Stud Creek Mine

Prospect in Carbon county in Wyoming, United States with commodity Gold

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Identification information
Geographic coordinates
Site location context
Geographic areas
Public Land Survey System information
Commodities
Materials information
Nearby scientific data
Economic information about the deposit and operations
Workings at the site
Links to other databases
Bibliographic references
General comments
Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID	10400446
MRDS ID	W900306
Record type	Site
Current site name	Stud Creek Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates:	-106.26278, 41.53389 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Carbon(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

White Rock Canyon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Medicine Bow(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Rawlins(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Medicine Bow(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	018N	079W	15	C of S2 of NW4	Wyoming

Comments on the location information

Wilson and Heran attempted to visit mines in this district in August, 2010, but were not successful in reaching this particular site. (We turned around in the SW4 of Section 16, about 1.2 mi short of this "mine")

Commodities

Commodity	Importance
Gold	Primary

Comments on the commodity information

No assays were performed by Hausel and others, nor was this property visited by Klein or Wilson or Heran. Therefore, it is sheer speculation that the commodity of interest at this site was gold.

Materials information

Materials	Type of material
Limonite	Unknown

Nearby scientific data

(1)	-106.26278, 41.53389	ListMap

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

limonite stained chlorite schist and quartzite; altered, silicified quartz-chlorite schist (summary from Klein's record W900306).

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type	Underground
Development status	Prospect
Commodity type	Metallic
Significant	No

Workings at the site

Type of workings Underground

Name of workings 400 ft-long adit

Length 121.92M

Type of workings	Underground
Name of workings	400 ft-long adit
Length	121.92M

Reference information

Links to other databases

Agency	Database name	Acronym	Record ID	Notes
USGS	Mineral Resources Data System	MRDS	W900306	new record submitted by Terry Klein, not yet in newMRDS.

Bibliographic references

Deposit

Hausel and others, 1994, Study of metals and precious stones in southern Wyoming: Wyoming State Geological Survey Open-File Report 94-2, 61-p.

General comments

Subject category	Comment text
Deposit	The only information found about this "mine" is in Hausel and others, WGS OFR 94-2: "This area has a number of prospects, a mine, and the remains of some old abandoned cabins. In sec, 15, T18N, R79W, a mine tunnel was located on Stud Creek. The tunnel is about 400 ft long and driven in a NNW direction. At about 150 ft. from the portal, the tunnel cut a narrow 2- to 4-inch-wide, near horizontal, poorly mineralized vein in amphibolite. Other than this vein, there was little evidence of any other mineralization in the mine workings. It appears the tunnel was driven to test a limonite-stained chlorite schist and quartzite exposed on the hillside to the north above the tunnel, but stopped short of the target. Two samples collected from the mine duump at the tunnel on Stud Creek included SC1-92, a silicified quartz-chlorite schist with disseminated and fracture-filling pyrite, and SC2-92, an altered schist which produced a strong sulfur odor when struck by a hammer. A thired sample, SC3-93, was collected from a pit to the north. This sample consisted of quartzite with bands of limonite. All three samples were poorly mineralized and were not assayed." (Hausel and others, 1994, p. 9) Therefore, it is sheer speculation that the commodity of interest at this site was gold.

Subject category

Comment text

Deposit

The only information found about this "mine" is in Hausel and others, WGS OFR 94-2: "This area has a number of prospects, a mine, and the remains of some old abandoned cabins. In sec, 15, T18N, R79W, a mine tunnel was located on Stud Creek. The tunnel is about 400 ft long and driven in a NNW direction. At about 150 ft. from the portal, the tunnel cut a narrow 2- to 4-inch-wide, near horizontal, poorly mineralized vein in amphibolite. Other than this vein, there was little evidence of any other mineralization in the mine workings. It appears the tunnel was driven to test a limonite-stained chlorite schist and quartzite exposed on the hillside to the north above the tunnel, but stopped short of the target. Two samples collected from the mine duump at the tunnel on Stud Creek included SC1-92, a silicified quartz-chlorite schist with disseminated and fracture-filling pyrite, and SC2-92, an altered schist which produced a strong sulfur odor when struck by a hammer. A thired sample, SC3-93, was collected from a pit to the north. This sample consisted of quartzite with bands of limonite. All three samples were poorly mineralized and were not assayed." (Hausel and others, 1994, p. 9) Therefore, it is sheer speculation that the commodity of interest at this site was gold.

Reporter information

Type	Date	Name	Affiliation	Comment
Reporter	2010-08-16	Wilson, Anna B.	U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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