Teddy Creek Gold Prospect

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. Materials information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10400296
Record type Site
Current site name Teddy Creek Gold Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -106.92111, 41.21028 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Carbon(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Red Mountain(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

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 85W 2 W2 Wyoming

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Limonite Gangue

Comments on the analytical data

  • Hausel's report lists geochemistry for 19 samples. Gold values range from <5 to 7030 ppm.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist
    Rock type qualifier felsic (?) schist
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Proterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (oldest) Proterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -106.92111, 41.21028

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • gossaniferous envelope (limonite boxworks) surrounding a NE-trending, sulfide-bearing, milky quartz vein.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface-Underground
Development status Prospect
Commodity type Metallic

Mining district

District name Encampment District

Comments on the workings information

  • Several trenchs, collapsed timbered shaft.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Hausel, W.D., 1997, Teddy Creek gold prospect, Red Mountain quadrangle, Encampment Mining District, Sierra Madre, southeastern Wyoming: WSGS Mineral Report MR 97-3, 5 p.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 2009-03-13 Wilson, Anna B. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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