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Doane-Rambler Mine (including Rex Mine)

Past Producer in Carbon county in Wyoming, United States with commodities Copper, Gold, Silver, Cobalt, Uranium
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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. 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. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10303046
MRDS ID W900270
MAS/MILS ID 560070156
Record type Site
Current site name Doane-Rambler Mine (including Rex Mine)
Alternate or previous names Doan Rambler Mine, Old Doane Copper Mine, Doane Mine

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -107.00639, 41.15861 (WGS84)
Elevation 2835
Location accuracy 10(meters)
Relative position Near Rambler (site) on topo. Used coordinates of unlabled shaft on topo immediately north of townsite.

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)

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 14N 86W 25 NE Wyoming

Comments on the location information

  • Patented claims cover area.
  • Inlcudes mine shaft and adits in this 1/4 section.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Cobalt Critical Secondary
Uranium Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Bornite Ore
Chalcocite Ore
Covellite Ore
Malachite Ore
Azurite Ore
Cuprite Ore
Chrysocolla Ore
Lorandite Ore

Analytical data

Result Cu 10-40% and Au & Ag $7.00 per ton or per car in early shipments (Vandenberge, 1906; Menzer,1981); 4% Co (Armstrong, 1970 - has not been verified); Cu 25ppm to 2.1%; Ag 0 to 6.8ppm; dump samples by McCallUm and Menzer, 1982.

Comments on the analytical data

  • Sample C-360924, Field No. 08_08_28_ABW_01. 41-09-48.4, -107-00-23.3 Sample C-360925, Field No. 08_08_28_ABW_02. 41-09-31.2, -107-00-27.4 Sample C-360926, Field No. 08_08_28_ABW_03. 41-09-29.8, -107-00-26.3 Sample C-360927, Field No. 08_08_28_ABW_04. 41-09-27.7, -107-00-25.8 (coordinates in NAD27 to match topo map) Sample 08_08_28_ABW_03 contains 2240 ppb Au, 21 ppm Ag. All but the first sample contain >50,000 ppm Cu.

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 92
USGS model code 24b.1
Deposit model name Massive sulfide, Besshi
Mark3 model number 98

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
    Rock unit name Cascade Quartzite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Paleoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (oldest) Paleoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -107.00639, 41.15861
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike E-W
    Dip 65-75 N

Comments on the geologic information

  • E-W trending, 65-75N dipping Cascade Quartzite, nearby E-W trending faults and shears within Cheyenne Belt
  • brecciated quartzite cemented by chalcopyrite and chalcocite; mineralized siliceous mylonite, mica schist, and brecciated dolomite; ore both localized at fracture plane intersection with bedding planes, and stratiform.
  • brecciated quartzite; siliceous mylonite; mica schist; brecciated dolomite
  • DEPOSIT-BRECCIATED SHEAR ZONE IN QTZITE OF PRECAMBRIAN AGE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Encampment District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the workings information

  • adits, shafts, drifts, crosscuts, stopes; (mine map by Spencer, 1904 is reprinted in Hausel, 1997)

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Armstrong, 1970, Grand Encampment 1898-1912--High country treasure: Rawlins Newspaper, Inc., Rawlins, Wyoming, 19 p.

  • Deposit

    Beeler, 1905, Report on the Investors mining and prospecting company property at Rambler, Carbon County, Wyoming: WSGS MR05-58, 5 p.

  • Deposit

    Hausel, 1997, Copper, lead, zinc, molybdenum, and associated metal deposits of Wyoming: Wyoming State Geological Survey Bull. 70, p. 166-167.

  • Deposit

    Messerschmidt, 1972, The Grand Encampment: The Grand Encampment Museum, Encampment, Wyoming, 44 p.

  • Deposit

    Platt, 1947, Little known Wyoming locality: The Mineralogist, v. 15, no. 5, p. 227-230.

  • Deposit

    Roberts, W.L, Rapp, G.R, Jr., and Weber, J., 1974, Encyclopedia of minerals: Van Nostrand, New Yoirk, 693 p.

  • Deposit

    Spencer, 1904, Copper deposits of the Encampment District, Wyoming: USGS PP-25, p. 61-71.

  • Deposit

    Vanderberge, 1906, An independent engineer's report on the properties of the Penn-Wyoming copper company and the Grand Encampment mining district: WSGS Mineral Report MR06-1, 25 p.

  • Deposit

    Whalen, 1954a, USAEC DEB RRD-1375

  • Deposit

    US AEC PRELIM FIELD INV-AIRBORNE RA ANOMALIES

  • Deposit

    Osterwald and others, 1966, Mineral resources of Wyoming: Wyoming Geological Survey Bulletin 50 [rev.], p. 210.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
General Morse Bros. Machine Co. [listed in references in deleted record 10181952]

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 1983-11-18 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines
Editor 2010-01-03 Wilson, Anna B U.S. Geological Survey

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