Sunlight District

Occurrence in Park county in Wyoming, United States with commodities Silver, Gold, Tungsten
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Nearby scientific data
  7. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  8. Mining district
  9. Bibliographic references

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 60000055
MRDS ID D001374
Record type District
Current site name Sunlight District

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -109.73408, 44.64992 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Park(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Geers Point(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Cody(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Cody(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Clarks Fork Yellowstone(hydrologic unit)

Upper Yellowstone(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Yellowstone(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Shoshone 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 Park

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Gold Primary
Tungsten Critical Primary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -109.73408, 44.64992

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic

Mining district

District name SUNLIGHT DISTRICT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    PARSONS, W.H., 1937, ECON. GEOL. VOL. 32, P. 832-854.

  • Deposit

    LEMMON, D.M., AND TWETO, O.L., 1962, TUNGSTEN IN THE U.S., USGS MAP, MR-25.

Beyond USGS

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