The Moore's Gulch is a gold mine located in Albany county, Wyoming at an elevation of 9,360 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 9,360 Feet (2,853 Meters)
Commodity: Gold
Lat, Long: 41.19917, -106.25917
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Moore's Gulch MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Moore's Gulch
Secondary: Albany Development Co.
Secondary: Albany Placers
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Tertiary: Platinum
Tertiary: Palladium
Location
State: Wyoming
County: Albany
District: Douglas Creek District
Land Status
Land ownership: National Forest
Note: the land ownership field only identifies whether the area the mine is in is generally on public lands like Forest Service or BLM land, or if it is in an area that is generally private property. It does not definitively identify property status, nor does it indicate claim status or whether an area is open to prospecting. Always respect private property.
Administrative Organization: Medicine Bow National Forest
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Deposit Type: Stream Placer
Operation Type: Unknown
Discovery Year: 1868
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Rocky Mountain System
Physiographic Province: Southern Rocky Mountains
Mineral Deposit Model
Model Name: Placer Au-PGE
Orebody
Form: STREAM SEDIMENT DEPOSITS
Structure
Type: R
Description: Mullen Creek-Nash Fork Shear Zone
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Gravel
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Holocene
Name: Gravel
Role: Host
Age Type: Associated Rock Unit
Age Young: Neoproterozoic
Analytical Data
Analytical Data: ORE RAN ABOUT 0.05 OZ/YD
Materials
Ore: Gold
Gangue: Quartz
Comments
Comment (Commodity): GOLD IS COARSE AND JAGGED WITH FLOUR GOLD. UNCONFIRMED REPORT OF PGE - SAID TO BE PRESENT IN DISTRICT
Comment (Location): LOCATION GIVEN IS ABOUT 0.2 MI FROM MOUTH OF CREEK. AREA NOW LARGELY COVERED BY ROB ROY RESERVOIR. IN MEDICINE BOW NATIONAL FOREST
Comment (Workings): HYDRAULIC DITCHES, DRAGLINE DREDGE
Comment (Deposit): SEE ALSO: MRDS W032115.
References
Reference (Production): HAUSEL
Reference (Reserve-Resource): BEELER, HAUSEL
Reference (Deposit): HAUSEL, W.D., 1989, THE GEOLOGY OF WYOMING'S PRECIOUS METAL LODE AND PLACER DEPOSITS: GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WYOMING BULLETIN 68, P. 105-106.
Reference (Deposit): OSTERWALD, R.W., OSTERWALD, D.B., LONG, J.S., JR., AND WILSON, W.H., 1966, MINERAL RESOURCES OF WYOMING (REVISED ED.): GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WYOMING BULLETIN 50, P. 79-80.
Reference (Deposit): BEELER, H.C., 1906, MINERALS OF ALBANY COUNTY, WYOMING: LARAMINE REPUBLICAN CO., PRINTERS, P. 29.
Reference (Deposit): MCCALLUM, M.E., AND ORBACK, C.J., 1968, THE NEW RAMBLER COPPER-GOLD-PLATINUM DISTRICT, ALBANY AND CARBON COUNTIES, WYOMING: GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WYOMING PRELIMINARY REPORT 8, P. 10.
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