The Poison Spider is a titanium-heavy minerals mine located in Natrona county, Wyoming.
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Mine Info
Elevation:
Commodity: Titanium-Heavy Minerals
Lat, Long: 42.86528, -106.84861
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Poison Spider MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Poison Spider
Commodity
Primary: Titanium-Heavy Minerals
Tertiary: Thorium
Tertiary: Zirconium
Tertiary: Iron
Location
State: Wyoming
County: Natrona
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Type: Located Claim
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Occurrence
Operation Type: Surface
Discovery Year: 1955
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Rocky Mountain System
Physiographic Province: Wyoming Basin
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Shale
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Late Cretaceous
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Unknown: Magnetite
Unknown: Monazite
Unknown: Zircon
Unknown: Rutile
Unknown: Ilmenite
Unknown: Anatase
Comments
Comment (Geology): GEOL.DESC: PLACER-FOSSIL-BEACH AND MARINE
Comment (Deposit): DEPOSIT IS THE ONLY ONE OF ITS TYPE REPORTED IN LEWIS SHALE. THREE SAMPLES CONTAINED AVERAGE PERCENTAGES OF 7.3 TIO2, 0.7 ZRO2, 35.9 FE, AND 0.03 EQUIVALENT THO2. RELATIVE PERCENTAGES OF HEAVY MINERALS PRESENT ARE 84.0 OPAQUES, 6.2 ZIRCON, 8.2 GARNET, AND 1.0 EACH TOURMALINE, EPIDOTE, SPHENE, STAUROLITE, RUTILE, AND MONAZITE. A SAMPLE FROM A 17-FT DEPTH CONTAINED 7.9% TIO2 AND 63.7% TOTAL IRON (FE2O3) WHILE AN AVERAGE OF 13 SAMPLES FROM WEATHERED ROCK HAD 5.2% TIO2 AND 21.7% FE2O3. THE POTENTIAL RESOURCES OF TITANIFEROUS SANDSTONE IN 19 WYOMING DEPOSITS, INCLUDING THE POISON SPIDER, ARE 21,873,000 ST WITH WEIGHTED AVERAGE GRADE PERCENTS OF 5.22 TIO2, 0.55 ZRO2, 24.75 FE, AND 0.15 EQUIVALENT THO2 (2).
Comment (Production): DEPOSIT HAS NEVER PRODUCED.
References
Reference (Names): Wilson, W.H., 1966, WGS Bull. 50, p. 195.
Reference (Deposit): DOW, V. T., AND BATTY, J. V., 1961, RECONNAISSANCE OF TITANIFEROUS SANDSTONE DEPOSITS OF UTAH, WYOMING, NEW MEXICO, AND COLORADO: U.S. BUREAU OF MINES REPT. INV. 5860, 52 P.
Reference (Deposit): HOUSTON, R. S., AND MURPHY, J. F., 1962, TITANIFEROUS BLACK SANDSTONE DEPOSITS OF WYOMING: WYOMING GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 49, p. 101-103.
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