The The Cockscomb Prospect is a copper mine located in Lincoln county, Wyoming.
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The Cockscomb Prospect MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: The Cockscomb Prospect
Secondary: The Cockscomb
Secondary: Cockscomb
Commodity
Primary: Copper
Location
State: Wyoming
County: Lincoln
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Occurrence
Operation Type: Unknown
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
Not available
Structure
Type: L
Description: Overturned Anticline
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Sandstone
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Late Jurassic
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Copper
Comments
Comment (Geology): Osterwald and others p. 56: "Gray sandstone in the Beckwith formation contains copper carbonates at 3 places along the axis of an overturned anticline". But, citing Veatch, 1907, they say "copper is in a yellow standstone in the Twin Creek Formation".
Comment (Location): Location was extremely misplaced. In OFR 01-497, it was close to -110.82 41.91547. This is about 22 mi too far to the NNE. Location given in Bull. 50 is T19N, R120W, 25 mi. north of Evanston and 5 mil from Bear River. However, the source of the information is Veatch, 1907, USGS PP-56, p. 163 and plate XXIII. In that publication the location of Cockscomb is T19N, R119W, Secs. 22, 23, 26, 27, and 35. The location of the first 4 common section corners is about -110-57-48, 41-36-30. Comparing the 1907 map with modern topos indicates the name of the mountain was changed from Cockscomb to Sawtooth Mountain.
References
Reference (Deposit): Osterwald and others, 1966, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 50 [revised ed.], p. 56.
Reference (Deposit): Veatch, 1907, Geography and geology of a portion of southwestern Wyoming with speacial reference to coal and oil: USGS PP-56, p. 163, pl. XXIII.
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