The Charlie's Glory Hole is a gold mine located in Carbon county, Wyoming.
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Charlie's Glory Hole MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Charlie's Glory Hole
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Location
State: Wyoming
County: Carbon
District: Seminoe District
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Prospect
Operation Type: Unknown
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
Form: pods
Structure
Type: L
Description: Small Fault Zone
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration: silicification
Rocks
Name: Schist
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Neoproterozoic
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Gold
Gangue: Quartz
Gangue: Chlorite
Comments
Comment (Location): RI 23 LISTS R 85 W, BULL 50 LISTS R 8 W; originally LAT - LONG was FOR CENTER OF SEC. 29, T 26 N, R 85 W. ABW changed the location to the mine shown on Bishop's pl. 2 in 26N, 84W, sec. 29, NW of SE. The location in RI-23 is wrong.
Comment (Deposit): QUARTZ VEIN IN FAULT ZONE CARRYING FREE GOLD.
Comment (Deposit): Dug in the summer of 1962 by Charles Kortes. Free gold occurs in a quartz vein emplaced in a small fault zone in the chlorite-muscovite schist.
Comment (Deposit): Note that this deposit is not in the 1959 version of Bull. 50 because it was not prospected until 1962.
Comment (Location): LOCATION FROM FIELD OBSERVATION (T. KLEIN)
References
Reference (Deposit): Hausel, 1980, Gold districts of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming RI-23, p. 62.
Reference (Deposit): Osterwald and others, 1966, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 50 [revised ed.], p. 82.
Reference (Deposit): Bishop, 1964, Retrogressive metamorphism in the Seminoe Mountains, Carbon County, Wyoming: Univ. of Wyoming MS thesis, p. 40, pl. 2.
Reference (Deposit): Hausel, 1989, The geology of Wyoming's precious metal lode and placer deposits: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 68, p. 150.
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