The Unidentified Prospect is a iron mine located in Carbon county, Wyoming.
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Unidentified Prospect MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Unidentified Prospect
Secondary: Lorain Group
Secondary: French Creek Prospect
Commodity
Primary: Iron
Location
State: Wyoming
County: Carbon
District: French Creek District
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Occurrence
Deposit Type: Metamorphic
Operation Type: Unknown
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
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Limonite Stained At Surface
Rocks
Name: Schist
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Neoproterozoic
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Pyrrhotite
Comments
Comment (Location): AT THE JUNCTION OF IRON CREEK AND FRENCH CREEK
Comment (Deposit): PYRRHOTITE WAS FOUND BELOW THE OXIDIZED ZONE in graphitic schist.
Comment (Deposit): Limonite stain at surface
References
Reference (Deposit): Hausel, 1997, Copper, lead, zinc, molybdenum, and associated metal deposits of Wyoming: Wyoming State Geological Survey Bull. 70, p. 120.
Reference (Deposit): Osterwald and others, 1959, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 50, p. 107.
Reference (Deposit): Osterwald and others, 1966, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 50 [revised ed.], p. 120.
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