Cooper Creek adit

Prospect in Carbon county in Wyoming, United States with commodity Gold
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. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Bibliographic references
  11. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10400288
Record type Site
Current site name Cooper Creek adit
Alternate or previous names Sawmill Creek adit

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -106.14972, 41.47222 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 500(meters)
Relative position Adit is located in the SW4 of sec. 3. No information on elevation or side of the creek. No obvious scar on Google Earth images to use to locate the adit.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Carbon(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Morgan(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Saratoga(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Rawlins(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Laramie(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 17N 78W 3 SW Wyoming

Comments on the location information

  • Relatively poor location. It is in SW4 of Sec. 3, but no further information or indication on maps.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Secondary

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -106.14972, 41.47222

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Prospect
Commodity type Metallic

Mining district

District name Cooper Hill District

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Hausel, 1994, Geology and MIneralization of the Cooper HIll Mining Dsitrict, Medicine Bow Mountains, southeastern Wyoming: Wyoming State Geological Survey Report of Investigations No. 49, p. 15.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 2008-10-17 Wilson, Anna B. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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