The Sunday Morning Mine is a gold mine located in Carbon county, Wyoming at an elevation of 8,360 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 8,360 Feet (2,548 Meters)
Commodity: Gold
Lat, Long: 42.20972, -106.99750
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Sunday Morning Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Sunday Morning Mine
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Location
State: Wyoming
County: Carbon
District: Seminoe District
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Type: Underground
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Underground
Discovery Year: 1882
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
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
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Gold
Gangue: Quartz
Comments
Comment (Identification): Sunday Morning Mine is at the mouth of Sunday Morning Creek. The site labeled "Sunday Morning Mine" on the topo is NOT the Sunday Morning Mine. It is the Sunday Morning Prospect. Do NOT confuse these two different sites with similar names. Note that Hausel's 1989 description in Bull. 68 has the names of the mines switched. Go by the Section/Township/Range.
Comment (Analytical Data): Hausel found no gold in a grab sample of quartz from the dump.
Comment (Ownership): Patented in 1919.
Comment (Identification): Bull. 68, p. 150, mixes up the Mine and Prospect but is clear about which each describes because it uses sections.
Comment (Deposit): Gold is reported in felsic metavolcanics and associated metasediments (Bull. 68, p. 150).
References
Reference (Deposit): Hausel, 1994, Economic geology of the Seminoe Mountains Mining District, Carbon County, Wyoming: Wyoming State Geological Survey RI-50, p. 25-26.
Reference (Deposit): Hausel, 1989, The geology of Wyoming's precious metal lode and placer deposits: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 68, p. 150. [Incorrectly mixes up the Mine and Prospect. Use the sections to get the right Sunday Morning.]
Reference (Deposit): Hausel, 1997, Copper, lead, zinc, molybdenum, and associated metal deposits of Wyoming: Wyoming State Geological Survey Bull. 70, p. 153.
Reference (Deposit): Hausel, 1980, Gold districts of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming RI-23, p. 62. [Incorrectly labels this the Mine when it is, in fact, the Prospect in Sec. 29]
Reference (Deposit): Osterwald and others, 1966, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 50 [revised ed.], p. 83-84. [Incorrectly labels this the Mine when it is, in fact, the Prospect in Sec. 29]
Reference (Deposit): Klein, 1980, The geology and geochemistry of the sulfide depoists of the Seminoe district, Carbon County, Wyoming: Colo. School of Mines PhD dissertation, p. 59, pl. 1.
Reference (Deposit): Bishop, 1964, Retrogressive metamorphism in the Seminoe Mountains, Carbon County, Wyoming: Univ. of Wyoming M.S. thesis, p. 40, pl. 1. [Misidentifies the Sunday Morning Prospect as the Sunday Morning Mine on p. 40. Appears to describe the Sunday Morning Prospect.]
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