The Oriole Mine is a copper mine located in Converse county, Wyoming.
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Oriole Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Oriole Mine
Secondary: Oriole Group
Commodity
Primary: Copper
Location
State: Wyoming
County: Converse
District: Esterbrook Area
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
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Underground
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
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: Granite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Neoproterozoic
Name: Granite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Neoproterozoic
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Chalcopyrite
Comments
Comment (Geology): Red granite contains layers of schist, gneiss, and other rocks. Quartz veins and "dykes of diorite" cut the schists, and occasionally are altered and replaced by limonite and copper and iron sulfides. Copper carbonates stain some of the viens. Chalcopyrite was encountered at 75 ft." (Osterwald and others, Bull. 50, p. 51.)
Comment (Deposit): SIMILAR TO THE COPPER KING PROSPECT
Comment (Location): 1 MILE NORTHWEST OF THE COPPER KING LINE OF PROSPECTS
References
Reference (Deposit): GSW BULL 50, P. 51.
Pages: p. 51.
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