The Sheep Mountain is a titanium-heavy minerals mine located in Albany county, Wyoming.
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All mine locations were obtained from the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. The locations and other information in this database have not been verified for accuracy. It should be assumed that all mines are on private property.
Mine Info
Elevation:
Commodity: Titanium-Heavy Minerals
Lat, Long: 41.27889, -106.01917
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Sheep Mountain MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Sheep Mountain
Commodity
Primary: Titanium-Heavy Minerals
Tertiary: Iron
Tertiary: Thorium
Tertiary: Zirconium
Location
State: Wyoming
County: Albany
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
Type: Located Claim
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Occurrence
Deposit Type: Fossil beach placer
Operation Type: Surface
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Rocky Mountain System
Physiographic Province: Southern Rocky Mountains
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Sandstone
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Late Cretaceous
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Unknown: Rutile
Unknown: Magnetite
Unknown: Monazite
Unknown: Sphene
Unknown: Anatase
Unknown: Zircon
Unknown: Garnet
Unknown: Spinel
Unknown: Hematite
Unknown: Ilmenite
Comments
Comment (Deposit): COMPOSITE OF 5 SAMPLES FROM OPEN CUTS CONTAINED PERCENTAGES OF 21.0 TIO2, 2.3 ZRO2, 34.0 FE, AND 0.04 EQUIVALENT THO2. RELATIVE PERCENTAGES OF HEAVY MINERALS PRESENT ARE 84.2 OPAQUES, 10.3 ZIRCON, 3.0 GARNET, AND 1.0 EACH EPIDOTE, TOURMALINE, MONAZITE, STAUROLITE, AMPHIBOLE, SPHENE, BIOTITE, AND SPINEL. THE POTENTIAL RESOURCES OF TITANIFEROUS SANDSTONE IN 19 WYOMING DEPOSITS, INCLUDING SHEEP MOUNTAIN, 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 (Geology): GEOL.DESC: PLACER-FOSSIL-BEACH AND MARINE
Comment (Geology): TITANIUM SANDSTONE FOUND IN MESAVERDE FM
References
Reference (Deposit): Wilson, W.H., 1966, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: WGS Bull. 50, p. 194.
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): Hausel, W.D., 1993, Guide to eht geology, mining districts, and ghost towns of the Medicine Bow Mountains and Snowy Range Scenic Byway: Geological Survey of Wyoming Public Information Circular No. 32, 53 p.
Pages: p. 9.
Reference (Deposit): HOUSTON, R. S., AND MURPHY, J. F., 1962, TITANIFEROUS BLACK SANDSTONE DEPOSITS OF WYOMING: WYOMING GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 49, p. 103-106.
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