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Deserted Treasure No. 2 Mine

Past Producer in Carbon county in Wyoming, United States with commodities Gold, 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. Alteration
  9. Mineral occurrence model information
  10. Host and associated rocks
  11. Nearby scientific data
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Bibliographic references

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10400302
Record type Site
Current site name Deserted Treasure No. 2 Mine
Alternate or previous names Ernst
Included sites Penn Mines

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -107.03861, 42.1675 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Carbon(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Bradley Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Bairoil(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Casper(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Pathfinder-Seminoe Reservoirs(hydrologic unit)

North Platte(hydrologic accounting unit)

North Platte(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Wyoming Carbon

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 025N 085W Wyoming

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION FROM FIELD STUDIES OF T.L. KLEIN, 1981

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Copper Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Pyrite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Chlorite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) chlorite, epidote, calcite

Analytical data

Result HAUSEL, 1994, REPORTS SELECTED DUMP SAMPLES RANGED FROM 0.87 TO 89.3 PPM AU, LESS THAN 2 TO 18 PPM AG AND 0.06 TO 0.39% CU

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 273
USGS model code 36a
Deposit model name Low-sulfide Au-quartz vein
Mark3 model number 27

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type
    Rock unit name Sunday Morning Creek metavolcanics
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Archean
    Stratigraphic age (oldest) Archean
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type
    Rock unit name Bradley Peak ultramafic rocks
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Archean
    Stratigraphic age (oldest) Archean

Nearby scientific data

(1) -107.03861, 42.1675
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form pods

Controls for ore emplacement

  • DILATIONAL ZONES RELATED SHEARING

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1871
Year of first production 1873
Year of last production 1896

Mining district

District name Seminoe District

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Hausel, 1994, Economic geology of the Seminoe Mountains Mining District, Carbon County, Wyoming: Wyoming State Geological Survey RI-50, p. 3, 23, 25.

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