The Big Five Prospect is a copper mine located in Albany county, Wyoming.
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Mine Info
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Big Five Prospect MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Big Five Prospect
Secondary: Big Five
Secondary: Big Five Esterbrook
Commodity
Primary: Copper
Tertiary: Zinc
Location
State: Wyoming
County: Albany
District: Esterbrook Area, Laramie Range
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
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Type: Underground
Ownership
Not available
Production
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Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Prospect
Operation Type: Underground
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Interior Plains
Physiographic Province: Great Plains Province
Physiographic Section: High Plains
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
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Structure
Not available
Alterations
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Rocks
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Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Pyrrhotite
Ore: Chalcopyrite
Ore: Sphalerite
Gangue: Feldspar
Gangue: Quartz
Comments
Comment (Location): 2500 FT NORTH-NORTHEAST OF THE THREE CRIPPLES MINE
Comment (Deposit): "The dump near a 50 ft. shaft contained pyrrhotite with only bunches of chalcopyrite associated with quartz and feldspar. Traces of sphalerite also reported." [Bull. 50, p. 38]
References
Reference (Deposit): Wilson, W.H., 1966, GSW BULL. 50, P. 38.
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