The Unidentified Occurrence in Sheep Creek Canyon is a mine located in Lincoln county, Wyoming.
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Unidentified Occurrence in Sheep Creek Canyon MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Unidentified Occurrence in Sheep Creek Canyon
Secondary: Unidentified Occurrence
Secondary: Unknown
Secondary: Sheep Creek Canyon
Commodity
Secondary: Iron
Location
State: Wyoming
County: Lincoln
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: Bridger-Teton
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Occurrence
Deposit Type: residual lag deposit
Operation Type: Unknown
Discovery Year: 1914
Discovery Method: Ore-Mineral In Place
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Rocky Mountain System
Physiographic Province: Middle Rocky Mountains
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Form: TABULAR
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Shale
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Pennsylvanian
Analytical Data
Analytical Data: Chemical Analyses, percent (IC-8315, p. 45): hematite accretions, pebbles: 60.44% Fe, 0.03% P2O5, 0.04% S, 8.99% Si. conglomerate: 34.81% Fe, 0.06% P2O5, 0.08% S, 27.87% Si. shale: 11.33% Fe, 0.10% P2O5, 0.04% S, 60.48% Si.
Materials
Ore: Hematite
Ore: Limonite
Comments
Comment (Location): ABWilson moved the lat/long coordinates to be in the SW4 of Sec. 11 on the N side of Sheep Creek Cyn.
Comment (Reference): AB Wilson unable to verify reference #3.
Comment (Identification): Merged 3 duplicate records. Kept 10081139. Deleted 10157221 and 10132950.
Comment (Production): Deposit has never produced.
Comment (Reserve-Resource): Reserves calculated in record 10132950 (old MAS 0560230020) from ore analysis ((IC-8315) and outcrop pattern (USGS I-686).
Comment (Location): ALONG THE NORTH SIDE OF SHEEP CREEK CANYON. 2.5 MILES E-SE OF THE CONFLUENCE OF SHEEP CREEK AND THE GREYS RIVER.
Comment (Orebody): record 10132950 (old MAS 0560230020) gave the following Orebody information (in addition to the orebody information in that table): Type of Orebody #1: Sedimentary Shape of Orebody #1: Tabular Shape of Oregbody #2: other Primary mode of origin: sedimentation Seocndary mode of origin: residual concent. Primary ore control: lithology secondary ore control: bedding Degree of Wallrock Alter. :" none Type of Wallrock Alter. #1: unknown Strike and Dip N00S: 20W min. depth to top: 0 Ave. Thick. unconsol. mat.: 0 Min Thick. Unconsol. mat. : 0 Date of Last Modification: 780213
Comment (Deposit): "Hematite and limonite as a four-foot-thick bed of conglomerate-pebbles and as an underlying six-foot-thick shale, crops out along the north side of Sheep Creek Canyon for about 1/2 mile easterly in the SW4 Sec. 11, T33N, R116W."
References
Reference (Deposit): Harris and others, 1985, Metallic and Industrial minerals map of WYOMING: Wyoming Geological Survey Map Series 14, scale 1:500,000.
Reference (Deposit): Osterwald and others, 1966, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 50 [revised ed.], p. 116.
Reference (Deposit): USGS MAP I-686.
Reference (Deposit): Schultz, 1914, Geology and Geography of a portion of Lincoln County, Wyoming: USGS BULL 543, pl. 1.
Reference (Deposit): Harrer, 1966, Wyoming Iron-Ore Deposits: USBM IC-8315, p. 45.
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