The Wind River is a molybdenum mine located in Sublette county, Wyoming.
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Wind River MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Wind River
Secondary: Temple Pass
Secondary: Unidentified occurrence
Commodity
Primary: Molybdenum
Location
State: Wyoming
County: Sublette
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Occurrence
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Rocky Mountain System
Physiographic Province: Middle Rocky Mountains
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Molybdenite
Comments
Comment (Deposit): "Molybdenite has been reported in quartz veins cutting granite in the Temple Pass area in the Wind River Range."
Comment (Location): D00718 stated that Temple Pass is a synonym for Temple Peak but it places the occurrence nearly 5 miles NW of Temple Peak. Temple Pass is not labeled on the topo map, but it is highly unlikely that it in 5 miles north on the Lizard Head Peak Quadrangle. Therefore, ABWilson moved the location of the unnamed occurence in the Temple Pass area south to the location of the unknown deposit at Temple Peak 0560350051. The description for both records D000718 (10230695) and 0560350051 (10008509) are the same, from p. 136 of Bull. 50.
References
Reference (Deposit): Osterwald and others, 1966, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 50 [revised ed.], p. 136.
Reference (Deposit): OSTERWALD, F. AND OSTERWALD, D., 1952, WYOMING MINERAL RESOURCES: WYOMING GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 45, p. 112.
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