Bull. 50 but identified only by PLSS location and no name. A.B. Wilson changed the name of this record from Umslopagus to Unknown.

Comments on the site names

  • This is an Unknown site, not part of the Umslopagus Group. It was misidentified in the original MAS database (0560070402) as Umslopagus because it is after that site in Bull. 50 but identified only by PLSS location and no name. A.B. Wilson changed the name of this record from Umslopagus to Unknown.

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -106.79306, 41.16083 (WGS84)
Elevation 2457
Location accuracy 100(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Carbon(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Encampment(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

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 014N 084W 24 c of S2 of SW of SW Wyoming

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcanthite Unknown

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -106.79306, 41.16083

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • chalcanthite encrustations occur on ribs and back of an adit driven in gneiss near contact with amphibolite dike.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Prospect
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Federal

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    Hausel, 1997, Copper, lead, zinc, molybdenum, and associated metal deposits of Wyoming: Wyoming State Geological Survey Bull. 70, p. 179.

  • Deposit

    Ferris, 1964, Petrology and structure of the Precambrian rocks souteast of Encmpment, Wyoming: Univ. of Wyo. PhD dissertation, 74 p.

  • Deposit

    Hausel, 1986, Mineral deposits of the Encampment mining district, Sierra Madre, Wyoming-Colorado: Geological Survey of Wyoming RI-37, p. 27.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 1983-11-18 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines
Editor 2009-02-20 Wilson, Anna B. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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