The Pease Placers is a silver and gold mine located in Carbon county, Wyoming.
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Mine Info
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Pease Placers MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Pease Placers
Secondary: Claims: North Bench Placer; Battle Street Placer, Pease Placer
Secondary: Pease Properties
Commodity
Primary: Silver
Primary: Gold
Location
State: Wyoming
County: Carbon
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: Placer
Operation Type: Placer
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
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Gold
Ore: Silver
Comments
Comment (Location): ADJACENT TO THE THREE FORKS AND INDEPENDENCE GROUPS
Comment (Location): "Somewhere in secs. 11, 12, 13, and 14."
Comment (Production): "gold and silver have been washed from the gravels, but no figures are available on the value".
References
Reference (Deposit): Osterwald and others, 1966, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 50 [revised ed.], p. 83, 174.
Reference (Deposit): Osterwald and others, 1959, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 50, p. 77, 157.
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