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Lewis Lake quartz vein

Prospect in Albany county in Wyoming, United States with commodities Gold, Uranium, Thorium
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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. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
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  11. Bibliographic references
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10400443
Record type Site
Current site name Lewis Lake quartz vein
Alternate or previous names Unknown quartz vein on SW shore of Lewis Lake

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -106.29833, 41.35889 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Albany(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Medicine Bow Peak(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 Albany

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 16N 079W 17 C of N2 of NW4 Wyoming

Comments on the location information

  • GPS location between 2 caved pits on SW corner of Lewis Lake taken on site visit by A.B. Wilson, 8/12/2010. Elevation is from 24K topo map.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Uranium Secondary
Thorium Secondary

Analytical data

Result 0.1 % U (=1,000 ppm), 0.16% Th (=1,655 ppm), and 0.0004 opt gold (Houston and others, 1983; Hausel, 1993)

Nearby scientific data

(1) -106.29833, 41.35889
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Prospect
Significant No

Mining district

District name LaPlata District

Comments on the production information

  • It is not known if these workings ever produced. The report by Houston and others suggests that there may be potential for U or Th.

Comments on the workings information

  • Anna Wilson and Bill Heran (USGS) visited this site on 12-Aug-2010. Location is by GPS just to the right of the small trail that goes between Libby and Lewis Lakes. There are 2 small, partly caved, timbered pits, side by side less than 30 ft. apart. The waste pile has some small quartz chips, but there is nothing obvious to sample. In the white quartize there are some dark patches which could be very fine grained sulfides. There's also a little limonite boxwork and chlorite. The area has been sampled previously (and separately) by Dersch, Houston, and Hausel, as reported in the cited references.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Hausel, W.D., 1993, Guide ot the geology, mining didstrits, and ghost towns of the Medicine Bow Mountains and Snowy Range Scenic Byway: Geological Survey of Wyomining Public Information Circular No. 32, p. 19.

  • Deposit

    Houston and others, 1983, Mineral resource potential map of the Snowy Range Wilderness Study Area, Albany and Carbon Counties, Wyoming: USGS MF-1596-A, scale 1:50,000 with 12 p. pamphlet.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 16-AUG-10 Wilson, Anna B. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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